Pamela J. Gentry
Deputy Director, Office of Minority Health, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Pamela J. Gentry is the Acting Deputy Director at the CMS OMH at the Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to joining the office in 2013, Gentry was the Director of the Strategic Marketing Group, where she was responsible for the development and execution of national education and outreach campaigns for Medicare, Medicaid, the Health Insurance Marketplace, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. These federal health care programs serve more than 150 million Americans.
Gentry returned to federal service in 2010 after 8 years as senior manager in broadcast and online media for BET Networks. She joined BET as senior producer and bureau chief for CBS/BET Nightly News in 2002.
Gentry created BET’s first online political blog in 2005, “Pamela on Politics.” In 2009, she became the network’s senior political analyst responsible for the daily coverage of the White House and legislative activity on Capitol Hill.
Prior to coming to BET, Gentry was a political producer for the public affairs network C-SPAN; served as the Associate Administrator for External Affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services; and worked at W*USA-TV Channel 9 in Washington, D.C., as a producer and assignment editor.
Gentry has appeared regularly as a political analyst on CNN, Fox News, BBC World News, and Sky News discussing politics. She has appeared frequently on WOL Radio’s The Joe Madison Show; XM Radio’s presidential talk show POTUS; National Public Radio’s Tell Me More; The Right Side with Armstrong Williams; and PBS's The White House Chronicles. Gentry was also a guest blogger for the website HuffingtonPost.