Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS
Biography
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Biography
Dr. Nunez-Smith is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Public Health, and Management; Inaugural Associate Dean for Health Equity Research; Founding Director of the Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC); Director of the Center for Research Engagement (CRE); Associate Cancer Center Director for Community Outreach and Engagement at Yale Cancer Center; Chief Health Equity Officer at Smilow Cancer Hospital; Deputy Director for Health Equity Research and Workforce Development at the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation; Core Faculty in the National Clinician Scholars Program; Research Faculty in the Global Health Leadership Initiative; Director of the Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Health Equity Leadership; and Co-Director of the Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship.
Dr. Nunez-Smith’s research focuses on promoting health and healthcare equity for structurally marginalized populations with an emphasis on centering community engagement, supporting healthcare workforce diversity and development, developing patient reported measurements of healthcare quality, and identifying regional strategies to reduce the global burden of non-communicable diseases. Dr. Nunez-Smith has extensive expertise in examining the effects of social and structural determinants of health, systemic influences contributing to health disparities, health equity improvement, and community-academic partnered scholarship. In addition to this extensive experience in primary data collection, management, and analysis, ERIC has institutional expertise in qualitative and mixed methods, population health, and medical informatics.
She is the principal investigator on many NIH and foundation-funded research projects, including an NIH/NCI-funded project to develop a tool to assess patient reported experiences of discrimination in healthcare. She has conducted an investigation of the promotion and retention of diversity in academic medical school faculty and has published numerous articles on the experiences of minority students and faculty. Funded by NIH/NIMHD, she established the Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network (ECHORN), a research collaborative across four Eastern Caribbean islands, supporting several chronic disease research projects and enhancing health outcomes research and leadership capacity in the region; the flagship ECHORN Cohort Study recruited and is following a community-dwelling adult cohort (n=3000) to examine novel chronic disease risk and protective factors. She recently received NIH/NHLBI funding to build upon this work by recruiting children into an expanded intergenerational ECHORN cohort, inclusive of a biorepository. She is also PI on one of five NIH/NIMHD-funded Transdisciplinary Collaborative Centers on Health Disparities focused on Precision Medicine, which leverages the ECHORN infrastructure to conduct collaborative research on hypertension and diabetes.
Most recently, as the COVID-19 pandemic has shed national attention on the health and healthcare disparities of marginalized populations, she was called upon to serve on the Governor’s ReOpen CT Advisory Group and to chair its Community Committee. She served as an Advisor to the Biden-Harris campaign, and subsequently named co-chair of the Biden-Harris Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board and will serve as chair of the COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force in the administration. She also received NIH funding to leverage ECHORN to improve the COVID-19 testing cascade in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
Dr. Nunez-Smith has mentored dozens of trainees since completing fellowship and has received numerous awards for teaching and mentoring. She is board certified in internal medicine, having completed residency training at Harvard University’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and fellowship at the Yale Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, where she also received a Masters in Health Sciences. Originally from the US Virgin Islands, she attended Jefferson Medical College, where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, and she earned a BA in Biological Anthropology and Psychology at Swarthmore College.
