R. Shawn Martin serves as executive vice president and chief executive officer for the American Academy of Family Physicians. He works with the AAFP Board of Directors on the mission, strategy, and vision for the AAFP and provides representation to other organizations, including medical, public and private sectors. He also serves on the board of directors of the AAFP Foundation, the charitable arm of the AAFP.

Steven P. Furr, MD, FAAFP, is a family physician in Jackson, Alabama. He is the co-founder of Family Medical Clinic of Jackson where he also serves as chief of staff of a rural hospital and medical director of the nursing home. Furr has cared for patients for more than 39 years, including obstetrics care for more than 25 years. He is a certified medical director and a certified medical examiner.

Tochi Iroku-Malize, MD, MPH, MBA, FAAFP, serves as founding chair and professor of family medicine for the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell in Hempstead, New York, and senior vice president and chair of the family medicine service line for Northwell Health. In this role, she oversees four family medicine residency programs and three fellowships, with more than 100 residents, 380 medical students and over 500 family physicians spread across 22 hospitals.

Stephanie Quinn is SVP of external affairs and practice experience at the American Academy of Family Physicians. She oversees the divisions of government relations, practice advancement, and strategicengagements. Prior to AAFP, she was vice president of federal government affairs at CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield where she led the company’s federal legislative agenda on issues such as market stability, drug pricing policy, and social determinants of health. She also has served as deputy director of federal government affairs for Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey.

Jen Brull, MD, FAAFP, is a family physician in Fort Collins, Colorado. She practiced family medicine in rural Kansas for 20 years and now serves as vice president of clinical engagement for Aledade, a company that partners with independent primary care physicians to succeed in value-based care.

Karen B. Mitchell, MD, is the Vice President of Student & Resident Initiatives at the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). She oversees the AAFP's efforts to increase the number of students choosing family medicine and to support and increase family medicine residency positions. Her leadership has extended to serving as the Chair of the American Board of Family Medicine and as President of the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors. 

Heather serves as AAFP Foundation Executive Director and AAFP Vice President, Development. As a member of the senior leadership team, Heather provides oversight of the organization’s grants and the AAFP Foundation’s humanitarian, educational and scientific philanthropy dedicated to improving the health of all people. Heather brings more than 30 years of individual and corporate development experience to the AAFP Foundation and the AAFP to further the mission of both organizations. Before coming to the AAFP, Heather served as director of development and corporate relations at the American Podiatric Medical Association. Prior to that, she was director of corporate philanthropy and partnerships at the Inova Health System Foundation, Director of Development at Providence Health Foundation. Heather began her career as the director of development the North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians Foundation. Since then, she’s used her expertise in development and fundraising, along with a deeply personal commitment to the well-being of others, to work toward ensuring all people can access medical care and raise healthy families.

Tomás is President of Medical Staff and practicing full-scope family doctor at INTEGRIS Great Plains Family Medicine, an Oklahoma City-area residency program. He is also the chair of family medicine and president of the medical staff officers at INTEGRIS Health Baptist Medical Center. Tomás has been passionate about family medicine since his youth in Panama: He comes from a family of physicians, including his father (an internationally prominent family physician), mother, brother, nephews, and now his son. Tomás is past delegate for the Oklahoma chapter of the AAFP and served the OAFP many years as president, committee member and delegate for the National Conference of Constituency Leaders. He is very active in teaching medical students and the public, and volunteers for several boards, his state medical association, and patient service projects in Edmond.

Jay-Sheree is a Preventive Medicine Fellow in the Division of Public Health, Infectious Diseases, and Occupational Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester and an Executive master’s degree in public health Practice candidate at the University of Minnesota. She holds the rank of Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and previously served as a Senior Associate Consultant and Diversity Leader in the Department of Family Medicine. She created the first department wide equity, inclusion, and diversity committee to lead the team through the department’s 2022-23 EID priorities including a faculty development program to promote leadership among women and underrepresented minorities in Family Medicine. As a National Health Service Corps scholar through 2021, she practiced as a full spectrum Family Physician with Centracare Health Long Prairie, a critical access hospital in Central Minnesota. Jay-Sheree is passionate about strengthening the connections between primary care and public health, especially using media platforms. To that end, she has worked with ABC News Health, Minnesota Public Radio and Hippo Education’s Primary Care Reviews and Perspectives podcast. She has been named a 40 under 40 Leader in Health by the National Minority Quality Forum. Jay-Sheree was instrumental in leading the Foundation through the development of the 2024-2026 strategic plan and previously chaired the workgroup focused on the humanitarian efforts of the Foundation and has been instrumental in relaunching the Family Medicine Cares International Program in the Dominican Republic.

