National Advisory Board
EXECUTIVE CHAIR
Dr. Maya Angelou
Wake Forest University
EXECUTIVE CO-CHAIRS
Eldridge C. (Redge) Hanes
The Encore Group
Executive Vice-Chair
Denise James Gatling, MBA
Director
Global Supplier Diversity & Business Development
GlaxoSmithKline
HONORARY MEMBERS
Reuben Cannon
Reuben Cannon Productions, Inc.
Mick Quinn
ICIL Limited
Crandall C. Bowles
Ambassador Andrew Young
Chairman, GoodWorks International
Professor of Policy Studies
Gerogia State University
MEMBERS
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD
Jungian Psychoanalyst, Author
Edward F. Haponik, MD
Professor of Medicine
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Carla Harris, MBA
Managing Director, Global Capital Markets
Morgan Stanley
Richard Janeway, MD
Executive Vice President Emeritus
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Peter J. Jannetta, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery
Drexel University College of Medicine
Allegheny General Hospital
Charles A. Sanders, MD
Chairman, Foundation for the NIH
Levi Watkins Jr., MD
Professor of Surgery & Associate Dean
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Ian Smith, MD
Health Media Strategies, LLC
Addie Perkins Williamson, PhD
President & CEO
Perkins Williamson Associates, Inc.
Ricky Antonio Martinez, MD
Medical Director, Corp. Contributions & Community Relations
Johnson & Johnson
Turquoise Erving
Corey Marvin Erving Foundation
Timothy H. Marshall
President & CEO
Jamaica Business Resource Center
Velma G. Watts, PhD
Retired, Wake Forest School of Medicine
Mrs. Jean Irvin
Executive Director
Juvenile Justice Council
EX-OFFICIO OMEMBERS
John D. McConnell, MD
Chief Executive Officer
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Winston-Salem, NC
William B. Applegate, MD, MPH, MACP
President, Wake Forest School of Medicine
Former Dean, Wake Forest School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, NC
Ronny A. Bell, PhD, MS
Director
Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, NC
Bettina M. Beech, DrPH, MPH
Co-Director
Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, NC