Karen Adams MD, FACOG, DipACLM, NCMP, IF is Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University. She is the Director of The Stanford Program in Menopause and Healthy Aging, a program that connects specialists in many fields to provide world-class care for women in the second half of life. Dr. Adams is double-board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Lifestyle Medicine, a Menopause Society Certified Menopause Practitioner, and a fellow of the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health. She is the course director for the Oregon ECHO Program in Menopause, a state-wide program to educate primary care and women's health providers in menopause care.

Dr. Adams is an award-winning educator and has lectured to medical audiences locally, nationally, and internationally, including a January 2020 TEDx talk entitled "Sleep, Sex, and Menopausal Zest" with over 150,000 views on YouTube.

Dr. Alkins received his BA degree from Dickinson College in 1989 and his medical degree from the State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse in 1993. He completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., in 1996. He then completed his fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 1999.

Dr. Alkins served as an active-duty U.S. Army physician until 2004, with duty stations at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany, and at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

Currently in clinical practice specializing in pulmonary and sleep medicine, Dr. Alkins serves as the Medical Director of Internal Medicine for Crouse Medical Practice. He is board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

Dr. Thomas G. Allison is a consultant in the Department of Cardiovascular Diseases and Cardiovascular Surgery and Professor of Medicine in the Mayo School of Medical and Science. His clinical responsibilities include stress testing, primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease, cardiac rehabilitation, and sports cardiology. He is Director of the Cardiopulmonary Exercise Laboratories and Director of the Sports Cardiology Clinic, and Course Co-Director of the external CME course Focus on Prevention. The Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing Laboratory at Mayo Clinic performs the highest volume and complexity of cardiopulmonary tests in the world.

He has been practicing in the fields of stress testing, cardiac rehabilitation, preventive cardiology, and sports and exercise cardiology for 41 years, including 31 years at the Mayo Clinic. He is a fellow in the American College of Cardiology, American College of Sports Medicine, and National Lipid Association.

Dr. Allison’s research interests parallel his clinical interests. He is currently principal or co-investigator on a number of studies in the field of exercise testing. He hosts students from all over the world who come to learn exercise testing and cardiovascular exercise physiology.

A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, Dr. Allison did his undergraduate work at Princeton University and completed a PhD in exercise physiology and an MPH in cardiovascular epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh. An active participant in regional, national, and international cardiovascular conferences, he has given over 250 invited presentations in more than 25 countries around the world -- on all 6 inhabited continents.

Dr. Allison was for many years a successful long-distance runner with 26 marathons to his credit. He qualified for the US Olympic Trial in the marathon in 1980.

Howard Amital is a professor of Medicine at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine of the Tel-Aviv University. He is the head of Department of Medicine 'B' at the Sheba Medical Center at the Sheba Medical Center, in Tel-Hashomer. For the past two years he is also the chair of Internal Medicine at the Sackler faculty of Medicine at the Tel-Aviv University. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, and his fellowship at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem.

Prof. Amital conducts clinical and basic research and speaks at international Rheumatology conferences such as the EULAR (European League against Rheumatism) and the ACR (American College of Rheumatology). He has authored over 270 scientific peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and reviews. His papers mainly focus on autoimmunity research primarily in new avenues for the development of therapeutic peptides in RA, roles of vitamin D, use of biological therapy, pain and comorbidities of fibromyalgia and epidemiological studies based on Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) databases.

Dr. Dennis Andrade serves as the Associate Program Director for the Family Medicine Residency Program at Kaiser Permanente San Diego. With over 20 years of experience teaching and mentoring medical students and resident physicians, he manages clinical rotations across various specialties, including surgery, emergency medicine, office procedures, and ultrasound. Dr. Andrade also founded the Southern California Regional Global Health Program for Kaiser Permanente resident physicians, leading numerous international medical trips to Peru, Thailand, Jamaica, Fiji, Kenya, and Mexico.

In addition to his leadership role, Dr. Andrade maintains an active clinical practice at Kaiser Permanente, where he supervises the Minor Surgery Clinic. He is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego where he precepts medical students. Dr. Andrade has also presented at national medical conferences on a variety of topics, including medical volunteerism abroad, travel medicine, and the use of ultrasound in primary care. His expertise also includes advanced training in trauma management and wilderness medicine.

Outside of his professional commitments, Dr. Andrade is passionate about travel, exploring diverse cultures, and enjoys running half-marathons, hiking, and photography.

Dr. Sandra Argenio served as a Consultant in the Department of Family Medicine at Mayo Clinic Florida and Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at Mayo Medical School. She joined Mayo Clinic in 1992 and continues as an Emeritus member of the Family Medicine Department.

Dr. Argenio has nurtured new generations of doctors, was instrumental in the development of the Family Medicine Residency at Mayo Clinic Florida and served as the program’s first residency director. She has trained and mentored over 150 family medicine residents.

Dr. Argenio served as the President of the Florida Academy of Family Physicians in 2005 and has been active on many committees of the FAFP and the American Academy of Family Physicians.

She has been active in CME program planning at Mayo Clinic and the Florida Academy of Family Physicians, conducting Maintenance of Certification Workshop sessions on multiple topics for over 1,100 participants at FAFP meetings.

Dr. Argenio had a leading role in establishing communication training at Mayo Clinic starting in 2005. She was Chair of the Mayo Clinic Florida Communication Faculty.

She developed coursework for faculty and trainees at Mayo Clinic, including Longitudinal Research in Academic Medicine, Family Medicine Residency, Scottsdale, Arizona; and Team Communication, Strengthening the Cornerstone of Teamwork at Mayo Clinic’s three campuses. She also served on the Florida Governor’s Physician Workforce Advisory Board.

Dr. Argenio was awarded the Exemplary Teacher Award by FAFP in 2000. She also received the Outstanding Florida Family Medicine Education Award by FAFP in 2000, and the Mayo Distinguished Educator Award in 2003. She was listed as one of Jacksonville’s Best Doctors by Jacksonville Magazine from 2000 to 2014. She has published on the topics of presence, reflective listening and communicating effectively with female patients.

In her current work, she has collaborated in designing curricula and delivering programs at multiple hospitals, hospice organizations, and veterans administration and military healthcare organizations.

Dr. Argenio is a graduate of Wilkes College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Hahnemann Medical University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She completed her Family Medicine Residency at Geisinger Medical Center in Pennsylvania in 1982. She resides in Ormond Beach, Florida, with her husband Tom Sperrazza and daughter Jessie.

Kevin Astle, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP, AAHIVP, CDCES is an assistant professor with the University of Taneja College of Pharmacy in the department of Pharmacotherapeutics and Clinical Research. He joined USF in July 2022 from his previous institution, Auburn University Harrison College of Pharmacy in Mobile AL. Dr. Astle graduated from pharmacy school at the University of Florida in 2016 and completed a PGY-1 ambulatory care pharmacy residency with Auburn University Clinical Health Services in 2017.

Dr. Astle’s clinical practice and research interests are in the treatment and prevention of HIV, addressing health disparities in the LGBTQIA+ community, and prevention of cardiovascular disease in people living with HIV. Dr. Astle is passionate about advocacy and policy change regarding healthcare access for sexual and gender minorities and expanding access to healthcare for transgender patients. He is a Board-Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist, Ambulatory Care Pharmacist, HIV Pharmacist, and Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist. In 2021, Dr. Astle was a founding member of RxSHARE, an international collaborative of pharmacists with the mission of improving health care access and education regarding sexual and gender minorities.

Dr. Steven Bailey is the Chairman of Internal Medicine at LSU Health Shreveport and the Malcolm Feist Chair of Interventional Cardiology. He is a Tenured and Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Radiology and previous Chief of the Janey and Dolph Briscoe Jr. Division of Cardiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Bailey received his medical degree from the University of Oregon Health Science Center at Portland and did his medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center in Aurora, Colorado. He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine with subspecialty board certification in both Cardiovascular Disease and Interventional Cardiology. Dr. Bailey's clinical focus is in Adult Congenital/Structural and Valvular heart disease in addition to Coronary Atherosclerotic Disease. His research laboratory is involved in investigating the effects of NOX subtypes in promoting cardiovascular disease and Pulmonary Endothelial cell prothrombic response to Covid 19 viral infection. He has translational research in the field of nanotechnologies and nanosensors and holds several patents in these fields. He was the Program Director for Interventional Cardiology at UTHSCSA from 1999 to 2019. Dr. Bailey chaired the UTHSCSA Promotion and Tenure committee. Dr. Bailey is a Past President of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) and is currently the Editor in Chief of Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. He is a Master Fellow of SCAI, a Master Fellow of ACP, a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, and a Fellow of the American Heart Association. He is a member of the Association of the Professors of Medicine, Association of University Cardiologists, the Association of Cardiology Professors, as well as the International Andreas Greuntizig Society.

Dr. Bala Miklosh is a Director of Trauma and Acute care Surgery Unit and senior surgeon of Department of General Surgery of Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel. Residency in General Surgery in Hadassah Medical Center. Fellowship in Trauma and Surgical Critical Care in Baltimore, MD. Active member of EAST, AAST and ESTES. Currently work as a leading surgeon in Acute Care Surgery and Trauma and chief consultant for surgery in ICU. Member of trauma committee of Israeli Trauma Association.
Dr. Bala's clinical and research experience in trauma care started in 2001 while he was a second year surgical resident at the Hadassah Medical Center and was first exposed to trauma surgery. Since then trauma surgery has become a major topic of his investigations and a main subspecialty.
During his period of residency in general surgery at Hadassah Medical Center, he took care of and was involved in the management of hundreds of casualties that arrived at our Trauma Center following terrorist attacks. On the basis of his experiences, he helped to first introduce the civilian protocol for the management of mass casualty incidents MCIs and showed his team's high success rate in saving life by fully utilizing the limited resources available in civilian hospitals. He was able to summarize this experience in a number of recently published papers relating to different aspects of MCI management, for the first time assessed in terms of ICU need and blood use during the MCI (Published in Injury and European Journals). He summarized his data from hundreds of victims suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) related to terrorist attacks in an article published in the Journal of Trauma.
Collection of this data is an ongoing project, for which he works in close collaboration with a psychological group in his hospital. The importance of these studies has been demonstrated in real-time and he have been invited as an expert speaker and guest lecturer to a number of teaching courses and conferences around the world.
Lastly, he is active in National Homeland Security committee for disaster preparedness, where he works on preparedness for earthquake and chemical disaster on hospital and national levels.
Other topics of special interest:

• Trauma surgery and surgical critical care


• Education in surgery and trauma

Shelley is a lawyer and the founder of Shelsu Pacific Law in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She has 19 years of experience in government and oversight, post-secondary, health and health regulation, litigation, and union environments. Most of Shelley’s background involves investigating and overseeing sexual misconduct matters and developing trauma-informed systems for organizations.

She is currently appointed as the investigator for sexual harassment complaints in a health care collective agreement with across all provincial health authorities and is appointed by Provincial Cabinet and the Minister of Health to the Health Professions Review Board and Patient Care Quality Review Board. She is often retained as external counsel by regulators and works in partnership with regulatory research institutes to advance research on sexual misconduct, trauma informed practice and its impact on organizations and leadership. She also teaches health and other regulated professionals and has spoken across Canada and internationally about sexual misconduct, investigations processes, and trauma-informed policy development and practice.

Allison J. Batchelor, MD, CMD, FAMWA is a fellowship-trained geriatrician with more than 40 years of clinical experience in the primary care of older people. Presently, she works as an attending physician at Marietta Memorial Hospital Athens Department of Primary Care in Athens, Ohio providing geriatric primary care. In addition, she serves as an Associate Professor of Geriatric Medicine at Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine teaching medical students and residents for over 25 years in addition to prior academic appointments.

She is trained as a Certified Medical Director through the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine and is a Fellow of the American Medical Women’s Association.

Joseph Beltempo, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, an Affiliate Professor in the Psychology Department at Concordia University, and an Instructor of Counseling Psychology at McGill University. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from McGill University, followed by his Master of Arts, PhD, and Post-Doctorate in Research and Clinical Psychology from the Université de Montréal, where his clinical training focused on Cognitive and Gestalt psychology.

Since 1984, Dr. Beltempo has taught across a wide spectrum of clinical and research areas. He currently serves as a Clinical Site Supervisor for Doctoral Interns in Psychology at both Concordia University and McGill University. A licensed member of the Order of Psychologists of Quebec since 1979, his clinical approach integrates contemporary psychology with holistic, systemic methods that reflect Native cultural perspectives.

