Denise V. Rodgers is associate dean for Community Health and a professor of Family Medicine at the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. As associate dean she has overall administrative responsibility for a federally qualified health center located in the heart of New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is a member of the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services Latino Health Advisory Committee and has been a member of several state committees addressing the problem of black infant mortality rates. Dr. Rodgers has written and lectured extensively regarding excess mortality in minorities and racism in medicine. She has a B.A. in Psychobiology from Oberlin College. Dr. Rodgers graduated from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and completed her family practice training in the Residency Program in Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx.