2024 Honorees
Yolanda Lawson
President, National Medical Association (NMA)
Rose Blackburne
VP, Global Head, General Medicine and Women’s Health, PPD clinical research business, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Rashad Burgess
VP Advancing Health & Black Equity, Gilead Sciences
David Carlisle
President and CEO, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine (CDU)
Mike Edmondson
VP Performance Optimization, Amgen
Darrell M. Gray II
President & CEO, Wellpoint Maryland
Chirfi Guindo
Chief Marketing Officer & Member of the Executive Team, Merck
Charles Henderson
CEO, American Diabetes Association (ADA)
James E.K. Hildreth
President & CEO, Meharry Medical College
Negelle Morris
Senior Vice President, Head of US Cardiometabolic Sales, Novo Nordisk
Howard Reid
Global Head, Global Health Equity at Johnson & Johnson
Edrice Simmons
VP of US Oncology, AbbVie
2020
- Dr. Jerome Adams, US Surgeon General
- Dr. John Carpten, Professor & Chair of Translational Genomics – Keck School of Medicine of USC
- Dr. Jehan El-Bayoumi, Executive Director – Rodham Institute
- Dr. Ted Love, President & CEO – Global Blood Therapeutics
- Dr. Nicole Lang, Founder & CEO – Washington Pediatrics Associates
- Dr. Leon McDougle, President – National Medical Association
- Myrtle Potter, CEO – Sumitovant Biopharma
- Wendy Short Bartie, AVP Global Lead Genitourinary Cancer – Merck
- Dr. Alexis Thompson MPH, President – American Society of Hematology
- Julie (Miller) Tyler, VP Global Marketing – Vascular, Abbott
2019
- Jasper Beard, Senior Director
- Courtney Billington, President, Neuroscience
- Tyrone Brewer, VP Global Oncology Commercial Strategy
- Vanessa Broadhurst, MBA Company Group Chairman
- Oliver Brooks, MD President Elect, National Medical Association Medical Director
- Ronald Copeland, ACS Senior Vice President & Chief Equity, Inclusion and Diversity Officer
- Mike Edwards, Director, Consumer Marketing Hematology
- Esi Eggleston, Chief Operating Officer, EVP Beauty & Personal Care
- Antoine (Tony) Ezell, P-US Connected Care and Insulins
- Jo-Ann Jenkins, Chief Executive Officer
- Cynthia Patton, Sr. Vice President & Chief Compliance Officer
- Henrietta Ukwu, Senior Vice President and Global Head, Global Quality and Global Regulatory Affairs
- Mitzi Williams, Assistant Professor of Neurology
2018
- William Carson, CEO, Otsuka
- Julius Dixon, Commercial Business Director, Boehringer Ingelheim
- Keith Black, Chairman and Professor of the Department of Neurosurgery, Cedars Sinai
- Conrod Kelly, Executive Director Diabetes Franchise, Merck
- Keith Hoops, Director, CNS Consumer Marketing, Takeda
- Dorris Browne, President, National Medical Association
- Quita Highsmith,, Genentech
- LaQuandra Nesbitt, Director, D.C. Department of Health
- Craig Cole,, University of Michigan
- Brian Williams,, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
- L.D. Britt, M.D., M.P.H., Brickhouse Professor of Surgery, Eastern Virginia Medical School
- Doxie Jordan, Vice President, Area Commercial Lead, Novo Nordisk Inc
- Gail Larkins, Senior Director-U.S. Medical Affairs, HEM/ONC Multiple Myeloma Franchise, Celgene
- Coleman Obasaju, MD PhD, Senior Medical Director-Oncology, Lily
2017
- Kedrick D. Adkins Jr., Chief Financial Officer, Mayo Clinic
- Donna R. Cryer, JD, President & CEO, Global Liver Institute
- Adaeze Enekwechi, PhD, M.P.P, Associate Director for Health Programs, White House Office of Management & Budget, Appointee for President Barack Obama
- Thomas A. Farrington, Founder & President, Prostate Health Education Network
- Brian A. Hawkins, Director, Washington D.C. VA Medical Center
- Yolanda Haywood, M.D., Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion & Student Affairs, The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences
- Michael A Kelly, Sr. Vice President Global Business Services, Amgen
- Honorable Robin L. Kelly, Congresswoman, Illinois 2nd District
- Evelyn L. Lewis, MD, MA, FAAFP, DABDA, CMO Warrior Centric Health LLC, CMA, ReX LLC and Immediate Past President of the American Academy Family Physician Foundation
- Freda Lewis-Hall, MD, DFAPA, Executive VP & Chief Medical Officer, Pfizer
- Kimberly Banks MacKay, Head, U.S. Legal and Compliance, Novartis Business Services
- Veronica T. Mallett, M.D., MMM, Senior Vice President for Health Affairs and Dean, School of Medicine, Meharry Medical College
- Joseph Melancon, MD, Chief of The GW Transplant Institute and Division of Transplant Surgery,
- Desiree Ralls-Morrison, Senior VP, General Counsel & Secretary, Boehringer-Ingelheim U.S.