From 1982 to 2012, Dr. Beltempo worked as a senior clinical psychologist for Kahnawake Shakotiia'takenhas Community Services, a Mohawk Community. During this time, he spent two years as the Coordinator for the Kahnawake Outreach Project, which was established to manage the after-effects of the 1990 Mohawk Crisis. His clinical expertise centers on addiction, mental health, dual diagnosis, and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD), and he is highly trained in FASD assessments and diagnostics. Additionally, he serves as a Consultant and Expert Witness for Quebec Youth Courts involving First Nations peoples.

Dr. Beltempo has been married since 1980 and is the father of three young adults.

Dr. Benedetti is a Venezuelan anesthesiologist who received her degree in Pain Medicine from Fletcher Allen Heath Care at the University of Vermont. She went on to become faculty at the University of Iowa where she worked as an attending physician in the Department of Anesthesia’s Pain Clinic and later received an Associate Clinical Professor degree. After nearly a decade, she moved to the wonderful State of Florida where she became part of the Miami VA family where she became the Chronic Pain Section Chief and was later named the the VISN 8 Chief Pain Consultant.

Jonathan Betlinski, M.D., serves as George Saslow Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Oregon Health & Science University, where he also gets to be Public Psychiatry Director. Among other projects, he serves as Medical Director for the Oregon Psychiatric Access Line about Adults, as Clinical Advisor to the Oregon ECHO Network, and on the boards of several nonprofit organizations.

Dr. Betlinski believes in the power of relationship, family, community, diverse perspectives, multi-disciplinary approaches, theater, being outdoors, a good night's sleep, and leaving the world better for having spent time in it.

Sejal M. Bhavsar, MD, FAAP, is an Attending Physician in Pediatric Infectious Diseases and the Director of the Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at Hackensack University Medical Center. She also serves as an Associate Professor at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine in Hackensack, New Jersey.

Dr. Bhavsar completed her pediatric residency training at NYU Langone - Long Island Campus and her fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.

Practicing in Northern New Jersey since 2018, Dr. Bhavsar is actively involved in teaching medical students and physicians-in-training. Her clinical interests include prolonged febrile illnesses, tickborne diseases, HIV treatment and prevention, and travel medicine. She is passionate about antimicrobial stewardship.

Shagun Bindlish, MD, FACP, DABOM, DACLM, FOMA, is a nationally recognized diabetologist, obesity medicine specialist, educator, researcher, and healthcare advocate. She serves as President of the Golden State Obesity Society and is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Touro University's diabetes fellowship program. Dr. Bindlish earned her medical degree from Yerevan State Medical University in Armenia and completed her residency at Lutheran Medical Center in New York.

Dedicated to advancing compassionate, equitable care and reducing health disparities, Dr. Bindlish has led diabetes and obesity advocacy efforts at both the state and national levels. Her contributions have been recognized with numerous honors, including the American Diabetes Association State Advocate of the Year Award, the Compassionate Physician of the Year Award, and the Obesity Medicine Association’s Meritorious Service Award and Dr. Peter G. Lindner Award for outstanding leadership and service.

In addition to her clinical practice in the Bay Area, Dr. Bindlish holds editorial roles with Elsevier and serves as faculty for leading national and international educational programs. Her philosophy of care centers around prevention and education, allowing her to take a holistic approach and serve as a wellness coach for her patients. Outside of medicine, she enjoys yoga, Pilates, traveling, and cooking international cuisines.

Dr. Biviano is Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology at CUMC, specializing in arrhythmia management, including ablation procedures and pacemaker/defibrillator implantation. His research interests include outcomes in patients with atrial fibrillation and congenital heart disease-related arrhythmias.

Paul D. Blaylock, MD, JD, FCLM, is a seasoned Emergency Medicine Physician and Defense Trial Attorney. He brings over 31 years of clinical experience from a Level I/II Trauma Center in Portland, Oregon, alongside 25 years of practice as a defense trial attorney. He is a past board member of the American College of Legal Medicine (ACLM) and has been board-certified in both Emergency Medicine and Legal Medicine.

Throughout his career, Dr. Blaylock has held numerous academic and leadership positions. He has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark and as a Clinical Instructor of Emergency Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). Additionally, he served as the Medical Director for Providence Medical Group's Tanasbourne Immediate Care. Beyond his standard practice, Dr. Blaylock has dedicated his medical expertise to disaster response, serving on emergency medicine teams in Mexico City, Guatemala, Ground Zero in New York City, and sites impacted by Hurricane Katrina.

Dr. Blaylock is a highly recognized lecturer and award-winning professional, having received the ACLM's prestigious Jefferson Cup and President's Award. As an active and celebrated alumnus of the University of Tennessee, he has served on the Medical School's Alumni Board of Governors. He was named one of the "University of Tennessee's 100 Greatest Graduates" in 2018 and honored as the Medical School's "Outstanding Alumnus" in 2019.

Tony Bleetman, MD, PhD, FRCSEd, FRCEM, DipIMC RCSEd, is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine with over 28 years of experience. He currently serves as an Honorary Associate Professor at Warwick Medical School and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Neuroscience, Surgery and Trauma at the Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London.

Dr. Bleetman has extensive experience in trauma care, having served as a Consultant Trauma Team Leader at St. Mary’s Hospital Major Trauma Centre for three years. He also has 12 years of service with Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS), including a three-year tenure as Clinical Director of Midlands Air Ambulance. For his work in pre-hospital emergency medicine, he was awarded both the Queen’s Golden and Diamond Jubilee Medals.

In addition to his clinical and academic roles, Dr. Bleetman is a Medical Advisor for the Home Office. He maintains an active research portfolio and works as an attending emergency physician in both NHS Emergency Departments and the Middle East.

Robert T. Brodell, MD, FAAD, FRCP(Edin), is a Tenured Professor of Dermatology and Pathology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC). He previously served as the institution's Founding Chair of the Department of Dermatology, Chair of the Department of Pathology, and the Billy S. Guyton, MD, Distinguished Professor. A graduate of Washington and Jefferson College and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, he completed his dermatology and dermatopathology training at Barnes Hospital (Washington University in St. Louis). Prior to his academic tenure, he was in solo private practice for 27 years in Warren, Ohio.

Affectionately known as "Dr. Bob," he is a dedicated educator and researcher who has delivered over 2,000 lectures and directed dozens of symposia. He has produced over 470 publications—almost exclusively co-authored with medical students and residents—along with more than 50 book chapters and 100 poster presentations. He is the author of three books: The Diagnosis and Treatment of Warts: An Evidence-Based Approach, Tips and Tricks in Procedural Dermatology, and Dermatology in Rural Settings — Organizational, Clinical, and Socioeconomic Perspectives.

Dr. Brodell is a highly respected national leader in his field. He has served as President of the American Board of Dermatology and the American Dermatological Association, and serves as the President-Elect of the Noah Worcester Dermatological Society. He has also been the Editor-in-Chief of Practice Update: Dermatology and an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. His extensive contributions have been recognized with numerous accolades, including the Dermatology Foundation Practitioner of the Year Award, the American Association of Medical Colleges Humanism in Medicine Award, the International League of Dermatological Societies’ Certificate of Appreciation for Humanitarian Dermatology, and a 2026 Presidential Citation Award from the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery.

Dr. Marni Brooks began her education at McGill university where she completed her Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in psychology and focused her thesis in the area of pediatric pain. She was then sponsored by a physician in Sydney, Australia to assist in his pediatric pain research.

Upon her return to Canada, she completed a Master of Social Work degree where she spent years of training studying women's health and addiction as field placements. Her interest in addiction continued after she completed her medical degree and family medicine residency at the University of Toronto.

She is now a Fellow in Family Medicine and, until now, has explored working in the areas of family medicine, sleep medicine, addiction medicine and cannabinoid medicine. Dr. Brooks also sat on the OMA Executive of the Section on Addiction Medicine for nearly a decade where she assisted with negotiations with the Ministry of Health on behalf of the members in her section. Most recently, she founded and is the Chair of the OMA Medical Interest Group in Cannabinoid Medicine, the first such group in the country.

Dr. Brooks currently focuses her work in Cannabinoid Medicine, her two main interests. She hopes to help educate her peers, the community and patients, as well as advocate for them, on the benefits of cannabis for a variety of health conditions, either as sole therapy or in conjunction with other treatments. Other experiences in Cannabinoid Medicine include speaking on the Northwinds panel for insurance providers and acting as an expert witness on the safety and medical uses of cannabis in a sentencing hearing.

Monica Broome, MD, FACP, FAACH, FAMWA, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Communication Skills Program at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Her primary focus is the neuroscience of communication, specifically physician-patient interactions, spanning undergraduate, graduate, and faculty development levels. An alumna of the University of Miami School of Medicine, Dr. Broome (formerly Dr. Harris) specializes in Internal Medicine and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine.

She completed a three-year fellowship in the Department of Medical Education at the University of Miami, during which she engaged in the Macy Institute for Health Communication Curriculum Development and became a certified master trainer for the Institute for Healthcare Communication. Dr. Broome also serves as the Course Director of the university's Bridge Course, facilitating the integration of incoming medical students from the International Medical University in Malaysia.

A globally recognized speaker on medicine, law, and business, Dr. Broome is the Vice Chair of the Global Listening Centre and previously served as the Deputy National Representative for the United States for the International Association for Communication in Healthcare. Her scholarly work includes national and international workshops on communication skills concerning conflict and bullying for organizations such as the Association of American Medical Colleges and the International Association of Law and Mental Health. She was also awarded Outstanding Reviewer Status for Elsevier’s journal, Patient Education and Counseling.

A dedicated advocate for women's health and veterans, Dr. Broome founded and served as the Medical Director of the Women’s Veterans Comprehensive Health Program in Hampton, Virginia, earning a service award from the Virginia Department of Disabled American Veterans. She represented Florida at a White House National Summit on Women’s Veterans Health Issues, which resulted in a position paper for Congress. She continues this advocacy through her work on the Women in Academic Medicine committee at the University of Miami and as the National Co-Chair East Coast for the American Medical Women’s Association's Physicians Against the Trafficking of Humans program.

Dr. Broome is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American Academy of Communication in Healthcare, and the American Medical Women's Association. She has served on the Introduction to Clinical Diagnosis Test Committee for the National Board of Medical Examiners and the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE). Additionally, she teaches communication skills updates as faculty for University at Sea.

Lisa Brown, DNP, MSN, APRN, CNM, is a full-scope certified nurse-midwife for the Mankato Clinic. She specializes in perinatal mood disorders and is trained by the FEMM Research Institute for Restorative Reproductive Medicine. Dr. Brown provides care to women across all stages of life through both face-to-face visits and telehealth. With over 25 years of nursing experience, primarily in obstetrics, she earned her master's degree in midwifery in 2018 and her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) from Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 2022.

Throughout her career as a registered nurse and midwife, Dr. Brown has focused on fertility awareness methods, infertility issues, recurrent loss, and restoring reproductive wellness. She is a trained FEMM medical consultant with a working knowledge of the Creighton, Sympto-Thermal, and Marquette methods of fertility awareness. Dr. Brown assists women in avoiding and achieving pregnancy, addressing issues such as PCOS, anovulatory cycles, irregular cycles, and hormonal imbalances from adolescence through menopause.

After observing perinatal mood disorders daily with limited resources available for patients, Dr. Brown developed a special clinical interest in this area. Her doctoral focus centered on perinatal mood disorders, symptom management, and non-pharmacological interventions to improve mental health in the perinatal population. Dr. Brown currently sees patients in person at the Mankato Clinic and via telehealth through Reply Fertility in Cary, North Carolina.

Dr. Peter Buch is a highly regarded medical educator and double board-certified clinical gastroenterologist with over 35 years of experience. His passion is teaching, and his style is famously case-based, practical, and interactive.

He is a Clinical Professor at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine and an Associate Professor at both the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and the Frank H. Netter, MD School of Medicine. Demonstrating his leadership in medical education, he is the host of the GI Insights podcast on ReachMD and serves on the American College of Gastroenterology’s Education Affairs Committee.

Dr. Buch has been honored to present at dozens of national and international conferences. He always learns from his audience and looks forward to learning with you.

Jonathan Budzik, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and a pulmonary and critical care physician at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He serves as the Associate Director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program.

Dr. Budzik's clinical work focuses on the care of adult patients with cystic fibrosis and bronchiectasis, as well as those in the medical and neurological intensive care units. His research seeks to improve the understanding of immune responses to mycobacterial infections, including tuberculosis.

Dr. Ronald R. Butendieck, Jr., earned his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Rollins College and his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Florida College of Medicine. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Rheumatology at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida.

Dr. Butendieck is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and serves as a Practice Leader and Consultant in the Division of Rheumatology at Mayo Clinic. A dedicated educator, he is a core faculty member of the Mayo Clinic Internal Medicine Residency Program, where he has been honored with the Top Teacher in Rheumatology Award on more than 10 occasions. He developed and leads an annual Rheumatology didactic lecture series for residents and delivers presentations for the Mayo Clinic Internal Medicine Board Review course.

