Diversity Week 2022 Book Club: Pushing Cool: Book Club

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Joy Howell, MD
Assistant Dean for Diversity and Student Life, Vice Chair for Diversity in the Department of Pediatrics
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Dr. Joy Howell is Assistant Dean for Diversity and Student Life at Weill Cornell Medicine, Vice Chair for Diversity in the Department of Pediatrics, and professor of clinical pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine. She is also an attending pediatrician at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and NYP Komansky Children’s Hospital.
She serves as the Fellowship Program Director for the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship and serve as part of the core teaching faculty for the General Pediatric Residency. 
She received the Award for Teaching Excellence in 2006 and 2010, and for her commitment to providing excellent patient care and providing team-based education, she was a recipient of the Physician-Of-The-Year Award in 2012.

Erica Phillips, MD, MS
Associate Director for Community Outreach and Engagement of the Sandra & Edward Meyer Cancer Center Co-Associate Director of Community Engagement for Cornell Center for Health Equity
Jack Fishman Associate Professor of Cancer Prevention
Over the past 20 years Dr. Erica Phillips has dedicated her career to addressing health disparities across multiple health conditions using a community-engaged research approach. Her most memorable projects have included working with investigators at the New York Academy of Medicine to implement a venue intensive vaccination program that targeted hard-to-reach populations living within urban communities as a model for rapid vaccination during a pandemic. Her own research program focuses on leveraging naturally occurring social networks to deliver community-based interventions that counter key social determinants of health such as food insecurity, low literacy, and social isolation.
Dr. Phillips was honored with the inaugural Marie Metoyer Award, which recognizes faculty or alumnus of Weill Cornell Medicine who have gone above and beyond to serve communities despite difficult conditions. Dr. Metoyer was the first African American woman to graduate from Weill Cornell Medical College in 1951 thus a legacy that physicians like Dr. Phillips strive to uphold. 

David Scales, MD, PhD, M.Phil
Associate Professor of Medicine
David Scales, MD, PhD is a hospitalist and medical sociologist at Weill Cornell Medicine. He has extensive experience working with Palestinian and Syrian refugees and community health programs in the Middle East and here in the United States. He has developed faculty workshops on Caring for Muslim Patients and addressing implicit bias in clinical care. Dr. Scales' research interests center on structural determinants of health and medical communication with his current project focusing on building Covid-19 vaccine confidence in online communities.