Advisory Council

Anchor Programs

Jaya Aysola, MD, MPH
Executive Director, Center for Health Equity Advancement
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine and Pediatrics

Judd Flesch, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Associate Director, Program for LGBT Health

Rebecca Hirsch, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Direction of Inpatient Oncology Services
Associate Director, Program for LGBT Health

Maria Oquendo, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Psychiatry
Ruth Meltzer Professor of Psychiatry
Co-Director, Penn PROMOTES

Iris Reyes, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Advisory Dean
Founding Director of the Alliance of Minority Physicians

Courtney Schreiber, MD, MPH
Stuart and Emily B.H. Mudd Professor in Human Behavior and Reproduction
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Co-Director, Penn PROMOTES

Sarah A. Tishkoff, Ph.D.
David and Lyn Silfen University Professor of Genetics and Biology
Director,  Penn Center for Global Genomics & Health Equity

Chairs, Vice Chairs and Center Directors

Roy Hamilton, MD
Associate Professor of Neurology
Associate Professor of  Neurology in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Vice Chair of Diversity and Inclusion, Department of Neurology
Assistant Dean of Diversity and Inclusion

Maria Oquendo, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Psychiatry
Ruth Meltzer Professor of Psychiatry
Co-Director, Penn PROMOTES

Aimee Payne, MD, PhD
Professor of Dermatology
Director of the Clinical Autoimmunity Center of Excellence

Education

Cary B. Aarons, MD, MSEd
Professor of Clinical Surgery
Assistant Dean of Graduate Medical Education
Director of UIM Affairs

Donita Brady, PhD
Harrison McCrea Dickson, M.D. and Clifford C. Baker, M.D. Presidential Professor of Cancer Biology
Assistant Dean for Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (IDE) in Research Training

Maja Bucan, PhD
Professor of Genetics
Director, Biomedical Postdoctoral Programs (BPP)

Horace Delisser, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion
Diversity Search Advisor, Department of Medicine

Kelly Jordan-Sciutto, PhD
Chair and Professor of Pathology, Penn Dental Medicine
Associate Dean for Graduate Education
Director of Biomedical Graduate Studies

Office of Academic Affairs

Arberetta Bowles, MS
Executive Director of the Office Academic Affairs

Kimberly Haebel
Assistant Director of Faculty Affairs and Diversity

Office of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity

Jack Drummond
Director of Restorative Practices

Corrinne Fahl, M.Ed.
Assistant Director

Kya Hertz
Assistant Director

UPHS

Dwaine Duckett
Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer of UPHS

Cherise Hamblin MD
Associate Director, OBGYN
Family & Maternity Medicine
Co-chair, Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Committee at Lancaster General Hospital