Anna Dania

Anna has conducted seminal research on Practice-based Research Networks (PBRNs), covering the broadest geographic and temporal scope ever. Her research findings led to the development of the Global PBRN Initiative with the WONCA Working Party on Research, where she is the leading figure. The initiative has a strong presence of NAPCRG members and is endorsed by its leadership. Currently, the Initiative engages about 120 research and PBRN leaders worldwide, working synergistically to advance the value, development, and sustainability of PBRNs through collaborative research and advocacy. Anna's professional acumen is honed by her extensive managerial experience and diverse educational background in economics and health.

Anne Gaglioti

Dr. Anne Gaglioti is a practicing family physician. She serves as an Associate Professor at The Center for Health Equity, Education, and Engagement in Research and the Population Health Equity Research Institute at The MetroHealth System and Case Western Reserve University and the Center for Community Health Integration at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She is a Senior Strategic Advisor and Associate Professor at the National Center for Primary Care at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. She is originally from Cleveland, Ohio, and completed her medical school and residency training in Family Medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where she served as chief resident, and completed fellowship training in Primary Care Health Policy and Research at Georgetown University and the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Washington, DC. She received her Master of Science in Clinical Research at Morehouse School of Medicine. Her academic career as a teacher and researcher has been focused on advancing equity, patient and community-engaged research infrastructure, and measuring the impact of the primary care system on health and health equity. As co-director of the Southeast Regional Clinicians Network (SERCN), a practice-based research network made up of Federally Qualified Health Centers across eight southeastern states, she conducts practice-based research in the primary care safety net grounded in a robust patient and stakeholder engagement infrastructure. She is also a health services researcher. Her work with health care claims and other large datasets focuses on the intersection of primary care, place, and health equity among populations disproportionately impacted by health inequities.

Annette Totten

Annette M. Totten, PhD, MPA is an Associate Professor in the department of Medical Informatic and Clinical Epidemiology at the OHSU School of Medicine in Portland, OR and the Public Health Practice Program at the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health. She is currently Co-Director of the Pacific Northwest Evidence-based Practice Center and a core investigator with the Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network (ORPRN). She is completing a PCORI-funded trial of advance care planning in primary care in 7 PBRNs (five in the US and two in Canada) in the Meta-LARC network of PBRNs and continues to work to support PBRN collaborations.

Antonello Punturieri

Antonello (Tony) Punturieri, MD, PhD, is currently a Senior Clinical Research Officer for the NIH CARE for Health Program, in the Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI) in the National Institutes of Health Director's Office (OD). He previously worked as a Scientific Program Director at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), in acute and chronic COVID-19, and COPD and lung environmental insults. Tony obtained his MD in Ferrara, Italy and a PhD in Immunology at "La Sapienza" University in Rome, Italy.

Arlene Bierman

Arlene S. Bierman, MD, MS, is Chief Strategy Officer of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) in the US Department of Health and Human Services. Previously she was director of AHRQ's Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement CEPI) consisting of five divisions the Evidence-Based Practice Center Program; the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Program; Digital Healthcare Research; Practice Improvement; Healthcare Delivery and Systems Research; and the National Center for Excellence in Primary Care Research. Dr. Bierman is a general internist, geriatrician, and health services researcher whose work has focused on improving access, quality, and outcomes of health care for older adults with chronic illness in disadvantaged populations and has published widely in these areas. Dr. Bierman has also developed strategies for using performance measurement as a tool for knowledge translation, as well as conducted research to increase policymakers' uptake of evidence. She is developing an interoperable shared electronic care plan for use to improve care delivery for people living with or at risk for multiple chronic conditions. As tenured professor she held appointments Health Policy, Evaluation, and Management; Public Health; and Medicine; and Nursing at the University of Toronto, where she was the inaugural holder of the Ontario Women's Health Council Chair in Women's Health and a senior scientist in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael's Hospital. She was principal investigator for the Project for an Ontario Women's Health Evidence-Based Report Card (POWER) study, which provided actionable data to help policymakers and health care providers improve health and reduce health inequities in Ontario. Dr. Bierman has served on many advisory committees including the Geriatric Measurement Advisory Panel of the National Committee for Quality Assurance, the board of Health Quality Ontario, and the Institutional Advisory Board of the CIHR Institute for Health Services and Policy Research. She received her MD degree from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill where she was a Morehead Fellow. She completed fellowships in Outcomes Research at Dartmouth Medical School, and Community and Preventive Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and served as an Atlantic Philanthropies Health and Aging Policy Fellow/American Political Science Foundation Congressional Fellow.

