Dr. Guy has spent three decades caring for the lung health of Delawareans practicing Pulmonary/Sleep and Critical Care Medicine. She is an innovator of ideas, advocate, mentor, mother and grandmother. She was raised in Philadelphia where she graduated from The Philadelphia High School for Girls. She then went on to attend Howard University in Washington, DC where she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude. While at Howard she had the honor of becoming a soror of Delta Sigma Theta. She came back to Philadelphia where she graduated from Temple University School of Medicine in 1988. She went on to complete a Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at Hahnemann University and later in her career completed a Sleep Fellowship and training in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania. She remains board certified in Pulmonary Medicine.
Dr. Guy is intentional about reducing inequity in health and healthcare and had the opportunity to do postdoctoral research on hypertension and obstructive sleep apnea in Black patients while at University of Pennsylvania (2001-2003).
She passionately advocates for more Black providers in America’s inequitable healthcare system. She is proud to have been hooded at her graduation from Temple University School of Medicine in 1988 by her father, Dr. Clarence Guy (61’ Temple); they were the first Black father/ daughter alumni.
Dr. Guy served as chair of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) diversity network (2001-3) and prior to that as Vice Chair (2000). Her signature work at ACCP was development of a mentoring program for other Chest (lung) physicians and development of a culturally sensitive lung health speakers kit in both English and Spanish.
She advocates for fellow Black physicians and for Black patients to reduce healthcare system and health disparities. She was the Medical Director of her private Pulmonary practice and Co-Director of Delaware Sleep Disorders Center. She has provided clinical services to the Delaware Department of Health, Tuberculosis Clinic. She advocates for the improved health of all people and served as a member of the City of Wilmington Physician Advisory Board 2000 and was appointed to Delaware’s Healthy Delaware 2010/Health Providers Group. She was selected by her peers to serve for seven years (2004-2011) on the St Francis Hospital (Wilmington, Delaware) Credentials Committee.
From 2006-2009 she served as a member of the Board of the Beautiful Gate Outreach Center whose mission is to eliminate the spread of HIV/AIDS and assist in the continuum of care for all people infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS in Delaware. She was the Beautiful Gate Board Secretary from 2007-2009.
Dr. Guy has been advocating for tobacco elimination for decades, preventing children and adolescents from becoming new tobacco users and assisting current users to quit. In 2001 she was a founding member of New Castle County African Americans Against Tobacco. She currently serves on the Steering Committee of the Black Health Block Quit and Screen project at NMA.
Dr. Carole Guy is the Chair of Region II, National Medical Association. She served as Region II Vice Chair from 2022-2024 and was an Advisor for Region II NMA Conference Program Committee 2021. She has been a longtime active member of Delaware’s First State National Medical Association where she serves as the Political Action Chair.
During the COVID 19 pandemic she used her voice and expertise to advocate for equity in Black and Brown communities which were disproportionately infected and affected by Covid-19. During the pandemic she served as an advisor for the faith based Wilmington Bethel AME Covid 19 Taskforce. She was a speaker on multiple panels and virtual Town halls during COVID 19 to assist in keeping our Black community updated, educated and informed about COVID 19. She vaccinated many, focusing on the Black community in Delaware during the pandemic.
Dr. Guy was chosen to be an expert presenter March 2022 for : The COVID-19 Impact on People Of Color In Delaware: Medical Disparities, Policies, Procedures and Social Determinants, A Public Virtual Briefing of the Delaware Advisory Committee to U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Dr. Carole Guy wrote several op eds/guest column pieces during the pandemic in Delaware Online: “Masks are not permanent-but they are a vital tool in curbing the pandemic (Special to the USA Network; Jan.22, 2022); “We must improve COVID-19 vaccine confidence. Here’s Why (Special to the USA TODAY Network; April 4,2021); “Black health matters; Distribute COVID-19 vaccine equitably” (November 19,2020). “Here’s what to expect when a loved one is hospitalized with severe COVID-19” (Guest columnist April 9,2020) ; “Delaware needs statewide ethics board to oversee allocation of ventilators, COVID-19 supplies (April 6, 2020). During the pandemic her work was also published in the Delaware Journal of Public Health’s November 2020 edition on Racism & Health: “Towards a more Healthy America: Reallocation of Health Care Resources in an Inequitable Health Care System.
Dr. Guy is honored to serve the National Medical Association as the Region II Chair.
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