4Th Annual AAPHP Public Health Physician Summit

4th Annual AAPHP Public Health Physician Summit July 18 and July 19, 2020 Central Time Virtually Hosted Registration: DAY 1: https://www.aaphp.org/event-3875063 DAY 2: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5448183878046656525 Summit Chairs: Thomas Britt MD MPH, Dennis Garrett MD, Katrina Rhodes MD MS ( Founder, Inaugural Chair)

© AAPHP/ CHAMPS (Creating Health and Medical Pathways for Scholars formerly called the Chicago Area Health and Medical Careers Program)/ Health Policy Institute of Chicago (HPIC) Policy Forum Day 2 Directors: Dr. John Bradley, Melvin Daniels, Ph.D, Ronald Rembert, M.D., COL Damon Arnold MD MPH

Saturday July 18, 2020 11:30-11:40 am Welcome Address: Dennis Garrett, M.D., President of the AAPHP & CHAMPS’ Executive Leadership Team

11:40 -11:50 am Updates: Thomas Britt, MD MPH President Elect AAPHP and President of HPIC

11:50-11:55 am Summit History: Katrina Rhodes, MD, MS Immediate Past President of AAPHP

11:55am-12:10 pm PSTK Overview: Joel Nitzkin MD MPH Creator of the Preventative Service Tool Kit (PTSK)

AAPHP Professional Development Series for Public Health Policy Leadership Co-Founders and Directors: Dennis Garrett MD, Karsten Lunze MD MPH, Katrina Rhodes MD MS

12:15 - 1:15 pm Health System and Population Health IT Approaches to Covid 19 Pandemic +Social Determinants of Health

Speakers and Panelists Kaiser Permanente Bechara Choucair, MD Bon Secours Mercy Health Samuel Ross, MD Kumanu Inc, American College of Preventive Medicine Bob Carr, MD

1:30 - 2:45 pm Covid-19 Pandemic and Opioid Epidemic Are Public Health Crises

Speakers and Panelists American Medical Association Patrice Harris, MD, MA Boston Medical Center Karsten Lunze, MD MPH Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Josh Sharfstein, MD

3:00 - 4:00 pm Public Health Agency, Community Health, and Health Organization Approaches to Covid-19 Pandemic + Vulnerable Populations

Speakers and Panelists National Medical Association Niva Lubin-Johnson, MD American Public Health Association Georges Benjamin, MD Rothman Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Dale Caldwell, PhD

4:00 pm Day 1 Wrap-Up

Please register for Day 2: 4th Annual AAPHP Public Health Physician Summit on Jul 19, 2020 2:00 PM CDT at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5448183878046656525

Sunday July 19, 2020 2:30 – 2:35 pm Welcome Address Dennis Garrett, M.D., President of the AAPHP & CHAMPS

2:35 - 2:40 pm Updates Thomas Britt, MD MPH President Elect AAPHP and President of HPIC

2:45 - 3:45 pm PSTK Exercise Joel Nitzkin, MD MPH & Dave Cundiff, MD MPH

AAPHP/ CHAMPS (Creating Heath and Medical Pathways for Scholars)/ Health Policy Institute of Chicago (HPIC) Policy Forum Directors: Dr. John Bradley, Melvin Daniels, Ph.D., Roland Walker, M.D., Ronald Rembert, M.D., COL Damon Arnold MD MPH

3:55 - 4:55 pm Racism as a Disease and Public Health Crisis and Police Brutality Moderators: COL Damon Arnold MD MPH, Thomas Britt, MD, MPH, Dennis Garrett, MD

Panelist Black Psychiatrist of American, President Patricia Newton, MD, MPH CHAMPS’ Attorney and Educator Wendi Williams, Esq of IL American Psychiatry Association (APA), AMA & AAPHP Member Dionne Hart, MD CHAMPS’ Researcher & Educator & Royal Circle Foundation Hunter Adams CHAMPS Alumni Development, President & AAPHP Board of Trustee Ronald Rembert Jr. MD CHAMPS President Emeritus of CHAMPS Dr. John Bradley

5:00-5:5:55 pm AAPHP General Members Business Meeting Chair: Dennis Garrett, MD

5:55-6:00p Day 2 Wrap-Up/Adjourn

All AAPHP and CHAMPS members are invited to attend all events either in via teleconference/webinar. Please consider volunteering for a committee and inviting a colleague. Contact (773) 945-1485 with questions. Thanks for your support and we look forward to seeing you at the Summit!