- Maj Gen Leonard Randolph Jr. M.D., USAF (Ret.) Board Chairman, Cincinnati YMCA
- Jonathan Woodson, M.D., Professor of Surgery, Boston University
2016
- Kimberly Aldridge, Sr. Director, Global Oncology Marketing, Eli Lilly and Company
- Ruth Brinkley, President & CEO (KentuckyOne Health)/VP Catholic Health Initiatives, KentuckyOne Health/Catholic Health Initiatives
- George Brown, President & CEO, Legacy Health
- Alan Butcher, Sr. Vice President & Head of Licensing and Business Development, Purdue Pharma
- Marsha Butler, Sr. Vice President, Global Professional Relations, Colgate Palmolive Company
- Donna Christensen, Retired Member of US Congress, US Virgin Islands,
- Reginald Coopwood, President & CEO, Regional One Health
- Hazel Dean, Deputy Director, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
- Jocelyn Elders, 15th Surgeon General of the United States, US Government
- Sean Gallimore, Corporate VP & Chief Marketing Officer, PAREXEL
- Michelle Gaskill, President, Advocate Trinity Hospital
- Shirell Gross Esq., VP & Chief Legal Counsel of Radiology, Bayer Corporation
- Walter Harris, Deputy Commissioner for Operations & Chief Operating Officer, Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
- LaMar Habrouk, Executive Director, National Association of County & City Health Officials
- James Hildreth, President & CEO, Meharry Medical College
- Frederick Hobby, Former President & CEO, Institute for Diversity in Health Management
- Reginald Mebane, Sr. Executive Officer, Office of Equal Employment Opportunity, US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
- Hugh Mighty, Dean & VP of Clinical Affairs, Howard University College of Medicine
- Edwin Nichols, Director, Nichols & Associates, Inc.
- Bob Oliver, President & CEO, Otsuka America, Inc.
- Rhonda Peebles, Executive Director of Marketing & Head of Dermatology, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
- Gary Puckerin, President & CEO, National Minority Quality Forum
- Dennis Pullin, President, Sr. VP, Medstar Harbor Hospital, Medstar Health
- Pamela Sutton-Wallace, CEO, University of Virginia Medical Center
2015
- Ophelia Garmon-Brown, Sr. Vice President for Community Partnerships, Novant Health Inc.
- Neil Moore, President & CEO, Dimensions Healthcare System
- Rhonda Nesmith Crichlow, Vice President & Head, U.S Diversity & Inclusion, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
- Walter Faggett II, Speaker of the House of Delegates, National Medical Association
- Suzanne Jackson, Chief Executive Officer, John Randolph Medical Center
- Renee Fraizer, Chief Executive Officer, Common Table Health Alliance
- Edith Peterson Mitchell, President Elect, National Medical Association
- Wayne Rawlins, Vice President & National Medical Director, Aetna, Inc.
- Charmaine Ruddock, Director, Consumer Marketing – Hematology, Bronx Health REACH, The Institute for Family Health