Alden M. Landry, MD, MPH is an emergency medicine physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is the founder of Hip Hop Health Inc.  He also holds other academic positions including Senior Faculty at the Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Faculty Assistant Director of the Office of Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership at Harvard Medical School. He received his BS from Prairie View A&M University in 2002, MD from the University of Alabama in 2006 and completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2009. In 2010, he earned an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed the Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy in 2010 as well. He was also awarded the Disparities Solutions Center/Aetna Fellow in Health Disparities award in 2010-2011. In addition to his clinical interests, Dr. Landry is involved in research on emergency department utilization trends, disparities in care and quality of care. He co-instructs two courses at Harvard School of Public Health and teaches cultural competency to residents. He works with numerous organizations to eliminate health disparities and increase diversity in the health care workforce. Dr Landry mentors students from high school to medical school encouraging careers in the health professions.  Linkedin

Kameron Leigh Matthews, MD, JD will be starting in October 2012 as the Medical Director of the Division Street site of Erie Family Health Center, an federally qualified health director here in Chicago that treats an underserved, Latino patient population.  After finishing residency, she worked for two years as a staff Attending Physician at Cermak Health Services of Cook County, the entity that provides health care to the 10,000 detainees of the Cook County Department of Corrections.  At Cermak, she served as the facilitating member of the Interagency Gender Identity Committee, responsible for the safety and security of transgender inmates – within this role, she was featured on WTTW Chicago Public Media’s Chicago Tonight, highlighting transgender health as a primary care issue.  With a strong dedication to primary care services for the underserved, she is honored to have been awarded loan repayment through the National Health Service Corps.  Dr. Matthews graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor’s degree in public policy studies in 2000.  She then earned her medical degree from Johns Hopkins University and her law degree at the University of Chicago.  She completed her residency in Family Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago while serving as Chief Resident during the 2009-2010 year.  As a passion outside of work, she is proud to co-direct the Tour for Diversity in Medicine, for which she was awarded the 2012 Student National Medical Association Legacy Award for Outstanding Achievement along with Dr. Landry for their work on the Tour.   Dr. Matthews served as a National President of the SNMA and currently serves on the organization’s Strategic Planning Council.  She serves on the Board of Directors for the Polaris Charter Academy, an expeditionary-learning charter school in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago.  She is a Lead Analyst for PolicyPrescriptions, an evidence-based health policy website.    Linkedin