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Center on Health Disparities
Staff
Robin Womeodu
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Robin
Womeodu, M.D., Interim Executive Director and
Medical Director, is a general internist who
joined the UTHSC faculty in 1988. She is
currently an Associate Professor in the
Departments of Preventive Medicine and Internal
Medicine. Dr. Womeodu is a graduate of Rutgers
University and Washington University Medical
School in St Louis. After completing a residency
in Internal Medicine at the University of
Pittsburgh, Dr. Womeodu spent 2 years at Delta
Medical Center in Mound Bayou, MS completing a
National Health Service Corps (NHSC) commitment.
The experiences in the Delta confirmed a desire
to focus her career on the medically underserved
and to find ways to narrow the health disparity
gaps she witnessed daily. Since joining UTHSC, Dr.
Womeodu’s clinical responsibilities have
been predominately at The Regional Medical Center
(The Med), including managing attending for
inpatient and outpatient internal medicine
services and Assistant Medical Director of the
Diggs-Kraus Sickle Cell Center. In addition she
has been involved in educating numerous students
pursuing graduate medical degrees, resident
physicians, and served as a mentor for countless
other students from local high schools and
colleges. Her research interests include
prevention of HIV/AIDS in African American women,
health services research, and community-based
participatory disease management and prevention
initiatives. |
Alicia McClary
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Alicia
McClary, Ed.D., the Director of Multicultural
Education and Outreach and Professor in the
Department of Preventive Medicine. Her primary
interests include service-based learning,
international health, and medical education. A
graduate of University of Alabama, she received
her doctorate in Educational Psychology from the
University of Memphis.
Dr McClary represents West Tennessee on the
Tennessee Commission on National and Community
Service and is a charter member of the World
Health Organization’s (WHO) expert panel on
health education and an author of the WHO
International Charter for Health Promotion. In
1999, she was named Educator of the Year by the
Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine.
She currently serves on the board of the Healthy
People-Healthy Communities initiative of the
National Association of State Universities and
Land Grant Colleges; has been a long-time board
member of the Association of Teachers of
Preventive Medicine; and is an active member of
the Network of Community-oriented Education
Institutions for Health Science, the
International Health Medical Education
Consortium, and the Tennessee Primary Care
Association. She is a visiting professor at a
number of American universities as well as the
Universidad de Medicina Autonomo de Guadalajara
in Mexico.
Dr. McClary has received funding as principle
investigator for her educational and outreach
programs from the Health Resources and Services
Administration; National Fund for Medical
Education, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Pew
Charitable Trust, and the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation. Currently underway is a new program,
Mucho Gusto, to address the need to increase the
access of Latinos in the Memphis community to
meaningful and appropriate health care. |
Bettina Beech
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Bettina
Beech Dr.P.H., M.P.H., the Director of Public
Health Research, received her Master's degree
in Public Health from Temple University and her
doctoral degree in Public Health from the
University of Texas Health Science Center in
Houston. She currently has a joint appointment
with the University of Memphis, Psychology
Department and the University of Tennessee Health
Science Center, College of Family Medicine. Prior
to relocating to Memphis, Dr. Beech was an
Assistant Professor at Tulane University School
of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New
Orleans and the Assistant Director of Cancer
Prevention and Control at the Tulane Cancer
Center.
Dr. Beech has extensive experience in the area of
behavioral risk factors that contribute to
chronic diseases, specifically among adolescents
and ethnic minority populations. She is a Co-Principal
investigator of an NHLBI-funded multi-site
clinical trial to develop and implement a
culturally relevant nutritional and behavioral
weight gain prevention intervention for pre-adolescent
African American girls. Dr. Beech has published
several manuscripts on nutrition and cancer
prevention. Lastly, she is the lead editor of a
book to be published in 2003 by the American
Public Health Association entitled, Race and
Research in Focus: Perspectives on Minority
Participation in Health Studies. |
Cynthia Nunnally
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Cynthia
Nunnally, M.P.H., the Community Relations Manager,
received her Bachelor’s and Master’s
degrees in Public Health from the University of
Tennessee, Knoxville. Ms. Nunnally has served in
a variety of healthcare settings, including the
CDC National AIDS Hotline, local and state health
departments in Tennessee and North Carolina, the
state of Tennessee TennCare managed care system,
and academic institutions in Tennessee and North
Carolina. The interweaving thread throughout her
career has been empowering the public with health
education and information to make healthy
lifestyle decisions. She has worked in the areas
of health promotion, staff development, project
coordination, and membership services. |
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