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 practicing in Jackson, Alabama. He is the co-founder of Family Medical Clinic of Jackson, where he supports a rural hospital and holds the position of medical director at the nursing home. With over four decades of experience in Family Medicine, Furr has practiced obstetrics for more than 25 years. He holds the certification of medical director and has served as president of three statewide medical associations: the Alabama Academy of Family Physicians, the Medical Association of the State of Alabama, and the Alabama Medical Directors Association. Additionally, he has served on the delegation of the Alabama American Medical Association for several years. Prior to these roles, Furr held positions as vice chair of the credentials committee of the Alabama State Board of Medical Examiners and the Alabama State Committee of Public Health. He continues to serve on the board of trustees of the University of South Alabama.

Elizabeth Kazarian, MD, is a full-scope family physician dedicated to delivering compassionate, preventive care across all life stages. With a multicultural background—half Swedish-Lebanese and raised in Germany and the United States—she brings a globally informed and empathetic approach to patient care. She is fluent in English and Swedish and frequently travels home to Europe. Her clinical interests center on women's health and comprehensive obesity medicine, with a focus on polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and menopause. She performs a wide range of in-office procedures, including long-acting contraception (IUDs, Nexplanon), joint injections, skin biopsies, and aesthetic services such as botox and dermal fillers.

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 executive director of the AAFP Foundation and vice president of Development for the AAFP.  Her expertise in development and fundraising, along with a deeply personal commitment to the well-being of others, helps her further the AAFP and AAFP Foundation’s work toward ensuring all people can access medical care. Before joining the AAFP, Heather served as director of development and corporate relations at the American Podiatric Medical Association. She also served as director of corporate philanthropy and partnerships at the Inova Health System Foundation and gained international experience in her role at the Center for Development and Population Activities. Heather fell in love with family medicine at the start of her career as the director of development at the North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians Foundation. Heather is a member of the Association of Fundraising Executives. She holds a master’s degree in nonprofit management from American University and a master’s degree in business from Marymount University. 

Renee Markovich, MD. 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. Renee completed her residency at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, Georgia, 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 AAFP Foundation, supporting student efforts and an interest in family medicine

Andrea Gavin, MD, began her career in family medicine in Plymouth, Wisconsin. 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.

Melissa Stephens, MD is associate dean of clinical medicine and professor of family medicine at the Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine in Fort Smith, AR. A family physician and medical educator, Dr Stephens has dedicated her career to advancing primary care, graduate medical education, and population health, particularly in underserved and rural communities. She earned her BA/MD with distinction from the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine and completed her family medicine residency at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

Dr Stephens has held multiple academic leadership roles, including at William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine, where she served as associate dean of primary care and graduate medical education. In 2024, she helped launch Mississippi’s first Rural Maternal Health Fellowship through the EC-HealthNet Family Medicine Residency Program, where she also served as Program Director. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Family Medicine and a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Dr Stephens serves nationally on the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation Board of Trustees, the National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners National Faculty, and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Medical Education Collaborative Steering Committee. Her many honors include the Mississippi State Medical Association Women Leaders in Medicine Award – South Mississippi, Mississippi Pinnacle Awards Evelyn Gandy Women’s Leadership Award, and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine Society of Medical Educators Marguerite Elliott Innovation in Clinical Medical Education Award.

Justin Bartos, MD, has been involved with the AAFP Foundation since 2016. After practicing in a community-based clinic for many years, he was attracted to the opportunity to give back to patients in need through the AAFP Foundation. Dr Bartos began his family medicine journey at the University of Texas and the University of Texas Medical Branch. He completed his residency at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth. In 2020 he joined HCA Medical City Arlington Hospital with a focus on developing an advocacy curriculum and geriatrics. He also works as the administrative physician of North Hills Family Medicine and was the past owner of Bishop Davies Nursing Center and Founder of Bishop Hospice. Justin has been a delegate to the Congress of Delegates from Texas, member of the Commissions on Practice Enhancement, Quality and Practice, and Membership. He has served as a chairman of the Reference Committee on Organization and Finance. He is a past president of the Texas Academy of Family Physicians and was named Texas Family Physician of the Year. He is a member of the Board of the Texas Academy of Family Physicians Foundation.

Dr Newton serves as President and CEO of the American Board of Family Medicine and the ABFM Foundation. Prior to coming to ABFM, Dr Newton practiced as a personal physician for 33 years in an FQHC, Health Department and an academic practice. He 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. Over the last five years, ABFM has redesigned every aspect of its certification portfolio, including launching the Family Medicine Certification Longitudinal Assessment (FMCLA), the ABFM National Journal Club, and major revisions of Knowledge Self Assessments, Performance Improvement activities and its Professionalism Guidelines. The ABFM started the Center for Professionalism and Value in Health in July 2018 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. Family Medicine Residency Redesign is also a major focus now, with implementation of CBME across 810+ residencies as is supporting a specialty wide initiative to build research capacity. A recovering Residency Director, Chair, UNC Chief Academic Officer, and NC AHEC Director, he clearly gets bored very easily and relishes working with colleagues and friends in family medicine.

Dr Gonzales is currently the chair of the American Board of Family Medicine Board of Directors and was previously on the American Academy of Family Physicians Board of Directors. He is currently the Senior Director for Indigenous Health Affairs at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center. He advises the University of Arizona College of Medicine and Health Sciences Center on Traditional Indian Medicine and Western Medicine (allopathic) collaboration. He just retired from being the Associate Dean- Indigenous Affairs UA College of Health Sciences, Assistant Vice President- Indigenous Affairs for the University of Arizona/University of Western Australia Global MD program, and Assistant Dean Curricular Affairs/ Rural Health at the UA College of Medicine,Tucson. Dr Gonzales is a family physician and was a primary care provider in two FQHCs for 21 years (an urban inner-city one- El Rio CHC in Tucson and a rural one- Mariposa CHC in Nogales and Patagonia, AZ). He has been very involved in the teaching and mentoring of medical students and also family medicine residents at the University of Arizona College of MedicineTucson since 2006. He received his B.A. from Carleton College–Northfield, MD from University of Arizona, College of Medicine; a FM Residency at UNMAlbuquerque, NM. Carlos is a sixth generation Tucsonan of Yaqui and Mexican descent. He also leads Yaqui-Inipi Way Sweat Lodge Ceremonies. He has often provided Blessing Ceremonies for various programs at the University of Arizona and for other organizations. He is currently on the Tribal Advisory Board of the new University of Arizona Wassaja Carlos Montezuma Center Native American Health. He also just received the “Arizona Champion” award for excellence in teaching from the University of Arizona’s Provost Office.

