Perelman School of Medicine Professor Said Ibrahim has been named an ex officio member of the National Advisory Council on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NACMHD) of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). The Advisory Council meets three times a year to review all NIH health equity grants that have received fundable scores and decide which ones to approve for funding.

Dr. Ibrahim, a Leonard Davis Institute (LDI) senior fellow and director of the Veterans Administration Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP), has long focused his research on health equity and disparities, particularly in the area of osteoarthritis care.