Education & Training
- MHSYale University (2006)
- Post-doctoral FellowYale University School of Medicine (2006)
- Board CertificationAB of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine (2004, recertified: 2015)
- ResidentBrigham & Women's Hospital (2004)
- InternBrigham & Women’s Hospital (2002)
- MDJefferson Medical College (2001)
- BASwarthmore College (1996)
Activities
- Social Determinants of Health Summit Keynote AddressNew Haven, United States 2020
- Invited Visiting ProfessorshipSan Juan, Puerto Rico 2020
- Invited KeynoteChicago, United States 2020
- Invited TalkBethesda, United States 2020
- Invited SpeakerHamden, United States 2020
- COVID-19 Disparities and Health DeterminantsOlympia, United States 2020
- Health in All PoliciesNew Haven, United States 2020
- Be (A) PartNew York, United States 2020
- Invited TalkBethesda, United States 2019
- Invited TalkBaltimore, United States 2019
- Invited TalkChaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago 2019
- Words Matter: Uncovering Hidden Bias in Performance Evaluations and Letters of RecommendationWashington, United States 2019
- Peripheral Arterial Disease Prevalence and Risk Factors in the ECHORN Cohort StudyChaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago 2019
- Invited TalkNew York, United States 2018
- Invited SpeakerSan Francisco, United States 2018
- Invited SpeakerNew York, United States 2018
- Invited LectureChicago, United States 2018
- Invited TalkBaltimore, United States 2018
- Invited TalkPittsburgh, United States 2018
- Invited TalkCharlotte, United States 2018
- Invited TalkBethesda, United States 2018
- Invited TalkBasseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis 2018
- The ECHORN Cohort Study: Alcohol Use Among the Elderly: Associations with Noncommunicable Diseases and Psychosocial IssuesBasseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis 2018
- “The ECHORN Cohort Study: Obesity and weight misperception among adults in the Eastern Caribbean”Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis 2018
- The ECHORN Cohort Study: Physical Activity Among Participants 40 Years of Age and Over”Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis 2018
- Moderate Food Insecurity is Associated With Nutrition-Related Cardiometabolic Conditions in the ECHORN Cohort StudyBasseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis 2018
- The ECHORN Cohort Study: Health Networks are Associated with Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the Eastern CaribbeanBasseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis 2018
- Invited TalkBoston, United States 2017
- Precision Engagement: Approaches to Involving Diverse Populations in Precision MedicineWashington, United States 2017
- The Effects of Race Relations on Physician’s Professional ResiliencyWashington, United States 2017
- Invited TalkPhiladelphia, United States 2017
- Resiliency & Grit: Handling Microaggressions from PatientsMiddletown, United States 2017
- Invited TalkBethesda, United States 2017
- Invited TalkDanbury, United States 2017
- Invited TalkNew Haven, United States 2017
- Invited TalkSpringfield, United States 2017
- Invited TalkGeorgetown, Guyana 2017
- Invited TalkSan Francisco, United States 2017
- The Effects of Race Relations on Physician’s Professional ResiliencyWashington, United States 2017
- Parenting in Medicine Mentoring PanelWashington, United States 2017
- Fostering Physician Resilience While Coping with National and Personal Acts of Discrimination and ViolenceWashington, United States 2017
- Invited TalkAtlanta, United States 2016
- Invited TalkAtlanta, United States 2016
- Invited TalkSan Juan, Puerto Rico 2016
- Invited TalkNew York, United States 2016
- Using Healthcare Communication as a Tool to Advance Health Equity for Disparity PopulationsNew Haven, United States 2016
- Using Community Based Participatory Research Principles to Shape a Local and Global Health Equity Research PortfolioProvidence, United States 2016
- Measuring the patient care experience to close gaps in healthcare equityNew Haven, United States 2016
- Are All Faculty Equal? On the current state of the environment, system and structureWashington, United States 2016
- Reproductive History as an Indicator for Health in Later LifeBoston, United States 2016
- Contribution of self-reported social class among measures of socioeconomic statusBoston, United States 2016
- Sex Differences in the Association between Communication, Discrimination, and Adverse Healthcare OutcomesBoston, United States 2016
- Perceptions of the food environment and diet in the Eastern CaribbeanBoston, United States 2016
- Exploring healthcare mobility among vulnerable populationsBoston, United States 2016
