Lisa V. Adams, MD (MED ’90)
Director, Center for Global Health Equity
Dr. Adams is the Associate Dean for Global Health and a Professor of Medicine in the Section of Infectious Disease and International Health at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. She oversees Dartmouth College’s Global Health Initiative at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and is the Director of Global Initiatives in the provost’s office. In all her roles, she develops and oversees cross-cutting global health programs involving faculty, staff, and students.
Dr. Adams has worked in domestic and international TB control for over 25 years. At Dartmouth, she teaches global health equity to medical and college students. She has been a co-investigator on several clinical and operations research trials on TB and HIV care delivery through the DarDar Programs, a collaboration between Dartmouth and Muhimbili University in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In 2012, she spent 6 months in Rwanda as Geisel’s lead to launch the major medical education initiative, the Rwandan Human Resources for Health Program. She is currently leading several collaborative training and research programs with academic and community partners in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Kigali, Rwanda, and Mbabane, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland). During March 2020-August 2021, she served as the co-chair of Dartmouth’s COVID-19 Response Task Force. Dr. Adams is a 1990 graduate of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
Tecla Coleman, MS, RD, MPH (TDI '21)
Program Manager, Director, Center for Global Health Equity
The Center for Global Health Equity at Dartmouth welcomes Tecla Coleman as its new program manager. Tecla is a 2021 graduate of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice’s MPH hybrid program. While at TDI, she studied nutrition policies and practices during the COVID-19 pandemic and assisted senior leadership at Kentucky State University, a Historically Black land-grant institution, in developing COVID-19 training materials for students. Tecla is also a Registered Dietitian who has spent over 20 years working in government, academia, and community organizations to address food security and nutrition equity in vulnerable populations. She has primarily worked with mothers and children and people with limited incomes in rural and urban settings throughout the US and abroad.
Tecla is currently part of the USA Regional Network of NNEdPro Global Centre for Nutrition and Health, a UK-based think-tank, training academy, and knowledge network centered on nutrition in health and healthcare through education, research, evaluation, and advocacy. In addition to her MPH, Tecla has an MS degree in Food Science and Human Nutrition from Colorado State University and a BS degree in Human Nutrition from Southern University and A&M College.
Kelly Burgess, MFA
Senior Administrative Assistant
Kelly Burgess is the Senior Administrative Assistant for the Center for Global Health Equity at Dartmouth. She comes to us with over a decade of administrative experience, with her focus being on higher education and non-profit arts administration. In addition to her work at Dartmouth, she is the Executive Director of the Too Tired Project, an arts organization that advances mental health advocacy through photography. Through TTP, she focuses on fostering collaborative and equitable relationships between arts publishing and artists from underrepresented communities.
Kelly received her MFA in photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2018 and has been working professionally as a photographer in addition to her work in higher education. She is a frequent editorial contributor to the New York Times and her photography work has been exhibited internationally.
Center for Health Equity Board of Advisors
Patricia “Patti” Mae Doykos, DC ‘86 is the inaugural executive director for Global Health Equity at Bristol Myers Squibb. She has responsibility for the company’s $150M Health Equity Commitment as well as a number of domestic and global health partnerships to address health disparities. Internally, she is part of the team that has developed the company’s global health equity strategy and goals and leads the business integration efforts supporting BMS teams to embed a health equity lens in their work for patients across the lifecycle and enterprise. Centering health equity is an opportunity for BMS to expand and improve the quality of the company’s science and the reach and impact of its innovative therapies on patients, particularly for medically underserved patient populations.
Patti has over 27 years of experience and leadership in transformative corporate philanthropy and corporate social responsibility, brand and strategic communications, policy advancement and health equity and social justice from her roles in the company and the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation. She has developed and led numerous US and international grant-making and public-private partnership programs for global HIV/AIDS, women’s health, diabetes, cancer, serious mental illness, cardiovascular disease, immunology, and COVID19. Among her current service roles are inaugural chair of the board of the Center for Global Health Equity at Dartmouth-Geisel Medical School, Board of Advisors for Dartmouth-Geisel Medical School, Advisory Board for the Center for Global Health at Rutgers University, Board of Mercer County United Way, and advisor to the Global Solidarity Fund.