He has a special interest in Behçet’s disease and has presented internationally on Neuro-Behçet’s. Dr. Butendieck is the contributing author on Behçet’s for the National Organization for Rare Disorders. In recognition of his contributions, he was elected as a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) in 2017. He is actively involved in several institutional committees, including the Mayo Clinic Pharmaceutical Formulary Subcommittee and the Internal Medicine Residency Program's Clinical Competency Committee.

Dr. Buzzard is a decorated veteran and served numerous deployments to Iraq as a flight surgeon and emergency physician. He was an EMT and combat medic before becoming a physician in the US Army.

Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Bryan-College Station Campus, Bryan, TX
Regional EMS Medical Director for numerous EMS agencies and aircraft.

Dr. Buzzard, who is Board Certified in both Emergency Medicine and EMS Medical Direction, is an emergency physician at the CHI St. Joseph emergency trauma center in Bryan, Texas. The facility is a level II trauma center, and the largest hospital in the region.

His areas of interest and expertise are in trauma, critical care medicine, and emergency medical service

Professor Ashish Chandra is a Professor of Healthcare Administration, College of Business at the University of Houston-Clear Lake (UHCL), Houston, Texas, USA where he also served as the Department Chair for over four years at UHCL. All together Dr. Chandra has over 20 years of university level teaching experience in the U.S. He is a well-recognized healthcare administration academician internationally and serves on the academic advisory board of several educational institutions in Turkey and India. He has also provided over a dozen Management Development Program, Faculty Development Programs, and professional consulting services to several healthcare and business organizations in the United States, India, Turkey, and aboard cruise ships. He actively served on the board of directors of several professional and community organizations in the United States. Over the past four years he has served as the Course Director and Speaker of five Continuing Education Programs for health professionals.

Dr. Chandra is a prolific researcher and has 75 publications in refereed journals, two edited books, ten book chapters, and over 250 publications in conference proceedings. He is an Executive Editor of the journal Hospital Topics (the oldest journal in healthcare administration field - almost 95 years in existence). He has served as the President of FOUR major international academic organizations - the Business and Health Administration Association; the Association of Collegiate Marketing Educators; the MBAA International; and the Federation of Business Disciplines. He has also served as the Program Chair of over a dozen major international conferences, held in U.S., India, Turkey, and U.K. as well as aboard cruise ships in the Caribbean, Alaska, Baltics, and Mediterranean.

Professor Chandra has received numerous awards and recognition related to teaching, research, and service throughout his career, including the 2017 Excellence in Teaching Award by the National Society for Leadership Success; 2015 Outstanding Professor Award given by the University of Houston - Clear Lake Alumni Association; 2012 American College of Healthcare Executives Service Award; 2011 Outstanding Educator Award from the Association of Collegiate Marketing Educators; to name a few. He also has the distinct honor of being the Commencement Speaker at the December 2018 graduation ceremony of the University of Houston – Clear Lake. The URL link to Dr. Chandra’s commencement speech is below. Please cue to minute 32 of the video link in case you just want to see Dr. Chandra’s speech.

URL to speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpwOooexSYA&t=2984s

Jen-Ting "Tina" Chen, MD, MS, is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary disease, and critical care medicine.

At UCSF, Dr. Chen leads the ICU Liberation Task Force and founded the institution’s CME-accredited Critical Care Medicine Grand Rounds. She also co-leads the national Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Internal Medicine Section Grand Rounds. Her academic interests include ARDS systems of care, ECMO program development, ICU staffing and flow optimization, and the use of large data to improve clinical management.

Dr. Chen completed her fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center and earned a Master’s degree in Clinical Research Training from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Previously, she served as the Medical ICU Director and Director of Quality Improvement at Montefiore Medical Center in New York.

Dr. Nicole H. Cirino is a nationally recognized Reproductive Psychiatrist, clinical scientist, and international educator. She is a Professor in both the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine. She also serves as the Division Director for Reproductive Psychiatry and holds the Maureen Hackett Foundation Endowed Chair of Reproductive Psychiatry at Texas Children’s Hospital Pavilion for Women.

A pioneer in her field, Dr. Cirino has founded and directed women's mental health programs at several leading academic institutions, including Oregon Health & Science University and Loyola University, before joining Baylor in 2022. Her clinical expertise focuses on treating women across the reproductive lifecycle, including during the perinatal period, the menopausal transition, and for issues related to female sexual health. She completed her psychiatry residency and a fellowship in Reproductive Psychiatry at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine.

In addition to her clinical practice, Dr. Cirino is a specialist in Female Sexual Medicine. She is a Certified Sex Therapist (CST) through the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and an International Fellow (IF) with the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH), making her one of the few physicians in the country with both distinctions.

Dr. Cirino is a prominent national leader in women’s mental health. She serves as the Chairman of the Executive Board for Postpartum Support International (PSI) and holds leadership positions in the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and other scientific organizations. An acclaimed educator, she teaches over 800 clinicians annually, develops curricula for medical students and residents, and is a sought-after speaker at national and international conferences. She is also a trusted media expert, having been featured on NPR, CNN, and Today.com.

Dr. Steven W. Clay graduated from the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1985 and completed a Family Medicine residency at Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital. Initially he was in private practice for eight years in rural Wisconsin. With his certifications in Geriatric Medicine and Addiction Medicine he came to the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1995. After joining the faculty at there he has designed effective clinical programs in conjunction with other Ohio University departments to treat opioid disorders, completed the Primary Care Faculty Development Fellowship through Michigan State University, and developed academic medical curricula in both geriatric and addiction medicine. He has since worked at OUHCOM as an Associate Professor in the Departments of Geriatric Medicine and Primary Care.

Dr. Clum earned his PhD in biochemistry at the University of Kansas. His PhD studies involved the characterization of the dengue virus type II serine protease. After completing his PhD, he pursued his medical degree at the University of Kansas. Following the completion of his medical school training, he completed a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of South Florida. He remained at the University of South Florida for fellowship training in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine.

After completing his fellowship, he moved to Springfield, Missouri, where he joined a multispecialty group. His practice encompassed Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, including an active pediatric sleep practice. In 2014, he returned to the University of South Florida to join the faculty in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, where he served as the associate division director. In this role, he was actively involved in the expansion of inpatient and outpatient services at Tampa General Hospital and USF.

Following the retirement of his mentor, he served as the interim division director until the fall of 2020, when he joined the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System as the Chief of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine. In his current role, he has helped develop robust pulmonary nodule, COPD, and ILD programs. At both the University of South Florida and Bay Pines VA, Dr. Clum serves as a core faculty member involved in the education of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine fellows.

Dr. Colgan’s career has been marked by a number of significant leadership initiatives and awards for teaching excellence, many coinciding with his 20-year tenure at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. As a professor of family and community medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, he also serves as executive vice chairman. Dr. Colgan has served as lead investigator on many research projects, including the Medical Student Experience with Primary Care Physicians, the Patient Centered Medical Home, and Care for the Underserved in Maryland, funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration. He has authored more than eighty publications.

Dr. Colgan has been listed in Best Doctors in America, was chosen by the School of Medicine’s student body as its nominee for the Association of American Medical Colleges’ annual humanism award, and was inducted into the school’s Humanism Honor Society as well as Alpha Omega Alpha. In 2008, he was awarded the American Medical Student Association’s Golden Apple clinical faculty teaching award by the University of Maryland School of Medicine class of 2008.

Dr. Colgan is a colonel in the Maryland Defense Force, serving the state of Maryland as a volunteer physician in the 10th Medical Regiment. He is the author of two books: Advice to the Young Physician: On the Art of Medicine and Advice to the Healer: On the Art of Caring, both published by Springer. He was recently selected to direct the Maryland Area Health Education Center, the School of Medicine’s “Mini-Med School” and “Mini-Med School for Kids” programs, providing medical information to members of the local community. He also is the Director of the School of Medicine’s Executive Health Program.

Joseph A. Congeni, MD, is the Medical Director of the Sports Medicine Center at Akron Children's Hospital, as well as a Professor of Pediatrics at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) and a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Sports Medicine at the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine. A 1980 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, he received his medical degree from NEOMED in 1984. Notably, in 1990, Dr. Congeni developed the Primary Care Pediatrics Sports Medicine Fellowship at Akron Children's Hospital, the first program of its kind at a pediatric hospital in the United States. He has also served as a team physician for the University of Akron and Archbishop Hoban High School since 1988.

Dr. Congeni is highly decorated for his contributions to the field. He is the recipient of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Thomas Shaffer National Award for his significant impact on sports medicine, as well as the 2024 NEOMED Distinguished Alumni Award. His numerous other honors include the Ohio Athletic Trainer's Association’s Team Physician of the Year Award, the Ohio State Medical Association's Outstanding Team Physician Award, the Dr. Carl Krill Award for humanism and excellence in medicine, and being consistently named among the Best Doctors in Northeast Ohio for over a decade.

Beyond his clinical and academic leadership, Dr. Congeni is a prominent voice in sports safety and education. He served as a lead author on the AAP’s Baseball/Softball Policy Statement and conducts dozens of speaking engagements nationally each year. His expertise has been featured on NBC’s TODAY Show, Sports Illustrated, and the PBS documentary The Smartest Team. He has also hosted a weekly sports medicine radio segment since 1995. Dr. Congeni and his wife, Karen, reside in Ohio and have six children.

Joseph A. Congeni, M.D. is the emeritus Medical Director of the Sports Medicine Center at Akron Children's Hospital as well as Professor of Pediatrics at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED), and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Sports Medicine at Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine. He developed the Primary Care Pediatrics Sports Medicine Fellowship at Akron Children's Hospital, the first of its kind at a pediatric hospital in the U.S. in (1990). He is a (1980) graduate of the University of Notre Dame; and received his medical degree from NEOMED in (1984). Dr. Congeni is currently a team physician for Archbishop Hoban High School since (1988).

He has won many awards including: the OHSAA Respect the Game Award (2004-2005), the Ohio Athletic Trainer's Association’s Team Physician of the Year Award (2008), and Ohio Outstanding Team Physician by the Ohio State Medical Association (2008), Best Doctors in Northeast Ohio (2009-2024), the Dr. Carl Krill Award for humanism and excellence in the field of medicine from the Knights of Columbus (2013), Sports & Exercise Medicine Godfather, Cleveland Clinic (aka Warthog Society) (2017), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Thomas Shaffer National Award for significant contributions to the field of sports medicine (2018) and was inducted to the Diocese of Cleveland CYO Hall of Fame in (2019). Dr. Congeni was awarded an endowed chair in Sports Medicine by the Scala family through the hospital foundation in 2023. In 2024, he was awarded the distinguished alumni award from the Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED).

He is also a lead author on the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Baseball/Softball Policy Statement issued March 2012. Dr. Congeni’s media events vary from appearing on NBC’s TODAY Show in 2009 to his appearance on a PBS documentary entitled “The Smartest Team” in 2012 and a Sports Illustrated segment in 2014. He also has been appearing on a weekly radio sports medicine segment since 1995. In addition, he has done about 10-15 media appearances and multiple speaking engagements, locally, regionally, and nationally per year. In January of 2024, his publication entitled “Reduced Concussion Symptom Burden in Early Adolescent Athletes Using a Head – Neck Cooling Device,” was published in the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine. It was a multicenter study with five centers directed out of the Research Institute at Akron Children’s Hospital and he was the principle investigator. Dr. Congeni has involvement in 34 publications through Google Scholar and an H-index of 17. Joe and his wife Karen have six children and ten grandchildren and counting.

Dr. Shawn K. Conner is a private practice Family Physician in the northern suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. He completed medical school at Wayne State University in Detroit and attended residency at Genesys Regional Medical Center near Flint, Michigan. He started a solo Family Medicine practice from scratch in the area where he grew up, and has been in practice there for almost 20 years.

Dr. Conner places a strong emphasis on the personal relationships he establishes with his patients, and in 2013 he was voted as "Best of the Best" Primary Care Doctor in Oakland County, Michigan. His office has been recognized as a Patient Centered Medical Home since the program inception. Dr. Conner greatly values education, and teaches medical students from both Wayne State University in Detroit as well as Michigan State University in East Lansing. He also serves as faculty for the American Academy of Family Physicians where he teaches other primary care providers at medical conferences across the country.

Dr. Conner has practice interests in Dermatology, Upper Respiratory, and Preventive Health. He is actively involved in his community, serving on the local Corridor Improvement Authority, and he serves as an assistant coach on an adult soccer team.

Anna Cook, DNP, PMHNP-BC, CNS-BC, is a doctorally prepared Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, a Certified Dementia Care Specialist, and the owner of both iMind Mental Health and Wellness and iMind Geriatrics and Behavioral Health in Jackson, Tennessee. A registered nurse since 2006, she is dually board-certified as an Adult Clinical Nurse Specialist and a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Dr. Cook earned her Master's degree from Murray State University, a Post-Master's certificate in Psychiatric Mental Health Advanced Practice Nursing from Vanderbilt University, and her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) from the University of Alabama-Huntsville.

With extensive clinical experience across inpatient, outpatient, and residential facilities, Dr. Cook specializes in evaluating, diagnosing, and treating a variety of mental health conditions. She possesses a strong background in treating specialized populations, particularly the chronically mentally ill, individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and geriatric patients. Through her geriatric practice, she provides dedicated consultation and clinical services to assisted living and long-term care facilities, specifically focusing on dementia and related mood disorders.

Dr. Cook utilizes a holistic approach to mental health, combining evidence-based medication management with supportive psychotherapy. Dedicated to advancing emerging therapies, she has completed specialized clinical training in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and incorporates integrative approaches for mental health, including the management of peri-menopause and menopause. Highly recognized in her community, Dr. Cook was recently honored as one of the 20 Most Influential Women in West Tennessee, named the Community Leader of the Year by Tennessee Community Organizations, and voted Best Mental Health Provider in VIP Jackson Magazine.

Jessica Crandall Snyder, RDN, CDCES, is a nationally recognized Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist, and founder of VitalRD, based in Centennial, Colorado. She earned her degree from Colorado State University and completed her postgraduate training in Oneonta, New York, with clinical rotations at Rose Medical Center. Jessica leads a thriving virtual practice, partnering with healthcare providers and developing hospital-based outpatient nutrition programs to expand access to high-quality, patient-centered care.

With expertise spanning weight management, obesity care, bariatric nutrition, diabetes management, sports nutrition, and family health, Jessica is passionate about helping individuals navigate sustainable lifestyle change in a supportive and approachable environment. She is known for translating complex nutrition science into practical, actionable strategies that empower both patients and providers.

A respected leader in her field, Jessica has served as President of the Colorado Dietetic Association and was named Colorado Dietitian of the Year. She is a former National Media Spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and is frequently featured in national media outlets including WebMD, Prevention, Shape, and Reader’s Digest. Jessica is a dynamic speaker dedicated to advancing provider education and improving outcomes in nutrition and metabolic health.

David Cunningham MD completed his medical training at Thomas Jefferson University as well as an Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery residency in 1984. He was in private practice in suburban Philadelphia and was an academic instructor in Otolaryngology with both the University of Pennsylvania and Thomas Jefferson until moving to North Carolina in 2001. He is presently practicing at UNC Ear Nose and Throat, associated with University of North Carolina since March of 2018 and is an associate Professor of Otolaryngology with Campbell University Medical College since 2014. He is board certified in Otolaryngology in 1984 and with subspecialty Sleep Medicine in 2008.

Tara Dall, MD, FNLA, is a board-certified lipidologist and one of the early pioneers in the field of lipidology. She is a published author and national expert on the use of advanced biomarkers and genetics, having spent over three decades in clinical research and patient care. Dr. Dall is a respected educator and consultant who has tirelessly brought cutting-edge science to the clinical care of patients by emphasizing the importance of determining the root cause of chronic disease. She empathetically applies decades of experience, utilizing both pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapies to assist patients in reversing and addressing the diseases they are most prone to, optimizing aging and longevity through a personalized medicine approach.

Dr. Dall’s lipid clinic and team were recognized as the first fully board-certified national lipid clinic in the United States in 2007. She has received numerous teaching awards and participated in multiple research trials. Throughout her career, she has provided media coverage and patient-oriented education to help individuals navigate the medical world in the internet age, advocating for the best of both traditional and functional medicine principles.

As an early adopter of virtual technology, Dr. Dall continues to see patients globally through her concierge virtual cardiometabolic clinic. She is an advocate for women, a dedicated mother, and highly attuned to the patient experience. Dr. Dall fights for the rights of her patients to receive the most appropriate and deserved medical care.

Dr. Elliot Davidson is the Medical Director of the Center for Family Medicine (CFM) at Cleveland Clinic Akron General in Akron, Ohio.

He is Professor of Family and Community Medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) and Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine (OUHCOM). He serves on many committees and is Co-Chair of the Ethics Committee. He is past Chairman of the Board of Partners Physician Group, the Private Practice of Akron General Health System.

Dr. Davidson is passionate about the prevention of heart disease and has published in and has been a reviewer for the Journal of Clinical Lipidology. He is a leader in test taking preparation and has presented on this topic at many local and national meetings and worked individually with many learners. For the 11 years he was a Family Medicine Program Director from 2008 to 2019 his graduates had a 100% pass rate on their first attempt on the American Board of Family Medicine Certifying Examination. He is actively engaged in teaching many medical and pharmacy students, and family medicine residents. In 2022, he received the Outstanding Family Medicine Faculty Award from OUHCOM and Cleveland Clinic. In 2023, he was presented with the Medical Education Leadership Award from Cleveland Clinic Akron General.

Dr. Davidson graduated from both Kent State University (Summa cum Laude) and NEOMED in 1982 and did his Family Medicine Residency at Akron General Medical Center.

He is married, has four children and one granddaughter (so far).

Gregory S. Day, MD completed his Neurology Residency at the University of Toronto (Canada) in 2014 and his fellowship in memory and aging at Washington University in St. Louis in 2015. He joined the Mayo Clinic in Florida in 2020 and is currently an Associate Professor of Neurology, Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Neurology, and Director of the Division of Behavioral Neurology. He continues his clinical research in dementia, with a particular interest in Rapidly Progressive Dementia. His work is supported by the National Institutes of Health and other funding partners.

Dereck DeLeon, MD, serves as Senior Vice President, Chief Academic Officer, and Designated Institutional Official at Cone Health in Greensboro, North Carolina. In this capacity, he oversees five residencies and fellowships, institutional research, and the integration of healthcare learners within the health system. Concurrently, he is the Executive Director of the Greensboro Area Health Education Center (AHEC), where he works across eight counties to bridge academic institutions and communities with a focus on improving healthcare for underserved populations.

Dr. DeLeon brings over two decades of experience in family medicine and medical education to his current roles. He spent 22 years as a Family Physician with Kaiser Permanente in San Diego, California, where he served as the Program Director for the Family Medicine Residency Program, the Southern California Regional Chair for Diversity in Graduate Medical Education, and Co-Chair of the San Diego Graduate Medical Education Committee. He also holds an appointment as an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Preventative Medicine at the University of California, San Diego.

A passionate advocate for health equity, Dr. DeLeon is dedicated to developing community programs that introduce individuals from underrepresented backgrounds to healthcare professions. He helped pioneer the Kaiser Permanente/San Ysidro High School Summer Urban Fellowship, providing vital mentoring and role modeling for local high school, college, and medical students.

Dr. DeLeon has completed numerous fellowships in Leadership, Faculty Development, and Curriculum Design and Assessment. He is a recognized scholarly voice in medical education, having been an invited speaker at the AAFP Annual Scientific Assembly, the AAFP Program Directors Workshop, the UCSD School of Medicine, and the AAMC Minority Student Workshop.

Tammie Lee Demler, PharmD, BS Pharm, MBA, RPh, BCGP, BCPP, is a dually Board-Certified Specialist in both Psychiatric and Geriatric Pharmacy. She currently serves as the Director of Pharmacy Services and Pharmacy residency training at the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) at the Buffalo Psychiatric Center. She received her Doctor of Pharmacy, Master of Business Administration, and Bachelor of Science degrees from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo.

Dr. Demler holds numerous academic appointments, including Clinical Associate Professor for the SUNY Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences; Clinical Assistant Professor at the SUNY School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, D'Youville College School of Pharmacy, and the University of Florida College of Pharmacy; and Clinical Instructor for the Erie County Community College Pharmacy Technician Certification Program. Additionally, she collaborates with the National Association of the Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) and the Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties (BPS) to develop board examinations that establish minimum competencies for new practitioners. Prior to her academic and institutional career, her clinical practice focused on ambulatory care in community pharmacy.

A prolific writer and researcher, Dr. Demler has authored numerous original articles and expert reviews. She is a regular contributor to U.S. Pharmacist and a reviewer for Pharmacist's Letter. Her published work includes launching the book Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Nursing Practice, authoring a chapter on insomnia in the American College of Clinical Pharmacy's Ambulatory Care Self-Assessment, and providing expert pharmacotherapeutic consultation for titles such as Side Effects of Drugs: Annual Volume 36 and Clinical Consult to Psychiatric Nursing for Advanced Practice.

Dr. Demler presents medication continuing education programs nationally and internationally and is an Academic Educator for the New York State Medicaid Prescriber Education program. A recognized leader and local media personality, she has hosted her own weekly TV talk show and radio segment, served as President of both the Pharmacists Society of the State of New York and the Pharmacists Association of Western New York, and received numerous awards acknowledging her professional and community-based contributions.

Nihar R. Desai, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief of the Section of Cardiovascular Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, an Investigator at the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, and Medical Director for Value Innovation at the Yale New Haven Health System Heart and Vascular Center. His interests focus on cardiovascular health services and comparative effectiveness research, examining patterns of care, identifying opportunities to improve clinical outcomes, and evaluating the impact of novel care delivery systems on cost and quality. In addition, he serves as a clinical consultant on the CMS acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and coronary artery bypass graft surgery readmission and mortality measures. He graduated with highest honors from Lehigh University before completing an internship in the Clinton White House. He then attended the University of Connecticut School of Medicine where he received his Doctorate in Medicine and the Harvard School of Public Health where he received his Master’s in Public Health. Dr. Desai completed his residency training in Internal Medicine as well as his clinical fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He then completed a research fellowship at the TIMI Study Group with Dr. Eugene Braunwald. His scholarly work has been published in New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Circulation, and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Dr. Kristen DeTienne is a tenured Professor at Brigham Young University. She earned her doctorate from the University of Southern California. Professor DeTienne has published over 100 articles and books in management and business. In 2020 she was named the Outstanding Professor and in 2017 she received the teaching excellence award at her school. Kristen has been a Visiting Professor in Germany and in Poland.

Dr. DeTienne's research has received international recognition. Her research was selected for Best of the American Bar Association, outstanding article of the year by the Association for Business Communication, Best of Conference at the Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, and Best Paper from the Southwest Academy of Management. She received the Outstanding Paper Award for her article in Competitiveness Review. Professor DeTienne was named a Beckham Scholar at BYU.

Professor DeTienne's research on the health impacts of stress has been published in the Journal of Health and Human Services Administration and in the Journal of Business Ethics and has been cited hundreds of times. Dr. DeTienne's recent research examines mental health in organizations. In 2020 and 2022 her work on managing employees with depression was published by Harvard Business Review. Her work on negotiating with those suffering from mental health problems was published in Harvard's Negotiation Journal. Professor DeTienne enjoys translating best practices in management into practical, hands-on lessons for medical professionals and other practitioners. Dr. DeTienne has consulted to numerous organizations, including Partners Personnel, Cisco, eBay, Discover Card, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Entrada and Zions Bancorp.

Dr. Kevin D. Dieckhaus is a Professor of Medicine, Director of Global Health and International Studies, and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UConn School of Medicine. He earned his medical degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, followed by internal medicine training at Yale-New Haven Hospital and an infectious diseases fellowship at the University of Connecticut. In his current roles, Dr. Dieckhaus is the lead physician for the Infectious Diseases clinical services and the director of International Travel Medicine and Immunization Services at UConn Health. A dedicated educator, he teaches microbiology, parasitology, and infectious diseases at the UConn School of Medicine and serves as a Key Clinical Faculty member for the UConn Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program.

Beyond his clinical and academic leadership, Dr. Dieckhaus is deeply committed to public health, health equity, and global outreach. He leads the University of Connecticut's HIV/AIDS support services to enhance medical care and address inequities for affected populations in Central Connecticut. Internationally, he has developed partnerships to promote medical trainee clinical education in immersive cross-cultural settings. Dr. Dieckhaus serves as the medical director for the Clare Nsenga Foundation, a charitable organization operating a rural medical clinic, maternity center, and public health outreach programs in Kisoro, Uganda. He also regularly volunteers as a visiting physician at St. Francis Hospital in Mutolere, Uganda, frequently bringing medical trainees alongside him to participate in clinical medicine, public health initiatives, and global health research.

Alice D. Domar, PhD is a pioneer in the application of mind/body medicine to women's health issues. She not only established the first Mind/Body Center for Women's Health, but also conducts ongoing ground-breaking research in the field. Her research focuses on the relationship between stress and different women's health conditions, and creating innovative programs to help women decrease physical and psychological symptoms.

