The Top Diversity Leaders Healthcare — 2022

Furst Group and NuBrick Partners are proud to sponsor and support the Top Diversity Leaders in Healthcare, the awards program created by Modern Healthcare. For more than a decade we have sponsored this program, which culminates in an awards gala that will be hosted at the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel in Chicago, IL on December 8, 2022.

Furst Group and NuBrick Partners are proud to sponsor and support the Top Diversity Leaders in Healthcare, the awards program created by Modern Healthcare. For more than a decade, we’ve sponsored the program, which culminates in an awards gala that will be hosted at the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel in Chicago, IL on December 8, 2022.

Please click here to read our recent article, “If not us, then who?” and check out our Diversity Resource Library.

2022 Top Diversity Leaders in Healthcare

	Dr. Joseph Betancourt, Senior Vice President of Equity and Community Health, Massachusetts General Hospital
	Rosalind Brewer, Chief Executive Officer, Walgreens Boots Alliance
	LaRonda Chastang, Senior Vice President, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Trinity Health
	Dr. André Churchwell, Vice Chancellor of Outreach, Inclusion and Belonging \| Chief Diversity Officer, Office of EDI, Vanderbilt University
	Dr. Ronald Copeland, Senior Vice President of National Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Policy \| Chief Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Officer, Kaiser Permanente
	Sally Deitch, Executive Vice President, Nursing and Operations Infrastructure, Ascension

	Dr. Ngozi O. Ezike, President and Chief Executive Officer, Sinai Chicago
	Dr. James E.K. Hildreth, President and Chief Executive Officer, Meharry Medical College
	Dr. Julia Iyasere, Executive Director, Dalio Center for Health Justice, New York-Presbyterian Hospital
	Dr. Ramon Jacobs-Shaw, Chief Clinical Officer, Belong Health
	Dr. Margaret Larkins-Pettigrew, Senior Vice President \| Chief Clinical Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer, Allegheny Health Network/Highmark Health
	Dr. Omar Lateef, President and Chief Executive Officer, Rush University System for Health
	James Michel, Chief Executive Officer, Access Health CT

	Ketul Patel, Chief Executive Officer, Virginia Mason Franciscan Health President, Pacific Northwest Division, CommonSpirit Health
	Dr. Cheryl Pegus, Executive Vice President of Health and Wellness, Walmart
	Dr. Dennis Pullin, President and Chief Executive Officer, Virtua Health
	Duane Reynolds, Partner and President , Chartis Just Health Collective

	Terika Richardson, Chief Operating Officer, Ardent Health Services
	Javier Rodriguez, Chief Executive Officer, DaVita
	Dr. Jaewon Ryu, President and Chief Executive Officer, Geisinger Health
	Deanna Salazar, Chief Administration Officer and General Counsel, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona
	Janet Smith-Hill, Chief Human Resources Officer, SSM Health
	Dr. Imamu Tomlinson, Chief Executive Officer, Vituity President, Vituity Cares Foundation
	Pat Wang, President and Chief Executive Officer, Healthfirst

2022 Luminaries

	Kenneth Frazier, Executive Chairman of the Board, Merck
	Dr. Sachin Jain, President and Chief Executive Officer, SCAN Group and Health Plan
	Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, Professor Emerita, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, University of Pennsylvania
	Dr. Rhonda Medows, President, Population Health Management, Providence Chief Executive Officer, Ayin Health Solutions
	Dr. Ana Pujols McKee, Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer, and Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer, The Joint Commission
	Ruth Williams-Brinkley, President, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States

2022 Diversity Leaders to Watch

	Andrea Boudreaux, Executive Director, Children’s School Services, Children’s National Hospital
	Dr. Zenobia Brown, Senior Vice President and Associate Chief Medical Officer, Northwell Health Executive Director, Northwell Health Solutions
	Arianne Dowdell, Vice President and Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer, Houston Methodist
	Vanessa Guzman, President and Chief Executive Officer, SmartRise Health

	Sarah Lewis, Vice President of Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Hartford HealthCare
	Lisette Martinez, Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, Jefferson Health and Thomas Jefferson University
	Dr. Alvia Siddiqi, Interim Chief Medical Officer, Enterprise Population Health, Advocate Aurora Health
	Dr. Candice Taylor Lucas, Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
	DeLinda Washington, Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer, HealthPartners
	Lisa Wright, President and Chief Executive Officer, Community Health Choice