Region VI: Regional Health Equity Council Roster
| Name | Title | Organization | State | Phone/Email |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lauri Andress | Assistant Adjunct Professor | Texas Southern University | TX | 713-553-8192 landress1@gmail.com |
| Omega Arteaga-Gamboa | President & CEO | Top200Rx | TX | 210-698-5295 omega@top200rx.com |
| Shane Chen | Director of Capacity Development | Asian American Health Coalition- Greater Houston | TX | 713-773-2901 ext. 105 schen@hopechc.org |
| Cordelia Clapp | Pawnee Tribal Member | Tribal Nurse Consultant | KS | P 620-758-2476 C 580-716-4847 cordelia.clapp@att.net |
| Eugenia Curet | Clinical Assistant Professor and Director | Student Health Services, University of Texas at Brownsville | TX | Eugenia.curet@utb.edu |
| Lauren Ferguson Lisembee | Public Health Intern | AGAPE Development Ministries | TX | 713-834-2274 laferguson3763@gmail.com |
| Janice Ford Griffin | National Program Director | Robert Woods Johnson Foundation Community Health Leaders/The Harris Foundation | TX | 832-319-7380 janice@chl-thf.org |
| Robert Gilmore, Sr. | President/CEO | Real Urban Ministry,Inc. | TX | 281-546-8168 robertgilmore@prodigy.net |
| Venus Ginés | CEO and Founder | Dia de la Mujer Latina, Inc. | TX | 713-798-5715 venusgines@gmail.com |
| Constance M. Gistand | Medical Director | Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, Office of Public Health | LA | 985-447-0916 office Connie.Gistand@la.gov |
| Earl L. Hatley | President | LEAD Agency Inc | OK | 918-256-5269 ehatley@neok.com |
| Jeff Hughes | Executive Director | Progressive Independence, Home Health Care | OK | 405-579-1488 jlhughes@progind.org |
| Lovell Allan Jones | Director of the Dorothy I. Height Center for Health Equity & Evaluation Research in the Division of Cancer Prevention & Population Sciences | University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (UTMDACC) and the Graduate College of Social Work at the University of Houston | TX | 713-563-2760 lajones@mdanderson.org |
| Hilton Kelley | Council Member | National Environmental Justice Advisory | TX | 409-498-1088 hiltonkelleycida@yahoo.com |
| Carolyn T. Kornegay | Dean | Langston University School of Nursing and Health Professions | OK | 405-466-3411 ctkornegay@lunet.edu |
| Durand Rudy Macklin | Director | Bureau of Minority Health Access | LA | 225-342-4886 rmacklin@dhh.la.gov |
| Marshan Marick | Instructor and Public Health Director | Langston University | OK | 405-466-3675 mlmarick@langston.edu |
| Marisa New | Director | Health Equity & Resource Opportunities Division | OK | 405-271-9444 ext 56410 marisan@health.ok.gov |
| Christine B. Patterson | Adjunct Faculty | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Public Health | AE | 501-681-2326 cb.patterson@yahoo.com dhpatte@centurytel.net |
| Richard Perry | Director | Oklahoma Area Health Education Center (AHEC), Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences | OK | 918-857-8415 918-857-8414 Perryrr64@gmail.com |
| Gina M. Peterson | Director of Strategic Partnerships for a Healthier Houston | YMCA of Greater Houston | TX | 713-758-9179 Gina.Peterson@ymcahouston.org |
| Marcus Roland | CEO | Centralcare CHC | TX | 713-734-4580 mroland@centralcarechc.org |
| Lou Ann Sanchez | Acting Director | Office of Health Equity Division of Policy and Performance New Mexico Department of Health | NM | 505-827-2056 louann.sanchez@state.nm.us |
| Robert Sanders | Physician | Lavaca Wellness Clinic | AR | 479-674-9181 resarkdo@yahoo.com |
| Carmelita Skeeter | CEO | Indian Health Care Resource Center of Tulsa | OK | 918-588-1900 cskeeter@ihcrc.org |
| Roberth Otto Valdez | Executive Director, Foundation Professor, Associate Director | RWJF Center for Health Policy Robert Wood Johnson, Family & Community Medicine and Economics, UNM Office of Community Health | NM | 505-277-0130 ROValdez@aol.com |
| Willie White | CEO | David Raines Community Health Centers | LA | 318-227-3350 wwhite@northstar1.org |