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Dr. Lucille C. Norville-Perez, M.D.
President & CEO
President & CEO
“Shaping A Medical Model That Serves All People”
Dr. Lucille Perez has carved out a unique and influential place in American
medicine, having contributed to the advancement of medical science in
government, academia and the private sector during a career spanning nearly 30
years.
As the former National Health Director for the Health Advocacy Department of
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Dr.
Perez has the unique opportunity to employ her diverse skills and channel her
passion in righting an American atrocity, racial and ethnic health disparities.
In August 2001, Dr. Perez’ outstanding leadership skills as a voice in
medicine were recognized by her peers when they elected her president of the
National Medical Association (NMA). NMA is the nation’s oldest and largest
professional scientific organization representing the country’s 37,000 African
American physicians.
As NMA president, Dr. Perez endeavored to build on NMA’s existing
programs with new initiatives and partnerships, which included bringing the
traditional healers together, clergy and physicians, embarking not only on the
science of spirituality but the essence of faith-based medicine. As a widely
sought after lecturer, Dr. Perez has traveled extensively to speak about
substance abuse prevention, HIV/AIDS and health disparities impacting racial
and ethnic minorities. Her work has won her wide acclaim and she has received
numerous honors, including a Congressional Black Caucus Special Achievement
Award and a Distinguished Service Award from the Secretary of Health and
Human Services.
A 1974 graduate of Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, Dr. Perez
received her medical degree from New York Medical College in 1979. She
completed her pediatric residency at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and did
an adolescent fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.
Prior to coming to government, Dr. Perez held several academic
appointments. She was Chief of Adolescent Medicine at Brooklyn-Caldeonia
Hospital; Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at State University of New
York Health Science Center in Brooklyn and at St. George’s School of Medicine
in Grenada, West Indies; and Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Mount
Sinai School of Medicine.
Dr. Lucille Perez has carved out a unique and influential place in American
medicine, having contributed to the advancement of medical science in
government, academia and the private sector during a career spanning nearly 30
years.
As the former National Health Director for the Health Advocacy Department of
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Dr.
Perez has the unique opportunity to employ her diverse skills and channel her
passion in righting an American atrocity, racial and ethnic health disparities.
In August 2001, Dr. Perez’ outstanding leadership skills as a voice in
medicine were recognized by her peers when they elected her president of the
National Medical Association (NMA). NMA is the nation’s oldest and largest
professional scientific organization representing the country’s 37,000 African
American physicians.
As NMA president, Dr. Perez endeavored to build on NMA’s existing
programs with new initiatives and partnerships, which included bringing the
traditional healers together, clergy and physicians, embarking not only on the
science of spirituality but the essence of faith-based medicine. As a widely
sought after lecturer, Dr. Perez has traveled extensively to speak about
substance abuse prevention, HIV/AIDS and health disparities impacting racial
and ethnic minorities. Her work has won her wide acclaim and she has received
numerous honors, including a Congressional Black Caucus Special Achievement
Award and a Distinguished Service Award from the Secretary of Health and
Human Services.
A 1974 graduate of Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, Dr. Perez
received her medical degree from New York Medical College in 1979. She
completed her pediatric residency at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and did
an adolescent fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.
Prior to coming to government, Dr. Perez held several academic
appointments. She was Chief of Adolescent Medicine at Brooklyn-Caldeonia
Hospital; Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at State University of New
York Health Science Center in Brooklyn and at St. George’s School of Medicine
in Grenada, West Indies; and Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Mount
Sinai School of Medicine.
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| Dr. Nicole Francis-Williams, Ed.D. Vice-President and Director of Strategic Initiatives “Serving to Meet the Academic and Social Needs of All Underserved Populations” Dr. Nicole Francis-Williams is the President and CEO of Visionary Policy Institute (VPI), LLC an organizational leadership and public affairs firm. VPI, LLC specializes in culturally minority programs and human service policy initiatives. She has also served as the Interim National Director for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) National Headquarters. Dr. Francis-Williams received a Bachelors of Science (B.S.) Degree in Biology from Towson University (Towson, MD), a Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Special Education from Coppin State University (Baltimore, MD) and a Doctorate of Education (Ed.D.) in Child, Youth and Human Services from Nova Southeastern University (N. Miami Beach, FL); with a specialization in Management of Programs. Dr. Francis-Williams is an expert in the field of socio-emotional behaviors among minority youth and families. Based on this information, she understands multi- cultural human relations, social systems, economic indicators that impact behavior and management of programs and processes that produce positive change. These concepts are applicable in many settings involving global relationship and alliance building across social and cultural domains. Dr. Francis-Williams served as a middle school science teacher in the Baltimore City Public School System (BCPSS) and as an Admission, Review and Dismissal Manager and Special Education Department Head in the district. She was also a middle school principal of two campuses in Houston, TX. Upon returning to the Baltimore/Washington Area, Dr. Francis-Williams served as a Program Analyst/Technical Writer for Global Science and Technology: NASA Peer Review Services, a government contractor to NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. At NASA she was a program Analyst, grant evaluator and a technical-writer for NASA Leadership in the Education Mission Directorate and a scientific report writer for the Biological Science Mission Directorate. Dr. Francis- Williams served as a grant evaluator for NASA Headquarters for their Education Mission Directorate unsolicited and Congressional earmarked proposal evaluation processes. She provided on site scientific technical writing assistance to NASA scientists from all over the world during panel reviews of NASA Research Announcements and was a part of documenting the grant proposal process for scientific RFP’s on Oceans, Glaciers and Ice and the North American Carbon-based Program. She produced two 100+ page reports for these panels. She has received two Certificates of Customer Satisfaction from NASA Headquarters for her role as Project Lead for two NASA Education Enterprise Leadership Training meetings (Orlando, FL and San Francisco, CA). Dr. Francis-Williams has also served as the Program Manager for a $1 million Department of Education grant to build capacity at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) at the United Negro College Fund Special Programs Corporation in Fairfax, VA. Additionally, she is the Project Manager for a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant for the NAACP for $200,000. Dr. Francis-Williams serves on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) committee for Global Literacy, the National Advisory Council for the National Research Center for College & University Admissions (NRCUA) and on the Advisory Board for Recruiting New Teachers of America. She is a member of Pi Lambda Theta, International Honor Society and a host of other professional organizations. She has presented at numerous Capitol Hill briefings on NCLB, special education issues and high school reform and has presented on the minority achievement gap in many states around the country. She has served Federal Agencies, for-profit and not-for-profit organizations nationwide in the areas of grant writing, evaluation and management, strategic planning, program design and cultural diversity training. She is the author of several publications including the most recent report, “Lost Opportunities: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Higher Education.” (2005) |
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