Friday, October 2
4:30-5:30 PM
Plenary Panel

The Challenge of Delivering Health Care to The Most Diverse City in America: New York City

Moderator: Gerald E. Thomson, MD
Senior Associate Dean & Lambert and Sonneborn Professor of Medicine, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University

Jo Ivey Boufford, MD
Dean, Wagner School of Public Service, New York University

Francesca Gany, MD
New York Task Force on Immigrant Health

Susana Morales, MD
Cornell Internal Medicine Associates

Gerald E. Thomson is Professor of Medicine and Senior Associate Dean at Columbia University’s College of Physician’s and Surgeons. From 1985-1990, Dr. Thomson was Chief of Staff and Executive Vice President of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. He was appointed Associate dean in 1990. Dr. Thomson has had considerable involvement with neighborhood-based primary care. He helped initiate several centers as part of the Harlem primary care network in the 1980’s, and as President of the Washington Heights-Inwood Ambulatory Care Network, established five centers from 1985-1990. Dr. Thomson is co-founder and past President of the New York Society Nephrology and the Association of Academic Minority Physicians. He was Chairman of the American Board of Internal Medicine from 1990-1992, Chairman of the Federated Council of Internal Medicine, and, from 1995-1996, President of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Thomson is a member of the Institute of Medicine.

Jo Ivey Boufford, MD
Dean
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
New York University
4 Washington Square North, Rm. 31
New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 998-7438
Fax: (212) 995-4161

Jo Ivey Boufford, MD, was appointed Dean of the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University on June 1, 1997. She is also Professor of Public Administration at the Wagner School, and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at New York University Medical School. Prior to coming to Wagner, Dr. Boufford served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from November 1993 to January 1997, and as Acting Assistant Secretary from January 1997 to May 1997. While at HHS, she also served as the U.S. representative on the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO). From May 1991 to September 1993, Dr. Boufford served as Director of the King’s Fund College, London England. Dr. Boufford served as President of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), the largest municipal hospital system in the United States, from December 1985 until October 1989. She was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine in 1992. She received an Honorary Doctorate of Science degree from the State University of New York, Brooklyn, NY in May 1992. She received her BA (Psychology) magna cum laude from the University of Michigan, and her MD, with distinction, from the University of Michigan Medical School. She is Board Certified in pediatrics.

Susana Morales, MD
Director, Center for Multicultural and Minority Health
Cornell Internal Medicine Associates
505 E. 70th Street, HT 4
New York, NY 10021
212-746-2900
212-746-8165

Susana Morales, MD is a graduate of Harvard College and the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She did her residency training in Internal Medicine at the Presbyterian Hospital in the City of New York. She was the Assistant Division Director for Education and Training of the Division of General Medicine at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons until mid-1998. She is now an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, where she is the Director of the newly formed Center for Multiculturalism and Minority Health.. She is a clinician educator who focuses on the psychosocial aspects of medicine, primary care of the underserved, medical education, faculty development, and enhancing minority representation in medicine. In 1993, she was a member of the White House Briefing Team for the National Health Task Force. She is Chair of the Minority Interest Group of the Society of General Internal Medicine, and a member of the Advisory Committees of the Commonwealth Fund’s "Bettering the Health of Minority Americans" program, the "Medicine as a Profession Project" of the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation), and of the National Hispanic Medical Association. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Body Positive, Inc of New York City, a community based AIDS service organization, and the Latina Roundtable for Health and Reproductive Rights.  NEXT >

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