https://www.facesofmedicine.org/mission daily 0.75 2025-08-04 https://www.facesofmedicine.org/team daily 0.75 2025-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/2bf6aaf9-ac0d-4bdd-b5d2-44229ab87417/Khama+Headshot+1.jpg Team - Khama Ennis, MD, MPH Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/56f2f6cb-ffa3-4b0c-ae61-87a4fee56a5e/Seth_Portrait_Website.png Team - Seth Lepore Seth is an Executive Producer and Project Manager for Faces of Medicine. He handles day-to-day operations. He coordinates partner and vendor communications, outreach and community building, and comprehensive marketing. Seth is an DIY autodidact and integrator by nature. His background is in process design and facilitation, grassroots fundraising, and small business development. As a theater artist he toured four solo shows throughout the United States. He has performed at multiple Fringe festivals, colleges, and performing art centers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/8dc9b252-fedf-43e7-aea6-4b9a1628e0d7/JENAHYE_235.jpg Team - Jenahye Johnson Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://www.facesofmedicine.org/about daily 0.75 2025-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/be68d7cc-dba7-4e04-8378-2d55f54485d8/Khama+BEST.jpeg About The Project - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.facesofmedicine.org/contact daily 0.75 2024-10-28 https://www.facesofmedicine.org/donate daily 0.75 2023-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce82d5d7cff9a0001025c64/1565807681737-B0SD7OH81DVOGLQR0A6C/20160125-A05A0708.jpg Donate https://www.facesofmedicine.org/lynnette-watkins daily 0.75 2024-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/f22f1b1c-d85e-4e5e-8b23-75dc3c1dbbea/Dr.-Lynnette-Watkins-web.jpg Lynnette Watkins - Lynnette Watkins, MD, MBA Dr. Watkins is a second generation ophthalmologist. She has just been named the President and COO of Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, MA. Prior to that she served as the Group Chief Medical Officer at Baptist Health in Texas. She has an active interest in mentorship, equity and health care administration. https://www.facesofmedicine.org/ellana-stinson daily 0.75 2022-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/b1999d4e-4dfc-47cf-a355-15048c60300e/Stinson-photo-one.jpeg Ellana Stinson - Ellana Stinson, MD, MPH Dr. Stinson is a board-certified, emergency medicine physician practicing in the Greater Boston area. Dr. Stinson is the president of the New England Medical Association, which is geared towards building community among black physicians in New England by providing safe spaces for professional development and social/networking and community outreach. She recently served as the Associate Medical Director at the Reggie Lewis mass vaccine site. Because she is keenly aware of the way in which legislative policies impact health, Dr. Stinson remains an active member of the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS), where she currently sits on various committees and on the Board of Trustees. She earned her medical degree at Meharry Medical College and is a graduate of Spelman College with a bachelor’s in science. Dr. Stinson also received her MPH in health policy and management from Harvard School of Public Health where she has focused her policy interests on access to care and health equity that impacts underserved communities and populations. https://www.facesofmedicine.org/rose-cesar daily 0.75 2024-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/58ea6e7c-3b94-4f03-bc8a-be6eaacaae29/Rose+Ceasar+BEST.jpg Rose Cesar - Rose Cesar, MD Dr. Rose Cesar is a practicing gastroenterologist at Baystate Franklin Medical Center. She completed her undergraduate degree in Biology at Emmanuel College and pursued a Masters of Science in Microbiology at Northeastern University. She then matriculated to the University of Massachusetts Medical School where she earned her Medical Degree. She completed her internship at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center before doing her Internal Medicine residency and a Gastroenterology fellowship at Brown University. After her education and training, Dr. Cesar worked as an assistant professor at Boston University School of Medicine. She also practiced in Georgia for nearly 15 years before moving to Western Massachusetts in 2014. She has been recognized by her peers through receiving the Five Star Excellence Physician Award at Baystate Franklin in Greenfield in 2019, 2020 and again in 2021. She is a member of several professional gastroenterology associations. Dr. Cesar has also served on many medical missions to Haiti, the country from which she immigrated as a teen. https://www.facesofmedicine.org/adrienne-phillips daily 0.75 2022-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/622f5ea3-db1b-4c15-8d20-94f3dd5548d2/Copy+of+Dr.