Dr. Jean Bonhomme, MD, MPH
Dr. Bonhomme is Founder of the National Black Men’s Health Network and an expert on men’s health, minority health, the impact of poor men’s health on families. From 2003 to the present, he has served as corporate president and Chairman of the Steering Committee for CHAMPS (Community Health and Men’s Promotion Summit), providing free health screenings to economically disadvantaged minority males. Also from 2003 to the present, he has served as staff physician for Toxicology Associates of North Georgia (TANG), a drug treatment facility based in Marietta, Georgia. From 2004 to the present:, he has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Men’s Health, and from 2006 to the present on the editorial board of the American Journal of Men’s Health.
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Carlos R. Blanco, Chief Executive Officer
Carlos Blanco was named President and Chief Executive Officer of the Lynn Health Science Institute in November 2020. Blanco joined LHSI in 2002 as a Clinical Coordinator. Since that time, he has ascended the executive team ranks from Director of Training in 2004, Director of Clinical Trials in 2005, Vice President of Operations in 2007, Chief Operating Officer in 2014 and Executive Vice President in 2019.
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Armin Brott, MBA
Armin Brott is a skilled media communicator highly sought after as a facilitator, author, lecturer, and authority on men’s health, leveraging expertise with multiple media platforms to craft messages that brottd,” Brott is a pioneer in the field of fatherhood and has been building better fathers for more than a decade. As the author of 10 bestselling books on fatherhood, he’s helped millions of men around the world become the fathers they want to be—and that their children need them to be.
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John-Wako Hawk Co-Cke’ BS CAMS CBHCM
John-Wako Hawk Co-Cke’ is an Ordained Christian minister, proudly embraces his Indian heritage as a member of the government Osage, Peoria tribes, non-Government of the Blackfeet, Cheyenne, Lakota, Muscogee-Creek Nations He/she is a proud 2Spirit traditional straight and southern cloth dancer.
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Courtney Clyatt, MA, MPH
Courtney Clyatt is a Senior Program Officer for Engagement at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). She comes to PCORI with more than 10 years of experience in public health and project management. In her position, she has played a vital role in the Engagement Awards program and, specifically, the Pipeline to Proposal Awards, which will funded community-building and engagement projects.
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Dr. Charles Clayton Daniels, Jr., Ph.D., M.Div., M.S.W., L.I.C.S.W.
Dr. Charles C. Daniels, Jr., co-founder/Chief Executive Officer of Fathers’ Uplift, Inc., grew up without a father in his life. Despite his mother’s love, he felt the impact of abandonment– guilt, shame and embarrassment. He felt different than other kids. He had problems in school, turned to alcohol and drugs to hide those feelings, and came close to actualizing thoughts of suicide.
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Dr. John Dougherty, President
Dr. Dougherty is a Certified Physician Leader in Administration. He was selected for and completed a Senior Leadership Development Program, a National Health Policy Fellowship and holds a Certificate in Finance from the University of California, San Diego Rady School of Management. He was voted Family Physician of the Year for Missouri in 2014, named Education Health Care Headliner by VegasInc Magazine in 2018 and was recently selected to serve as a Governor for the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce.
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Maureen Elias
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Dr. Debra Furr-Holden
Dr. Debra Furr-Holden is the Associate Dean for Public Health Integration, C.S. Mott Endowed Professor of Public Health, and Director of the Division of Public Health at Michigan State University. She is also the Director of the Flint Center for Health Equity Solutions, funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.
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Alphonso Gibbs, Jr., LICSW, LCSW-C
Licensed Clinical Social Worker currently employed by the Veteran’s Administration Health Systems of Southern Nevada, in Mental Health.
Significant case-management experience with severely mentally ill, dually-diagnosed, formerly homeless adult men and women, adolescent youth, at-risk youth, and families.
