National Public Health Week 2024

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Associate Professor of Music Composition and Technology, NYU

Tae Hong Park is a composer, music technologist, and bassist. His work focuses on the composition of electro-acoustic and acoustic music, machine learning and computer-aided music analysis, research in multi-dimensional aspects of timbre, and audio digital signal processing. Professor Park is the author of Introduction to Digital Signal Processing: Computer Musically Speaking (World Scientific, 2010). He is the Chief Editor of Journal SEAMUS, serves as Editorial Consultant for Computer Music Journal, and served as President of the International Computer Music Association (ICMA).

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Associate Professor, Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, Hofstra University

Dr. Deshpande is the director of The Hear-Ring Lab. His research interests include tinnitus, hyperacusis, music induced hearing loss, and hearing conservation. His current research focuses on investigating the interplay between tinnitus and technology. Dr. Deshpande has authored several publications, presentations, and book chapters and is the editor of the book ‘Tinnitus: Advances in Prevention, Assessment, and Management’ published by Plural Publishing Inc. Dr. Deshpande was nominated for the Excellence in Teaching Award for demonstrating high standards of teaching and exemplary performance in and out of the classroom at the University of Cincinnati. He currently teaches doctoral courses at the Long Island Audiology Consortium in New York.

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Senator Anna Kaplan (D-North Hills) is a former child refugee who has devoted her life to public service as a way of giving back to the country that has given her so much. Now serving in her second term as a New York State Senator representing the 7th Senate District, including the Northwest portion of Nassau County, Anna is fighting hard for Long Island and delivering results for our community on important issues like funding our schools, middle class tax relief, women’s rights, and keeping our communities safe from gun violence and hate crimes. As Chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Economic Development, and Small Business, Senator Kaplan has been a leading voice and a strong advocate standing up for New York’s small business community. Bio: Anna Kaplan was born Anna Monahemi in Tabriz, Iran to a Jewish family. When the Islamic Revolution swept the country, Anna's parents made the difficult decision to send her on her own to the United States for safety. She arrived in Brooklyn as part of an international effort to save Iran's Jewish children and was sent to live with a foster family in Chicago, where she learned to speak English (her fourth language, having been raised speaking Aramaic and Farsi at home, and learning Hebrew) and completed high school. Eventually, Anna was granted political asylum by the United States government.

After her family was finally reunited, they moved to Queens, New York, where Anna graduated from Yeshiva University Stern College for Women, and then Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Anna settled in Great Neck, New York where she and her husband raised two daughters, and she felt a strong desire to give back to the country that had opened its arms to her as a child in need. After years volunteering at her daughters’ public schools and in her community, she decided to run for the Great Neck Library Board, where she served a four-year term. During that time, she was appointed to the Town of North Hempstead Board of Zoning Appeals. In 2011, Anna was elected Town of North Hempstead Councilwoman for the Fourth District, where she passed groundbreaking legislation such as a town-wide ban on gender identity discrimination and worked across party lines to help the town achieve an AAA bond rating for the first time in its history. She also advocated for, and helped secure more affordable housing for district seniors, and rehabilitated numerous parks within the district.

Anna first ran for State Senate in 2018, calling for the passage of the Reproductive Health Act, sensible gun safety legislation, and increased economic development in Nassau County. Her election victory made her the first political refugee and the first Iranian-American elected to the New York State Senate.

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Judy Griffin was elected to her first term in November 2018, and re-elected in 2020 for her second term to represent the 21st Assembly District, which includes Lynbrook, Rockville Centre, Malverne, South Hempstead, Baldwin and parts of Freeport, West Hempstead, Oceanside, East Rockaway, Lakeview, Hewlett, Hempstead, Franklin Square, and Valley Stream.

Directly before she was elected to office, Judy served for several years as a Senior Advisor and Director of Community Outreach to NY State Senator Todd Kaminsky. As his Director of Community Outreach, Judy was particularly successful in developing productive relationships with many of the same business and civic leaders in Senator Kaminsky’s district whom she now represents in Albany as Assemblywoman to the 21st district.

Judy has a history of being civically involved in the community. She joined the Rockville Centre Newcomers Club upon moving to Rockville Centre almost three decades ago and became the President the following year. She was a member of the RVC Mercy League, a Brownie and Girl Scout Leader, and an engaged PTA member that chaired many committees at local schools. She was also an activist for various local issues. In 2016, she was Senator Kaminsky’s representative on the Rockville Centre Coalition for Youth. Later in 2016, she became a founding member of RVC Indivisible, a progressive grassroots network, and Raising Voices USA, a civic engagement advocacy group.

