Speaker Information

April 13-15, 2015 ~ Albuquerque, New Mexico

Charlie Alfero, MA, is the executive director of the Southwest Center for Health Innovation (CHI) and the founder of HMS a Community Health Center providing primary medical, dental, mental health, family support, community development, and health policy services in southwestern New Mexico. He has over 34 years of experience in rural health policy, systems, and program development. He has been director of rural outreach for the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center and director of the Community Health Services Division in the New Mexico Department of Health. Has either developed or assured the continuation of hospital, primary care, and related service delivery systems in numerous communities in New Mexico. He is also the director of the National Center for Frontier Communities and is on the board of directors of the National Rural Health Association and New Mexico Health Connections, a nonprofit health insurance co-op, among others.

Alfero, Charles

David Acosta, M.D., FAAFP, is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion, the Chief Diversity Officer for UC Davis Health System, and Senior Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for UC Davis School of Medicine. He is a Clinical Professor in the Health Sciences, Board-Certified in Family Medicine, and completed his medical education and residency training at UC Irvine and UC San Francisco respectively. His extensive work experience spans the pipeline continuum working with URM pre-health students to faculty, and includes holding executive leadership positions in rural community health centers, residency and fellowship programs, diversity affairs and admissions. His teaching focuses on cultural competency, unconscious bias, equity and inclusion, health disparities, and Hispanic health. He’s been the Principal Investigator for a number of grants (NIH, HRSA, RWJF) building pipeline programs for URM students interested in health careers. He is the Immediate Past Chair of the AAMC Group on Diversity and Inclusion, and served on the AAMC MR5 Advisory Committee responsible for the 2015 MCAT. He now serves on the AAMC Advancing Holistic Review Project Advisory Committee focusing on holistic admissions. He was recently elected treasurer of the Executive Board of the Hispanic Serving Health Profession Schools organization, and serves on the Executive Committee of Building the Next Generation of Academic Physicians organization.  

Acosta, David

Juliana Anastasoff, MS, is the Health Extension Officer for the Northern Region of New Mexico, outposed from the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. Through the regional HERO office she provides training, technical assistance, linkages, and practice support to develop local solutions and capacity for improving health access and quality, reducing disparities, promoting equity, and supporting the health workforce. She is also a Lecturer in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, and is on the health sciences faculty at UNM-Taos. Prior to joining UNM-HSC, she served as Chief Project Officer for an FQHC system serving seven rural counties, developing a portfolio of health improvement initiatives through collaborative health homes, prevention and disease management programs, integrating behavioral health and enabling services into primary care, expanding multidisciplinary teams, building telehealth systems, and implementing QI initiatives. As the organization’s first Veteran’s Program Director, she developed systems and services as a VA Community-Based Outpatient Clinic, and also directed a federally-designated Rural/Frontier Center of Excellence in Women’s Health. In addition to program development, she practiced many years as a health education specialist in diverse clinical settings, and was a training specialist for a regional health professions Education and Training Center (ETC). She is dually-trained in rural development and public health education, and lives with her family in an unincorporated farming and ranching village adjacent to the Carson National Forest.

Anastasoff, Juliana

Joaquin Baca, MSPH, is a Director in the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center Office for Community Health. Mr. Baca’s professional career has focused on improving the health and well-being of New Mexican communities, addressing the social determinants of health through his work on educational initiatives and student development projects. He has served UNM in a variety of roles including Diversity Program Director at the HSC Office of Diversity, and Student Navigator for the Center of Native American Health. He holds a Letter of Academic Title as Lecturer III for the UNM School of Medicine Department of Family and Community Medicine. He is a former Assistant Director of Admissions at St. John’s College and one of six teachers who started the South Valley Academy, a local charter high school, where he developed and implemented a successful community-based Service Learning Program.

Baca, Joaquin

Ansell, David David Ansell, MD, MPH, is Senior Vice President, System Integration, Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and the Michael E. Kelly, MD, Presidential Professor at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Ansell received his medical degree from the State University of New York Upstate Medical Center at Syracuse in 1978, after matriculating at Franklin and Marshall College (1974). He trained in Internal Medicine at Cook County Hospital from 1978-1982 and served as an attending physician there until 1995 holding a number of positions including Division Chief of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care. He was the founder of the Breast and Cervical Screening Program at Cook County Hospital in 1983. Dr. Ansell has a Masters in Epidemiology from the University of Illinois, School of Public Health.

A pediatrician, family physician, and psychiatrist, DeWitt C. Baldwin, Jr., MD, was educated at Yale Medical School, completing residencies at the University of Minnesota, Yale and Boston University. He is a Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners, the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Family Practice. He was a member of the planning committees and founding faculties of the Universities of Connecticut and Nevada Medical Schools. Dr. Baldwin served as President of Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana before going to the American Medical Association in 1985 as Director of the Division of Medical Education and Research Information. He currently holds the titles of Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, University of Nevada School of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Northwestern University School of Medicine. In 2003, he received the degree of Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) from the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and in 2011, he received the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters (honoris causa) from Rosalind Franklin University. He has published over 200 scholarly articles and three books.

Baldwin, DeWitt “Bud”

Sonal Batra, MD, MST is a practicing physician and clinical instructor in the George Washington University's Department of Emergency Medicine. In this role she works with the Ronald Reagan Institute of Emergency Medicine to develop web-based curriculum for post-graduate training programs across India, serves as assistant medical director for the Pan American Health Organization, and will be the Residency Associate Program Director starting in the 2015 academic year. She serves as a Steering Committee member and conference organizer for Beyond Flexner 2015. Dr. Batra completed her emergency medicine residency, including a year as chief resident, in 2014 at the George Washington University. She received her Bachelor of Arts in psychology and medical degree from Northwestern University in the Honors Program in Medical Education. Between undergraduate and medical school, Dr. Batra spent two years teaching middle school science with Teach for America. During that time she earned a Masters of Science in Teaching from Pace University in New York City.

Batra, Sonal

Andrew Bazemore, MD, MPH, is the Director of the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Primary Care, where he directs research and projects related to access to care for underserved populations, health workforce, spatial analysis and health, and other topics. Dr. Bazemore remains an Associate Professor for the University of Cincinnati’s Department of Family Medicine, where he also completed his residency training and faculty development fellowship. He serves on the faculty of the Department of Family Medicine at Georgetown University and in the Department of Health Policy at George Washington University School of Public Health. A member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, he practices and teaches students and residents weekly at VCU-Fairfax Family Medicine Residency program. Dr. Bazemore received his BA degree from Davidson College, his MD from the University of North Carolina, and his MPH from Harvard University.

Bazemore, Andrew

Berwick, Donald

Donald M. Berwick was President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) for nearly 20 years. In July 2010, President Obama appointed Dr. Berwick to the position of Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, a position he held until December 2011. He was formerly Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Health Care Policy at the Harvard Medical School, and Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Berwick has served as vice chair of the US Preventive Services Task Force, the first "Independent Member" of the American Hospital Association Board of Trustees, and chair of the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. An elected member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), Dr. Berwick served two terms on the IOM's governing Council and was a member of the IOM's Global Health Board. He served on President Clinton's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Healthcare Industry. He is a recipient of several awards and author of numerous articles and books, including Curing Health Care and Escape Fire.

Molly Bleecker, MA, has been with the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center Office for Community Health for 3 years. She began as a Program Manager, managing an AHRQ Infrastructure for Maintaining Primary Care Transformation (IMPaCT) grant, which involved assisting small primary care practices in the state to transform into patient-centered medical homes through the health extension program. Her title recently changed to Research Scientist 3 to reflect her increasing involvement in research activities at the OCH, such as program evaluation, survey design, and health workforce analysis. Prior to coming to the OCH, Molly managed an NIH-funded comparative effectiveness study of a promotora-led cardiovascular disease prevention program for Latinos in southwestern New Mexico at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at UNM and spent five years at the University’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research conducting economic development-related research and data analysis.

Bleecker, Molly

Dan Blumenthal, MD, MPH, is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Chicago School of Medicine. He completed his residency in pediatrics at Charity Hospital of New Orleans (Tulane Division) and received his master of public health degree from Emory University. He is board-certified in both pediatrics and preventive medicine.He served as a VISTA Volunteer physician in Lee County, Arkansas; as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta; as a medical epidemiologist with the World Health Organization Smallpox Eradication Program in India and Somalia; and on the faculty of the Emory University School of Medicine. He joined the faculty of the Morehouse School of Medicine in 1980, where he served as Founding Chair of the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine from 1984--2009. He served as Associate Dean for Community Health until his retirement in July, 2014. He is the author or co-author of approximately 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, commentaries, reviews, and book chapters, and the editor or co-editor of four books. He has served as President of the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine, as a Regent of the American College of Preventive Medicine, as a member of the Governing Council of the American Public Health Association, as Fulton County (Atlanta) Health Officer, and as a Robert Petersdorf Scholar-in-Residence at the Association of American Medical Colleges. He is President-Elect of the American College of Preventive Medicine.He is a recipient of the Georgia Public Health Association’s Sellers-McCroan Award "for outstanding achievement and service to Georgia in public health." He was named the Outstanding VISTA Volunteer of the 1960s. He received a "Shining Light" Award from the Georgia Association for Primary Health Care, the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award from Morehouse School of Medicine, and the Duncan Clark Award from the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research, the association’s highest award.

Blumenthal, Dan

Thomas Bodenheimer is a general internist who received his medical degree at Harvard and completed his residency at UCSF. He spent 32 years in primary care practice in San Francisco's Mission District – 10 years in community health centers and 22 years in private practice. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Family and Community Medicine at University of California, San Francisco and Co-Director of the Center for Excellence in Primary Care. He is co-author with Kevin Grumbach of the books Improving Primary Care: Strategies and Tools for a Better Practice (McGraw-Hill, 2006), and the health policy text book Understanding Health Policy, 6th edition (McGraw-Hill, 2012). He has written health policy articles in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Annals of Family Medicine, and Health Affairs.

Bodenheimer, Thomas

David Bor, MD, is Chief of Medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) and the Charles S. Davidson Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Since joining CHA in 1981, he has made major contributions to CHA as a clinician, teacher, and administrative leader. This has included advancing patient care by spearheading new programs for HIV/AIDS, TB, and community-based primary care. As Chief of Medicine he has recruited outstanding primary care and specialty teams. He also co-founded both the Cambridge “Health of the City” program and the Institute for Community Health, which have focused on issues like childhood obesity, men’s health, and substance abuse. In the academic arena, Dr. Bor has worked with hundreds of young physicians, fostering an environment of learning, sharing, and innovation. These efforts have earned him the HMS Dean’s Award for Community Service, the A. Clifford Barger Award for Excellence in Mentoring, and membership in the HMS Academy, whose focus is excellence and innovation in medical education.

Bor, David

Dr. Brandt serves as the director for the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, and is the associate vice president for education at the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center, where she works to align interprofessional education and collaborative practice across the health professions and to forge a new kind of relationship between the education and practice communities. She also leads the Minnesota Area Health Education Center network, an interprofessional workforce development program for underserved rural and urban areas across our state.

Brandt, Barbara

Dr. Kathleen Brooks serves as the Director of the Rural Physician Associate Program at the University of Minnesota Medical School and Associate Professor in Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. Her work focuses on medical education and health policy workforce issues in Minnesota. She serves on several committees in the medical school focused on curriculum transformation. She previously served as Associate Dean for Primary Care and Assistant Dean for Continuing Medical Education at the University of Minnesota. She serves as a national consultant to medical schools interested in implementing longitudinal integrated clerkship models. She received her undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Minnesota, and completed her family medicine residency there. After a number of years in private practice, she transitioned into administrative medicine, health policy and teaching. She completed a MBA in at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN and a MPA degree at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. She has done administrative consulting for health systems, health policy work for the Minnesota Medical Assistance Program and served as the Minnesota Carrier Medical Director for the federal Medicare program. She currently chairs the board of directors of Stratis Health, Minnesota’s federally designated Quality Improvement Organization.

Brooks, Kathleen

Shannon Brownlee is senior vice president of the Lown Institute, which was founded by the cardiologist and humanitarian, Bernard Lown. She is co-founder of the Right Care Alliance, a group of clinicians, patients, and community leaders working to spark change in healthcare through social activism. She also serves as an instructor at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Brownlee has been a national leader in highlighting the scope and consequences of overuse in healthcare. An internationally known writer and essayist, her book, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer, was named the best economics book of 2007 by New York Times economics correspondent, David Leonhardt. Her articles and essays have appeared in such outlets as The Atlantic, New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Time Magazine, and The Sunday Times of London, among other publications. Brownlee holds a master’s degree in marine science, and she serves on the board of FamiliesUSA, the advisory board of the American Academy of Family Practice Robert Graham Center, and the Institute of Medicine’s Evidence Communication Innovation Collaborative.

Brownlee, Shannon

Burke, Guenevere

Dr. Guenevere Burke is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the George Washington University (GWU). In this role, she serves as a member of the health policy and innovative practice groups and as co-director of the Health Policy & Social Mission Collaboration between GWU and Kaiser Permanente. Dr. Burke completed fellowship training in health policy at GWU, working as a fellow with the Kaiser Family Foundation and serving as a health policy advisor to Senator Grassley, a member of the Senate Finance Committee. She completed her medical education at UCLA and residency training at the University of Southern California, where she served as chief resident. She holds an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and previously worked in healthcare consulting and finance. She is actively involved in teaching graduate programs on the intersection of health IT, business and policy.

Boyd R. Buser, D.O. is Vice President for Health Affairs and Dean of the University of Pikeville’s Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine in Pikeville, Kentucky, where he also holds the rank of Professor of Osteopathic Principles and Practice and Professor of Family Medicine. He is a graduate of Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine, and is a Fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians. He is currently a member of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) Board of Trustees, chairs the AOA’s Bureau of Osteopathic Graduate Medical Education Development and the Council on Research. Dr. Buser is a past Chairman of the Board of the National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners and was a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Osteopathic International Alliance. He is a member of the American Medical Association’s Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Editorial Panel. In 1994, Dr. Buser was named Educator of the Year by the AOA and the American Osteopathic Foundation. He served as co-chair of the AOA/AACOM Blue Ribbon Commission for the Advancement of Osteopathic Medical Education, which in 2013 proposed an innovative model for the training of primary care physicians. The report of the Commission can be found at www.blueribboncommission.org.

Buser, Boyd

With over 25 years of experience in graduate and postgraduate medical education at the George Washington University, Leigh Anne Butler currently serves as the Grants Management Coordinator on a number of international and domestic grants in the Department of Health Policy. Ms. Butler has held positions in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Emergency Medicine coordinating required third and fourth year rotations for the medical students as well as working with housestaff in both departments. In her current position, Ms. Butler works on both domestic and international programs in the Department of Health Policy primarily in the area of health workforce. Her current projects include work through the Coordinating Center on the Medical Education Partnership Initiative grant to improve medical education in sub-Saharan Africa, our project with Kaiser Permanente providing a Fellowship and Residency Elective in Health Policy, and a Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation grant looking at the relationship of training characteristics to graduate outcomes. Ms. Butler’s work in computer aided didactic instruction in emergency medicine was presented at the American College of Emergency Physician’s national meeting and she has been a co-author published in Academic Emergency Medicine. She also authored a chapter on “Violence” for the student rotation manual used in the Department of Emergency Medicine. She is currently working on potential publications regarding the work being done through the Medical Education Partnership Initiative.

