Conversationalists
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Imam Johari Abdul Malik
Served as the Director of Outreach at the Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center, 1st Muslim Chaplain at Howard University (HU) and former Head of the National Association of Muslim Chaplains in Higher Education.
Dr. Farha Abassi, MD
Asst professor in the Dept of Psychiatry at Michigan State University and staff psychia- trist. She has established the Muslim Mental Health Conference and is the managing edi- tor for Journal of Muslim Mental Health.
Chaplain Tahara Akmal
Chaplain Tahara Akmal is the Clinical Pastoral Education Manager at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC. Tahara is an Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) Inc., Certified Educator.
Latif Rasheed, MA, LPC, LCPC, MMQ
Program Director and psychotherapist for a Maryland County Fire and EMS agency and also serves private clients. He has exten- sive experience in the in Emergency Mental Health and as a Crisis Interventionist.
Jameel Aalim-Johnson
Associate Vice President at NASDAQ. He formerly served as Chief of Staff for U.S. Congressman Gregory W. Meeks (NY), President of the House of Representatives Chiefs of Staff As- sociation, and staffer to former Con- gressman Floyd H. Flake (NY).
Andre L Robinson Jr
CEO of The Robinson Group, a col- laboration of conscious community development, social enterprise, cre- ative place-making, and urban res- idential development practitioners focused on the revitalization of Bal- timore City.
Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos
Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he co-directs Medicine for the Greater Good (MGG). He is Community Engagement Co-Director, Baltimore Breathe Center.
Jamal Williams
Founder and Managing Partner of RED Dove Partners, LLC, a firm with unique and comprehensive approach to real estate and economic develop- ment. He is currently focused on pioneering a new discipline known as Social Architecture.
Dr. Joshua M. Sharfstein
Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement for the Bloomberg School of Public Health and is the Director of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative. He also holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Health Policy and Management.
Dr. Lisa A. Cooper
A Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health. She directs the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equi- ty. She is a general internist, social epide- miologist, and health services researcher.
Patti Magyar, RN, MSN, JD, CPC
Manager at Transplant Living Community, Ed- ucation & Development at Henry Ford Hospital in Detriot, Michigan. She has practiced across the US in university, regional and community hospitals settings. She has fellowships in Nurs- ing Ethics and Patient Safety Leadership.
Dr. Mark Pettus
Dr Mark Pettus is a board-certified Inter- nist, Nephrologist and Integrative medi- cine. He is the Director of Medical Edu- cation, Wellness and Population Health at Berkshire Health Systems in Western Massachusetts; Associate Dean of Medi- cal Education and Clinical Associate; and Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Dr. Sandro Galea
Dr. Sandro Galea, a physician, epidemiologist, and author, is dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at Boston University School of Public Health. He previously held academic and leadership positions at Columbia University, the University of Michigan, and the New York Academy of Medicine.
Rasul Sha’ir
Founder of Cnvrgnc, a Washington, DC - based, boutique marketing and strategy consultancy and TEDxWDC “The Creative City: Creativity, Entrepreneurship and In- novation”