The erstwhile manager of D.C. Health is joining the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences to service arsenic the caller enforcement manager of the Center for Population Health Sciences and Health Equity.
Dr. LaQuandra Nesbitt volition oversee the world aesculapian enterprise’s research, acquisition and assemblage engagement programs to found an world halfway successful applied colonisation wellness probe to code wellness inequities, according to a quality release.
“Throughout my career, I’ve been fortunate to service patients and communities successful a fig of ways — arsenic a clinician successful the exam room, arsenic an pedagogue successful the schoolroom and astatine assemblage municipality halls, and arsenic an advocator for wellness equity with cardinal determination makers. Serving arsenic the Inaugural Executive Director of the caller Center for Population Health Sciences and Health Equity, affords maine the accidental to harvester those experiences successful caller and breathtaking ways,” Nesbitt said. “I look guardant to moving with galore colleagues and assemblage members I person known passim the years, successful continued work to the residents of the District of Columbia and beyond to execute amended wellness and equity successful the wellness attraction space.”
She volition instrumentality connected the relation this month.
“I americium thrilled that Dr. Nesbitt volition beryllium joining our team,” said Dr. Barbara Bass, vice president for wellness affairs, Walter A. Bloedorn Chair of Administrative Medicine, dean of GW SMHS and CEO of the GW Medical Faculty Associates. “Throughout the pandemic, Dr. Nesbitt has been an incredibly resilient and effectual leader. She navigated the effect with a crisp absorption connected equity to mitigate the interaction of COVID-19 for each District residents.”
Nesbitt volition beryllium the archetypal Bicentennial Endowed Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences, 1 of 9 endowed professorships established successful SMHS to further fortify its world medicine programs.
Nesbitt is simply a board-certified household doc with much than a decennary of acquisition starring colonisation wellness initiatives successful governmental nationalist wellness agencies, according to the quality release. She besides served arsenic the interim manager of the District’s Department of Behavioral Health.
She earned a Bachelor of Science successful Biochemistry from the University of Michigan, her aesculapian grade from Wayne State University School of Medicine, and a Master of Public Health successful Health Care Management and Policy from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Following graduation, she completed an internship successful household medicine astatine the University Hospitals of Cleveland/Case Western Reserve University and served arsenic main nonmigratory successful the household medicine residency astatine the University of Maryland and completed the Commonwealth Fund Harvard University Fellowship successful Minority Health Policy.
In her caller role, Dr. Nesbitt volition oversee the improvement and implementation of 3 programs, including the readying and implementation of the clinical, educational, and probe programs astatine the Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center, the improvement of an applied objective probe halfway connected colonisation wellness sciences and wellness equity, leveraging resources astatine the university, and the GW Clinical Public Health Program.
“Now is the close clip to beforehand colonisation wellness sciences and wellness equity to usher each of our programs by expanding our Clinical Public Health curricula and programs to the adjacent level wrong GW and to the communities we serve. Dr. Nesbitt has the vision, experience, and expertise to bash that and I americium excited to enactment with her connected this project,” said Dr. Lawrence Deyton, Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Public Health.
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