Two patients with Gary Butts

Meet the Team

ODI Executive Leadership

  • Gary Butts, MD, Executive Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Mount Sinai Health System and Dean, Diversity Programs, Policy and Community Affairs, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • Pamela Abner, MPA, CPXP, Senior Vice President and Health Equity Officer, Mount Sinai Health System and Chief Diversity Operations Officer, Mount Sinai Hospital Groups
  • Ann-Gel Palermo, MPH, DrPH, Senior Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Chief of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Education and Research, Mount Sinai Health System

Health Data, Outcomes, and Engagement Strategy (HDOES or Health DOES)

  • Shana Dacon-Pereira, MPH, MBA, CPXP, Assistant Vice President
  • Lyndia Hayden, PMP, CSM, Senior Director, Data Integrity and Equity Analytics
  • Barbara Warren, PsyD, CPXP, Senior Director, LGBT Programs and Policies and Assistant Professor, Medical Education, ISMMS
  • Jefri Mesa, Data Manager
  • Jiaying (Jocelyn) Zhu, Data Manager
  • Tiffany Keith, MSW, Program Manager
  • Marlenne Velazquez Cortes, MPH, Program Manager
  • Jazmin Rodriguez, MBA, Communications Manager
  • Samuel Rosado, Executive Assistant and Project Coordinator

Patricia S. Levinson Center for Multicultural and Community Affairs (CMCA)

  • Sherria McDowell, MPH, Director of Special Programs
  • Malaika Dewes, MPH, Program Coordinator
  • Dave Grand-Pierre, Teaching Assistant
  • Ashley Michelle Fowler, MEd, Administrative Program Manager
  • Carmen Minsal, MHA, Interim Director, Diversity Innovation Hub
  • Tyree Williams, PhD, Program Coordinator, Diversity Innovation Hub
  • Carmen Duran-Santos, Executive Assistant and Office Manager

Center for Excellence in Youth Education (CEYE)

  • Kenya Townsend, Program Director
  • Alexander Joseph, MA, Program Manager
  • Alejandra Ramirez, MPH, Program Coordinator
  • Hossein Aleyasin, MD, PhD, Scientist Educator, Researcher, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
  • Denise Croote, PhD, Scientist Educator, Researcher, and Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
  • Tasmiah Akhter, Teaching Assistant
  • Jack Vincent, Teaching Assistant