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GREATER MIAMI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 2019 HEALTH CARE HEROES ®

HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS

LISA GWYNN, REYNALD JEAN, MD, MPH,
DO, MBA, FAAP, CPE MSN, AGPCNP-BC

Associate Professor, Clinical Pediatrics Director, Tuberculosis, Epidemiology,
& Clinical Public Health Sciences; Disease Control, Clinical Laboratory,
Medical Director, Pediatric Mobile Immunization Services
Clinic & Dr. John T. Macdonald & Public Health Preparedness,
Foundation School Health Initiative, Florida Department of Health
University of Miami Miller in Miami-Dade County

School of Medicine
Dr. Reynald Jean has been with the Florida
Dr. Lisa Gwynn’s rebuilding and ongoing direction “Dr. Lisa Gwynn’s Department of Health in Miami-Dade County since “In 2016, when the first
of the University of Miami’s Pediatric Mobile Clinic passion and tireless 1989, where he has proven to be a dedicated physi- locally acquired Zika case
program has brought world-class health care to 3,000 cian, director and innovator, and an expert at devel-
uninsured children each year in Miami-Dade efforts have improved the oping and fostering effective collaboration with was identified, Dr. Jean
County’s most at-risk neighborhoods, 97 percent of health and the overall lives many public and private entities. did excellent work in lead-
whom are uninsured and 13 percent who have spe- of thousands of Miami- His numerous accomplishments include, but are
cial needs. Through her fundraising experience, Dr. not limited to, the management and reduction of ing the entire Zika
Gwynn not only rebuilt the foundering program, but Dade County’s tuberculosis cases; the management of children with response for Miami-Dade
also secured funding to purchase a brand-new, children each year.” lead poisoning; the management of the Asthma County. DOH-Miami-
upgraded mobile unit that was delivered in April. Dr. Edward Abraham, MD Home-Visit Collaborative program, and the reduc-
Gwynn became the director of the Department of tion of HIV perinatal and Hepatitis A transmission. Dade is better prepared to
Pediatrics’ School Health Program in 2016, which Executive Vice President for He has contributed to global health by providing face the future challenges
serves nearly 10,000 students a year who receive Health Affairs training to professionals from Africa, Japan and the
healthcare through clinics in their schools. CEO, UHealth—University of Ukraine, and by working to control the spread of of the Zika disease due to
She raised funds to improve clinical care signifi- Miami Health System Ebola, Chikungunya and Zika. his innovative and collab-
cantly, which now includes a robust immunization University of Miami Miller Dr. Jean has spearheaded four successful HIV/AIDS
program, reproductive health and mental health School of Medicine initiatives and contributed to the development and orative accomplishments.”
services, and access to specialty services through implementation of tuberculosis prevention and con- Yesenia D. Villalta,
telehealth. Dr. Gwynn’s advocacy for children’s health also extends to her work on the trol guidelines used by Miami-Dade County home- APRN, DNP, MSN
Miami-Dade School Health Advisory Committee and her role as vice president of the less shelters. When the first locally acquired Zika Administrator/Health Officer
Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, where she influences policy case was identified, Dr. Jean led the entire Zika Florida Department of Health in
changes to improve the lives of children on both a statewide and national scale. response for Miami-Dade County, and was involved Miami-Dade County
in the identification of every single case. He coordi-
nated testing among the major hospitals and public
health laboratories, and developed and managed processes for Zika test results. As a
result of his work on the front lines of emerging health issues, Miami-Dade is better
prepared to respond to public health emergencies.

RANU JUNG,
PHD, FNAI, FAIMBE

Wallace H. Coulter Eminent Scholars
Chair in Biomedical Engineering
Professor and Chair of the
Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Florida International University

As a WH Coulter Eminent Scholar endowed pro-
fessor and head of the Department of Biomedical
Engineering at Florida International University “Dr. Ranu Jung is at the
(FIU), Dr. Ranu Jung is a champion for innovation
and entrepreneurship. She is especially interested in cutting edge between engi-
biohybrid systems that merge biologically inspired neering and neuroscience,
technologies with humans for recovery and restora-
tion of lost function. She and her team developed developing devices that lead
the first wireless, implantable, neural interface sys- to scientific advances with
tem for restoring sensations to amputees, and
received FDA approval to conduct a first-in-human clear pathways to clinical
trial. A Fellow of the National Academy of application.”
Inventors, she is the holder of eight U.S. patents, James A. Knapp
two pending, and is the founder of a research and Director of Community Relations
development company. She is also a champion of Florida International University
improving the representation of women and under-
represented minorities in engineering and comput-
er science majors.
As the interim dean of the College of Engineering and Computing at FIU, Dr. Jung
started the Women of CEC Initiative geared to helping improve the recruitment,
retention and graduation of women in engineering and computer science majors, and
she has continued that effort as the biomedical engineering chair. She is the past-pres-
ident of the Organization for Computational Neurosciences, Inc., and her publica-
tions include Biohybrid Systems: Nerves, Interfaces and Machines, and the
Encyclopedia for Computational Neuroscience, and more than 140 research articles,
book chapters, and abstracts.

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