Sponsored by the Chancellor and the Office of the Provosts Keynote Speaker Dr. Ellen L. Short is a Counseling Psychologist and Associate Mentoring Across Difference Planning Committee Professor of Graduate Counseling Programs in the Department of Counseling and School Psychology for the School of Education at LIU Rosa Chaviano-Moran, DMD | School of Dental Medicine Brooklyn. Dr. Short received an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Perry Halkitis, PhD, MS, MPH | School of Public Health Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from New York University. Her areas of specialization in teaching, scholarly Shawna Hudson, PhD | Robert Wood Johnson Medical School research and publishing are: Group dynamics focusing on race, ethnicity, gender and culture, multicultural assessment of intelligence tests and social justice/multicultural counseling. Dr. Short has spent nearly two decades working in the field of group relations and has served as a consultant at group relations conferences in the United States and internationally. She has also directed group relations conferences at Teachers College, Columbia University, and New York University. She is the co-author of “Racial and Cultural Dynamics in Group and Organizational Life. Crossing Boundaries,” published by Sage in 2010. Dr. Short’s latest book, for which she is the lead editor is, “Talking about Structural Inequalities in Everyday Life: New Politics of Race in Groups, Organizations, and Social Systems,” which was published by Information Age Publishing in 2016. Notes Panelists ___________________________________________________ Dr. XinQi Dong is the Director of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research (IFH) at Rutgers University as well as the inaugural Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor of Population Health Sci- ences. Dr. Dong has published extensively on the topics of violence prevention with more than 200 peer- ___________________________________________________ reviewed publications and is leading a longitudinal epidemiological study (The PINE Study) of 3,300 Chinese older adults to quantify relationships among culture, violence and health outcomes. Dr. Dong is the principle ___________________________________________________ investigator of eight federally-funded grants and also has mentored many trainees and faculties to suc- cess. Dr. Dong serves on many editorial boards, was guest editor-in-chief for Journal of Aging Health and Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences and edited the key textbook on elder abuse - the field’s largest ___________________________________________________ collection of research, practice, and policy. Dr. Dong was the recipient of the Paul Beeson Award by National Institute on Aging, the National Physician Advocacy Merit Award by the Institute for Medicine as a Profession, ___________________________________________________ the Nobuo Maeda International Aging and Public Health Research Award by the APHA, National Award for Excellence by APHA, the Maxwell Pollack Award in Productive Aging, the Joseph Freeman Award and the Powell Lawton Award by the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). In 2017, he received the Eward Busse ___________________________________________________ Award by the International Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics. Dr. Robin Eubanks is an Associate Professor at Rutgers University Biomedical and Health Sciences – School ___________________________________________________ of Health Professions in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies. Dr. Eubanks has been with the Universi- ty in a variety of capacities for over 30 years. She teaches a variety of courses focusing on cultural Issues in physical and mental health care, educational methods in teaching, and qualitative research. Dr. Eubanks has a ___________________________________________________ Bachelor’s degree from Dickinson College, a Master’s degree from Adelphi University, and a Ph.D. in Counsel- ing Psychology at Seton Hall University. She was privileged to receive a Student Research Recognition ___________________________________________________ Award, African American Achievement Award, Excellence in Teaching Award and the University of Excellence Award, service to external community education. Dr. Eubanks has presented workshops and seminars throughout the country for more than twenty years on a variety of topics such as: cultural perspectives in ___________________________________________________ health care, resilience, motivation, and stress management. Dr. Eubanks is very active in her community. She was a Fellow in the Leadership Newark Organization, she has assisted with the design of a training curriculum ___________________________________________________ for Community Health Workers in the Camden area, and she was a mentor for the NAACP ACTSO . Dr. Ana Natale-Pereira is Associate Professor of Medicine and Division Director of General Internal Medi- ___________________________________________________ cine in the Department of Medicine at Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School (R-NJMS), where she also serves as the Assistant Dean for Primary Care. In July 2012, Dr. Natale assumed the position of Division Chief for ___________________________________________________ General Internal Medicine at Rutgers-NJMS, responsible for both inpatient and outpatient general medical services provided at University Hospital. In addition to her academic responsibilities and clinical contribution to University Hospital, Dr. Natale served as a member of the Advisory Panel for Outreach and Education for ___________________________________________________ the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; as the Regional Chair for the National Hispanic Medical Association Northeast region; and as a board member to the Eastern Division of the American Cancer Socie- ___________________________________________________ ty. She is currently a board member of the Greater Newark Health Care Coalition. This past year, Dr. Natale received the NJMS Faculty Organization-Faculty of the Year Award, and the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award. She was inducted to the Gold Humanism Honor Society. Dr. Natale’s interest is in health ___________________________________________________ services research and community collaborative interventions, to eliminate health disparities in cancer and chronic diseases, particularly the junction of culture and literacy, and the impact on health outcomes. ___________________________________________________ Dr. Kathleen Scotto is the Vice Chancellor for Research and Research Training, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences and Vice Dean, the School of Graduate Studies. She is also a member of the Rutgers Cancer ___________________________________________________ Institute of New Jersey and a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at Rutgers Robert Wood John- son Medical School. She began her independent research career at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and was on the faculty of the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. Prior to joining Rutgers in ___________________________________________________ 2013, Dr. Scotto served as the Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UMDNJ. Widely recognized for their work on the regulation of drug resistance genes that impact ___________________________________________________ sensitivity of cancer cells to therapeutic agents, the Scotto laboratory also studies the regulation of alterna- tive splicing as it relates to the cancer phenotype. Combining her dedication to the nurturing and training of future scientists with her passion for the translation of basic science into new disease treatments, she has ___________________________________________________ been very active in both industry organizations and scientific societies that are dedicated to promoting basic/translational research and training, both in New Jersey and at the national/international level. ___________________________________________________ Dr. Suzanne Willard has been involved in the field of HIV for over 25 years. Prior to her HIV work, she was a trauma nurse at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. After graduation from University of Pennsyl- ___________________________________________________ vania as an advanced practice nurse in her first position she initiated clinic services for parents of children who were receiving care at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children. Prior to joining Rutgers, she was Senior Technical Officer at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, the largest international organization ___________________________________________________ providing services to pregnant women with HIV. Dr. Willard designed and established programming in Sub- Saharan Africa to insure the quality of care utilizing a framework of continuous quality improvement. She is ___________________________________________________ a mentor to many to insure that individuals living with HIV get services that are of the highest quality. She has published book chapters and in peer-reviewed journals and has served on the editorial board of the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care. As an advocate for nurses globally, she is the current ___________________________________________________ chair of the Global committee and immediate past President of the Nurses in AIDS Care. She has received many honors for her work and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Excerpt from Chancellor Strom’s Message on Agenda Diversity