2025 Scientific Meeting
Professional Development
Speaker Profiles

Women & Leadership

Monday, March 17, 2025

Time: 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM

Cheryl Anderson, PhD

Professor and founding Dean
Herbert Wertheim School of Public health and Human Longevity Science
UC San Diego

Cheryl Anderson is a professor and founding Dean of the Herbert Wertheim School of Public health and Human Longevity Science at UC San Diego. She holds the Hood Family Endowed Dean‘s Chair in public health and is also appointed in the department of medicine division of nephrology and hypertension.

Dean Anderson’s research is focused on nutrition and lifestyle as a means to equitably prevent chronic diseases. She has served on the U.S. dietary guidelines advisory committee that influences population level policies that make it easier to eat healthy diets.

In recognition of her research and advocacy in public health, Dean Anderson was elected to the National Academy of medicine in 2016.

Sharrel Pinto, PhD

Dean
College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Belmont University

Dr. Sharrel Pinto, a pharmacist by training with more than two decades of leadership in higher education, has dedicated her career to transdisciplinary practice by bringing together health care and non-health care practitioners to solve complex community-based problems, positively impacting patient care and wellbeing. Prior to coming to Belmont, Dr. Pinto served in several roles at South Dakota State University's College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, including as Founding Center Director of the Community Practice Innovation Center (CPIC) and Founding Department Head of the Department of Allied and Population Health, as well as the inaugural Hoch Endowed Professor for Community Pharmacy Practice. Born in a small town in India, Pinto earned her bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from the University of Bombay in India as well as a post graduate degree in marketing management. She began working as a pharmacist in Mumbai, but quickly realized her passion for serving the underserved by merging community practice with clinical training. She went on to attend the University of Toledo for her master’s in pharmacy health care administration and the University of Florida for her Ph.D. in Pharmacy Health Care Administration. A decorated academician, Pinto’s transformative work seeking solutions to community-based problems earned her the honor of the Harvard Scholar for Leading Innovations in Healthcare and Education in 2019. She was inducted as a Fellow in the APhA Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science in 2020 and earned the Community Pharmacy Innovation in Quality (CPIQ) Award, bestowed by The Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) and the Community Pharmacy Foundation (CPF) in 2021. In November 2022 she received the Patriot Award from the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, under the Department of Defense, recognizing her efforts to support citizen soldiers.

Roxane Cohen Silver, PhD

Vice Provost
Institutional Research, Assessment, and Planning

Distinguished Professor
University of California Irvine

Roxane Cohen Silver, Ph.D., is Vice Provost of Institutional Research, Assessment, and Planning, and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychological Science, the Department of Medicine, and the Joe C. Wen School of Population and Public Health at the University of California, Irvine. An international and award-winning scholar in the field of stress and coping, Silver has spent over four decades studying acute and long-term psychological and physical reactions to personal traumas and larger collective events such as terror attacks, infectious disease outbreaks, and natural disasters across the world. Silver is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (in 4 Divisions), the Association for Psychological Science, the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. Silver is Past-President of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (FABBS) and Past-President of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. Silver received her Ph.D. in social psychology from Northwestern University