Butler, Leigh Anne

For over 30 years Maureen Byrnes, MPA, served in leadership positions in the federal government, philanthropy and the non-profit sector. As Executive Director of Human Rights First, Maureen traveled to Russia and Pakistan, and worked to end the use of torture as an interrogation technique. From 1997 to 2005, Maureen served as Director of the Health and Human Services program at The Pew Charitable Trusts where she designed and implemented a wide variety of strategies and initiatives to address challenges in the fields of public health, foster care and science policy, among others. In the 1980’s, Maureen worked with Senator Lowell Weicker as the Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education and Related Agencies. Later she served as Executive Director of the National Commission on AIDS, the first Congressionally-mandated independent commission to address the challenges associated with the HIV epidemic. Currently, Maureen is a Lead Research Scientist and Lecturer in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University. Maureen has a Masters Degree in Public Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was a Presidential Management Fellow.

Byrnes, Maureen

Christine K. Cassel, MD is President and CEO of the National Quality Forum. Previously she served as President and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dr. Cassel is a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). She is the co-chair and physician leader of PCAST working groups that have made recommendations to the President on issues relating to health information technology, scientific innovation in drug development and systems engineering in health care delivery. She was a member of the Commonwealth Fund’s Commission on a High Performance Health System and has served on IOM committees that wrote the influential reports To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm. She is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Senior Fellow in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine, former Dean of Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University, Chair of Geriatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, and Chief of General Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago. Dr. Cassel is a prolific scholar, having authored and edited 14 books and over 200 published articles.

Cassel, Christine

Neil S. Calman, MD, FAAFP, is a Board Certified family physican, President, CEO and co-founder of the Institute for Family Health. Since 1983 Dr. Calman has led the Institute in developing family health centers in the Bronx, Manhattan (where he practiced for 38 years) and in the Hudson Valley. The Institute now operates 29 health centers in the Bronx, Manhattan and the Mid-Hudson Valley, including three school-based health centers, and eight part-time centers that care for people who are homeless. The organization serves 100,000 patients who make 600,000 visits each year. Under Dr. Calman’s leadership the Institute has been successful in establishing health professional training in medicine, nursing, administration and mental health. Its residency programs and fellowships currently train nearly 100 family physicians. In 2012, through an affiliation between the Institute and Mount Sinai, Dr. Calman became Professor and Chair of a new Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where Institute family physicians now practice and teach. For fifteen years, Dr. Calman has been a leader in the National effort to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes leading to the Institute’s designation as a National Center of Excellence in the Elimination of Disparities.  

Calman, Neil

Chang, Betty

Dr. Betty Chang is the Associate Dean of GME and DIO at the University of New Mexico since 2013. Prior to this, she was the Vice Chair of Education and Program Director of Internal Medicine for 5 years.

Chen, Candice

Candice Chen M.D. M.P.H., is the Director of the Division of Medicine and Dentistry at the Bureau of Health Workforce at HRSA. She was formerly the Co-Principal Investigator of the Medical Education Futures Study, an Investigator on the Sub-Saharan African Medical Schools Study and an Attending Physician in General Pediatrics at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. She received her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine and her Masters of Public Health from George Washington University with a concentration in Community Oriented Primary Care.

Chen, Lincoln Lincoln C. Chen is President of the China Medical Board. Started in 1914, the Board was endowed by John D. Rockefeller as an independent American foundation to advance health in China and Asia by strengthening medical education, research, and policies. Dr. Chen was the Harvard School of Public Health Taro Takemi Professor of International Health, Director of the University-wide Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, and the founding Director of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative. Earlier, Dr. Chen served as Executive Vice-President of the Rockefeller Foundation, and he represented the Ford Foundation in India and Bangladesh. In addition to serving on many boards, Dr. Chen was the Special Envoy of the WHO Director-General in Human Resources for Health, the Founding Chair of the WHO-based Global Health Workforce Alliance, and a founding member of Advisory Board to the UN Secretary-General of the UN Fund for International Partnerships. Dr. Chen is a member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He graduated from Princeton University (BA), Harvard Medical School (MD), and the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health (MPH).

Frederick Ming Chen, MD, MPH, is chief of family medicine at Harborview Medical Center and UW associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, where he teaches health policy, conducts research, and sees patients. He attended medical school at the University of California, San Francisco and received his master’s of public health in epidemiology from UC Berkeley. After completing his residency in family medicine at the University of Washington, Dr. Chen was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, where he developed his research interest in health policy and medical education.

Chen, Frederick

Dr. Gail Christopher is vice president for policy and senior advisor at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. In this role, she serves on the president’s cabinet that provides overall direction and leadership for the foundation. Since joining the foundation in 2007, Gail has served as vice president for program strategy with responsibility for multiple areas of programming, including Racial Equity; Food, Health & Well-Being; Community Engagement and Leadership; as well as place-based programming in New Orleans and New Mexico. Gail is a nationally recognized leader in health policy, with particular expertise and experience in the issues related to social determinants of health, health inequities and public policy issues of concern to our nation’s future. Her distinguished career and contributions to public service were honored in 1996 when she was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. In 2011 she was awarded the “Change Agent Award” by the Schott Foundation for Public Education; in 2012 she was the recipient of the Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) John C. MacQueen Lecture Award for her innovation and leadership in the field of maternal and child health. Most recently in 2015 she was the recipient of the Terrance Keenan award for Grantmakers in Health. She is president of the board of the Trust for America’s Health.  

Christopher, Gail

Dawn A. Contreras, Ph.D., is the Director of Michigan State University Extension's Health and Nutrition Institute at Michigan State University. Dr. Contreras has taught various courses for the department, including undergraduate and graduate courses in program design, administration and management of family and community service organizations, and parent education. Contreras' major areas of funded research include co-parenting within diverse families, community-based approaches to nutrition education, healthy weight, and health promotion, and immunization education.

Contreras, Dawn

Clancy, Gerard

Dr. Gerard Clancy, MD, serves as Vice President for Health Affairs and Dean of the College of Health Sciences at The University of Tulsa. Clancy serves on numerous community boards in the Tulsa area. He received the 2002 National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Community Psychiatry Award at the national meeting. The Oklahoma State Medical Association awarded him the 2003-2004 Award for Community Service for the development of a community partnership to improve access to care for the medically underserved. Under his leadership, the IMPACT team, a mobile psychiatric team, and the Bedlam Alliance for Community Health, a network of clinics providing free medical care, have become a safety net for the underserved in northeastern Oklahoma. 

Erin Corriveau, MD, MPH, was born and raised in the Land of Enchantment. She completed her medical training at the University of New Mexico and decided to pursue Family and Community Medicine after a life-altering summer working on the Zuni reservation. Under close mentorship in Albuquerque, Erin contributed to various programs such as helping to establish a community-managed resident-staffed interdisciplinary clinic for undocumented immigrants, she worked with peers to create a statewide health careers pipeline development curriculum emphasizing rural and tribal areas, and she contributed to the early coordination of the Health Extension Rural Offices (HEROs) program. Upon finishing her residency at UNM, Erin completed a Preventive Medicine residency at Johns Hopkins, and practiced community medicine on weekends at a small health center in East Baltimore. While at Hopkins, she took special interest in the history of the COPC movement, and current trends in the integration of primary care and public health. Erin recently began as an assistant professor of Family Medicine at the University of Kansas. When she's not teaching, seeing patients or in the community, she is a devoted runner, enjoys writing, and has been known to wield a paintbrush when the mood strikes.

Corriveau, Erin

Dan Derksen M.D., is the Walter H. Pearce Endowed Chair and Professor of the Community, Environment & Policy Department at the University of Arizona’s Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. He is also the Director of the Arizona Center for Rural Health. Dr. Derksen completed a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship in 2008 with U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman. He researched and drafted federal health workforce provisions that were later included in Title V of the Affordable Care Act, including Sec. 5508, Teaching Health Centers. While working for Governor Susana Martinez as the Director, New Mexico Office of Health Care Reform, he wrote and was funded by CMS ($34.3 million) to establish NM’s Health Insurance Exchange – engaging advocates, institutions, insurers, providers, consumers and stakeholders in the process. As principal investigator of state, federal, private foundation, contract, grant and cooperative agreement funding in excess of $50 million over his academic career, Dr. Derksen works to improve health insurance coverage and access to quality health care, emphasizing community-based service-learning models in rural areas.

Derksen, Dan

De la Rosa, Manuel Jose Manuel de la Rosa, M.D., is provost and vice president for academic affairs, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) El Paso. Before his current appointment, Dr. de la Rosa was vice president for Health Affairs as well as founding dean of the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, TTUHSC El Paso. Dr. de la Rosa oversees the accreditation components of the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, the Gayle Greve Hunt School of Nursing, and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) accreditation through the newly formed Office of Institutional Research & Effectiveness.  Dr. de la Rosa also oversees Student Services, Educational Affairs, the Office of Diversity Affairs and the Office of Global Health Affairs. Soon after his appointment as Regional Dean for the School of Medicine at TTUHSC-El Paso in 1997, Dr. de la Rosa set a goal of bringing a full-fledged four-year medical school to the El Paso community. After more than ten years dedicated to this initiative, the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine received its LCME accreditation on February 6, 2008 and welcomed its inaugural class of first year medical students in July of 2009. This milestone brought the full resources of both a medical school and health sciences center enterprise to the community. 

Lawrence R. Deyton, MSPH, MD, is Professor of Medicine and Health Policy and Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Public Health at the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Dr. Deyton returned to GW in March 2013 after 31 years in leadership positions in health policy, research and clinical service in several Federal health and public health agencies including the Food and Drug Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, National Institutes of Health and the HHS Office of the Surgeon General and Assistant Secretary for Health and as a Congressional aide. During that career Dr. Deyton had extensive experience establishing and overseeing high profile health and public health research, education and clinical programs particularly working with front line providers, administrators and researchers. Dr. Deyton was a founder in 1978 of Washington DC’s Whitman Walker Clinic, a community based service organization specializing in LGBT and now HIV care in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of University of Kansas, the Harvard School of Public Health and the George Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Deyton’s post-doctorate medical training in medicine was at the University of Southern California/Los Angeles County Medical Center and in infectious diseases at the National Institutes of Health. He has published over 130 scientific articles in the peer-reviewed literature. Dr. Deyton continues to care for patients on a regular basis at the Washington, DC VA Medical Center. In 2011, Dr. Deyton was a finalist for the prestigious Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal for his career of government service and outstanding contributions to the health, safety and well-being of Americans – 20 finalists are chosen from 4.8 million Federal employees nation-wide.  

Deyton, Lawrence “Bopper”

Perry Dickinson, M.D., is a Professor in the University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine and Past President of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, the North American Primary Care Research Group, the Board of Directors of the Annals of Family Medicine, and the Council of Academic Family Medicine. He serves as Director of the Colorado Health Extension System. Dr. Dickinson has led multiple studies investigating the process of primary care practice redesign, particularly focusing on the implementation of self-management support, the Chronic Care Model, the Patient Centered Medical Home mode, and integrated mental, substance abuse, and behavioral health services in primary care practices.  

Dickinson, Perry

Michel Disco, MBA, RPh, is the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center Director of Interprofessional Education. She is a Distinguished Alumna of the College of Pharmacy and an alumna of Anderson School of Management at the University of New Mexico. After working for more than 30 years as a community pharmacist, she accepted the position of Assistant Dean for External Programs and Associate Professor in 2004. As the Assistant Dean, Disco is responsible for the assigning of student pharmacists to clinical and elective sites where the students complete practical experiences. The Experiential Office Team recruits and assists preceptors who teach the students. As an associate professor, Disco has taught various courses, including Self-Care Therapeutics (“OTC class”), a service learning elective and pharmacy law. She precepts students in several interprofessional rotations and classes for the HSC students. Disco has developed a passion for interprofessional education. She served on the HSC Interprofessional Committee and was a member of the IPE Event Day planning committee. She is serving as a member of the IPE directorate. Along with several others, she has presented at national and international meetings on IPE. Disco has been very active in the state and national pharmacy professional organizations for many years. She is a past-president of the New Mexico Pharmacists Association.

Disco, Michel

Dr. Daniel Duffy is the Steven Landgarten Chair in Medical Leadership and former Dean of the OU School of Community Medicine, Tulsa. After spending a tour of 10 years in Philadelphia as the Executive Vice President of the American Board of Internal Medicine, Dr. Duffy returned to Tulsa. At the ABIM he created the widely used self-administered practice improvement module that is now used across multiple certifying boards. He has been a leader in launching the new process for physician Maintenance of Certification that includes assessment and improvement of performance in practice. While in Philadelphia he held an adjunct professorship at the University of Pennsylvania in Internal Medicine and was a volunteer teacher at other Philadelphia medical schools. At OU, Dr. Duffy has been instrumental in the development of the School of Community Medicine, serving on the strategic planning committee since inception. He has developed the Summer Institute for understanding Community Medicine, a Faculty Academy for developing faculty in community medicine, and a Student Academy which teaches third year students in the skills needed to provide longitudinal care to underserved patients suffering with chronic illness. He teaches in the Bedlam Longitudinal clinic and volunteers as an Internist in Bedlam Evening.

Duffy, Dan

Dr. Deborah L. Edberg, MD, is the original and current Program Director of the Northwestern McGaw Family Medicine Residency Program, one of the original HRSA funded Teaching Health Centers and is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Edberg attended Jefferson Medical College and completed her residency in family medicine at University of Connecticut St. Francis Hospital. Dr. Edberg served on the board of directors for the Illinois Academy of Family Physicians from 2006-2014. She also serves on the American Academy of Family Physicians Commission on Education and serves as Chair for the AAFP National Conference.  

Edberg, Deborah

Dr. El-Bayoumi was born in Florida, raised in East Lansing, Michigan and attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor for both undergraduate and medical school. She then moved to Washington DC in 1985 to complete her internship, residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at the George Washington University Medical Center. After completion of her training she joined the Division of General Internal Medicine at GWU. Dr. El-Bayoumi served as clerkship director for many years prior to becoming the Internal Medicine Residency program director in 1998 and remained in that role for 15 years. Dr. El-Bayoumi is an associate professor of medicine and she has a very active clinical practice. Learning how to better educate and evaluate learners, from all levels has been a long-standing interest of hers. She has lectured and taught in the schools of public health, medicine and the residency program, as well as the community about topics such as women and minority health. She has served on the Boards of Center for Women Policy Studies, National Women’s Health Network and Arts for the Aging. She is currently serving as a board member of Whitman Walker Health. Dr. El-Bayoumi founded the Rodham Institute to honor her patient, Mrs. Dorothy E. Rodham. She was not only a patient, but she also became her cherished friend. Mrs. Rodham was a wonderful human being who was committed to social justice and this Institute was created to honor her legacy.

