March 13, 2026 | Dr. Maurice Sholas & Dr. Armen Henderson
Description:
With the increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events, including severe storms and hurricanes that lead to significant flooding, it has never been more important to engage in discussions around equitable, community-centered solutions and preparedness. We invite you to join our informative webinar featuring Dr. Maurice Sholas, the Founder of Cingulum Health and Specialist in Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine, along with Dr. Armen Henderson, a distinguished 2021 CHEF Fellow, Executive Director of Dade County Street Response, and Secretary on the Board of Directors for Florida Clinicians for Climate Action. This session will shed light on the unequal impacts of extreme weather, drawing upon Hurricane Katrina as an example, and present practical approaches to enhance preparedness efforts among patients and community members.
Speaker Bios:
Dr. Maurice Sholas is the Principal for Sholas Medical Consulting, LLC. In this capacity, he is charged with solving operational challenges for individual practitioners, hospitals and health care agencies. In additional he is a subject matter expert on children with special health care needs – actively practicing clinical medicine. As a former Senior Medical Director for Children’s Minnesota, he founded a program in Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine. For a six-year tenure, he previously led Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Pediatric Rehabilitation Medical Practice. That Practice provided clinical coverage to the largest pediatric inpatient rehabilitation unit in the United States, an outpatient Day Rehabilitation Program for children and a plethora of outpatient single specialty and multi-disciplinary clinics. In addition to those clinical duties, he was responsible for introducing a structure to incorporate and execute quality research and educational training programs that impact children with acquired or congenital disabilities. Dr. Sholas’ work, whether clinical or administrative, is focused on optimizing function. That breadth and experience is ideal for serving as a Trustee for the National Medical Association.
Dr. Armen Henderson founded Dade County Street Response in 2017 while in residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital. He has been instrumental in shaping a new vision for American healthcare through sustaining hyper local programming that prioritizes poor and working class communities. Armen is currently an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Director of Community Engagement at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He is also a 2025 Aspen Ideas Health Fellow, 2022 Echoing Green Global Fellow, and a 2021 Climate & Health Equity Fellow.