Judy and her husband raised their four children in Rockville Centre, where they continue to reside today. Judy’s career in advocacy was initially inspired by her natural interest in her own children’s educational experiences. As a mother, Judy understood the incredible impact that teachers would have on her children and instinctively appreciated the importance of having caring, dedicated, and compassionate educators and she advocated for programs that enabled all students to thrive, especially those with special education classifications. Judy’s educational advocacy efforts later broadened to tackle many other critical issues, which led her to the front lines as a leader of the nascent “Opt-Out” movement, where she fought to rid school districts of unfair standardized testing practices, because she believes students should spend their time in school learning, not merely test taking, and teachers, as professionals, should be evaluated as such.

Judy is the Chair of the Commission on Toxic Substances and Hazardous Wastes and is a member of the following committees: Alcoholism and Drug Abuse; Economic Development, Job Creation, Commerce and Industry; Environmental Conservation; Government Employees; and Higher Education. She is also a member of the Legislative Women's Caucus and the Task Force on Women's Issues.

Judy has worked hard to fight for her legislative priorities in her first term and is currently in the first year of her second term. She has been successful in the following measures: bringing back a fair share of the tax revenue to the district; ensuring government is kept out of women’s personal reproductive health decisions; sponsoring common sense gun safety measures; expanding voting rights; sponsoring legislation to protect our environment; and enacting common-sense ethics rules to clean up corruption in Albany. Judy has advocated for a comprehensive approach to the opioid epidemic, with more emphasis on prevention, and continues to explore more effective ways to help our veterans, seniors, and young people especially with the rising rate of suicides and mental health issues. As always, Judy will continue to stand up for the hard-working men and women of labor, law enforcement and first responders, and has carried and co-sponsored many bills to support them.

Judy holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Economics with minors in Political Science and Communication from the State University of New York at Oneonta. After graduating from college, she worked in the Financial Industry at Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. and Scudder, Stevens, and Clark, Inc. Subsequently, Judy graduated from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in 2009 and became an Integrative Health Coach. She then founded a health coaching business and co-founded a corporate wellness business. Judy is also the author of Flourish Beyond 50.

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Keith Scott has been in the human services field for over 9 years. As the Director of Education for The Safe Center LI, a victim services agency dedicated to protecting, assisting, and empowering victims of abuse, Keith’s role is to lead the education department in challenging and changing social norms that perpetuate abuse. He has been featured on numerous news outlets speaking on the topics of interpersonal violence, trauma, and addiction. Keith has contributed to various local and national policies relating to combatting addiction in addition to being featured as a Keynote Speaker on public health related topics. Keith also works as the Corporate Compliance Officer for Hispanic Counseling Center in addition to an Adjunct Professor at Hofstra University and Long Island University. He earned his Master's Degree in Public Policy from Stony Brook University, Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice from Long Island University and is the recipient of the Long Island Business News 30 under 30 Award. In his spare time, as a strong advocate for community service, Keith volunteers with the Centerport Fire Department.

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Maggie Wayne MPH is pursuing her DrPH from the University of Albany, using her experiences and continued role as a program manager at Docs for Tots to help guide her studies and using her schooling to bring a public health lens to the Docs for Tots team. Additionally, she is working as a Graduate Research Assistant for the Evaluation Research and Surveillance Unit in the Division of Nutrition. She is supporting and working on a process evaluation of Eat Well Play Hard in Childcare Settings. From Spring 2018 – Spring 2021, she worked as an adjunct faculty member in Hofstra’s school of health professions and human services

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Dr. Johanna Andrews Adlam, Ph.D., MPH, is the Founder and CEO of Premier Excellence LLC, a coaching and consulting company committed to designing what excellence looks like for professionals in their careers, students in higher education, and organizations and institutions working in public health research or programs. Dr. Adlam has over twelve years of experience conducting interdisciplinary research studies and leading diverse research teams at the academic and health system level. As a social and behavioral health researcher, her work focuses on racial and ethnic health disparities, food insecurity, healthy food access for communities of color, and stress and coping processes for persons of color in the United States. Dr. Adlam received her Ph.D. in Public Health with a concentration in Social and Behavioral Health from the School of Public Health at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). She also completed her postdoctoral training in the Center for Health Disparities Research at UNLV. Additionally, Dr. Adlam obtained a Master of Public Health degree as well as a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Hofstra University. She recently received her training as a Professional Co-Active Coach from the Co-Active Training Institute.