Renee is the clinical associate director of the Cleveland Clinic Akron General Family Medicine Residency Program and an assistant professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University. She received her combined BS/MD from Youngstown State University and Northeast Ohio Universities College of Medicine in 1994. Renee completed her residency at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, Ga., and served as chief resident in her final year. She practiced full-scope rural family medicine, including obstetrics, at Community Memorial Hospital in Hicksville, Ohio, where she served one year as chief of staff. She has been active in her state Academy of Family Physicians and the Foundation, supporting student efforts and interest in family medicine.

Andrea began her career in family medicine in Plymouth, Wis., in 1991. In addition to providing heartfelt, comprehensive care to her patients, she gives back to her community through her active participation in community and non-profit boards and local fundraising activities. After being named Wisconsin Academy of Family Physicians Family Physician of the Year in 2001, Andrea became active in organized medicine on the WAFP Board and Foundation. This, along with participation in the Aurora Health Care Foundation and AAFP Foundation activities, has given Andrea a passion for philanthropy. She is especially interested in fundraising activities that support the family medicine workforce and those who work to decrease health inequities.

Prior to coming to ABFM, Dr. Newton practiced as a personal physician for 32 years in an FQHC, Health Department and an academic practice; he also started the first hospitalist service at UNC in 1997 and has led large scale practice and educational transformation at the local, regional and statewide levels. ABFM is redesigning every aspect of its certification portfolio, including the Family Medicine Certification Longitudinal Assessment (FMCLA), a new National Journal Club, Knowledge Self Assessments, Performance Improvement activities and a major revision of its Professionalism Guidelines. The ABFM launched the Center for Professionalism and Value in Health in July 2019 in Washington, DC, runs the PRIME registry, and conducts research in the ecology of family medicine, Measures that Matter in Primary Care and other policy areas critical to the future of family medicine and primary care. Family Medicine Residency Redesign is also a major focus now, with implementation of CBME across 772+ residencies as of July 1, 2023 as is supporting a specialty wide initiative to build research capacity. A recovering Residency Director, Chair, Chief Academic Officer, and NC AHEC Director, he clearly gets bored very easily and relishes working with colleagues and friends in family medicine. 

Mr. Rode joined the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) in 2004 and currently serves as Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Rode previously held roles at ABFM including Vice President of Operations, Manager of the Certification Department, Manager of the Project Management Department, and Manager of the Support Center. 

Mr. Rode graduated from the University of Kentucky.  Mr. Rode has been a Project Management Professional (PMP) certified by Project Management Institute since 2006. Prior to his work at ABFM, Mr. Rode worked for Ashland Incorporated in project management and technical consulting.

Mrs. Layow joined the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) in 2007 as the Controller and served in that capacity until January of 2022, when she assumed the role of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for ABFM.

Mrs. Layow graduated from the University of Kentucky with a double major in Accounting and Finance. She also obtained her Master of Science in Accounting from the University of Kentucky. Upon graduation, Mrs. Layow joined the CPA firm of Radwan, Brown and Co. in Lexington, Kentucky in 2002, prior to joining ABFM. In 2009, Mrs. Layow attained her CPA certificate upon passing the CPA exam and completing the years of experience requirements. 

Mrs. Layow is married and has three children.