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Dr. Salvatore Giorgianni, PharmD
Dr. Salvatore (Sal) Giorgianni received his Bachelor and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees from Columbia University in The City Of New York. He has extensive experience in all aspects of the practice of pharmacy and has had held faculty appointments at Columbia and Belmont Universities. He has completed a clinical practice residency at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. Dr. Giorgianni is a licensed pharmacist in his home state of New York and in Florida he holds both a general and consultant pharmacist license.
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Derek M. Griffith, PhD
Dr. Derek M. Griffith is a Professor of Medicine, Health and Society, and he is the Founder and Director of the Center for Research on Men’s Health at Vanderbilt University. Trained in psychology and public health, Dr. Griffith’s program of research focuses on developing strategies to achieve racial, ethnic and gender equity in health. He conducts research in four interconnected areas:
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Eddie Hadley
Eddie Hadley serves as a member of the External Affairs Team for Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health Florida, part of the national non-profit behavioral healthcare organization providing a continuum of services in support of children and adolescents with a variety of needs. With over 20 years of experience in behavioral healthcare, Eddie is directly responsible for facilitating and strengthening partnerships with state agencies and healthcare organizations entrusting the care of youth within the Devereux continuum of programs throughout Florida.
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Claude A. Jacob, DrPH(c), MPH
Claude-Alix Jacob has served as the Chief Public Health Officer for the Cambridge Health Department since 2007. He is an Energetic health administrator with over twenty years of formal management experience on health issues with an emphasis on operations, program design and social services. Exceptional leadership, communication and interpersonal skills with demonstrated professional accomplishments as a manager, senior advisor and community advocate.
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Tamara James, PhD
Dr. Tamara James serves as the primary source of national advocacy, policy development, management and administration of behavioral health, alcohol and substance abuse, and family violence prevention programs. Working in partnership with Tribes, Tribal organizations, and Urban Indian health organizations, DBH coordinates national efforts to share knowledge and build capacity through the development and implementation of evidence-/practice-based and cultural-based practices in Indian Country.
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Dr. Susan Milstein, Facilitator
Dr. Susan Milstein is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Health and Kinesiology at Texas A&M University. She is a Master Certified Health Education Specialist who has presented at national and international conferences on a wide variety of health and sexuality topics. She is a member of the Advisory Board for both the Men’s Health Network, and for the American Journal of Sexuality Education.
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Helen Moore Robinson, B.S., RDH
Ms. Moore is a graduate of Meharry Medical College’s School of Dentistry and Tennessee State University’s College of Allied Health Professionals. She served the State of Tennessee as a health educator and contract compliance director. At the time of her retirement in 2015, after thirty-two (32) years of service, she held the position of Director of Non-discrimination Contract Compliance and Health Care Disparities for the State of Tennessee’s contractedTennCare/Medicaid Programs.
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Lindsey Phillips
Lindsey Phillips, is the Director of External Affairs for Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health. Founded in 1912, Devereux operates a comprehensive array of services as a national behavioral healthcare organization, positively impacting the lives of tens of thousands of individuals and families every year.
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Albert W Pless Jr, MS
Albert Pless is the Program Manager for the Men’s Health League, which is part of the Cambridge, MA. Public Health Department. Pless is an experienced Program Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry. Strong program and project management professional skilled in Training, Volunteer Management, Public Speaking, Grant Writing, and Nonprofit Organizations.
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Abby Ramsey
Flora Ramsey (Abby) is an MPH candidate at East Tennessee State University currently serving as the project intern for Men’s Health Network under Dr. Sal Giorgianni. Originally from Georgia, Abby received her undergraduate degree in Nutrition and Food Science from Georgia Southern University in 2018 and moved to Knoxville, Tennessee soon after. She currently works for the Knox County Health Department in the WIC clinic is a nutrition educator.
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Judy Seales Tobago
James Sykes, MPM
James Sykes is highly motivated and committed to advancing health policy, advocacy, and education. He is an experienced health advocate supporting global, federal, and state legislation supporting people living with chronic diseases with a specific focus on HIV/AIDS. James became involved with HIV/AIDS in 1994 when he became a volunteer support “buddy” for a person living with HIV/AIDS in Atlanta, Georgia.
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