+Adrienne+Phillips_ILB_5990+%28002%29.JPG Adrienne Phillips - Adrienne Phillips, MD, MPH Dr. Phillips graduated from Brown University with a bachelor’s degree in human biology and Latin American studies and a medical degree with honors. She holds a master’s of public health degree from Harvard University. She then came to New York City where she received both her internal medicine training and her fellowship in Hematology/Oncology at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University Medical Center. She is now an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital- Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Phillips has a particular interest in cancer disparities and outcomes among under-served populations, including Caribbean-Americans. She has developed a large database of a rare blood cancer called Adult T-cell Leukemia/Lymphoma, a disease disproportionately seen among Caribbean and Latin-American emigrants. She is the principal investigator of several clinical trials that explore novel therapies for this disease. Her research has been presented at national and international conferences and she has co-authored numerous publications. She has also served as an oncology consultant in Africa and the Caribbean and has a number of international collaborations to address cancer management strategies for developing nations. In recognition of her achievements, she is the recipient of numerous awards including the American Society of Hematology’s prestigious Harold Amos Medical Faculty Career Development Award and The Network Journal’s “40 Under 40” Achievement Award. https://www.facesofmedicine.org/laurie-zephyrin daily 0.75 2022-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/73cde7ea-6535-4681-a230-62de4bdb0fa3/Laurie+Zephyrin.png Laurie Zephyrin - Laurie Zephyrin, MD, MPH, MBA It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.facesofmedicine.org/valerie-stone daily 0.75 2022-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/767b50b2-e328-4750-9661-1c554596cd4d/Valerie+Stone_2.jpg Valerie Stone - Valerie Stone, MD Dr. Valerie Stone is Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Director of Health Equity Initiatives of the Department of Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). Dr. Stone is an academic general internist as well as an HIV/AIDS focused infectious disease specialist and a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. https://www.facesofmedicine.org/thea-james daily 0.75 2022-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/737a3821-fd15-4bb9-b089-bd2893914318/Thea-James-3.jpeg Thea James - Thea James, MD Dr. James is Vice President of Mission, Associate Chief Medical Officer and Executive Director of the Health Equity Accelerator at Boston Medical Center. She is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of the Violence Intervention Advocacy Program at BMC. Dr. James is a founding member of the Health Alliance for Violence Intervention (the HAVI). In 2011 she was appointed to Attorney General Eric Holder’s National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence. As Vice President of Mission Dr. James works with caregivers throughout BMC. Additionally she has primary responsibility for coordinating and maximizing BMC’s relationships and strategic alliances with a wide range of local, state and national organizations including community agencies, housing advocates, foundations, and multisector industries that partner with BMC to meet the full spectrum of patients’ needs. The goal is to foster innovative, upstream, and effective new models of care that are rooted in racial equity and economic mobility. This approach is essential for patients and communities to thrive. Dr. James served on the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine 2009-2012, where she served as chair of the Licensing Committee. She is 2008 awardee of Boston Public Health Commission’s Mulligan Award for public service, and a 2012 recipient of the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Role Model Award. She received The Boston Business Journal Healthcare Hero award in 2012 &2015. She was 2014 recipient of the Schwartz Center Compassionate Care Award. The Boston Chamber of commerce awarded Dr. James with the Pinnacle Award in 2015, which honors women in business and the professions. In 2020 Dr. James received the American College of Emergency Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award. Also, in 2020, The History Project presented her with a History Maker Award. Dr. James recently received the inaugural 2020 Thea James Social Emergency Medicine Award from the American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. James’ passion is in Public Health both domestically and globally. She is a Supervising Medical Officer on the Boston Disaster Medical Assistance Team (MA-1 DMAT), under the Department of Health and Human Services. She has deployed to post 9/11 in NYC, Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005, Bam, Iran after the 2003 earthquake, and Port-Au-Prince Haiti after the earthquake of 2010. Dr. James traveled to Haiti with MA-1 DMAT one day after the 2010 earthquake. A graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine, James trained in Emergency Medicine at Boston City Hospital, where she was a chief resident. https://www.facesofmedicine.org/karla-williams daily 0.75 2022-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/54baaafb-af7d-4138-b06c-3d0d6d74cd3e/Karla+Williams.jpg