Dr. Anderson is a Family Physician and Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Family Medicine where she served as Chair of the Professionalism Committee for four years before assuming the role of Chair. a Senior Medical Education Consultant for the AAMC Health Professions Education Curricular Innovations Grant Program on Strategies for Addressing Health Misinformation. A leader in assessment and medical regulation, she is the chair of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Management Committee where she has served as a subject matter expert for national advisory committees of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME), namely the Patient Characteristics Advisory Panel and the Legal/Ethical Task Force guiding professionalism and cultural competency assessment guidelines. As an educator and medical regulator, Dr. Anderson is the Chair of the Washington, DC Board of Medicine. She is a twice elected member of the Board of Directors of the Federation of State Medical Boards, where she recently led a national multiorganization workgroup which produced the first national best practice guidelines for Medical Regulation of Physicians in Training in over 30 years. Dr Anderson is an Associate Professor of the Division of Family Medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences where she leads the Health Policy Scholarly Concentration, chairs the Clinical subcommittee of the Medical Education Curriculum Committee, and is the course director for the fourth-year internship bootcamp course, Transitions to Residency. She is a Senior Medical Education Adviser for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) where she leads curricular efforts addressing medical misinformation. Dr. Anderson is passionate about teaching professionalism, medical regulation, primary care, and ethics to medical learners. She is a member of the inaugural Standing Committee on Primary Care of the National Academy of Medicine, a group of primary care leaders convened to serve as a focal point for discussions on priorities in primary care policy to inform HHS's initiative on primary health care.  She is a current fellow in the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) and holds certificates from both the International Leadership Excellence in Educating for Professionalism (LEEP) Faculty Scholars Program of Academy for Professionalism in Health Care and the Master Teacher Leadership and Development Program from the George Washington University. Dr. Anderson earned both her Medical Degree and Bachelor of Arts from Brown University and Master of Education from The George Washington University School of Education and Human Development. She completed her residency in Family Medicine and Academic Medicine Fellowship/Chief Resident year from Harbor UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. A National Health Service Corps Scholar, she completed her community medicine clinical commitment at Unity Health Care in Washington DC where she served a large bilingual population.

Dr. Gonzales is an Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson (UA COM-T). He is also the Assistant Dean for Curricular Affairs and serves as an Adviser on Traditional Indian and Western Medicine Collaboration to the College of Medicine. In his role as Assistant Dean, Dr. Gonzales administers the College’s Rural Health Professions Program (RHPP) and the medical student volunteer services program, Commitment to Underserved People (CUP).

Dr. Gonzales is a Societies Mentor for both PMAP, the College’s post-baccalaureate program, and the College of Medicine students. Societies are the Learning Community program of the UA COM-T. Mentors teach the students history taking, physical examination skills and professionalism.

He serves the ABFM on the Certification Committee, the Knowledge Assessment Committee, and the Engagement & Communications Committee.

Mr. Bean served as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the American Board of Family Medicine from 1999–2021 and served as its Chief Operating Officer from 2007 – 2018. He also was the acting CFO of the Pisacano Leadership Foundation and the ABFM Foundation, both supporting organizations of ABFM. Now semi-retired, Mr. Bean serves as CFO and Executive Director of the ABFM Foundation.

He graduated from the University of Kentucky and joined the CPA firm of Arthur Young & Company in 1974. He obtained his CPA certificate in 1977 upon passing the CPA exam on the first attempt and completing the required two years of experience. He left Arthur Young to join the CPA firm of Rippe & Kingston in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he worked from 1978 through 1999. In 1984 he became a partner with the firm and was responsible for the operations of the audit department and in charge of the firm’s quality assurance efforts.

Licensed to practice as a CPA in Kentucky and Ohio, he has served on the Ethics Committee of both the Ohio and Kentucky CPA Societies. He is currently serving his eleventh year as the Treasurer of the Child Development Center of the Bluegrass, currently serves on the board of directors of the Lewy Body Dementia Association.

Mr. Bean is married and has two adult children, one an RN and the other a CPA.  Mr. Bean also has two grandchildren.

Dr. LeRoy serves ABFM as the Senior Vice President of Diplomate Experience.

Previously, he was an associate professor of Family Medicine at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio. He served as East Dayton Health Center’s Medical Director from 1992 to 2007 before joining the faculty of Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine where he served as Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Admissions for 14 years (2008-2022).

He has had significant national leadership experience as the President-Elect, President and Board Chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians from 2018 to 2021. He is an active member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians (Past President), and the Phi Rho Sigma Medical Society (Vice President).

