Dr. Alice C***

Health Access Coombs Continues Clinical Practice Academic Medicine More than 35 Years Health-Care Policy System-Wide Reform Patients They Serve Underserved Settings Department Department Throughout Her Career Systems-Level Advocacy Leadership Development Fourth Female Physician Under Her Msv Presidency Coombs has been Committed She Recognized Disparities Health-Care Payment Reform Two State Medical Societies Policy Reform Key Priorities Merge Patient-Centered Clinical Practice Every Physician is the Voice Becoming the First Black Woman She Also Holds the Distinction Coombs Achieved a Major Milestone Translational Medicine Public Health Interventions Emergency Medical Resuscitation Clinical Trials and Therapeutics Clinical Neurophysiology and EEG