4th Annual AAPHP Public Health Physician Summit July 18-19, 2020 Virtually Hosted Summit Speakers, Panelists, Moderators, Chairs, Founders, and Directors

BECHARA CHOUCAIR, MD SVP & Chief Health Officer Kaiser Permanente Bechara Choucair, MD, is senior vice president and chief health officer at Kaiser Permanente, one of America’s leading integrated health care providers and not-for-profit health plans. Dr. Choucair oversees the organization’s efforts focused on addressing the social health of its 12.2 million members and the 68 million people who live in the communities it serves. This work includes the creation of the nation’s largest social health network, integrated with Kaiser Permanente’s health care services, to meet the housing, food and transportation needs of its members. As chief health officer he is also accountable for the care of over 1 million Kaiser Permanente Medicaid members and those who are dually enrolled in Medicaid and Medicare. Additionally, Dr. Choucair is responsible for the organization’s Environmental Stewardship work including the commitment for KP to become carbon neutral in 2020. He also manages Kaiser Permanente’s community health portfolio, including $3.4 billion dedicated to supporting medical financial assistance and charitable care as well as grants and community health initiatives. He is the author of Precision Community Health, a guide for public health innovation in policy, data, media and community partnerships to improve health for all.

Dr. Choucair came to Kaiser Permanente from Trinity Health, where he served as senior vice president, Community Health. He worked directly with Trinity Health’s regions to improve the health of populations and to impact community-based social determinants of health. He was responsible for the development of new care delivery models and new relationships with payers, public health agencies and community organizations. Dr. Choucair and his team led the organization’s community benefit portfolio of approximately $1 billion annually. He also launched Trinity Health’s Transforming Communities Initiative to transform the health and well-being of communities across the country.

For five years prior to joining Trinity Health, Dr. Choucair was the commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH). There, he and his team launched Healthy Chicago, the city’s first comprehensive public health agenda. Since its launch, CDPH has reported historic lows in childhood obesity rates and both teen and adult smoking rates, as well as significant increases in overall life expectancy. Under his leadership, CDPH became the first big city public health agency to be awarded national accreditation.

Prior to his appointment as CDPH commissioner, Dr. Choucair served as the executive director of Heartland Health Centers in Chicago and as the medical director of Crusader Community Health in Rockford, Illinois.

In addition to serving on numerous boards, including the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids and the Diversity Leadership Committee of American Heart Association and American Stroke Association, Dr. Choucair recently joined the board of Futuro Health, a nonprofit organization dedicated to growing the largest network of certified health care workers. He has earned a number of local and national awards, including being named one of Chicago’s “40 under 40” by Crain’s Chicago Business in 2012. In 2019, Dr. Choucair was named by Modern Healthcare as one of the 50 Most Influential Health Executives in the U.S., one of the Most Influential People in Healthcare and as one of the Top 25 Innovators in Healthcare.

Dr. Choucair, a family physician by training, holds an MD from the American University of Beirut and a master’s degree in health care management from the University of Texas at Dallas. He completed his family residency at the Baylor College of Medicine.

SAMUEL ROSS, M.D., M.S. President of Bon Secours Baltimore Health System Chief Community Health Officer, Bon Secours Mercy Health

Samuel Ross, M.D., M.S., is the President of Bon Secours Baltimore Health System and Chief Community Health Officer, Bon Secours Mercy Health. Bon Secours Mercy Health (BSMH) is one of the largest health care systems in the nation. BSMH owns and operates health care facilities in Ohio, Maryland, Kentucky, New York, South Carolina, Virginia and Florida. Along with managing an acute care hospital in the heart of West Baltimore, Dr. Ross is also responsible for a vast network of community outreach divisions that focus on positively impacting outcomes that influence the social determinants of health, i.e. affordable housing, education, job skills, behavioral health, substance abuse and rehabilitation. He is a tireless and passionate advocate for improving health disparities, inequities and access to care in the communities Bon Secours Mercy Health serves.

He is a past member of the Maryland Hospital Association Executive Committee, where he served as Vice-Chair, and previously chaired the Women/Minority Business Initiative for the Maryland Hospital Association (MHA). He currently is a member of the MHA Nominating Committee. In 2018 he was appointed to the Governor’s Commission on Service and Volunteerism. He also currently serves on Catholic Health Association Health Equity and Disparities Committee and Maryland Catholic Charities Risk Oversight Committee.