Over the last 30 years, he has received numerous awards at the state and national levels, including the Wright State University Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award,  the American Association of Medical Colleges Humanism in Medicine Award, the National Council of Community and Justice Humanism Award, the American Medical Student Association Golden Apple Teaching Excellence Award.

Dr. Maycock is a Family Physician and Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alabama Birmingham School of Medicine (UAB), where she serves as Program Director of the Selma Family Medicine Residency Program. She also serves as Clinical Faculty for the Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine, as well as for the Lincoln Memorial University-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine, and as the Family Medicine Core Rotation Course Coordinator for Meharry Medical College. She has been instrumental in the establishment of Hospitalist Service at Vaughan Regional Medical Center, where she serves as the Hospitalist Director and is on the Medical Executive Committee.

Dr. Maycock and her residency program have been a part of the Rural Training Track Collaborative designed to sustain health professions education in rural places through mutual encouragement, peer learning, practice improvement, and the delivery of technical expertise, all in support of a quality rural workforce. 

She  served on the Alabama Maternal Mortality Review Committee (AL-MMRC) which was formed in 2018 to better understand the factors that impact maternal deaths, hoping to mitigate and prevent future deaths. 

As a voice for the needs of the rural Black Belt community, she has been featured by local radio and news interviews, mayoral press conferences, and US Chamber of Commerce panels.

Dr. Moreno is a family physician at a Los Angeles County family health center where he has a continuity clinic, trains family medicine residents, and teaches medical students. He is also an Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and is the Director for UCLA’s Program in Medical Education, also known as PRIME-Leadership and Advocacy, that trains medical students to be leaders and advocates for underserved and vulnerable populations. 

He joined the UCLA Department of Family Medicine faculty after completing a post-doctoral research fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program at UCLA. While an RWJ Foundation clinical scholar, Dr. Moreno received advanced training in research methods, community-based participatory research (CBPR) and obtained a Master of Science in Health Services from the UCLA School of Public Health. 

He is a recipient of a prestigious National Institute of Health Paul B. Beeson Career Development Award in Aging Research and co-directs the Community Liaison Core for the NIH funded UCLA Resource Center for Minority Aging Research. The National Academy of Medicine  selected Dr. Moreno as the 2015 James C. Puffer, MD/American Board of Family Medicine Fellow.

At ABFM, he serves on the Professionalism Committee, the Executive Committee, the Finance Committee, and the Research & Development Committee as its Chair.  He serves as an ex-officio member of the Certification Committee, the Engagement & Communications Committee, the Knowledge Assessment Committee.

Jay Fetter is a family medicine advocate, and health systems science coach who's spent a career providing aid to teaching practices, community primary care practices and teaching faculty to advance the quality, affordability, equity and experience of family medicine and primary care. He spent 27 years working for the American Academy of Family Physicians Division of Medical Education and its practice innovation arm, TransforMED, where he lead the major GME innovation functions and the enablement supports for 150 family medicine and internal medical practices across 4 states in large scale tests of new care delivery models by CMMI.  He has served as the executive director of the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors, Director of the P4 Residency Redesign initiative, and Director of Quality and Care Model Innovation for a an advanced primary care practice model with 8 FM care centers in Kansas City. He now serves as the Program Manager for Residency Redesign and Innovation for the ABFM Foundation—implementing residency learning networks, CBME and GME outcomes assessment and tests of change that will inform future GME residency requirements and payment priorities in family medicine. 

Special areas of interest include: integrated behavioral health in primary care, patient engagement, patient and family advisory councils, risk stratified care management, value-based benefits design, population health operations, process improvement,

Dr. Blair is a fourth-generation primary care physician who, after graduating from East Carolina University School of Medicine’s Family Medicine Residency, joined his father—a charter Diplomate of ABFM—to practice back in his hometown of Wallace, NC. In addition to his clinical responsibilities, he currently serves as a regional Medical Director for Vidant Health, as well as Medical Director for Population Health.

He has been an active leader at the practice, community, health system, state and national levels. Embracing new models of care, He led the transformation work at the practice level to become a Level III Patient Centered Medical Home, and he provides leadership in the regional Accountable Care Organization. 

