BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRINGL MILLER, MD FACS
CHAIR & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Dr. Miller is a board-certified general surgeon and hospice & palliative medicine specialist with additional fellowship training in clinical medical ethics. The intersectional inequities that she has faced during her 20-year career, have inspired and informed Physician Just Equity advocacy work. Dr. Miller believes it is imperative that physicians and surgeons who experience bias, bullying, harassment and discrimination be supported when navigating difficult workplace conflicts in toxic workplace environments. A thriving diverse workforce is critical to achieving optimal population health. If countless physicians and surgeons are encountering unjustified obstacles and personal attacks on the basis of who they are - as competent and beloved clinicians - we will never realize the delivery of excellent healthcare without persistent healthcare disparities.
JEROME BYAM, MD FACS
SECRETARY
Dr. Byam is a general surgeon at United Medical Center, the only public hospital in Washington DC. He obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, attended medical school at Meharry Medical College, and completed residency at the University of Louisville and a fellowship in abdominal transplant surgery at the University of Chicago. He is a proud member of the American College of Surgeons.
MONA FLORES, MD MBA FACS
TREASURER
Dr. Flores is a board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon with additional training in heart and lung transplantation and ventricular assist devices. Dr. Flores is a proponent of justice and equal opportunity, and she hopes to help bring these to medicine and particularly to cardiac surgery. She is disheartened by the repeated tragedies of talents squandered, careers lost, and dreams smashed because of gender, racial and other biases. She would love to help physicians transcend these obstacles and realize their full potential as a healer.
KARYN BUTLER, MD FACS FCCM
Dr. Butler was born in NYC, received her B.S. from Tuskegee University and her M.D. from Morehouse School of Medicine. She completed her surgical training at Howard University Hospital and fellowship in Trauma/Critical Care at UMD-New Jersey Medical School and a NIH Trauma Research Fellowship at the University of Colorado. She is currently Medical Director of Surgical Critical Care at Abington Jefferson-Health and Professor of Surgery at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Butler has won many awards for teaching and research, has served on multiple study sections for the NIH and military, and has over 100 peer-reviewed articles, abstracts and media reports. Dr. Butler is a member of many societies, has served on numerous national committees and has mentored trainees who have pursued academic careers in Acute Care Surgery. She is a leader in the integration of teams to improve ICU quality of care.
ROBERTA GEBHARD, DO
Dr. Gebhard is a family practice physician living in Grand Island, NY and currently a volunteer faculty member at SUNY Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. She is the 2019-2020 president of the American Medical Women’s Association and founder of the AMWA Gender Equity Task Force. Dr. Gebhard is on the Advisory Board for TIME’S UP Healthcare, and currently serves as the AMWA representative to the American Medical Association Women Physician’s Section Governing Council. Her passion is gender equity in medicine, and ensuring that ALL women physicians have equal pay, equal access to resources, and equal opportunity for advancement and promotion. Receiving her BS in Biology and BA in Psychology, Dr Gebhard graduated from the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, and completed her family medicine residency at the Mid-Hudson Family Medicine Residency Program.