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SPEAKERS

BIO
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Yaw Adoo, DBA, MPH, ID

Assistant Professor & Chair, Department of Business at Morris Brown College  |  PROPEL Center HBCU Faculty Fellow

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Chief Clay Bentley, BA
Fire Chief, Hoover Fire Department, Hoover, Alabama

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Nathaniel Brooks, D.Div.

Pastor, Greater St. John MBC, Founder, Change It Foundation, Inc., OCOE Community Advisory Board Member

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Robin DeMonia, BA
Executive Vice President, Direct Communications

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Cardwell Feagin, DSc, MBA

Chief Operating Officer, Viva Health

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Abigail Franks, BA

Policy Manager, Southeast Climate and Energy Network

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Francesca Gross, MS

Program Manager, Cool Green Trees

CAWACO RC&D Council

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David Hicks, DO, MPH, FAAFP

Jefferson County Health Officer

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Joshua Joseph, MD, MPH, FAHA

Associate Professor, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University

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Ada Markaki, PhD, RN, PHCNS-BC, FAAN

Professor of Nursing Nursing Family, Community & Health Systems

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Yamilé Molina, MS, MPH, PhD

Associate Director, Community Outreach & Engagement, University of Illinois Cancer Center     

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Timiya Nolan, PhD, APRN-CNP, ANP-BC, FAAN

Associate Professor; Heersink School of Medicine; Associate Director for Community Outreach & Engagement, O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center

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La'Tanya Scott, B.S. 

Education Director, Cahaba River Society

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Anupam Agarwal, MD, MPH

Senior Vice President for Medicine and Dean, UAB Heersink School of Medicine

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Kristin Boggs, MSW
Executive Director, Albert Schweitzer Fellowship of Alabama

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Hugo (de Oliveira) Campos

Steering Committee Member, All of Us Research Program

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Chinara K. Dosse, MAEd

Manager-Clinical Research Coordination, UAB Alzheimer Disease Center | Volunteer VP, Junior League of Birmingham | VP UAB Black Alumni Network

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Ed Fields, MBA, IOM

Senior Advisor and Chief Strategist, City of Birmingham

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T. Charles Fry

Chief Risk Officer, UAB Medicine;
Vice President & Secretary, University of Alabama Health Services Foundation, P.C. 

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Claudia M. Hardy, MPA

Instructor, Medicine - Hematology & Oncology, Director, Community & Research Relations 
Office of Community Outreach & Engagement at the University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Syed Qasim Hussaini, MD, MS

Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology & Oncology at the UAB O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center

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Andre Lessears, MBA

Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, UAB Medicine

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Mark Meade, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, UAB School of Public Health

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Karen Musgrove, PhD, MEd, LPC

UAB Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Honors College

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Soledad O’Brien

CEO of Soledad O’Brien Productions

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Barry Sleckman, MD, PhD

Director of the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Ritu Aneja, PhD

Associate Dean for Research and Innovation, School of Health Professions, University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Tara Bowman, BSW

Program Manager, Office of Community Outreach & Engagement at the O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Amber Clark-Brown, MD

Medical Director for the Bureaus of Health Provider Standards, Home and Community Services, and the Office of Health Equity and Minority Health

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Marie-Carmelle Elie, MD, PhD

Chair, Emergency Medicine at UAB

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Mona Fouad, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Director of the Division of Preventive Medicine, and Senior Associate Dean for Diversity & Inclusion in the Heersink School of Medicine at UAB

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Juandalynn Givan, JD

Alabama State Representative,
House District 60 

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Kenny R. Hampton, D

President, African American Male Wellness Agency

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Myeisha Hutchinson, BA

Chief of Staff for Birmingham City Council President Darrell O’Quinn & President of MDH Strategies, LLC

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Arletha Lizana, PhD, MPH, MBA

Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine,; Associate Vice President, Health Innovation and Strategy; Director, Principal Investigator, Innovation Learning Laboratory for Population Health

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Jilisa Milton, JD, MSW

Co-Director, Advocacy & Strategic Partnerships at Greater Alliance to Stop Pollution

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Vincent Nathan, PhD, MPH

Health Equity Director, Jefferson County Department of Health Environmental & Public Health

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Ijeoma Nnodim Opara MD, FAAP, FAIM

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine

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Del Smith, PhD

Co-Founder & CEO, Acclinate

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Raque’l Smith, BS

Founder, Pinktopps Incorporated

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Jasmine D. Souers, BS

President & CEO, The Missing Pink Breast Cancer Alliance

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Rachel Stokes, PhD

Project Manager, National Environmental Health Association

BIO
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Ridhima Tagoria, MBBS, MBA

Medical Affairs Executive Director, Genentech Inc.

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Ruth-Alma Turkson-Ocran, PhD, MPH, RN, CRNP, FNP-BC, CNE

Instructor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School

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Hayley Thompson, PhD

Associate Center Director, Community Outreach & Engagement; Director, Center for Health Equity & Community Knowledge in Urban Populations

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Joanice Thompson, BS

President at Alabama Communities Together (ACT)

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Angela Williams

OCOE Community Advisory Board Member

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