Dr. Domar received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Health Psychology from Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Ferkauf School of Professional Psychology of Yeshiva University. Her post-doctoral training was at Beth Israel Hospital, Deaconess Hospital, and Children’s Hospital, all in Boston.

She has conducted research on infertility, breast cancer, menopausal symptoms, ovarian cancer, pregnancy, and premenstrual syndrome. Dr. Domar has earned an international reputation as one of the country's top women's health experts.

She is currently the Executive Director of the Domar Centers for Mind/Body Health, and the Director of Mind/Body Services at Boston IVF. She is an associate professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, part-time, at Harvard Medical School, and a senior staff psychologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.She is also the Chief Compassion Officer at Inception.

Dr. Domar has compiled an impressive list of accomplishments as a best-selling author, media authority and sought-after public speaker. She is the author of numerous books, including the national best seller “Self-Nurture”, and is on the advisory board for Parents Magazine. She was on the Board of Experts for ShareCare.com and was a columnist for Redbook and Health magazines. She was also a featured expert for LLuminari and on the online social health network BeWell.com. She served on the board of Resolve for ten years.

Three of her books have been finalists for the Books for a Better Life Award. She was also the Series Editor for a series of mind/body books by Harvard Medical Publications/Simon and Schuster. She is the narrator of the DVD’s “Stress and Relaxation Explained” and “Infertility Explained”, both of which won silver Telly Awards. Dr. Domar has appeared on the Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, Dateline NBC, CNN, PBS, and the CBS and NBC Evening News, to name a few. She presents lectures and conducts workshops throughout the US and around the world and went on tour with Oprah in the spring of 2004 and 2005 with the LLuminari team. Dr. Domar was named to the prestigious list of 15 “Women to Watch in 2004” by Lifetime TV. Her seventh book, “Finding Calm for the Expectant Mom” came out in 2016.

Dr Drescher graduated from the University of Michigan in 1982 with a BA in economics after writing his senior thesis on “Jewish and Arab Economies in Mandatory Palestine.” Upon graduating from the U of M he moved to Israel where after performing his military service as an infantry rifleman he began his medical school studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Hadassah Medical School where he graduated in 1992. After marrying his wife Yosefa, Michael returned to the US and completed a residency at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine Emergency Medicine Residency, staying on as faculty and in charge of research for the residency as well as an attending physician at Hartford Hospital Emergency Department.

In 2000 Dr Drescher and his family moved back to Israel where he worked as an attending physician in the ED at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Israel where he was interim head of the Trauma service and of the ED until 2005. Those were years of unrest in Israel with terrorist attacks happening with relative frequency affecting both work in the ED and life outside.

From 2005 -2010 moved back to Connecticut where he was the Associate Chief of Emergency Medicine at Hartford Hospital and after another move from 2015-2022 was the Chief of EM at Beilinson Hospital, Rabin Medical Center, in Petah Tikvah, Israel.

Dr Drescher has published over 40 peer reviewed articles, with a research interest in emergency radiology, pain control, clinical decision making among other topics.

From 2018-2022 he was the Chairman of the Israel Association for Emergency Medicine and worked on the advancement of the specialty in Israel. He is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at UCONN school of medicine and visiting Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Tel Aviv University School of Medicine.

From self-publishing a 100 page Emergency Medicine book during residency to pioneering novel simulation strategies using gaming engines and telemedicine, Dr. Edwards has made his career around medical education. The recipient of multiple teaching awards, he continues to look for ways to make learning medicine fun and efficient.

After working a decade at a top teaching hospital in Miami where he directed resident education as the Associate Program director, directed med student education as the Clerkship Director, and started and ran the simulation program for the entire hospital as Medical Simulation Director, he now brings his enthusiasm to the Florida Athletic Commission where - when he is not competing himself - you can find him ringside taking care of the professional fighters and training new doctors in this niche field.

Duane C. Eichler, PhD, is currently a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Molecular Medicine at the Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida. Prior to his retirement in June 2012, Dr. Eichler served as Professor and Vice Chair of Molecular Medicine. He held two joint appointments: Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, and Professor in the School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences. He was also the Basic Science Director of the Signature Interdisciplinary Program in Cardiovascular Research at USF Health.

Dr. Eichler received his undergraduate training in Chemistry with a concentration in Biochemistry at San Jose State University, graduating with Great Distinction. He earned his PhD in Biological Chemistry from UCLA, followed by postdoctoral training at the Stanford University School of Medicine. In June 1977, he joined the Department of Biochemistry (later renamed Molecular Medicine) in the College of Medicine at the University of South Florida.

Dr. Eichler remains active by providing invited talks and consultations, and he currently chairs The Villages Community Advisory Council, providing oversight of cooperative, university-related clinical research activities.

Mark Eisenberg, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, is a James McGill Professor of Medicine at McGill University and a Staff Cardiologist at the Jewish General Hospital. He serves as an Associate Member of the McGill Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health. In addition to his clinical responsibilities, Dr. Eisenberg is the Director of the McGill MD-PhD Program, Director of the Cardiovascular Health Services Research Group of the Jewish General Hospital, and a Senior Investigator at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Community Studies.

Dr. Eisenberg was born in Rochester, New York. He completed a BA in Chemistry at Cornell University, followed by an MD at the University of Rochester. He then completed a residency in internal medicine at McGill University, a Master of Public Health at Harvard University, a research fellowship in echocardiography and epidemiology, and a cardiology fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. He later completed an interventional cardiology fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic.

During a sabbatical, Dr. Eisenberg spent a year in Israel as a visiting professor in the Department of Human Metabolism and Nutrition at the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Concurrently, he completed an International Master for Health Leadership at McGill University.

Over the course of his career, Dr. Eisenberg has authored four books, published over 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and participated in multiple collaborative research endeavors.

Dr. Osman’s interest in medicine started early in his life and developed with days till his graduation as family physician from American University of Beirut (A.U. B.) in 1985, which allowed him to reflect this interest through outmost caring & commitments to his patients.

His patients can feel how easily he can gain rapport with them, allowing them comfortably to approach him for any health problem, and on how much he cares for their safety. In addition, he has the talent of explaining health problems in a very simple way that helped him to be a popular public speaker and writer of medical articles aiming to educate general public.

He started his career by working in the staff clinic of A.U.B., untili he moved to primary healthcare department of Dubai Health Authority(DHA) to be the first family physician in Dubai in 1986.

In DHA, he could prove himself and attain different posts as doctor in charge for different health centers, member of executive committee of the department and up to co-director of the family medicine residency program In DHA. During these years, he succeeded in different endeavors, which varied from managerial, clinical, to academic, all of which helped him in building his reputation, fame and identity as one of the pioneer family physicians in UAE.

The opportunity came few years ago to move to the private sector, when he joined Al Zahra hospital Dubai where he could achieve further success by establishing the family medicine department in the hospital, allowing him to serve as a role model of the family physician with various potentials in the hospital settings.

He has been chosen among the top 25 family physicians in Dubai & has achieved the first rank leader of the team of the year 2017 at Al Zahra Hospital Dubai.

The future still promises for more challenges …. By employing his accumulated expertise over 30 years, he is still seeking an opportunity to broaden his responsibilities in both clinical & managerial fields of healthcare, where he will be then steer a bigger team of physicians who can provide a higher standard of healthcare and excellence.

Dr. Uriel Elchalal is an obstetrics and gynecology consultant for Leumit Health Care Services in Jerusalem. He previously spent over two decades in prominent clinical and academic leadership positions at Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center. During his distinguished tenure, he served as the Chief Physician of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the Academic Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the Vice Dean for the Faculty of Medicine. He also held the academic rank of Associate Professor at the university.

Dr. Elchalal earned his Doctor of Medicine from Ben-Gurion University and completed his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Kaplan University Hospital in Rehovot, Israel. He further advanced his clinical expertise by completing a research fellowship in reproductive sciences at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. A dedicated researcher and educator, Dr. Elchalal has authored over 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts and more than 40 book chapters on women's health issues. Additionally, he has served as the editor for three comprehensive textbooks published in Hebrew focusing on obstetrics, gynecology, and reproduction.

Pamela Ellsworth, MD, is a Professor of Pediatric Urology at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. Dr. Ellsworth graduated Summa Cum Laude from Boston College and received her medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She completed her urology residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and her pediatric urology fellowship at the University of Florida.

An accomplished educator, Dr. Ellsworth was awarded an Honorary AOA for her teaching skills while at Dartmouth-Hitchcock. She became the first female full-time surgeon to achieve the rank of full professor at Brown University, where she also received a resident teaching award.

She is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications, over 24 book chapters, and several books for the layperson, including the 100 Questions and Answers about Prostate Cancer series. Dr. Ellsworth is actively involved in the education of medical students, residents, and advanced practice providers and has presented her work regionally, nationally, and internationally.

Dr. Esposito is a Malpractice Attorney with over 25 years of experience in medical and nursing malpractice, Healthcare law specialist, and Registered Professional Nurse whose nursing areas of concentration included cardiac and medical/surgical clinical specialties.

Dr. Esposito is a doctorly prepared educator and has directed the design, development, implementation and evaluation of the New York State Nurses Association’s nursing practice, labor and employment law, and occupational health and safety continuing education programs for more than 20 years.

Dr. Marshall Fagin is a Prosthodontist and as an international lecturer and educator for over 35 years, he frequently updates his colleagues on the most recent advances in his specialty, including cosmetic and implant dentistry and on complex major crown and bridge cases.

In 2013 he received the highest honor given by his local Dental Society, the coveted Frank Stone Award, for his many years of contributions to dentistry, dental education and to organized dentistry. While in private practice, he is also a part-time Associate Professor at SUNY’s Dental School in the Post-Grad Prosthodontic Residency Program and was instrumental in starting implant dentistry education there in the late 1980’s.

He has conducted several “Hands-On” courses for dentists on “Anterior Esthetic Makeovers” at the school’s Esthetic Dentistry Education Center and for the University of Florida School of Dentistry’s Mastership Program in Fixed Prosthetics as well as Esthethics and Implant courses for AGD chapters.

Dr. Fagin served as Prosthodontist adviser and presentor for several Implant Study Clubs over the past 26 years. He presents for Dental Laboratories around the country to help dentists get back to the basics so labs can provide them with better outcomes. He was voted by his colleagues to “Best Dentists in America” 2004/2005 and 2013, “Global Who’s Who Man of the Year” in Dental Health 2008, “Top Dentists” 2008/2014/2015/2017/2018 and was elected to faculty membership in the Honorary Dental Society Omicron Kappa Upsilon.

He was awarded Diplomat status in the International Congress of Oral Implantologists in 1994 and is a Fellowship recipient of the International College of Dentists for his contributions to Dentistry. Dr. Fagin also served on faculty for the Misch Implant Institute 1991-1993 (Detroit, Michigan) and 2005-2006 (Rochester, NY).

Dr. Mahnaz Fatahzadeh obtained her B.Sc. and DMD degrees, as well as her General Practice Residency certificate, from the University of British Columbia in Canada. She completed her Oral Medicine fellowship and MSD degree at Rutgers School of Dental Medicine (RSDM). She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral Medicine and holds a faculty appointment as a Professor and Director of the Division of Oral Medicine and Oral Mucosal Diseases Clinic at RSDM, as well as an attending at University Hospital in Newark, NJ.

Dr. Fatahzadeh is an inductee of the New York Academy of Medicine, the Stuart D. Cook, M.D. Master Educators' Guild, Omicron Kappa Upsilon (the national dental honor society), the International College of Dentists, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and the National Academies of Practice. She has a special interest in the evaluation and management of oral mucosal disorders, including oral cancer. She has lectured and published extensively in this area and has served as the Chair of the NY/NJ Oral Cancer Consortium, a member of the New Jersey Oral/Oropharyngeal Cancer Work Group, and a member of the National Resource Committee of the AIDS Education and Training Center.

Dr. Fatahzadeh is a strong advocate for interprofessional education and communication aimed at improving patient care. She is a 2025 recipient of the Rutgers Health Distinguished Interprofessional Clinical Educator Award for her work with health professionals across various disciplines to highlight the connection between oral and systemic health and the importance of oral health in primary care.

Kinder Fayssoux, MD, is double board-certified in Family Medicine and Integrative Medicine and holds a Functional Medicine Certification through the Institute for Functional Medicine. Believing that healing and medicine extend beyond conventional teachings, she brings a comprehensive, whole-person approach to her practice and instruction.

Dr. Fayssoux earned her medical degree from St. Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri, and completed her family medicine residency in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For the past 13 years, she has served as a faculty physician and Core Faculty Member for the Eisenhower Family Medicine Residency Program with Eisenhower Medical Associates.

