Juanita Merchant, M.D., Ph.D.
Juanita Merchant joined the faculty at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson in July 2018 as a professor of medicine in the UA Department of Medicine, chief of the UA Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and a member of the Cancer Biology Research Program at the UA Cancer Center. In 2008, Dr….
Stefano Bertuzzi, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Stefano Bertuzzi, Ph.D., MPH, is the Chief Executive Officer of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). Bertuzzi has wide experience in science policy and scholarly publishing. Prior to joining as the CEO of ASM, Bertuzzi was the Executive Director at the American Society for Cell Biology for 3 years and was a senior scientific executive at the…
Edward (Eddie) Ndopu
Described by TIME Magazine as “one of the most powerful disabled people on the planet,” Eddie Ndopu is perhaps best known for his human rights advocacy with respect to advancing disability justice at the forefront of the international development agenda. Working alongside world leaders such as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada and Prime Minister Mia…
Gina Poe, Ph.D.
Gina Poe, Ph.D. has been working since 1995 on the mechanisms through which sleep serves memory consolidation and restructuring. Dr. Poe is a southern California native who graduated from Stanford University and then worked for two post-baccalaureate years at the VA researching Air Force Test Pilots’ brainwave signatures under high-G maneuvers. She earned her Ph.D….
Karen Singleton, Ph.D.
Karen is the associate medical director and chief of mental health & counseling services at MIT Medical. She is a clinical psychologist who specializes in trauma, multicultural psychotherapy, and bereavement. She enjoys presenting, writing and consulting on a variety of mental health topics, particularly collegiate mental health, the impact of oppression on psychological wellbeing as…
Juanita Limas, Ph.D.
Juanita Limas, Ph.D. is a Senior Advisor in Molecular Pharmacology at Eli Lilly & Company. A first-generation Mexican-American, she graduated with a B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Iowa, a MS from Barry University, and a PhD from UNC-Chapel Hill. Her experience during her PhD prompted her to write a paper on mental health…
Keisha N. Hardeman, Ph.D., MLS(ASCP)CM,MBCM
Keisha Hardeman is a postdoctoral associate in cancer biology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). She has a Bachelor’s degree in molecular and cell biology (TAMU) and a PhD in cancer biology (Vanderbilt University). She is also board certified as medical laboratory scientist (MLS) and molecular biologist (MB) with the American Society…
Katelyn Cooper, Ph.D.
Katey is an Assistant Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. Trained as a discipline-based education researcher, she uses qualitative and quantitative methodologies to examine the relationship between student mental health and cognitive and affective learning. Cooper received the NSF CAREER award to investigate the relationship between undergraduate/graduate research and depression…
Briana L. Simms, Ph.D.
Dr. Simms, an HBCU alumna, synthetic polymer chemist, and entrepreneur is currently an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses on the design and development of functional biomaterials that address public health challenges. Her ultimate goal is to move biomaterials from the benchtop and into the communities that need them most, all…