VP&S Diversity Council
The VP&S Diversity Council is a committee led by the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs. Participating council members are faculty, residents and medical student representatives from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. The Diversity Council supports the diversity mission of the college and is charged with developing programs and opportunities that build and maintain a positive and supportive environment for minority medical students, graduate students, and resident physicians at CUIMC.
For more information on KAFDA and the Diversity Alliance please contact oda-ps@columbia.edu.
Diversity Council, Chair
Hilda Hutcherson, MD, MS
- Senior Associate Dean, Diversity and Multicultural Affairs
Diversity Council Membership
Jean-Marie Alves-Bradford, MD
- Assistant Clinical Professor, Psychiatry
Linda Aponte-Patel, MD
- Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Carolyn B. Britton, MD
- Associate Professor, Neurology
Saundra E. Curry, MD
- Professor, Anesthesiology
Alyson N. Fox, MD
- Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center
Rafael A. Lantigua, MD
- Professor, Medicine
Steven A. Lee-Kong, MD
- Assistant Professor, Surgery
Dara N. Matseoane-Peterssen, MD
- Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Samantha McLaughlin, MA
- Director, Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs
William C. Turner, MD
- Associate Professor, Medicine
Olajide A. Williams, MD
- Associate Professor of Neurology