Andrea Anderson, MD, MEd, is a nationally recognized leader in medical education, regulation, and primary care and Immediate Past Chair of the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM). Dr Anderson has helped shape the future of board certification and professionalism for more than 100,000 ABFM family physicians nationwide. She previously chaired ABFM’s Professionalism Committee before assuming the role of chair of the Board, where she advanced high standards of competence and compassion in medicine. Dr Anderson currently chairs the national USMLE Management Committee and advises the National Board of Medical Examiners through service on the Patient Characteristics Advisory Panel and the Legal/Ethical Task Force. She is chair of the Washington, DC Board of Medicine and a two-time elected member of the Federation of State Medical Boards Board of Directors, where she led the first major update in over 30 years to national guidelines regulating physicians in training—promoting equity, wellness, and in licensure portability. She is an appointed member of the Ethics and Professionalism Committee of the American Board of Medical Specialties and the Standing Committee on Primary Care
for the National Academy of Medicine. Dr Anderson is the associate chief in the Division of Family Medicine at George Washington University. At GW, she directs the Health Policy Scholarly Concentration, chairs the clinical curriculum
subcommittee, and leads the “Transitions to Residency” capstone course. She is a past Senior Medical Education Adviser to the AAMC and a fellow of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program.

A National Health Service Corps Scholar, Dr Anderson began her career at Unity Health Care, an FQHC in Washington, DC, serving a predominantly bilingual immigrant population for 15 years. Her career reflects a singular vision: to ensure that every physician is both highly skilled and deeply grounded in the values that make medicine a trusted profession.

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.

Tiffani Maycock, DO, MS, FAAFP, is a family physician and chair of the Communications and Engagement Advisory Committee for the ABFM Board of Directors. Former associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alabama Birmingham School of Medicine (UAB), she served as program director of the Selma Family Medicine Residency Program for 6 years and core Family Medicine faculty member with the UAB Huntsville Family Medicine Residency Program for 7 years. She currently serves as telehealth physician with QuickMD specializing in treating patients with Opioid Use Disorder. Dr Maycock also has 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 currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Rural Medical Training Collaborative and Clinical Faculty for the Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine, Division of Clinical Sciences in Dothan, AL. Dr Maycock has a long history of community needs assessments and engagement. She has a particular interest in community health and has coordinated and led residents and medical students in advocating for the needs of the underserved in the community through various community outreach programs including health fairs, dental clinics, health education lecture series and adolescent health projects. Dr Maycock’s special interests include lifestyle medicine, community engagement, maternity care, osteopathic principles and practice, and URM Rural Healthcare Pipeline. In her free time, she enjoys outdoor activities such as hiking and camping. She is married with two teenage sons. She can be reached at doctormaycock@gmail.com.

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.

Dr. Saby Karuppiah is the Chief Medical Officer for Kansas Medicaid (KanCare) and Treasurer of the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM). He serves as the Designated Institutional Official (DIO) at Mercy Hospital in Springfield, MO, leading the development of new GME programs. A former Family Medicine Residency Program Director, Dr. Karuppiah brings extensive experience in medical education and workforce policy. He represents the AAFP in the AMA House of Delegates, serves on the Kansas AFP board and the federal Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME), and advises HRSA. He is also an invited speaker on international medical graduate (IMG) issues with the AMA IMG Section and ECFMG.

Kevin Rode is the Chief Operating Officer at the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), where he has served since 2004. Over the past two decades, he has held a variety of roles, including vice president of Operations, Manager of the Certification Department, Manager of the Project Management Department, and Manager of the Support Center.  Mr. Rode earned his master’s degree in business administration and has been a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) through the Project Management Institute since 2006. Before joining ABFM, he worked at Ashland, Inc. in project management and technical consulting

Trisha Layow is the Chief Financial Officer of the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), where she leads the organization’s financial strategy and operations. She joined ABFM in 2007 as Controller and served in that role until January 2022, when she was appointed CFO.

Mrs. Layow began her career at the CPA firm Radwan, Brown and Co. in Lexington, Kentucky, after earning both her Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Finance and her Master of Science in Accounting from the University of Kentucky. In 2009, she earned her CPA certification, demonstrating her commitment to professional excellence and financial stewardship. Beyond her professional responsibilities, Mrs. Layow is actively engaged in her community. She serves on the board of a school in Lexington, contributing her financial expertise to support educational initiatives. She is also an advisory board member for a local bank, where she provides strategic guidance on financial and community banking matters. She is married and the proud mother of three children.

Dana Price, MEHP, MS, PMP, serves as Manager of Grants and Collaborations at the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), where she oversees the organization's grant-funded initiatives and provides operational support for research collaborations and the ABFM Foundation's grant-making programs. Prior to joining ABFM in 2021, Dana spent over two decades working in postgraduate medical education for both academic and private sectors, including roles at Stanford University School of Medicine and Boston University School of Medicine. Throughout her career, she has been dedicated to serving at the intersection of developing innovative continuing medical education programming for diverse clinician audiences, collaborating with patients to elevate their voices in care delivery, and supporting strategic partnerships that strengthen institutional capacity and sustainability. She holds master's degrees in Education for the Health Professions from Johns Hopkins University and Health Communication from the University of Illinois.

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.

Christine Hancock, MD, MS, is a family physician and medical director at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA, and serves as a clinical assistant professor at the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine and the University of Washington. She is also the chair-elect of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Family Medicine. She spent the last 12 years as a medical director and the physician lead for Sea Mar Community Health Center’s opioid programs including their Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) treatment program. Her research interests include addiction treatment in primary care, evidence based chronic pain management, primary care and rural provider recruitment and retention.
Dr Hancock grew up in a rural community in eastern California and completed medical school at the UCSF-UC Berkeley Joint Medical Program, where she studied novel factors predictive of rural physician recruitment and retention. She completed her residency at the Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency Program and has worked extensively with the National Rural Health Association including through their Rural Health Fellows program.

Outside of work, Dr Hancock enjoys spending time with her husband and two school-aged children, often while riding some kind of bicycle.

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.

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 more than 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.

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 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 Seehusen earned his medical degree from the University of Iowa and a Master of Public Health from the University of Washington. He is a graduate of the Tripler Army Medical Center Family Medicine Residency and the Madigan Army Medical Center Faculty Development Fellowship in Family Medicine. Dr Seehusen served 21 years as an Active Duty physician in the United States Army. He is a decorated combat veteran of wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He holds a Board Certification from the American Board of Family Medicine and a Certificate of Added Qualification in Healthcare Administration, Leadership, and Management. He holds active licenses to practice medicine in Georgia and South Carolina. Dr Seehusen is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. He is deputy editor of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine and an associate medical editor of American Family Physician. He is the inaugural fellowship director of the ABFM Research and Editing Fellowship. He is the current president of the Association of Departments of Family Medicine. Dr Seehusen is currently a professor and chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Augusta University in Augusta, GA.