El Bayoumi, Jehan

Martha L Elks, MD, PhD is Chair and Professor of Medical Education and Senior Associate Dean for Educational Affairs at Morehouse School of Medicine. In her leadership roles at Morehouse, she has led the integration of the MD curriculum, and the expansion of degree programs. She is recognized nationally as a leader in medical education. Dr. Elks, born and raised in rural eastern North Carolina, is a graduate of Duke University and has an MD and PhD (Neurobiology) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She completed her internship in Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins and residency in Medicine at Hopkins and at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. She also completed a fellowship in Endocrinology at the NIH. She is board-certified in Medicine and Endocrinology. She served as Chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Director of Student Education in the Department of Medicine at Texas Tech Health Science Center in Lubbock Texas from 1985-1998. Dr. Elks has over 60 peer reviewed publications. Her scholarly activity has included research on serotonin synthesis and release in rat brain, biochemistry of fat cell metabolism, and control of insulin release. She has received funding from the Gold foundation for establishing the White Coat Ceremony, and the Student Clinician ceremony at Morehouse. Her research and scholarly activity have been funded by the American Diabetes Association and HRSA. She has received numerous teaching awards. She received the John Templeton Foundation Award in 1997 and was honored by the Gold Foundation with the Humanism in Medicine Award.

Elks, Martha

Malika Fair, MD, MPH is the Director of Public Health Initiatives at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Dr. Fair directs both the Urban Universities for HEALTH (Health Equity through Alignment, Leadership, and Transformation of Health Workforce) project and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Cooperative Agreement with AAMC. Dr. Fair is also an Assistant Clinical Professor and practicing physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine of The George Washington University. Dr. Fair completed her Emergency Medicine residency training and chief residency at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC. She received her medical and Master of Public Health degrees from the University of Michigan and Bachelors of Science from Stanford University.

Fair, Malika

Linda M. Famiglio, M.D., F.A.A.P., is the Chief Academic Officer and Associate Chief Medical Officer at the Geisinger Health System with system leadership responsibility for more than 425 residents/fellows maintaining accreditation for over 40 programs for physicians, dentists, podiatrists, physicists, psychologists and others across 40 counties and three teaching hospitals in mostly rural Pennsylvania. Dr. Famiglio created the Geisinger Clinical Campus in 2006 for 50 full time third and fourth year medical students and serves as an Associate Dean and Professor of Neurology at Temple University School of Medicine. Dr. Famiglio leads the Center for Continuing Professional Development, which holds Joint Accreditation from the ANCC, ACCME and ACPE for team, based continuing education and develops more than 30,000 hours of accredited courses each year. She advises the Advanced Practice Council that focuses on education of Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners and CRNAs and the Interprofessional Council that promotes a culture of respect and team based learning and care. Dr. Famiglio is a practicing child neurologist who has trained at Hopkins, Duke and the University of Washington. Dr. Famiglio has served as Chair of the AAMC’s Group on Resident Affairs and the ACGME’s Institutional Review Committee. She currently serves on Pennsylvania Medical Society’s Council for CME, chairs the ACCME’s Accreditation Review Committee and actively teaches students, residents and interprofessional teams. She has designed and implemented the Geisinger Integrated Curriculum, local and national curricula for leadership, faculty development, GME funding, and the AAMC’s Te4Q, focusing on interprofessional groups across the continuum of medical education, wellness, integrating quality and transforming systems of care.

Famiglio, Linda

Edwin B. Fisher, Ph.D., is Global Director of Peers for Progress of the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation that is dedicated to promoting peer support in health, health care, and prevention around the world. He is also Professor in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously, he directed the Division of Health Behavior Research in the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics at Washington University and served as associate director of the University’s NIH-funded Diabetes Research and Training Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center. With over 60 collaborating groups and grantees worldwide, Peers for Progress is building the evidence base for peer support interventions, disseminating resources and guides for program development and quality improvement, and promoting networking to advance integration of peer support in health care and preventive services. From 2002-2009, he served as National Program Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Diabetes Initiative that demonstrated the feasibility, effectiveness, and cost effectiveness of diabetes self management programs in primary care and community settings. Dr. Fisher is a past-president of the Society of Behavioral Medicine and has served on the boards of the International Society of Behavioral Medicine and the American Lung Association.

Fisher, Edwin

Thomas L. Fisher, M.D., M.P.H., serves as the Vice President of New Consumer Health Strategies and Research at Health Care Service Corps. In this role, he leads strategies to improve the value of care for individuals who are gaining new access to health insurance through the insurance marketplaces and government programs. This work entails better understanding through data, improved quality and greater efficiency for Blue Cross and Blue Shield members in five states. He also leads Health Care Service Corp.'s (HCSC) efforts to eliminate health disparities. Prior to joining HCSC, Dr. Fisher was a 2010-2011 White House Fellow, placed at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the Office of the Secretary. As a White House Fellow, Dr. Fisher worked on various Affordable Care Act regulations, including those that shape Accountable Care Organizations. He also provided leadership for the development of the HHS Action Plan for Reducing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. Dr. Fisher was previously an assistant professor at the University of Chicago. There, he practiced emergency medicine and studied the roles of race, systems of care and socio-cultural structures in disparities in health and health care. He developed a community medical center partnership called "Community Solutions in Action" to produce research and interventions that transform emergency departments' approaches to vulnerable communities. He also partnered with the New Community Program/Woodlawn in "Ask the Doctor," a monthly community discussion on health. In the past, Dr. Fisher participated in founding Project Brotherhood, a health care center specifically for African-American men, and he has co-led the University of Chicago-Kenwood Academy program for academic exploration. His medical training included a year as chief resident and a fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program. In 2013, Dr. Fisher was named one of Crain's Chicago Business 40 Under 40. He continues to practice emergency medicine in the community where he grew up. Dr. Fisher grew up on Chicago's south side and is a graduate of Chicago Public Schools. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College, a Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health and a medical degree from the University of Chicago.

Fisher, Thomas

Freeman, Josh Joshua Freeman, MD, is the Alice M. Patterson MD and Harold L. Patterson MD Professor and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at KUMC. He also holds appointments as Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health and the Department of Health Policy and Management. He graduated from the Loyola-Stritch School of Medicine, completed his residency at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, and a faculty development fellowship and Preventive Medicine residency at the University of Arizona. He has previously worked at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio and at Cook County Hospital, where his faculty appointment was at the University of Illinois. Dr. Freeman serves nationally as Treasurer of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and has also been an officer of the Board of the Association of Department of Family Medicine. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Roosevelt University in Chicago. His interests are in health inequities, minority health, social determinants of health, workforce and faculty development. His book, “Health, Medicine, and Justice: Designing a fair and equitable healthcare system” is about to be released by Copernicus Healthcare.

Jose Francisco Garcia Gutierrez, MD, PhD, MSc, Specialist in Preventive Medicine & Public Health, has more than 25 years of experience in the area of health systems and services (HSS) and human resources for health (HRH) development. He graduated as a medical doctor at the University of Salamanca (Spain) in 1983. Between 1983 and 1987 worked as general practitioner in rural areas of central Spain. In 1988 he moved to Trinity College (University of Dublin, Ireland) to obtain his Master and PhD Degrees in Public Health. During this period he also worked simultaneosly as a clinician, lecturer, researcher and voluntary consultant for NGOs in several African countries. In 1992 he returned to Spain and until 1999 he occupied different managerial posts for the Ministry of Health and the National Institute of Health, with special focus in clinical epidemiology and human resources for health development. He shared managerial tasks with international academic and research activities, collaborating in various european projects related with health system reforms in East European Countries. In the year 2000, he was transferred to the Andalusian School of Public Health as a professor in the area of health systems and services, health management and human resources for health development, where he remained till 2013. He acted also as advisor for the Andalusian Health Government and participated as a coordinator in numerous international projects in Europe and Latin America. Dr Garcia has published numerous scientific papers and participated in many medical meetings as a guest-speaker. He has been a board member of the European Union projects Europubhealth, Manahealth, Eurofamily and Men's Health, the European Health Management Association (EHMA), the European Association of Public Health Schools (ASPHER), the Iberoamerican Cochrane Collaboration, PAHO/WHO Virtual Campus of Public Health, the Spanish Association of Family Physicians, and the Spanish Association of Health Management and Administration. He specially enjoys working in multicultural projects and initiatives aimed to transform health systems and services to minimize health inequities and disparities at the global level.  

Garcia Gutierrez, Jose Francisco

Dr. Geiger is the Arthur C. Logan Professor of Community Medicine Emeritus at the City University of New York Medical School. He has previously served as professor and chairman of Community Medicine at SUNY-Stonybrook School of Medicine and Tufts University Medical School, as well as Visiting Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is a founding member and past president of Physicians for Human Rights, a founding member and past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, a founding member and past president of the Committee for Health in South Africa, and a founding member and national program coordinator of the Medical Committee for Human Rights. Dr. Geiger has led or participated in human rights missions for PHR, the United Nations, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science to former Yugoslavia, Iraq and Kurdistan, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and South Africa. Most of his professional career has been focused on the related issues of health, poverty, and civil rights. Dr. Geiger initiated the community health center model in the USA, founding and directing the nation's first two community health centers, in the Mississipi Delta and in Columbia Point, Boston. These centers became models for what is now a national network of more than 1000 CHCs serving some 17 million low-income and minority patients. Dr. Geiger is a member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, and the recipient of the IOM's highest honor, the Lienhardt Award, for "outstanding contributions to minority health." In recognition of his work on racial and ethnic discrimination in health care, the Congressional Black, Hispanic and Asian American Caucuses have created the H. Jack Geiger Congressional Fellowships on Health Disparities for young minority scholars.

Geiger, Jack

Dr. Michael Glasser is Associate Dean for Rural Health Professions and Research Professor of Medical Sociology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford. He is the George T & Mildred A Mitchell Professor in Rural and Family Medicine. Dr. Glasser directs the National Center for Rural Health Professions and is co-director of the campus School of Public Health Program. Dr. Glasser is co-editor of the international journal Education for Health. Dr. Glasser helped establish the nationally and internationally recognized Rural Medical Education (RMED) Program on the Rockford campus and the interdisciplinary National Center for Rural Health Professions, a designated center of the Illinois Board of Higher Education. He has served as PI on many grants including the NIH Project EXPORT Center for Rural Health, supported by the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities and the Kellogg Foundation Rural People, Rural Policy initiative. He has extensive experience in research on rural medical and pharmacy students’ career pathways. He is also Co-Investigator of the UIC Hispanic Center of Excellence, HRSA-funded grant examining and developing health career opportunities for Latino youth in rural areas and is working to establish pathway programs for Native American youth into health professions.

Glasser, Michael

Brian K. Gibbs, PhD, is a public health practitioner with 30 years of experience in health disparities reduction, and serves as the associate vice chancellor for the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center’s Office for Diversity and assistant professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Dr. Gibbs is a Occupational Therapist by training and practice, with a wealth of experience and knowledge in Public Health, K-12 and Higher Education, and Diversity. He has worked in both private and public sectors to improve education through leadership and policy.  Dr. Gibbs has extensive experience in Diversity leadership at institutions including, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and the University of New Mexico Health Sciences.  He has served and serves on many boards of directors for like-minded organizations and brought resources through grants and collaborations in his career.

Gibbs, Brian

Gottlieb, Laura Laura Gottlieb, MD, MPH is Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Gottlieb’s research focuses on designing and evaluating methods to integrate interventions addressing social factors into health care. These interventions include volunteer-powered social services Help Desks, Medical-Legal Partnerships and other efforts to identify and address social needs in medical practices, like re-designing electronic medical records to incorporate data on social determinants. Dr. Gottlieb runs the research projects on the Children’s Hospital Oakland Family Information and Navigation Desk and the San Francisco General Hospital Community to Clinic Linkage Program. She is also a co-founder of HealthBegins, a non-profit organization providing education, consulting, networking, and technology services to health care providers interested in joining the effort to move medicine upstream. Dr. Gottlieb also founded the Bay Area Help Desk Consortium (BARHC), a collaboration between multiple hospitals, legal aid, and university groups investing in volunteer Help Desks in Bay Area health systems. Dr. Gottlieb completed her MD at Harvard Medical School, and both her MPH and residency training at the University of Washington.

Pedro “Joe” Greer, MD, has an unwavering commitment and is an advocate for those without access to health care. Throughout his career, Dr. Greer has received numerous awards and Honorary Doctoral degrees. Most recently, he was recognized as a 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree, and in 1993, he was honored as a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant" Fellow. Dr. Greer is board certified in Medicine and Gastroenterology and has been practicing in Miami, Florida since 1991. He established Camillus Health Concern and Saint John Bosco in Miami, Florida, health care centers for persons who are homeless, undocumented, uninsured, and low income. Dr. Greer wrote Waking up in America, an autobiographical account of caring for persons who are homeless. In July 2007, Dr. Greer joined the newly established Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine as Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs. He led the creation of the Department of Humanities, Health, and Society, and in 2009 became its Founding Chair. Dr. Greer and the department faculty have spearheaded a unique UME program to prepare physicians to assess and address the social determinants that affect health care access and health outcomes. Dr. Greer currently serves in various capacities for a multitude of national, state, and local organizations. Additionally, Dr. Greer served as Chair for the Hispanic Heritage Awards Foundation from 2002 to 2012. He is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha National Medical Honor Society and a fellow in the American College of Physicians and the American College of Gastroenterology.

Greer, Pedro “Joe”

Marc N. Gourevitch, MD, MPH, is the Muriel G. and George W. Singer Professor and founding Chair of the Department of Population Health at the NYU School of Medicine. The focus of Dr. Gourevitch's work is on developing approaches that leverage both healthcare delivery and policy- and community-level interventions to advance the health of populations. Dr. Gourevitch is co-Director of the Community Engagement and Population Health Research Core of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute that bridges NYU and the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation, and leads NYU's participation in the NYC Clinical Data Research Network funded by PCORI. His research interests center on improving health outcomes among drug users and other underserved populations; integrating pharmacologic treatments for opioid and alcohol dependence into primary care; and strategies for bridging academic research with applied challenges faced by health care delivery systems and public sector initiatives. Dr. Gourevitch previously served as founding Director of NYU’s Division of General Internal Medicine, and led NYU’s CDC-funded Fellowship in Medicine and Public Health Research. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, he trained in primary care/internal medicine at NYU and Bellevue and received his MPH from the Mailman School of Public Health.

Gourevitch, Marc

Haq, Cindy

Cindy Haq is professor of family medicine and population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She has been a champion for health equity, primary health care, community health and family medicine throughout her career. She designs and leads socially accountable medical education programs to prepare health professionals to work with medically underserved communities. She has provided full spectrum family medicine in rural Belleville, Madison and Milwaukee WI, and has designed and led medical educational programs in Pakistan, Uganda and with the World Health Organization. She was the founding director of the UW Center for Global Health. Dr. Haq is currently leading the Training in Urban Medicine and Public Health (TRIUMPH) program to prepare UW medical students to become community responsive physician leaders in Milwaukee. She contributes to educational partnerships to train health professionals and to promote gender equity in Ethiopia.

Carol Havens, MD, is the Director of Clinical Education for Northern California KaiserPermanente and a practicing Family Medicine physician. Dr. Havens is currently chair of the California Medical Association CME committee, a member of the Accreditation Review Committee for the ACCME, and a member of the CME committees for the Permanente Federation and Audio-Digest. She has served as the chair of the scientific program committee for the California Academy of Family Physicians and currently is a member of their Board of Directors. She has had the opportunity to be involved in the planning and implementation of many types of educational interventions including live programs, videoconferences, small group workshops, academic detailing training and evaluation, clinician patient communication workshops, and a variety of enduring materials, including web-based programs.