Ross is one of Baltimore’s most dynamic health care executives. He served as Board Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Baltimore branch, and is the immediate past Board Chair for 340B Health. Dr. Ross is a former Board member for Americas Essential Hospitals and chaired the membership committee. In the March 2018 issue of Becker’s Hospital

Review, Dr. Ross was named one of 50 great African American leaders in healthcare to know.

He was recognized by The Daily Record in 2013 as one of the Top 20 Most Admired CEOs in Maryland. Dr. Ross has received recognitions by: the National Association of Health Services Executive – Washington Metropolitan Area Chapter Healthcare Leader honoree; Greater Baltimore Committee Leadership Program, a finalist for the 2013 Sondheim Exemplary Leadership Award; Smart CEO, 2013 Circle of Excellence Awards finalist (Healthcare), and he was named in the May 2012 issue of Modern Healthcare Magazine as one of the nation’s Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare.

He served on the former Baltimore City Police Commissioner’s African –American Advisory Council, the board of Behavioral Health System Baltimore, and in 2015 he co-chaired the Mayor’s Heroin Treatment and Prevention Task Force.

In 2014, Bon Secours and sixteen (16) other west Baltimore partners (West Baltimore Primary Care Access Collaborative) were awarded one of five Health Enterprise Zone designations by state of Maryland. Their focus was on reduction of health disparities in low income populations and population health management through impacts on the social determinants of health. He is a frequently requested presenter at local and national meetings such as Congressional hearing, Catholic Health Association annual assembly, Meeting of the Minds annual gathering, Neighbor Works annual meeting, NAHSE regional meeting, Anchor Institution Task Force annual meeting.

Prior to his arrival to Baltimore and Bon Secours, Dr. Ross was a member of the staff of Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas, Texas where he served in varied positions for over 14 years including: Executive Vice President & Chief Medical Officer of the Medical Staff/House Staff Division.

BOB CARR, MD, MPH, FACPM Chief Medical Officer for Kumanu Past President of the American College of Preventive Medicine

Bob Carr (MD, MPH, FACPM) is a physician leader, educator, consultant, executive coach and board member with extensive experience in Healthcare, Pharmaceutical and Consumer Products businesses.

Dr. Carr is the Chief Medical Officer for Kumanu, a neuroscience behavioral precision well-being company.

He was most recently the President of the American College of Preventive Medicine, the professional society for physicians dedicated to preventive medicine and population health; Director of the Executive Master’s Program in Health Systems Administration and Associate Professor at Georgetown University; Senior Vice President & Corporate Medical Director at the global healthcare firm GlaxoSmithKline with a career spanning 25 years; and a Flight & Preventive Medicine Specialist with the US Air Force for 12 years.

He received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Miami School of Medicine; his Masters of Public Health and Preventive Medicine Residency from the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Hygiene & Public Health.

Robert (Bob) Carr, MD, MPH, FACPM LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/bobcarrmdmph/

PATRICE A. HARRIS, MD, MA Immediate Past President American Medical Association

Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA, a psychiatrist from Atlanta, was the 174th president of the American Medical Association, and the organization’s first African-American woman to hold this position. Dr. Harris has diverse experience as a private practicing physician, public health administrator, patient advocate and medical society lobbyist.

Dr. Harris currently spearheads the AMA’s efforts to end the opioid epidemic and has been chair of the AMA Opioid Task Force since its inception in 2014. Dr. Harris continues to lead the task force as it works across every state to eliminate barriers to treatment, provide patients with access to affordable, non-opioid pain care, and fight the stigma faced by those with substance use-disorders.

Having served on the AMA Board of Trustees since 2011, and as chair from 2016 to 2017, she has long been a mentor, a role model and an advocate. Prior to serving on the board, Dr. Harris honed her broad knowledge and deep understanding of health care issues through various leadership roles. At the AMA these included having served for many years on the AMA Council on Legislation, including a term as chair, and on multiple AMA task forces on topics such as health information technology, payment and delivery reform, and private contracting. Beyond the AMA she has held positions of leadership with the American Psychiatric Association, the Georgia Psychiatric Physicians Association, the Medical Association of Georgia, and The Big

Cities Health Coalition, where she chaired this forum composed of leaders from America’s largest metropolitan health departments.

Growing up in Bluefield, W. Va., Dr. Harris dreamt of entering medicine at a time when few women of color were encouraged to become physicians. Dr. Harris spent her formative years at West Virginia University, earning a BA in psychology, an MA in counseling psychology and, ultimately It was during this time that her passion for helping children emerged, and she completed her psychiatry residency and fellowships in child and adolescent psychiatry and forensic psychiatry at the Emory University School of Medicine.

