Dr. Allison Brashear is the Dean of the School of Medicine at the UC Davis. She oversees one of the nation's top research, academic and medical training institutions, with 761 full-time faculty and approximately 450 students. She is internationally known for her groundbreaking research in movement disorders (see her consulted by the Washington Post for a child’s rare condition here), Dr. Brashear is an expert in ATP1A3-related diseases, a spectrum of rare neurologic disorders, which you can read more about here. In addition to being a physician, she holds a Master’s of Business Administration with a focus in health-sector management and expertise in health policy and hospital-clinical integration and is a champion of inclusion and patient-centered care. Dr. Brashear serves on the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke study section focused on career development, and also has served on the boards of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Neurological Association. Learn more about Dr. Allison Brashear here.

Dr James Hildreth is President and CEO of Meharry Medical College and former Dean of the College of Biological Sciences. Dr. Hildreth is internationally recognized for his work demonstrating the importance of cholesterol and specialized membrane regions containing cholesterol in HIV infection. You can read more about him here. In 2002, Dr. Hildreth became the first African American in the 125-year history of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to earn full professorship with tenure in the basic sciences. In July, 2005, Dr. Hildreth became director of the NIH-funded Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research at Meharry Medical College. On July 1, 2015, Dr. Hildreth returned to Meharry Medical College to serve as the 12th president and chief executive officer of the nation’s largest private, independent historically black academic health sciences center. Check out some of his recent interviews regarding racial disparities in coronavirus cases on MSNBC and on how US Healthcare is showing patterns of bias on NPR.