AMMP Executive Board

The Association of MGH Multicultural Professionals (AMMP) is a volunteer organization of employees from Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Mass General Brigham HealthCare System and its entities, who are dedicated to achieving a common goal. These are our board members.

Emmanuela Menard
AMMP Chair

Emmanuela started her career at MGH in 2004. She started in the Pathology Core Laboratory Chemistry and while she explored other career options outside and within the MGB system, she always stayed connected with the Laboratory on a per-diem level. She is now the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Program Manager in Pathology. She has experience in the clinical labs and in Human Resources. She has over 5 years of experience in the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion space. Her focus is on employee engagement/retention, community outreach to foster inclusive and equitable work cultures. Emmanuela enjoys working with people and building communities and safe spaces for everyone to be authentically themselves.

Miguel Ferry
AMMP Vice Chair

Miguel joined Mass General in 2019 after working in the hospitality industry. He started as a staff assistant and has since been promoted to Senior Project Manager in Patient Care Services. Miguel is passionate about helping and empowering others. He earned his bachelor's degree in general management with a minor in operations management from Oakland University in Rochester, MI. Miguel recently completed his MBA with a certificate in Business Analytics from the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is proud to work for an organization that values diversity and is an active member of the Association of MGH Multicultural Professionals (AMMP), where he currently serves as Vice Chair.

Lisa Leung-Tat
AMMP Membership Chair

Lisa Leung-Tat began her tenure at MGH in November of 2012. After years in varying accounting roles she sought out a career that would be more meaningful to her while offering a sense of fulfillment. That was immediately realized when she was hired as a Patient Service Coordinator (PSC)II of a busy oncology unit in the Adult Infusion Unit of the Cancer Center. While there, Lisa discovered the value of patient-staff interaction and how that helped to ultimately shape a patients visit and overall experience for those going through a challenging period.

One year later, Lisa was promoted to Administrative/Environmental Operations Manager of the very unit she started in. In this role, she is the manager of the Unit Service Associate (USA) and Patient Service Coordinator staff and oversees the daily operations of the Infusion Unit on Yawkey 8E. Within the past five years, her role has expanded to include management of Phlebotomist and Medical Assistants in four additional practices within the Cancer Center.

Lisa holds a BA in psychology with a minor in cognitive science and a graduate certificate in healthcare management, both from UMass Boston. She is also a 500-hour Trauma Informed Yoga Instructor and currently teaches part time at a yoga studio in the community. Lisa was also a recipient of our AMMP scholarship in 2018 and 2019.

Lisa’s leadership style is grounded in uplifting and empowering staff which she achieves by collaboratively working with others to intentionally bring about change and facilitate wellbeing within the work environment. She continues to explore the broad landscape within the MGH community and eagerly welcomes this new chapter as an AMMP Membership Chair. She is proud and honored to be a part of this important work with AMMP and the MGH institution.

Orleuse Louis
AMMP Finance Chair

Orleuse Louis was born and raised in Haiti, and came to the United States in 2004. She has five siblings. She is the first in her family to graduate with a bachelor's degree. She started working at MGH in 2010 as a Nutrition Service Coordinator. Upon receiving her associate degrees (Medical Information Management and Administrative Information Management) from Bunker Hill Community College in 2013 and 2014, she was promoted to Patient Food Service Supervisor I. Through hard work and dedication in 2019, she received her bachelor's degree from Cambridge College. Months after graduating from CC, she was granted a Patient Food Service Manager position. Her focus is to continue to grow in her profession and help employees who struggle with the language barrier (English as a second language) and others who struggle to find their paths. She is blessed to be part of MGH/MGB.

Family/Personal: She has been married to her husband, Rools, for eight years. They have a daughter, Sarah-Jane, who is eight years old. She and her family enjoy traveling and cooking.

Lisandra Mota
AMMP Scholarship Chair

Lisa started her career at Mass General Brigham in 2019 as a Human Resources Talent Acquisition Partner where she provides support to the Research Cancer Center, Radiation Oncology, and the Center of Genomic Medicine. She collaborates closely with Nurse Directors and Sr. Administrators Directors to support recruitment, salary negotiations, and coaching and guidance to supervisors. Lisa holds a Bachelor’s in Business Management from Touro College and a Master's in Business Administration from the Metropolitan School of New York. Outside of work she enjoys traveling. She is passionate about college access for first-generation students and also supports the alumni community for career placement. She proudly serves as the Scholarship Chair.

Dan McCarthy
AMMP Nomination Chair

Dan McCarthy, BA has been an Operations Supervisor for MGH Parking and Commuter Services since 2014. He began his MGH career in 2002 with MGH Police and Security. Dan has been a proud AMMP member since 2017, and previously served as the group’s Scholarship Chair as well as Administrative Chair. Dan received a Transformational DEI Certificate from the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce in 2021. He and his wife Kimberly reside in Melrose.

Fun fact: Dan and his wife enjoy spending weekend time with their six grandchildren.

Kim O'Brien
AMMP Public Relations Chair

Kim (she/her) joined MGH in 2013 as a clinical laboratory assistant. Kim’s vast knowledge is not limited to her work as a clinical laboratory assistant, she has also worked on the administrative side of our research projects. Currently Kim serves as the Clinical Research Project Coordinator at MGB Personalized Medicine, Laboratory for Molecular Medicine and in her off time as a Unit Coordinator in the Newborn Family Unit at Mass General Hospital for Children. Over the last two years she has served as Culture Chair for the MGH LGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group where she thoroughly enjoys the sense of community these groups provide. Kim is a Massachusetts native and resides in Malden with her husband and two wonderful children. Her professional interests include community health improvement and diversity, public health science, and molecular genetics.

Denise Cremins
AMMP Administration Chair

Denise Cremins joined MGH in 2014 as the Administrative Assistant to The Director of Patient Access Services; she also supports the senior leadership team of the 100+ person department. Prior to joining MGH, Denise spent many years in the financial services industry and counts her volunteer experience with Dress for Success’ Going Places Network (a job search program), the Boston South Women’s Employment Network and as a Team Leader for the Dale Carnegie Course, as both rewarding and truly humbling.

Denise has been a member of AMMP since 2019 and is excited to have the opportunity to serve AMMP and its members in her second term as Administrative Chair. While at MGH, she has also been a selection committee member for the YMCA Achiever’s Award as well as the AMMP Scholarship. Denise received an undergraduate degree in History/Women’s Studies from UMass Boston, a master’s degree in Management from Cambridge College, a Certificate in Human Resources from UMass Boston and a Transformational Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Certificate from the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.

Denise lives in Braintree with her husband (also an MGH employee) and son. She enjoys travelling, attending the theater, historic house tours, baking and spending time with family and friends.