Women’s History Month: Celebrating HERstory
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We’re recognizing Women’s History Month by Celebrating HERstory.
Throughout the month, we will recognize some area women blazing trails in their respective industries, organization, and/or communities.
Learn more about these amazing women below:
Nicole Cyrille-Superville, MD
Source: Nicole Cyrille-Superville, MD
Nicole Cyrille-Superville, MD is an Assistant Professor in Cardiology and practicing heart failure and transplant cardiologist at Atrium Health – Wake Forest.
She completed her medical degree and Internal Medicine residency at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and subsequently, pursued a general cardiology fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center. There she served as Chief Cardiology Fellow (2016 – 2017). She concluded her training at Massachusetts General Hospital with an advanced heart failure and transplant fellowship.
She serves as the Associate Director of Heart Failure in the Southern Region at Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute and over the past few years, has transformed her clinical experiences and observations into interventions that improve the outcomes of heart failure patients on a larger scale through research. Nicole Cyrille-Superville, MD recently received an NIH grant award to serve as the Diversity Champion leader across the seven HeartShare sites in the US.
Her commitment to advancing the care of vulnerable populations, further in intersects with her growing interest in health disparities and social determinants of health. She is a member of Atrium’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee and a recipient of one of the 2024 Cardiovascular Sciences Center pilot grant in support of her research on the impact of social support and health literacy in HFpEF patients. She also received a Top Principal Investigator award by the Heart Failure Collaboratory in association with American Heart Association this past year.
Robyn Hamilton
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Robyn Hamilton serves as the President & CEO of the Urban League of Central Carolinas. The Urban League is North Carolina’s oldest civil rights organization and an affiliate of the National Urban League. She is a seasoned leader who has built deep trust in many communities across the United States and led impactful work that Charlotte is still benefitting from. Since her tenure as CEO began in 2023, the ULCC has increased funding, programming and the coming into the Charlotte region from state and federal agencies by $2 million dollars over the next three years.
A mission-driven leader, her passion for people, strengthening communities and improving lives was a winning combination to lead the North Carolina DHHS, Healthy Opportunities Pilot on behalf of Dogwood Health Trust. At Novant Health she was Director of Community Engagement. Her deep community relationships helped lead a team to distributing over $6 million dollars to multiple organizations. When the Democratic National Convention came to Charlotte, Robyn was sought out to make good on President Barack Obama’s promise of the most diverse political convention ever held. She served on the leadership team as the Senior Advisor of Diversity, Business Relations and Procurement where she was responsible for achieving the unprecedented 41% diversity spend with a local, union and minority suppliers for the convention.
During her tenure as the CEO of Carolinas Minority Supplier Development Council, Robyn authored and established the Charlotte Minority Economic Development Initiative for the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce in 2011, which generated over $52 million in contracts and created 469 jobs by minority owned firms. Many remember the work Robyn did with Charlotte’s African American leaders with Access Charlotte, a mentoring program for African American emerging executives. The program saw 20% of the participants to go on to C-suite level positions. She holds an MBA from Queens University and a B.A. in human resource management from Saint Leo College. She honorably served our country in the United States Army as a Military Intelligence Analyst and also in the U.S. Air Force as a Social Actions Specialist. Her spare time is spent looking for a horse or a fishing rod on her farm.
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