Consuelo H. Wilkins

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Consuelo H. Wilkins is an American physician, biomedical researcher, and health equity expert. She is Senior Vice President and Senior Associate Dean for Health Equity and Inclusive Excellence at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is a professor of medicine in the Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and has a joint appointment at Meharry Medical College. She additionally serves as one of the principal investigators of the Vanderbilt Clinical and Translational Science Award, Director of the Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Research Core (CTSA) and as vice president for Health Equity at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

She is also a Principal Investigator for the Vanderbilt-Miami-Meharry Center of Excellence in Precision Medicine and Population Health. The center launched in 2016 after Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the University of Miami and Meharry Medical College received receive an $11.6 million grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, and it conducts precision medicine research with the intention to eliminate health disparities, particularly among African-Americans and Latinos. Wilkins serves on the Admin Core.

Additionally, Wilkins serves on a recruitment innovation center made possible by a $14 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2016. The center works to increase clinical trial participation in minority groups.

Previously, as executive director of the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance, Wilkins and the MVA led efforts to establish a state association for community health workers in Tennessee in 2016, by bringing together key players from across Nashville to form a collaborative. Provided by Wikipedia