Barbara P Yawn

Barbara P Yawn, MD, MSc, is a family physician who began her career in rural practice and transitioned to clinical practice based research. Her first practice based study was published over 30 years ago in JAMA demonstrating a reduction in preterm births in a rural practice setting. Since then she has studied scoliosis screening in schools, perinatal depression screening and treatment in primary care, screening for asthma in schools, development and use of a primary care asthma control tool, screening for COPD in primary care as well as the epidemiology and risk factors for shingles (herpes zoster). She retired from her research department in a non-academic health care system 8 years ago and has since served as an investigator and consultant to large national studies of asthma and COPD in primary care practice-based research networks. One of her goals has been the inclusion of primary care practices and patients in large pragmatic clinical trials and has been fortunate to see this occur through the efforts of many primary care researchers, AHRQ and the growing number of PBRNs.

Beth Wilson

Elisabeth Wilson, MD, MPH, MS-HPEd, is Chair of the Department of Community & Family Medicine at Dartmouth Health and Geisel School of Medicine. As Chair, Dr. Wilson is responsible for the advancement of Dartmouth's academic and clinical mission. She leads the system-wide Primary Care Executive Committee, oversees the oldest Practice-Based Research Network in the country (CO-OP), and recently launched a new primary care research and policy center (NNEST-PC). Dr. Wilson also serves on the board of the Association of Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM) as chair of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. Prior to joining Dartmouth in 2022, Dr. Wilson held the position of Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at Maine Medical Center and Maine Medical Partners for five years. She served as the Executive Director of the Preble Street Learning Collaborative, an academic-community partnership to address unmet needs of people experiencing homeless in the Portland area. Dr. Wilson spent the first two decades of her career at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) where she completed her residency and research fellowship, after receiving a dual MD-MPH degree at Tufts University School of Medicine. While at UCSF, she held the positions of Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Director of the Northern California Faculty Development Fellowship, Dean's Diversity Leader for the Differences Matter initiative, and founding Director of the Program in Medical Education for the Urban Underserved. Dr. Wilson has dedicated her career to achieving health equity through education, research, clinical care, and advocacy. She is passionate about teaching and mentorship, and committed to nurturing team members to succeed, both personally and professionally. She believes that providing high quality, equitable care requires building strong and sustainable partnerships with the communities we serve.

Christina Hester

Christina Hester, PhD, is the Vice President of Research at DARTNet Institute and a volunteer Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center. She has been engaging in practice-based research in many capacities for well over a decade, including through leading and overseeing a portfolio of primary care research projects through the AAFP National Research Network at AAFP and now DARTNet Institute.

Cory B. Lutgen

Cory B. Lutgen, MHA, is the senior strategist for DARTNet Institute, informing research program operations and strategy. Cory has 10+ years of project management experience spanning numerous large and small-scale studies and initiatives. Currently, Cory leads the Family Medicine Discovers Rapid Cycle Scientific Discovery and Innovation Program (FMD RapSDI) and serves as project manager for the HOMER Study, funded by PCORI, and the My Health My Choice study, funded by the NIH, among others. Cory also has significant experience managing relationships and interacting with external funders and partners (federal and non-federal) and serves as the principal product manager for DARTNet Institute's In4MedCare™ clinical decision support tool providing business leadership and product strategy. Cory also serves as the Vice Chair of Governance for NAPCRG.

Dan Merenstein

Daniel Merenstein, MD, is a Professor with tenure of Family Medicine at Georgetown University, where he also directs Family Medicine research. Dr. Merenstein has a secondary appointment in the undergraduate Department of Human Science, in the School of Health. Dr Merenstein was a Robert Wood Johnson Fellow at Johns Hopkins Medical School from 2003-2005. He joined the faculty at Georgetown after graduating from fellowship. Dr. Merenstein teaches two undergraduate classes, a research capstone and a seminar class on evaluating evidence based medical decisions. He has been funded by PCORI, NIH, USDA, Foundations and Industry. The primary goal of Dr. Merenstein's research is to provide answers to common clinical questions that lack evidence and improve patient care. Dr. Merenstein is a clinical trialist who has recruited over 2,000 participants for 10 probiotic trials since 2006 and published over 150 articles. He is an expert on probiotics, antibiotic stewardship in outpatient settings and also conducts HIV research in a large women's cohort. He sees patients in clinic one day a week. Dan lives in Maryland with his wife and 4 boys.

