Ilana S Mittman, PhD, MS
1209 N Charles Street, Apt 106 | Baltimore, MD 21201 | 410.802.5601 eMail: ilana.mittman@gmail.com | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilanamittman
Focus
Diversity and Inclusion in academic medicine, cultural and linguistic competency, unconscious bias and health equity
Education
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University PhD Social and Behavioral Sciences UC-Berkeley MS Health and Medical Sciences The Hebrew University BSc Biology
Experience
Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Johns Hopkins Medicine
March, 2015– Present Full-Time Consultant
Serves as a full-time consultant to the Office of Diversity and Inclusion under the leadership of the Diversity Director and Chief Diversity Officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine. • • • • • • • • •
Leads manuscript development and grant writing efforts Conducts social research related to diversity and inclusion Participates in survey development and analysis assessing institutional climate related to diversity and inclusion Guides data analysis, and dashboard creation in diversity metrics Facilitates the Health Equality Index survey implementation for Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM) affiliates, all achieving Leadership in LGBT Patient-Centered Care status for 2015-2016 Serves as liaison to HR/IT Director and data stewards to retrieve, mine, analyze and visualize SAP/BW/SuccessFactors data on JHM employees enterprise-wide Develops the business case for proposed initiatives such as Succession Planning Serves as resource on local and national best practices, research and policy related to D&I Informs diversity and inclusion strategies on program support and development
tEQUN-EQUityNow LLC
July, 2012– Present Owner and CEO
Founder and director of an LLC focused on social justice issues especially these pertaining to diversity and inclusion, health and educational equity. •
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Leads a simulation study with the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) to measure unconscious bias in the advancement, promotion and tenure in academic medicine for underrepresented faculty Served as Content Editor for the report of the AAMC’s 2014 Innovation Forum on Reducing the Impact of Unconscious Bias in Academic Medicine Partners with the Student National Medical Association’s (SNMA) Diversity Research Committee (DRC) on a study measuring obstacles and opportunities in medical education for underrepresented students Led a two-year effort to increase students’ readiness for post-secondary careers in healthcare Partners with the University of Maryland in Baltimore on expanding health equity initiatives Partners with Ben Gurion University in Israel on genetic ethics
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University March, 2011– July, 2012 Research Program Manager/Faculty Research Associate/Co-Directed Training Core Provided research management as well as program development expertise to the Johns Hopkins Center to Reduce Cancer Disparities (CRCD). Oversaw a comparative-effectiveness study funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to eliminate racial disparities along the cancer continuum care. • • • •
Finalized research design and strategies Led communications with co-investigators university-wide Led the development of three grant proposals with two receiving funding totaling $100,000 Helped organized an institutional-wide strategic development symposium on cancer disparities
The Sullivan Alliance to Transform the Health Professions November, 2008 – February, 2011 Director, Health Policy Research Under the direction of former HHS Secretary, the Honorable Dr. Louis W Sullivan, informed research and development of new initiatives to diversify the U.S. health workforce with a focus on medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, the mental health professions, and public health. •
Helped establish national consortiums of higher education institutions working together to increase diversity in the health professions 2
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Designed, implemented and analyzed a study on perceptions related to specialty choices with the Student National Medical Association (SNMA) Designed, implemented and analyzed a study on benchmarks for students’ success with the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) Co-authored numerous publications on health workforce diversity including manuscripts published in peer-reviewed journals, a book chapter, white papers, and progress reports Assisted in the establishment of a 501.c.3 organizational status of the Sullivan Alliance
University of Maryland, Baltimore, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health February, 2006 – October, 2008 Workforce Diversity Director Served as a contractual employee at the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, within the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities (OMHHD) directing a project funded by Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health to increase diversity in the health professions in Maryland. •
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Engaged health professions schools, legislators, public agencies, community advocates, hospitals and educational institutions to coordinate minority recruitment and retention efforts state-wide Served as a point person on cultural and linguistic competency initiatives statewide in collaboration with the Maryland Health Occupations Boards Informed policy efforts of the Maryland legislature related to health disparities and culturally and linguistically competent care Helped develop and implement plans for eliminating disparities in health status and healthcare in Maryland Helped convene state-wide forums and conferences on health disparities
Howard University College of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics September, 1997 – August, 2000 Project Director/Co-Director Graduate Studies/Genetic Counselor Served as a Principal Investigator of a three-year project seeking to recruit underrepresented minorities into genetic counseling and reducing ethnocultural barriers to genetic services in Ward-1 of the District of Columbia. •
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Awarded a $471,000 grant from the HRSA Maternal and Child Health Bureau, through Special Projects of Regional and National Significance (SPRANS) Contributed to achieving full accreditation for the Genetic Counseling Training Program at Howard University (the only HBCU nationally to offer a graduate program in genetic counseling) Disseminated program’s findings at national meetings; and contributed to the peer reviewed literature 3
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Department of Women's and Children's Services, Baltimore, MD January, 1993 – August, 1997 Project Director/Genetic Counselor Served as Principal Investigator and Project Director in a project titled “Genetic LINC; Liaisons Into Cultures.” Directed a community-based project developing a culturally and linguistically responsive, community-based model program to provide genetic counseling and education to African American and Russian immigrant communities in Northwest Baltimore. In collaboration with Howard University increase minority recruitment into genetic counseling. •
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Awarded $504,898 grant from the HRSA Maternal and Child Health Bureau, through Special Projects of Regional and National Significance (SPRANS) for a three-year period Tay-Sachs screening rates by Russian Jews have increased almost twenty folds and African American enrollment in genetic care increased by 50% In collaborations with community organizers from North West Baltimore, organized community health fairs benefiting more than 8,000 community residents Participated in over 30 career fairs with more than 800 students attending increasing the numbers of queries on genetic counseling careers within the National Society of Genetic Counselors Convened more than 100 national scholars, educators, community members and policy makers for a two-day working symposium on equity in the genome; “The National Dialogue on Genetics”. (Meeting proceedings were published in the journal Community Genetics).