He is perhaps most known for his state and national level leadership with the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). He served as vice president, president-elect and president of the North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians. At the national level, he served as a delegate on AAFP’s Congress of Delegates. He is a former member of the Committee on Rural Health and the AAFP Commission on Health of the Public, serving as its chair. Dr. Blair also served on the AAFP Board of Directors from 2014–2017.

He continues to teach medical students and residents in his family medicine practice in Wallace and is one of the most highly rated preceptors for Brody School of Medicine students completing their third-year family medicine clerkship.

Dr. Phillips directs the Center for Professionalism and Value in Health Care. He also oversees the American Board of Family Medicine's (ABFM) research and related collaborations, as well as the policy relationships related to family medicine and primary care. He currently practices one day each week in a community-based residency program in Fairfax, Virginia, and is Professor of Family Medicine at Georgetown University and Virginia Commonwealth University. Prior to being named executive director of the center in 2018, he served as the ABFM Vice President for Research and Policy. Dr. Phillips is a past director of the Robert Graham Center, a health policy research center in Washington, DC. 

He has deep experience in designing and implementing health services research pertinent to policy development and a history of prodigious productivity. His passion for underserved populations is born of growing up in a rural community that is both a Health Professions Shortage Area and Medically Underserved Area. It was bolstered by working in a Federally Qualified Health Center imbedded in a Federal Housing Project. His research and policy experience led him to his selection by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to serve on a Federal Negotiated Rule Making Committee for the redesignation of shortage and underservice areas. 

He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2010 and has served the National Academies in several capacities since. In 2012, the health policy research fellowship co-sponsored by the Robert Graham Center and Georgetown University was renamed the Robert L. Phillips, Jr. Health Policy Fellowship. He was named to the University of Florida College of Medicine Hall of Fame in 2016. He served as a Fulbright Specialist to the Netherlands in 2012 and New Zealand in 2016.

Bob Moore, MA, MS, FASAE, CAE, is a recognized leader in association management with over 25 years’ experience serving major national and international organizations.

Moore is currently the Executive Director of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians and the ACOFP Foundation. Previously, he was the first chief operating officer of the American Dental Hygienists’ Association and the first executive director of the Technology Councils of North America (TECNA). At the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Moore was Vice President, Knowledge, and Learning. In his positions, Moore is known for being a catalyst of change and growth.

A graduate of Illinois State University with a BS in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Moore earned his MA in Organizational Communications from the University of Northern Iowa and an MS in Learning & Organizational Change from Northwestern University. Moore is also an ASAE Fellow and Diversity Executive Leadership Program (DELP) scholar, Board Chair of Association Forum, and Vice Chair of HR Source.

Brian A. Kessler, DO, DHA, FACOFP dist., is Dean at Campbell University Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine and professor of Family Medicine in Buies Creek, North Carolina; previously he was Dean at Lincoln Memorial University and Director of Medical Education at Cleveland Clinic South Pointe Hospital.

Throughout his career, Dr. Kessler has played a pivotal role in program development, organizational advancement, accreditation processes, and fostering strategic partnerships. Guided by honesty, integrity, and humility, he skillfully champions institutional visions, forging collaborative relationships to drive positive change and growth.

Beyond his professional achievements, Dr. Kessler is passionate about promoting mindfulness, collaboration, and purposeful engagement. His commitment to fostering academic excellence and a culture of health and well-being is evident in all his endeavors.

Dr. Park is the Vice President and Founding Dean of the new Rocky Vista University—Montana College of Osteopathic Medicine located in Billings, Montana. Prior to relocating to Montana, Dr. Park led the development of Rocky Vista University’s Southern Utah additional location where he served as the Campus Dean. He has been in formal medical education for over 20 years starting in New York, where he spent over 30 years of his formative life in America.

