The Team

Cardiology Deserts Campaign Steering Committee

Annette K. Ansong, MD, FACC

Medical Director, Outpatient Cardiology, Children’s National Hospital

Courtney Bess, MD

Northside Hospital Cardiovascular Institute

Rachel M. Bond, MD, FACC

Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Creighton University School of Medicine

La Princess Brewer, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Keith C. Ferdinand, MD, FACC, FAHA

Professor of Medicine. Tulane University School of Medicine

Icilma Fergus, MD

Director of Cardiovascular Disparities, Mt. Sinai Medical Center

Anthony Fletcher, MD

President, Association of Black Cardiologists

Ijeoma Isiadinso MD, MPH, FACC, FASNC

Director, Emory Center for Heart Disease Prevention

Lee Kirksey, MD

Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic

Sabra Lewsey, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Creighton University School of Medicine

Anekwe Onwuanyi, MD, FACC, FHFSA

Director, Heart Failure Program Morehouse School of Medicine

Tiffany Powell-Wiley, MD, MPH

Chief, Social Determinants of Obesity and Cardiovascular Risk, NHLBI

Paul Underwood, MD

Board Chair, Association of Black Cardiologists

Karol Watson, MD, PhD, FACC

Director, UCLA Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Health Program

Collaborations

Catchment Cities / Local Hosts

Jackson, MS New Orleans, LA Little Rock, AR Atlanta, GA
Myrna Alexander, MD Daphne Ferdinand, PhD  Abdul-Nasser Adjai, MD Courtney Bess, MD 
Augustus Bilbro Antoinne Keller, MD Stephen Broughton, MD Mac Andrew Bowman, MD 
Analise Douglas, MD Robert Metheny, MD Anthony Fletcher, MD Marcus Brown, MD 
Foluso Fakorede, MD Joe Hargrove, MD Melissa Burroughs, MD 
Ervin Fox, MD David Gdadebo, MD 
Warren Jones, MD Ijeoma Isiadinso, MD
Lee Kirksey, MD David Montgomery, MD  
Berthrone Mock-Muhammad, MD Jane Morgan, MD 
Andrea Phillips, MD Alexis Okoh, MD 
Christopher Roby, MD Modele Ogunniyi, MD  
Malcolm Taylor, MD Charlie Rouse, MD 
 David Gdadebo, MD
Felix Sogade, MD