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After working for a few years as a hospital RN, Emily Julian RN BSN, MPH started thinking about her future and knew the path that she wanted to take would be more interdisciplinary. She applied to Hofstra's MPH program. Through this program, she received the skills and connections for her current role, with NYC Health & Hospitals, in the Correctional Health Services sector. This healthcare sector focuses on providing medical care to incarcerated individuals throughout NYC, specifically Rikers Island. At this job, she manages and coordinates medical care and treatment for individuals needing PEP or PREP, and patients living with Hepatitis C , B, HIV, STI's, TB etc. within the jails, including when they return to the community, or other environments.

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Pamela Smith JD, MPH is an attorney with the Nassau County Department of Health where she prosecutes enforcement cases at administrative hearings. Pamela drafts Health Department policies, Commissioner’s Orders, and co-drafted Article XV of the Nassau County Public Health Ordinance. Pamela is admitted to practice before the Courts of the State of New York and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Pamela is an adjunct professor at Hofstra University in the School of Health Professions and Human Services

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Doug Lambert MD MPH received his medical degree from the University of Connecticut in 2016, and completed residency in Internal Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in 2019. He completed a fellowship in Obesity Medicine at Northwell and completed a Master in Public Health from Hofstra in 2021. He currently conducts clinical research and treats patients at the Center for Weight Management based in Great Neck and Rego Park, NY. His clinical and research interests include sustainable lifestyle measures that promote weight loss and cardiovascular disease risk factor improvements.

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Martine Hackett is an associate professor in the master of public health and community health programs at Hofstra University whose research interests include maternal-child health, infant mortality and community based participatory research.

Her previous work experience is as a deputy director at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Bureau of Maternal, Infant and Reproductive Health and as a television producer.

Dr. Hackett received her BFA in film and television from New York University, a master of public health from Hunter College and a doctorate in sociology from the City University of New York Graduate Center.

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Hannon chaired the New York State Senate Health Committee for nearly two decades. He chaired numerous task forces, civic programs, and charitable endeavors. Hannon is regarded as the spearheading force behind both the reauthorization of the Health Care Reform Act and the development of New York's Assisted Living Program. Additionally, he helped the state enact several popular health programs including Child Health Plus, Healthy New York, Family Health Plus, the Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Program, early intervention efforts, concussion management and insurance coverage for autism, prostate and breast cancer screenings.

Additional initiatives included Rape Victims Bill of Rights (and funding comprehensive testing of rape kits), Hannon has been the leader for key laws on whooping cough vaccinations and a mandate to require patients be offered Hepatitis C testing. Senator Hannon was a leader and prime sponsor of the landmark “I-STOP” law to curb opioid prescription drug use and to monitor controlled substance dispensing activity and patterns. He oversaw the law on electronic prescribing of medications.

In 2018, Hannon authored the Clean Water Infrastructure Act – a $2.5 billion investment in drinking water infrastructure, clean water infrastructure and water quality protection across New York, a result of exhaustive hearings upstate and on Long Island. The act created NY’s Water Council, whose recent actions have created precedented standards for water quality in the United States.

Hannon graduated from Chaminade High School (1963), Boston College (1967) and Fordham University School of Law (1970). He was Special Counsel to the law firm Farrell Fritz, P.C., ending the

association on January 31, 2017. Hannon resides in Garden City, New York with his wife Bronwyn. They have twin daughters, Alexandra and Madeleine.

Hannon served in the New York State Assembly from 1977 to 1989. In 1989, he was elected to the New York State Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John R. Dunne, due to Dunne’s appointment as an Assistant Attorney General in the US Justice Department. Hannon represented the 6th State Senate District, which spanned the central part of Nassau County, with Franklin Square on the west and Farmingdale on the east.

On November 6, 2018, after having served 29 years in the New York State Senate, Hannon was unexpectedly defeated in his re-election bid by Democratic challenger Kevin Thomas.

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Manish Sapra, MD, is executive director of the behavioral health service line at Northwell Health. He oversees strategic clinical program development and physician management for all mental health and substance use disorder programs at Northwell. He interacts with site leaders to drive quality improvement and standardize care.