- Gender Differences in Patient Reported Hospital Experiences and Information SharingHollywood, United States 2016
- Examining Patient Reported Experiences of Discrimination and Risk for Hospital ReadmissionHollywood, United States 2016
- Self-Reported or Socially Assigned Social Class: Which Matters More in Experiences of DiscriminationHollywood, United States 2016
- Beyond the themes: Best practices in qualitative and mixed methodsNew Haven, United States 2016
- Addressing Unconscious Bias in Academic MedicineWashington, United States 2014
- Mentoring Advocate FacultyBoston, United States 2014
- The Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes NetworkWashington, United States 2014
- Establishing a Biorepository in the Eastern CaribbeanWashington, United States 2014
- Patient-Reported Experiences of Discrimination: A TaxonomyWashington, United States 2014
- Virtual Reality: Research Capacity & Non-communicable DiseaseWashington, United States 2014
- Language Services in US Hospitals in Areas of Linguistic NeedWashington, United States 2014
- Predicting Immigrant Health: Does Type of Language Measure Matter?Washington, United States 2014
- Diversity Issues in Medical Regulation (DIMeR): Demographic Representation of US Medical BoardsBoston, United States 2014
- Invited TalkBirmingham, United States 2013
- Invited TalkBoston, United States 2013
- Time to Promotion: Differences across Diverse Academic Medical Center FacultyBoston, United States 2013
- Cross-cultural measurement development: The case of the Hispanic populationBoston, United States 2013
- Invited TalkBaltimore, United States 2012
- Invited TalkNew York, United States 2012
- Creating a Research Network to Study Non-communicable Chronic Disease in the Eastern CaribbeanSpringfield, United States 2012
- Beyond the themes: Applying best practices in qualitative and mixed methods research from grant preparation to meaningful translationOrlando, United States 2012
- Designing a social network recruitment strategy for a prospective 'Framingham' cohort in the CaribbeanBoston, United States 2011
- U.S. physician workforce diversity: historic and current perspectivesSan Diego, United States 2011
- Discrimination and the experiences of racial/ethnic minority healthcare providers during training and beyondBethesda, United States 2011
- Can increased access to community-based primary care and physician workforce diversity be achieved through support of U.S. international medical students and graduates: The Cuba experience.Washington, United States 2011
- Healthcare disparities and healthcare workforce diversity in the United StatesHavana, Cuba 2010
- Quality of care in the U.S. territoriesDenver, United States 2010
- Physician Reports of Witnessed Healthcare DiscriminationSouthington, United States 2010
- After the career development award: professional trajectories of faculty of colorMinneapolis, United States 2010
- Patient Refusal of Physician in Hospital Settings: Hospital Leaders’ PerspectivesMinneapolis, United States 2010
- Registered nurses and physicians working with disabilityAlexandria, United States 2010
- Provision of Language Services and Linguistic Needs: Are Hospitals Speaking to their Communities?Alexandria, United States 2010
- Achieving physician workforce diversity successfullyNew Orleans, United States 2009
- Workplace discrimination and physician job turnoverWashington, United States 2009
- Health and healthcare inequities: does discrimination play a role?Philadelphia, United States 2008
- After the career development award: experiences of minority academic physician facultySan Antonio, United States 2008
- Racial/ethnic discrimination in the workplace: career trajectories of practicing physiciansSan Diego, United States 2008
- A mixed methods analysis of patient self-management behaviors: patients with diabetes in the US Virgin IslandsSingapore, Singapore 2008
- Supporting racial and ethnic diversity in academic medical facultyWashington, United States 2008
- The Impact of Organizational Characteristics on the Translation of the Diabetes Prevention Program in a Community Health Center: A Case StudyPittsburgh, United States 2008
- Self-management among patients with diabetes in the US Virgin IslandsNew York, United States 2008
- Self-management among patients with diabetes in the US Virgin IslandsNew York, United States 2008
- Examining diversity in the workplaceMansfield, United States 2007
- Impact of race on physiciansEast Providence, United States 2007
- Qualitative data analysis: coding and softwareEast Providence, United States 2007
- Patient and provider characteristics associated with inadequate cervical cancer screening in a community health center populationAtlanta, United States 2007
