A Different Kind of Leader

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Cheryl Rucker Whitaker, MD, MPH is an accomplished physician executive and transformational entrepreneur practiced in managing in matrixed and complex environments. Her work has been at the intersection of academia, industry, government, and non-profit sector to grow companies at the intersection of growth for impact. She is the founder of Complete Care Management Partners LLC, providing Medicaid focused urban based de...

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Charles Mouton, MD, MS, MBA is currently serving as interim President at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. He has been executive vice President and Provost and Dean of the John Sealy School of Medicine, and professor in the Department of Family Medicine  at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Dr. Mouton previously served UTMB as Vice Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Medicine. He joined ...

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Adaora A. Adimora, MD, MPH, FIDSA, is a Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and professor of epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is a physician epidemiologist with more than 25 years of clinical experience in the treatment of patients with HIV disease. She has dedicated her career to investigating the epidemiology...

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This season's toolbox episode features Vivette Jeffries-Logan, one of the founding partners of Biwa Consulting and Emergent Equity. Biwa focuses on leadership, organizational, and equity development working with nonprofits, foundations, community organizations as well coaching thought partnership with individual leaders. In this episode, our guest discusses frameworks used by Biwa including personal/self inventory, w...

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Marshall Chin, MD, MPH is the Richard Parrillo Family Distinguished Service Professor of Healthcare Ethics at the University of Chicago. Marshall is a practicing general internist and health services researcher who has  dedicated his entire career to advancing health equity through interventions at multiple levels: individual, organizational, community and policy levels.

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Sherita Golden, MD, MHS is the Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer for Johns Hopkins Medicine. She is also a Professor of Medicine. Dr. Golden's research has used the tools of epidemiology and health services research to identify biologic and system contributors to disparities in type two diabetes and its outcomes.

🔔 Follow Dr. Sherita Golden on Twitter: @GoldenSherita

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Season 5's kick off episode features Keith Churchwell, MD, President of Yale New Haven Hospital and Executive Vice President of Yale New Haven Health System. He is also an associate clinical professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine.

🔔 Follow Dr. Keith Churchwell on Twitter: @KChurchwellMD

This episode is hosted by Giselle Corbie and produced by Rachel Quinto. Promoted by Shelby McLam...

Check out Season 5 of A Different Kind of Leader Tuesday, November 22, 2022. This new season features new eight guest leaders and another set of skills for your leadership toolbox.

This season is hosted by Giselle Corbie and is produced by Rachel Quinto. Promoted by Shelby McLamb and engineered by Sam Williams. Music is by Mixaud and Chillout Lounge.

Check out all the episodes of A Different Kind of Leader and tools and res...

Dr. Jasjit Ahluwalia is a physician and public health scientist at Brown University’s Schools of Public Health and Medicine. He has been in academic medicine since 1992 and has been a practicing physician, faculty member, department chair, Associate Dean and Center Director in medical schools, and a School of Public Health Dean. His primary research areas are health disparities and smoking cessation and nicotine addiction in Africa...

Dr. Amelie Ramirez is Director of the Institute for Health Promotion Research, Chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences, and Associate Director of Cancer Outreach and Engagement at the Mayes Cancer Center at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
The institute that Dr. Ramirez leads is the headquarters for Salud America!, a national program that uses innovative evidence-based research and communications to educate...

Angela Bryant, JD is the Assistant Secretary for Equity and Inclusion with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Angela served in the NC General Assembly representing Halifax, Vance, Warren, and parts of Wilson and Nash Counties from 2013 to 2018. In addition to serving as an elected official, she has dedicated her career to supporting a broad range of organizations in creating welcoming and successful environ...

Dr. Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable is Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He oversees NIMHD’s annual budget to advance the science of minority health and health disparities research. NIMHD conducts and supports research programs to advance knowledge and understanding of health disparities, identify mechanisms to improve minority health and reduce h...

Dr. Debra J. Barksdale is Dean and Professor of the School of Nursing at UNC Greensboro. Dr. Barksdale is an RWJF Executive Nurse Fellow alumna and served as the only nurse appointed to the Patient-Centered Outcomes Board of Governors (PCORI) for 8 years, a past president of the National Association of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, an AACN-Wharton Executive Leadership Fellow, and a former DHHS Primary Health Care Policy Fellow and ...

Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith is Associate Dean for Health Equity Research; C.N.H Long Professor of Medicine, Public Health, and Management; and Founding Director of the Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC) in the Office for Health Equity Research at Yale School of Medicine. She  currently serves as Senior Advisor to the White House COVID-19 Response Team and Chair of the Presidential COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force at the Dep...

Dr. Joseph Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula is a Professor and Chair of Native Hawaiian Health in the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and a licensed clinical psychologist. As a Native Hawaiian, he is passionate about improving the health of Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders and has made a life-long commitment to improving their social and cultural determinants of health. He has led multiple, feder...

Angela Rosenberg, DrPH, PT, BCC is a leadership consultant who earned her Master’s in Public Health and her Doctorate in Leadership Development at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.  Through her company, Inside Out, Dr. Rosenberg focuses on individualized leadership development and the development, facilitation, and evaluation of executive leadership teams. She is a Board Certified Leadership Coach (BCC) and is certifie...

Brian Smedley, PhD is chief of Psychology in the Public Interest, where he leads APA’s efforts to apply the science and practice of psychology to the fundamental problems of human welfare and social justice. In this episode, Dr. Smedley discusses how work in social justice has been instrumental in addressing the challenges of current events (e.g., COVID-19, racial inequality, etc.). He illustrates how much this body of work has gro...

Chandra L. Ford, PhD, MPH, MLIS is Professor of Community Health Sciences and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice and Health in the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Her work offers conceptual and methodological tools for studying racism as a public health problem. In this episode, Dr. Ford describes how her career journey pivoted unexpectedly...

Carlos del Rio, MD is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University School of Medicine and Executive Associate Dean for Emory at Grady. He is also Professor of Global Health and Professor of Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health. He is co-Director of the Emory Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and co-PI of the Emory-CDC HIV Clinical Trials Unit and the Emory Vaccine and...