Colleen T. Fogarty, MD, MSc, FAAFP, is the William Rocktaschel Professor and Chair at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and the Chief of Family Medicine at Highland Hospital of Rochester. She practices full spectrum outpatient care for children and adults, with a commitment to serving under-resourced families. She has prior experience as Medical Director of a large FM training practice, Associate Residency Director, and Director of a HRSA-funded Practice Transformation fellowship for primary care clinicians and staff members. Dr Fogarty's scholarship includes empirical and creative work. Her research includes primary care identification and management of mental health conditions, intimate partner violence, and patient-centered communication. Her creative work has been published in numerous journals, and she has received creative writing awards from the University of Rochester and the Family Medicine Education Consortium. She popularized the writing and use of 55-word stories in Family Medicine and introduced the 55-word story column for the journal Families, Systems, and Health. During a recent sabbatical, she served as a Larry A. Green Visiting Scholar at the Robert Graham Center of the AAFP, a visiting scholar with the Center for Professionalism and Values of the ABFM and a visiting professor with the Larry A. Green Center with Virginia Commonwealth University.  

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 Bryant Campbell currently serves as ADFM's public member. Dr Campbellis an Oregon native who’s spent the past 24 years working in Oregon State Government, currently serving as the Director of Equity for Oregon's Department of Consumer and Business Services. Over the past 16 years, Dr Campbell has built a passion for advancing healthcare for patients who are underserved, misunderstood or often unheard and unseen. Bryant spent several years as a member of the Patient and Family Advisory Council for Providence Medical Group and as guest faculty for the Institute for Patient and Family Centered Care (IPFCC), sharing the patient experience and working with healthcare organizations helping to bring value to patient engagement. These unique experiences allow Dr Campbell to bring the lens of a community member to organizations as they navigate to serve the ever changing needs of patients and the communities they represent.

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 Woolever is the program director of the Portsmouth Regional Hospital Family Medicine Residency, with academic appointments at the University of New England, Geisel/Dartmouth, and Tufts University. 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. He 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.

Dr Yu is a modern-day "old-fashioned family doc" who enjoys caring for patients from "cradle to grave." She earned her BA from Harvard and her MD from Stanford, where she is a clinical associate professor in Primary Care and Population Health. Dr Yu has directed the Stanford-O'Connor Family Medicine Residency Program since 2016 and is active in family medicine education and advocacy. She has served on the Board of the California Academy of Family Physicians and is a member-at-large on the Board of the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors. Practicing and teaching full-spectrum family medicine with obstetrics since 2006, she aims to create high-functioning primary care clinics in residency and beyond.

She considers it a privilege to be a part of her patients' lives and hopes to help both her patients and her trainees find a path to better health and happiness. To keep herself in great health, Dr Yu enjoys playing the piano, photography, scuba diving, adventure travel (all the more adventurous with her three children in tow!), and spending time with her family and friends.

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. 

Alysia Courtot Herzog, MD, FAAFP, began her current role as program director at the OhioHealth Grant Family Medicine Residency program in March 2013, having served as a faculty member within the program for 12 years prior. Contrary to most recollections, she was not always at Grant, completing her medical school and residency in Cleveland, Ohio – through the Case Western and University Hospitals programs.  She has always been interested and invested in graduate medical education. During her residency, she served on panels that informed the first version of the ACGME duty hours and then (much later) worked on the Family Medicine Milestones 2.0 workgroup. She became an at-large member of the AFMRD in 2024, first participating in this group during her NIPDD fellowship in 2009.  Her most important work, however, is with a brilliant faculty and 36 rising star residents – innovating family Medicine to ensure excellence in healthcare for their community. Her interests in medicine include community partnerships within healthcare, supporting the care of children and adolescents, and enhancing meaningful work and sustainable careers for health care providers. 

Dr Miller is the founding program director of the KCU-GME Consortium/Freeman Program in Family Medicine, located in Joplin, MO. She received her medical degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and completed her residency at OU–Tulsa’s rural program in Ramona/Bartlesville, OK. She practiced for more than a decade in rural northwest Oklahoma, which included ambulatory medicine, inpatient medicine, emergency medicine, long-term care, and surgical obstetrics. She entered full-time family medicine education in 2013, eventually serving as the program director in the family medicine program at the OU School of Community Medicine in Tulsa, OK. While continuing her broad spectrum of practice, her interests grew to include innovations in family medicine education, leadership development, and mentorship. In late 2019, she accepted her current position. Current interests include extending training and scope of family medicine in behavioral health, street medicine, and advocating for women in leadership in academic medicine.  She has won multiple awards for teaching excellence, has been recognized by the state of Missouri as a champion of rural health, was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society in 2017, and is a fellow in the American Academy of Family Physicians. She is currently serving as a board member of the Missouri Academy of Family Physicians, and the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors.

Dr Songara has been working as an Associate Program Director at Harnett Health Family Medicine (FM) residency program since 2021. She has been part of Graduate Medical Education (GME) since 2016, when FM residency program was started at her institution. Dr Songara received her undergraduate and graduate medical education in India and completed her FM residency training at Cleveland Clinic–Akron General Hospital in Akron, Ohio. She has been board-certified in family medicine since 2012 and certified with a Focused Designation in Hospital Medicine since 2018. She is also a graduate of the Campbell University Masters of Health Professions Education (MHPE) program.

She is currently serving as an APD representative to the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors (AFMRD) board. She is passionate about Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) and is serving as POCUS director for FM, IM, and TY residency programs at her institution. She is currently working with the Society of Teachers for Family Medicine (STFM) POCUS task force as AFMRD board member representative to create POCUS curriculum guidelines. She is also involved in creating the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Southeast learning hub and educating Southeast regional residency leaders in Competence-Based Medical Education. She received a scholarship to complete a Strengthening Outcome and Assessment in Residency (SOAR) fellowship, which is a joint effort of the AFMRD and the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) to advance excellence in family medicine residency education using outcomes data. Her focus of research was comparing FM residency milestone progression in US medical graduates vs International medical graduates.

Dr Ellis is currently a program director at Mount Sinai South Nassau Family Medicine Residency Program in Long Island, NY. She has worked in GME for over a decade, both as faculty and Associate Program Director. She is very active in her state chapter, the NYSAFP, and the AFMRD as a board member at large. She grew up in Queens but lives in Long Island now with her husband and two shitzu-poodle dogs.

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. 

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. 

Alan Katz is a family physician and health services researcher in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is the past president of the Canadian Association of Health Services Research (CAHSPR) and vice president of NAPCRG. He is a professor of Family Medicine and Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba.

Richelle Koopman MD, MS 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

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.

Steven Lin, MD, is a practicing family physician, chief of General Primary Care at Stanford University School of Medicine, and the president of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. He is the founding director of the Stanford Healthcare AI Applied Research Team, an internationally-recognized AI implementation center partnered with over 100 organizations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia across industry, academia, non-profit, and government to bring AI technologies from “code to bedside” in support of the Quintuple Aim. He was a Fellow with the National Academy of Medicine and is the author of over 500 conference presentations and scholarly works.