Don Nease

Don Nease, MD, is a Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado – Anschutz Medical Campus, where he serves as the Director of Community Engagement and Health Equity for the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. He completed his undergraduate degree and medical school at the University of Kansas, residency at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston and a Faculty Development Fellowship at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Dr. Nease's passion is to improve health in partnership with communities, patients, clinicians and healthcare. He works this territory from the level of individual interactions to community and population-based interventions.

Ed Bujold

I am a family physician working in an independent practice in Granite Falls, NC. I have been in the same location for almost 40 years practicing the full range of family medicine. I have also been a clinician/researcher involved in many projects over the years working with many PBRNs.

Felicia Qashu

Dr. Felicia Qashu earned her Ph.D. in neuroscience in 2009 from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), studying neuroanatomical and electrophysiological changes in the amygdala in a rat model of epilepsy. In 2010, she joined the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC) as a scientific advisor, and then became the DVBIC Deputy Director of Research in 2013. At DVBIC, Dr. Qashu was responsible for leading and overseeing a clinical research program on traumatic brain injury (TBI) in military service members and veterans. She also served as Principal Investigator of studies advancing our understanding of TBI and treatment options, including evaluation of concussion care guidance in primary care settings. Since 2016, Dr. Qashu has worked in the Office of Strategic Coordination at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where she leads Common Fund programs that aim to transform and catalyze areas of research that support the missions of multiple NIH Institutes and Centers. Dr. Qashu is the Common Fund Program Leader for NIH's Communities Advancing Research Equity for HealthTM (CARE for HealthTM), which aims to improve health equity by increasing access to clinical research in primary care settings. In addition to her role in the Common Fund, Dr. Qashu supported NIH's Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Technology (RADx Tech) Initiative, which developed and scaled up the national capacity for diagnostic testing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Freya Spielberg

Freya Spielberg, MD, MPH, is a Family Medicine Physician, Educator and Community based Researcher. Her current position is Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona Medical School in Phoenix. She also has an appointment as a Research Faculty at the Phoenix VA. Dr. Spielberg received her MD from the Weill Cornell Medical College, and her residency in Family Medicine from the University of Washington/Swedish Downtown Family Medicine. She completed a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Fellowship and her Master's in Public Health at the University of Washington. Since her training she has conducted research in underserved populations nationally and globally and has held leadership positions as faculty at the University of Washington, Stanford, George Washington University, at the University of Texas in Austin and at the VA in Phoenix. Her focus over the past 30 years has been to develop and evaluate new community-based models of care to improve health outcomes, patient experience, and provider experience, while lowering health care costs, and diminishing health disparities (the Quintuple Aim). Current research interests focus on decreasing health disparities in Arizona with a focus on improving early detection and treatment of chronic diseases and cancers, early detection and treatment of HIV and STIs, and suicide/overdose prevention. In her new position as Vice Chair of Research at the University of Arizona in the Department of Family and Community Medicine she looks forward to building collaborative research programs aligned with the Department's mission to advance the health of individuals and families from all backgrounds and cultures through innovation and leadership in education, research and community engagement, and the delivery of exemplary primary care.

Gene "Rusty" Kallenberg

Dr. Gene "Rusty" Kallenberg, MD, is Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine and the Director of the UCSD Centers for Integrative Health (a member of the Academic Consortium of Integrative Health and Medicine (ACIMH). He was the Chief of the Division of Family Medicine and Vice Chair of the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at University of California, San Diego From 2001 to 2020. Dr. Kallenberg's interests include new models of primary care, population health, integrative medicine integrated behavioral health, medical informatics learning health systems and undergraduate/graduate medical education and competency assessment in communication skills, doctor-patient-family relationships and professionalism.

Hazel Tapp

Dr. Hazel Tapp, PhD, Professor, currently serves as Vice Chair for Research, Department of Family Medicine, Atrium Health. Dr Tapp's research interests are in implementing interventions to improve health outcomes for patients in primary care with chronic diseases such as asthma, diabetes, COPD, hepatitis C and HIV. As co-director of our Practice Based Research Network, and Director of the Center for Primary Care Research, Dr Tapp works on several projects designed to use implementation research and stakeholder engagement to improve health of populations with chronic disease. Dr Tapp serves as Principal Investigator on several research projects involving chronic care and implementation research. As PI on both NIH and PCORI studies, the team evaluates the implementation of "Coach McLungs", a virtual iPad shared decision making tool for asthma, within 21 Atrium Health Primary Care Practices and two Pediatric Emergency Departments. Previously, Dr Tapp led a PCORI-funded study implementing shared decision making across 30 primary care practices in North Carolina. Dr Tapp helped develop and actively serves as a participating member of a stakeholder advisory committee (SAC), community advisory board (CAB) and patient advisory board (PAB). To date, we have engaged stakeholders and the community using meetings, forums, health fairs, and strategic partnerships such as being part of the Health Department's "Getting to Zero Program" for HIV outreach. Dr Tapp is nationally involved in primary care research leadership, having served as Chair and Board Member of the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) Program Committee. NAPCRG's annual conference is attended by over 900 primary care researchers from around the world and is considered the leading global General Practitioner and Family Medicine research conference. Dr Tapp grew up in Wales, received a PhD from the University of Birmingham England, and did a post-doctoral fellowship at New York University. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with her family and dogs Willow and Lucy.