A passionate educator, Dr. Fayssoux also holds academic appointments as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Southern California and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at Loma Linda University. She has authored multiple chapters in family medicine textbooks as well as numerous peer-reviewed manuscripts.

Jonathan Feig, MD, PhD, FACC, is a physician-scientist and the Medical Director of a cardiometabolic practice in New York City. He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, and interventional cardiology.

Dr. Feig earned both his MD and PhD degrees from the New York University School of Medicine. He completed his cardiovascular training at Mount Sinai Hospital, followed by additional clinical work at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

His research interests lie in vascular biology and translational medicine, with a specific focus on the relationship between lipid biology, macrophages, and the vessel wall. He is noted for his work demonstrating that atherosclerosis regression can occur via a coordinated set of molecular events. Dr. Feig has published extensively, is a recipient of numerous grants and awards, and is a frequent presenter at medical conferences.

Lisa Ferentz is a recognized expert in the strengths-based, de-pathologized treatment of trauma and has been in private practice for over 41 years. She presents workshops and keynote addresses to medical and mental health providers nationally and internationally and is a clinical consultant to practitioners and mental health agencies in the United States, Canada, the UK, Italy, Ireland, Spain, Israel, Australia, and South Korea.

She has been an Adjunct Faculty member at several universities and is the Founder of "The Ferentz Institute," now in its nineteenth year of providing continuing education to mental health professionals and graduating thousands of clinicians from her two Certificate Programs in Advanced Trauma Treatment. In 2009, she was voted the "Social Worker of Year" by the Maryland Society for Clinical Social Work.

Lisa is the author of "Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Traumatized Clients: A Clinician's Guide," now in its second edition, "Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviors: A Workbook of Hope and Healing," and "Finding Your Ruby Slippers: Transformative Life Lessons From the Therapist's Couch." She also hosted a weekly radio talk show, writes blogs and articles for websites on trauma, attachment, self-destructive behaviors, and self-care, teaches on many webinars, and is a contributor to Psychologytoday.com. You can follow Lisa's work on her website, theferentzinstitute.com, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

In 2012 Dr. Ferentz retired as an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine after 25 years on the faculty. During those years he served as the Director of Student and Employee Health, the Director of Clinical Operations for the department, and as Residency Director for 12 years. He went on to serve as the Chief Medical Officer for Baltimore Medical System, Inc. – the largest group of Federally Qualified Health Centers in Maryland, responsible for approximately 60 clinicians serving in six medical centers and eight school based health centers, caring for 45,000 patients and providing 155,000 visits per year. He then worked as the Medical Director of the Randallstown office of Chase Brexton Health Care. He is currently the Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC) and the Lead Physician for the GBMC Health Partners Primary Care offices at Owings Mills. Dr. Ferentz is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Maryland and continues to educate medical students on a regular basis.

Dr. Ferentz has authored more than three dozen articles and book chapters concerning issues in Family Medicine. His academic work centered on Smoking Cessation, and the recognition and treatment of Depression in primary care. He received more than two dozen teaching awards, including two national awards: the Exemplary Teaching Award from the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Outstanding Program Director Award from the Association of Family Practice Residency Directors. He was named one of the Best Family Physicians by Baltimore Magazine in 1997, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2010, 2017, 2018, and 2020. The Ladies Home Journal named him one of the best Family Physicians in America in 2002. He was named to Best Doctors in America in 1998, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2011 and 2013. He appears in Who's Who in America in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2011. Dr. Ferentz provides continuing medical education lectures for several national CME providers.

Dr. Ferentz is a past-President of the Maryland Academy of Family Physicians and served on several committees and commissions for the American Academy of Family Physicians. He has done hundreds of media spots on TV and for eight years he was the regular host of Sunday Rounds, the largest medical call-in show on public radio, heard nationwide, and around the world on the Armed Forces Radio Network and the Internet.

Thomas M. File Jr., MD, MSc, is the Distinguished Physician of the Infectious Disease Division at Summa Health in Akron, Ohio, and Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine and Master Teacher of the Infectious Disease Section at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED). After graduating from the University of Michigan School of Medicine, he received his Master of Science in medical microbiology and completed his fellowship in infectious diseases at Ohio State University.

Dr. File is a past President of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and a past President of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID). He is a Master of the American College of Physicians, a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, and a member of the American Thoracic Society. He was also a founding member and past president of the Northeastern Ohio Task Force on AIDS.

His primary research interests include respiratory tract infections—particularly community-acquired pneumonia—antimicrobial stewardship, adult immunizations, and the evaluation of new antimicrobial agents. A frequent national and international lecturer, he has published more than 250 articles and textbook chapters and serves as Editor-in-Chief of Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice.

In recognition of his contributions, he received the IDSA's Watanakunakorn Clinician Award in 2013, the NFID's John P. Utz Leadership Award in 2017, and the Distinguished Physician Award from Summa Health in 2023.

Gregory Firestone, PhD, is the President of My Florida Mediator and an Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of South Florida (USF) College of Public Health. A psychologist, mediator, mediation trainer, and dispute resolution system consultant, Dr. Firestone has maintained a private mediation practice since 1984. He previously served on the faculty of the USF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine and was the Director of the USF Conflict Resolution Collaborative for 22 years.

Dr. Firestone is a practicing Florida Supreme Court certified Appellate, Circuit Court, Dependency, and Family Mediator, an Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) Advanced Practitioner, and a Diplomate Member of the Florida Academy of Professional Mediators. He has served on standing alternative dispute resolution committees of the Florida Supreme Court for more than two decades, including seven years as Vice Chair of the Court's Alternative Dispute Resolution Rules and Policy Committee. Additionally, he acted as an Official Observer to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws Uniform Mediation Act Drafting Committee on behalf of the ACR and the Academy of Family Mediators.

A respected voice in his field, Dr. Firestone has lectured and published widely on mediation. His recent work includes a co-authored article on mandatory pre-suit medical malpractice mediation, and he is the co-author of Mediation Works: Make it Work for You, a mediation orientation video produced by the Florida Supreme Court Dispute Resolution Center.

Dr. April Fitzerald is a board-certified internal medicine physician specializing in outpatient primary care. She graduated from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and completed residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. She has a Master's of Education in the Health Professions from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Business from the University of Virginia.

Dr. Amy Flischel is a US Navy veteran physician who currently serves as a Professor of Dermatology, Lead Physician for Inpatient Dermatology, and Director of Clinics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Washington and Jefferson College and her medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, where she graduated Alpha Omega Alpha. Dr. Flischel completed a preliminary medicine internship at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, followed by a dermatology residency at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio, where she served as Chief Resident.

Before joining the faculty at the University of Mississippi, Dr. Flischel served as a dermatologist in the United States Navy at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, where she was the Assistant Residency Program Director. She later served as Section Chief at the CAPT James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago, Illinois. A dedicated educator and mentor to medical students and residents, Dr. Flischel has received multiple teaching awards throughout her military and academic careers. She has directed numerous symposia, taught at regional and national meetings, and authored over 20 publications in peer-reviewed dermatology journals.

After receiving his Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Boston College, Robert L. Fogerty received his MD and MPH degrees from Northwestern University and completed training in Internal Medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital. In 2011, he joined the Yale faculty as a founding member of the Academic Hospitalist Program. His academic interests include safety and quality of care in the inpatient setting and cost-effective care. Publications include the Journal of Hospital Medicine, JAMA Internal Medicine, and The New England Journal of Medicine.

He is the Co-Founder and Past-President of the Society of Hospital Medicine Connecticut Chapter. He also served as the Co-Director of the Future Leaders and VITAL training programs for the High Value Practice Academic Alliance (HVPAA) and is the Co-Founder and a Steering Committee Member of the Hospital Capacity Management Consortium, for which he previously served as Steering Committee Chair.

In his current role as Senior Medical Director, Clinical Leadership, Dr. Fogerty reports to the Chief Medical Officer and works to support medical directors across multiple clinical disciplines in clinical operations, professional development, and corporate compliance.

Elisabeth Fowlie Mock, MD, MPH, FAAFP, attended Colby College, Emory University, the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and the UNC Chapel Hill School of Public Health. She is dual board-certified in Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine. Dr. Mock works primarily as a consultant and clinical educator while also taking per diem hospitalist shifts, where she continues to teach residents and medical students. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Dr. Mock spent several years as a family medicine residency faculty member and has been delivering continuing medical education (CME) lectures and workshops since 2011. She is trained in an educational technique known as academic detailing and has worked in a variety of clinical settings, including a low-barrier opioid treatment clinic at a Federally Qualified Health Center and as an adult hospitalist at a community referral hospital. Her quality improvement (QI) work focusing on chronic pain, controlled substance prescribing, and addiction dates back to 2014.

Considering herself a community-based academic, Dr. Mock strives to develop interactive, practical, and actionable workshops for practicing physicians and healthcare providers. She has focused on being an engaging and enthusiastic presenter for two decades, and her work with opioid continuing education has reached several thousand providers in her home state. Outside of medicine, her passions include travel, women’s basketball, and public speaking with Toastmasters. She lives in Bangor, Maine, and enjoys spending time with her three doodle dogs.

Will Frye, PhD, BCB, ABPP, is a Pediatric Psychologist at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital (JHACH) who specializes in the evidence-based treatment of youth with chronic pain and complex medical conditions. He holds a part-time faculty appointment as an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University and is board-certified in Biofeedback and Child and Adolescent Psychology. Dr. Frye earned his doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Auburn University. He completed a pre-doctoral internship in pediatric psychology at Children’s Mercy Hospital and a postdoctoral fellowship in chronic pain at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Frye is the author of over 30 journal articles addressing pediatric topics. He provides clinical care to patients at JHACH through their interdisciplinary chronic pain and dysautonomia clinics, inpatient consultation, outpatient psychology services, and the intensive inpatient Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Rehab Program. Dr. Frye has additional areas of clinical specialty, including program development and biofeedback interventions.

Dr. Rebecca Levy-Gantt is a Board Certified ObGyn and a certified menopause practitioner who has been practicing for the last 10 years in Napa, California. She is originally from New York City, where she grew up and went to medical school at the NY College of Osteopathic Medicine, graduating in 1992.

She practiced on Long Island for 11 years before moving to Napa. Her special interests are menopause management, including hormones and alternative management strategies, as well as vaginal and vulvar pain syndromes.

She owns a solo private practice which has been growing for the past 5 years, teaches medical students from Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, and spends her free time teaching, traveling, running and writing.

Dr. Boris Garber is an attending physician in the Emergency Department at MetroHealth Medical Center and an Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He earned his medical degrees from Krasnoyarsk State Medical University and the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine before completing his Emergency Medicine residency at Stony Brook University. Following three years of community emergency medicine practice in central Illinois, Dr. Garber joined the staff at MetroHealth in 2005.

A dedicated medical educator, Dr. Garber serves as Core Faculty for the EMS Fellowship at MetroHealth and acts as the Medical Director for the Cuyahoga Community College paramedic program. He also has extensive experience instructing advanced life support and procedural simulation.

Dr. Garber is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and is highly active in national medical advising, currently serving on ACEP's International Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine Practice, and EMS committees. Furthermore, he has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and contributed chapters to leading emergency medicine texts, including Rosen’s Emergency Medicine and Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine Manual.

Dr. Robert Gauer earned his medical degree from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and completed his residency training in Family Medicine at DeWitt Army Medical Center, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine, completed a Faculty Development Fellowship at the University of North Carolina, and holds a Designation of Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine. Dr. Gauer has held leadership roles in graduate medical education, including service as Associate Director of Residency Training for the Army’s largest Family Medicine program. He currently serves as hospitalist faculty with the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. In addition to his academic responsibilities, he remains clinically active in emergency medicine at Level III and IV trauma centers, ensuring a continued integration of evidence-based practice into both teaching and patient care.

Dr. Gauer’s professional focus is graduate medical education, where he is dedicated to the training and mentorship of residents, medical students, pharmacy students, and advanced practice provider trainees. His clinical expertise encompasses the management of complex inpatient medical conditions, with particular interests in cardiology, critical care, emergency medicine, environmental medicine, diabetes, and hematology. He has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed manuscripts contributing to evidence-based clinical practice and serves as a peer reviewer for several leading journals, including The Journal of Family Practice, American Family Physician, BMJ, and JAMA. Beyond his academic and clinical roles, he enjoys international travel, cultural exploration, and European sports cars.

Felice Gersh, M.D. is a multi-award winning physician with dual board certifications in OB-GYN and Integrative Medicine. She is the founder and director of the Integrative Medical Group of Irvine, which provides comprehensive health care for women by combining the best evidence-based therapies from conventional, naturopathic, and holistic medicine.

