MEET OUR EXECUTIVE BOARD

We are so very proud to introduce our new Executive Board for 2023 - 2025!

Sheila You­ng-Mercado, MD

President

• Medical School: 
  Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science

• Location of Residency:
  UC­LA Medical Education Program at the David Geffen School of Medicine

• Board Certification & Specialty: 
  Medical Education & Training

Cozzette Lyons-Jones, MD, MPH, FACP

Immediate Past President

• Medical School:
  University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (known now as Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences)

• Location of Residency:
  UCLA St. Mary Residency Program

• Board Certification & Specialty: 
  Internal Medicine

Sylvia Gates Carlisle, MD, MBA

Treasurer

• Medical School:
  The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

• Location of Residency:
  LAC-USC Medical Center

• Board Certification & Specialty: 
  Internal Medicine

Valencia P. Walker, MD, MPH

Parliamentarian

• Medical School:
  Emory University School of Medicine

• Location of Residency:
  UT Memphis/Lebonheur Children's Hospital (Pediatrics)

• Board Certification & Specialty: 
  Neonatology

Roberta Doucet, MD

Historian

• Medical School:
  UCLA Medical School​

• Location of Residency:
  Cornell New York Hospital in NY City

• Board Certification & Specialty: 
  Anesthesiology

Anastasia Williams, MD

Member at Large

• Medical School:
  University of Virginia School of Medicine

• Location of Residency:
  Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD

• Board Certification & Specialty: 
  Pediatrics

Kaishauna Guidry, MD, HMDC

Member at Large

• Medical School:
  Texas A&M College of Medicine

• Location of Residency:
  Loma Linda University Medical

• Board Certification & Specialty: 
  Hospice Medical Director

Wanda Wilburn, MD

Member at Large

• Medical School:
  University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine

• Location of Residency:
  Emory of School of Medicine

• Board Certification & Specialty:  OB/Gyn
  

Kyani Young

Student Representative

• Undergrad:
  San Diego State University (Graduated 2021)

• Location of Residency:
  UCLA Medical School

• Board Certification & Specialty: 
  Master of Public Health in Community Health Sciences

CHARTER MEMBERS

* Deceased

Augua Andrews, MD
Phyllis Barracks, MD
Geraldine Branch, MD, MPH*
Lola Burnett-Brown, MD.
Lettie Burgette, MD
Michelle Clark, MD
Vanessa Castine, MD
Dorlesta Crawford, MD*
Elizabeth J. Covington, MD
Flora Denise Cox, MD
Eugenia Davis, MD
Joann Dawson, MD
Margo Deleaver, MD
Paula Demerius, MD*
Elea D. English, MD
Hughenna Gauntlett, MD*

Ellen Goudlock, MD
Lolita Gonzalez, MD
Wendy Green, MD, MBA
Terry Hope, MD
Josephine Isabel-Jones, MD
Adelene James, MD
Rose Jenkins, MD*
Carole Jordan-Harris, MD, MS*
Marguerite Lewie, MD
Arike Logan, MD
Mary McCoo, MD*
Evelyn Mendez, MD
Anitha Mitchell, MD
Carolyn Mohr, MD
Cassandra Ndiforchu, MD, MPH, MBA
Debra Nelson, MD

Pamela Perry-Hunter, MD
Shirley Richards-Njie, MD*
Denise Ridley-Davis, MD
Vonnie K. Ross, MD
Jessie L. Sherrod, MD, MPH
Anne Staveren, MD
V. Joy Simmons, MD
Jacqueline Stiff, MD
Sylvia Swilley, MD
Mary Taylor, MD
Ruth Temple, MD*
Gwendolyn Todd-Jones, MD
Judith Watson, MD
Lillie Mae Williams, MD, MS
Rebecca Wills, MD
Vivian Woodward, MD
Margaret Yarbrough, MD