Patti received her BA for majors in Government and German from Dartmouth College, MA in German Literature & Language from the University of Virginia, and PhD in German Literature & Language with a Cultural Studies focus from New York University.
Susan Dentzer, DC ’77 is President and Chief Executive Officer of America’s Physician Groups, the nonprofit organization representing more than 360 large physician groups focused on patient-centered, coordinated, and integrated health care that is accountable for both costs and quality. Dentzer is a highly respected health and health policy thought leader, a frequent speaker and commentator, and an author of commentaries in Modern Healthcare, the New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst, the American Journal of Public Health, and other prominent publications. She is also the editor and lead author of the book Health Care Without Walls: A Roadmap for Reinventing U.S. Health Care. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the Council on Foreign Relations and is a fellow of the National Academy of Social Insurance and the Hastings Center. Dentzer graduated from Dartmouth and also holds a master’s degree in health care delivery science from the institution. She is a trustee emerita of Dartmouth, chaired the institution’s Board of Trustees from 2001-2004, and served on the board of Dartmouth Health as well as the Board of Advisors of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
Dentzer serves on the advisory boards of the Robert J. Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University; the Center for Global Health Equity at Dartmouth; and the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California - San Francisco (UCSF). From March 2021-March 2023, Dentzer chaired the Board of Directors of Research!America, which advocates for health-related research, and formerly chaired the board of the Global Health Council. Dentzer was also a longtime member of the Board of Directors of the International Rescue Committee, the organization that works in more than 40 countries to help those affected by humanitarian crises survive and rebuild their lives, and currently serves on IRC’s Board of Advisors.
Karen Hein, MD, MED’68/Columbia ‘70 is currently Adjunct Professor of Family & Community Medicine at The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She served on The Professional Staff of The U.S. Senate Finance Committee 1993-95. She then served as Executive Officer of the Institute of Medicine (now NAM) from 1995-98. She was President of The William T. Grant Foundation in NYC supporting research to improve the lives of young people. Dr. Hein has served on boards that focus on health care reform, as well as on youth development, global health and the professionalization of humanitarian assistance, including RAND Health Advisory Board, Consumers Union Board, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program NAC, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) Board of Advisors, and ChildFund International and ChildFund Alliance Boards. Dr. Hein was a founding member of Vermont's Green Mountain Care Board (2011-2014). The Board has broad authority over hospital budgets, CON, insurance rates and all aspects of healthcare regulation, evaluation and innovation---many “firsts” in the USA. Dr.Hein spent 25 years on the faculty of Columbia University’s College of P& S and the Albert Einstein School of Medicine, where her focus was adolescent development founding the first comprehensive Adolescent HIV/AIDS program in the world in 1987. Karen holds a medical degree from Columbia University and is a board-certified pediatrician and completed a Fellowship in Adolescent Medicine. For the past 3 years she has been deeply involved in Refugee Resettlement in Vermont after doing humanitarian assistance in many countries over many decades. For more of her story, see www.karenhein.com.
Lynne Kelley, MD FACS, MED’88 is the World Wide Vice President, Medical Affairs for Medical Surgical Systems at Becton Dickinson. She leads a global team of medical professionals in a wide variety of activities including innovation, due diligence, clinical trials, safety evaluations, and product development. She is also an integral member of the business team and does strategy and execution work for both organic and inorganic growth opportunities. Prior to joining Becton Dickinson, Dr. Kelley was the Vice President Medical Director at Kimberly Clark. She managed the healthcare business, medical, professional, and consumer divisions of the entire company. Dr. Kelley designed clinical strategy and monitoring plans, assisted with trial design and execution efforts, and coordinated global professional and government relationships at Kimberly Clark. Before joining Kimberly Clark, Dr. Kelley was the medical director for peripheral interventions and vascular surgery business at Boston Scientific. She received her MD from Dartmouth Medical School and completed her residency at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. Dr. Kelley is a board certified general and vascular surgeon.
