WEL Leadership

2024-2025 Steering Committee

Cheryl Duncan De Pinto, MD, MPH, FAAP

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
Co-Director, Women’s Wellbeing Through Equity and Leadership (WEL)
Senior Vice President, Primary Care and Subspecialty Pediatrics, AAP

Janna Patterson, MD, MPH, FAAP

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
Co-Director, Women’s Wellbeing Through Equity and Leadership (WEL)
Senior Vice President, Global Child Health and Life Support, AAP

Elisa Arespacochaga, MBA

American Hospital Association (AHA)
Vice President, Clinical Affairs & Workforce, AHA

Nereida Correa, MD

National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA)
Chairwoman, NHMA Board of Directors
Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women’s Health
Associate Professor, Department of Family and Social Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Diana Derige, DrPh

American Medical Association (AMA)
Vice President, Health Equity Strategy, AMA

Susan Thompson Hingle, MD, MACP, FRCP, FAMWA

American College of Physicians (ACP)
Chair Emeritus, ACP Board of Regents
Professor of Medicine
Associate Dean for Human and Organizational Potential
Chair, Department of Medical Humanities
Director, Professional Development and Wellness
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

Juliana Jaramillo, MD

National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA)
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine, Brody School of Medicine, East Caroline University

Theresa Miskimen, MD, DLFAPA

American Psychiatric Association (APA)
Medical Director and Chair, Department of Psychiatry
Hunterdon Health Care
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Priscilla Mpasi, MD

National Medical Association (NMA)
Region II Trustee, Board of Trustees, NMA
Medical Director, Clinically Integrated Network
ChristianaCare Health System

Michelle Y. Owens, MD, MS, FACOG

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Ascension St. Vincent's Hospital

Margot Savoy, MD, MPH, FAAFP

American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
Senior Vice President, Education, Inclusiveness and Physician Wellbeing, AAFP

Katherine (Katie) Sharkey, MD, PhD

American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA)
Assistant Dean for Gender Equity
Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Development
Brown University

Nancy Spector, MD, FAAP

Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM)
Professor of Pediatrics
Betty A Cohen Chair in Women’s Health
Senior Vice Dean for Faculty
Executive Director, Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) and Executive Leadership in Health Care (ELH)
Executive Director, Lynn Yeakel Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership (IWHL)
Drexel University College of Medicine