Joe Gravel, MD, 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 over 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 serves as chair of the STFM Task Force on Professionalism in Medical Education, the Wisconsin Academy of Family Physicians’ Board of Directors and is a technical advisor for the HRSA THCGME program. Besides STFM, 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 Clark is currently a tenured professor and associate program director in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. She also holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Human Behavior and Psychiatry at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.  She received her doctoral training at the University of Southern Mississippi, completed my residency at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and fellowship in health psychology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. She am board certified in Clinical Health Psychology through the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). Within family medicine, it is her privilege to train family medicine residents how to manage their patients from a biopsychosocial framework and work within an interdisciplinary team environment. In addition, she am responsible for continued scholarly activity and has a research interest in depression and pain management within primary care settings. She currently serve on the Mississippi Board of Psychology as credentialing coordinator, serve as an oral examiner for the American Board of Professional Psychology in Clinical Health Psychology, and am president-elect of STFM. She has held past positions on the Board of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine as member at large, vice chair on the Board of the National Register of Health Service Psychologists, and served as chair of the UMMC School of Medicine Promotion and Tenure Committee.

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.

Dr Steinbacher has been a full scope family physician for 30 years, starting her career at under the strongest family medicine leaders in the country.  After completing her residency at Group Health Cooperative in Seattle, WA, She joined Cabarrus Family Medicine Residency (CFMR) in Concord, NC as faculty in its inaugural year. Her career at CFMR has allowed her to continue full scope care while pursuing her passion for education and advocacy.  She has served in several clinical and academic leadership roles, including medical director, residency director, and now as DIO, Designated Institutional Official for our Sponsoring Institution (SI), Atrium Health Cabarrus.  Being one of seven SIs in Advocate Health, we are creating a national voice for GME and health care delivery.  Two passions have shaped her career: reforming our health system with family medicine as the anchor and caring for the most vulnerable. Currently, she is engaged in creating access to care in rural communities, particularly maternal health. In 2021, she collaborated with national leaders to co-author the article “The Practice is the Curriculum” in Family Medicine, arguing for the value of continuity and maintaining broad skill sets for family physicians. She partnered with other regional residency directors in the development of the M3 App, an early tool in the movement toward competency-based education. She participated in a regional consortium, the I-3 Collaborative, aimed at maintaining high-quality training environments for family medicine residents. As regional Medical Director for Community Care of North Carolina, she worked across disciplines to improve the health of Medicaid beneficiaries. She volunteers at our local community free clinic and remains engaged in outreach programs, including pipeline development programs for rural and financially disadvantaged students.  Now a mother and grandmother, she is excited to say that her eldest just completed his residency at CFMR!

Dr Rowland is an associate professor and the vice chair for education in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at Rush University. She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Rush Medical College. She completed training at the Advocate Illinois Masonic Family Medicine residency and the University of Chicago Primary Care Clinical Scholars fellowship, where she received her Master of Science. Dr Rowland currently serves as the president of the Illinois Academy of Family Physicians. She is an associate medical editor for the AAFP’s FP Essentials series and for Essential Evidence. Dr Rowland is a member of the ABFM National Journal Club Committee. 

David W Price, MD is senior advisor to the President and CEO, American Board of Family Medicine and professor of family medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine.  Dr Price spent 27 years with Kaiser Permanente in the United States in roles including director of medical education for the Colorado Region and the national Permanente Federation; health services researcher; clinical lead for Kaiser National Mental Health Guidelines; and Ccair of Family Medicine for the Colorado Permanente Medical Group. From 2014-2019 he served as senior vice-president, American Board of Medical Specialties Research and Education Foundation and executive director of the ABMS Multi-Specialty (Quality Improvement) Portfolio Program. Dr Price served on the ABFM Board of Directors and was Board Chair from 2007-2008.  He is a past sirector of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, past president of the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians, past chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges Group on Educational Affairs section on Continuing Education and Improvement and served on the AAMC Integrating Quality steering committee. He has more than 100 peer reviewed publications and has spoken in the US and internationally in areas including continuing medical education/professional development, quality/practice improvement, mental health, implementation science, and evidence-based medicine. He currently serves on the Executive Editorial Board of the Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions.

Dr. Price received his MD from Rutgers Medical School in 1985 and completed his family medicine and chief residency at JFK Medical Center, Edison, NJ, in 1988. He is Board Certified/Maintaining Certification with the ABFM, a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions. He is also a fellow of the Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education (SACME) and the recipient of the 2018 SACME Distinguished Service in CME Award.

David R. Rushlow is a recognized leader in family medicine and healthcare innovation, currently serving as a consultant and chair of the Department of Family Medicine for the Mayo Clinic, Rochester. He also holds an academic appointment as Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. Dr Rushlow’s research focuses on advancing the quality and efficiency of clinical practice through pragmatic clinical trials and the application of implementation science. His work emphasizes improving care delivery for chronic conditions such as diabetes and heart disease, with a particular interest in leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technologies to enhance diagnostic accuracy, streamline workflows, and improve patient outcomes. He collaborates extensively with multidisciplinary teams to evaluate the role of care team composition in primary care outcomes and to develop strategies for clinician engagement in AI-integrated practice. After earning his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin and completing his residency at the St. Francis-Mayo Family Practice Residency Program, Dr Rushlow practiced rural family medicine in Shawano, Wisconsin, before returning to La Crosse as a residency faculty physician. He later served as Chief Medical Officer for Mayo Clinic Health System’s Southwest Wisconsin Region before assuming his current chair role in 2019. He also holds a Master’s in Business Operational Excellence from The Ohio State University.

Dr Knierim is a board-certified family medicine physician and serves as the regional medical director of practice transformation for the UChicago Medicine | AdventHealth Medical Group in Illinois, where they are developing advanced care teams in their two Family Medicine residencies, 18 primary care clinics, and 25 specialty care practices. Previously, he was the associate director of the practice innovation program and the associate vice chair of clinical quality for the University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine. He has served as a principal investigator on several projects focused on expanding access to evidence-based care for patients with mental health and substance use disorders. Current and past work have focused on topics related to team-based care, behavioral health integration, addressing substance use in primary care, patient-centered medical homes, value-based contracts, using data to guide population health, risk stratification, care management, and patient engagement.

Dr Greenberg is the chief medical executive for primary care at Lehigh Valley Health Network (now part of Thomas Jefferson University), and the Leonard Parker Pool Endowed Chair of Family Medicine. He is a professor of medical education and family medicine for the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, and an adjunct professor of family and community medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Sidney Kimmel Medical College. 

Dr Greenberg obtained his undergraduate degree in Biology and English from the University of Michigan, a master’s degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN, and his medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, MI. He also received an MHSA in health management and policy from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.   He completed his residency training in family medicine at the University of Michigan.

Dr Greenberg is active with the Association of Departments of Family Medicine, serving as the chair of the membership committee, participating on the leadership development committee, contributing to the steering committee for the “LEADS” fellowship, and is on the Board of Directors. Dr Greenberg is a contributor to the MP3 collaborative “Making Primary Care and Population Health Primary” sponsored by the ABFM.  Dr.Greenberg has been a member of the American Cancer Society National Lung Cancer Round Table since its inception, serving on the Screening and Implementation Work Group, the Early Detection Strategies Work Group,  and the Fiscal Health Work Group. He has four children (mostly adult, but still “on the payroll”).

