Helen Shores Lee Heads Community Advisors for UAB Minority Health and Research Center

BIRMINGHAM, AL — Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Helen Shores Lee, will head the new Community Advisory Board of the UAB Minority Health and Research Center (MHRC). She will chair a board of 23 other local leaders.

March 2, 2006

 

BIRMINGHAM, AL — Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Helen Shores Lee, will head the new Community Advisory Board of the UAB Minority Health and Research Center (MHRC). She will chair a board of 23 other local leaders.

Mona N. Fouad, M.D., M.P.H., director of MHRC, said, “Our center is heavily invested in outreach to the community to raise awareness of health disparities and to deliver opportunities for screenings and for participation in clinical research. It is important for our work to have guidance from members of the community, so we developed a board of advisors who have indicated an interest in the work we do. “We are extremely grateful to all our advisory board for accepting this responsibility, and especially to Judge Helen Shores Lee for taking on its leadership,” Fouad said.

The MHRC is a comprehensive educational, research and community outreach center focused on eliminating health disparities of racial/ethnic minorities. It operates programs in research, training, outreach, genetics, clinical trial recruitment and retention, and bioethics.

Other members of the board of community advisors are:

Geraldine Bell, Ph.D., director of Learning Resources, Miles College; Sharon Bell, Ph.D., senior executive director, Birmingham Board of Education Alternatives Schools; Michael Bivens, M.D., Mineral District Society; Gayle Cunningham, CEO, Jefferson County Committee on Economic Opportunity; Norm Davis, executive vice president, First American Bank; Suzanne Durham, YWCA CEO; Lillie Fincher, Birmingham Library Board of Trustees; Cathy O. Friedman, sales director, City Paper; Al Herbert, chief of staff, Birmingham Mayor’s Office; John O. Hudson III, director, Birmingham North Region Division, Alabama Power; Sandral Hullett, M.D., CEO, Jefferson Health System; Andria Hurst, senior writer, Southern Living; Gwendolyn Lipscomb, R.N., M.S.N. director, Office of Minority Health, Alabama Department of Public Health; Hernan Moreno, M.D., Growing-Up Pediatrics; Peggie Myles, Birmingham Girl Scouts; Chad Nichols, Alabama Department of Economic and Community Development; Daryl Perkins, district director, Office of U.S. Rep. Artur Davis; Doris Powell, board of directors, Birmingham Regional Transit Advocacy Group; Isabel Rubio, executive director, The Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama; Terri A. Sewell, attorney, Maynard, Cooper & Gale; Rev. Steve Small, president, Baptist Ministers Conference; J. M. (Mickey) Trimm, Ph.D., TwoMark Healthcare Associates, Inc.; and Odessa Woolfolk, president emeritus, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.