Meet the Scholars

• Zaid Gayle
  Prior to receiving the Community Health Leaders award, advocacy for our organization and our youth was labored and difficult.
  
• Lon Newman, MS
  Having a collegial relationship with other Community Health Leaders award recipients has provided me with a working network...
  
• Jeffrey Gonzalez, PhD
  I can’t think of any other single experience during college that had more to do with getting me to where I am today.
  
• Maria Claudia Norena
  Being part of the Ladder to Leadership program is helping me discover professional strengths I wasn’t aware I had....
  
• Carmen Young
  Becoming a doctor - from dream to destination, thanks to SMDEP.
  
• Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS
  The Clinical Scholars program encourages us to think "outside the box"....
  
• Comilla Sasson, MD
  There is no other program like the RWJF Clinical Scholars program for physician leaders who want to change America's health care...
  
• James Jennings, Ph.D.
  New Connections has allowed me to discover important relationships between public health and community development.
  
• David Van Sickle, PhD
  The RWJF Health & Society Scholars program gave me the training and perspective to see exciting new possibilities...
  
• Sabrina McCormick, PhD, MA
  As a Health & Society Scholar, I was able not only to ‘think big thoughts,’ but also to see how...