Jason Ramm has served as chair of the family medicine department at Baylor Scott & White Health Central Texas division since May 2025. Baylor Scott & White Health is the largest not-for-profit hospital system in Texas. The family medicine Central Texas division consists of 14 clinics in 4 counties, with 80 physicians, 50 advanced practice professionals, and 8 psychologists.

Before being named interim chair in July 2022, Jason served as medical director of the BSW Killeen Family Medicine clinic for 6 years and medical director of the BSW Northside Family Medicine clinic for 2 years. He was named vice chair of the family medicine department in December 2019. Prior to joining Baylor Scott & White Health, he was in private practice in Sulphur, Louisiana from 2001 to 2014. Jason served as the lead for implementation of electronic medical records in his 3-physician practice, president of the medical staff at Cornerstone Long Term Acute Care Hospital from 2008-2014, president of the medical staff at West Calcasieu-Cameron Hospital in 2005 and served West Calcasieu-Cameron Hospital on the medical executive committee, as well as the quality improvement committee while there.

He has a passion for improving processes and procedures to improve medical experience for both patients and physicians. He has worked on multiple projects, including but not limited to patient centered medical home, an improved process for rooming patients, improved process for e-referrals, in basket management triage using LVNs, and building an enhanced care team model. He is currently working on ways to maximize the input of support staff, including the advanced practice professionals, nursing, and clerical staff, to provide complete team care along with the primary care physician.

Jason completed his family medicine residency at Louisiana State University Health Science Center Family Residency at Lake Charles Memorial Hospital in 2001. He completed his medical degree at American University of the Caribbean in 2007. His Bachelor of Science in biology degree was earned at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas in 2002.

Dr Conti serves as the UPMC Andrew Mathieson Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She attended the Benjamin Banneker Honors College at Prairie View A&M University (TX). She is a graduate of Temple University School of Medicine and completed her family medicine residency at the University of Maryland, where she served as chief resident. Dr Conti is fellowship trained in women’s health and faculty development.

At UPMC McKeesport Hospital, she is the vice chair of Family Medicine and eRecord Medical Director while also serving on the Medical Executive, Academic Leadership, and Credentialing committees. She is a physician volunteer and Board Chair of the 9th Street Free Clinic.

Dr Conti is married and has six sons and one daughter. She advocates patient empowerment through education and the development of strong patient-physician partnerships to optimize individual, family and community health, wellness, and healthcare outcomes. 

Trish Klatt, PharmD, BCPS, CTH, is the director of Interprofessional Partnerships and Innovation at the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences at the Vaccination and Health Connection Hub, an interprofessional learning laboratory where students from all 6 schools of the health sciences provide preventive health care to students, faculty, staff, and the community. The Hub is a pharmacist-led interprofessional practice developed collaboratively with physicians, educators, nurses, and public health professionals. Since 2021, approximately 800 students have been caring for over 20,000 patients with the shared goal of excellent patient care in an interprofessional learning laboratory. Before this, Dr Klatt was a faculty member in the UPMC St. Margaret Family Medicine (FM) Residency (13-13-13) and Faculty Development Fellowship for 26 years. She developed a Pharmacy Residency Program (5 + 5) nested within the FM Physician Residency. She integrated Practice-Based Pharmacists into 7 FM and 2 geriatric outpatient practices, as well as inpatient teams in geriatrics, FM, ID, critical care, surgical services, and the ED. A shared goal of these pharmacists is collaboration with physicians and others to optimize medication use in patients, centered around patient-pharmacist and pharmacist-physician relationships. National accrediting bodies recognize UPMC St. Margaret for their superior pharmacist-physician collaboration.

Dr Klatt developed the PC2-Pennsylvania Primary Care Pharmacist Collaborative in 2018, leading its eventual partnership with the Pennsylvania Pharmacist Association. The vision is to develop sustainable practice models where pharmacists and physicians collaborate in primary care throughout Pennsylvania. In 2021, she received the national Bowl of Hygeia Award from the American Pharmacists Association Foundation and the National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations, recognizing her sustained commitment to community service.

Dr. Klatt is married with 3 adult children and lives in Pittsburgh, PA, where she cooks and bakes in addition to leading park and trail development in the region.

Marianna Kong, MD serves as the Associate Director for Practice Transformation at the Center for Excellence in Primary Care at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and is a faculty member in the Department of Family & Community Medicine. Dr. Kong leads practice coaching and the Clinic First initiatives at the Center for Excellence in Primary Care, which aim to disseminate best practices in primary care teaching clinic transformation. She also serves as an Associate Medical Director in the UCSF Health & Human Rights Initiative's Human Rights Collaborative, which provides forensic medical evaluations to survivors of torture and ill-treatment applying for asylum. Dr. Kong is also a primary care provider in the San Francisco Department of Public Health at the Silver Avenue Family Health Center. She completed her residency in family and community medicine at UCSF, and obtained her medical degree at Harvard Medical School. Her interests include primary care transformation and innovation in underserved communities, immigrant/refugee health, and social determinants of health.

Dr. Tara Kiran is the Fidani Chair in Improvement and Innovation at the University of Toronto and Vice-Chair of Quality and Innovation at the Department of Family and Community Medicine. She practices family medicine at the St. Michael's Hospital Academic Family Health Team (SMHAFHT). Dr. Kiran investigates how changes in the health-care system impact the most vulnerable in society. In her research and practice, she develops and tests solutions to make health care more inclusive—and more effective.

Dr. Kiran completed her family medicine residency at McMaster University in 2004 and spent her first couple of years in practice as a locum in Indigenous communities in northern Ontario and in Community Health Centres in urban Toronto. She practiced at the Regent Park Community Health Centre from 2006 to 2010 before joining St. Michael's in 2011. 

Over the last decade, Dr. Kiran has led a program of research evaluating the impact of primary care reforms on quality in primary care in Ontario. More recently, she is focusing her efforts on quality improvement research including initiatives to improve patient experience including access to care, increase cancer screening rates, treat Hepatitis C, reduce high-risk opioid prescribing, measure and reduce care disparities, and support physicians to learn from data.

In 2022, Dr. Kiran launched OurCare, a national, public engagement initiative to co-create the blueprint for a stronger, more equitable primary care system in Canada—a blueprint that can be used by government to inform and enact reforms, and by professional organizations and the public to advocate for change.

Dr. Kiran is currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and the Institute for Health Policy Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, a Scientist in the MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions at St. Michael’s Hospital, and an Adjunct Scientist at ICES.