Havens, Carol

Sonja Harris-Haywood, M.D., M.S., is an award-winning family medicine educator, physician and researcher specializing in health disparities and cultural competency, as currently serves as the Director of the Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED)-Cleveland State University (CSU) Partnership for Urban Health. Dr. Harris-Haywood leads efforts in refining and advancing NEOMED and CSU’s unique approach to interprofessional education, with physicians learning side-by-side with other health professions, and providing increased opportunities to underrepresented groups in medicine in an effort to diversify the workforce and establish a nationally-recognized model in urban health. Dr. Harris-Haywood spent nine years as an assistant professor of family medicine as well as a medical staff physician and preceptor at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland. Previously, Dr. Harris-Haywood taught family medicine at New Jersey Medical School and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Her extensive clinical experience also includes a position as an emergency-room physician at University Hospitals, as well as positions at community health centers in Washington, D.C., and in New Jersey. Dr. Harris-Haywood is a member of the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Cleveland Medical Association, among other organizations. With an emphasis on health disparities and cultural competency, Dr. Harris-Haywood has conducted research funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute. Her work has been published in Archives of Internal Medicine, Medical Care, Journal of the National Medical Association and other peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Harris-Haywood holds a Master of Science degree in clinical investigation from Case Western Reserve University. She earned a Doctor of Medicine degree at New Jersey Medical School and a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Seton Hall University.

Harris-Haywood, Sonja

David Hirsh, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director, and co-founder of Harvard Medical School's Cambridge Integrated Clerkship and Director and principle developer of Harvard's year II OSCE. He consults internationally on transforming medical education's design, OSCEs, and humanism in medicine. He is a practicing physician at Cambridge Health Alliance.

Hirsh, David

“Hill” has devoted his career since the mid-1950s to finding ways to help enhance and humanize teaching and practice in the health professions. He is the first person known to have pursued medical and educational doctorates simultaneously, and was responsible for the two largest studies of medical teaching ever done. Hill was Founding Director of the Office of Medical Education Research and Development at Michigan State University and of the Division of Faculty Development at the AAMC. In the 1980s he was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and of Family Medicine at the University of Miami, and since 1990 he has been Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver. He is former Editor of Education for Health: Change in Learning and Practice. Dr. Jason has presented keynote addresses, offered workshops and/or been a consultant on aspects of education in the health professions in 36 countries, and twice lived in Europe for extended periods, while consulting with the World Health Organization. Together with his wife, Jane Westberg, PhD, Hill has co-authored seven academic books on aspects of teaching and learning in the health professions, and he has co-authored and hosted more than 60 educational video programs.

Jason, Hilliard

Robert Janett, MD, FACP, serves as a senior medical director of the Tufts Health Plan-Network Health. Dr Janett serves as the physician advisor to the medical management, credentialing, quality, and appeals and grievances team. He works closely with our special programs and care management team, as well as the state, to coordinate care for members and provide clinical support to Tufts Health Plan – Network Health's nurses and social workers. He is a practicing primary care physician with Cambridge Family Health and the medical director of the Mount Auburn Cambridge Independent Practice Association. He is also an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, a clinical instructor in health science at Northeastern University, and a health policy consultant to the World Bank, Latin America and Caribbean Region. He also previously served with the U.S. Public Health Service and spent three years on the Navajo Indian Reservation before returning to Cambridge Hospital. Dr. Janett earned his medical degree at Dartmouth Medical School and completed his residency in internal medicine at Cambridge Hospital, where he served as chief medical resident.

Janett, Robert

Camara Phyllis Jones is research director on social determinants of health and equity in the Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP). Dr. Jones is a family physician and epidemiologist whose work focuses on the impact of racism on the health and wellbeing of the nation. She seeks to broaden the national health debate to include not only universal access to high quality health care but also attention to the social determinants of health (including poverty) and the social determinants of equity (including racism). As a methodologist, she has developed new ways for comparing full distributions of data (rather than means or proportions) in order to investigate population-level risk factors and propose population-level interventions. As a social epidemiologist, her work on race-associated differences in health outcomes goes beyond documenting those differences to vigorously investigating the structural causes. As a teacher, her allegories on race and racism illuminate topics that are otherwise difficult for many Americans to understand or discuss.

Jones, Camara Phyllis

Kalousek, Kay Kay Kalousek, DO, MS, FACOFP, serves as dean of AT Still University of Health Sciences’ School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona (ATSU-SOMA). Dr. Kalousek has a Bachelor of Arts from Loma Linda University, a Master of Science from California State University, San Bernardino, a Master of Health Professions Education and Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from Western University of Health Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific. She is Board Certified in Family Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians. Additionally, she is credentialed by the American Association of HIV Medicine as an HIV medicine expert (AAHIVE). Dr. Kalousek is an active community volunteer and has provided free medical care for multiple underserved groups as well as being instrumental in establishing a clinic site in California for medical students to provide services to homeless patients. She has been a Student Community Service Project Mentor and has assisted in projects such as the Health Awareness Outreach Program for fifth-grade schoolchildren, the Getting Help Project for neglected and abused children, and the Vital Pre-Natal Supplement Education program. She has held leadership roles in several non-profit organizations including Board Chair for Foothill Aids Project. Dr. Kalousek has received numerous recognition awards including American College Osteopathic Family Physicians-California Physician of the Year (2010), COMP Lifetime Fellow of Excellence award (2012), City of Montclair Volunteer of the Year, and many other honors.

Katz, Paul Paul Katz, MD, graduated from the Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1973. In 1997, Dr. Katz was selected as the Anton and Margaret Fuisz Professor and Chairman of Medicine at the School of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief at Georgetown University Hospital. In 1998, Dr. Katz was appointed to the newly created position of Chief Operating Officer at Georgetown University Medical Center and he continued his responsibilities as chair. Dr. Katz was recruited to Mount Sinai Medical Center (MSMC) in Miami Beach in 2001 where he was Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer where he also held the rank of Professor of Medicine at the University of Miami. As the senior physician leader at MSMC, he had both operational and fiscal responsibility for research, undergraduate and graduate education programs and medical affairs in addition to leading strategic initiatives focused on business growth opportunities, targeted physician recruitment, and new program development. In December 2007, Dr. Katz became Founding Vice Dean for Faculty and Clinical Affairs and Professor of Medicine at The Commonwealth Medical College in Scranton, PA where he helped launch that new medical school which enrolled its first class in 2009. Dr. Katz became the Founding Dean of Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU) located in Camden, NJ in July 2010. CMSRU is the first new M.D.-granting medical school in NJ in over 30 thirty years and has arisen from a partnership between the Cooper Health System and Rowan University. CMSRU enrolled its charter class of 50 students in the summer of 2012.

Art Kaufman, MD, serves as the Vice Chancellor for Community Health at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center.  Dr. Kaufman’s has a passion for creating innovative education and service models to better address community, indigent, rural and population health needs. He helped initiate the Primary Care Curriculum in New Mexico which became an international model for change by innovative track in traditional medical schools. He began to integrate Public Health and Family Medicine as Director of the Rockefeller funded Health of the Public Program in New Mexico. He is Director of New Mexico’s World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Innovative Health Workers Education Service and Research Models. In 1999 he was elected Secretary General for the Network: Towards Unity for Better Health-- a WHO-affiliated, non-government organization comprised mostly of academic health centers in developing countries interested in improving their relevance in education and service in addressing health needs of their local populations.

Kaufman, Arthur

Will Kaufman, M.D., M.P.H., spends 70% of his time as a family doctor at First Choice Community Healthcare, an FQHC in the South Valley of Albuquerque, where he is also the Director of Community Health and Wellness. Dr. Kaufman is also the Associate Program Director for Population and Community Health at the University of New Mexico Family Medicine Residency. Having these two roles allows Dr. Kaufman to leverage the resources and expertise available at the UNM Health Sciences Center to bring those resources to bear on upstream drivers of health. This is done in partnership with individuals and community based organizations in the Albuquerque’s historic South Valley. These roles also allow Dr. Kaufman to integrate learners, of all levels, into his community engaged work as he both models and mentors learners in the importance of such work to the next generation of primary care physicians. Dr. Kaufman completed Medical School at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Family Medicine Residency at The Lawrence Family Practice Residency (the first “Teaching Health Center” in the country) and then completed his M.P.H. in Family and Community Health at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Kaufman, Will

Patty Kehoe, MPH, RN, CCM, is Plan President for Molina Healthcare of New Mexico. Ms. Kehoe was previously the Vice President of Molina’s Healthcare Services.  In that role, Ms. Kehoe managed the healthcare services department, which included utilization review, care management and care transitions. Born and raised in New Mexico, Ms. Kehoe is a registered nurse with a Master in Public Health and holds a certification in case management. She is an active member of the Lovelace Women’s Hospital Governing Board and the Lovelace Clinic Foundation and the American Association of Managed Care Nurses She volunteers for an international organization, Wheels for the World and is a previous Women of Influence awardee, 2014.  

Kehoe, Patty

Britani Kessler, D.O. is the current National President of the American Medical Student Association, the nation’s oldest and largest independent association of physicians-in-training in the United States. She is a recent graduate of Nova Southeastern University, College of Osteopathic Medicine and received her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences with an emphasis on Premedical Studies from Florida Atlantic University. Britani has had a long history of leadership within AMSA on the chapter level and nationally. She has been a member of this organization since 2006 and credits her success in both her premedical and medical career to AMSA by showing her that the world of physicians-in-training doesn’t have to be limited to a textbook. This year, she is specifically focused on student debt and AMSA’s “Just Medicine” campaign. After her term is complete, Britani will be starting a residency in Pediatrics.

Kessler, Britani

Kathleen Klink joined the Robert Graham Center in April 2014 as Medical director, participating in research, collaborative management and dissemination functions of the Center and focusing on primary care workforce, quality and access. She represents the Center and its products with collaborators and key audiences. Prior to the Robert Graham Center, Kathleen was the Director of the Division of Medicine and Dentistry in the Bureau of Health Professions, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration. She is also the former Director of the Center for Family and Community Medicine at Columbia University and Chief of Service for Family Medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and served as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow in the office of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2008 where she played a vital role in the U.S. Public Health Service Act, Title VII reauthorization bill, “Health Professions and Primary Care Reinvestment Act.” She received her MD degree from the University of Miami, School of Medicine.

Klink, Kathleen

H. Clifton “Clif” Knight, MD, FAAFP, became vice president for education at the American Academy of Family Physicians in May, 2014. He oversees all organizational activities related to medical education and continuing medical education. These areas include education and training of medical students and residents; student interest in the specialty of family medicine, including federal policies that affect it; and CME curriculum development, production, and accreditation and regulations. Previously, Knight was a family physician in Indiana for nearly 25 years. He served as chief medical and academic officer for Community Health Network in Indianapolis, where he was responsible for patient safety, medical education, research and medical staff support. Knight was previously in private practice in rural Flora, Indiana. In 2011, he was named to the board of trustees for Marian University in Indianapolis. He served on the Admissions Committee for the Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine, which admitted its inaugural class in August 2013. Knight served in an appointed position on the Indiana Medical Education Board, which oversees state grant funding for family medicine residency programs in Indiana. Knight earned his undergraduate degree from Ball State University, Muncie, Ind., and his medical degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis. He completed his family medicine residency at Community Health Network in Indianapolis, where he also served one year as chief resident. In addition, Knight completed a Faculty Development Fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. From 1992 to 2007, Knight was a full-time faculty member in the Community Health Network Family Medicine Residency where he served as program director from 2001 to 2007.

Knight, H. Clifton

Koller, Chris Christopher F. Koller is president of the Milbank Memorial Fund. Before joining the Fund, he served the state of Rhode Island as the country’s first health insurance commissioner, an appointment he held from March of 2005 through June of 2013. Under Mr. Koller’s leadership, the R.I. Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner was nationally recognized for its rate review process and its efforts to use insurance regulation to promote payment reform, primary care revitalization, and delivery system transformation. The Office was also one of the lead agencies in implementing the Affordable Care Act in Rhode Island. Prior to serving as health insurance commissioner, Mr. Koller was the CEO of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island for nine years. In this role he was the founding chair of the Association of Community Affiliated Plans. Mr. Koller has a bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, from Dartmouth College and master's degrees in management and religion from Yale University. He was a member of the IOM Committee on Essential Health Benefits and serves in numerous national and state health policy advisory capacities. Mr. Koller is also adjunct professor of community health in the School of Public Health at Brown University.

Koo, Denise

Dr. Irene Krokos is currently Senior Regional Medical Director for Molina Healthcare, Inc. and previously served as Chief Medical Officer for Molina Healthcare of New Mexico where a Community Health Worker intervention was implemented state-wide and later expanded nationally. With more than eight years of experience in quality improvement and utilization management Dr. Krokos' current interests include payment reform and leveraging new technologies to transform and bring value to population health management.

Krokos, Irene

Dr. Denise Koo, MD, MPH is Senior Advisor for Health Systems, Office of Public Health Scientific Services, CDC. Dr. Koo was graduated from Harvard University with a BA in Biochemical Sciences. After combining medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, with an MPH in epidemiology at University of California, Berkeley, she completed a primary care internal medicine residency at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Dr. Koo is a graduate of CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service and Preventive Medicine Residency. Other prior CDC positions have included running the National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System, serving as Director of the Division of Public Health Surveillance and Informatics, and most recently, serving as Director of CDC’s Division of Scientific Education and Professional Development.. Dr. Koo holds appointments as Adjunct Professor of Global Health and of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, and Consulting Professor, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center.

Richard S. Larson, M.D., Ph.D., is the Executive Vice Chancellor and Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. An established scholar and leader, he has received numerous accolades and his accomplishments include over 100 published manuscripts, numerous patents, and the 2005 edited volume Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery, with a 2nd edition in 2012. In addition, Dr. Larson is extensively involved in supporting and initiating commercial and charitable ventures in New Mexico. He currently has commercial partnerships with Senior Scientific, Accelera, Adaptive Methods, and Sandia National Laboratories. In 2001, he co-founded the non-profit Cancer Services of New Mexico. He is President of the Cancer Services of New Mexico Foundation, Chairman of the Board of Directors for TriCore Reference Laboratory, and serves on the Board of Directors for Cancer Services of New Mexico, CleanSpot, Innovate ABQ, New Mexico Biomedical Business Association, New Mexico Consortium, New Mexico University Research Consortium, Science and Technology Corporation, and Sigma Xi. Dr. Larson received both his MD and PhD from Harvard University. He performed his residency training at Washington University at St. Louis and his fellowship training at Vanderbilt University.

Larson, Richard

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Dr. Luella Toni Lewis has spent her life committed to social justice. From a very early age, she was taught by two generations of union leaders in her family that service was the highest form of leadership and that all humans deserve justice, dignity, and respect. With their support, she pursued a career in social justice through medicine and earned her Bachelor's Degree in sociology and a Medical Doctorate from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. In 2004, Dr. Lewis became a family medicine resident and a member of the Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR/SEIU)--the largest physician's union in the Service Employees International Union. Dr. Lewis spent her medical training treating her patients and advocating for the community with CIR/SEIU and hospital workers, including her brothers and sisters at 1199 United Healthcare Workers East. She was honored to serve CIR in many roles, including delegate and National President from 2007-2010. In this national role, she saw an opportunity to affect the lives of millions by serving the 1.1 million healthcare workers of SEIU Healthcare and 2.2 million service workers of SEIU. As the healthcare reform movement intensified in 2008, Dr. Lewis continued to work to raise the voices of healthcare providers and the communities they serve. Because of this work, in 2010, with support of her family, friends, patients, colleagues, and SEIU President Mary Kay Henry, she was appointed Chair of SEIU Healthcare, the largest division in SEIU. She currently serves SEIU in this capacity and on the board of SEIU as an international Vice President. She is devoted to health justice for all communities. Dr. Lewis is board certified in Family and Geriatric Medicine and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.