Faculty Appointments • • •
Adjunct Instructor, The University of Maryland, Baltimore, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, 2008-Present Research Associate, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, 2011-2012 Assistant Professor, Howard University College of Medicine, 1997-2000
Selected Memberships/Committees • • • • • •
Member, the National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC) Member, Public Policy Committee - The National Society of Genetic Counselors Member, The Women’s Leadership Council, Tocqueville Society, The United Way of Central Maryland Member, Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance (KFLA) Chair, Cultural and Linguistic Competency Workgroup, Maryland Health Disparities Collaborative, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (Past) Faculty Diversity Metrics Workgroup - Johns Hopkins University 4
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System Level Leadership Workgroup – Center to Eliminate Cardiovascular Disparities Member, the Cultural Competency and Workforce Development Committee for Mental Health Professionals of the Maryland Mental Health Transformation Project (Past)
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Mittman, IS Chapter 5: Faculty Advancement, Promotion and Tenure. In the report of the AAMC and Kirwin Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity 2014 Innovation Forum on Reducing the Impact of Unconscious Bias in Academic Medicine. In Press
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Mittman, IS and Sullivan LW. (2011) Forming state collaborations to diversify the nation’s health workforce: The experience of the Sullivan Alliance to Transform the Health Professions. Journal of Genetic Counseling, 20(6):547-55
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Smedley, BD and Mittman, IS. (2011) The diversity benefit: how does diversity among health professionals address public needs? In Health Disparities at the Crossroads of Healthcare Reform. Editor, Richard Allen Williams, M.D. Springer Publications.
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Sullivan, LW and Mittman, IS. (2011) The need for greater ethnic and racial diversity in orthopedic medicine. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 469(7)1809-12
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Sullivan LW and Mittman, IS. (2010) The state of diversity in the health professions – A century after Flexner. Academic Medicine, 85 (2):246-253
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Sullivan, LW and Mittman, IS. (2010) Increasing and diversifying America’s health professions: an opportunity to remedy a health system in crisis. Focus Magazine. The Newsletter of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
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Mittman IS and Katy D. (2008) Diversity in genetic counseling: past, present and future. Journal of Genetic Counseling. 17 (4): 301-13
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Mittman I, Maman S and Bowie J. (2007) Exploring the discourse between genetic counselors and Orthodox Jewish community members. Patient Education and Counseling, 65 (2): 230-236
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Mittman I, and Secundy MG. (1998) A national dialogue on genetics and minority issues. Community Genetics, 1 (3):190-200
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Mittman I. (1998) Genetic education to diverse communities employing a community empowerment model. Community Genetics, 1 (3):160-165
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Mittman I. Cromblehole WR, Golbus MS, and Green JR. (1997) Reproductive genetic counseling to Asian Pacific and Latin American immigrants. Journal of Genetic Counseling, 7 (1):49-70
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Mittman I. (1997) We must all be equal partners in the new age of genetics [Commentary]. The Scientist, 11 (20):8
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Weil J and Mittman I. (1993) A teaching framework for cross-cultural genetic counseling. Journal of Genetic Counseling, 2 (3) 159-169
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Mittman I. (1990) Immigration and the provision of genetic counseling services. Birth Defects Original Articles Series. Genetic Services for Underserved Populations. 26(2):139-146
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Mittman I. (1990) A model perinatal genetics program. Birth Defects: Original Articles Series. Genetic services for the underserved. 26 (2)
Software MS Office suite STATA 14 ATLAS TI 7.5 EndNote X7 Tableau Dashboards 9.2 Infogr.am
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