Mauvareen Beverley, M.D. is the President of Mauvareen Beverley, M.D., PLLC, Patient Engagement and Cultural Competence Specialist. She is an executive-level physician and a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) with over twenty years of experience advocating for improving patient engagement and cultural competence for all populations, especially African American communities. As Assistant Vice President, Physician Advisor for NYC Health + Hospitals, she sponsored the first Conference on Improving the Health of the Elderly Black Population. Under her leadership as Deputy Executive Director of Kings County Hospital, she led her team to implement innovative strategies for improved equitable health outcomes and decreased Congestive Heart Failure readmission from 30 percent to 18.7 percent in less than two years. Dr. Beverley is a national thought leader and expert in patient engagement and health equity. She has lectured extensively on health disparities, patient engagement and valuing the human experience. She collaborated with Westchester County Medical Society, Westchester Academy of Medicine, and Putnam County Medical Society in developing the Patient Engagement and Cultural Competence Training Program with CME credits and served as faculty of an education session for ACHE’s Thomas C. Dolan Executive Diversity Program. Her notable publications include “Patient Engagement and Cultural Sensitivity as a Strategy to Improve Health Inequities,” which was published in the Journal of the National Medical Association. Her thought leadership paper on “Health Disparities and Epidemics: Perception vs. Reality” was selected for presentation at the New York Academy of Medicine’s twelfth annual History of Medicine and Public Health Night in 2021. She received the Excellence in Medicine Award from the Bronx County Medical Society in 2021. She also made a scientific poster presentation on Solutions to Health Disparities: The Common Thread, The Human Experience presented at the American Hospital Association (AHA) Conference in Chicago, March 2022. Another poster, “Improving Health Disparities, The Common Thread: The Human Experience,” was accepted to be displayed at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement ( IHI) Forum December 13-15, 2022.Dr. Beverley received her Bachelor of Science degree in biological sciences from Boston University and a medical degree from Jacob School of Medicine and Biomedical Science at the University of Buffalo School of Medicine. She trained in Internal Medicine at Harlem Hospital-NY Columbia Presbyterian. Dr. Beverley is a Member of The National Medical Association (NMA), The National Association of Health Service Executives (NAHSE), the American Medical Association (AMA), and the Medical Society, State of NY (MSSNY).Read more about this authorRead less about this author