Jackie Patterson, MD, MPH Jackie Patterson is a neonatologist and implementation scientist with expertise in technology-based interventions to improve perinatal mortality in low and lower-middle income countries. Her particular research emphasis is on newborn resuscitation and is based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Read more >>

Imelda Coyne, PhD Dr. Coyne is a Professor in Children’s Nursing & Co-Director of the Trinity Research in Childhood Centre. She is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and a Fellow of the European Academy of Nursing Science (FEANS). The central theme underpinning her program of research is valuing children’s and young people’s voices and … Continued

Chantel Martin, PhD Dr. Chantel Martin’s research seeks to uncover social and biological mechanisms of health disparities across the life course. By identifying the long-term effects of early life stressors, such as neighborhood deprivation, crime, residential segregation, and air pollution, her multidisciplinary research aims to improve health among racial/ethnic minorities and eliminate health disparities. Read more … Continued

E. Nate Thomas III, PhD Dr. Thomas has more than 25 years of experience working with leaders in secondary and higher education, and is especially skilled at developing and implementing diversity, mentoring, and leadership initiatives. Dr. Thomas has served as an executive diversity leader at the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine, the … Continued

Erin Heinzen, PharmD, PhD Dr. Heinzen is an Associate Professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics with a joint appointment in the UNC Department of Genetics. Dr. Heinzen’s research broadly focuses on neurodevelopment disease genetics. Her lab focuses on the genetic and genomic basis of epilepsy … Continued