Moore Named CIHDER Executive Director

EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (June 4, 2024) – Angelo Moore, Ph.D., has been named executive director of the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Center of Excellence for Integrative Health Disparities and Equity Research (CIHDER).

Moore comes to N.C. A&T after five years with Duke University’s Duke Cancer Institute, where he was program manager, then assistant director of Community Outreach, Engagement and Equity and finally director of the Office of Health Equity.

Moore serves as an adjunct associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He held previous faculty appointments with Wright State University in Ohio and the University of Hawaii.

Outside his higher education career, Moore spent nearly three decades in health care leadership roles while serving in the Army, including chief nurse for education at Fayetteville Veterans Affairs Medical Center in North Carolina and chief of the Center for Nursing Science & Clinical Inquiry at Pacific Regional Medical Command in Honolulu.

Moore’s sponsored research projects include “Factors and Behaviors to Consider When Implementing the Patient-centered Medical Home,” with $251,000 from the Tri-Service Nursing Research Program. He also received a $334,500 training grant from United Health Foundation for 2023-26 and $333,320 for 2024-26 to support the National Black Nurses Association (NBNA) Diversity in Health Care Scholarship Program.

In 2023, Moore was selected as an American Academy of Nursing Fellow and named among 100 Great Nurses of North Carolina. He also received the American Cancer Society’s Fredda Bryan National Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award for 2023 in recognition of his impact on the lives of cancer patients and their families by advancing its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. He has served as a prominent member of the American Cancer Society National Navigation Round Table (NNRT) since 2019 and was selected to serve on the NNRT’s steering committee in 2021. A member of North Carolina’s Advisory Committee on Cancer Coordination and Control, the state’s comprehensive cancer coalition, he serves on the advisory’s early detection subcommittee.

Among many other accolades, Moore received the Carolina Nursing Outstanding Alumni Service Award on May 10; a Duke University Presidential Award in 2021; Sandhills North Carolina Black Nurses Association Nursing Leadership Award in 2017; NBNA Trailblazer Award in 2016; and Nurse Researcher of the Year in 2012.

A journal reviewer for Journal of the National Medical Association, Annals of the American Thoracic Society, and Military Medicine, Moore has led numerous state, regional and international conferences and presentations in addition to publishing multiple peer-reviewed papers. He is a life member of NBNA and member of several professional organizations including the American Academy of Nursing, Oncology Nurse Society, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, American Nurses Association, North Carolina Nurses Association, Military Officers Association of America and Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.

Moore earned his BSN from Winston-Salem State University, MSN from Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and Ph.D. in nursing from UNC-CH. He holds patient navigator certification through the Harold P. Freeman Patient Navigation Institute, is a board-certified nurse executive through the American Nurses Credentialing Center and is a licensed registered nurse.