? ABOUT The final episode of Season 5 features John A. Rich, MD, MPH, Director of the RUSH BMO Institute for Health Equity (RBHIE) at RUSH University Medical Center in Chicago, IL. The mission of RBHIE is to build, evaluate and sustain scalable approaches to improving health and eliminating health inequities. Dr. Rich’s work focuses on issues of urban violence, trauma, and health inequities, particularly as they affect the health of men of color. In 2006, Dr. Rich was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship in recognition of his work to design “new models of health care that stretch ..read more

? ABOUT Cheryl Rucker Whitaker, MD, MPH is an accomplished physician executive and transformational entrepreneur practiced in managing in matrixed and complex environments. Her work has been at the intersection of academia, industry, government, and non-profit sector to grow companies at the intersection of growth for impact. She is the founder of Complete Care Management Partners LLC, providing Medicaid focused urban based delegate care management services to Fortune 100 payers. She was a Co-Founder of NextLevel Health Partners, Inc., the only African-American owned medicaid managed company i ..read more

? ABOUT Charles Mouton, MD, MS, MBA is currently serving as interim President at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. He has been executive vice President and Provost and Dean of the John Sealy School of Medicine, and professor in the Department of Family Medicine  at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Dr. Mouton previously served UTMB as Vice Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Medicine. He joined UTMB in 2017, coming from Meharry, where he was Senior Vice President for Health Affair and its Dean of the School of Medicine. Dr. Mouton’s primary research interes ..read more

? ABOUT Adaora A. Adimora, MD, MPH, FIDSA, is a Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and professor of epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is a physician epidemiologist with more than 25 years of clinical experience in the treatment of patients with HIV disease. She has dedicated her career to investigating the epidemiology of HIV and STIs. ? Follow Dr. Adimora on Twitter @AdaAdimora ?  TIMESTAMPSIntro (00:23) | Quote and journey (02:30) | Moral courage (03:37) | Career (05:26) | Ment ..read more

ABOUT This season's toolbox episode features Vivette Jeffries-Logan, one of the founding partners of Biwa Consulting and Emergent Equity. Biwa focuses on leadership, organizational, and equity development working with nonprofits, foundations, community organizations as well coaching thought partnership with individual leaders. In this episode, our guest discusses frameworks used by Biwa including personal/self inventory, worldview, the fallacy of objectivity, and guiding principles of relationship, responsibility, reciprocity, and redistribution. Vivette Jeffries-Logan is a citizen of the Occ ..read more

? ABOUT Marshall Chin, MD, MPH is the Richard Parrillo Family Distinguished Service Professor of Healthcare Ethics at the University of Chicago. Marshall is a practicing general internist and health services researcher who has  dedicated his entire career to advancing health equity through interventions at multiple levels: individual, organizational, community and policy levels. ? Follow Dr. Marshall Chin on Twitter: @MarshallChinMD. ?  TIMESTAMPS: Intro (00:24) | Quote (01:47) | Career Journey (03:24) | Health Equity Work (04:29) | Work discrimination and bias (07:08) | Curre ..read more

? ABOUT Sherita Golden, MD, MHS is the Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer for Johns Hopkins Medicine. She is also a Professor of Medicine. Dr. Golden's research has used the tools of epidemiology and health services research to identify biologic and system contributors to disparities in type two diabetes and its outcomes. ? Follow Dr. Sherita Golden on Twitter: @GoldenSherita This episode is hosted by Giselle Corbie and produced by Rachel Quinto. Promoted by Shelby McLamb and engineered by Sam Williams. Music is by Mixaud and Chillout Lounge. Check out all the episodes of A Different ..read more

? ABOUT Season 5's kick off episode features Keith Churchwell, MD, President of Yale New Haven Hospital and Executive Vice President of Yale New Haven Health System. He is also an associate clinical professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. ? Follow Dr. Keith Churchwell on Twitter: @KChurchwellMD This episode is hosted by Giselle Corbie and produced by Rachel Quinto. Promoted by Shelby McLamb and engineered by Sam Williams. Music is by Mixaud and Chillout Lounge. Check out all the episodes of A Different Kind of Leader and tools and resources for your leadership toolkit at https ..read more

Check out Season 5 of A Different Kind of Leader Tuesday, November 22, 2022. This new season features new eight guest leaders and another set of skills for your leadership toolbox. This season is hosted by Giselle Corbie and is produced by Rachel Quinto. Promoted by Shelby McLamb and engineered by Sam Williams. Music is by Mixaud and Chillout Lounge. Check out all the episodes of A Different Kind of Leader and tools and resources for your leadership toolkit at https://www.differentkindofleader.com. ? Stay updated by following us on... Twitter: @DKLeadership Facebook: @DifferentKindofLeader ..read more

Dr. Jasjit Ahluwalia is a physician and public health scientist at Brown University’s Schools of Public Health and Medicine. He has been in academic medicine since 1992 and has been a practicing physician, faculty member, department chair, Associate Dean and Center Director in medical schools, and a School of Public Health Dean. His primary research areas are health disparities and smoking cessation and nicotine addiction in African-American smokers. He has been continuously funded by NIH for 25 years,having been the principal investigator or co-investigator of more than $100 million in grants ..read more