Candidate Statement: I am honored to be considered for this position, and I'm ready to bring my leadership experience if given the opportunity. I have served in several positions, including Chair of the Quality Improvement Committee and Co-chair of the Utilization Review Committee. I served as Chair of the Clinical Competency Committee for the residency program for about 10 years. I currently serve on the medical staff bylaws committee. I am also the acting program director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program. If elected, I will continue to foster strong engagement among members, follow in the footsteps of the current Governor, and seek out more opportunities to improve. I would be honored to serve the members of the DC chapter. I plan to practice collaborative leadership and be actively engaged, and I am committed to excellence in internal medicine.

Medical School Education: Howard University College of Medicine

Post-Doctoral Training: Howard University Hospital

Board Certifications: American Board of Internal Medicine

Present Employment Position: Howard University College of Medicine

ACP Chapter and Leadership Activities: Chair, Scientific Committee since 2025; Previous Member, Scientific Committee for several years

ACP National Activities: Fellowship 2026

Other Appointments/Activities: Acting Program Director, IM Residency Program since 2005; Member, Medical Staff Bylaws Committee since 2023; Chair, Clinical Competency Committee 2015-2025; Member, Planning Committee, Walter Lester Henry, Jr., M.D. 24th Annual Symposium, Howard University Hospital/College of Medicine, CME accredited 2023

Areas of Professional Interest and Expertise: I am currently the Acting program director for internal medicine at Howard University Hospital. Previously the associate program director. In 2024, I got my academic promotion from Assistant to Associate Professor. I am interested in curriculum development in the education of residents and medical students.

Candidate Statement: I’d like to serve you as Governor of our DC chapter. I have given long-standing service to the ACP. Professional societies today face challenges recruiting and retaining members. Internists’ treatment of patients must be valued. As Director of GW’s Renal Division, I increased research, enhanced education, and cared for many sick patients. At Washington Academy of Medicine, I successfully coordinated recruitment. Enhancing residents’ and fellows’ involvement at Chapter and National levels, and preserving physician reimbursement are critical. These endeavors require champions at all local hospitals and medical schools, networking within their faculty and medical staffs, and grass roots support from practicing physicians. I’m eager to enhance my involvement and contributions to the College. I’ll devote time and energy to these goals, bringing established relationships among NIH, local medical schools and the broader DC medical community to bear. I envision working with you for the College and its DC chapter.

Medical School Education: New York University School of Medicine

Post-Doctoral Training: Internship and Residency, Internal Medicine, Bellevue Hospital Center, New York, NY; Nephrology Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Board Certifications: Internal Medicine, ABIM; Nephrology, ABIM

Present Employment Position: Clinical Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, George Washington University, Washington, DC

ACP Chapter and Leadership Activities: Early in my career I participated in the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the ACP, and represented my chapter by giving a talk at the Western Pennsylvania ACP Chapter Annual Scientific Meeting in Pittsburgh on Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate in Hemodialysis patients. I served on the DC Chapter Governor’s Council with Dr. Eugene Libre from 2001-2004.

ACP National Activities: Mastership 2012; Fellowship 1985; Membership 1983; I worked on the Clinical Efficiency and Practice Program at ACP headquarters in 1982, while at the University of Pennsylvania. (This involved a pilot program on the training and credentialing of fellows in procedures, using Nephrology as a model. The deliberations from this work were published in the Annals of Internal Medicine under the authorship of Dr. Jeffrey Carson.) I served on the ACP Clinical Privileges Project from 1986-1987. My Annual Meetings talks included Update in Nephrology (2000), a Meet the Professor session on immune kidney diseases (2002) and Update in Nephrology and Hypertension (2005). I served on the Scientific Program Committee for the 2005 Annual Meeting. I was an author of MKSAP 11 Nephrology (1995), MKSAP 12 Nephrology (1998) and MKSAP Nephrology 13 (2002). I‘ve reviewed for the Annals since my fellowship days, most recently this year. I served on the ACP Awards Committee in 2016 and 2017, and joined the present Committee this year. I also joined the Scientific Program Committee this year. I was honored to receive the Harriet P. Dustan Award at Convocation at the IMM this year in San Francisco. I was honored to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London) in 2018, under the auspices of a program the ACP initiated.

Other Appointments/Activities: I received several NIH and NIDDK Directors awards, including work on the NIDDK Health Equity Working Group (2023), NIDDK's Post-dialysis Fatigue Workshop, and NIH's Helping End Addiction Long-term (HEAL)-supported study on a behavioral intervention for pain in hemodialysis patients (JAMA Internal Medicine, 2024). I published The Body's Keepers, a non-fiction book on the history of treatment of kidney failure, focusing on racism and corporate greed in 2024, and have given several talks on the subject.

Areas of Professional Interest and Expertise: I am a nephrologist, interested in clinical trials, genetics of kidney disease and the role of depression, anxiety and other psychosocial factors, such as social support, in determining outcomes in CKD patients. I am interested in the interaction of social determinants of health in affecting outcomes of CKD patients, particularly racism and poverty. I have special expertise in the role of HIV infection in causing CKD, and experience creating symposia and workshops.