Dr. Marcus Lambert is the Associate Vice President of Research Strategy and Operations at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. In this role, Dr. Lambert oversees efforts to expand the university's extramural research portfolio in areas of health equity and clinical research. Dr. Lambert also co-leads multiple research training programs at Downstate, including TRANSPORT, a $10 million endowment grant with a focus on recruiting and training underrepresented scientists in health disparities research. Aside from being a mentor himself, Dr. Lambert has helped to lead and design multiple mentor and mentee trainings for biomedical scientists, conducted mentorship-related studies, including a systematic review of mentorship training programs, and is developing a mentorship intervention for postdoctoral fellows called SPNSOR. Dr. Lambert received his Ph.D. in biomedical science from NYU Grossman School of Medicine and his B.S. from Howard University. He also holds an M.S. in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research from Weill Cornell Graduate School.