Karla E. Williams - Karla E. Williams, MD Dr. Williams is an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Hospital Medicine at the University of Alabama (UAB) in Birmingham, AL. She is native of South Carolina where she received her medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina. She completed an internal medicine residency and served as a chief resident at UAB. She now has the pleasure of serving as an Assistant Program Director and the Director of Diversity and Inclusion for the Tinsley Harrison Internal Medicine Residency Program at the UAB Heersink School of Medicine. Her passion is advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in graduate medical education and care delivery. Her mission is to foster initiatives that bring awareness and address the presence and effects of bias in the medical environment. The ultimate goal is to change culture and cultivate learning and clinical environments that are just and inclusive for all trainees, faculty and patients. https://www.facesofmedicine.org/kierstin-kennedy daily 0.75 2022-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/924f361f-80ed-45b8-9bf7-c71610819d13/Kierstin+Kennedy_1.jpg Kierstin Cates Kennedy - Kierstin Cates Kennedy, MD, MSHA, FACP, SFHM Dr. Kennedy, was born in Los Angeles and moved to Alabama as a child when her father’s military career required the family to relocate. She was the first college graduate in her immediate family and is still the only college graduate among her siblings. Her father eventually completed a bachelor's degree following a nontraditional path. At the age of 14, she met an uncle who was still in Los Angeles and was surprised to learn that he was a surgeon. She also met her older cousins - one was in medical school and the other was in residency. She saw opportunities she hadn’t previously known were possible and eventually spent time shadowing her uncle and taking notes. She is now at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, where she serves as the Chief Medical Officer. https://www.facesofmedicine.org/yolandee-bell-cheddar daily 0.75 2022-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/af59ff58-96fa-4efe-84e8-279f9f83378b/placeholder-image-person-jpg.jpeg Yolandee Bell Cheddar - Yolandee Bell-Cheddar, MD Dr. Bell-Cheddar is a pediatric cardiology intensive care physician in Pittsburgh, PA. She was born and raised by a single mother in Jamaica and attended medical school at the University of the West Indies. She also completed a pediatric residency in Jamaica and worked for several years before immigrating to the US where her mother, brother and sister were already living. Given the structure of medicine in the US, she had to complete residency again, a grueling process, in order to work here. She then sought further specialty training in pediatric cardiology and pediatric cardiac intensive care medicine. She is also the mother of two children. https://www.facesofmedicine.org/kayla-cunningham daily 0.75 2022-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/0eca2f8b-cb87-4109-ae9b-bc530c8bc5a7/placeholder-image-person-jpg.jpeg Kayla Cunningham - Kayla Cunningham, MD Dr. Kayla Cunningham is a board certified endocrinologist. She was born in Jamaica and moved to the US with her family as a toddler. When she entered college, she was planning to pursue neuropsychology, but attending a Student National Medical Association conference changed her trajectory. The SNMA is the medical student component of the National Medical Association, founded by Black and brown physicians. She did a post-bac year after graduating from Oberlin College to complete her medical school prerequisites. Afterwards she matriculated to Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons before residency and fellowship training in endocrinology. She has worked in office based practices with hospital based consultations and is now working exclusively in telemedicine. https://www.facesofmedicine.org/terry-moy-brown daily 0.75 2022-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/3f0c18ce-fe8a-4755-a16b-05e2c1e7b39d/Terry+Moy+Brown.jpg Terry Moy-Brown - Terry Moy-Brown, DO It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.facesofmedicine.org/marcia-augustine daily 0.75 2022-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/cafe7b23-b3f4-44eb-90cf-29c7b2f0ac32/placeholder-image-person-jpg.jpeg Marcia Augustine - Marcia Augustine, MD, FAAP, CLC It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.facesofmedicine.org/jacqueline-douge daily 0.75 2022-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/70cee738-a5c9-4685-9152-1704f6adbec5/Jackie+Douge.jpeg Jacqueline Douge - Jacqueline Douge, MD, MPH, FAAP Dr. Douge is a pediatrician and child health advocate. She was born and raised in Washington, DC and now lives in Maryland. Her work includes helping parents navigate conversations around race via her podcast and writings. As a Black biracial woman who is also a first generation American, her experience is one that is unique, but also shared by many. https://www.facesofmedicine.org/torie-comeaux-plowden daily 0.75 