Jack Westfall

Jack Westfall, MD, grew up in Yuma, Colorado. During high school he worked in the hospital as a lab technician and earned his EMT. He completed his MD and Masters in Public Health at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, an internship in hospital medicine in Wichita, Kansas, and his Family Medicine Residency at the University of Colorado Rose Family Medicine Program. After joining the faculty at the University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine, Dr Westfall started the High Plains Research Network, a geographic community and practice-based research network in rural and frontier Colorado. He practiced family medicine in several rural communities including Limon, Ft Morgan, and his hometown of Yuma. He added Medication Assisted Treatment for opioid use disorder to his clinical care in 2016.The work of the HPRN and its participatory, Community Advisory Council has included funding from the CDC, NIH, AHRQ, and numerous state and local foundations. After retiring from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, he worked for several years as the Director for Whole Person Care at Santa Clara County Health and Hospitals in San Jose, California. He served for several years as the Director of the Robert Graham Center for policy research in primary care and family medicine in Washington DC. Returning to Colorado, he continues to consult and collaborate on primary care practice-based research, community-based participatory research, integrated primary care and behavioral health, and the interface between primary care, public, and community health. He enjoys practicing ambulatory family medicine part-time in his hometown of Yuma, Colorado.

Janice Lopez

Janice Lopez serves as a Research Engagement Program Specialist at AdventHealth Research Institute in Orlando, Florida. Janice attended the University of Central Florida for her undergraduate education in Health Sciences and pursued her master's in public health from South University. Throughout her professional development she has gained wide range of experience in clinical, public health, and research focus areas. Her goal in her current role is to leverage my clinical and research experience and lead out on multiple projects and initiatives to increase health promotion and access of clinical research to patients and clinical providers that align with the institution's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) plans including the development of the INPRATICE: Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN).

Joe LeMaster

Joseph (Joe) W. LeMaster, MD, MPH, is the Director of Practice Engagement at DARTNet Institute. He was the final Director of the AAFP National Research Network and moved with the AAFP NRN staff team when they joined DARTNet in August 2023. Dr. LeMaster has conducted PBRN research with the AAFP NRN since 2014. He PI of 2 DARTNet studies and an R01 with the University of Kansas, where he is a practicing physician and tenured Professor. His principal area of research interest is the implementation of practice improvement strategies with and to benefit patients with limited English proficiency.

Karen Tu

Dr. Karen Tu, MD, MSc, is a Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, holds the Chair in Family and Community Medicine Research in Primary Care at UHN, is a Research Scientist at North York General and a family physician at Toronto Western Family Health Team. Dr Tu is one of Canada's leading experts in the secondary use of primary care EMR data. Triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and the understanding of common challenges worldwide, she developed the International Consortium of Primary Care Big Data Researchers-INTRePID (www.intrepidprimarycare.org). INTRePID joins together primary care researchers in thirteen different countries spanning six continents and performs international comparative studies in primary care.

Katrina Donahue

Dr. Donahue is Professor and Vice Chair of Research of Family Medicine in the UNC-CH School of Medicine, a Senior Research Fellow in the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at UNC-CH, and Co-Director of the North Carolina Network Consortium (NCNC), a statewide consortium of practice-based research networks across the state. Additionally, she directs the NRSA Primary Care Research Fellowship Program. She has been principal investigator on several practice-based research projects in primary care practices. Her work includes comparative effectiveness research, practice redesign of health care delivery and de-implementation of low value care. She maintains a continuity practice at the UNC Family Medicine Center. In her free time she coaches CrossFit and lifts heavy things.

Kevin Peterson

Dr. Peterson is the Vice President of Primary Care and Quality at the American Diabetes Association and Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Prior coming to the ADA, Dr. Peterson directed the Center of Excellence in Primary Care with additional appointments in the Institute for Health Informatics and the Institute for Engineering in Medicine. A fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, his work at the ADA supports the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based methods to improve diabetes care delivery in community and primary care.

