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BHM_Golden Bethune-Hill 

Golden Bethune_Hill

Golden Bethune-Hill founded the Community Free Clinic of Newport News in 2010 and serves as its volunteer executive director. She also established the Dorothy McDaniel scholarship at Hampton University in honor of her mother for students from single-parent homes. She started as a staff nurse at Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center in New York and returned to Newport News as director of nursing at Riverside. She was then Vice President, Nursing Administration and Patient Care Services at Saint Clares in New Jersey for several years before moving to Centra Health in Lynchburg. In 2005 she returned to Riverside as Executive Vice President of the health system and Chief Executive of Riverside Regional Medical Center where she retired in 2010.

Article and photo credit: https://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-xpm-20130217-2013-02-17-dp-nws-coy-hill-0217-3-20130217-story.html


BHM_LD Britt 

L.D. Britt, MD, MPH, D.Sc. (Hon), FACS, FCCM, FRCSEng (Hon), FRCSEd (Hon), FWACS (Hon), FRCSI (Hon), FCS(SA) (Hon)

Dr. Britt, a graduate of Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, is the Henry Ford Professor of Surgery and Edward J. Brickhouse Chair in Surgery at Eastern Virginia Medical School. In 2021, Dr. Britt was chosen to receive the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Lifetime Achievement Award, presented to just five people in the organization’s 108-year history. He was also named EVMS Vice Dean for Clinical Affairs. Dr. Britt is the author of more than 220 peer-reviewed publications, more than 50 book chapters and non-peer-reviewed articles and three books, including a recent edition of the highly touted Acute Care Surgery (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkens, Medford, NJ).

Article and photo credit: https://www.evms.edu/directory/profiles/ld-britt.php


BHM_Ethlyn Gibson 

Dr. Ethlyn Gibson

Dr. McQueen-Gibson was appointed by as associate professor in the School of Nursing and director for the Gerontology Center for Excellence at Hampton University that focuses on developing inter-professional health care providers to deliver care for older adults, developing community-based programs to address social determinants of health for older adults and lead community-engaged research with a focus on helping older adults live healthy lives. Her community-engaged research addresses nutrition insecurity, social isolation and its effect on older adults, developing community-based interventions for custodial African American grandmothers ages 45-65 and caring for their grandchildren under the age of 18, and the effects of stress on management of chronic diseases of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Article credit: http://nursing.hamptonu.edu/faculty/index.cfm?bio=ethlyn.gibson