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2021-2022 Planning Board Members

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Bessie Young, M.D.
Chair
Professor, Department of Medicine University of Washington VA Puget Sound Health Care
Seattle, WA 98108
youngb@u.washington.edu

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Absalon Gutierrez, M.D.
Chair Elect
Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine/Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, TX 77030
Absalon.d.gutierrez@uth.tmc.edu

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Patricia Heyn, Ph.D.
Past Chair
Professor, University of Colorado Denver Anschultz Medical Campus
Aurora, CO 80007
patricia.heyn@ucdenver.edu

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Ricardo Azziz, MD, MPH, MBA
Member
Professor, Departments of Ob/Gyn and Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL 35216-2809
razziz@uabmc.edu

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Kirk Campbell, M.D.
Member
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine/Nephrology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY 10552
kirk.campbell@mssm.edu

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Marcelo Correia, M.D., Ph.D.
Member
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52246
marcelo-correia@uiowa.edu

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Daisy DeLeon, Ph.D.
Member
Professor, Loma Linda University
Loma Linda, CA 92354
ddeleon@llu.edu

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Jose Romero, Ph.D.
Member
Associate Physiologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA 02115
jrromero@rics.bwh.harvard.edu

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Carmen Sceppa, M.D., Ph.D.
Member
Dean, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University
Boston, MA 02115
c.sceppa@northeastern.edu

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Heather Tarleton, Ph.D.
Member
Associate Professor, Department of Health and Human Sciences, Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA 90045
heather.tarleton@lmu.edu

NIDDK Representatives

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Winnie Martinez
NIDDK Representative
Program Officer, Network of Minority Health Research Investigators, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH
Bethesda, MD 20893-5454
Winnie.Martinez@NIH.gov

Robert Rivers.

Robert Rivers, M.D.
NIDDK Representative
Acting Director, Office of Minority Health Research Coordination, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH
Bethesda, MD 20893-5454
robert.rivers@nih.gov