People/Contact
The Office of Belonging, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (OBEDI) is a dynamic resource offering academic, professional, and personal support programs to students, faculty and staff.
People/Contact
The Office of Belonging, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (OBEDI) is a dynamic resource offering academic, professional, and personal support programs to students, faculty and staff.
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Patricia Poitevien MD, MSc, FAAP
Senior Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion -
Joseph Diaz, MD, MPH
Associate Dean for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs -
Dioscaris R. Garcia, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Director, Center for Student Belonging -
Tracey M. Guthrie, MD
Assistant Dean for Diversity -
Anne Vera Cruz, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean for Curriculum on Diversity, Inclusive Teaching, and Learning; Director, Curricular Innovation and Student Achievement -
Courtney Cox
Administrative Coordinator, Center for Student Belonging; Center for Workforce Recruitment & Retention -
Dolores Cox
Executive Assistant, SAD, DEI -
Francisco A. Hernandez, MBA
Senior Director -
Idowu Olugbade MD'24
2023 - 2024 OBEDI LEAD Fellow -
Luckson Omoaregba, MS
Director, Pathway Programs -
Ruthie Salguero
Program Coordinator, Pathway Programs -
Rosedelma Seraphin, Ed.D.
Associate Director, Center for Student Belonging; Center for Workforce Recruitment & Retention
Committees and Councils
Brown Council for Diversity in Medicine (BCDM)
The Council is intended to: provide a forum to identify current diversity and inclusion activities within each clinical department, share these activities and ideas so that we may all learn from them; eliminate perceived (and real) barriers to diversity and inclusion; educate and empower committee members to be able to evoke change within their departments; create a centralized knowledge base about the status of diversity and inclusion activities within each department; create a unified vision of what diversity and inclusion looks like at WAMS.
Mission:
To build a culture and climate that continually strengthens our core values of diversity and inclusion.
Goals:
The BCDM will:
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Work in a coordinated manner to formulate, facilitate and integrate efforts to improve diversity and address diversity/inclusion related issues at WAMS and among its trainees, staff, faculty, and affiliated hospitals and partners.
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Work in a coordinated manner with the leadership of the medical school and affiliated partners to prioritize initiatives that support the goals of the Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan.
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Serve as an advisory group to The Warren Alpert Medical School Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs and the Office of the Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences on the complexities and possibilities of the initiatives outlined in the Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan.
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Provide oversight and monitoring of the implementation of the Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan.
Faculty
Douglas C. Anthony, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Sybil Cineas, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
Ernestine G. Jennings, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Research)
Mark A. Johnson, PhD
Associate Professor of Biology
Roxanne Vrees, MD
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Students
Student National Medical Association E-Board Student President
Latino Medical Student Association E-Board Student President
ODMA Diversity and Inclusion Fellow
Trainee
Matthew N. Anderson, MD
Brown Minority Housestaff Association Chair
Alumni
Deborah Archer, '95, MD '02
Archer Pediatric and Medical Consulting, LLC
Jeffrey Hines, '83, MD '86
Medical Director, Diversity and Inclusion and Health Equity, WellStar Health System
Sivan Hines, '84, MD '87
Pediatrician, WellStar Health System
Staff
Cailie Burns
Assistant Dean, Office of Biomedical Advancement
Michele Cyr, MD
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Joseph Diaz, MD, MPH, FACP
Associate Dean for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs
Michelle Forcier, MD, MPH
Assistant Dean of Medical Admissions
Tracey Guthrie, MD
Assistant Dean for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs
Kim Noble
Major Gifts Officer
Patricia Poitivien, MD, MsC
Senior Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Rosedelma Seraphin
Associate Director, Center for Student Belonging, Recruitment & Retremntion; Center for Workforce Development
The Committee for Diversity and Inclusive Teaching and Learning (CDITL) leads the ongoing initiative curricular development effort in collaboration with the Office of Medical Education focused on both student awareness education and faculty development activities. Teaching and learning initiatives are revised and developed based on continual evaluation from student and faculty feedback.
Contact Us
Co-Sponsorship Requests
Thank you for seeking co-sponsorship of an event at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, OBEDI. In order for the OBEDI to make a decision regarding your request please complete and submit the form below. Due to the high volume of co-sponsorship requests we are not able to fund/support every request that comes our way.
Telephone
Phone: (401) 863-9855
Fax: (401) 863-5096
Mailing Address
Office of Belonging, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Division of Biology and Medicine
Brown University
Box G-M241
Providence, RI 02912