He is a graduate of the NYITCOM and completed his residency training in Family Medicine at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he stayed on as faculty for 4 years before moving to Nevada in 2005. In Las Vegas, he spent 10 years in numerous teaching and administrative roles at Touro University Nevada College of Osteopathic Medicine as well as other leadership roles in the state, including being the Founding President of the ACOFP-Nevada chapter. One of his proudest accomplishments in Nevada was starting the Family Medicine Residency Program at Valley Hospital Medical

Dr Desai is the professor, division of primary care at Kansas City University, where he also serves as director, honors track in global medicine. He has led medical missions to different countries such as Guatemala, Kenya and the Dominican Republic, exposing him to a variety of health care delivery systems. He finds it rewarding to help patients worldwide and show the medical students the value of a career in family medicine and primary care.

He has served on numerous committees with the AOA, ACOFP, the AOA's Council on CME, the National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiner's Clinical Skills Testing Advisory Committee and the NBOME’s SOAP Note Fabrication Subcommittee. He has been the principal investigator on many grants, including the Achieving Diversity in Medicine and Dentistry Grant and the Educational Development for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Grant. He is also a Past President of DOCARE International Board of Trustees.

He has over 50 peer-reviewed publications on a variety of topics in print, textbooks, encyclopedias, and digital publications. He has presented nationally and internationally on a variety of topics related to medical education and Osteopathic Manual Medicine.

Dr Cohen currently practices at Lucas County Health Center Medical Clinics in Chariton, Iowa, serving his community through outpatient care, osteopathic manipulative medicine, emergency room, nursing home services, and obstetrical care within his rural family practice.

He is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine for Des Moines University and has been precepting 3rd and 4th year Osteopathic Medical students in rural family medicine since 2001.He previously served as the president of the Iowa Osteopathic Medical association, as well as Chairman of the Iowa Maternal Child Health Advisory Council.

Amanda Weidner is the Executive Director of the Association of Departments of Family Medicine, the organization representing academic departments of family medicine at medical schools and academic health systems across the country. 

In addition to her role in ADFM, Ms. Weidner is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington (UW) and the Associate Director of Strategic Planning for the University of Washington WWAMI-Region Family Medicine Residency Network, supporting the Network’s strategic planning process, many of the projects born from this process, and the professional development for the residency program directors. 

Through the UW, she also serves as Director of Educational Resources for the Technical Assistance Centers for the HRSA Rural Residency Planning and Development and the Teaching Health Center Planning and Development grant programs.

Dr. Jehni Robinson is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA. She also serves as Associate Dean for Primary Care. Dr. Robinson is immediate past President of USC Care Medical Group, a multispecialty group representing over 800 faculty clinicians practicing at Keck Medicine of USC. She led development of a new Family Medicine residency sponsored by a new sponsoring institution at Keck Medicine of USC, welcoming its first class in 2021.

She co-founded the USC Street Medicine Program in 2018, which brings care to unhoused people in Los Angeles and has grown to 5 clinical teams and a robust workforce development program training street medicine teams across California as well as USC clinician trainees. Additionally, she has successfully advocated to improve reimbursement for this care model, resulting in receipt of the 2024 Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Advocate Award. Prior to coming to USC, she served as Chief Medical Officer for The Saban Free Clinic, also known as The Los Angeles Free Clinic, and taught in the Harbor UCLA Transforming Primary Care Faculty Development Fellowship.

She received her undergraduate degree from Stanford and her medical degree from Morehouse School of Medicine. She completed her residency at Harbor-UCLA in Family Medicine followed by a chief year and faculty development fellowship. She has also completed the California Healthcare Foundation Health Care Leadership Fellowship program in 2013 and the Hedwig Van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine program in 2022. 

Dr. Robinson has expertise in leadership development, care delivery redesign, and care for the underserved.

Dr Schneider is Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center. 

Previously he was Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Saint Louis University (SLU) from 2008 to 2017. Before being the Chair at SLU, he served as a faculty member at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, where he was also Director of Medical Student Education, Residency Program Director, and Vice Chair. 

Dr. Schneider is the founding President of the Academy on Violence and Abuse, and he serves on the board of directors of the Association of Departments of Family Medicine. He previously served as Chair of the National Health Collaborative on Violence and Abuse, President of the Texas Academy of Family Physicians, and Chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians Commission on Public Health.

