Associate Dean for Community Initiatives
Associate Professor, Humanities, Health, and Society
Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine

Cheryl L. Holder, M.D., has dedicated her career to caring for underserved populations and is a founding faculty member of the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. She also teaches medical, nursing, social work, and physician assistant students about working in underserved communities through the Green Family Foundation NeighborhoodHELP program.

Holder began her career in 1987 as a National Health Service Corp Scholar working with medically underserved communities in South Florida. From 1990 to 2009, she served as medical director for Jackson Health System’s North Dade Health Center, where she developed an HIV care and treatment program and directed the first school-based health center in Miami-Dade County.