Lewis, L. Toni

Dr. Rishi Manchanda is President and Founder of HealthBegins, a startup that transforms the health of vulnerable communities through innovative education, technology, and consultancy services. As an ‘upstreamist’ physician and public health innovator, his work and expertise focuses on systems design to improve primary care, the social and environmental conditions that make people sick, and health and human rights. Dr. Manchanda serves as the medical director of a clinic for high-utilizer homeless veterans in Los Angeles. He is also the founder of RxDemocracy, a nonpartisan healthcare coalition that supports civic engagement and that has registered 30,000 voters in clinics nationwide. He previously served as the founding Director of Social Medicine at St.John’s Well Child and Family Centers, a community clinic in South Central Los Angeles. His first book The Upstream Doctors, in which he coins the term “Upstreamist” to describe an essential yet underdeveloped segment of the healthcare workforce, was released by TEDBooks in June 2013. Upstreamists are clinic-based practitioners who have the skills, tools, and authority to drive internal healthcare innovation that improves care and local social determinants of health.

Manchanda, Rishi

Carmen Maynes, MPH, has been Community and Organizational Development Director of Hidalgo Medical Services since 2007. She manages the Family Support Program and is in charge of community programs. She received a B.S. from New Mexico State University (NMSU) in 2005 and a Master’s degree in public health from the same university in 2007. Prior to coming to Hidalgo Medical Services, Ms. Maynes was a graduate research assistant at NMSU, a Women’s Health Education Assistant at Southern Area Health Education Center, and a Program Evaluation Assistant at The Wellness Coalition.

Maynes, Carmen

Paul Mazmanian is a professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Epidemiology and Community Health at Virginia Commonwealth University. He serves as Associate Dean for Continuing Professional Development and Evaluation Studies, School ofMedicine. For eight years he was chairman of the Master of Public Health Curriculum Committee, leading the program to its first successful academic accreditation. His research interests include learning and change in physician performance. From 1993 to 1997, he was a member of the Study Section on Health Services Research Dissemination, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. In 2000, he served as a consultant to the National Research Council, Institute of Medicine, in its efforts to assess prevention and treatment programs associated with violence in families. From August 2004 through February 2005, he consulted with the National Cancer Institute (NCI), helping with NCI’s efforts to expedite the translation of new knowledge into clinical solutions. In 2007, he was an invited participant of the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Conference, Continuing Education in the Health Professions.

Mazmanian, Paul

Melvina McCabe, MD, is a Navajo physician and Professor in the University of New Mexico School of Medicine Department of Family and Community Medicine. Dr. McCabe is the Co-Investigator of the New Mexico Center for Advancement of Research, Engagement & Science on Heath Disparities (CARES). As Co-Investigator, she serves on the Administrative Core of the NM CARES and is responsible for the Mentoring Program of the grant. She is also the Director of the Native American Center of Excellence established by Chancellor Roth of the UNM HSC and serves as the Vice-Chair for Diversity in the UNM SOM Department of Family Medicine. Her research area of interest is with American Indian communities and is the recipient of an RO1 NIH grant on diabetes, among other grant funding from the NIH and CDC. She has a strong commitment to educating and improving diversity understanding.

McCabe, Melvina

A. Manuela McDonough, MPH, CPH, joined the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization, in 2007, and is currently Associate Director of the Institute for Hispanic Health. In this capacity, Ms. McDonough oversees NCLR’s efforts to improve the health status and outcomes of Latinos through grassroots initiatives and collaboration with Latino-serving community-based organizations. Her work focuses on eliminating injustices in health care for Latinos by increasing access to culturally competent and linguistically appropriate health care and services. Her areas of expertise include behavior change communication with Latino children and youth and immigrant communities, promotores de salud (lay health educators) and peer support, qualitative research, institutional and individual training and capacity-building, and the conceptualization, development, and implementation of health promotion programs. Ms. McDonough holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Chicago and a master’s degree in public health with a concentration in health behavior and health education from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2011, she was selected by the White House as a Champion of Change for her work in public health as a returned Peace Corps volunteer. 

McDonough, Manuela

Martha McGrew, MD, is the Executive Vice Dean of the School of Medicine and a Professor and former Chair of the Department of FCM at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center School of Medicine. She graduated from Louisiana State University and completed her residency in Family Medicine at LSU Medical Center. She earned a fellowship in Family Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. McGrew's interests are in Maternal-Child Health and medical education. She is the PI on a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant to provide educational faculty development to preceptors in rural New Mexico. She has two wonderful daughters and loves spending time on the Florida Gulf coast beaches and quilting.

McGrew, Martha

Thomas E. McWilliams, D.O., FACOFP is the Assoc. Dean for GME Development at A.T. Still University/School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona. He is a Past-President of the Arizona Osteopathic Medical Association. He helped establish ATSU/SOMA, an innovative osteopathic medical school that is partnered with the National Association of Community Health Centers to train physicians to care for vulnerable populations. He also partnered with the Wright Center for GME to establish a multi-state Teaching Health Center Family Medicine Residency Consortium. Dr. McWilliams is certified in Family Practice, was a diplomat of the American Board of Emergency Medicine and is licensed in AZ and AK. Dr. McWilliams was the founding Associate Dean at two osteopathic colleges and served as the Interim Dean at SOMA for two years. He also taught and held numerous academic positions at his alma mater, The Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. McWilliams is the 3rd of 4 generations of rural Family Medicine physicians and has served as the President of both the MO and AZ Rural Health Associations. He works from a remote ranch in the mountains of SW Colorado where he lives with his wife, DeLoss, a professional artist.

McWilliams, Thomas

Paul G. McGuire, PhD, is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center School of Medicine.

McGuire, Paul

Claudia Medina, MA, is currently the Director of the Community Health Worker Initiatives (CHWI) unit of the University of New Mexico-Health Science Center, Office of Community Health. She has been in this position for a year, in which the CHWI unit under her leadership has 1) Developed, piloted and evaluated projects and tools aimed at integrating CHW’s into the work force, 2) Measured the contributions of CHW’s in reducing health disparities, 3) disseminated new knowledge and resources to increase capacity of CHW’s. Before working for UNM, Claudia was the co-founder and executive director for 13 years of Enlace Comunitario (EC), an Albuquerque non-profit that provides services to Latino immigrant victims of domestic violence and engages low income Latino families in community development efforts. Ms. Medina has a Law Degree, an M.A. in Family Studies and an M.A. in Latin American Studies with a concentration in Community Planning.

Medina, Claudia

Leslie Mikkelsen, Managing Director, has been with Prevention Institute since 1999. Leslie plays a crucial role in advancing the conceptual work of the organization, and she has taken the lead in developing and managing the Institute's work in the areas of healthy eating and active living. Leslie heads a team focused on environmental and policy approaches to supporting healthy food and activity environments, with a particular emphasis on addressing inequities in communities of color and low-income communities. She develops tools and materials to support local and state initiatives and trains government agencies, foundations, and community collaboratives across the United States on environmental strategies, coalition building, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Leslie also oversees qualitative research and literature reviews, convenes researchers and practitioners to help inform policy and practice, and writes extensively.

Mikkelson, Leslie

Michelle Melendez is a Native of Albuquerque, NM and has dedicated her career to addressing the root causes of social, economic and health inequities. She is Development Director at First Choice Community Healthcare in Central New Mexico, an FQHC serving 55,000 patients. She previously served as Director of Workforce Training for First Choice where she established career ladders, training curricula, competencies and partnerships with local high schools, community college programs and funders. Michelle was the first Patient Services Director at First Choice and served as the liaison with the media, community organizations and elected officials. Before coming to First Choice, Michelle was the Community Services Director at St. Joseph Community Health, a non-profit conversion foundation that came from the sale of a hospital. Michelle developed and led numerous community organizing initiatives and a women’s economic development collective while at St. Joseph’s. Her background includes a 12-year career as a newspaper journalist in New Mexico, Texas and Mexico. She was trained at the Center for Creative Leadership as part of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation fellowship Ladders to Leadership, and has served on numerous boards and commissions, including the Board of Trustees of UNM Hospitals and the governing council of Health Leadership High School, a new charter school dedicated to growing the next generation of community health champions.

Melendez, Michelle

Tony is a native of Albuquerque New Mexico and he has worked in school reform since 1990. He earned a BA from New Mexico State University and a Masters in Public Administration with a concentration in Finance from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. He began his career at the Chicago Panel on Public School Policy helping to promote the restructuring of the Chicago Public Schools. After leaving Chicago in 1993, he joined the staff of the Legislative Education Study Committee in Santa Fe, New Mexico where he specialized in public school finance. This big picture work was fundamental in establishing the context for creating high performing small schools in his home town. Tony has served on multiple legislative and executive committees for the state of New Mexico. He was the founding President of the New Mexico Coalition of Charter Schools, and is a former board member of New Mexico Appleseed. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Board for the New Mexico Water Collaborative and as a board member of the New Mexico Community Foundation. Finally, in June 2011 Tony was named a Sizer Fellow by the Forum for Education and Democracy, an initiative funded by the Ford Foundation.

Monfiletto, Tony

Andrew Morris-Singer, MD, board certified in internal medicine, is President and Founder of Primary Care Progress (PCP), a clinician, a medical educator and primary care advocate. He founded PCP in 2010 and it has quickly developed into an inter-professional, trainee-led, grassroots movement to reform primary care delivery and training. The organization has provided advocacy training and coaching to leaders of 43 chapters across the country, all based at health professions training schools, and has campaigned widely for greater awareness of the value of primary care. A former community organizer and trainer with more than 15 years of advocacy experience, Dr. Morris-Singer writes and speaks regularly on the topics of the value of primary care, the use of community organizing strategies to advance innovations in care delivery and training and the critical role of trainees in the revitalization of primary care. He is a frequent blogger and speaks regularly at academic medical institutions and professional conferences across the country. Dr. Morris-Singer is a Lecturer in Global Health & Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Affiliate Instructor in the Department of Family Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University. He earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School and completed his residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.

Morris-Singer, Andrew

Leslie Morrison, MD, is Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. She is a Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics and served as Executive Director for Student and Faculty Affairs for the HSC and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the School of Medicine (SOM). Previous roles at UNM include Vice Chair for Neurology and Division Chief for Child Neurology. Nationally, Morison is an elected member of the AAMC Group on Faculty Affairs (GFA) steering committee, and serves on the Program Planning subcommittee for the first combined GFA and Group on Diversity and Inclusion international meeting to be held in 2012. She also is the UNM representative for the AAMC Group on Women in Medicine and Science and a 2009 graduate of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine program with leadership roles in the alumni organization. Morrison has held numerous national leadership positions in Child Neurology and Neurology in Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines, Standard of Care consensus statements in Pediatric Neuromuscular diseases, Subspecialty Certification and Accreditation, and has national interprofessional collaborations with Advanced Practice Nursing.. Hailing from Farmington, N.M., Morrison is a 1978 graduate of the UNM Bachelor of Science program in Physical Therapy (PT) and practiced in the field of pediatric PT in rural and urban locations for five years. She is a 1987 graduate of the UNM School of Medicine Primary Care Curriculum, and completed residency training in Pediatrics and Child Neurology at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, MD, in 1992.

Morrison, Leslie

Fitzhugh Mullan, MD, is the Murdock Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy and a professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University. His research and policy work focus on US and international health workforce issues including the Beyond Flexner Study, the Medical Education Futures Study, and the Sub-Saharan African Medical School Study. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Chicago Medical School and served 23 years in the United States Public Health Service, starting as a physician in the National Health Service Corps in New Mexico and later as director of the program. Subsequently, he directed the Bureau of Health Professions and attained the rank of Assistant Surgeon General. He also served as the Secretary of Health and Environment for the state of New Mexico. He has written widely for professional and general audiences. His books include White Coat, Clenched Fist: The Political Education of an American Physician and Big Doctoring: Profiles in Primary Care. He is an appointed commissioner of the National Health Care Workforce Commission, the Founding President of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, the Founding Board Chair of Seed Global Health, and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Mullan, Fitzhugh

Murray, Deborah

Abner A. Murray is the Diversity Research Co-chairperson of the Student National Medical Association. He is a MD/PhD candidate at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Murray, Abner

Dr. Deborah Murray is the Associate Dean for Extension and Outreach in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Georgia and leads the college to fulfill the land-grant university mission of providing Georgia’s residents, businesses and communities access to quality outreach educational experiences and the institutions’ knowledge base. She fosters integrated approaches to program development and evaluation by providing strong and effective leadership of Extension Specialists and Public Service and Outreach faculty at UGA and other affiliated institutions. Dr. Murray was the project director for the Health and Human Services funded navigator program to assist consumers in enrolling in the federally facilitated health insurance exchange in Georgia. Prior to coming to Georgia in 2012, Dr. Murray led the Health Education through Extension Leadership program, an innovative and integrated partnership of the Cooperative Extension Service in the College of Agriculture and the academic health campus. She has been appointed by governors in both Georgia and Kentucky to committees addressing health and poverty. She holds an EdD from the University of Kentucky.

Vice Admiral (VADM) Vivek H. Murthy, M.D., M.B.A. was nominated by President Barack Obama in November 2013 and confirmed on December 15, 2014 as the 19th United States Surgeon General. As America’s Doctor, Dr. Murthy is responsible for communicating the best available scientific information to the public regarding ways to improve personal health and the health of the nation. He also oversees the operations of the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps, comprised of approximately 6,800 uniformed health officers who serve in locations around the world to promote, protect, and advance the health and safety of our nation. Dr. Murthy has devoted himself to improving public health through the lens of service, clinical care, research, education, and entrepreneurship. The son of immigrants from India, Dr. Murthy discovered a love for the art of healing early in his childhood while spending time in his father’s medical clinic in Miami, Florida. After attending Miami Palmetto Senior High School, he received his Bachelor’s degree from Harvard, and his M.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Yale. He completed his residency training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School where he later joined the faculty as an internal medicine physician and instructor Dr. Murthy regards caring for patient as the greatest privilege of his life, and he has cared for thousands of patients and trained hundreds of residents and medical students as a clinician-educator. In addition to clinical practice, Dr. Murthy has two decades of experience and perspective improving health in communities across the country and around the world. He co-founded VISIONS, an HIV/AIDS education program in India and the United States, which he led for eight years. As President, he established ten chapters with hundreds of volunteers in both countries and grew the organization’s education programs to reach more than 45,000 youth. Dr. Murthy also co-founded the Swasthya project (“health and wellbeing” in Sanskrit), a community health partnership in rural India, to train women to be health providers and educators. During his five-year tenure with the organization, he established seed funding and helped expand research and direct care programs that reached tens of thousands of rural residents. As a research scientist, Dr. Murthy has conducted laboratory research on vaccine development and studied the participation of women and minorities in clinical trials. His research findings have been published in Science, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Dr Murthy is also a healthcare entrepreneur and innovator. He co-founded and chaired a successful software technology company, TrialNetworks, which improves research collaboration and enhances the efficiency of clinical trials around the world. In seven years, Dr. Murthy and his team took the company from conception to an international enterprise that powers dozens of clinical trials for over 50,000 patients in more than 75 countries. Dr. Murthy has also served as the President of Doctors for America, a non-profit organization with more than 16,000 physicians and medical students in all 50 states who work with patients and policymakers to build high quality, affordable health system for all. Seen by many as a proven leader who can use 21st century approaches and technology to modernize the role of Surgeon General, Dr. Murthy will focus his efforts on building cross-sector partnerships in communities to address the epidemics of obesity and tobacco-related disease, to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness, and to improve vaccination rates, and to make prevention and health promotion the backbone of our communities. Dr. Murthy firmly believes that our nation's greatest strength has always come from its people. Improving the health of our people means strengthening our communities and our country. That will be Dr. Murthy’s highest priority as Surgeon General.