Kurt C. Stange

Kurt C. Stange, MD, PhD is a family and public health physician with a long history of PBRN collaboration and inquiry. He is a partner, parent, and grandparent. At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Kurt is a member of the Center for Community Health Integration (CHI Center), which conducts collaborative Research & Development for Community Health and Integrated, Personalized Care. He is a Distinguished University Professor, and is the Dorothy Jones Weatherhead Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Family Medicine & Community Health, Population & Quantitative Health Sciences, Oncology and Sociology. He served as founding editor for the Annals of Family Medicine. With Rebecca Etz, PhD, he serves as Co-Director for the Larry A. Green Center for Advancing Primary Health Care for the Public Good. He is active in multimethod, participatory research and development that aims to understand and improve the generalist function, primary health care, health equity, and community and population health. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Linda Zittleman

Linda is a Senior Instructor in the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Director of the High Plains Research Network (HPRN). She has been part of the HPRN team since 2005 and has extensive experience leading and directing a wide range of multi-method research projects with rural practices and communities. The work she does with HPRN aims to build connections between clinical practice and the broader community; linking primary care, behavioral health, and public health into a rural "community of solution." She coordinates the HPRN Community Advisory Council to support their participation in all aspects of the HPRN. Ms. Zittleman helped develop the Boot Camp Translation (BCT) process and training program. She also serves on staff for the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI) – Community Engagement and Health Equity program. Linda currently lives in Minneapolis with her husband, Stan.

Lisa Graves

Lisa Graves is a family physician and graduate of the University of Ottawa. Her clinical, teaching and research interests include medical education, maternal/child health and marginalized populations. She is currently professor of Family and Community Medicine at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine in Kalamazoo Michigan and works in accreditation in Canada.

Lyndee Knox

Lyndee Knox, PhD, is the founding director of the LA Net Community Health Research and Resource Network, a 501c3 PBRN located in Los Angeles CA and focused on improving care for vulnerable populations in the region. LA Net serves as an incubator and early adopter of innovations to transform primary care and to engage and collaborate with local communities to improve health and quality of life. Dr. Knox worked as a clinical psychologist for 15 years before joining the faculty of USC Department of Family Medicine where she worked with Dr. Ricardo Hahn and his faculty to establish LA Net. Her research work has focused on qualitative studies of patient and provider experience with care and care transformation. Dr. Knox has helped guide development of practice facilitation models and training materials for the U.S. AHRQ and led numerous facilitation interventions for the LA Veterans Administration, L.A. Care Health Plan, Molina Health Plan, Triple S, the LA County Department of Health Services and currently, small independent practices participating in the California EPT initiative. Dr. Knox's recent work has been focused on implementing universal SDOH screening and service navigation in primary care practices, and on creation of resources to speed translation of best evidence and blue print practices into care via practice improvement facilitation. Prior to her work in primary care, Dr. Knox co-lead the Southern California Center for Academic Excellence where she worked with the American Medical Association to prepare PCPs to reduce risk of violent injury from guns, and PAHO and the WHO to develop resources to aid PCPs, public health professionals, state health departments and NGOs to reduce youth violence in developing nations through peer-led interventions. Dr. Knox lives in LA and NYC.

Magda Baksh

Magda Baksh received her Bachelor of Science in Biology and Environmental Science from St. Leo University, Florida and Master of Public Health from University of South Florida. Magda has more than ten years of multifaceted healthcare experience in public health, research, health promotion and strategic planning. She is a results-oriented leader with a successful track record in healthcare technology and innovation. In her current role as Senior Research Participant Recruitment at AdventHealth, she leads increasing access to clinical trials and research studies, accelerating research participant recruitment for all departments within the AdventHealth Research Institute (AHRI), leading provider engagement and developing the Practice Based Research Network to focused on the needs of practices and their communities. She also manages community outreach and diversity equity and inclusion efforts within AHRI to implement highly integrated strategies that benefit all. Prior to joining AdventHealth, Magda served the Ministry of Health in Trinidad as a Senior Research Specialist and the North West Regional Health Authority as General Manager of Health Policy, Research and Planning. In addition to providing analytical and epidemiological expertise, she managed research days, health promotion and HIV programs. She was the Secretary of the North West Regional Health Authority Ethics Committee, Coordinating Committee Member of the Caribbean Community of Practice for Health Policy and Systems Research, and was a member of the University of the Southern Caribbean Institutional Review Board. She is passionate about serving the community, reducing barriers to access and meeting people where they are to increase awareness of research.

Maret Felzien

Maret is a native to northeastern Colorado and recently retired from a long career working to support underserved and underprepared students at the local 2-year college. Currently she assists with the daily operations of the family dry-land farm and cattle ranch. She became involved with community engagement and primary care practice- and community-based research 20 years ago working with High Plains Research Network (HPRN) and its Community Advisory Council. This group informs, advises, and co-creates health research to strengthen primary care across rural eastern Colorado. The research conducted in these rural communities has been fun, meaningful, and successful, and most importantly, has shown positive impact on the health of the communities. Her community engagement work and advocacy has grown from this experience to include work at the state and national level; additionally, she continually collaborates on research teams and with projects as a patient/community voice or leader, an advocate, and even sometimes as a co-investigator in research and primary care advocacy.

Marjorie Bowen

Dr. Marjorie Bowman is Chief, Academic Affiliations Officer, Veterans Health Administration since 2018 and Editor of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine since 2003, as well as the former Editor of the Archives of Family Medicine and the Journal of Women's Health. She was previously Dean of Wright State University School of Medicine, Department Chair for Family Medicine at both the University of Pennsylvania and Bowman Gray School of Medicine (former name), Residency Director at Georgetown University, and a Commissioner Officer in Public Health Service. She is board-certified in both Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine and been active in multiple medical organizations.

Myra L. Muramoto

Myra L. Muramoto, MD, MPH, is Professor and Chair of Family Medicine, and at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She is a practicing family physician, with additional board certification in addiction medicine and obesity medicine. She has extensive translational research experience in tobacco cessation in clinical resaerch, healthcare, community, public health and international health settings. Her tobacco cessation work has primarily focused on special populations: medically compromised, change-resistant smokers; adolescents; ethnic and racial minorities; low-income pregnant women; low- and middle-income countries, complementary and alternative medicine practitioners; and the military. With nearly three decades of experience in national and international curriculum development projects, Dr. Muramoto has trained a broad range of health and human service providers and students in prevention, screening and treatment of substance use disorders, particularly alcohol and tobacco. She has adapted training curriculum to meet the needs of special populations, and used innovative technology to increase accessibility, acceptability, and adaptability of professional and lay educational programs. Dr. Muramoto's recent work has focused on smoking relapse prevention and expanding use of personal social network interventions to promote healthy behavior change. Dr. Muramoto is a founding member of the American Academy of Pediatrics' Center for Child Health Research Tobacco Consortium. She has served on the Emerging Science Advisory Panel for the American Legacy Foundation, CMS Expert Panel on Tobacco Dependence Treatment, and provided technical assistance for the World Bank on community-based tobacco cessation projects, and the WHO Tobacco Cessation Consortium Technical Working Group.

Ray Haeme

Ray Haeme is a retired career Army Officer and Management Consultant, currently residing in Granite Falls, North Carolina. Ray, formerly a Principal at Booz Allen Hamilton, received a B. S. degree in Chemistry from Bowling Green State University and an M. S. degree in Industrial Engineering from The Ohio State University. Ray has over forty years of professional experience applying operations research to improve government and commercial healthcare, supply chain, and logistics practices. At Booz Allen, Ray built and led teams that developed and deployed leading edge solutions for public sector and commercial healthcare and logistics operations. He has developed and delivered analytical as well as integrated solutions to improve operations in both public and private sector settings, worldwide. His team provided technical expertise to clients in the areas of strategy and optimization, business process improvement, requirements analysis, technology implementation analysis, as well as operations and planning. Since its inception, Ray has participated in the North American Primary Care Research Group's (NAPCRG) Patient and Clinician Engagement (PaCE) project. As a member of the PaCE Executive Team, Ray helped PaCE to become a NAPCRG committee reporting to its Board of Directors. Resulting from PaCE relationships, Ray has been asked to serve as a public participant on two committees of the American College of Physicians (Clinical Guidelines, and Scientific Medical Policy Committees). He has served as a Merit Reviewer for the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute's (PCORI) Pragmatic Clinical Studies and has won a PCORI grant for Capability Development in his community. He is currently the US Patient Representative on the NAPCRG Board of Directors and the Co-Chair of the PaCE Committee.

Richelle Koopman

Richelle Koopman, MD, MS, is the current President of NAPCRG. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at University of Missouri. His practice is part of the Missouri Practice-based Innovations Network (MO-PIN). His research expertise is in clinical decision support, patient-generated health data, hypertension, and pragmatic trials. Dr. Koopman is captivated by ideas and possibilities, especially those that exist outside the box.