An active part of the PCOS community, Dr. Gersh works with the PCOS Awareness Association and is a member of the PCOS Challenge’s Medical/Scientific Advisory Board. She speaks at the annual conferences of both non-profit organizations. She is a member of the AE-PCOS Society, and has spoken multiple times at their prestigious academic meetings.
She taught obstetrics and gynecology at Keck USC School of Medicine for 12 years as an Assistant Clinical Professor, where she received the highly coveted Outstanding Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award. She now serves as an Affiliate Faculty Member at the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine, through the University of Arizona School of Medicine, where she lectures and regularly grades the case presentations written by the Fellowship students for their final exams. She has had many scientific articles published in prestigious medical journals, and most recently had an article chosen to be featured in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Additionally, she is a sought after medical forensic expert and has worked on numerous high profile legal cases.
Felice Gersh, M.D. is the bestselling author of PCOS SOS and the PCOS SOS Fertility Fast Track and her newest book, Menopause: 50 Things You Need to Know, is now available on Amazon. She is a prolific lecturer, nationally and internationally, and has been featured in several films and documentary series, including The Real Skinny on Fat with Montel Williams and Fasting with Valter Longo, Ph.D. Dr. Gersh is regularly featured on podcasts and health summits, and has a popular health show on Instagram Live.

Dr. Gershengorn is a Professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine.

She received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell and a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia.

She is Editor in Chief for CHEST Critical Care, serves on the planning committee for Critical Care for the American Thoracic Society, and is Past-Chair of the Internal Medicine Section for the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

Dr. Jonathan Glauser is currently Professor of Emergency Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. He is board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Emergency Medicine.

He has been active in the education of medical students and resident training for over three decades, and is currently on the full-time faculty of the residency program in Emergency Medicine at MetroHealth Medical Center/ Cleveland Clinic.

He serves on the editorial advisory board of three publications in the field of emergency care, and is section editor in Infectious Disease for the journal Current Emergency and Hospital Medicine Reports. He lives with his wife in the greater Cleveland area.

Kencee Graves, MD, FACP, is an Associate Professor within the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Utah and serves as the Associate Chief Medical Officer for Inpatient Health at University of Utah Health. Her clinical practice areas focus on hospital medicine and palliative medicine.

Dr. Graves enjoys caring for hospitalized patients with a variety of complex medical problems. She is dedicated to developing programs that improve the quality of inpatient care and streamline workflows for clinical teams. She earned her medical degree from the University of Utah in 2010, completed her residency in Internal Medicine in 2013 where she served as a Chief Medical Resident, and completed a fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine in 2019.

Dr. Graves is passionate about improving healthcare delivery and communication for all patients, as well as supporting and sponsoring fellow physicians in leadership roles.

Marna Rayl Greenberg, DO, MPH, FACEP, is the Immediate Past Vice-Chair of Research for the Department of Emergency and Hospital Medicine at Lehigh Valley Health Network and a Professor at the USF Morsani College of Medicine. She is the SELECT IV Course Director and serves as a USF SELECT general and EM specialty career advisor.

Dr. Greenberg completed her medical training at Oklahoma State University, followed by an internship and residency in Emergency Medicine. She maintains board certification in both Emergency Medicine and Family Medicine. She later earned her Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University and was certified in medical management.

She has extensive research experience related to gender differences in acute care, has received funding for projects designed to improve patient care, and has over 100 peer-reviewed publications. She serves as a journal editor for JACEP Open, for which she has received "Top Reviewer” and “Outstanding Editorial Service” awards.

Dr. Greenberg is the recipient of numerous awards, including the SELECT EM MS Teacher of the Year award (Class of 2025), the SELECT Career Advisor Award (2023, 2024), the Outstanding SELECT Faculty award (2022), and the Leonard Tow Humanism Award (2021). An internationally recognized expert on sex and gender in acute care, she is the first woman and osteopathic physician to have chaired the national ACEP research committee's annual forum.

Dr. Elizabeth Grill is the Director of Psychological Services at the Ronald O. Perelman and Claudia Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine and an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Reproductive Medicine, and Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine. She also serves as an Associate Attending Psychologist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

A nationally recognized expert in reproductive mental health, she holds significant leadership roles, including serving as the current Board Chair for RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association, Past Chair of the Mental Health Professional Group of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), and Immediate Past President of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR). She is also the co-creator of FertiCalm and FertiStrong, pioneering digital apps designed to reduce distress for individuals experiencing infertility.

Her clinical and research focus covers the emotional aspects of infertility, IVF, third-party reproduction, oncofertility, fertility preservation, and sexual dysfunction. She earned her PsyD from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology and completed postdoctoral fellowships at Weill Cornell and New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

Dr. Grill is the author of numerous articles and book chapters, serves as an editorial reviewer for top peer-reviewed journals in the field, and is a sought-after lecturer who has presented to medical and patient audiences worldwide.

Amy B. Harris, MSN, APN, OCNS-C, has spent 30 years working across a wide variety of orthopaedic settings, including level-one trauma hospital inpatient units, ambulatory care facilities, a rehabilitation hospital, operating rooms, and outpatient pediatric orthopaedics and rheumatology. Throughout her career, she has held roles as a staff nurse, nurse manager, and clinical nurse specialist. For the past nine years, Amy has served as a Rheumatology Nurse Coordinator, significantly expanding her expertise in the field.

A sought-after presenter on the care of patients with orthopaedic and rheumatologic conditions, Amy is well known for her energized teaching style and her ability to deliver practical information and engaging case studies to diverse healthcare providers. She has shared her insights nationally at conferences co-sponsored by the National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses (NAON) and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, and frequently teaches orthopaedic certification exam review courses across the country.

Amy demonstrates a strong commitment to professional development and leadership within her specialty. She is an active member of the Rheumatology Nurses Society (RNS) and a frequent national congress speaker for NAON, having also served on their education committee and co-chaired their first full-day APN conference. Additionally, she holds certification as an Orthopaedic Clinical Nurse Specialist and contributes to the field by serving on the test committee and as an item-writer for the Orthopaedic Nursing Certification Board (ONCB).

Dr. Helms arrived at the University of Mississippi in 2013 with 35 years of private practice experience in Warren, Ohio. He graduated from The Ohio State University College of Medicine and completed his dermatology residency at the University of Pittsburgh.

In addition to teaching medical students and dermatology residents at Northeastern Ohio Medical University and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, he frequently taught at regional and national venues. His dermatology subspecialty interest is in occupational dermatology and contact dermatitis.

Dr. Helms has 62 scientific publications and is a reviewer for several journals. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology and Cutis. He has participated as an investigator or sub-investigator in scores of clinical trials.

Steve enjoys fishing, reading, watching classic movies, and especially, traveling with his wife, two children and their families.

Deborah J. Herchelroath, DO, FACOOG (Dist), MSCP, is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist with over 25 years of clinical experience. She currently practices as a high-risk OB/GYN hospitalist at Women First Obstetrics & Gynecology Specialists-UPMC and is affiliated with several hospitals, including UPMC Harrisburg, UPMC Community Osteopathic, UPMC Carlisle, and UPMC West Shore. She is board-certified by the American Osteopathic Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and is a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner (MSCP).

Dr. Herchelroath earned her medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed her residency at UPMC Memorial. Her clinical expertise bridges acute, high-acuity inpatient care with longitudinal women’s health. She is highly experienced in managing complex obstetrical emergencies—such as hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and postpartum hemorrhage—while also maintaining a specialized focus on midlife health, menopause hormone therapy, and postpartum mental health.

Throughout her career, Dr. Herchelroath has been deeply committed to patient safety, evidence-based care, and medical education. She serves as a board examiner, a medical educator, and a medico-legal consultant providing expert witness analysis on standard of care. An advocate for healthcare innovation, she holds extensive experience in telehealth and is an early adopter of integrating artificial intelligence into clinical practice to improve patient outcomes and communication.

Katherine A. Hochman, MD, MBA, FHM, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at NYU Langone Health, where she serves as the Associate Chair for Quality and the inaugural Director for the Division of Hospital Medicine. She earned her dual undergraduate degree in Biology and English from the University of Pennsylvania before completing her MD and MBA at the University of Miami. Dr. Hochman completed her internal medicine training at the NYU/Bellevue Residency Program, where she was subsequently selected to serve as Chief Medical Resident.

A prominent leader in hospital medicine, Dr. Hochman founded the Hospitalist program at NYU Tisch Hospital in 2004 and has since scaled it into a massive division encompassing over 350 physicians across six hospitals. Her leadership and focus on quality have directly contributed to NYU Langone maintaining a number-one Vizient rank for comprehensive academic hospitals for four consecutive years.

Dr. Hochman’s research and clinical interests focus on creating a culture of safety, enhancing teamwork, refining models of care delivery, and maximizing hospital operational efficiency. Her innovative work on "Discharge Before Noon" has been widely disseminated, and she frequently speaks nationally on these administrative and quality-improvement topics.

Gregory E. Holt, MD, PhD, is a physician-scientist and Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the University of Miami, and a staff physician at the Miami VA Medical Center. He earned his MD and PhD in Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at Loyola University Chicago, completed his internal medicine residency at Georgetown University, and finished his Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship at the University of Washington.

Dr. Holt’s clinical and research work spans the lung cancer continuum, from screening and advanced bronchoscopic diagnosis to precision oncology. He serves as the Director of the Lung Cancer Screening Program at the Miami VA Medical Center and the Principal Investigator for the VA Lung Precision Oncology Program for VISN8. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers, secured more than $7.3 million in research funding, and been involved in over 35 clinical trials.

A dedicated educator and advocate, Dr. Holt is the founder of LungCancerKiltsResearchCures.org and is well-known for his memorable approach to medical advocacy, often wearing a kilt to raise awareness for lung cancer research. His interests extend to medical ethics; notably, he is the lead author of the widely discussed New England Journal of Medicine article, “An Unconscious Patient with a DNR Tattoo.”

In a unique extension of his pulmonary expertise, Dr. Holt also provides pulmonary consultations for non-human primates at Zoo Miami, having performed bronchoscopies on lowland gorillas and chimpanzees. He is a highly regarded speaker known for blending scientific depth with humor and bedside practicality.

Dr. Hupertz was a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY (1974-1978) and received her BS in Biology. She attended the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY and graduated in 1982 with MD. Internship and residency was completed at Rainbow Babies & Children's (RB&C) Hospital, Cleveland, OH by 1985 and Pediatric Gi and Hepatology fellowship by 1988. She maintains 3 board certifications which include: Pediatrics, Pediatric Gastroenterology, and Pediatric Transplant Hepatology.

Vera stayed on as Staff Physician at Rainbow Babies and Hospital and achieved the level of Associate Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. She was made Medical Director of the Pediatric Liver Transplant Team, and was co-director of the Residency Training Program at RB&C. In addition to the above, I developed a residency curriculum for Chronic Care to be used at Health Hill Hospital (now Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital for Rehabilitation).

She became a staff physician at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in July of 2000 and currently has a joint appointment with the Department of Transplant Surgery. She is Medical Director of Pediatric Liver Transplantation. She is Vice Chair of Quality Improvement for the Children's Hospital and Pediatric Institute at Cleveland Clinic. Current interests are liver disease (especially neonatal disease) and liver transplantation, as well as inflammatory bowel diseases

Dr. Kim Hutchinson is an advance practice psychiatric mental health clinical nurse specialist. She is a former faculty consultant with the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)/Nursing Knowledge Center. Clinical work involved assuring that healthcare systems interfaced and integrated an understanding of behavioral health treatment through standard evidence-based practices.

Dr. Hutchinson collaborated in writing the 5th edition Review and Resource Manual for Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses. In this work, success in attaining board certification (BC) in psychiatric mental health nursing is the intended outcome. Knowledge is derived from role delineation studies for the purpose to develop case study materials, question, answer and rationale test banks, workbooks, media-based learning modules. Dr. Hutchinson is a member of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA). Dr. Hutchinson began nursing practice in 1976 and has functioned as clinician, university faculty, researcher, expert, author, test item writer (NCLEX-RN, ANCC, Addictions nursing exam), consultant, and lecturer/speaker.

Dr. Hyman is an internist with more than 30 years of experience and head of HymanHealth, which is located on the Westside of Los Angeles, California. A nationally recognized disability expert, Dr. Hyman provides medical-legal evaluations spanning the continuum of internal medicine for a wide variety of legal and insurance organizations. He has evaluated hundreds of workers’ compensation patients around the country, from NFL players to everyday workers, providing credible and thorough diagnoses, depositions and documentation, often using the state-of-science technology found in his office.