- Physician race and experiences of discrimination at workWashington, United States 2007
- Diversity and discrimination in healthcare settings: a national survey of practicing physiciansToronto, Canada 2007
- Diversity and discrimination in healthcare settingsVancouver, Canada 2007
- Physicians of African descent in the workplaceBoston, United States 2006
- Race in the workplace: experiences of African Descent physiciansWashington, United States 2006
- Increasing diversity in the physician workforceWashington, United States 2006
- Race and the professional lives of physicians of African descentBoston, United States 2006
- Race and the work experiences of physicians of African descentFort Lauderdale, United States 2005
Honors & Recognition
Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
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Team Science Award | Association for Clinical and Translational Science | 2019 |
100 Years of Women at YSM Featured Distinguished Woman and Symposium Speaker | Yale School of Medicine | 2018 |
Herbert W. Nickens Minority Health and Representation in Medicine Award | SGIM | 2017 |
Medical Student Council Perspectives on Medicine Series Speaker | Yale School of Medicine | 2017 |
Student-Nominated Speaker for “Inspiring Yale” Speaker Series | Yale School of Medicine | 2015 |
Selected Mentor, Working Women’s Network at Yale | Yale University | 2015 |
Featured “Best Example Grant,” Applied Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences | National Cancer Institute | 2014 |
Invited Mentor | EquityRx Health Equity Scholars Program | 2014 |
Award for Excellence as a Clinician-Investigator in General Internal Medicine | SGIM New England | 2013 |
10th Annual Ralph I. Horwitz Lecture Keynote Speaker | Yale School of Medicine | 2013 |
Mid-Career Women Faculty Professional Development Seminar | AAMC | 2012 |
David E Rogers Jr. Faculty Workshop Award | SGIM | 2012 |
White Coat Ceremony Keynote Speaker | Yale University | 2012 |
Public Voices Thought Leadership Fellow | Yale University | 2012 |
Joan F. Giambalvo Memorial Scholarship Award | AMA Foundation | 2012 |
Rogers Award Recipient | Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting | 2012 |
David E Rogers Jr. Faculty Workshop Award | Society of General Internal Medicine (Annual Conference) | 2012 |
Women Leaders in Medicine National Award | American Medical Student Association | 2011 |
Leah Lowenstein Award for Promotion of Humane and Egalitarian Medical Education | Yale University | 2011 |
Invited Member | Sullivan Alliance to Transform America’s Health Professions | 2011 |
Delegate to Cuba, Diversity in the Healthcare Workforce | MEDICC (Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba) | 2010 |
Featured Member, Kudos Corner (December 2010) | Journal of the National Medical Association | 2010 |
Alice Bohmfalk Teaching Award in Clinical Science Nominee | Yale University | 2010 |
Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award nominee | Association of American Medical Colleges | 2009 |
Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award Nominee | Yale University | 2009 |
Alice Bohmfalk Teaching Award in Clinical Science Nominee | Yale University | 2009 |
Herbert W. Nickens Faculty Fellow Award | Association of American Medical Colleges | 2008 |
Junior Faculty Scholar Award | Yale Center for Clinical Investigator | 2007 |
U.S. Delegate | 10th Annual International Medical Workforce Collaborative, Vancouver, B.C. | 2007 |
Milton W. Hamolsky Junior Faculty Award for Scientific Abstract Submission, Finalist | Society of General Internal Medicine | 2007 |
Translating Research to Policy Selected Participant | RWJF Scholarship and Fellowship Programs | 2007 |
Alice Bohmfalk Teaching Award in Clinical Science Nominee | Yale University | 2007 |
Kingsley Medical Research Fellowship | Yale University | 2006 |
Class of 2004 Outstanding Resident Teaching Award | Harvard Medical School | 2004 |
Support for Excellence Grant Recipient | Educational Development | 2003 |
Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society | Jefferson Medical College | 2000 |
Award for Leadership and Community Service | Eastern Pennsylvania Medical Society | 2000 |
Sigma Xi Honorary Research Fraternity | Swarthmore College | 1995 |
Sigma Xi Honorary Research Fraternity |
Professional Service
Organization | Role | Date |
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National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), Genomics2020 Strategic Planning Process, Invited Participant | Participant | 2020 |
Yale University, Board of Governors, IMPACT | Member | 2020 |
Reopen Connecticut Advisory Group, Governor of Connecticut's COVID Response Taskforce, Community Committee | Chair | 2020 |