Two themes that govern Dr. Harris’s professional life are a passion to improve the lives of children and service to others. A recognized expert in children’s mental health and childhood trauma, Dr. Harris has led efforts on both local and national levels to integrate public health, behavioral health and primary care services with supports for employment, housing and education.

A fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Dr. Harris continues in private practice and currently consults with both public and private organizations on health service delivery and emerging trends in practice and health policy. She is an adjunct assistant professor in the Emory Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and an adjunct clinical assistant professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Morehouse School of Medicine.

2020–2021

KARSTEN LUNZE MD, MPH, DrPH, FACPM, FAAP Assistant Professor at Boston University Director of Global Health, Boston Medical Center

Karsten Lunze MD, MPH, DrPH, FACPM, FAAP is an assistant professor at Boston University (BU) and Director of Global Health, Boston Medical Center. Dr Lunze holds a medical degree and doctorates in genetic epidemiology and public health. He trained in pediatrics at Charité Berlin and the Johns Hopkins Children's Center, and in public health and preventive medicine at BU. His work concerns individual and structural risks among people with HIV, substance use disorders and other conditions. His federally funded research in Eastern Europe explores stigma related to addictions, HIV and other conditions among marginalized populations.

JOSHUA M. SHARFSTEIN, M.D. Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement and Professor of the Practice in Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Director of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative.

Dr. Joshua M. Sharfstein is Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement and Professor of the Practice in Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is also the Director of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative. He is the author of the Public Health Crisis Survival Guide: Leadership and Management in Trying Times, published by the Oxford University Press. He is also co-author of The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know.

Previously, Dr. Sharfstein served as Secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from January 2011 to December 2014. In this position, he led efforts to align Maryland’s health care system with improved health outcomes, culminating in the adoption of a revised payment model for all hospital care for Maryland residents. He also oversaw the development of a statewide health improvement process with 18 local public-private coalitions and the reshaping of state’s approach to health information exchange, long-term care, and behavioral health.

From March 2009 to January 2011, Dr. Sharfstein served as Principal Deputy Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, where he oversaw the agency’s successful performance management and transparency initiatives. From December 2005 to March 2009, as Commissioner of Health for Baltimore City, Dr. Sharfstein led innovative efforts that contributed to major declines in both overdose deaths and infant mortality rates. From July 2001 to December 2005, as minority professional staff and health policy advisor for Congressman Henry A. Waxman, Dr. Sharfstein was engaged in a wide range of oversight and legislative activities on health care topics, including emergency preparedness, HIV, and the politicization of science.

Dr. Sharfstein graduated summa cum laude with an A.B. in Social Studies from Harvard College in 1991. From August 1991 to August 1992, he worked on public health projects in Guatemala and Costa Rica with a Frederick Sheldon Prize Fellowship. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1996, from the Boston Combined Residency Program in Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center and Children’s Hospital in 1999, and from the fellowship in general academic pediatrics at the Boston University School of Medicine in 2001.

Dr. Sharfstein is an elected fellow of the Institute of Medicine (2014) and the National Academy of Public Administration (2013). He serves on the Board of Population Health and Public Health Practice of the Institute of Medicine and on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Medical Association. His awards have included the Jay S. Drotman Memorial Award from the American Public Health Association (1994), Public Official of the Year from Governing Magazine (2008) and the Circle of Commendation Award from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (2013).

Dr. Sharfstein lives with his family in Baltimore, Maryland.

NIVA LUBIN-JOHNSON, MD Immediate Past President National Medical Association

Dr. Niva Lubin-Johnson has been an advocate of quality healthcare for all and is the Immediate Past President of the National Medical Association. She is the third President and first woman to serve as President, Speaker of the House Delegates and Chair of the Board of Trustees. She was in the last class to finish her Medical Degree in 3 years from Southern Illinois University. Dr. Lubin-Johnson, a General Internist, was in private practice for 29 years on the Southside of Chicago. She has also worked in Emergency Rooms, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Residential Mental Health Facilities and Methadone Treatment Centers. With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, she has chosen to continue to be of service to the citizens of Illinois as a member of the Illinois Department of Public Health, COVID-19 Equity Team. She also is a member of the Lieutenant Governor’s Health Equity Working Group and was a member of the Chicago State University Board of Trustees (including 2 years as Chair). Dr. Lubin-Johnson is Chair of the Women’s Physician Section and has been Chair of the Minority Affairs Section of the American Medical Association. She is a Life-member of the Student National Medical Association and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. She believes in the need for wellness and preventive care for patients to obtain, attain and maintain their best health.

