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HEALTH EQUITY IMPACT PROGRAM: In Full Health: Helping All of Us Commit to Equitable Innovation

Posted Dec 01, 2022 | Views 306
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Chris Gibbons MD, M.P.H.
Chris Gibbons MD, M.P.H.
Chris Gibbons MD, M.P.H.
CEO @ The Greystone Group, Inc.

Chris Gibbons, MD, MPH CEO, The Greystone Group, Inc  Dr. Gibbons is a digital health innovator, entrepreneur, physician and scientist. His career has been dedicated to solving some of life’s most challenging health problems including improving health among racial and ethnic minorities and using digital technologies to improve health beyond the walls of the hospital. He is the Founder and CEO of The Greystone Group, a digital health innovation and transformation firm focused on underserved populations. His firm’s work is catalyzing cross-sector interest in next generation transformative health models including SmartCare and smart cities/communities for health. His vision is to enable any city, community, home or other environment, including those in underserved communities, to become spaces that enable healthcare delivery and promote health, wellbeing, education and economic development, through new digital ecosystems. His firm also works with public and private sector healthcare clients to help them understand and thrive in a digital world. Dr. Gibbons is also the Chief Health Innovation Adviser for the Federal Communications Commission’s Connect2Health Task Force. In this role, his firm is helping to lead the work of the Task Force to establish broadband connectivity as a federally recognized social determinant of health (SDOH), close the digital divide and enhance our understanding of the relationships between broadband connectivity and health. Dr Gibbons is also an external health equity and innovation adviser to the American Medical Association’s (AMA’s) Center for Health Equity, where he is helping to lead the AMA’s In Full Health initiative which is designed to bring more equity to the health innovation financing/investing and digital health innovation sectors. Dr. Gibbons is also a Health Moonshot Impact Board member at Startup Health. Previously Dr. Gibbons was an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health. During this time, he was one of the first, almost 20 years ago, to suggest, research & promote the potential of technology to help address healthcare disparities and inequalities, in the peer reviewed scientific literature. He also developed the first decision support tool for Community Health Workers and Patient Navigators which was ultimately licensed to a private company. He was also, for many years, named a Health Disparities scholar by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Gibbons also served as the Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute, where for almost 15 years he developed clinically effective, culturally appropriate health improvement strategies through collaboration between underserved communities, clinical teams and public health stakeholders. Dr. Gibbons is also a faculty member of Reach Thought Leadership Forum and an Advisory Board member at MetroHealth DC, a Federally Qualified Health Center in Washington, DC. Dr. Gibbons is a published researcher and author with over seventy-five peer reviewed scientific manuscripts, books, book chapters and federal technical reports. Finally, he is a sought after domestic and international speaker on the subjects of health equity, health innovation, digital health transformation, the future of healthcare, minority health, urban health and health disparities. Dr. Gibbons attended medical school at the University of Alabama. He then trained in Preventive Medicine and General Surgery as well as molecular neuro-oncology basic science research at Johns Hopkins and completed a federal health policy fellowship at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). 

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Chris Gibbons, MD, MPH CEO, The Greystone Group, Inc  Dr. Gibbons is a digital health innovator, entrepreneur, physician and scientist. His career has been dedicated to solving some of life’s most challenging health problems including improving health among racial and ethnic minorities and using digital technologies to improve health beyond the walls of the hospital. He is the Founder and CEO of The Greystone Group, a digital health innovation and transformation firm focused on underserved populations. His firm’s work is catalyzing cross-sector interest in next generation transformative health models including SmartCare and smart cities/communities for health. His vision is to enable any city, community, home or other environment, including those in underserved communities, to become spaces that enable healthcare delivery and promote health, wellbeing, education and economic development, through new digital ecosystems. His firm also works with public and private sector healthcare clients to help them understand and thrive in a digital world. Dr. Gibbons is also the Chief Health Innovation Adviser for the Federal Communications Commission’s Connect2Health Task Force. In this role, his firm is helping to lead the work of the Task Force to establish broadband connectivity as a federally recognized social determinant of health (SDOH), close the digital divide and enhance our understanding of the relationships between broadband connectivity and health. Dr Gibbons is also an external health equity and innovation adviser to the American Medical Association’s (AMA’s) Center for Health Equity, where he is helping to lead the AMA’s In Full Health initiative which is designed to bring more equity to the health innovation financing/investing and digital health innovation sectors. Dr. Gibbons is also a Health Moonshot Impact Board member at Startup Health. Previously Dr. Gibbons was an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health. During this time, he was one of the first, almost 20 years ago, to suggest, research & promote the potential of technology to help address healthcare disparities and inequalities, in the peer reviewed scientific literature. He also developed the first decision support tool for Community Health Workers and Patient Navigators which was ultimately licensed to a private company. He was also, for many years, named a Health Disparities scholar by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Gibbons also served as the Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute, where for almost 15 years he developed clinically effective, culturally appropriate health improvement strategies through collaboration between underserved communities, clinical teams and public health stakeholders. Dr. Gibbons is also a faculty member of Reach Thought Leadership Forum and an Advisory Board member at MetroHealth DC, a Federally Qualified Health Center in Washington, DC. Dr. Gibbons is a published researcher and author with over seventy-five peer reviewed scientific manuscripts, books, book chapters and federal technical reports. Finally, he is a sought after domestic and international speaker on the subjects of health equity, health innovation, digital health transformation, the future of healthcare, minority health, urban health and health disparities. Dr. Gibbons attended medical school at the University of Alabama. He then trained in Preventive Medicine and General Surgery as well as molecular neuro-oncology basic science research at Johns Hopkins and completed a federal health policy fellowship at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). 

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Dr. Aletha Maybank
Dr. Aletha Maybank
Dr. Aletha Maybank
Chief Health Equity Officer/SVP @ American Medical Association - Center for Health Equity

Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH currently serves as the Chief Health Equity Officer and Senior Vice President for the American Medical Association (AMA) where she focuses on embedding health equity across all the work of the AMA and leading the Center for Health Equity. She joined the AMA in April 2019, as their inaugural Chief Health Equity Officer. Dr. Maybank previously served as Founding Director for the Center for Health Equity at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (2014) and the Office of Minority Health in the Suffolk County Department of Health Services (2006). She is a nationally recognized speaker, writer and advisor on issues related to health equity, the future of medicine, and public health impact.

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Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH currently serves as the Chief Health Equity Officer and Senior Vice President for the American Medical Association (AMA) where she focuses on embedding health equity across all the work of the AMA and leading the Center for Health Equity. She joined the AMA in April 2019, as their inaugural Chief Health Equity Officer. Dr. Maybank previously served as Founding Director for the Center for Health Equity at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (2014) and the Office of Minority Health in the Suffolk County Department of Health Services (2006). She is a nationally recognized speaker, writer and advisor on issues related to health equity, the future of medicine, and public health impact.

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