Rhonda Dailey, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences and Scientific Director, Office of Community Engaged Research (OCEnR).

Dr. Dailey has 20 years of experience with conducting quantitative and qualitative behavioral and health-disparities research, and expertise in community engagement and with the recruitment and retention of minority populations.  She is a trained Microaggressions Facilitator and has delivered various local and national talks on medical mistrust and racism, women’s health, and chronic disease.  Her research interests include the influence of racism on health; women's health; health equity and disparities related to chronic disease, primarily asthma and hypertension; patient attitudes and beliefs about health; and healthcare quality.  She currently leads OCEnR's efforts in delivering cultural competency workshops and is co-investigator on several RO1 research studies that align with her interests, particularly asthma and perinatal health outcomes in African American participants. 

Vicki Sapp, Ph.D., Director of Student Engagement, Diversity and Inclusion and Assistant Professor Department of Medical Education at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. 

Dr. Sapp has over 20 years of experience in high educationand 15 have been directly focused on inclusion, diversity, equity, access, retention and success (IDEA RS).  Dr. Sapp is an administrator, researcher, educator and service provider.  Her research scholarship and publications focused on making the inVISIBLE visible.  She focuses on first-generation and student of color populations, college access, retention and success, social justice, and diversity, equity, inclusion and healthcare topics. 

Dr. Sapp is responsible for bringing the Safe Zone (LGBTQA ) project to GCSOM. Additionally, she trains, coordinates and is responsible for the design and continuous enhancement of the Professional Identity Formation Cultural Humility Curriculum: She is also certified as a Title IX Resources Advisor, Emotional Intelligent Coach, Green Dot Sexual Assault, Mental Health First Aid, and Cook Ross Implicit Bias Trainer.