GEORGES C. BENJAMIN, MD Executive Director American Public Health Association

Georges Benjamin, MD is the executive director of the American Public Health Association, the nation's oldest and largest organization of public health professionals. Formerly, he was Secretary for Health for the state of Maryland. A graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University Of Illinois College Of Medicine, he is board-certified in internal medicine, a Master of the American College of Physicians, a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, a fellow emeritus of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He also serves of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, a council that advises the President on how best to assure the security of the nation’s critical infrastructure.

DALE G. CALDWELL, PHD Executive Director

Rothman Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU)

® In his groundbreaking book Intelligent Influence : The 4 Steps of Highly Successful Leaders and Organizations Dr. Dale G. Caldwell explains how influence is the reason that people “do what they do, think the way they think and accomplish what they accomplish.” His research for the book and work in urban public schools taught him the importance of neuroinfluence and inspired him to create the term “Urban Traumatic Stress Disorder” or “UTSD” to describe the continuous trauma that people experience in urban communities. Dr. Caldwell has written several articles about UTSD and been interviewed by public television about this concept. He is so passionate about the urban trauma crisis that he has volunteered as the Executive Director of the Friends of PTSD Journal and co-founded the th Invisible Wounds Conference (IWC) taking place on October 5 in Newark.

Dr. Caldwell is the Executive Director of the Rothman Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU). In addition to his current role, he serves as the CEO of Strategic Influence LLC which uses the Intelligent Influence framework to provide strategy, operations, business development, leadership, sales and diversity training to corporations, schools, municipalities, police departments, government agencies and nonprofit organizations. He is also a Partner in the Wharton True Alumni Social Impact Fund (WHAT IF Holdings, LLC) which is raising money to invest in global business ventures providing measurable social impact. Dr. Caldwell earned a BA in Economics from Princeton University, an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Doctorate in Education Administration from Seton Hall University. He is an accomplished athlete who has

15 completed three marathons and received national rankings in the US in duathlon, tennis and triathlon. He lives in New Jersey with his daughter Ashley.

KATRINA RHODES, MD Immediate Past President, American Association of Public Health Physicians Founder and Inaugural Chair, Public Health Physician Summit

Dr. Katrina Rhodes is a board-certified preventive medicine physician specializing in health policy, health services administration, regulatory medical affairs, and clinical preventive medicine. Dr. Rhodes is a health strategy consultant with biotechnology companies, patient advocacy associations, medical societies, and health care organizations.

Previously, Dr. Rhodes has extensive domestic and international experiences as a medical officer with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration; a regulatory advisor and clinical trial research physician; a population health specialist and adult medicine clinical physician; a Community-Based Prevention and Research Director at Chicago Medical School’s Affiliate Pre-Matriculation Program; and a health advisor with the U.S. Peace Corps in Madagascar, Africa.

Dr. Rhodes has served in leadership roles with organizational medicine societies including National Medical Association as Co-Chair of Post-Graduate Section; American Medical Association as Health Equity Task Force and Commission to End Health Care Disparities member; and American College of Preventive Medicine as board member.

Dr. Rhodes is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; Immediate Past President of the American Association of Public Health Physicians; and Founder and Inaugural Chair of the Public Health Physician Summit.

JOEL NITZKIN MD, MPH Preventive Services Tool Kit Project Chair American Association of Public Health Physicians

Dr. Nitzkin is a public health physician, board certified in Preventive Medicine as his medical specialty. In addition to his MD and MPH, he carries both a Master’s Degree and Doctorate in Public Administration. He has been a local health director in Monroe County/Rochester, New York, state health director in Louisiana and is a past president of both the National Association of City and County Health Officials (NaCCHO) and the American Association of Public Health Physicians (AAPHP). He has published more than 80 papers in peer-reviewed publications, covering a wide variety of public health topics, served on multiple federal advisory committees and presented at well over 100 national meetings. For the past 24 years he has been in the private practice of public health as a policy consultant, serving as an expert witness in cases dealing with community acquired infectious disease, natural disasters and quality of care in jails, prisons and nursing homes. He has also been involved in quality of care issues, healthcare accreditation and tobacco control policy, having become an advocate for tobacco harm reduction and e-cigarettes. In 2005, as leader of an AAPHP team, Dr. Nitzkin served as principal investigator in a project to develop a 2 to 8 hour educational curriculum to enable public health and medical staff to more effectively plan, advocate for and implement new preventive services and to defend against budget cuts. We call this curriculum the Preventive Services ToolKit (PSTK), which will serve as the basis for the PSTK Advocacy Strategy Workshop.