2022-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/92f11e5e-8174-4c53-8e92-e2f5e8e68c2c/torie-comeaux-plowden-headshot-in-white-1-5a0bee359e1fba1cfe1067cc65d59ddc.jpg Torie Comeaux Plowden - Torie Comeaux Plowden, MD, MPH It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.facesofmedicine.org/muhammad daily 0.75 2022-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/8ce49f22-6178-4b55-b47e-ecd958e11c6f/Shani+Mohammad.jpeg Shani Muhammad - Shani Muhammad, MD, FAAFP Dr. Muhammad is the only physician in her family, having decided on the career when she was in high school. She was born and raised in Southern California, where she resides now. After medical school in Cleveland, Ohio and a brief time in NJ, she returned to California. She has two adult children and works in a telehealth practice that has allowed her to maintain her own health as she helps patients meet their own health goals. https://www.facesofmedicine.org/ashaunta-anderson daily 0.75 2022-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/0890cb7e-1ee9-4c2b-ab91-6c8b5cf4ab47/Dr+Anderson-Final-1.jpg Ashaunta Anderson - Ashaunta Anderson, MD, MPH, MSHS Dr. Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Dr. Anderson received her bachelor’s degree in Human Biology at Stanford University, and her MD at Harvard Medical School. After her residency at Baylor, she completed public health degrees in the Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy and the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at UCLA. Dr. Anderson’s current research explores the origins of health disparities in the social environments of early childhood. Her work is particularly focused on the impact of early school readiness and racial socialization on later academic achievement and related health outcomes. She has conducted a number of qualitative assessments of early childhood educators, pediatricians, and minority parents with the goal of developing a culturally appropriate way to enhance a child’s education, health, and resilience in a multi-ethnic society. https://www.facesofmedicine.org/chasity-jennings-nunez daily 0.75 2022-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/93a73427-222c-4a75-85ef-976e733667e0/Chasity_1.jpeg Chasity Jennings-Nuñez - Chasity Jennings-Nuñez, MD, FACOG Dr. Jennings-Nuñez MD, FACOG is a board-certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist in Los Angeles County, California and a Site Director for OB Hospitalist Group, Inc., overseeing the obstetrical hospitalist program at Adventist Health - Glendale since February 2020. For the 20 years prior to accepting that position, she was a partner with the White Memorial Gyn/Ob Medical Group, full-time faculty member with the Adventist Health-White Memorial Ob/Gyn Residency Program and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology with Loma Linda University School of Medicine. Dr. Jennings-Nuñez earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Biology from Tulane University in 1991, graduating Cum Laude, and went on to a earn a Doctor of Medicine degree from Harvard Medical School in 1995. In 1999, she completed her residency in the specialty of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Adventist Health-White Memorial and was invited to join the faculty and primary women’s health medical group. During her tenure at White Memorial, she was responsible for the direct supervision and teaching of 16 Ob/Gyn residents as well as rotating Family Medicine residents. She received the CREOG National Faculty Award for Excellence in Resident Education. Dr. Jennings-Nuñez also maintained a busy clinical practice serving an under-resourced, mostly LatinX community in East Los Angeles. She has been an active member of the American College of Ob/Gyn (ACOG) since 1991 and has been a Diplomat of the American Board of Ob/Gyn (ABOG) since 2002. Cultivating leadership is very important to Dr. Jennings-Nuñez and she completed a Professional Leadership fellowship in 2016 through LA Care and the ACOG Robert C. Cefalo Leadership Institute in March 2022. She is the Vice-Chair of District IX, Section 5 of ACOG, representing Los Angeles area Obstetricians and Gynecologists and was a delegate at the 2020 ACOG Congressional Leadership Conference, lobbying for important protections for women’s health. Outside of her medical career she is very active in her local community. She served on the Board of Directors for the San Gabriel Educational Foundation (SEF) for 3 years and then was elected President of SEF for 3 additional years. Under her leadership, programs such as San Gabriel’s First Annual Youth Fitness Expo and after school programs in coding, cooking and nutrition and Future Doctors of America were instituted. She contributes regular articles to a local newspaper, Colorado Boulevard.net and participates in local city government as the Chair of San Gabriel’s first commission on equity, the Human Equity, Access and Relations Commission. Following her 25th medical school reunion, Dr. Jennings-Nuñez worked with other alumni to establish the HMS ’95 Anti-Racism Taskforce and is the chair of this group. They have collaborated with the Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs (ORMA) at Harvard Medical School to offer mentorship opportunities to underrepresented in medicine (URiM) students, financial support of ORMA and outreach to fellow alumni to continue the conversation about bias and equity in medicine. Dr. Jennings-Nuñez identifies as she/her, African- American and was raised in Houston, Texas. She has 2 children, Cecilia who graduated from Harvard College in 2020 and Christopher, a sophomore at Arizona State University. https://www.facesofmedicine.org/petal-elder daily 0.75 2022-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/0e3dbf5f-7aaa-416f-887a-5c1089593df9/Elder%2C+Petal.jpg Petal Elder - Petal Elder, MD, MPH Dr. Elder is from the beautiful twin isle Caribbean Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. She completed her medical studies at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) in June 2017, following which she completed an MPH at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she concentrated in health systems and policy, with certificates in community based public health as well as global health. Moreover, she completed clinical electives in Chicago, New York, Melbourne Australia, Dublin, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Trinidad. These experiences have provided her with ample opportunity to study health disparities and health systems globally. Dr. Elder is currently a 3rd year internal medicine resident physician at UMASS Chan Medical School – Baystate. Following completion of residency, she is to be the Chief Resident and then plans to pursue a cardiology fellowship. She is passionate about health equity, committed to social justice and eager to become a leader in preventive cardiology especially as related to women and minorities. https://www.facesofmedicine.org/vanna-albert daily 0.75 2022-05-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/cbb7ae84-3ec1-4d2f-8a74-ceb0db9c4b67/Vanna+Albert_2.jpeg Vanna Albert - Vanna Albert, MD Dr. Albert is an emergency medicine physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Baystate Medical Center-UMMS. She grew up in Brooklyn, NY and attended college in upstate New York. Thereafter, she attended Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School where she received her MD and completed her residency in emergency medicine at Christiana Care. After completion of residency, she completed an emergency medicine administration at Baystate-UMMS and obtained a masters of business administration at the Isenberg School of Management. She is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She is passionate about caring for underserved populations. She has interests in documentation, billing and coding, administration and health equity. https://www.facesofmedicine.org/karolynn-echols daily 0.75 2022-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/e18679e5-c5c3-4894-a452-25fbbc9e56c9/Echols_3.jpeg Karolynn Echols - Karolynn Echols, MD Dr. Echols is a urogynecologist in Philadelphia, PA. She has also completed physician acupuncture training and is certified in integrative medicine. Before becoming a physician, she was an electrical engineer. The decision to pursue a career in medicine came with the realization that she wanted to change lives in a different way while being innovative, practical and dynamic. https://www.facesofmedicine.org/carmen-brown daily 0.75 2022-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/747aa2f3-fcd9-4ee7-9d0c-68298dfd57b0/Carmen+Brown%2C+MD.jpg Carmen Brown - Carmen Brown, MD, FACOG, FRANZCOG Dr. Carmen Brown was born and raised in Georgia. She is a board certified OB/GYN who completed medical school at the Morehouse School of Medicine. After several years of practice in the US, she left for a one year international assignment in New Zealand. The plan for one year abroad became a second and a third year after which she and her family decided to make the move more permanent. She has since relocated to Australia and recently published a book that helps physicians who are interested in practicing in NZ and Australia sort out how to work as an expat. 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Sparks, M.D., FAAOS Dr. Sparks… https://www.facesofmedicine.org/ugwuji-maduekwe daily 0.75 2022-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/de49ad59-ee7c-42c9-8d6f-5f467f4f4a5b/Maduekwe_Headshot_1.jpeg Ugwuji Maduekwe - Ugwuji Madeukwe, MD, MMSc, MPH, FACS, FSSO Dr. Ugwuji Madeukwe has roots in Nigeria and grew up in Texas. She is a surgical oncologist and has recently joined the team at the Medical College of Wisconsin where she will also be working on statewide programs to address health equity. She went to Harvard Medical School after completing undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. https://www.facesofmedicine.org/kimberlynn-heller daily 0.75 2023-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62055b959591554ed2b4d056/022e6c33-5422-40b7-a2f6-7595cf558d1f/heller-kimberlynn-2.jpeg Kimberlynn Heller - Kimberlynn Heller, DO, FACOG Dr. Kimberlynn Heller completed her B.S. at Howard University in Washington, D.C. 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