Alex Krist, MD, MPH, is a Professor of Family Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond Virginia and a practicing family physician at the Fairfax Family Practice residency. Dr Krist is a co-director of the Virginia Ambulatory Care Outcomes Research Network (ACORN), a collection of over 300 primary care practices, throughout Virginia representing the full spectrum of primary structures and cultures. Dr Krist is a member of the US Preventive Services Task Force and the director of community engaged research for VCU's Center for Clinical and Translational Research. His personal research interests focus on implementation of preventive recommendations, patient centered care, shared decision-making, cancer screening, health information technology, and practice transform.

Yalda Jabbarpour, MD, is medical director of the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, assistant professor of family medicine at Georgetown University, and a practicing family physician at MedStar Spring Valley Family Medicine. She graduated from the Georgetown University School of Medicine in 2008 and completed her residency at the Georgetown University/Providence Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program. Upon graduation, she worked as a family physician for Scripps Health Medical Group in San Diego, California.

She returned to Washington, DC in 2015 to serve as the Robert L Phillips Health Policy Fellow at the Robert Graham Center.  During this time, she practiced clinically at Unity Healthcare, the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Washington DC.  After the fellowship, Dr Jabbarpour was full-time faculty at the Georgetown University School of Medicine before moving to the Robert Graham Center in 2018. 

Tanya Lord, PhD, MPH, is a systems thinker, storyteller, and advocate who centers lived experience in healthcare improvement and peer grief support. After the preventable death of her son due to medical error, she pursued an MPH and PhD in clinical and population health research, focusing on patient safety and quality. Tanya now works nationally with health care systems, government agencies, and advocacy groups to embed patient and family voices into care design through human-centered design and co-design practices. She is the director and founder of Peer Support Community Partners, where she develops trauma-informed, peer-led grief support rooted in equity and lived experience. Her work bridges healthcare transformation and grief support, advancing more compassionate, responsive systems.

Dr Serrano is the chief executive officer of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association, a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting integrated care as the standard of care for all.

He has devoted the entirety of his 24-year career to working with health care entities to develop integrated care services through his consultation work, training, and site leadership. His clinical and research interests center around leveraging integrated care to create access and equity for underserved populations. Among many of his media creations, in 2014, Dr Serrano edited an e-book titled “The Implementer’s Guide To Primary Care Behavioral Health,” a practice management handbook, which was updated with a second edition in 2024. One of Dr Serrano's most outstanding contributions to the field of psychology has been his passion to teach and train the future Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) workforce. In 24 years of practice as a clinical psychologist, he has trained hundreds of students and professionals in the practice of behavioral health consultation in primary care. 

Dr Serrano is the father of three children, Emma (20), Sophia (18), & Caleb (16), and the husband of Karen, an emergency medicine physician. He also holds an adjunct instructor appointment at the University of North Carolina Department of Family Medicine, where he practices in the PCBH model.

Dr Vivian R Ramsden, a registered nurse, is a distinguished professor & director of the Research Division in the Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. She teaches in the areas of clinical research methods and primary care/family medicine research. As a participatory researcher, she is a passionate advocate of authentic engagement, co-creation, and transformative action research, which involves strategies to engage individuals, communities, and First Nations in identifying and addressing locally relevant issues that impact health and wellness. She is: a past president of NAPCRG; a past chair of the Section of Researchers, College of Family Physicians of Canada; an honorary member of the College of Family Physicians of Canada; and a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. 

In addition, she is of Nordic heritage and the mother of two children and the grandmother of three granddaughters and one grandson. 

Dr Upagya Kompalli is a PGY-3 family medicine chief resident at KCU-Freeman Family Medicine in Joplin, Missouri. Originally from Missouri, she is passionate about serving her local community through comprehensive, evidence-based care and building strong patient relationships. Her clinical interests include women’s and reproductive health, pediatrics, and in-office procedures, with a focus on access and equity for underserved populations. As chief resident, Dr Kompalli aims to lead with empathy and purpose, supporting her peers while helping shape the next generation of family medicine leadership. She is grateful for the opportunity to attend this year’s conference, surrounded by such accomplished and inspiring professionals. Excited to begin her leadership journey, Dr Kompalli looks forward to learning, growing, and making a lasting impact in both her program and the broader field of primary care.

Brian Toomey, MSW retired in 2024 as CEO for Piedmont Health Services, an FQHC in North Carolina, and I went to school at Wake Forest University (BA ‘75) and Boston College (MSW ‘80). 

During his career, he worked in a variety of settings—large urban medical systems, MH  facilities, small rural hospitals, PACE programs, FQHCs, and in a variety of roles—high school teacher, social Worker, and Health Care Administrator. His work has been focused on helping others be the best version of themselves.

He and his wife live in Durham, NC and enjoy traveling, especially to visit Their son and son-in-law in NYC.

Dr Schrager came to the UW Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (DFMCH) in 1996 after completing a family medicine residency and fellowship in women’s health.  For the last 28 years, she has been taking care of women and their families at the Northport Drive clinic.  She has worked with the Center of Excellence in Women’s Health Research, completing one of the first K-12 awards granted by that entity.  She received an MS in Population Health in 2006, writing a master’s thesis on osteoporosis in women with disabilities. She has written extensively, co-editing 6 books about general family medicine and women’s health.  Dr Schrager’s research has focused on breast cancer screening, working with a team to develop a patient decision aid to help clinicians provide shared decision making with average risk women for them to make informed decisions on breast cancer screening. She is also the medical director of WREN (the Wisconsin Research and Education Network), which is a primary care practice-based research network.  WREN was named an inaugural rural research hub through the NIH Care for Health^TM initiative in 2024, setting the stage for increased attention and funding for primary care research.

She has devoted her time and efforts to editing, serving for 3 years as the editor-in-chief of the Wisconsin Medical Journal and FPM (a practice journal published by the American Academy of Family Physicians). She currently serves as the editor-in-chief of Family Medicine, which is published by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. She has also focused her efforts on mentoring and faculty development and was just named vice chair for faculty development and promotions. She was recently named the Jean Manchester Biddick Bascom Professor of Women’s Health by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. 

Annie Koempel, PhD, RD, is the anthropologist and qualitative scientist for the American Board of Family Medicine. She previously worked as a program manager and research dietitian at the University of Kentucky. While she currently enjoys researching workforce and professionalism related issues in primary care, her PhD research engaged with rural Appalachian communities’ access to food and experiences of disordered eating behaviors.

Marjorie A. Bowman, MD, MPA, recently retired from her position as chief academic affiliations officer for the US Department of Veterans Affairs (2018-2025), where she oversaw the largest health professions education program in the United States, including approximately 120,000 trainees in more than 40 different health professions.  She completed her pre-medical undergraduate training at Pennsylvania State University and earned her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College. Following her family medicine residency at Duke University Medical Center, she earned her MPA at the University of Southern California and received an honorary MA from the University of Pennsylvania. She is certified in both Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine.  Dr Bowman's first post-residency position was as a commissioned officer in the US Public Health Service. Her career has spanned four universities, as a teacher, clinician, researcher and leader.  At Georgetown University, she was assistant dean and division director for family medicine, followed by a decade as department chair of family and community medicine at Wake Forest University. She was recruited to the University of Pennsylvania as professor and founding chair, Department of Family Medicine and Health; director of the University's Center for Public Health Initiatives (including starting MPH program); and co-director of Penn's multidisciplinary Mixed Methods Research Laboratory. She subsequently served as dean of the Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University.  She also has served as president of both the American Board of Family Medicine and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.  Her work has been published in over 200 publications and includes areas of behavior change, personal health, women's health, and community/public health. She currently edits the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine and is also past editor of the Journal of Women's Health and the Archives of Family Medicine.