DENNIS GARRETT, MD, MPH (e) President & Education Committee Chair American Association of Public Health Physicians

Dr. Garrett is a Chicago native and a graduate of Xavier University, New Orleans (with a baccalaureate degree in Chemistry) and The Chicago Medical School. He is a disease prevention consultant for Springfield, IL Urban League and an adjunct professor & hypnotherapist instructor. He served on board of directors of IL Capital Area Chapter of American Red Cross and Vice-President of American Cancer Society in Eastern IL. Currently, he is the Medical Director of Deluca Home Healthcare Agency in Puerto Rico and Chairman of Health & Wellness Committee for Illinois District. He serves as Chicago Area Health and Medical Careers Program (CAHMCP) Legislative Liaison, Director of Field Operations & Chief Learning Officer. His life’s mission is advocacy, international health research, and starting federally qualified health clinics in underrepresented areas.

Thomas Britt, MD, MPH

Dr. Britt is past Chair of the Department of Health Studies at Chicago State University (CSU). Select courses taught at CSU include Nutrition, Pathophysiology, Personal Health & Wellness, Health Policy, Public Health Communication, Scientific Writing Skills and Drugs & Alcohol in our Society. The latter three courses were developed and established by Dr. Britt. He has served as the Principal Investigator for an NIH Grant, titled Chicago Southside Cancer Disparities Initiative. This research initiative was a collaboration between the University of Chicago’s Comprehensive Cancer Center and CSU, aimed at developing educational and academic pathways to increase knowledge transfer at the undergraduate and graduate educational levels pursuant to increased representation of minorities as leaders in research, policy and education. As Chair of the Chicago Coalition of the National Black Leadership on Cancer he served as an Individual Investigator/Subcontractor of a NCI Grant, titled Educational Program to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening. As a faculty member of the Oncology Nursing Society, as well an American College of Sports Medicine Certified Exercise Physiologist, Dr. Britt has lectured locally, nationally and internationally on the impact of exercise and nutrition on cancer development and treatment. He is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional and a member of the Chicago Community Emergency Response Team. He serves as Chair of the National African American Drug Policy Coalition-Chicago, an organization that addresses the impact of drugs on our society, especially drug sentencing inequalities. Additionally, Dr. Britt serves as the current President-Elect, American Association of Public Health Physicians; Associate Editor, International Journal of Tropical Diseases and Health; Abstract Reviewer for the Community Health Planning and Policy (CHPPD) section of the American Public Health Association; and CSU’s Representative to the NAACP-Chicago Southside Branch, focusing on health disparities.

COL DAMON T. ARNOLD, M.D., M.P.H., M.A. (USAR-Ret.) Vice President

American Association of Public Health Physicians

COL Damon T. Arnold holds the following degrees: B.S. degree from Howard University, an M.D. and an M.P.H from the University of Illinois, as well as an M.A. in Homeland Defense Security Studies from the Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS) at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) War College. He has worked for over five years at Health Care Services Corporation (HCSC), where his duties included work in the Special Investigations Division (SID) of Blue Cross Blue Shield of IL, TX, OK, NM and MT, as well as, in Government Programs for Illinois. He completed Residencies in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, as well as, Internal Medicine. He served on the Governor’s Cabinet as the Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) for four years (2007 to 2011) where he ran an Agency comprised of over 1200 employees and 130 programmatic areas with an annual budget of over 700 million dollars. He received over 70 formal awards and recognitions for his achievements in this capacity. He also served for 26 years in the Army National Guard and as the Commander of the Illinois State Joint Task Force Medical Command, as well as, a qualified Blackhawk Helicopter Flight Surgeon. Col. Arnold served two tours of combat duty in Iraq. Among his many military medals and recognitions, he was awarded the highly coveted Legion of Merit (LOM) medal by President Barack Obama, as well as, three Army Commendation medals and two National Defense Service medals. He serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and the School of Public Health. He

21 has published numerous health-related articles and a book entitled, The Theory of Social Disruption. He is also the member of several professional organizations, holds a black belt in Shotokan Karate, and is an oil painting artist. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Sharon Johnson-Arnold, and their bossy cat, Sophia.

