Meharry Medical College

Roger Zoorob, MD, MPH, FAAFP
Principal Investigator
Dr. Zoorob is Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Meharry Medical College and Scientific Director of the EXPORT Center for Health Disparities. Dr. Zoorob completed his residency training in Family Medicine at Anderson Memorial Hospital in North Caroline, has a Masters in Public Health, completed a faculty Development Fellowship in 1996 at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, and is a diplomat of the American Board of Family Medicine. As Principal Investigator for the Southeastern Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Regional Training Center grant, Dr. Zoorob is responsible for the overall scientific, training, administration, and management of all grant activities; coordinating the collaboration of all institutions involved, managing the sub-contracts, and submitting and disseminating grant reports. He ensures the active participation and cooperation of the residency training programs at Meharry Medical College and conducts presentations at the national and regional levels such as scientific assembly meetings, medical departments and residency programs.

Carolyn Szetela, Ph.D.
Associate Director of the Program in Clinical and Research Ethics
Carolyn Szetela, Ph.D. is the Associate Director of the Program in Clinical and Research Ethics Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. The program is aimed at minority participation in ethical care and research, and provides courses offered in ethics for clinical students, practicing physicians, and researchers. She completed her degree in philosophy, with a medical ethics specialization at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 1998. Her areas of interest include medical education, disparities in American health, children in medical research, HIV/AIDS and the prevention of harms due to alcohol and drug misuse. In addition to service on several hospital ethics committees and the Meharry Institutional Review Board, she has coordinated conferences on ethical issues in health care, and advocated for the rights and protections of human research subjects.

Claudia Mays, LCSW
Director of Behavioral Medicine
Since July 2004, Claudia Mays, LCSW has been the Director of Behavioral Medicine, Deputy Director of the Area Health Education Programs (AHEC) in Memphis and Lebanon, TN. Ms. Mays is also an Assistant Professor in the School of Medicine at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN. Claudia Mays, LCSW, received her Bachelor of Science in Social Welfare at Tennessee State University and her Master of Science in Social Work from the School of Social Work at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN. She is a Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work (B.C.D.), a Licensed Clinical Social Worker for the State of Tennessee (L.C.S.W.) and a Certified Master Social Worker for the State of Tennessee (C.M.S.W.). As a clinical social work professional, Ms. Mays has experience in a variety of positions encompassing social work, geriatrics, teaching, grant writing and management.

Morehouse School Of Medicine

Yvonne W. Fry-Johnson, M.D.
Co-Principal Investigator
Chief Maternal and Child Health Team
Dr. Yvonne W. Fry-Johnson, a Pediatrician, is the Chief of the Maternal and Child Health Team at the National Center for Primary Care at Morehouse School of Medicine. She served as the Pediatrician and Medical Director of Oakhurst Community Health Center in Decatur, Georgia for 6 years and practiced general pediatrics for 12 years. Trained in Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University; Dr Fry-Johnson received her M.D. degree from the University of Health Sciences/ The Chicago Medical School, and completed her Pediatric Internship and Residency Training at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles County) and Emory University School of Medicine. Currently a Fellow in the Masters of Science in Clinical Research Program, funded through NIH, she is also the Core Leader for the Maternal and Child Health Component of the EXPORT Center (Center for Excellence in Health Disparities) at Morehouse School of Medicine. Dr. Fry-Johnson speaks frequently on topics related to the delivery of primary health care for/to underserved populations addressing issues including maternal and child health, health disparities, cultural competence and medical director leadership. Since 2000 she has co-presented the New Medical Director Training for the National Association for Community Health Centers on a National level. Currently, Dr. Fry-Johnson is Co-PI on the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Training Grant in collaboration with Meharry Medical College, through the Minority Health Professions Foundation and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Through this contract, she participates in the development and dissemination of tools and templates to train providers in the prevention, recognition and management of FAS/E.

Tennessee State University

Rosalyn Pitt, Ed.D., R.T.
Physical Therapist
Dr. Pitt, a native of Belize, Central America, received her undergraduate education in Physical Therapy from Loma Linda University in California. After several years of clinical work in hospitals, she returned to school and received a MS degree in Guidance and Counseling, and in 2002 she received her terminal degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Tennessee State University. Dr. Pitt is currently the Department Head of the Physical Therapy program at Tennessee State University. She teaches the psychosocial courses as well as the pediatric components of the physical therapy curriculum. With her interest in children, she takes a great interest in the FAS project and in becoming an advocate for allied health professionals taking a more active role in curbing the affects of alcohol on the unborn child as well as being sensitive to the mothers’ issues that lead to drinking while pregnant.