AARP CT Town Hall | Lecturer | 2020 |
Yale University, Advisory Committee on Dean of Medicine Search | Member | 2019 |
Faculty Affiliate, Yale University, Global Health Studies Program | Faculty Member | 2019 |
Yale Center for Implementation Science Scholar Selection Committee | Reviewer | 2019 |
The Community Foundation of Greater New Haven, New Haven, CT | Board Member | 2018 - 2021 |
Yale School of Medicine, Phyllis Bodel Medicine Grand Rounds Planning Committee | Member | 2018 |
Yale School of Medicine, Mission Statement Committee | Member | 2018 |
Tackling Global Challenges through Use-Inspired Research, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research – Science for Global Development | Reviewer | 2018 |
Addressing Disparities Panel, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) | Reviewer | 2018 |
RCMI Research Coordination Network (RRCN) (U54), National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) | Reviewer | 2018 |
Yale School of Medicine, Minority Organization for Retention and Expansion (MORE) Mentorship Program | Mentor | 2018 - Present |
Project Access New Haven | Board Member | 2018 - Present |
Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS), Membership Committee | Member | 2017 |
Yale School of Public Health, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Faculty Search Committee | Member | 2017 |
Faculty Director, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation, Diversity Initiative Program, Diversity Training Work Group | Director | 2017 |
Invited Member, Yale School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Iva Dostanic Physician-Scientist Trainee Award Committee | Member | 2017 |
National Academy of Medicine, Roundtable on Genomics and Precision Health | Planning Committee | 2017 |
Yale Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center for Health Disparities Research, Precision Medicine (Yale-TCC) Summit | Planning Committee | 2017 |
Patient Reported Experiences of Discrimination in Care Tool (PreDict) Health Equity Hospital Consortium (HEHC) Workshop | Planning Committee | 2017 |
RCMI Independent Research Project Proposals, Howard University | Reviewer | 2017 |
Specialized Centers of Excellence on Minority Health and Health Disparities (U54), National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) | Reviewer | 2017 |
Community Impact Reviewer, California Breast Cancer Research Program for Community Impact | Reviewer | 2017 |
Yale New Haven Hospital, Diversity & Inclusion Team | Member | 2017 - Present |
CT Voices for Children | Board Member | 2017 - Present |
Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences and School of Medicine, Scholar Awards Committee, | Member | 2016 - 2017 |
National Academies of Medicine, Genomics and Population Health Action Collaborative, Health Disparities Group | Member | 2016 |
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Patient-Physician Guideline Consensus Panel | Member | 2016 |
Arnhold Institute for Global Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Health System, Task Force on Global Advantage | Member | 2016 |
National Human Genome Research Institute and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Use of Race and Ethnicity in Genomic and Biomedical Research Workshop | Consultant | 2016 |
Beyond Flexner Conference, Program Planning Committee | Planning Committee | 2016 |
Society of General Internal Medicine, New England Regional Meeting, Abstract Selection Committee | Committee Member | 2016 |
Sickle Cell Disease Association of America 30 Year Gala, Honorary Chair | Chair | 2016 |
Yale Diabetes Research Center Selection Committee, Yale School of Medicine | Reviewer | 2016 |
Puerto Rico Clinical and Translational Research Consortium (PRCTRC), External Advisory Committee | Member | 2016 - Present |
Yale School of Medicine, Educational Policy and Curriculum Committee, Subcommittee on Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice in Medicine | Chair | 2016 - Present |
Yale School of Medicine, Doris Duke Faculty Fellowship Program | Co-Director | 2016 - Present |
Yale School of Medicine, Department of Medicine Medical Student Thesis Committee | Co-Chair | 2016 - Present |
Yale School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Diversity Committee, Visiting Clerkship Program Subcommittee | Chair | 2016 - Present |
Inaugural Mentor, Yale New Haven Hospital, Internal Medicine Residency Program, Resident Mentoring/Advising/Coach Program | Mentor | 2016 - Present |
Scholar Awards Committee, Yale University | Reviewer | 2016 - Present |
Southern Connecticut Sickle Cell Disease Association, Medical Advisory Committee | Chair | 2016 - Present |