PATRICIA A. NEWTON, M.D, MPH, M.A Black Psychiatrists of America CEO & Medical Director Patricia A. Newton, M.D, MPH, M.A. is the CEO & Medical Director, a past President of the Black Psychiatrists of America (BPA), and serves on its Council of Elders. Dr. Newton is a past Distinguished Andrea Delgado, M.D. Memorial Lecturer for the Black Psychiatrists of America, and has been the recipient of both BPA’s Isaac Slaughter, M.D. Memorial Award for “Outstanding Leadership” and the Lloyd Elam, M.D., Memorial Award for “Lifetime Achievement.” She is also the conference coordinator for the BPA serving in that capacity for over a decade. Dr. Newton is a psychiatrist and behavioral scientist specialist who is currently the President and Medical Director of Newton & Associates and President of Newton-Thoth, Inc. International Meeting Planners. She is a graduate of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, where she received her undergraduate degree and received a Master’s degree in Molecular Biology from George Peabody College of Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN). She completed her medical school education at Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis, MO) and her psychiatric training at the same institution followed by receiving her Master’s Degree in Molecular Biology from Vanderbilt University Peabody College (Nashville, TN) and a Master’s Degree in Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health & Hygiene (Baltimore, MD). She served on the academic faculty for over sixteen years at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine while becoming the first female chairperson of the Department of Psychiatry at Provident Hospital (Baltimore, MD). Dr. Newton has won many awards and citations, including Essense Magazine’s “Woman of the Year in Health & Medicine,” Baltimore Magazine’s “100 Most Influential Women in Baltimore” and Towson State University’s

“Distinguished Black Marylanders.” She was one of the first American Psychiatric Association APA/NIMH Fellows as a psychiatric resident that permitted her to attend the inaugural meeting of the BPA’s Transcultural Psychiatry Conference in Haiti in 1979. She holds membership in numerous organizations and has pioneered work with traditional healers in Africa and Brazil. She has worked internationally with psychiatrists and other health care providers in Africa, South America, the Caribbean as well as here in the USA, pioneering techniques for the chronic mentally ill and cultural competency relative to culturally competent mental health delivery globally in HIV/AIDS. Her innovations include culturally competent holistic treatment in chemical dependency and prevention, having her work embraced internationally in Africa, the Caribbean, and in Great Britain with a community-based clinic named in her honor there. Dr. Newton is an internationally acclaimed lecturer and published author of several. She is an Ashanti Royal having been enstooled as both a queen mother and female king (Divisional Chief) in Ghana, West Africa, where she is known as “Nana Dr. Akosua Akyaa” with full rights and privileges that this esteemed position holds. Her clinical psychiatry focus involves anxiety disorders with special emphasis on PTSD, depression, chronic mental illness, and transcultural psychiatry encompassing the interface of Western and Traditional African healing systems.

HUNTER ADAMS Passionate, progressive, purposeful, Hunter Havlin Adams III, a Chicago native, father of three amazing children with successful careers—insurance broker, elementary school teacher and heart surgeon is a deep thought leader, humanitarian, and speaker. He did graduate studies in neuroscience at the University College of London’s, Institute of Psychiatry. He earned Certificates in Medical Ethics from University of London, Imperial College, and Biophotonics-Biophysics, from The International Institute of Biophysics, Neuss, Germany; and has a B.S. (Cum Laude) from Chicago State University. With an aspiration to rectify transgenerational complex trauma, he became a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP). He has a compelling curiosity for how the brain/mind works, and developed a nonlinear physics theory of brain/mind/body information processing based on tsunami or soliton waves. He does research into brain-based or cultural neuroscience enhanced learning, cultural compassion, and conflict resolution. In addressing clashing racial constituencies, he developed a Civic Mental Health Initiative, presented at the 2016 Mental Health Status of Black America Forum on Capitol Hill (in Washington, D.C.). His early career in science and technology began working at a Department of Energy National Laboratory, where he did research on improving the reliability and the manufacture of particle beam accelerator diagnostic instrumentation. He has a commitment towards improving science education; he mentored youth for science fairs and volunteered with the NAACP ACT-SO program. In 1988, the Portland Oregon Public Schools commissioned him to join their curriculum of inclusion project, whose goal was to make visible to (all) children, African achievers and societies, freeing their minds from fake facts. Hunter wrote a supplemental curriculum essay, “African and African American Contributions to Science and Technology” for (K-11) educators. His disruptive treatise altered the arc of the history of science and unleashed a torrent of debates, garnering attention in the Wall Street Journal (1991) and Washington Post (1992).