Rodger Kessler

Rodger Kessler, PhD, is a board-certified clinical health psychologist and informatician who has spent the majority of his career practicing and doing research in Family Medicine. the first psychologist to become a member of a Family Medicine practice in Vermont, he was part of the APA psychology team that developed and implemented the Health and Behavior codes supporting psychologists to treat and receive reimbursement for behavioral treatments of medical problems. He, with Kari Stephen's Ph.D., originated the idea for the 40 site IBH-PC trial, with findings that degree of process integration may be associated with improved patient reported outcomes. He developed the Practice Integration Profile, the only validated measure of behavioral health integration, and, as part of the IBH project, identified a PIP score level that may differentiate practices that are associated with improved patient reported outcomes. he is PI of the IRIS project, developing a risk algorithm in on the ground primary care practices and implementing it through an interoperable cloud-based platform. While currently at the University of Colorado, as of July he will become the Vice President for Innovation at the DARTNet Institute. He lives on an island off the coast of Washington with his golden retriever Lizzie and wife Danit, raises Bonsai, and is slowly moving back to performing as a singer songwriter.

Rowena J. Dolor

Rowena J. Dolor, MD, MHS, is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of General internal Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine. Since 1996, she has been the Director of the Duke Primary Care Research Consortium (PCRC), a network of primary care practices in the Duke University Health System. She has led or co-led several clinical trials in the primary care setting on the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease, health screening, and chronic care management. She currently serves as a multi-PI of the Engagement Core for the PCORnet Coordinating Center, and as a member of the PCORnet STAR Clinician Research Network Engagement team. In her free time, she volunteers for the American Red Cross.

Sanjay Batish

Dr. Batish has been practicing as a family physician in an independent practice in Leland, NC since 1998. He practices within a full spectrum of Family Medicine but particularly enjoys pediatrics, chronic care management, and dermatology. He enjoys teaching students. He has been researching firearm violence since 2019.

Sarina Schrager

Dr. Schrager is a Professor in the University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. She has been practicing full spectrum family medicine for almost 30 years. She is the Medical Director of WREN (Wisconsin Research and Education Network), a primary care PBRN that has been continuously funded since 1987. She has had multiple editorial roles in medical publications and is currently the Editor in Chief of Family Medicine.

Sharry Veres

Dr. Veres is the Chair of the Department of Family, Community and Preventive Medicine for the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix. She has expertise in the development of health care innovations to serve inpatient and outpatient, rural, and urban underserved populations. She has experience in developing training for resident physicians, fellows and faculty in the skills needed to create innovative healthcare solutions. Prior to joining the college, Dr. Veres served as the residency program director and medical director at St. Anthony North Hospital in Westminster, Colorado. She came to Phoenix after nine years in that role. In her time in Colorado, she developed six different fellowship positions, targeting solutions for clinical needs in both local and rural communities in the state. She has received AHRQ funding for a study evaluating stress with the use of electronic health record and messaging systems. She successfully served as a site principal investigator for COVID-19 clinical trials at her former hospital. As a result of those contributions, she received the Family Medicine Physician of the Year award from the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Veres earned her MD at the University of Washington School of Medicine and completed her family medicine residency at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix. She earned a master's degree in Health Sector Management from Arizona State University. As a new Chair at the University of Arizona, she has obtained HRSA RRPD grant funding and has started a rural family medicine residency training program, and has a further Family Medicine residency and OB and Community Medicine fellowship programs in development. She has assisted her department in acquiring over $3 million in grant funding for clinical, research and education programs.

Stacey Adam

Dr. Stacey Adam is an Associate Vice President at the FNIH, leading many public-private partnerships, such as Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV); the Biomarkers Consortium (Cancer and Metabolic Disorders Steering Committees) and their projects; Accelerating Medicines Partnerships (AMPs)-Common Metabolic Diseases and Heart Failure; Partnership for Accelerating Cancer Therapies (PACT); and the Lung Master protocol (Lung-MAP) clinical trial. Prior to FNIH, Dr. Adam was a Manager at Deloitte Consulting in the Federal Life Sciences and Healthcare Strategy practice where she supported many federal and non-profit client projects. Before Deloitte, Dr. Adam conducted her postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine, where she was both an NIH and American Cancer Society supported fellow, and she earned her Ph.D. in Pharmacology with a Certificate in Mammalian Toxicology from Duke University.

