Providing Enhanced Medical Support for the African American Community During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Faculty

Kenneth Alleyne, MD
Kenneth Alleyne, MD
Ken Alleyne is a board certified sports medicine orthopedic surgeon practicing in Connecticut and Manhattan. He is a clinical associate professor of orthopedics at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Alleyne is the managing partner of HartHaven Partners, a healthcare investment and consulting firm. He is also co-founder of NextLevel Health Partners, a medicaid managed care organization in the Midwest and Zing Healthcare a technology enabled Medicare Advantage Health Plan. He serves as the team physician and consultant to many local, national and international athletic organizations. Dedicated to serving his community Dr. Alleyne is Chair of the Connecticut Health Foundation. He serves on the boards of the University of Connecticut Health Center, the Hartford City Ballet, Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation and Student Achievement Through Opportunity, an organization raising resources for academic and arts enrichment for low income students. Dr Alleyne is a graduate of Williams College and completed his medical training at Wake Forest University. Residency training was undertaken at Howard University Hospital and he subsequently completed a fellowship in sports medicine, knee and shoulder surgery at Yale University as well as tissue engineering at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.

Reginald J. Eadie, MD, MBA
Reginald J. Eadie, MD, MBA
Reginald J. Eadie, MD is an accomplished and innovative leader in transforming health care and patient care to meet the needs of the 21st century. Dr. Eadie is a board-certified, emergency medicine physician. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree, with magna cum laude honors, from South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Following undergraduate school, he returned to Michigan to earn his medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine. Also, he attended the Michigan State University Broad Business School where he received his Executive MBA. Dr. Eadie’s experience as a healthcare Executive began with his appointment as Emergency Medicine Chief. Subsequent to that, he was appointed Chief Medical Officer, and then hospital CEO at 4 different Michigan Hospitals. His successes led to him being appointed as Regional Chief Operating Officer for the Detroit Medical Center. Dr. Eadie left that role to join the Trinity Health Of New England team as President and CEO in April of 2018.

Cheryl Rucker-Whitaker, MD, MPH, FACP
Cheryl Rucker-Whitaker, MD, MPH, FACP
Cheryl Rucker-Whitaker, MD, MPH, FACP, is President & Chair of the Institute of Medicine of Chicago, and CEO of NextLevel Health. Dr. Rucker-Whitaker is a highly accomplished, leading expert in Medicaid and Medicare regulatory environment with extensive experience in population health management and diverse populations, with expertise in community-based engagement, care, and coordination, and culturally competent solutions for culturally diverse populations. Dr. Rucker-Whitaker’s extensive education includes earning a BA in Biology from Emory University, MD from Washington University School of Medicine, and MPH, Health Policy and Management, from Harvard School of Public Health. She currently holds appointments as President, Institute of Medicine Chicago Board of Governors, and Chair, Medicaid Advisory Committee.