Dr Richardson currently serves as chair of family Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. In addition, she serves as editor-in-chief of the Annals of Family Medicine. Previously, Dr Richardson served associate chair for research programs in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan and as the director of the Veterans Administration Diabetes Quality Improvement Initiative (QUERI). She conducted a multi-site implementation study of the Diabetes Prevention Program for veterans.

Dr Richardson is a physical activity and diabetes prevention researcher who emphasizes the importance of using low-cost and scalable approaches to promoting physical activity. Her most recent research focuses on lifestyle change in type 2 diabetes using continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) and low-carb diet coaching. She develops and tests internet-mediated behavioral interventions to increase physical activity, decrease weight and prevent diabetes. Focusing on components of web-based interventions that are interactive and individually tailored, She builds interventions that are more than just static informational websites. They incorporate objective monitoring, individually tailored feedback and motivational messaging while providing online social support to motivate and engage users.  

Dr MacGilvray serves as the dean of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville (USCSOMG) since July 2024. Additionally, she is a clinical professor in the Department of Family Medicine and serves as a Prisma Health Family Medicine physician. 

Dr MacGilvray is the first medical school dean in the country board board-certified in lifestyle medicine, which focuses on the use of evidence-based lifestyle interventions to prevent, treat, and reverse chronic diseases. In her previous role, she served as the senior associate dean for academic affairs at USCSOMG, overseeing all aspects of undergraduate medical education, admissions, faculty affairs, student affairs, and the school’s new Primary Care Accelerated Track (PCAT) program. As a native South Carolinian, she maintained a full-scope family medicine practice with obstetrics for over 20 years. 

Dean MacGilvray earned her Bachelor of Science degree in biochemistry from Clemson University and her Doctor of Medicine degree from the Medical University of South Carolina. She completed residency training in family medicine at the University of Vermont, followed by academic leadership positions at Eastern Virginia Medical School, Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune and at the University of Texas Health San Antonio prior to returning to South Carolina and joining USCSOMG and Prisma Health.

A compassionate leader in primary care and a medical education expert, Dr. MacGilvray is proud to lead the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville in its next chapter.

Dr Bernard Ewigman is a professor & vice chair for Primary Care Impact at Tufts University School of Medicine. He served as the founding chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Chicago between 2002 and 2019. Between 2009 and 2022 he also served as chair of the Department of Family Medicine in the NorthShore (now Endeavor) Health System, an affiliate of the University of Chicago and one of the largest health systems in the United States.  In these roles he was responsible for a professional staff of ~150 physicians, served as chair of the Executive Committee of the professional staff at NorthShore, and as the chair of the Board of the Care Network, a primary care practice network operated by the University of Chicago.

He was a lead investigator at the Institute for Translational Medicine (ITM) at the University of Chicago and founded the Outcomes Research Network at NorthShore as a partner of the ITM. Before moving to Chicago in 2002, Dr Ewigman was on faculty at the University of Missouri-Columbia where he served as director of research, medical director of the Boone County Health Department, and founding executive and medical director of a Federally Qualified Health Center.

Dr Morris is the director of Medical Education/DIO at Kaiser Permanente Washington, an ACGME Family Medicine Review Committee member, a Senior DIO Teaching Health Center Advisor, a former program director of the Kaiser Permanente Washington Family Medicine Residency at Seattle, and a clinical professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington and Kaiser Permanente Schools of Medicine. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and residency training at SeaMar CHC/Providence in Seattle, WA. His research and policy interests include GME reform, residency training in FQHCs, practice transformation in residency education, and GME longitudinal curricula.

Dr Weir is an adjunct associate professor in the UNC Department of Family Medicine and currently serves as consulting medical director of Care Access for UNC Health. Until July of 2025 he was the executive medical director for Care Access and Service Integration at UNC Health. Prior to that he served as the director of the Primary Care Care Improvement Collaborative (PCIC) and as a lead informatics physician (LIP) at UNC. Dr Weir has worked with ambulatory practices across UNC Health Care to improve patient access and clinic operations and as a consultant to other health care systems in the US and Canada.

Beth was named the founding president and CEO of the Virginia Center for Health Innovation (VCHI) in March 2012. In this capacity, she leads statewide efforts to accelerate payment and delivery system innovation, reduce low-value health care, promote time-sensitive, data-driven health policy, and advance the sustainability of primary care. Prior to joining VCHI, she served as the executive director of the Medical Society of Virginia (MSV) Foundation, as senior program officer and deputy director of the Virginia Health Care Foundation, and as a senior associate legislative analyst for the Virginia General Assembly’s Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission. Ms. Bortz is a 2007 graduate of LEAD Virginia and recently completed service on its Board of Directors. She serves as a member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s Standing Committee on Primary Care, as a public member on the American Board of Medical Specialties, as a founding member on the National Task Force on Low Value Healthcare, as a member of the Breakthrough T1D Mid-Atlantic Chapter Community Board, and as the chair of Virginia’s All Payer Claims Database advisory board. Previous commitments include serving as the public member on the American Board of Family Medicine, as the Secretary of the Board of Directors of Virginia Health Information, and as a founding board member and chair of Rx Partnership. She has received several awards and recognition for her work, including: the 2014 Virginia Leader Award from LEAD Virginia, Influential Women of Virginia Award from Virginia Lawyer’s Media; Medallion Award for Community Partnership from Mutual of America; and Stettinius Award for Nonprofit Leadership from the Community Foundation representing Greater Richmond. Ms. Bortz earned her undergraduate degree in Economics and Government and her Masters in Public Policy from the College of William and Mary.

Dr Balan completed her medical school and initial residency training in internal medicine at the State University of Medicine and Pharmacy "N.Testemitanu" in Moldova. She also obtained a master's in work and organizational psychology at the State University of Moldova. Upon relocating to the United States, she pursued a fellowship in geriatric medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY, where she had the opportunity to advocate for the needs of residents and fellows at the Wakefield Division Council. She is currently a family medicine resident at the Harnett Health System, where she provides essential care to the rural community of Harnett County, North Carolina. She is also proud to serve as the academic chief resident. Additionally, Dr Balan has taken on a leadership role at the North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians, having been elected as the resident director. She is passionate about caring for all patients, with a particular interest in the geriatric population, hospital medicine, and advancing scholarly work within the field of family medicine.

