About Us
Core Advisory Group members:
- Jose Rodriguez-Romaguera, PhD
- Nikki Steinsiek, MD
- Enioluwafe Ojo, MD
Dr. Tyehimba Hunt-Harrison has had a diverse career experience over the past two decades. She has provided direct patient care in both outpatient and inpatient settings, served on clinical research teams, worked as a utilization review peer advisor in the public mental health sector, and led as coordinator for medical students and psychiatric trainees on the child adolescent unit at a state psychiatric hospital. At the system level, she has previously served as member and Vice-Chair on the NC Commission for Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services, has contributed to state level work groups defining service definitions for enhanced community mental health services and as an auditor of residential treatment programs that provided services to NC youth, as well as served as member of the Work Group for Consumer Issues for the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She is Board Certified in both General Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Dr. Tamara Baker is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also the Associate Director of Research for the Mental Health Equity Program in the Psychiatry at UNC. Dr. Baker received her MA in Clinical/Community Psychology from Norfolk State University, a PhD from Penn State in Biobehavioral Health, and completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health as a Paul B. Cornely Postdoctoral Fellow. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Ethnicity & Health, Editor Emeritus of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, and Editor of the first Handbook of Minority Aging (Springer Publishing). She serves on several editorial boards and is the current Chair of the Gerontological Society of America’s (GSA) Behavioral and Social Sciences section, where she is also a GSA Fellow. Dr. Baker’s scholarly work has been successfully funded by a number of NIH institutions. Her background in Gerontology, Psychology, and Biobehavioral Health has evolved into an active research agenda that focuses on understanding the behavioral and psychosocial predictors and outcomes of chronic pain and symptom management, and health disparities and inequities in pain management among older African Americans.
UNC School of Medicine Selected as a 2022 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award Winner! The School of Medicine was recognized for its robust DEI infrastructure across campus, numerous efforts designed to provide education and training opportunities for the next generation of doctors, basic science researchers, health scientist, and rural initiatives that improve access to care for all North Carolinians.
As a recipient of the annual Health Professions HEED Award — a national honor recognizing U.S. health colleges and universities that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion — the School of Medicine will be featured, along with 64 other recipients, in the December 2022 issue of INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine.