Office for Multicultural Faculty Careers

Christian Arbelaez, MD MPH

Dr. Arbelaez is the Associate Director of the Office for Multicultural Faculty Careers at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, as well as, the Assistant Residency Director of the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency Program.  Dr. Arbelaez led a hospital-wide development, adoption, and implementation of guidelines for the care of critically-ill mechanically vented patients, participated in the Hurricane Katrina Disaster Relief Efforts with the American Red Cross, and completed his first physician leadership book, “The Emergency Medicine Chief Resident Survival Guide.”  As the co-investigator of a RO1 NIH funded study, he implemented a large scale randomized clinical trial evaluating rapid HIV testing in the Emergency Department.  Recently, Dr. Arbelaez was awarded the Dennis Thomson Leadership Award at the BWH and was honored with the Best Teacher Award and the James Adams Leadership Award within the Emergency Department. Before coming to the BWH, he completed his medical degree at University of Texas, Galveston in 2000 and his post-graduate training at the Brown Medical School Residency Program in Emergency Medicine. He earned his Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health as a Commonwealth Fund Minority Health Policy Fellow in 2005.  The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) honored him as a “Hero of Emergency Medicine” in 2008.

Nora Y. Osman, MD

Dr. Osman is the Associate Director of the Office for Multicultural Faculty Careers at Brigham and Women's Hospital. In addition she is the Director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Assistant Clerkship Director for Internal Medine at BWH. Dr. Osman completed her medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco before starting her medical residency at BWH. She practices general internal medicine at a busy hospital-based faculty practice. In addition to her clinical responsibilities, Dr. Osman is an active member of the core teaching faculty at the medical school and in the residency. She has been nominated for multiple teaching awards by Harvard and Tufts medical students.

OMC Advisory Group

Center for Community Health and Health Equity
Wanda McClain

Center for Faculty Development and Diversity
Barbara E. Bierer, MD
Audrey Haas, MBA
Anthony D. Whittemore, MD

Department of Anesthesiology
Lisa J. Crossley, MD

Department of Dermatology
Deborah A. Scott, MD

Department of Emergency Medicine
Christian Arbelaez, MD, MPH

Department of Medicine
O'Neil Britton, MD
Christopher Lathan, MD
Ellen W. Seely, MD
Thomas Sequist, MD
Chinweike Ukomadu, MD, PhD

Department of Neurology
Galen V. Henderson, MD

Department of Neurosurgery
Robert Friedlander, MD
Mark Johnson, MD, PhD

Department of Newborn Medicine

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Nawal Nour, MD, MPH

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Keith Crawford, MD, PhD

Department of Pathology
Vania Nose, MD, PhD

Department of Psychiatry
Grace Chang, MD, MPH

Department of Radiation Oncology

Department of Radiology
Andetta Hunsaker, MD

Department of Surgery
Zara Cooper, MD
Selwyn O. Rogers, Jr., MD, MPH

Division of Women's Health
Paula A. Johnson, MD, MPH

Human Resources
Lisa S. Ponton, JD

Office for Multicultural Faculty Careers
Christian Arbelaez, MD, MPH
Nora Y. Osman, MD

Office for Women's Careers
Carol C. Nadelson, MD