Dr. Sapra joined Northwell in 2017 and previously served in a dual role as director of strategic initiatives for the behavioral health service line and medical director of practice-based care management at Northwell Health Solutions. He oversaw several population health programs, including behavioral health integration in primary care practices. Dr. Sapra has been instrumental in efforts to modernize behavioral health services by developing new ambulatory tele-psychiatry applications, implementing advanced use of data analytics and exploring value-based purchasing arrangements.

Throughout his career, Dr. Sapra has progressively advanced into leadership roles. Prior to joining Northwell, he was associate chief of clinical services for behavioral health and senior director of community psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), where he directed physician management and business development for its ambulatory and acute-care services and medical education programs related to community psychiatry. His passion for improving mental health care started early in his career, immersing himself in working with Pennsylvania’s underserved communities.

Dr. Sapra is the immediate past president of the American Association for Psychiatric Administration and Leadership, a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and an active member of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry, a leading psychiatric think tank. He graduated from Seth G. S. Medical College, University of Mumbai. He completed his residency in psychiatry at St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Boston and has a Masters in Medical Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Dr. Laurie Johnson, Professor of Counseling, has been teaching in the Department of Counseling & Mental Health Professions at Hofstra University since 1989, serving as Director of the Graduate Programs in Counseling from 1990 to 2016. She is a Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC) and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) whose own clinical practice is in traumatic loss and catastrophic illness. Dr. Johnson’s primary scholarship has focused on promoting systemic frameworks for reconciliation and mental health services in post-conflict regions around the world in areas such as Northern Ireland where she was Sheelagh Murnaghan Visiting Professor at Queens University in Belfast, and in Cyprus where she served as a Fulbright Senior Scholar and, later, in Bosnia Herzegovina. In 2011, she was appointed as an International Mental Health Facilitator by the National Board of Certified Counselors; that same year, she was also awarded “Teacher of the Year.” Her international work has included working with community groups to build post-trauma mental health service provision where none exists and working to develop cross-community networks in support of interethnic reconciliation. She was co-editor of the international journal Education, Citizenship & Social Justice from 2006 to 2016. Domestically, her work has focused on disaster and trauma response starting with the 9/11 disaster and continuing over the years to include deployment in the Hurricane Katrina and the Superstorm Sandy disasters as a certified Disaster Mental Health Specialist. In the past few years, Dr. Johnson has focused her research in the area of Integrated Behavioral Health Care and is currently developing IBHC curricular modules and training sites for Hofstra’s mental health counseling students. In recognition of her contributions over the years, Dr. Johnson was appointed the Joseph L. Dionne Chair for Teaching, Learning and Leadership in Human Services at Hofstra University in 2019.

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An experienced, dynamic and committed public health professional, Dr. Jeffrey L. Reynolds is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Family and Children’s Association (FCA), based in Garden City, NY. Since it began as an orphanage more than 137 years ago, Family and Children’s Association (FCA) has been committed to caring for Long Island’s vulnerable children, youth, seniors and families while helping them prepare for successful futures. The organization offers community-based programs for struggling families, at-risk adolescents, vulnerable seniors, and adults with substance use disorders. Today, FCA is one of Long Island’s largest health and human services organizations with an annual budget of $22 million, 360 staff, 200 volunteers and 40+ programs. Since arriving at FCA, Dr. Reynolds has helped secure more than $12 million in new funding and launched several innovative services, including three new recovery centers. He also re-branded and modernized the agency’s identity and during COVID, spearheaded a move to a new 30,000 square foot headquarters.

From 2009-2014, Dr. Reynolds served as Executive Director of the Long Island Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (LICADD), an organization that provides substance abuse screenings, brief interventions and referrals to addiction treatment, as well as professionally-facilitated family interventions and anger management services to adults and adolescents. Under Dr. Reynolds’ leadership, LICADD pioneered evidence-based K-12 substance abuse prevention programs in several Long Island schools, initiated a new mentoring program for children of incarcerated parents and expanded LICADD’s Employee Assistance Program. During his tenure, LICADD’s revenues tripled, and the number of families served per month increased nine-fold.

Prior to joining LICADD, Dr. Reynolds worked for the Long Island Association for AIDS Care for 19 years, where he started out doing case management and finished his tenure as Vice President for Public Affairs, responsible for government relations, resource development, strategic marketing, and communications. In 1997, he co-founded BiasHELP of Long Island, an organization dedicated to assisting victims of hate crimes and their families. As BiasHELP’s Chief Operating Officer, Dr. Reynolds secured federal, state and local grants and launched a wide array of crime victim assistance services and school-based violence prevention programs.