He earned his medical degree at the Boston University School of Medicine. Following his residency in family medicine at Duke University, he received advanced training in academic family medicine through a fellowship at the University of Missouri, where he also earned a master of science in public health in epidemiology.

Dr. Kristina Diaz currently serves as the Executive Medical Director of Primary Care, Chief Academic Officer, Designated Institutional Official for GME and the Program Director for the Family & Community Medicine Residency at Yuma Regional Medical Center. 

She has received national recognition for her work as a program director and has presented at several national conferences. Dr. Diaz also currently serves as Past-President of the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors as well as the Past-President of the Arizona Academy of Family Physicians. 

Dr. Diaz is a graduate of the University of Arizona School of Business and Ross University School of Medicine. She completed her Family Medicine Residency at the University of Kansas Medical Center where she was appointed chief resident. 

Dr. Cole is the program director at Mercy Family Medicine in St. Louis, MO. She earned her medical degree from Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed her residency at Illinois Masonic Medical Center (osteopathic internship) and Mercy Family Medicine St. Louis (family medicine residency). Dr. Cole describes herself as a geek for all things related to GME administration and regulation, including as it relates to health care advocacy. Clinically, she has particular interests in care of infants and children, hospital medicine, point of care ultrasound and osteopathic medicine. 

Donald Raj Woolever, MD, FAAFP is the Program Director of the Portsmouth Regional Hospital Family Medicine Residency, with academic appointments at University of New England, Geisel/Dartmouth and Tufts University. Dr. Woolever served as a medical officer in the US Air Force and has been a residency director for 16 years, receiving multiple teaching awards. He is the immediate past president of the Family Medicine Education Consortium, was elected as the president-elect of the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors Board of Directors in 2024, and has been on the Academic Council of the National Institute of Program Director Development since 2015. He has presented widely on professionalism, team-building, hidden curriculum and mentoring, and published on clinical decision-making, evidence-based medicine and ambiguities in the residency environment.He was a Fulbright Scholar, attended medical school at University of Rochester, residency at Travis Air Force Base, California and faculty development fellowship at University of North Carolina. 

Lisa Ochs has sixteen years of experience in non-profit association management.  She has previously directed state-wide affiliates of the American Federation of Teachers in Kansas and Ohio. Lisa assumed the role of Executive Director for AFMRD in September 2023. 

Dr. Tom Vansaghi has over 25 years of experience in public service, higher education, and the nonprofit sector. His career began as a volunteer for Governor Mel Carnahan's 1992 campaign, leading to senior roles in Missouri's state government. In 1999, he transitioned to higher education, overseeing government relations, fundraising, and strategic planning at Northwest Missouri State University and later at Metropolitan Community College. In 2013, he became the executive director of the North American Primary Care Research Group, a role he continues today.

Since 2015, he has been a tenured professor of nonprofit leadership at William Jewell College, where he also directs strategic planning and the Pryor Leadership Studies Program. He has taught at the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership at the University of Missouri-Kansas City since 2010.

An advocate for social justice, he chaired the Board of Directors for the National Conference of Christians and Jews in Kansas City and has taught courses on race and identity at William Jewell College. 

Richelle Koopman MD, MS is President of NAPCRG through November 2024 and is a practicing family physician and researcher. In January 2024 she became the Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at University of Missouri. Her Jack M. and Winifred S. Colwill Endowed Chair is firmly planted in the roots of family medicine in the U.S. Her federally funded research focuses on electronic decision support for both clinicians and patients, particularly in the area of home blood pressure data for hypertension. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the Masters of Science in Clinical Research Program at the Medical University of South Carolina. She completed her residency at St. Margaret’s FMR, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Dr. Vivian R Ramsden, a Registered Nurse, is a Distinguished Professor & Director of the Research Division in the Department of Academic Family Medicine in the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. She teaches in the areas of clinical research methods and primary care/family medicine research.

As a participatory researcher, she is a passionate advocate for authentic engagement, co-creation and transformative action research which involves strategies to engage individuals and communities in identifying and addressing locally relevant issues that impact their health and well-being.