Stephen A. Wilson, MD, MPH, is chair of the department of family medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and chief of family medicine at Boston Medical Center. He serves currently on the board of directors of the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM). He graduated from Eastern Nazarene College (BA in General Science and minors in English, theology, and psychology) then earned his MD and MPH from the University of Pittsburgh. He completed his internship and residency in family medicine then a faculty development fellowship at UPMC St. Margaret in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He served as Director of Medical Decision-Making Education for UPMC St. Margaret Family Medicine Residency and Director of University of Pittsburgh-UPMC St. Margaret Family Medicine Faculty Development Fellowship. Dr. Wilson remains a founding member of the ABFM National Journal Club Committee, has served on the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration’s Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry, and been privileged to serve STFM in numerous roles, including a founding member of its Faculty Development Delivered program and as president of its board of directors. Among his professional interests are medical education, evidenced-based medicine, medical decision making, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, and weight management. He has one wonderful wife and two delightful daughters, is active in his local community, and enjoys family, sports, golf, cooking, philosophy, and seeking Truth.

Kelley Mark is a 3rd year resident at the University of North Carolina Family Medicine Residency. She is currently applying to geriatric medicine fellowship programs and am interested in academic medicine.

Anna Flattau, MD, MSc, MS, is enterprise chief of Primary Care at Jefferson Health, and alumni professor and chair of Family and Community Medicine at Sidney Kimmel College of Medicine. She leads a nationally renowned academic family medicine department, and is the health system leader for comprehensive clinical care of over 1,000,000 people in Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, including traditional and virtual primary care; integrated behavioral health; medical weight management; complex care models; geriatrics, palliative medicine, and community-based care. Dr Flattau led her team through integration across multiple mergers and to national recognition with the 2025 Advancing Primary Care Award from the Primary Care Collaborative. Dr Flattau previously was vice chair for Clinical Services and the Director of Strategic Development in Family & Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center, an academic safety net system in the Bronx, NY. Her innovative initiatives in this role included the Family Resilience Fund, which provided cash assistance and social work support to over 1,000 children whose caregivers died of COVID. From 2015-7, Dr. Flattau served as the founding Chief Clinical Officer for OneCity Health, a DSRIP Performing Provider System consisting of over 250 partner organizations and led by NYC Health + Hospitals, in a $1.2 billion effort. She designed and implemented at scale a series of targeted initiatives in clinical, population health, and care management towards development of an integrated, value-based delivery system. Prior to this, Dr Flattau was the founding Director of the Wound Healing Program at Montefiore Medical Center. She was recognized by CMMI through appointment as an Innovation Advisor for her work building patient-centered models across multiple care settings.

Dr Flattau holds an MD from Harvard Medical School, MSc Health Promotion from London School of Tropical Medicine, and MS Clinical Research Methodology from Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Lisa Estevez-Celi is a second-year family medicine resident at University of Colorado. She attended medical school at A.T. Still University - Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine where she began her passion for medical education while creating an elective centered around Intellectual and Developmental Disability Education for medical students. She is grateful to continue to foster this passion in residency and pursue her other areas of interest including disability medicine and advocacy, gender affirming care, inpatient medicine, and medical student education. Outside of medicine, Lisa enjoys reading, kayaking, and occasionally judging collegiate acappella competitions.

Ryan Smith, DO, is a family medicine physician, board-certified in family medicine and OMT. He practices at Henry Ford Warren & Madison Heights Hospital in Warren, MI, where he serves as Associate Program Director in the Family Medicine Residency Program. Dr Smith completed his medical degree at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine and residency at Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital, where he also served as a chief resident. Dr Smith seeks to educate the next generation of physicians by promoting health and wellness, encompassing a holistic approach to each patient. Dr Smith focuses on disease prevention/management and aspects of the mind, body, and spirit that integrate into optimizing a patient’s health. Dr Smith has a passion for faculty development and has worked with national healthcare organizations helping facilitate multiple faculty assessment, senior leader, and physician wellness workshops. Dr Smith’s mission is to allow each learner a suitable environment to learn, grow, and flourish.

Grace Shih, MD, MAS, is professor at the University of Washington (UW) Department of Family Medicine. She completed her family medicine residency at Brown University and her Fellowship in Family Planning at University of California, San Francisco. She is currently director of the Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho (WWAMI) Family Medicine Residency Network (FMRN) and co-director of the UW Reproductive Health Advocacy Project (RHAP) Fellowship. She enjoys teaching and learning from others, and feels blessed to have a job that combines both faculty development and residency education. She has particular interest in sexual and reproductive health, family medicine training and research, and coaching.

Dr Misra serves as Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs for the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine (KCOM). Before this role, Dr Misra served as Program Director of the Family Medicine residency at Henry Ford Warren and Madison Heights Hospitals in Michigan for 16 years and continues to serve as Core Faculty. Nationally, he serves on the Board of Governors for the ACOFP. He has been heavily involved in advocacy at the local, state, and national levels. In addition to introducing resolutions into the Michigan State legislature and speaking at DO Day, he has served as an Ambassador for the ‘Forging our Future’ campaign from the ACOFP Foundation and has currently helped to co-author an article on nutritional competencies in graduate medical education. Most recently, he spearheaded the ACOFP’s ‘Flipping the Future of Family Medicine’ student initiative focused on advocating for primary care to pre-medical and medical students.

He has received numerous awards during his career, including being named the 2018 ACOFP Family Physician of the Year and the 2023 MAOFP Family Physician of the Year. He has also received the 2019 ACOFP Master Preceptor Award as well as being named to the AOA Osteopathic Mentor Hall of Fame.

Dr Armstrong is from Woodburn, IN. For her undergraduate studies, she attended Butler University where she studied chemistry and neuroscience. She then spent a gap year working at a restaurant and also a direct primary care family medicine office before attending Indiana University School of Medicine for her medical training. Her medical interests largely stem from a passion for health equity and include policy, patient education and advocacy, behavioral health, women's health, and caring for disadvantaged patient populations. Her hobbies include exploring coffee shops, thrifting, spending time with her cat, reading memoirs, biking, playing basketball or soccer, and watching both women's and men's sports. She enjoys being a resident at the University of Utah for the unique opportunities within health policy and work with the underserved, the balanced curriculum, and the beauty and accessibility of the mountains.

Dr Green is a distinguished professor of family medicine and the Epperson-Zorn Chair for Innovation in Family Medicine and Primary Care at the University of Colorado. As a family physician, his roles have included medical practice, residency director, investigator, teacher, and department chair. He directed the RWJF national program office, Prescription for Health, focused on unhealthy behaviors in primary care practice. He also directed the Colorado Health Foundation initiatives, Advancing Care Together and Upstream! Together, we aim to change practices to provide integrated care and prevent mental, emotional, and behavioral problems. He founded and directed the Robert Graham Policy Center and is a regular member of the National Academy of Medicine. His current work focuses on redesigning how clinical practice, health professions education, physician certification, and clinical research are done.