Stacey Whanger

Stacey Whanger, MPH, is the Director of Dissemination and Implementation Science in the Primary Care and Quality Improvement department of the American Diabetes Association (ADA). She is helping to lead the Diabetes Primary Care Alliance, focusing on quality improvement strategies to improve diabetes care in primary care practices. Prior to joining the ADA, I received my Master of Public Health from West Virginia University in 2009 and served as a clinical trial research coordinator for an ophthalmology practice. In 2013, I served as the assistant director of the West Virginia Practice-Based Research Network (WVPBRN), a National Institutes of Health-funded program through the West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute (WVCTSI) CTR Award. I also served as project director for the WV Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostic Testing in Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) grant awarded to the WVCTSI that provided several rural primary care offices with financial, supply and staffing support to increase testing and relieve the burden experienced by the COVID pandemic-related shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) and staffing.

Warren Newton

Warren Newton, MD, MPH serves as President and CEO of ABFM and the ABFM Foundation. Prior to coming to ABFM, he practiced as a personal physician for 32 years in an FQHC, a Health Department and an academic practice; he also started the first hospitalist service at UNC in 1997. Dr. Newton served as the William B. Aycock Professor and Chair of UNC Family Medicine (1999-2016), UNC School of Medicine Chief Academic Officer (2008-2013), and Vice Dean and Director of North Carolina AHEC (2013-2018). He has led clinical practice and educational transformation at the practice, region and state levels and in both undergraduate and graduate medical education. As Family Medicine Chair and AHEC Director, he was responsible for over 30 residency programs, and founded and led the I3 collaborative of almost 30 primary care residencies in practice transformation from 2006-2018. He led the Improving Performance in Practice initiative (later AHEC practice support) which expanded to help care transformation to over 1400 primary care practices. As Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, he helped develop the 1115 Medicaid waiver application and developed a plan for dramatically increasing family medicine, general surgery and psychiatry residencies across the state; this plan has been partially implemented. Dr. Newton's scholarship has focused on the organization and effectiveness of health care; he has over 180 peer reviewed publications, including over 80 published with students and residents. He has been principal investigator on grants totaling more than $50,000,000. From 2012 to 2017, he served on the Board of Trustees of the North Carolina State Health Plan. ABFM is redesigning every aspect of its certification portfolio, including the Family Medicine Certification Longitudinal Assessment (FMCLA), a new National Journal Club, Knowledge Self Assessments, Performance Improvement activities and a major revision of its Professionalism Guidelines. ABFM launched the Center for Professionalism and Value in Health in July 2019 in Washington, DC, runs the PRIME registry, and conducts research in the ecology of family medicine, Measures that Matter in Primary Care and other policy areas critical to the future of family medicine and primary care. Family Medicine Residency Redesign is also a major focus now, with implementation of CBME across 772+ residencies as of July 1, 2023. The ABFM Foundation has also been heavily involved in the development of the family medicine strategic initiative to develop the research infrastructure of family medicine. Dr. Newton graduated from Yale University with a double major in biology and history in 1980 and Northwestern University Medical School in 1984. After residency and chief residency in family medicine at the University of North Carolina, he completed the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and an MPH at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. In 2012-13, he was selected as a Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) Bishop Fellow, during which he also completed the American Council of Education Fellows program.

Wilson Pace

Wilson D. Pace, MD, FAAFP Chief Medical and Technology Officer, DARTNet Institute, is a Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado, Denver, the Green-Edelman Chair Emeritus for Practice-based Research, and the past Director of the American Academy of Family Physicians National Research Network. Dr. Pace's research has focused on patient centered health information technology, behavioral change (both patient and clinician behavior), practice reorganization and patient safety. He served on the Institute of Medicine's committee studying the recognition and prevention of medication errors and on the National Institutes of Health Expert Workgroup 4 that updated the asthma guidelines in 2020. He is the primary architect of the DARTNet Institute, an organization dedicated to the better use of existing electronic health data and adding the patient voice to health data.

Yalda Jabbarpour

Yalda Jabbarpour is a family physician in Washington, DC and Director of the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies. 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 where she later served as Medical Director overseeing the Larry A Green scholars program and the Robert L Phillips fellowship program. Currently Dr. Jabbarpour serves as Director of the center where she oversees a research team dedicated to creating and curating the evidence to support family medicine and primary care. The team at the Robert Graham Center is interested in policy relevant research including, but not limited to, nationwide primary care investment, access to care (particularly for vulnerable population), graduate medical education, the primary care workforce, and scope of practice for family physicians. Her research interests center around diversity and equity in the family physician workforce and women's health care needs and access.