Dr. Mason is the Chief Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Officer for CareOregon. He is the former chief diversity officer for Providence Health & Services in the Oregon region. He also directed the Office of Multicultural Health for the State of Oregon. He was one of the inaugural founders of the National Association of State Offices of Minority Health. He was also a senior consultant and original member of the National Center on Cultural Competence at Georgetown University. He has consulted with health systems, professional schools and programs, and related health and human service bureaucracies in the United States, Latin America, and Canada on issues of work force diversity and culturally competent service delivery.