Advisory Council Member, Southern Connecticut State University, Community Alliance for Research Engagement | Council Member | 2016 - Present |
Connecticut Teach for America | Board Member | 2016 - Present |
Institutional Representative, NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) Advisory Council, Workforce Development Task Force, Community-Engaged Research Workgroup | Representative | 2015 |
Yale University, Dean of Public Health Search Advisory Committee | Member | 2015 |
National Cancer Institute, Understudied Populations in Cancer Epidemiologic Research: Implications on Future Needs Workshop, Invited Participant | Participant | 2015 |
Yale Center for Clinical Investigation/Clinical and Translational Science Award (YCCI/CTSA) Scholar Selection Committee, Yale School of Medicine | Reviewer | 2015 |
Oak Ridge Associated Universities, SUNY Downstate Medical Center | Reviewer | 2015 |
AAMC’s Council of Faculty and Academic Societies (CFAS) Task Force, Working Group to Define Faculty, Elected Member | Member | 2015 - Present |
Yale School of Medicine, Center for Research Engagement, Steering Committee | Co-Chair | 2015 - Present |
Invited Member, Yale School of Medicine, Circles Project, Faculty Advisory Committee | Member | 2015 - Present |
(Alternate Chair)/Permanent Member, Health Disparities and Equity Promotion (HDEP) Study Section, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health | Chair | 2015 - Present |
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | Reviewer | 2015 - Present |
Yale Center for Clinical Investigation, TIII Translational Research Core | Member | 2014 - 2016 |
Health Disparities and Equity Promotion (HDEP) Study Section, National Institutes of Health | Ad-hoc Member | 2014 - 2015 |
Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network Symposium, San Juan, PR | Planning Committee | 2014 |
National Cancer Institute, Center for Global Health, Symposium on Global Cancer Research | Executive Committee Member | 2014 |
Society of General Internal Medicine, Organization of Care & Chronic Disease Management, Abstract Selection Committee | Committee Member | 2014 |
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, International Symposium on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Abstract/Poster Presentation Selection Committee | Committee Member | 2014 |
Yale School of Medicine (Academic Advisors), Educational Policy and Curriculum Committee | Member | 2014 - Present |
Yale University, Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), Faculty Subcommittee | Member | 2014 - Present |
Faculty Co-Advisor, Yale New Haven Hospital, Women’s Health and Medicine Resident Interest Group | Advisor | 2014 - Present |
Advisory Board Member, mActivity Innovative Fitness Center, New Haven, CT | Board Member | 2014 - Present |
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Scientific Advisory Board, Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center | Member | 2013 |
Yale New Haven Hospital, System Clinical Advisory Committee | Committee Member | 2013 |
Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network Symposium, St. Thomas, USVI | Planning Committee | 2013 |
Society of General Internal Medicine, Health Policy/Advocacy/Social Justice, Workshop Selection Committee | Chair | 2013 |
National Cancer Institute, Center for Global Health, Global Cancer Research Day | Planning Committee | 2013 |
Yale University, Branford College, Fellow and First Year Advisor | Advisor | 2013 - Present |
Yale Center for Clinical Investigation, TIII Translational Research Core Grant Review Committee | Member | 2012 - 2016 |
Yale New Haven Hospital, Smilow Cancer Center, Diversity, Disparities and Health Equity Committee, | Committee Member | 2012 - 2014 |
Yale Practice-Based Research Network, Nethaven | Board Member | 2012 - 2013 |
Yale School of Medicine, Task Force on Student Research | Member | 2012 - 2013 |
Yale School of Medicine, START@Yale Steering Committee | Member | 2012 - 2013 |
Invited Member, Society of General Internal Medicine, 2013 National SGIM Glaser Award Selection Committee | Member | 2012 |
Yale School of Public Health, Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Faculty Search Committee | Member | 2012 |
Yale School of Medicine, Cultural Competency Goals Committee | Member | 2012 |
Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network Symposium, Miami, FL | Planning Committee | 2012 |
(Invited Phase-II In-Person Reviewer), Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) | Reviewer | 2012 |
Connecticut State Medical Society (CSMS) Health Equity Committee | Member | 2012 - Present |
National Quality Forum’s Health Disparities and Cultural Competency Standards Steering Committee | Member | 2011 - 2012 |