Murthy, Vivek

Marc A. Nivet is the Chief Diversity Officer for the Association of American Medical Colleges, where he provides strategic vision and programmatic leadership on issues surrounding community engagement, diversity, and health equity at universities, medical schools and teaching hospitals across the United States and Canada. Dr. Nivet has spent over 20 years in academic medicine developing creative program initiatives and innovative approaches to the mission of excellence in research, education and patient care. Prior to joining the AAMC, Dr. Nivet served as the COO and Treasurer for the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, which fosters innovation in health professional education that aligns workforce training with the dynamic needs of patients. He also served as a special assistant to the Senior Vice President for Health at New York University, and held management positions with the Sallie Mae Fund, and the Associated Medical Schools of New York. He began his career in medical education in student affairs at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Nivet earned his Doctorate in Higher Education Management from the University Of Pennsylvania and his Masters of Business Administration degree with a focus on health care management from George Washington University’s School of Business. Dr. Nivet is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, and a former president of the National Association of Medical Minority Educators. He currently serves the academic medicine communities on a variety of boards and commissions, including the NIH National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council (NIGMS), HRSA Bureau of Health Professions National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice, the CDC Medical College Roundtable and is an advisor to the ETS Policy Evaluation and Research Council. He is a trustee of both the Arnold P. Gold Foundation and the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Institute of the Health Professions. 

Nivet, Marc

Thomas J. Nasca, M.D., MACP, Chief Executive Officer, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, and Chief Executive Officer of ACGME International; Professor of Medicine (vol.), Jefferson Medical College. Dr. Nasca graduated from the University of Notre Dame with High Honors, is an Alpha Omega Alpha graduate of Jefferson Medical College. Prior to coming to the ACGME, Dr. Nasca served as Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs of Thomas Jefferson University and the Anthony and Gertrude DePalma Dean of Jefferson Medical College. Dr. Nasca left the deanship at Jefferson to assume the leadership of the ACGME in December, 2007. In May, 2009 Dr. Nasca became the founding President of ACGME, International, LLC. Dr. Nasca is board certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology. Dr. Nasca has been a member and leader of a wide array of organizations whose mission is the advancement of excellence in medical education, such as the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME), the Education Commission on Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM), and the Initiative to Transform Medical Education (ITME) of the American Medical Association (AMA). Dr. Nasca was elected to Mastership by the American College of Physicians in 2006, received the Dema C. Daley Founders Award for Excellence in Internal Medicine Education from the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine, the Rev. Clarence Shaffrey, S.J. Award from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, the John C. Leonard Award from the Association of Hospital Medical Education, the Johnson Award from the Association of Hospital Medical Education, and the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Achievement Award. He was named one of the 50 most powerful/influential physician executives in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 by Modern Healthcare, and most recently received Honorary Doctoral Degrees from the University of Toledo and Wake Forest University. He is the author of over 140 peer reviewed articles, chapters, and other publications, and has delivered nearly 400 invited lectures on topics related to medical education. He and his wife, Jean, are the proud parents of four sons, and two grandsons.

Nasca, Thomas

Dr. G. Richard Olds is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and trained in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He was an infectious disease fellow and one of the nation’s first Geographic Medicine fellows at University Hospitals of Cleveland, where he also served as medical chief resident and a faculty member. In 1986, Olds went to Brown University where he rose to full professor of medicine, pediatrics, molecular, cell and developmental biology and headed that institute’s International Health Institute. In 1993, he became professor and chairman of medicine at the MetroHealth Campus of Case Western Reserve University and in 2000, was appointed as professor and chair of medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. In 2010, he became vice chancellor of health affairs and founding dean of the School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside. Olds is a tropical disease specialist who has served on the WHO expert committee on schistosomiasis, the WHO working group in the health of school aged children, and the board of a Gates Foundation Initiative to de-worm children in sub-Saharan Africa. Olds is author of more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and reviews, primarily focused on international health issues. Known as an educational innovator, Olds has taught undergraduates at Brown and medical students during all four years of training at Case Western Reserve University, Brown and Medical College of Wisconsin. He has won an outstanding teaching award at each institution and he was elected by his peers to the Society of Teaching Scholars at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Olds advised more than 100 students a year at the Medical College of Wisconsin and received the MCW Student Assembly’s “Standing Ovation” Award for these activities. Olds came to UCR to develop a School of Medicine — the first public medical school in California in more than four decades — which was intended to address the severe doctor shortage in Inland Southern California. In addition, the medical school is developing pipeline programs to bring more diversity into the medical profession, transforming the orientation of medical education to emphasize cultural competency, prevention and outcomes, and serving as a catalyst to improve the health of an area of California that fares poorly in several health indicators.

Olds, Richard

Carolina Nkouaga currently serves as the Director of Operations at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center Office for Community Health, where she has collaborated on the development of the health extension model and various community health worker initiatives, as well as the implementation of the University’s strategic goal to work with community partners to improve the health and health equity in the state of New Mexico more than any other state by the year 2020. Working with a network of 18 states around the country, she created an online toolkit with resources for implementing health extension, available at www.healthextensiontoolkit.org. She draws on her experience of working in indigenous communities throughout Latin America on community development projects, as well as the Baha’i principles of unity and service, to guide her work. Ms. Nkouaga has a Bachelors degree, summa cum laude, from the University of New Mexico with concentrations in socio-economic development and community health education, and is currently pursuing a Masters in Public Health. 

Nkouaga, Carolina

Marnie Nixon serves as the Health Extension Rural Officer (HERO) for the southwest region of New Mexico. In this capacity, Ms. Nixon assists in facilitating community-engaged research, service and educational efforts on behalf of the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center by matching community identified needs to university resources. With an MA in cultural anthropology from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and through a decade of experience as a direct-entry midwife along the US-Mexico border, Ms. Nixon has gained an in-depth understanding of rural, border and women's health issues. She has worked extensively with the nonprofit sector, health foundations, universities and policy/advocacy groups.

Nixon, Marnie

Janet Page-Reeves, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor in the Office for Community Health in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Dr. Page-Reeves is a cultural anthropologist with training in political economy who works on issues of health disparity and health equity with an emphasis on health issues related to food and education. She has conducted research on food insecurity with a focus on the gendered dimensions of hunger, diabetes among low-income households in the Latino immigrant community, youth gardening, community food access, food allergy, and childhood obesity prevention. Her 2014 edited collection book on women and food insecurity includes an extensive theoretical introduction authored by Dr. Page-Reeves, and 12 content chapters from national and international contributors. Dr. Page-Reeves uses a community-engaged approach to research and has an extensive social network of collaborators both inside the University as well as in the community. In 2014, she was appointed as a member of the New Mexico Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights.

Page-Reeves, Janet

Dr. Luis Padilla is currently the Deputy Associate Administrator for the Bureau of Health Workforce, HRSA. He is a family physician and previously served as the Senior Health Policy Advisor for Unity Health Care, Inc, a federally qualified health center network. He is the former medical director of Unity Health Care’s Upper Cardozo Health Center located in Columbia Heights, Washington DC. A committed advocate for the underserved he completed his three year National Health Service Corp Scholar (NHSC) service in 2007 at Unity’s Upper Cardozo Health Center. He was appointed to the National Advisory Council (NAC) of the National Health Service Corps and completed that service in 2011.

Padilla, Luis

Mario F. Pacheco, M.D., currently serves as Associate Vice Chancellor for Hispanic/Latino Health at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. He is a Board Certified family physician who has provided comprehensive family care to medically indigent populations in northern New Mexico. He is the founding director of the Northern New Mexico Family Practice Residency Program, a rural training track in Santa Fe, NM sponsored by UNM SOM. He is a diplomat and fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. In 2000-2001 he was awarded a prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship in Washington D.C. where he worked in the office of United States Senator Jeff Bingaman. He subsequently served as a District Health Officer for the New Mexico Department of Health prior to resuming the residency directorship in 2002. He has authored papers in the field of U.S.–Mexico border health, school-based health centers, and rural family medicine training. In 2006 he was the recipient of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine’s Distinguished Alumnus Award. Dr. Pacheco currently serves on many boards and committees, including the Institute of Medicine’s Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship Advisory Board.

Pacheco, Mario

Toyese Oyeyemi, Jr., BCH, CHES, serves as a Health Extension Officer under the Office for Community Health and the Black Health Resource Center, and as a Student Navigator for the Office for Diversity at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. Toyese works with the Black community statewide in ensuring access to all available health, educational, and professional developmental resources in the community and the university. His focus is on working with community and internal university partners on strategies, plans, partnerships, and programs that help facilitate African Americans along the educational pipeline and provide the community with equal access to protective determinants of health. Toyese is a Certified Health Education Specialist and a second year Master’s of Public Health student at the UNM School of Medicine with community health experience in the public sector and the Air Force.

Oyeyemi, Toyese

Erik Porfeli, Ph.D. is the Assistant Dean for Community Engagement and Admissions and Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine in the College of Medicine at NEOMED. His team directs a portfolio of programs to advance the health and economic vitality of Ohio through health professions educational pathways and grassroots community health initiatives. This portfolio engages over 1,500 youth in Ohio and is being disseminated to other universities across the country. Dr. Porfeli collaborates with Ohio universities and colleges to enact Baccalaureate and Post-Baccalaureate to MD degree programs and orchestrates eight holistic admissions processes to compose a student body aligned with the mission of the College of Medicine. He leads the development of a longitudinal evaluation system for the Medical College to discover if and how the student body develops from admissions to graduation relative to its mission. This work has been translated into a learning analytics system to predict student performance before it occurs and to offer proactive support to students facing academic challenges. Dr. Porfeli is an internationally-recognized scholar in the area of lifespan career development. His research has been translated into over 50 publications and 60 domestic and international presentations.

Porfeli, Erik

Charlene Poola, LISW, is Tewa and Navajo and a Health Specialist in Native American Health at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center Office for Community Health. Her expertise is adolescent behavioral health, program development, clinical and systems consultation with tribal programs. In addition, she provides clinical supervision at the Native American Community Academy (NACA) and has practicum placements for social work interns at UNM.

Poola, Charlene

Donald Pathman, MD, MPH, is a Professor at UNC Family Medicine Center, the Director of Curriculum Evaluation at UNC School of Medicine, and Director of Primary Care Research at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Pathman’s work centers on research and evaluation of organization, state and federal programs and policies that affect the work and lives of physicians and other healthcare practitioners, and on how these, in turn, affect access and quality of patient care and clinicians’ careers. Specific areas of research have been in the effects on clinicians of organization personnel policies, clinical guideline dissemination, provider satisfaction under various employment configurations and work controls, rural health professional distribution, medical education, access to care, health disparities, and community medicine.

Pathman, Don

Scott Poppen, MD, MPA, practiced primary care internal medicine in California and Utah for 25 years. He has been a member of the management team of private, public, and corporate medical groups. He received his medical degree from Tulane University and did his post-graduate training at the University of Southern California and University of California-Davis. He holds a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Utah. Scott joined Doctors for America in 2009 hoping to improve the American health care delivery system's problems of access, cost, and quality which became apparent to him in his early days of training and practice. He has served DFA as Utah State Director. Retired from medical practice since 2011, he resides in Draper, Utah with his wife Berni and son Brent.

Poppen, Scott

Dr. Richards is the Executive Physician-in-Chief for the New Mexico Health System and is also a professor and former chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine and chief of staff at UNM Hospital. He has an extensive background as both an administrator and physician leader, having previously served as director of the UNM Center for Disaster Medicine and medical director of the EMS Bureau at the New Mexico Department of Health. Dr. Richards is focused on translating the health system’s strategic plan and vision into structure, function and operational plans. He is also responsible for helping the health system achieve greater alignment and integration across all of its operational elements. Michael Richards has a Masters of Public Administration from the University of North Carolina, Med School from East Carolina University and internship/residency from the University of New Mexico, School of Medicine.

Richards, Michael

Dr. Robert Rhyne completed medical school (1977) at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and Residency training at Duke University School of Medicine (1981). He is board certified in Family Medicine (1980) and currently sees patients at UNM Family Health Clinic - NE Heights. He is the Vice Chair of Research for the Dept. of Family & Community Medicine.

Rhyne, Robert

Roger Rennekamp, PhD, is the Associate Dean for Outreach and Engagement at Oregon State University. Dr. Roger Rennekamp provides administrative leadership to a statewide youth development program that reaches 150,000 through approximately 120 paid staff and 5000 volunteers. As both an administrator and academic leader, Dr. Rennekamp oversees the day-to-day conduct of 4-H youth development practice in the State of Oregon and coordinates the academic and scholarly activities of faculty members who have appointments in the Department of Youth Development Education. Throughout his career, Roger has been a strong advocate for enhancing the professional status of youth work through professional development and scholarship. Prior to coming to Oregon in 2005, Dr. Rennekamp held the rank of professor in the Department of Community and Leadership Development at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Rennekamp earned his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Extension Education from the Ohio State University, his Master's Degree in Biology from Morehead State University and his Bachelor of General Studies from the University of Kentucky with an emphasis in Environmental Science.

Rennekamp, Roger

Joan Y. Reede, MD, MPH, MS, MBA is the Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). She serves as the director of the Minority Faculty Development Program, and faculty director of Community Outreach Programs at HMS, Program Director of the Faculty Diversity Program of the Harvard Catalyst/The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center. Dr. Reede serves on the Association of American Medical Colleges Careers in Medicine Committee (AAMC), and is currently the chair for the Group on Diversity and Inclusion at AAMC. Dr. Reede is a member of the American Hospital Association Equity of Care Committee, and was the guest editor for AAMC’s 2012 Academic Medicine special issue, “Diversity and Inclusion in Academic Medicine.” She was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science in 2009, and now serves as the chair of the Interest Group on Health Populations/Health Disparities.

Reede, Joan

Roberta Riportella is the Kansas Health Foundation Professor of Community Health in the School of Family Studies and Human Services, College of Human Ecology, Kansas State University and K State Research and Extension. Professor Riportella has spent over 30 years analyzing health policy and teaching about it, in the recent past as a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has a long and varied career working with many state based agencies, non-profits, and health care provider groups focused on issues related to how individuals, families and communities can best create opportunities for health and accessing health care. Since March 2010 when health care reform became a law, Professor Riportella has been helping professional groups, communities and consumers become informed about its potential impact.

