NIDA Diversity Scholars Network Program 2024 Cohort

Andrew Anderson, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
Email:  aander86@jh.edu

Mohammad Bhuiyan, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor
Louisiana State University Health Shreveport 
Email:  nobel.bhuiyan@lsuhs.edu

Sugy Choi, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor 
New York University Grossman School of Medicine 
Email:  sugy.choi@nyulangone.org

Sulamunn Coleman, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor 
College of Medicine at The University of Vermont 
Email:  sulamunn.coleman@uvm.edu

Rachel Gicquelais, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor
School of Medicine and Public Health
University of Wisconsin–Madison 
Email:  gicquelais@wisc.edu

Iman Hassan, M.D., MS  
Associate Professor 
Albert Einstein College of Medicine 
and Montefiore Medical Center
Email:  ihassan@montefiore.org

Oluwole Jegede, M.D., MPH 
Assistant Professor
Yale University School of Medicine 
Email:  oluwole.jegede@yale.edu

Brenton Laing, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor
The University of Mississippi 
Email:  btlaing@olemiss.edu

Muntasir Masum, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor 
University at Albany - State University of New York
Email:  mmasum@albany.edu

Janet Otachi, Ph.D., CSW 
Assistant Professor 
Tennessee State University
Email:  jotachi@tnstate.edu

Zabin Patel, Ph.D., MPH
Research Assistant Professor
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University 
Email:  zabin.patel@northwestern.edu

Silvana Valdebenito-Silva, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor (N-T Track Research)
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Email:  sivaldeb@utmb.edu

Brigham Walker, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor 
School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine
Tulane University 
Email:  bwalker6@tulane.edu

Rose Wimbish-Tompkins, Ph.D., MSN, RN
Postdoctoral Fellow
The University of Texas at Austin 
Email:  rose.wimbishtompkins@austin.utexas.edu

Chen Zhang, Ph.D., MPH
Assistant Professor 
University of Rochester - School of Nursing 
Email:  chen_zhang@urmc.rochester.edu