Sullivan Alliance to Transform America’s Health Professions, Board of Directors | Board Member | 2011 |
Yale New Haven Hospital, Smilow Cancer Center, Cancer Prevention and Control Committee | Committee Member | 2011 |
Health Research Awards, Health Research Board, Ireland (Irish equivalent of AHRQ) | Reviewer | 2011 |
Yale University, Doctoral Candidates, History of Medicine and Nursing, Dissertation Committee (Research Methods) | Committee Member | 2011 - Present |
Yale New Haven Hospital, Social Justice Committee | Committee Member | 2011 - Present |
Society of General Internal Medicine, Research Methods, Workshop Selection Committee | Committee Member | 2011 - Present |
Society of General Internal Medicine | Research Committee Member | 2010 - 2012 |
Society of General Internal Medicine, Research Committee | Member | 2010 - Present |
Yale School of Medicine, Course Committee | Member | 2009 - 2010 |
(Special Review Group in response to RFA CA-09-001), NIH/NCI - Multi-Component P50 “NIH-Support Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities (CPHHD)” | Reviewer | 2009 |
Invited Member, SustiNet Board Healthcare Workforce Task Force, CT | Member | 2009 |
Yale University, Physician Associate Program, Progress Committee | Member | 2009 - Present |
Featured Documentary on Healthcare Discrimination, "The Deadliest Disease in America" | Host | 2008 |
Society of General Internal Medicine, Health Disparities Task Force | Task Force Member | 2008 - Present |
American Public Health Association | Member | 2008 - Present |
Yale School of Medicine, Progress Committee | Member | 2007 - 2014 |
Yale University, Department of Medicine, Primary Care Program, Intern Selection Committee | Member | 2007 - 2013 |
Yale University, Wide Minority Advisory Council to the President | Member | 2007 - 2010 |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Measures of Racism Working Group | Member | 2007 - 2009 |
Charlotte Kimelman Cancer Institute, Grants and Research Committee, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands | Member | 2006 - 2013 |
Yale University, Department of Medicine, Intern Selection Committee | Member | 2006 - 2013 |
Physician Volunteer Preceptor, Haven Free Clinic, New Haven, CT | Preceptor | 2006 - 2012 |
Yale School of Medicine, Minority Organization for Retention and Expansion | Founding Member | 2006 - Present |
Yale School of Medicine, M.D., P.A., and M.P.H Candidates Thesis Advisor | Advisor | 2006 - Present |
Society of General Internal Medicine, Health Disparities Abstract Selection Committee | Committee Member | 2006 - Present |
Physician Volunteer Preceptor, Wednesday Evening Clinic, New Haven, CT | Preceptor | 2006 - Present |
Journal of the National Medical Association | Reviewer | 2005 - Present |
Journal of General Internal Medicine | Reviewer | 2005 - Present |
Academic Medicine | Reviewer | 2005 - Present |
American Journal of Public Health | Reviewer | 2005 - Present |
Diabetes Care | Reviewer | 2005 - Present |
Circulation | Reviewer | 2005 - Present |
Health Services Research | Reviewer | 2005 - Present |
Journal of Healthcare for the Poor and Underserved | Reviewer | 2005 - Present |
British Medical Journal (BMJ) | Reviewer | 2005 - Present |
DuBois Review | Reviewer | 2005 - Present |
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) | Reviewer | 2005 - Present |
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) | Reviewer | 2005 - Present |
Health Affairs | Reviewer | 2005 - Present |
Annals of Internal Medicine | Reviewer | 2005 - Present |
Fair Haven Community Health Center, Cancer Collaborative Committee, New Haven, CT | Member | 2004 - 2008 |
American College of Physicians | Member | 2004 - Present |
National Medical Association | Member | 2004 - Present |
Society of General Internal Medicine, Minorities in Medicine Task Force | Task Force Member | 2001 - Present |
Society of General Internal Medicine | Member | 2001 - Present |
Departments & Organizations
- Cancer Prevention and Control
- Center for Community Engagement and Health Equity (CEHE)
- Chronic Disease Epidemiology
- Climate Change and Health
- Dean's Advisory Council for LGBTQI Affairs
- Directories
- Diversity Committee
- Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC)
- General Internal Medicine
- Global Health Studies
- Internal Medicine
- MORE
- Obesity Research Working Group
- Office of Cooperative Research
- Yale Cancer Center
- Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (YCCI)
- Yale Center for Implementation Science (YCIS)
- Yale Institute for Global Health
- Yale Medicine
- Yale Medicine Outlist
- Yale School of Public Health
- Yale TCC
- Yale University
- Yale-New Haven Hospital Primary Care Center