She is an Honorary Member of the College of Family Physicians of Canada, a Fellow in the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the Immediate Past-President of NAPCRG

Tim Olde Hartman is a general practitioner in the academic general practice Oosterhout (Nijmegen) and senior researcher at the Department of Primary Care Medicine of the Radboudumc. He is head of the Primary Care Research Group at Radboudumc and chair of the Research Unit of the Department of Primary and Community Care, the largest research department at Radboudumc.

He received his PhD in medicine on his research into 'persistent medically unexplained symptoms in primary care'. He contributed to the multidisciplinary guideline, GP guideline and care standard on Persistent Somatic Symptoms. His passion is providing personalized care to his patients and conducting scientific research on the effectiveness of person-centered care in general practice.

He serves on several national and international research committees, councils and consortia and supervises multiple PhD students on research projects on mental health and persistent symptoms with a focus on doctor-patient communication, therapeutic relationships and person-centered care. 

Stacy Harris Brungardt, MA, CAE, has worked with the STFM for 31 years, first serving as communications director, then moving to deputy executive director in October 2000, and finally becoming executive director in October 2007. Stacy also serves as executive director of the STFM Foundation. While deputy director, she was the executive director of the North American Primary Care Research Group. Stacy is a long-time American Society of Association Executives member and received the Certified Association Executive designation in 2003. She has been active locally in the Kansas City Society of Association Executives, including serving as president of KCSAE and Board member. Stacy has served on numerous KCSAE committees and task forces.

Joseph Gravel, MD, FAAFP, is professor and chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He was founding residency program director of the Tufts University FMR in Malden, MA and was Chief Medical Officer and residency program director at the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center, a FQHC-based Teaching Health Center. He served as a residency program director for 20 years, participating in 3 national residency innovation initiatives: the P4 National Demonstration Project, the HRSA Teaching Health Center program, and the ACGME Length of Training Pilot. He currently also serves on the Wisconsin Academy of Family Physicians’ Board of Directors and is a Technical Advisor for the HRSA THCGME program. He is a Past President of the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors, the Family Medicine Education Consortium, and the Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians. He previously served on the ACGME Review Committee for Family Medicine, the ABFM Board of Directors, the STFM Foundation Board of Trustees and as chair of the Academic Family Medicine Advocacy Committee.

Dr. Crichlow practiced full-spectrum Family Medicine with Obstetrics for more than 20 years and is now the chief medical officer of Codman Square Health Center in Boston, a Vice-chair at the Boston University Medical School Department of Family Medicine, and is she is also a Lecturer at the Harvard University Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Crichlow’s Fellowships include a Fellowship in Health Policy through the Dept of Health and Human Services. She is a Commissioner for Federal and State Policy for the American Academy of Family Physician, and is also on the national Board of Directors and the founder of The Ladder, a mentorship program for kids interested in health careers.

Steven Lin, MD is the Chief of General Primary Care and the Head of Technology Innovation for the Division of Primary Care and Population Health at Stanford University School of Medicine. His focus is on the intersection of health services innovation, digital health and emerging technologies—specifically artificial intelligence and machine learning in healthcare. Steven is the Founding Director of the Stanford Healthcare AI Applied Research Team, a primary care-focused AI/ML implementation center partnered with 50 organizations across industry, academia, non-profit and government to bring leading-edge AI/ML technologies from “code to beside” in support of the Quintuple Aim. He was a James C. Puffer/American Board of Family Medicine Fellow with the National Academy of Medicine and is the author of over 450 scholarly works and conference presentations.

Nina DeJonghe, MPP, is a seasoned public policy professional with several years of leadership, legislative, and non-profit experience. As Director of Government Relations for the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM), she directs advocacy functions of the four organizations that make up academic family medicine (Council of Academic Family Medicine (CAFM). Nina liaises with Congress, federal agencies, external organizations, and relevant stakeholders to coordinate efforts that advance academic family medicine issues. Nina prioritizes workforce issues, increased research funding, and primary care physician accessibility to improve health outcomes. Dhe holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Eastern Michigan University and a master’s degree in public policy from George Mason University. She has significant success working towards effective policy solutions, thoughtful partnerships, and accessibility to critical funding and resources. Nina brings a unique perspective to STFM. She has dedicated her professional career to strengthening marginalized and underserved communities.