Meet the Team

Gary C. Butts, MD
Task Force Lead
Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Mount Sinai Health System
Dean, Diversity Programs, Policy, and Community Affairs, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Pamela Abner, MPA, CPXP
Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer,
Office for Diversity and Inclusion,
Mount Sinai Health System

Evan Flatow, MD
President, Mount Sinai West
Bernard J. Lasker Professor of Orthopaedics,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Donna Mendes, MD
Associate Clinical Professor, Surgery,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Ernest Barthelemy, MD, MPH
Resident, Neurosurgery,
The Mount Sinai Hospital

Niyum Gandhi
Executive Vice President, Chief Population Health Officer
and Chief Financial Officer, Mount Sinai Health System

Reginald Miller, DVM, DACLAM
Dean, Research Operations and Infrastructure, and
Associate Professor, Comparative Medicine and Surgery,
Environmental Medicine and Public Health,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Emma Benn, DrPH, MPH
Associate Professor, Center for Biostatistics and
Department of Population Health Science, and
Founding Director, Center for Scientific Diversity,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Arthur Gianelli, MA, MBA, MPH
President, Mount Sinai Morningside
Chief Transformation Officer, Mount Sinai Health System

David Muller, MD
Dean, Medical Education, and
Marietta and Charles C. Morchand Chair
in Medical Education,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Jeremy Boal, MD
President, Mount Sinai Beth Israel and Downtown
Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer,
Mount Sinai Health System

Jill Goldstein, MA, MS, RN
Vice President, Nursing,
Mount Sinai Queens

Barbara Murphy, MD
Chair, Department of Medicine,
Mount Sinai Health System
Dean, Clinical Integration and Population Health,
and Murray M. Rosenberg Professor of Medicine,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Yvette Calderon, MD, MS
Emergency Department Chair, and
Vice Chair for Diversity,
Mount Sinai Beth Israel

Basil Hanss, PhD
Senior Associate Dean,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai –
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Eric Nestler, MD, PhD
Dean, Academic and Scientific Affairs,
Nash Family Professor of Neuroscience,
and Director, Friedman Brain Institute,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Neil Calman, MD
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder,
Institute for Family Health

Taylor Harrell
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Student and
President, Student National Medical Association at Mount Sinai

Ann-Gel Palermo, DrPH, MPH
Chief Program Officer, Office for Diversity and Inclusion,
Mount Sinai Health System,
Associate Dean, Diversity and Inclusion,
Biomedical Education,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Judy Cho, MD
Dean, Translational Genetics, and
Ward-Coleman Chair of Translational Genetics,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Leona Hess, PhD
Director, Strategy and Equity Programs,
Department of Medical Education,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Emma Palmer
Vice President, Government Affairs and Public Policy,
Mount Sinai Health System

Uraina Clark, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurology,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Carol Horowitz, MD, MPH
Dean, Gender Equity in Science and Medicine, and
Director, Institute for Health Equity Research,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

David Reich, MD
President and Chief Operating Officer,
The Mount Sinai Hospital
President, Mount Sinai Queens
Horace W. Goldsmith Professor of Anesthesiology,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Edith Cooper
Mount Sinai Health System Trustee

Yasmin Hurd, PhD
Director, Addiction Institute of Mount Sinai, and
Ward-Coleman Chair of Translational Neuroscience,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Lynne Richardson, MD
Professor, Emergency Medicine and Health
Science and Policy, and Co-Director,
Institute for Health Equity Research,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Ben Cotilletta
Associate Director, Health System Operations,
Mount Sinai Health System

Carolyn Huston, LCSW-R
Clinical Social Worker,
Mount Sinai Kidney Center,
The Mount Sinai Hospital

Jonathan Ripp, MD, MPH
Dean, Well-Being and Resilience,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Angela Diaz, MD, PhD, MPH
Director, Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center,
Jean C. and James W. Crystal Professor in Adolescent
Health, and Professor, Department of Pediatrics
and Department of Environmental Medicine,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Marc Kaplan
Vice President and Associate Dean,
Marketing and Communications,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Toni Stern, MD, MS, MBA
Vice Chair, Clinical Transformation, and
Chief Patient Experience Officer,
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology,
and Reproductive Science,
Mount Sinai Health System

Anne Dickerson
Vice President, Administration and Planning,
Mount Sinai Doctors Family Practice,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Andrea King-Vilaro
Executive Assistant,
Environmental Medicine and Public Health,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Donnette Truss, SHRM SCP
Business Partner, Human Resources,
Mount Sinai Beth Israel

Kamini Doobay, MD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Alum

Shawn Lee
Associate Director of Operations, Central Billing Office,
Mount Sinai Health System

Rachel Vreeman, MD
Chair, Global Health,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Sharon Edwards, MD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Medical
Education, and Vice Chair for Diversity, Pediatrics,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

David Feinberg
Senior Vice President and
Chief Marketing and Communications Officer,
Mount Sinai Health System

Michael Leitman, MD
Dean, Graduate Medical Education,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Dania Figueroa
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai –
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Student

Giselle Lynch, MD
Resident, Ophthalmology,
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai,
and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Alum

Robert Wright, MD, MPH
Chair, Environmental Medicine and Public Health,
and Ethel H. Wise Professor of Community Medicine,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Marta Filizola, PhD
Dean, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount
Sinai – Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
and Sharon and Frederick Klingenstein/
Nathan Kase, MD Professorship,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Jane Maksoud, RN, MPA
Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer,
Mount Sinai Health System

William Wright, II
Mount Sinai Health System Trustee