Meet Our Team
IHER Leadership
Carol Horowitz, MD, MPH
Institute Director
Lynne Richardson, MD
Institute Co-Director
IHER Core and Research Group Leads
Nina Bickell, MD
Professor & Director, Health Care Delivery Science Core
Nita Vangeepuram, MD
Associate Director, Community Engagement Core
Sidney Hankerson MD, MBA
Director of Mental Health Equity Research
Gordon (KaMing) Ngai, MD
Director of Immigrant, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies
Andrew Maroko, PhD
Director, Geospatial Health Research Group
IHER Staff
Sabrina Clermont, MPH
Program Manager
Cindy Clesca, MS
Senior Project Manager
Timnit Berhane, MPH
Program Manager
Lauren Gordon, MPH
Senior Project Manager
Crispin Goytia, MSc
Community Engagement Specialist
Christopher Lopez, MS
Data Analyst I
Devin Madden, MPH, ABD
Associate Director, Office of Gender Equity/IHER Program Manager
Sofia Medina-Pardo
Senior Clinical Research Coordinator
Rennie Negron, MPH
Administrative Director
Sima Rabinowitz, MA
Senior Scientific Writer
Michelle Ramos, MPH
Clinical Trial Manager
Tatiana Sabin
Senior Clinical Research Coordinator
Catherine Squirewell, MPH
Program Manager
Amber Stacks, MPA
Program Manager
Gerardo Vallejo
Administrative Coordinator
Lola Williams
Clinical Research Coordinator
Eunice Wright
Administrative Manager
Radhi Yagnik, MPH
Clinical Research Manager
Yun-Ting Yen, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
IHER Faculty
Donald Apakama, MD
Instructor, Emergency Medicine
Saadiyah Bilal, MD
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Kirk Campbell, MD
Professor, Medicine, Nephrology
Vice Chair, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Director, Nephrology Fellowship Program
Director, Recruitment, Center for Scientific Diversity
Uraina Clark, PhD
Director of Research Development, Center for Scientific Diversity
Mariana Figueiro, PHD
Professor, Population Health Science and Policy
Director, Light and Health Research Center
Leah Habersham, MD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science
Louisa Holaday, MD
Assistant Professor, Medicine and General Internal Medicine
Utsha Khatri, MD
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Population Health Science and Policy, Global Health
Clair Kronk, PhD
Assistant Professor, Population Health Science and Policy, Division of Data Driven and Digital Health
Tracy Layne, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Population Health Science & Policy, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science
Director of Mentorship Development, Center for Scientific Diversity
Sarah J. Miller, PsyD
Assistant Professor, Population Health Science & Policy, Family Medicine & Community Health, Oncological Sciences
Director of Faculty Diversity and Inclusion, Center for Scientific Diversity
Tiffany Mitchell, MD
Instructor, Emergency Medicine
Nihal E. Mohamed, PhD
Associate Professor & Director of Education and Training, Center for Scientific Diversity
Dinushika Mohottige, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Department of Medicine, Divisions Nephrology and Data Driven and Digital Health
Girish Nadkarni, MD
Associate Professor, Medicine and Nephrology
Clinical Director of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health
Co-Director of The Mount Sinai COVID Informatics CenterSystem Chief of the Division of Data Driven and Digital Medicine (D3M), The Mount Sinai Clinical Intelligence Center (MSCIC)
Director of the Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine
Diddier Prada, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health Science and Policy
Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health
Joshua Safer, MD
Professor, Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease
Executive Director Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery
Jamilia Sly, PhD
Assistant Professor, Population Health Science & Policy, Family Medicine & Community Health, Oncological Sciences
Director of Anti-Racist Community Research and Outreach, Center for Scientific Diversity
Kimberly Souffront PhD, RN, FNP- BC
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Associate Director Center of Nursing Research & Innovation
Shameeke Taylor, MD
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Marcee Wilder, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Department of Population Health Science and Policy