Welcome Our Newest Board Members!
We are thrilled to announce the election of three new members to the Levitt Center Board of Directors: Dr. Foster Goss (University of Colorado School of Medicine), Dr. Nate Irvin (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) and Dr. John Lewis (Emory University School of Medicine).
New Levitt Center board member Foster R. Goss, DO, MMSc is currently Chief Medical Information Officer at Valley View Hospital and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine within the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Dr. Goss completed his residency training at Albert Einstein Medical Center and then pursued a National Library of Medicine sponsored fellowship and Masters in Medical Science in Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School and Clinical Decision Making fellowship at Tufts Medical Center. His research focuses on natural language processing, health equity, electronic health records and climate change. He is also the founder of Care Loop, a digital health company focused on improving patient experience, transitions in care & care coordination that was recently acquired by Dispatch Health. His work has led to multiple grants, publications and presentations at national conferences.
New Levitt Center board member Dr. Irvin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Assistant Dean for Medical Student Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He earned a medical degree at Harvard in 2003. Following medical school, he completed a residency in emergency medicine at Alameda Health System’s Highland Hospital in Oakland, California, where he was a chief resident, prior to graduating in 2011. He subsequently completed a fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 2013 with a master's degree in health policy research.
Dr. Nathan Irvin is a clinician-educator and researcher committed to improving the health of vulnerable populations including economically disadvantaged persons and racial/ethnic minorities that disproportionately receive care in emergency departments. Dr. Irvin’s scholarly work addresses many of the health and behavioral problems that affect people living in urban communities including violence, trauma, HIV/AIDs and substance abuse and often involves incorporating novel approaches including the use of humanities-based disciplines to affect change. He is the director of the 4th year social emergency medicine Focused Advanced Specialty Training (FAST) where he mentors senior level projects on projects focused on addressing the social and structural barriers to patients maximizing their health. Additionally, Dr. Irvin is also the Co-Director of the Center for Health and Humanities at Hopkins emergency medicine(H3EM) and in this capacity, seeks to equip learners with the tools to understand and address the human experiences of health and illness, and to see their patients as individuals in the context of larger social perspectives using humanities-based techniques. He also co-directs a pathway program called Generation Tomorrow’s Health Disparities Scholars focused on providing research experiences and mentorship for students from underrepresented backgrounds in medicine.
New Levitt Center board member John Edward Lewis, Jr. is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and core educational faculty at the Emory University School of Medicine, where he serves as the co-chair of Social Emergency Medicine and Director of APP Education. A Morehouse College graduate, John received his medical doctorate from Howard University. In 2003, he completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Cook County Hospital, Chicago, IL.
John is passionate about teaching and has also held academic positions at Cook County Hospital and Hampton University. He has received several teaching awards throughout his career. Most recently, John served as the co-chair of the ACEP (American College of Emergency Physicians) Social Emergency Medicine Education Workgroup. In this role, he co-led a national team composed of joint members of the Society for Academic Emergency Physicians (SAEM) and ACEP in the development of a free online social emergency medicine curriculum, SEMinal Study, which launched in May 2024.
Dr. Lewis co-founded a layperson's health literacy start-up, Emergency Medicine Remix, whose mission is to educate and end preventable health disparities through synergistic partnerships with educators, creatives, and artists. Toolkits, collaborations, and live events can also be accessed at EMREMX.com. Emergency Medicine Remix - The Podcast can be found on all streaming and social media platforms.
