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SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Brooklyn Health Disparities CenterAdministrative CoreThe Administrative Core provides overall administrative and scientific oversight and coordination of research projects. Specifically, it provides the scientific leadership, organizational structure, and support staff necessary for center investigators to realize their scientific potential through multidisciplinary collaborations. It facilitates communication and fosters collaborations among core members and with community members in its catchment area. It ensures sound fiscal management and accountability of all activities of the Center. It also ensures that its goals are achieved, and that the proposed activities of each CORE function optimally and in a synergistic, interacting manner with each other. Directors
Clinton D. Brown, MD, FASNDr. Clinton D. Brown is Associate Professor of Medicine, Medical Director of Parkside (Ambulatory) Hemodialysis, Director of the Center for Health Disparities, and also Director of the Hyperlipidemia Clinic at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Dr. Brown's clinical and research interests are in the areas of lipid disorders, arteriosclerosis, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, kidney disease, and hemorheology. He has served as the PI of many clinical trials that involve treatment of high blood cholesterol, hypertension and the anemia of kidney disease. He has published several research manuscripts and abstracts in peer review-journals. Over the past twenty years, Dr. Brown's laboratory has been very active in providing research opportunities for high school and college students from the neighboring community, who plan to pursue a career in either medicine or science.
Ruth C. Browne, ScD, MPHDr. Ruth Browne is Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine and Preventive Medicine and co-Director of the Center for Health Disparities Research at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Dr. Browne is also the Chief Executive Officer of the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health. She is a nationally recognized visionary and innovator in the field of urban health and education. Prior to her position at the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, she held diverse program, research and health policy positions. Dr. Browne has served as staff for major policy commissions for the Office of New York City Mayor Ed Koch and New York State Governor Mario Cuomo, and the foundation affinity group Funders Concerned about AIDS. She has extensive experience in the development and analysis of health policy, and the monitoring of health policy implementation through sponsored programs.
Yvonne Graham, RN, MPHYvonne J. Graham has been a pioneer in the area of public health for over twenty years. Before being appointed as Brooklyn's deputy borough president, Ms. Graham founded the Caribbean Women's Health Association (CWHA), serving as executive director and spearheading programs that provide comprehensive, culturally-sensitive health care, immigration and social support services to diverse communities. Faculty CollaboratorsSamy I. McFarlane, MD, MPH, MBA (Research Core)Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology , Diabetes and Hypertension Jason M. Lazar, MD (Research & Training Cores)Director of Non-Invasive Cardiology William Solomon, MD (Research Core)Attending Hematologist Oncologist, Maimonides Cancer Center M.A.Q. Siddiqui, PhD (Research Core)Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology Olugbenga Ogedegbe, MD, MPH, MS, FAHA (Research Core)Associate Professor of Medicine Carla Boutin-Foster, MD (Research Core)Associate Professor of Medicine Susana Morales, MD (Training Core)Associate Professor Mohamed Boutjidir, PhD (Training Core)Professor of Medicine, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Physiology & Pharmacology Judith H. LaRosa, PhD, RN (Training Core)Professor and Vice Dean of the School of Public Health Dawn Morton-Rias, EdD, PA-C (Training Core)Dean of the College of Health Related Professions Ferdinand Zizi, MBA (Research & Training Cores)Clinical Instructor, Department of Health Sciences Program Advisory CommitteeDennis P. Andrulis, PhD, MPHAssociate Dean of Research and Director, Center for Health Equality at Drexel University School of Public Health Marcia Bayne-Smith, PhDChair of the Board of Directors of Caribbean Women's Health Association and faculty member at Queens College, CUNY Francesca Gany, MD, MSDirector of the Cancer and Communication Project and Director of the Center for Immigrant Health at New York University School of Medicine Daniel F. Kripke, MDProfessor of Psychiatry, and Director of the Circadian Pacemaker Laboratory University of California San Diego Mariano Rey, MDSenior Associate Dean of Community Health at New York University School of Medicine James Sowers, MDThomas W. and John F. Burns Missouri Chair in Diabetology, Director of the Diabetes and Cardiovascular Center at the University of Missouri - Columbia M. Monica Sweeney, MD, MPHAssistant Commissioner for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control at New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Donald Wilson, MDDean Emeritus of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and past chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), Senior Vice President for Health Science, Howard University |