Riportella, Roberta

Evelyn Rising, MEd, serves as the Health Extension Officer in the Southeast corner of New Mexico, in a rapidly growing community of more than 70,000 residents, outposted from the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. She was born in Texas, one of four children to a minister and his wife, who was a missionary. Ms. Rising is a member of the chamber of commerce in her city where she meets often to discuss the healthcare dilemma, as well as other issues affecting her community and state. Her main focus is on education. She believes it is one of our greatest assets, and can serve as the catalyst for better jobs and the wholeness of the mind and body. As an African-American woman, she knows first-hand that it takes hard work to bring about change, but she stays ready for the challenge. She speaks with confidence and encourages others who have risen above the poverty line to reach back, lift up and make a positive difference. She embodies a wide spectrum of topics on women’s issues and diversity. She has an enthusiastic style of speaking and her platform is positive and powerful.

Rising, Evelyn

Dr. Ries is a Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Seed Global Health. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and served as a GHSP volunteer in Tanzania. As a GHSP volunteer, he provided clinical instruction to medical students and other healthcare workers while helping provide care on a busy pediatric ward. Before joining GHSP, he completed his residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Ohio State Medical Center/Nationwide Children’s Hospital where he was a chief resident. During his training, he also spent time working on wards and in clinics in Malawi, Peru and Nepal. In his current role, he provides technical assistance to GHSP volunteers to optimize their roles as clinician-educators and is actively involved in the GHSP physician volunteer application process.

Ries, David

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Paul H. Rockey, MD, MPH, is the Scholar in Residence for the Accredication Council for Graduate Medical Education. Prior to joining the ACGME in 2012, he directed the Division of GME at the American Medical Association (AMA) where he provided national leadership in GME and medical workforce issues for nearly a decade. After a medical degree from the University of Chicago and internship at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Dr. Rockey is a Fellow in both the American College of Physicians and American College of Physician Executives. He was a member of the Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine and now serves on the Board of Directors of the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG). He is a professor emeritus at SIU and a volunteer faculty physician at Northwestern University School of Medicine and at Community Health (the largest free clinic in Chicago), where he continues to mentor medical students and residents. Dr. Rockey served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army National Guard until he retired in 2001 with 25 years of service. Paul’s hobbies include running, golfing, biking, ice skating and spending time with his three children and six grandchildren.

Rockey, Paul

Francisco J. Ronquillo, MA, PA, has a dual role at UNM Health Sciences Center. He serves as a Health Extension Officer and a Latino Health Specialist under the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Community Health. Francisco's dual role share a common thread to address the social determinants of health and the needs of vulnerable populations. He has pioneered and directed male involvement initiatives in the state and is trained as a Physician Assistant. He has worked in the public health sector with promoteres de salud (CHWs), health council coordinators, community leaders, school personnel, youth, and other collaborators across southern and central New Mexico. He is a bilingual trainer and educator and is also a college instructor, teaching diabetes, public health, cultural proficiency, medical terminology, and Spanish. He has contributed to the development of CHW workforce capacity as a trainer through both distance learning and community-based venues, supporting the profession through various initiatives.

Ronquillo, Francisco

Dr. Valerie Romero-Leggott received her Bachelor of Arts degree at Harvard University in 1982. She went on to attend the University of New Mexico (UNM), School of Medicine, receiving her Medical Degree in 1992. She has been a primary care provider for many years on the forefront of treating populations burdened by socio-economic, racial and ethnic disparities. Presently, Dr. Romero-Leggott serves as Vice Chancellor for Diversity at the UNM Health Sciences Center, Associate Dean for Diversity for the UNM School of Medicine, and Professor in the UNM Department of Family and Community Medicine. She also serves as the Executive Director of the UNM Combined BA/MD Degree Program, a unique program to promote the recruitment of a diverse group of New Mexico high school seniors interested in practicing medicine in areas of greatest need across NM. Her office promotes inclusivity and diversity throughout the Health Sciences Center and communities, creating opportunities to address the health disparities that affect all New Mexicans. Her professional interests are serving diverse populations, education, community based teaching, work in cultural competence, diversity and inclusion, and adolescent medicine. She has forged important bridges between health sciences and NM community groups. She has served as a trailblazer in creating cross disciplinary programs with the law school and other academic units. Dr. Romero-Leggott believes that understanding diversity and cultural issues are integral to achieving better health outcomes for our communities and our nation.

Romero-Leggott, Valerie

Beth Roemer is senior director at the Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy, whose purpose is to translate the experience and evidence of Kaiser Permanente into meaningful policy and practice to inform the national health policy debate. Her 29-year career with Kaiser Permanente has included a variety of roles in Kaiser Foundation Health Plan/Hospitals and the Permanente Medical Groups. Beth's leadership strength is bringing together executives and high-level professionals to work effectively to achieve strategic organizational goals. Her work has included medical office and hospital administration, creation of an internal research and development program, product development and benefit design, clinical quality and service improvement, regulatory compliance, change management, labor-management partnership interest-based bargaining, revenue cycle development, Kaiser Permanente-wide policy development, and internal consulting with senior executives. From 1997 to 2008, in the Permanente Federation, Beth led multidimensional national strategic initiatives and built strategic partnerships within Kaiser Permanente and with its labor unions. In 2009, in the national department of care and service quality, she was the liaison to the Labor Management Partnership to improve clinical quality of care by engaging frontline teams in performance improvement. Beth received her bachelor's degree in economics and psychology and her master's in public health in health services management from the University of California, Berkeley. She completed the Kaiser Permanente Advanced Leadership Executive Program at the University of North Carolina in 1998.

Roemer, Beth

Dr. Paul Roth, chancellor of the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center and dean of the School of Medicine, is recognized as a leader in emergency medicine, as an innovator in medical education and as the head of one of the nation's leading academic medical centers. Dr. Roth was among the first to form a clinic and coin the phrase "Urgent Care.” Dr. Roth founded UNM's Center for Disaster Medicine and created the nation's first civilian Disaster Medical Assistance Team. He was asked to head up the emergency team following the 9/11 attack on New York City. The team also deployed in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake that claimed more than 200,000 lives. Dr. Roth served as chair of the American Association of Medical Colleges Council of Deans from 2005-2006 and remains on its administrative board. He is a recent member of the AAMC's Liaison Committee on Medical Education and chairs the standards subcommittee. Dr. Roth served on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Public Health Emergency Advisory Council, and was a member of the joint Department of Homeland Security and Department of State "Secure Borders/Open Doors" advisory committee and the administration transition task force for homeland security during the Bush Administration. Prior to heading the Health Sciences Center, Dr. Roth held a variety of leadership positions at UNM, including chair of the department of emergency medicine, director of ambulatory care programs and chief medical officer. Chancellor Roth serves as a member of the UNM Hospital board of trustees and on the UNM Science and Technology Corporation board. He also chairs the board of the Sandoval Regional Medical Center in Rio Rancho, N.M. He is the recent past chair of the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce board and in 2011 received the Chamber's Chairman's Award of Excellence. Dr. Roth is a Fellow in the American College of Emergency Physicians. He graduated from George Washington University School of Medicine in 1976 after two years of medical school at the University of Nevada, Reno. He completed his family practice residency in 1979 at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He completed a BS in 1969 and an MS (biology) in 1972, both at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Roth, Paul

Rosenthal, E. Lee E. Lee Rosenthal is a public health researcher and advocate based in the US southwest at the US-Mexico border where she works on regional, national, and bi-national public health issues. Her work primarily focuses on advancing the role of community health workers (CHWs) throughout the U.S. helping to improve access to information, services, and health equity. Dr. Rosenthal has a history in ensuring CHW leadership in research focused on CHWs. Among her most notable accomplishments is leading the National Community Health Advisor Study funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a study that has been widely cited for its foundational work in examining the role and development of the US community health worker workforce. Currently Lee is the Director of the national Community Health Worker Common Core (C3) Project aimed at developing field-based contemporary recommendations on CHW roles and competencies. Dr. Rosenthal is a Co-Founder and Research Affiliate of the Project on Community Health Worker Policy and Practice based at the University of Texas’ School of Public Health’s Institute for Health Policy. Lee holds a M.P.H. from the University of California at Berkeley. Her M.S. and Ph.D. are from the Public Policy Program at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.

Dr. Saverio Sava completed medical school at Albany Medical College (1981) and Residency training at the University of Connecticut Health Center (1984). He is board certified in Family Medicine (1985) and currently sees patients at UNM’s Family Health Clinics. Dr. Sava serves in many different leadership roles. He is the Chief of Clinical Operations for Primary Care, Medical Director for the Office of Health Services, and Medical Director for First Choice. He has been involved in integrating UNM’s Project ECHO model into each of the First Choice community clinic sites. This model of utilizing the resources of an Academic Health Center to enable community-based clinicians to provide high level specialty care for its patients has received national recognition. He is devoted to teaching and expanding care in the underserved communities by developing a Rural Health Fellowship for Family Practice resident graduates. Dr. Sava excels at combining excellent clinical skills with teaching. He received the “Teacher of the Year Award,” several times by the Family Medicine Residents. He is also a truly outstanding mentor. The residents he has closely mentored have now become outstanding teachers and leaders, both within our system and at other academic institutions. Dr. Sava is a superb teacher, mentor and a true community physician. He is a highly valued faculty member in the Department and the SOM.

Sava, Saverio

Dr. Karen Sanders is the chief operating officer for the Office of Academic Affiliations (OAA) in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). The office oversees the statutory education mission of VA which includes the issuance of national policy and the practical implementation of trainee education, affiliation relationships, stipend distribution and transformational educational projects. In VA, trainees form a crucial workforce pipeline from which to recruit highly trained health professionals. Since August 2014, Dr. Sanders has been heavily involved in implementing a portion of the Veteran Access Choice and Accountability Act (VACAA) regarding GME. Dr. Sanders received her B.S. in Biology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and her M.D. from New York Medical College. After Internal Medicine residency training at Brown University (Providence, RI), she completed a Rheumatology Fellowship at Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Sanders has been a clinically active physician in the VA system since that time despite progressing through a variety of administrative roles at multiple levels in the VA system. She is still clinically active and attends on the inpatient medical services at the Richmond VA. Dr. Sanders is a tenured Professor of Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine (Division of Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology) in the Virginia Commonwealth University SOM.  

Sanders, Karen

Frank S. Royal Jr., MD, currently serves as the Executive Vice Dean at Meharry Medical College. He is the recipient of a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Morehouse College, and MBA from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Doctor of Medicine degree from Meharry Medical College. He has comprehensive corporate health care industry experience in the areas of government relations, strategic development, physician recruitment, patient satisfaction and federal contract negotiations. Most recently, Dr. Royal served as Vice President of Community and Government Relations with Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). During his tenure, he was responsible for upholding external relationships with key government officials, maintaining departmental budgets and monitoring legislation and policies. Prior to this Dr. Royal was the Director of Business Growth for John Randolph Medical Center where he worked in the areas of operations, physician relations, patient and employee satisfaction and as the military liaison to the Fort Lee military base. Dr. Royal is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives and a board member of the Robert Russa Moton Museum of Farmville, VA. He has also served as a Governor appointed board member of the Virginia Commission on Youth. He is an honored veteran having served as captain in the United States Air Force Reserve from 1998-2006.

Royal, Frank Jr.

Jim Scott has always had a singular passion for development of a healthcare system that strives for care that is optimal for each individual patient and provides the supports for the care team essential to make that happen. He was an early proponent of primary care, and eagerly embraced what was then a new specialty – Family Practice. He practiced in a small town on the Oregon coast for 20 years, where he was a leader in a variety of innovations in primary care practice and integrated, community based approaches to care. Beginning in the early 90s, he held numerous positions within PeaceHealth, an integrated health system with facilities in Oregon, Washington, and Alaska, and was a member of the senior executive team.  Areas of focus included clinical quality, patient safety, information systems, outcomes measurement, innovation, and evidence based medicine and operations.  He served as Dean of the Peace Health Advanced Training Program (ATP) in clinical improvement, an intensive 4 week program for clinicians and other leaders focused on quality, safety, value, and change leadership in health care until his retirement at the end of 2012.  He is President of the National Physicians Alliance, and serves on faculty at the Oregon Health Sciences University.

Scott, Jim

Neel Shah, MD, serves as an assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His patients ground and inspire his efforts to design health system interventions that support the delivery of value-based care. As a clinical innovator, he is core faculty member at the Ariadne Labs: a joint center for health systems innovation at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In this role, he is the principal investigator of an ambitious research program that aims to link health system complexity to the global epidemic of unnecessary cesarean deliveries. His prior work includes several high-impact publications on the cost-effectiveness of therapeutic strategies in women’s health. This work has won accolades in the form of national plenary invitations, a Blue Ribbon Abstract from the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the Partners Healthcare President’s Prize in Value-Based Healthcare Delivery. As an educator, he is senior author of Understanding Value-Based Care, a forthcoming textbook from McGraw-Hill. He is an editor at JAMA Internal Medicine for “Less is More: Teachable Moments.” As a patient and community advocate, he founded a grant-funded 501c3 nonprofit called Costs of Care (www.CostsOfCare.org) that has collected hundreds of anecdotes from patients and their caregivers that illustrate routine opportunities to improve the value of care. Currently, he also serves as co-chair for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s 26th Annual National Forum.

Shah, Neel

Steven J. Scheinman, M.D., president and dean of The Commonwealth Medical College (TCMC), is a respected physician, medical scientist, and national leader in academic medicine. Dr. Scheinman is a nephrologist who has made major contributions the field. Before coming to TCMC in 2012, Dr. Scheinman spent most of his career at the SUNY Upstate Medical University where he had been professor of medicine and pharmacology and served for eight years as senior vice president and dean of the College of Medicine. He has published more than 80 peer-reviewed articles, reviews, and book chapters on topics related to kidney disease and genetics. For most of his career he was principal investigator on grants funded by the NIH, American Heart Association, and other agencies. Dr. Scheinman has served on review boards NIH, American Society of Nephrology, American Federation for Clinical/Medical Research, American Heart Association, and National Kidney Foundation, among others. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and of the American Society of Nephrology, and is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. He was a gubernatorial appointee to the New York State Council on Graduate Medical Education, and has served on a number of national boards related to medical education. He currently serves on the board of the National Resident Match Program and on Pennsylvania’s Legislative Commission on the Physician Workforce.

Scheinman, Steve

Joshua Sharfstein, MD, is currently the associate dean for public health practice at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Sharfstein served as the secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from 2011-2014. Appointed by Maryland Governor, Martin O’Malley, Sharfstein was responsible for overseeing the operations and functions of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. In 2009, Sharfstein was named principal deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration by President Barack Obama and served as acting commissioner from March to May 2009. Prior to his tenure at the FDA, Secretary Sharfstein spent 4 years as the commissioner of health for the City of Baltimore, Maryland where he led efforts to expand literacy, facilitate the transition of Medicare Part D, engage college students in public health, increase influenza vaccination among healthcare workers and expand access to addiction treatments.