He was a consultant to Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History’s Permanent Exhibit on Africa; a contributor to the Illinois TransAtlantic Slave Commission; strategist to the (former) Illinois Attorney General, Lisa Madigan, co-developing with her staff, a statewide anti-drug, alcohol, smoking and sexual health program targeting 6000 teens called–NOT ME; and the Chicago Public Schools’ Interdisciplinary African American Curriculum Program. In an enlightening and entertaining manner, over four decades, Hunter has given over 100 lectures on Africana history, philosophy, spirituality and slavery, and brain science, and conducted professional development workshops, at schools, universities, museums, community centers and churches, across the United States, Canada, South America, South Africa, and Europe. On those topics, he has written thirty articles and several book chapters, and with Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, was one co-founder of the Journal of African Civilizations. He is a frequent guest on radio and TV talk shows, and also interviewed in the film 500 Years Later, and on BBC news. And he is President of the Royal Circle Foundation (an international health and education organization). Hunter enjoys art, movies, and music and practices meditation. And his forthcoming book, WE WERE NEVER SLAVES: Disrupting Invisible Violence, Rescuing Captive Minds, Recovering Wholeness and Restarting the World (published by Haloli House Press, 2021), is the culmination of a lifelong commitment to change the narrative of Africana Lifeways, and a testimonial for rejuvenating hope and shaping the future.

July 2020

TERRY MASON, MD Chief Operating Officer Cook County Department of Public Health

Dr. Mason was appointed the Chief Operating Officer of the Cook County Department of Public Health by the Honorable Toni Preckwinkle, President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, in 2013 after serving more than three years as the Chief Medical Officer and six months as interim Chief Executive Officer for the Cook County Health and Hospitals System. The Cook County Department of Public Health is a state-certified local public health department serving suburban Cook County including 125 local municipalities, covering a 700 square mile area, with a large urban population of approximately 2.3 million residents. As the COO, Dr. Mason provides leadership, fiscal responsibility, and performance based accountability in management. He is responsible for public health programs and services for one of the nation’s largest metropolitan health departments, ranging from disease prevention, control and epidemiology; health statistics; health promotion; STD/HIV screening; emergency preparedness; and environmental licensing, inspections and complaints. Before joining the Cook County Health and Hospitals System and the Cook County Department of Public Health, he served as the Commissioner of Chicago Department of Public Health.

Dr. Mason received his BS in Biology from Loyola University and his MD from Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine at the University of Illinois Chicago. He devoted 25 years of his life in private practice as a board certified Urologist. During that period, his focus was on male erectile dysfunction and prostate cancer.

He is a nationally recognized health educator and inspirational speaker who champions holistic approaches to health management . It is Dr. Mason’s continued vision to transform healthcare delivery through the integration of public health and public medicine to create a population based strategy to manage chronic disease.

He is a member of many professional organizations and serves on multiple boards. Dr. Mason is a member of the Cook County Physicians Association and was featured in the 2010 film “Forks

27 over Knives” and received a Telly Award for the video, “Not By Myself,” featuring Marylyn Macoo and Billy Davis Jr. Dr. Mason has delivered countless presentations and conducted numerous interviews on a range of public health matters and continues to share his holistic approach to health on his popular radio show on WVON 1690 AM call in show, “The Doctor in the House” for more than 21 years.

DIONNE HART, MD Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine Mayo Clinic

Dr. Dionne Hart is a Chicago native. She earned her undergraduate degree at The College of the University Chicago then worked as a social worker at a community mental health center. She was a social worker until she entered medical school. After earning her medical degree, she completed a residency in psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic College of Graduate Medicine in Rochester, MN. She is an adjunct assistant professor of psychiatry at Mayo Clinic.

Dr. Hart is board certified in psychiatry and addiction medicine. She practices community and public psychiatry at multiple sites in Minnesota. She’s held multiple leadership positions in national, state, and local medical organizations including serving as the first chair of the American Medical Association’s (AMA) Minority Affairs Section, the first African American woman elected to the Minnesota Medical Association's Board of Trustees, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). In June 2020, Dr. Hart completed a six year tenure as the Minority Affairs Section delegate to the AMA House of Delegates. She currently serves as the Minnesota Psychiatric Society's delegate to the APA Assembly, alternate delegate of the Section Council on Psychiatry to the AMA House of Delegates, co-president of the Zumbro Valley Medical Society, and President of the Minnesota Association of African American Physicians. She is a member of the American College of Psychiatrists, and the American Association of Public Health Physicians (AAPHP)

4Th Annual AAPHP​ ​Public Health Physician Summit

4Th Annual AAPHP Public Health Physician Summit