About
The Weill Cornell Diversity Council (WCDC), co-chaired by the Associate Deans for Diversity and Inclusion, meets monthly and serves as a forum for students, faculty and administrative leadership. The departmental champions, faculty whom each department designates to lead diversity efforts, are welcome to attend these meetings. The organizational locus is the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, which contributes its staffing and funding to the WCDC. Key functions of the WCDC include: integrating diversity initiatives across all groups at WCM, reviewing existing pipeline programs and developing new pipeline initiatives, reviewing existing policies and developing new policies, and serving as a platform where all groups can voice their concerns.
Diversity Council Members
Joy Howell, MD - Assistant Dean of Diversity and Student Life - Office of Student Diversity Medical School
Linnie Golightly, MD - Associate Dean Office of Diversity and Inclusion
Rache Simmons, MD, FACS - Associate Dean Office of Diversity and Inclusion
Yazmin Carrasco, PhD - Assistant Dean for Diversity and Inclusion -Office of Student Diversity Graduate School
Katherine Hajjar, MD - Senior Associate Dean Office of Faculty
Nelson Sanchez, MD - Chair, LGBTQ+ Steering Committee
Sheryl Orwell, JD -Senior Associate General Counsel, University Counsel and Office of the Secretary
Angela Charter Lent - Senior Director, Staff and Organizational Development
Fanesse George - Assistant Director, Staff Diversity, Inclusion & Engagement
Steven Persaud - Medical Students Representative
Carl Crawford, MD- Head of the GFC Diversity Committee
Sahar Jalal, PhD - Post Doc Representative
Julia Iyasera, MD, MBA - Executive Director, Dalio Center for Health Justice NYP
Elizabeth Omondi, MS - Administrator, Office of Diversity and Inclusion
Department Diversity Champions
The primary role of the Diversity Champion is to work with their department chair to advance departmental diversity and inclusion goals by providing targeted programs and initiatives, and enhancing leadership awareness of the varied dimensions of diversity.
Anesthesiology
Danielle McCullough, MD
Biochemistry
Sushmita Mukherjee, PhD
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Berhane Worku, MD
Dermatology
Eva Kerby, MD
Emergency Medicine
Maria Lame, MD
Feil BMRI
Teresa Milner, MD
Genetic Medicine
Miguel de Mulder Rougvie, Ph.D.
Medicine
Susana Morales, MD
Microbiology and Immunology
Carl Nathan, MD
Neurology
Steven Karceski, MD
Neurosurgery
Caitlin Hoffman, MD
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Tirsit Asfaw, MD
Wing Kay Fok, MD
Ophthalmology
Cristiano Oliveira, MD
Orthopedics
Joseph Lane, MD
Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Lauren Brown, MD
Pathology
Ethel Cesarman, MD, PhD
Pediatrics
Joy Deanna Howell, MD
Pharmacology
John Blenis, Ph.D
Yael David, Ph.D
Physiology and Biophysics
Harel Weinstein, MD
Population Health Sciences
Czarina Behrends, MD
Primary Care
Serena Mulhern, MD , FACP
Psychiatry
Anna Salajegheh, MD
Stephanie Cherestal, MD
Radiation Oncology
Paul Pagnini, MD
Radiology
Kemi Babagbemi, MD
Rehab Medicine
Dara Jones, MD
Jason Hu, MD
Reproductive Medicine
Joshua Stewart, MD
Surgery
Lisa Newman, MD
Samuel J. Wood Library & C.V. Starr Biomedical Information Center
Diana Delgado, MLS, AHIP
Urology
Alfred Winkler, MD