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Furst Group and NuBrick Partners are proud to sponsor and support the Top Diversity Leaders in Healthcare, the awards program created by Modern Healthcare. This is our 13th year of sponsoring the program, which culminates in an awards gala that will be hosted at the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel in Chicago, IL on December 9, 2021.

Please click here to read our recent article, “The spaces in between: Moving DE&I beyond the status quo,” and check out our Diversity Resource Library.

2021 Top Diversity Leaders in Healthcare

	Brenda Battle, Senior Vice President, Community Health Transformation, Chief Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Officer, UChicago Medicine
	Rosalyn Carpenter, SVP and Chief Diversity Officer, CommonSpirit Health
	Maxine Carrington, Senior Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer, Northwell Health
	Dr. Bechara Choucair, Vaccinations Coordinator, Biden administration
	Dr. Ronald Copeland, MD, SVP, Chief Equity, Inclusion, & Diversity Officer, Kaiser Permanente
	Pete Delgado, President/Chief Executive Officer, Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System

	Dr. Amar Desai, President and Chief Executive Officer, Optum Pacific West
	Delvecchio S. Finley, President and Chief Executive Officer, Atrium Health Navicent
	Eric C. Hunter, Chief Executive Officer and President, CareOregon
	Dr. Edward S. Kim, MD, Physician-in-Chief, City of Hope Orange County, Vice Physician-in-Chief, City of Hope National Medical Center/City of Hope Orange County
	Dr. Margaret Larkins-Pettigrew, Senior Vice President and Chief Clinical Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer, Allegheny Health Network and Highmark Health
	Dr. Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, Chief Health Equity Officer and Senior Vice President, AMA
	Dr. Rhonda Medows, MD, FAAFP, President of Population Health Management for Providence and Chief Executive Officer of Ayin, Providence / Ayin
	Dr. Yavar Moghimi, Chief Psychiatric Medical Officer, AmeriHealth Caritas District of Columbia, AmeriHealth Caritas

	Dr. Kazuma Nakagawa, MD, FAAN, FAHA, Medical Director, Neuroscience Institute, The Queen's Health Systems
	Dr. Pam Oliver, MD, Executive Vice President, Novant Health and President, Novant Health Physician Network
	Marvin O'Quinn, President/COO, CommonSpirit Health
	Ann-Gel Palermo, DrPH, MPH, Senior Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Chief of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Education and Research, Mount Sinai Health System

	Dr. Richard Park, Founder, CityMD, and Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Rendr Care
	Jason Purnell, Vice President, Community Health Improvement, BJC HealthCare
	Dr. Jaewon Ryu, President and Chief Executive Officer, Geisinger Health
	Nicholas Tejeda, Group Chief Executive Officer, The Hospitals of Providence
	Manika Turnbull, PhD, Divisional Senior Vice President, Compensation, DEI, and Workforce Experience, Health Care Service Corporation
	Dr. Melissa Welch, Chief Medical Officer, InnovAge
	Dr. Fran Witt, President and Chief Executive Officer, Effingham Health System

2021 Luminaries

	Greg Adams, Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Hospitals
	Dr. Georges Benjamin, Executive Director, American Public Health Association
	Dr. Tejal Gandhi, MD, MPH, CPPS, Chief Safety and Transformation Officer, Press Ganey Associates
	Dr. Bruce Siegel, President and Chief Executive Officer, America's Essential Hospitals

2021 Women Leaders to Watch

In addition, here are the 10 executives chosen as Women Leaders to Watch:

	George Aloth, President and Chief Executive Officer, CareFirst BCBS Community Health Plan District of Columbia
	Cindy Bo, Senior Vice President, Delaware Strategy, & Business Development, Nemours Children's Health
	Dr. Olaoluwa Fayanju, Regional Medical Director, Oak Street Health
	Jackie Hunter, DC, MHA, Senior Director, Diversity, Inclusion, and Talent Pipeline, Banner Health

	Dr. Olugbenga Ogedegbe, Director, Institute for Excellence in Health Equity, NYU Langone Health
	Trina Parks, MHA, FACHE, Executive Vice President, Chief Corporate Diversity and Inclusion Officer, RWJBarnabas Health
	Avonia Richardson-Miller, EdD, Senior Vice President, Chief Diversity Officer, Hackensack Meridian Health
	Dr. Tracey Veal, Fellow, Covid19 Collaboration, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
	Dr. Charles Vega, Associate Dean, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, University of California, Irvine Medical School
	Wylecia Wiggs Harris, PhD, CAE, Chief Executive Officer, AHIMA