Evonne is the Director of the Advanced Graduate Certificate in Health Communications and an active member of the steering committee of the Alda Center. She speaks nationally on the Center's behalf and has presented or led workshops at medical institutions around the country, including the National Cancer Institute. She teaches the Center's course in "Connecting with the Community" and is course director for a Stony Brook School of Medicine elective in communicating health science. Evonne has an undergraduate degree in journalism from Northwestern University, an MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where she did residencies in pediatrics and preventive medicine, and an MPH degree from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.