FIU- RCMI Health Equity Symposium 2021
Meet Our Speakers
Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, MD
Director,
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, M.D. is Director of the National Institutes on Health’s National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), which seeks to advance the science of minority health and health disparities research through research, training, research capacity development, public education, and information dissemination. Dr. Pérez-Stable practiced general internal medicine for 37 years at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) before moving to NIH in September 2015. He was professor of medicine at UCSF and chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine for 17 years. His research interests include improving the health of racial and ethnic minorities and underserved populations, advancing patient-centered care, improving cross-cultural communication skills among clinicians, and promoting diversity in the biomedical research workforce. For more than 30 years, Dr. Pérez-Stable led research on Latino smoking cessation and tobacco control policy in the United States and Latin America, addressing clinical and prevention issues in cancer screening, and mentoring over 70 minority investigators. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2001. To read more about Dr. Pérez-Stable, please click here.
Anna Klimala, MM
Executive Director,
Joseph Burleson,
Sr. Development Manager
Miami Music Project
Website: https://miamimusicproject.org/
FIU Collaborator: Dr. Michelle Hospital
Syeda Baig
Operations Coordinator,
UHI Community Clinic
Website: https://www.uhiclinic.org/
FIU Collaborator: Dr. Sahar Ajabshir
Manuel (Manny) Fermin, MPA
Chief Executive Officer
Healthy Start Coalition of Miami-Dade
Website: https://www.hscmd.org/
FIU Collaborators: Dr. Melissa M. Howard & Dr. Hui Huang
Jezabel Maisonet, BSN, RN
Clinical Director,
Caridad Center
Website: https://caridad.org/
FIU Collaborator: Dr. Sabrina Sales-Martinez
Lisette Gil, EdS
Psychologist,
Miami Macarthuer Educational Center
Website: https://www.miamimacsouth.net/
FIU Collaborator: Dr. Matthew Sutherland
Vanessa Mills, RN, BSN, MPH
Chief Compliance/Operations Officer,
Amanda Ichite, PhDc, MPH, CPH, Care 4 U Community Health Center
Website: https://www.care4uchc.org/
FIU Collaborator: Dr. Jessy G. Dévieux
Elena Cyrus, PhD
University of Central Florida
E-mail: Elena.Cyrus@ucf.edu
Matthew Suttherland, PhD
Florida International University
E-mail: masuther@fiu.edu
Shanna Burke, PhD, MSW, MPH
Florida International University
E-mail: sburke@fiu.edu
COVID-19 Panelists
Zoran Bursac, PhD
Florida International University
E-mail: zbursac@fiu.edu