Sharfstein, Joshua

Stephen C. Shannon, DO, MPH, has been President of the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) since January 2006. Prior to assuming this position, he served as Vice President for Health Services and Dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine at the University of New England since 1995. He served as Chair of the AACOM Board of Deans from July 2003 to June 2005. Dr. Shannon earned his doctor of osteopathic medicine degree in 1986 from the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine in Biddeford, Maine, and his master's of public health degree in 1990 from the Harvard University School of Public Health. He is board certified in osteopathic family practice and preventive medicine. He also holds B.A and M.A. degrees in American History from the University of Maryland. He is a current member of the Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry and a board member of the National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners. He has a long history of leadership and service in public health. He was instrumental in the development of a Master of Public Health program at the University of New England and prior to his appointment as dean was Director of Occupational and Environmental Health at the Maine Bureau of Health. He has served on numerous public health boards and commissions and is a founder and past Chair of the Board of the Maine Center for Public Health. In addition, he is past president of the Maine Biomedical Research Coalition and was a member of the state’s Biomedical Research Board.

Shannon, Steve

Nirav R. Shah, MD, MPH serves at Kaiser Permanente Southern California as senior vice president and chief operating officer for Clinical Operations. In this role, Dr. Shah is responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality care and service to the more than 3.7 million Kaiser Permanente members in Southern California. As New York’s health commissioner, Dr. Shah directed one of the nation’s leading public health agencies. The agency created the New York State insurance exchange and administered the state’s public health insurance programs, covering 5 million residents. The department also regulates hospitals and other health care facilities, conducts research, and supports public health and prevention initiatives. Dr. Shah is board-certified in Internal Medicine and is an honors graduate of Harvard College and Yale School of Medicine. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at UCLA, attending physician at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, associate investigator at Geisinger in central Pennsylvania, and on the faculty of NYU in the Section of Value and Comparative Effectiveness. Dr. Shah is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He has served as chairman of National Institutes of Health grant review panels, and has published nearly 100 peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Shah is a nationally recognized thought leader in patient safety and quality, comparative effectiveness, and the methods needed to transition to lower-cost, patient-centered health care for the 21st century.

Shah, Nirav

David E. Steward, MD, MPH, MACP, is Associate Dean for the Office of Community Health and Service, Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and a member of the Division of General Internal Medicine at Southern Illinois University. He received his M.D. degree from the University of Iowa, completed his internal medicine residency at SIU, and joined the faculty in 1978 as a clinical instructor. In 2008 he completed a Master’s Degree in Public Health at the University of Iowa. Prior to his current position he held the position of Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, and in 1995 he became Chair of the Department of Medicine, a position he held until 2013, when he moved to his current role. Dr. Steward maintains a general internal medicine practice which he shares with his continuity clinic residents.

Steward, David

Anne R. Simpson, MD, CMD is the Rust Professor and director for the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center SOM Institute for Ethics, the executive director for the HSC Center of Excellence for African American Health, and a professor of medicine with the Department of Internal Medicine /Division of Geriatrics. Her medical practice is limited to long term care. In addition, she chairs the HSC Bioethics Committee and serves on several boards; New Mexico Voices for Children for which she served, 2010-2012, as board president, Vice-President of the board for Health Insights New Mexico, formerly known as New Mexico Medical Review Association, and she is a director for Pegasus Legal Services for Children.

Simpson, Anne

Helene Silverblatt, MD is Professor of Psychiatry and Family and Community Medicine at the University of New Mexico Health Science Center where she is also Executive Director for Behavioral health for the Office of Community Health. For many years she has been the director of the nationally award winning Rural Psychiatry Residency Program which she created and developed. This program provides training for psychiatry residents in rural and underserved sites across the state and for developing networks of behavioral health providers. She is also the Co‐Principal Investigator of the TEASC (Transdisciplinary Evaluation and Support Program for Adults with developmental disabilities) which travels state‐wide as part of a multi‐professional team that sees adults and adolescents with complex behavioral, medical and psychiatric problems. As part of this team, she has been involved in health care work force development throughout the state. She has given presentations at national and international meetings about this unique program and its effects on care, training and workforce development. In January,2012, Helene became the director of the AHEC program for New Mexico, which allows her to connect her clinical and training expertise with this national program and develop additional models for pipeline development, training, and workforce retention that include integrating behavioral health and primary care for rural and underserved populations. She has enjoyed linking up programs across the health science center with similar goals, enhancing programmatic capacity and community access to training and service state‐wide.

Silverblatt, Helene

Eugene Sun, MD, is Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico. Sun was born and raised in Albuquerque. After completing medical school at the University of New Mexico, he completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.

Sun, Eugene

In September 2002, Dr Strasser was selected as the Founding Dean to lead creation of the first new medical school in Canada for over 30 years - the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM). The School is a joint initiative of Lakehead University in Thunder Bay and Laurentian University in Sudbury, which are over 1,000 kilometers apart. Prior to his appointment with NOSM, Dr Strasser was Professor of Rural Health for Monash University and Head of the Monash University School of Rural Health, in Australia. Between 1992 and 2004, Dr Strasser also had an international role as Chair of the Working Party on Rural Practice of Wonca, the World Organization of Family Doctors. In November 2002, he was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners in recognition of his world leadership in the field of rural health and in March 2003, Dr Strasser received the Louis Ariotti Award for excellence and innovation in rural and remote health in Australia. Dr Strasser is also the recipient of the prestigious award, Fellow of Wonca, presented in October 2004, in recognition of his outstanding service to Wonca and family medicine around the world. In April 2005, Australia's Monash University held a special ceremony to re-name its Auditorium in Dr Strasser’s honour. The Roger Strasser Auditorium at the Latrobe Regional Hospital pays tribute to his contribution to the development of rural medical education programs in Australia and around the world. In 2006, Dr Strasser was named the inaugural winner of the Small, Rural and Northern Award of Excellence by the Ontario Hospital Association in Canada and also received the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine Life Fellowship Award for outstanding and meritorious service to Rural and Remote Medicine in Australia. On Australia Day 2011, Dr Strasser was appointed a Member in the General Division Order of Australia (AM).

Strasser, Roger

Justine Strand de Oliveira, DrPH, PA-C, has practiced at a migrant and community health center in Colorado, providing primary care for Westinghouse Corporation’s employees and their families in Rio State, Brazil, in obstetrics and gynecology, public health, and family medicine. She was Director of General Health Services at the Durham County Health Department from 1994 to 1997. She joined the Duke faculty in 1997, and was head of the Physician Assistant Program from 1999 to 2012. She was a 1995 Public Health Service Primary Care Policy Fellow, and is an emerita member of the North Carolina Institute of Medicine. She served as Vice Chair of the Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry, appointed by former HHS Secretary Donna Shalala to advise the Secretary and Congress on Title VII, Section 747, which provides federal funding for education of PAs, primary care physicians and dentists, from 2000 to 2003. She is a past president of the North Carolina Medical Society Foundation. In 2005, she was named Outstanding PA of the Year by the American Academy of Physician Assistants. She was director at large of the Physician Assistant Education Association, 2003 – 2005, and served as president from 2008 – 2010. Dr. Strand de Oliveira’s research interests include population health, global health, new models of care, health care access and workforce, and the sociology of professions.

Strand de Oliveira, Justine

Rachel True, MPH currently serves as the Director of Programs for MEDICC (Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba), a non-profit organization based in Oakland, California. She has over a decade of programmatic experience in global public health, working primarily on issues related to the global health workforce, primary care and socially accountable medical education in a variety of international and domestic settings. Prior to joining MEDICC, Ms. True held a number of leadership positions in the global health non-profit sector, including serving as the Program Director at Child Family Health International (CFHI), and the Executive Director of GHETS (Global Health through Education and Training). Through her work with MEDICC, Ms. True has become a champion of Cuba’s Latin American Medical School (ELAM) and its remarkable students and graduates. Ms. True holds a Master of Public Health degree with a concentration in International Health from Boston University.

True, Rachel

Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler, JD, MA, is Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the Alpert Medical School and of Health Services, Policy and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. At the Medical School, she also serves as the Co-Director of the Scholarly Concentration in Advocacy and Activism. She teaches in the areas of health policy, health equity and public health law and ethics. Her research focuses on the role of law and policy in the social determinants of health, community-based and health system interventions that address health disparities, and interprofessional medical-legal education. Ms. Tobin-Tyler is a national expert in the development of medical-legal partnerships, which integrate medicine, public health and legal services to identify, address and prevent health-harming social and legal needs of patients and populations. She is senior editor and a contributor to the first textbook on the topic, Poverty, Health and Law: Readings and Cases for Medical-Legal Partnership, published in 2011. In 2013, she was awarded the Distinguished Advocate award by the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership and in 2014, she was selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Public Health Law Education Faculty Fellow.  

Tobin-Tyler, Elizabeth

Linda Thomas-Hemak, MD is President/CEO of The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education and Wright Center Medical Group. She is a board-certified Internist and Pediatrician actively practicing and teaching in her Northeast PA hometown community classroom. She avidly supports Medical Home delivery, promoting patient-centric, team-based care; meaningful use of enabling health information technology; patient driven agendas and self-management; integrated behavioral/mental health services; and enriched community resource networks. She leads Wright Center Mid-Valley (MVP), an NCQA Level 3 Medical Home and thriving inter-professional showcase for primary care workforce development, inclusively collaborating with twelve academic affiliates. MVP, a leader in PA’s Chronic Care Initiative, was one of thirty practices selected for Robert Wood Johnson Foundations’ Primary Care Teams: Learning from Effective Ambulatory Practices initiative. At The Wright Center, she leads pioneering regional and national Teaching Health Center GME Consortium developments to address primary care workforce shortage and mal-distribution and directs the Internal Medicine residency. A graduate of Baylor College of Medicine and Harvard’s Combined Internal Medicine/ Pediatrics Residency, she is faculty and past founding board member for The Commonwealth Medical College. Her favorite professional activity is patient care delivery to multi-generation families in her community, optimized by point of care medical education.    

Thomas-Hemak, Linda

Donald L. Weaver, MD, has a lifelong commitment to improving the health of underserved communities and vulnerable populations through the provision of community-responsive, culturally competent care by interdisciplinary teams. As Associate Medical Officer, he leads the National Association of Community Health Centers’ initiatives on clinical workforce and the integration of oral and primary health care in Patient Centered Medical Homes. Prior to joining NACHC, Dr. Weaver had a distinguished career as a Commissioned Officer in the United States Public Health Service (USPHS), retiring as an Assistant Surgeon General in January 2011. Dr. Weaver began his career in the USPHS in 1975 as a National Health Service Corps volunteer in Tooele, Utah. During his career he served in a variety of regional and national leadership positions with both health professions and service delivery programs; including Director of the Division of Medicine, Director of the NHSC, and Deputy Associate Administrator for Primary Health Care at the Health Resources and Services Administration. A 1973 graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Weaver completed a two-year pediatric residency at Boston's Children's Hospital Medical Center and is a diplomate of the American Board of Family Medicine.

Weaver, Donald

In July 2005, Dr. Wartman became the 3rd President of the Association of Academic Health Centers (AAHC), a non-profit association based in Washington, DC that seeks to advance health and well-being through the vigorous leadership of the multifaceted institutions that educate the next generation of health professionals, conduct cutting edge biomedical and clinical research, and offer comprehensive patient care from the basic to the most advanced levels. Prior to assuming this position, he was Executive Vice President for Academic and Health Affairs and Dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. Dr. Wartman’s more than 25 year career in academic medicine includes chairing a department of medicine at two institutions and being the founding director of a division of general internal medicine. Dr. Wartman, an internist and sociologist, is board certified in internal medicine and a Master of the American College of Physicians. He received his AB from Cornell University and his MD and PhD degrees from Johns Hopkins University. He was also a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Johns Hopkins and a Henry Luce Scholar in Indonesia. Dr. Wartman is currently recognized internationally for his work in the organization and management of AHCs, where he has taken the lead on critical issues such as the need for alignment among an institution’s clinical, research, and education programs. In 2008, he founded AAHC International™ (AAHCI), a global organization dedicated to improving health and well-being worldwide. In 2012, he edited Confluence of Policy and Leadership in Academic Health Science Centers, that for the first time provided a comprehensive overview of the academic health center enterprise. He authored in 2014 a new guide, Searching for Leadership: Best Practices for Academic Institutions, that describes characteristics of successful leaders and a detailed analysis of the process to select them. In 2015 he edited The Transformation of Academic Health Science Centers, the definitive work on the future of these vital institutions. He has received numerous awards and honorary degrees.

Wartman, Steve

Based in Shiprock, New Mexico, Helen Tso works as the Health Extension Officer for the Office for Community Health at the University of New Mexico/Health Sciences Center covering the northwest part of the state and the Dine (Navajo) Nation. With her formal education in community health education and program management, she addresses the unique aspects of social determinants of the indigenous people’s health in partnership with numerous organizations, healthcare and educational systems for health equity in services, research and policy. Her perspectives are grounded in years of experience and learning in public health at the University of New Mexico, NM Department of Health, federal DHHS/Indian Health Service, public schools, non-profit organizations and with the elders of the Dine Nation. She is bilingual (Navajo/English) from the Four Corners area of the Dine Nation.

Tso, Helen

Peggy Wros, PhD, RN is the Senior Associate Dean for Student Affairs & Diversity and Professor at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) School of Nursing (SON), and has been engaged in nursing education for 25 years. She is an Associate Director for the OHSU Center for Ethics, a member of the Interprofessional Initiative Advisory Committee at OHSU, and teaches in the Foundations for Interprofessional Practice course. She has significant professional experience with funded project management focusing on workforce diversity, interprofessional practice, and health equity. She is currently Project Director for two projects related to health equity funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration. The Interprofessional Care Access Network (I-CAN) is a NEPQR project that creates academic-practice partnerships to improve health outcomes for disadvantaged and underserved clients in target neighborhoods. I-CAN is a NEXUS Innovation Incubator Project with the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. Advancing Health Equity through Student Empowerment & Professional Success (HealthE STEPS is a Nursing Workforce Diversity (NWD) Grant project that creates a partnership between OHSU, four community colleges, Southern Oregon University, and Western Oregon University. The purpose of this project is to create a pipeline for students underrepresented in nursing to successfully complete a bachelor’s degree.

Wros, Peggy

Elizabeth Wiley is a second year family medicine resident at the University of Maryland. She is past president of the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) and a graduate of the George Washington University School of Medicine and University of Michigan Law School & School of Public Health. Dr. Wiley is also a Fulbright (Norway) and Teach for America alum. She currently serves on HRSA's Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry, the Executive Board of the World Medical Association's Junior Doctors Network, the Supervising Council of the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (IFMSA), and the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Trainee Advisory Committee. A native of Nashville, Dr. Wiley aspires to a career as a physician advocate.

Wiley, Elizabeth

Jane Westberg, PhD, is Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. A major focus of her career has been working with others towards the goal of compassionate, high-quality healthcare for all people in the world. Currently, she tries to do this through writing, editing, and teaching. Jane’s writing includes articles, chapters and 7 books on learning and teaching. Also, she frequently contributes articles on health-related issues to Winds of Change – an American Indian-produced magazine. Jane particularly enjoys listening to and writing about courageous people who are making a significant, positive difference in the lives of others. Jane and her husband and colleague, Hilliard (Hill) Jason, M.D., Ed.D, consult with and do workshops for teachers and learners in the health professions around the world.

Westberg, Jane

Gina Weisblat, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Adjunct Graduate Faculty College of Graduate Studies in the Department of Family & Community Medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University.

Weisblat, Gina