Dr. Reynolds currently serves on New York's Heroin and Opioid Task Force, the Executive Committee of the Nassau County Heroin Prevention Task Force, Suffolk County’s Heroin/Opiate Epidemic Advisory Panel, the board of the New York State Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare, Nassau's Family Violence Task Force, Suffolk County’s Welfare-to-Work Commission and he co-chairs the Huntington Town Opioid Task Force. He serves as a board member and treasurer of Lightning Warriors, a youth triathlon team, and was recently elected to serve on the board of the Long Island Association (LIA).

Dr. Reynolds is Vice Chair and remains the longest serving member of the NYS AIDS Advisory Council, first appointed by the NYS Senate Majority Leader in 1994 and reappointed five times since then. Dr. Reynolds has also served on the NYS Governor’s Recreational Marijuana Task Force, been chair of Nassau County’s Youth Board, co-chaired Nassau County Comptroller's Non-Profit Steering Committee and served on the transition teams for County Executives Laura Curran (D) and Bruce Blakeman (R).

Dr. Reynolds has served as a consultant and grant reviewer for the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and is a frequent presenter and keynote speaker at statewide and national health and human service conferences.

He has authored more than 250 news and op-ed articles that have appeared in a wide variety of publications and is consistently used as an expert source for substance abuse, addiction, HIV/AIDS and human/civil rights information by local and national radio, television, online and print outlets. Dr. Reynolds has received numerous awards for his community service and leadership and was named one of the “most influential Long Islanders” each year 2010-2021 by the Long Island Press. Dr. Reynolds has received leadership awards and honors from the Simple Hope Foundation, Caron Treatment Centers, Strong Youth, Inc., the Long Island Recovery Association, Mainstream House, LICADD, Long Island Business News (Long Island Business Hall of Fame, 2021) and Herald Newspapers (Top Business Leaders in Nassau County, 2021). Dr. Reynolds is also a graduate of Energeia, a regional stewardship program spearheaded by Molloy College.

Dr. Reynolds holds a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Dowling College (1988), a Masters in Public Administration (MPA) with a specialization in health administration from Long Island University (1997) and a doctorate from Stony Brook University’s School of Social Welfare (2007). Dr. Reynolds’ doctoral dissertation was on “Using the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change to Explore Substance Use Patterns and HIV Risk Behaviors in a Suburban Sample.”

A lifelong Long Islander, Dr. Reynolds is an avid marathon runner having completed 15 marathons and Ironman triathlete, a passion he’s used to raise much-needed funds for FCA, United Way of Long Island and other local/national charities.

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Dr. Marc Adelberg has been delivering outstanding pediatric dentistry since 1998. He received his undergraduate education from the University of Albany, majoring in psychology, and his dental education from the University of Buffalo. He completed a two-year residency in pediatric dentistry at Montefiore Medical Center, the hospital for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, graduating in 1998. He is a board-certified pediatric dentist.

“Dr Marc” has also been trained and certified with Vivos Therapeutics, an integrated medical and dental sleep disordered breathing center. Additionally, he has been trained on both the Hoya Con Bio and Biolase dental lasers, as well as PBM lasers. Also, he has trained at the Academy for Sports Dentistry.

“Dr. Marc” can also be seen on the lecture scene. Nationally, he has lectured at the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD), the Dental Entrepreneurial Organization (DEO), and the Association of Dental Support Organizations (ADSO). Locally he has lectured to residents at pediatric dental residencies as well as mommy-and-me groups, pre-schools, nursery schools, kindergarten, and pre-natal hospital groups.

He is the founding and senior partner of Adelberg Montalvan Pediatric Dental and Orthodontics. When not seeing patients, he acts as the CEO/visionary for the team. He was raised on Long Island and maintains a home with his wife and family of three children there.

