Director, Institute for Excellence in Health Equity
The Dr. Adolph and Margaret Berger Professor of Medicine and Population Health

Dr. Ogedegbe is an internationally renowned physician–scientist and expert in health equity research with a focus on implementing evidence-based interventions targeted at cardiovascular risk reduction in minority populations. He has led numerous National Institutes of Health grants and authored or co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and reviews.

Professor, Departments of Population Health and Medicine
Associate Director, Research, Institute for Excellence in Health Equity

Dr. Schoenthaler is an expert in racial disparities in cardiovascular health. Her research focuses on patient-physician relationships, through examining patients’ adherence to prescribed medications. Dr. Schoenthaler is a principal investigator for several federal and local grant awards.

Professor, Departments of Medicine and Population Health
Co-Director, Medical Education, Beyond Bridges
Associate Director, Medical Education, Institute for Excellence in Health Equity

Dr. Gonzalez is a medical education researcher and internationally renowned expert in the development of skills-based curricular interventions in implicit bias recognition and management for physicians across the continuum of training and practice. The programmatic focus of her research is designing, implementing, and evaluating interventions aimed at implicit bias recognition and management in clinical encounters. She has received funding from the National Institutes of Health and many career-development awards for her research, and is also the recipient of a K23 award from the National Institute on Minority Heath and Health Disparities. Through this funding, she is investigating the association between racial implicit bias and medical decision making. In 2022 she was selected as a scholar in the National Academy of Medicine Scholars in Diagnostic Excellence program, which enables her to continue her work in implicit bias recognition and management through the lens of equity in diagnosis.

Associate Professor, Department of Population Health
Associate Director, Community Education, Institute for Excellence in Health Equity

Dr. Islam co-directs the NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center and the Community Engagement and Population Health Research program at NYU Langone’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute. Her rigorous research program, marked by a collaborative approach involving multiple clinical and community stakeholders, focuses on developing culturally relevant community–clinical linkage models to promote health equity in disadvantaged communities. She is also a lead investigator in the NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health, the nation’s only National Institutes of Health (NIH)–funded research center of excellence dedicated to eliminating disparities in Asian communities. Dr. Islam is the principal investigator on several NIH- and CDC–funded initiatives evaluating the impact of community health worker interventions on chronic disease management and prevention in diverse populations.

The Ilse Melamid Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine

Dr. Rizzo is a physician–scientist and the inaugural health system director for disability inclusion and vice chair of innovation and equity in NYU Langone’s Department of Rehabilitation Medicine with cross-appointments in the Department of Neurology and the Departments of Biomedical and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. He leads the Visuomotor Integration Laboratory, focused on neurorehabilitation, and the Rehabilitation Engineering Alliance and Center Transforming Low Vision Laboratory, focused on assistive technologies and health equity. Dr. Rizzo also works very closely with nonprofit organizations in both rehabilitation science and visual disability and serves as an ombudsperson for NYU Langone, strategizing with colleagues and students on unique approaches to all work-related difficulties, particularly those focused on accessibility and disability inclusion.

Professor, Department of Medicine
Co-Lead, Medical Education, Institute for Excellence in Health Equity

Dr. Williams serves as the associate chair for health equity in NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s Department of Medicine. She specializes in gastroenterology and focuses on health disparities in colorectal cancer screening and medical education. Dr. Williams also serves as co-chair of the New York Citywide Colorectal Cancer Control Coalition risk assessment and screening committee, is the former chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee for the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG), and currently serves on the ACG board of trustees. Dr. Williams is the director of both the Saul J. Farber Program in Health Equity and the NYU Department of Internal Medicine Organization for Nurturing Diversity (DIMOND) program.

Associate Dean of Diversity and Inclusion
Associate Professor, Departments of Population Health and Medicine
Co-Lead, Medical Education, Institute for Excellence in Health Equity

Dr. Ravenell is the co-director of the Beatrice W. Welters Breast Health Outreach and Navigation Program. Dr. Ravenell has been a principal investigator for several federal grant awards focusing on colon cancer screening and cardiovascular disease prevention among Black men in urban settings. His community-based research has led to a network of more than 200 community-based sites including barbershops, faith-based organizations, and social service agencies.

Medical Director, KP3 Unit Professor, Departments of Surgery and Population Health
Co-Lead, Clinical Systems, Institute for Excellence in Health Equity

Dr. Joseph is the co-director of the Beatrice W. Welters Breast Health Outreach and Navigation Program, and the first vice chair for diversity and health equity in NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s Department of Surgery and NYU Langone Transplant Institute. Her clinical research focuses on examining healthcare disparities and strategies to improve outcomes in underserved women affected by breast cancer or at increased risk for breast cancer.

Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicine and Population Health
Co-Lead, Clinical Systems, Institute for Excellence in Health Equity

Dr. Mgbako is the section chief of infectious diseases at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue and director of the HIV Equity Research Program based at NYU Langone and Bellevue. His research focuses on biobehavioral interventions and outcomes for racial, gender, and sexual minorities along the HIV care continuum. He is interested in the impact of interventions such as immediate antiretroviral therapy (iART) and novel technologies on retention in care, and ART adherence and viral load suppression among marginalized populations. Dr. Mgbako is broadly interested in how trauma, structural racism, and homophobia impact HIV-related outcomes. He also enjoys narrative medicine, writing about the patient-provider relationship, and exploring issues of race and sexuality in medicine, with pieces published in JAMA, The Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, and The New Yorker.

The Barbara Wilson Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry
Associate Professor, Department of Population Health
Co-Lead, Community Engagement, Institute for Excellence in Health Equity
 
Dr. Jordan is a renowned expert in addiction and other mental health conditions in underserved populations. She conducts clinical and research studies that seek to increase access to evidence-based treatments for racial and ethnic minorities with substance use and other mental health disorders, utilizing community-engaged research principles.