Karen Winkfield

President Joe Biden has appointed Karen Winkfield, executive director of the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance, to serve a six-year term on the National Cancer Advisory Board. 

Winkfield was named the executive director of the Vanderbilt-Meharry Alliance last year after leaving Wake Forest University, where she served as director of the Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center Office of Health Equity.Â