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President, Greater New York City Black Nurses Association

Associate Professor, Chair of Faculty Affairs, Director of Family Nurse Practitioner Program, Long Island University – School of Nursing (LIU Brooklyn)

• Dr. Julius Johnson was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY in the Brownsville and Crown Heights neighborhoods. He attended Clara Barton High School for health professionals while starring in football for the Brooklyn Skyhawks. He received his bachelors of science, with a major in nursing from Binghamton University in 2005 and received his masters of science with a major in family nurse practitioner from Binghamton University in 2009, and his Doctor of Nursing Practice from the University of Miami in 2016.
• He currently specializes in home based primary care, transitional care, and transformational community intervention projects. He has spent the past 13 years serving underserved communities and reducing hospital rates for at risk populations. He is a founding member of the Greater New York City Black Nurses Association and currently serves as the president.
• He is also the founding president of the Omega Nu chapter of Sigma Theta Tau international honor society at Long Island University Brooklyn. He serves as an associate professor, chair of faculty affairs, and the director of the family nurse practitioner at Long Island University – Brooklyn’s school of nursing.
• In 2018, he was recognized as one of the National Black Nurses Association’s 40 under 40 rising stars. In 2021 he awarded the Trailblazer in nursing award by the National Black Nurses Association. In his spare time he serves as the defensive coordinator of the Brooklyn Skyhawks who are the current back to back 12 & under defending champions of the New York City youth football league.

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Dr. Sandra R. Scott is the Executive Director of the One Brooklyn Health Brookdale Hospital Medical Center. This is a historical appointment. In the history of Brookdale Hospital, she is the first woman and African American to hold this position.

Dr. Scott is a recognized physician, leader, and educator, a graduate of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. She completed her Emergency Medicine residency at Boston Medical Center. Dr. Scott served as the Chief of Service for EM at Rutgers’s NJMS and Chair of EM at Lincoln Medical Center in the South Bronx. She brings a fresh perspective to improving health care services for the communities in East and Central Brooklyn. Prior to her appointment in May of 2021 as the Executive Director, Dr. Scott served as Brookdale's Chair of Emergency Medicine from 2018. In September 2020, she was announced as the Chair for Emergency Medicine for One Brooklyn Health.

Dr. Scott looks forward to expanding access, cultivating outstanding talent, and advancing programs of excellence to improve health care outcomes, financial performance, and operational efficiency.

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David Gill is the Vice President, Culture & Experience Team with Northwell Health in the New York Metropolitan area. Within this role, David champions workforce engagement by working to improve employees’ experiences from attraction to retirement.

David has responsibility for the strategy, development, implementation and ongoing execution of engagement initiatives and measurement, external and internal awards and recognition, and the sustainability of the employee value proposition. Key initiatives that he oversees are the internal innovation challenges, president’s award program and workforce and physician engagement surveys.

Prior to joining Northwell Health, David led the Human Resources Assessment and Selection function at Verizon Communications, which was responsible for the development, validation and implementation of the talent acquisition processes for hiring new employees. With over fifteen years of Talent Management experience and applied research across multiple industries, David’s areas of exercise include employee engagement and retention, talent identification, performance management and employee development.

He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in industrial and Organizational Psychology and a certificate in Occupational Health Psychology from Kansas State University.

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Carle-Marie Memnon is the Assistant Vice President in the Academic Training Department for the HSS Education Institute at Hospital for Special Surgery. She is responsible for the administration, accreditation and oversight of the operations and strategic vision for the Graduate Medical Education programs. Dr. Memnon is a board-certified Health Care Executive with over 20 years of experience in the healthcare sector. Her background includes human resources, graduate medical education, budgeting, operations, project, and event planning.

Dr. Memnon is the immediate past president of the National Association of Health Service Executives (NAHSE), New York Regional Chapter and has served in various leadership capacities within NAHSE. Carle-Marie is a Fellow and Past Regent-At-Large for District 1 of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and Past Chair of the Healthcare Leaders of New York (HLNY) Diversity Committee. She has served on several ACHE committees. Additionally, she currently serves on the American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA) Volunteer Planning Committee. She has served as a volunteer at the Ronald McDonald House of Connecticut. Carle-Marie also mentors undergraduate and graduate students.

She is member of the Hofstra University School of Health Professions and Human Services Dean's Council and 2020-2022 President of the Hofstra University Master of Health Administration (MHA) Alumni Association.

Carle-Marie received her Bachelor of Arts in Biological Sciences from Fordham University. As an undergraduate student, she volunteered in the Child Life Program at Montefiore Medical Center. She holds a Master of Arts in Health Administration and a Master of Business Administration from Hofstra University. She earned a Certificate in Human Resources Studies from Cornell University. Dr. Memnon completed her doctorate degree in healthcare leadership and management at the Medical University of South Carolina.