MEET OUR EXECUTIVE BOARD

We are so very proud to introduce our new Executive Board for 2025 - 2027

Sheila You­ng-Mercado, MD

President


Number of Years Member of ABWP: 43


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Where did you grow up? Oakland, CA


Where did you go to medical school? Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science


What is Your Current Position? Assistant Professor, Morehouse School of Medicine


What are your hobbies? TBD


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Cozzette Lyons-Jones, MD, MPH, FACP

Immediate Past President


Number of Years Member of ABWP: TBD


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Where did you grow up? Buffalo, NY


Where did you go to medical school? University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (known now as Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences)


What is Your Current Position? Interim Chief Medical Officer at the historic Watts Healthcare Corporation


What are your hobbies? TBD


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Sheila You­ng-Mercado, MD

President

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Roberta Doucet, MD

Historian

  • Medical School:
    UCLA Medical School​


  • Location of Residency:
    Cornell New York Hospital in NY City


  • Board Certification & Specialty: 
    Anesthesiology

Kaishauna Guidry, MD, HMDC

Member at Large

  • Medical School:
    Texas A&M College of Medicine


  • Location of Residency:
    Loma Linda University Medical


  • Board Certification & Specialty: 
    Hospice Medical Director

Wanda Wilburn, MD

Member at Large

  • Medical School:
    University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine


  • Location of Residency:
    Emory of School of Medicine


  • Board Certification & Specialty:  OB/Gyn

Kyani Young

Student Representative

  • Undergrad:
    San Diego State University (Graduated 2021)


  • Location of Residency:
    UCLA Medical School


  • Board Certification & Specialty: 
    Master of Public Health in Community Health Sciences

ABWP FEATURED MEMBER

National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, The largest nonprofit organization representing hospice & palliative care programs and professionals in the U.S., recognized ABWP Board Member, Member at Large, Dr. Kaishauna Guidry, MD, HMDC, Team Physician for VITAS Healthcare and CEO of Mourning Dove Medical in their Black History Month Leadership Series. Congrats Dr. Guidry! 

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CHARTER MEMBERS

* Deceased

Augua Andrews, MD
Phyllis Barracks, MD
Geraldine Branch, MD, MPH*
Lola Burnett-Brown, MD.
Lettie Burgette, MD
Michelle Clark, MD
Vanessa Castine, MD
Dorlesta Crawford, MD*
Elizabeth J. Covington, MD
Flora Denise Cox, MD
Eugenia Davis, MD
Joann Dawson, MD
Margo Deleaver, MD
Paula Demerius, MD*
Elea D. English, MD
Hughenna Gauntlett, MD*

Ellen Goudlock, MD
Lolita Gonzalez, MD
Wendy Green, MD, MBA
Terry Hope, MD
Josephine Isabel-Jones, MD
Adelene James, MD
Rose Jenkins, MD*
Carole Jordan-Harris, MD, MS*
Marguerite Lewie, MD
Arike Logan, MD
Mary McCoo, MD*
Evelyn Mendez, MD
Anitha Mitchell, MD
Carolyn Mohr, MD
Cassandra Ndiforchu, MD, MPH, MBA
Debra Nelson, MD

Pamela Perry-Hunter, MD
Shirley Richards-Njie, MD*
Denise Ridley-Davis, MD
Vonnie K. Ross, MD
Jessie L. Sherrod, MD, MPH
Anne Staveren, MD
V. Joy Simmons, MD
Jacqueline Stiff, MD
Sylvia Swilley, MD
Mary Taylor, MD
Ruth Temple, MD*
Gwendolyn Todd-Jones, MD
Judith Watson, MD
Lillie Mae Williams, MD, MS
Rebecca Wills, MD
Vivian Woodward, MD
Margaret Yarbrough, MD