Anne Kubik, DC ’87 Dr. Kubik is a board certified Obstetrician/Gynecologist. She worked at Dowd Medical Associates in Reading, MA, and spent eight years at Winchester Hospital. Prior to that, Dr. Kubik was a resident at Boston Medical Center, where she provided care for HIV –infected women, and her work with them had a tremendous impact on her personally and fueled her interest in issues of domestic health inequities. Based on her experience at Boston Medical Center, Dr. Kubik is very interested in the issues of HIV prevention in high-risk youth with an interest in adolescents. Living in Vermont, she has also become passionate about rural health inequities and lack of access to care. She is a former science teacher who recently relinquished her teaching duties at Green Mountain Valley School, a college preparatory ski academy located in Fayston, VT. Her son Jimmy was a member of the Dartmouth College class of 2021.
Joel Lamstein founded John Snow, Inc. with his partner Norbert Hirschhorn, M.D. in 1978. Joel is the president of John Snow, Inc., and its nonprofit arm, JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. He also serves as president of World Education, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of the poor through education, economic, and social development programs. In 1973, Joel co-founded Management Sciences for Health. Joel is a senior lecturer at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
In 2009, Joel received the CEO Social Leadership Award, a program funded by the Lewis Family Foundation and given by the Boston Business Journal. In 2011, he was featured in the New York Times’ The Boss profile. Joel served as the interim Executive Director of Physicians for Human Rights and the advisory council of the Children’s Health Fund in New York. He is also on the Dean’s Advisory Boards at Boston University School of Public Health, the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Joel served on the board of the Global Health Council from 2004 until 2012. Joel has advised numerous public health programs throughout the world on issues of public health management. He studied math and physics at the University of Michigan and management at MIT’s Sloan School.
John Sargent, DC ‘83 is a renowned innovator and co-founder of the BroadReach Group, dedicated to advancing Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies to promote global health equity. Dr. Sargent actively champions private sector involvement in health development through public-private partnerships.
Throughout his career, Dr. Sargent has spearheaded the application of cutting-edge technologies, big data, AI, and analytics to enhance health outcomes. He initiated BroadReach's technology efforts over a decade ago, resulting in the establishment of Vantage Health Technologies. He remains committed to shaping Vantage's vision and adapting it to address critical global issues, including healthcare equity in the United States. His expertise has earned him prestigious recognitions, including the World Economic Forum's Social Entrepreneur of the Year in 2015, the Visionary Leadership Award in Healthcare from Frost & Sullivan, and inclusion in Devex's Top 40 Under 40 Leaders in Development.
Dr. Sargent has provided counsel to prominent corporations like Merck, Roche, Novo Nordisk, Mercedes Benz, Microsoft, NGOs, and governments across sub-Saharan Africa. He has presented at esteemed industry gatherings such as Microsoft Inspire and the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos, actively participated in industry working groups and advisory boards, and served on the boards of the Fulbright Association and Dartmouth's Center for Global Health Equity. Before co-founding BroadReach, he served as a Senior Director and National Practice Leader at the Advisory Board Company, advising U.S. hospital systems on strategic planning and clinical operations.
Dr. Sargent holds an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, a Master's Degree in Social & Cultural Anthropology from Oxford University as a Fulbright Scholar, and a Doctor of Medicine (MD) from Harvard Medical School.
Sherri C. Oberg is CEO and co-founder of Particles for Humanity PBC, which is developing a stable form of vitamin A for large scale food fortification, a proven strategy for addressing micronutrient deficiencies at scale. Vitamin A deficiency is a devastating public health problem throughout sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, where it is a leading cause of death in young children and night blindness in pregnant women. Particles for Humanity’s innovation is based on technology licensed from MIT and funding from the Gates Foundation.
Sherri has 30 years of experience leading innovative life sciences companies through all stages of development. She has co-founded 3 companies, translating early-stage academic research into product development. She has raised over $300 million, including venture capital, an initial public offering, public equity, international partnerships, joint ventures, and philanthropic grants.
Sherri is currently a Trustee at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, the largest academic medical center in Northern New England. She also serves on the Global Board of Directors of Grassroots Soccer, a non-profit organization reaching 25 million adolescents, primarily in Africa, with lifesaving health information and access to services. She is on the Board of Advisors of the Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship and the Center for Global Health Equity at Dartmouth. For eight years, she served on the Board of Trustees at Dartmouth College, where she was Chair of the Audit Committee. For 20 years, she served on the Board of Overseers at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth. She has also served on the Board and Executive Committee of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council. She is a recipient of the Dartmouth Alumni Award and the Tuck Overseers Medal. She received a BA from Dartmouth College and MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business.
