Biography at time of Mongan Commonwealth Fund Fellowship: Deonza Thymes, M.D., was most recently an emergency medicine physician at Veterans Administration Hospital in Long Beach, Calif. She is a cofounder of and Vice President of Programs for Artemis Medical Society, a group of over 3,500 women physicians of color whose mission is to change health care by increasing physician diversity and reducing health care disparities. Before attending medical school, Dr. Thymes was a seventh and eighth grade math and science teacher at Foshay Learning Center in Los Angeles, Calif. Dr. Thymes received her medical degree from Ohio State University College of Medicine in Columbus and completed her emergency medicine residency at Martin Luther King, Jr. Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles.