Board of Directors

Max Pepper, MD, MPH, President

Joan Y. Reede, MD, MPH, MS, Vice President

Peter Orris, MD, MPH, FACP, FACOEM, Secretary Treasurer

Lillian Terris, Ph.D.

Phyllis Freeman, JD [non voting, ex-officio member]

Anthony Robbins, MD, MPA [non voting, ex-officio member]

Profile: JOAN Y. REEDE, MD, MPH, MS

Vice President
Joan Y. Reede, MD, MPH, MS
Dean for Diversity & Community Partnership
Harvard Medical School
164 Longwood Ave., RM 210
Boston, MA 02115
617-432-2413

Joan Y. Reede MD, MPH, MS – Dr. Reede is the Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership at Harvard Medical School (HMS). She is responsible for the development and management of a comprehensive program that provides leadership, guidance, and support to promote the increased recruitment, retention and advancement of underrepresented minority faculty at Harvard Medical School (HMS). This charge includes oversight of all diversity activities at HMS as they relate to faculty, trainees, students, and staff. Dr. Reede is also the Director of the Minority Faculty Development Program and Faculty Director of Community Outreach Programs at Harvard Medical School. In addition, she holds the appointments of Associate Professor of Medicine at HMS, Assistant Professor of Maternal and Child Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Assistant in Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Reede currently serves on the Board of Governors for the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center and the National Advisory Dental and Craniofacial Council of the National Institutes of Health. Donna E. Shalala, former Secretary of Health and Human Services, appointed Dr. Reede to the Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Minority Health. Dr. Reede is a graduate of Brown University and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She completed her pediatric residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland and child psychiatry fellowship at Children’s Hospital in Boston. Her administrative background is enhanced by an MPH and an MS in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health, as well as by the completion of fellowships in health services research and academic administration. In addition, Dr. Reede has just been recently named to the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health and Society by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tommy Thompson.