Dr. Hyman had served for 30 years as an Associate Professor on the clinical faculty at the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA). He pursued medical school, internship, residency and fellowship at UCLA. Dr. Hyman is a highly sought-after lecturer, including being the keynote speaker for annual State level meetings. He has authored various medical-legal and internal medicine topics. He has served as editor for the Internal Medicine section of the Medical Disability Advisor, Fifth and Seventh Editions. Much of his work can be found in prestigious peer-reviewed journals including the Annals of Internal Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Archives of Neurology, the American Family Physician, and the Journal of Occupational Environmental Medicine. Dr. Hyman is a chapter author and editor for numerous American Medical Association (AMA) books including: A Physician’s Guide to Return to Work, Guides to Disease and Injury Causation, Guides to Functional Capacity Evaluations, Guides Transition Book, Guides to Navigating Disability Benefit Systems, Guides 6th edition and accompanying Internal Medicine Workbook

Over the years, Dr. Hyman has been a member of the AMA, American College of Physicians and the American College of Environmental and Occupational Medicine. His FACP designation acknowledges that he is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and has served on the organization’s Governor’s Advisory Council. His FAIME designation recognizes that he is a Fellow of the International Academy of Independent Medical Examiners. He is past chair of the National Board of Directors for IAIME. Dr. Hyman has testified before the United States Congress as a national expert on disability issues.

Dr. Hyman has received acclaim for his contributions to the medical world. In 2009, WebMD selected Dr. Hyman for its annual "Health Heroes" award. In addition, the City of Los Angeles recognized his involvement with the LA Police Department related to developing police arrest procedures.

Rose Anne Illes, Ph.D., ABPP, is a board-certified clinical health psychologist and Professor at the Florida State University College of Medicine. She also serves as a staff psychologist at the James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital, where she provides clinical services to the Veteran population and supervises psychology trainees. She is a Diplomate of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and is board-certified through the American Board of Professional Psychology.

Dr. Illes earned her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and completed an APA-accredited postdoctoral fellowship in Clinical Health Psychology through the Michigan State University Flint Area Medical Education Consortium at Genesys Health System.

With over 15 years of experience, she specializes in health psychology, chronic disease management, lifestyle medicine, integrated primary care, trauma-informed care, sleep medicine, women’s health, and obesity. She previously served as Director of Behavioral Medicine at Lee Health, where she developed and led an integrated primary care behavioral health model within a family medicine residency.

Dr. Illes currently teaches postdoctoral fellows through the Florida State University College of Medicine and provides ongoing didactic instruction to medical residents and interdisciplinary healthcare teams. She has also contributed to community education initiatives and media outreach to increase awareness of behavioral health and wellness. She is recognized for translating complex psychological concepts into practical, evidence-based strategies that enhance patient care and support clinician effectiveness. Her work reflects a strong commitment to education, interdisciplinary collaboration, and advancing high-quality, integrated healthcare.

Marius-Anton Ionescu, MD, PhD, IFAAD, is a distinguished Board-Certified Dermatologist and Venereologist in the Dermatology Department at University Hospital Saint-Louis in Paris, France. He earned his medical degree from University Paris V, followed by a PhD in Skin Biology and Pharmacology from University Paris VII, and completed an Inter-University Diploma for Lasers in Dermatology at the University of Versailles.

Dr. Ionescu holds numerous prominent leadership roles within the global dermatological community. He serves on the Board of Directors for the International Society of Dermatology and the Membership Committee of the American Academy of Dermatology. A highly recognized expert, he is an Honorary International Member of the American Dermatological Association, an Honorary Member of the North American Clinical Dermatologic Society, and the Delegate for France at the European Union of Medical Specialists.

In addition to his clinical and leadership roles, Dr. Ionescu is a prolific researcher and educator. He serves on the Editorial Board for the Archives of Dermatology Research and has published extensively in numerous top-tier medical journals. He presents frequently at major international congresses and serves as an Ambassador for both the 2025 International Congress of Dermatology in Rome and the 2027 World Congress of Dermatology in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Nancy Irland, DNP, MSN, CNM (Retired), is a certified nurse-midwife and educator with nearly 50 years of clinical experience. Her extensive background in obstetrics includes roles as a labor and delivery nurse, high-risk tertiary center nurse consultant, and a certified nurse-midwife in private practice. She recently retired from her position as the Program Manager of Nursing Education for the Oregon State Board of Nursing.

Dr. Irland is highly regarded for her unique teaching style, utilizing storytelling, metaphors, and allegory to translate complex physiological concepts and medical jargon into plain language. She has presented nationally and internationally—including at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland—and lectures frequently on obstetrical topics, grief, and diabetes. In recognition of her impact on the field, she was honored as the 2013 Nurse Educator of the Year by the Oregon March of Dimes.

A prolific author, Dr. Irland has published 15 children’s books and two adult non-fiction titles, Grief: All I Need to Know I Learned While I Was Born and Help! I’m a Mother!. She also co-authored the 2021 NCLEX study guide Maternity and Newborn Success. Her scholarly work includes numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, and she has served as a columnist and editorial review board member for Nursing for Women’s Health, the official journal of the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN).

Originally from Meridian, MS, Dr. Jackson attended Mississippi State University where he was a four-year letterman in baseball with the Bulldogs and led MSU to back-to-back College World Series in 1997 and 1998.

He was named Academic All-American in 1997 and 1998 and was the Southeastern Conference male scholar-athlete of the year award in 1998. Drafted by the Kansas City Royals in 1998, he was later traded to the New York Mets where he finished his minor league career. He moved back to Mississippi and enrolled at University of Mississippi School of Medicine in 2002. After completing an Internal Medicine Residency, he served an additional year as Chief Resident of Internal Medicine before completing a dermatology residency at the University of Alabama in Birmingham.

Dr. Jackson has served on the faculty since 2013 and as Chairperson since 2021. His subspecialty interests are hospitalist dermatology, complex medical dermatology, and cutaneous lymphoma. He also serves as Director of Clinics in the Department of Dermatology.

Dr. Julia Jenkins is an accomplished family physician and educator. After obtaining her medical degree from the University of South Florida, Dr. Jenkins completed her residency at Bayfront Medical Center and is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine. She was awarded the Degree of Fellow from the American Academy of Family Physicians and completed a Faculty Development Fellowship at the University of North Carolina.

Dr. Jenkins’ clinical interests include lifestyle and obesity medicine, lipidology and cardiovascular disease, advocacy, and ophthalmology. She currently serves as Associate Program Director for the USF-MPM Family Medicine Residency Program in Clearwater, Florida, and chairs the Continuing Professional Development Committee for the Florida Academy of Family Physicians.

She routinely lectures regionally and nationally and is widely recognized for delivering engaging, relevant, and practice-changing presentations that empower clinicians to improve patient outcomes.

Dr. Ninia is the Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson, NY and a Clinical Associate Professor of OB/GYN at Stony Brook University School of Medicine.

He received his medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine and continued his post graduate training at Nassau County Medical Center. For over 30 years, he has maintained two separate private practices in both OB/GYN and Phlebology. He has lectured internationally on the topic of women's health and venous disease and has authored 3 text book chapters and over 25 articles in peer reviewed journals. He is the clerkship director for NYITCOM medical students rotating through St. Charles hospital department of OBGYN with administrative, didactic and clinical teaching responsibilities.

A Fellow of the American College of OB/GYN's, Surgeons and Phlebologists, he is board certified in OB/GYN as well as Phlebology and was instrumental in the creation of the nationally administered Phlebology board certification exam. He is certified by the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography as a Registered Vascular Technologist. He has served as a member of the American College of Phlebology Board of Directors and the Phlebology Foundation Board. He has served on the Catholic Health Services of Long Island Board of Trustees and helped create initiatives to improve patient safety in Labor and Delivery. His efforts resulted in St. Charles hospital earning the Healthcare Association of New York State Pinnacle Award for quality and patient safety along with his earning the prestigious Theodore Roosevelt award given to those individuals who provide outstanding voluntary contributions and leadership at Long Island hospitals.

Combining a tried-and-true, common-sense outlook with an infectious passion for optimum dentistry, Dr. Jesek will excite, motivate and inspire—as well as challenge—dentists and staff members to a higher level of excellence. Dr. Jesek’s core message revolves around comprehensive care for the entire family and a systematic method to deliver excellence with consistency.

Dr. Jesek graduated with his dental degree from Loyola University Dental School. He continued his dental training at The Pankey Institute for Advanced Education and has been a teaching assistant in their TMJ dissection course. Additionally, Dr. Jesek earned his mastership with the Academy of General Dentistry and Fellowship of the American Equilibration Society.

His articles have been published in Dentistry Today, Dental Economics, the Pankeygram, and the American Equilibration Society’s Contact. He has presented at national meetings for the Academy of General Dentistry, the American Equilibration Society, the American Dental Association, the American Academy of Pain Management and Chicago Dental Society Midwinter Meeting.

Seminar attendees appreciate his passionate, easy to understand approach and his teaching style, which enables deep learning and provides tools they can use when they get back to the office Monday morning.

Dr. Daniel J. Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Penn State College of Medicine, where he serves as the Program Director for the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Fellowship. He is also an EMS Physician with Life Lion, Penn State Health's critical care transport service.

Dr. Johnson earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed his Emergency Medicine residency at Morristown Medical Center, where he served as Chief Resident, followed by an EMS Fellowship at Penn State. His current research and scholarly interests include EMS education, curriculum development, and clinical decision-making among prehospital clinicians.

Dr. Darrell Edward Jones is a board-certified family medicine physician, a designated focused practice hospitalist, and a retired Colonel in the United States Army. Following a distinguished military medical career that concluded in 2026, he currently practices as a hospitalist and emergency room physician across multiple facilities in North Carolina. He also holds a faculty appointment as an Assistant Professor with the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences Department of Family Medicine. During his active-duty service, Dr. Jones spent over a decade supporting special operations. His extensive operational experience includes deploying twice to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom with the 3rd Special Forces Group, serving in Syria and Iraq as a Joint Task Force Surgeon, and working as a Military Free Fall Flight Surgeon.

Dr. Jones earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his family medicine residency at Womack Army Medical Center. Later in his career, he completed a hospitalist fellowship and subsequently served as the Director of the Department of Defense’s only Family Medicine Hospitalist Fellowship, where he trained physicians in advanced inpatient medicine, critical care, and point-of-care ultrasound. A Fellow of both the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Society of Hospital Medicine, Dr. Jones is a highly decorated educator and an active contributor to clinical research. He has published multiple articles on operational and inpatient medicine and frequently lectures for national organizations on clinical fundamentals, acute care, and advanced ECG interpretation.

Dr. Jeffrey M. Kagan is a board-certified internal medicine physician and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, currently practicing with Hartford Healthcare Medical Group. He earned dual bachelor's degrees in biology and health sciences, a master's degree in physiology, and his medical degree. Prior to medical school, he worked as a Certified Physician Assistant. He completed his residency in primary care internal medicine and remains deeply committed to medical education, actively teaching medical, physician assistant, and nurse practitioner students, as well as internal medicine residents. Dr. Kagan serves as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Frank H. Netter School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University, and holds courtesy faculty status at the Yale School of Nursing.

A Certified Medical Director (CMD) by the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (PALTmed), Dr. Kagan has extensive leadership experience across specialized care settings. He serves as the medical director for several group homes and has previously directed skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, and hospice programs, having formerly held board certification in Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine. Frequently consulted by his peers regarding practice management and the business of medicine, Dr. Kagan serves on the Editorial Board of Medical Economics. He consults for attorneys, insurance, pharmaceutical, and wealth management companies, and acts as an expert witness for plaintiff and defense malpractice cases, as well as for the Connecticut Department of Public Health. A recipient of the Vincent J. McClain, MD Professional Service Award, he previously served as a Professional Director with HAVEN, advocating for and monitoring impaired health professionals. His special interests include diving medicine, medical-legal cases, risk management, and medical trivia. Outside of medicine, Dr. Kagan enjoys bicycling, boating, scuba diving, golf, and skiing.

Michael A. Kahn, DDS, is an emeritus professor and former chairman of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Oral Medicine, and Craniofacial Pain at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Professor at Tufts School of Medicine, and laboratory director of Tufts Oral Pathology Services.

He maintained a university-based consultative oral medicine/oral pathology clinical practice and conducted intramural and extramural funded basic and clinical research. He is past-president and emeritus fellow of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology as well as past-president and emeritus diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology.

Colin G. Kaide, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, UHM, is a professor of Emergency Medicine at the Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University. A native of Chicago, Illinois, he completed his undergraduate studies and medical school at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign before completing his residency in Emergency Medicine at The Ohio State University from 1993 to 1996. After residency, he served as the assistant director of the emergency department in Lima, Ohio, for three years while working as part-time faculty at OSU. In 2000, he joined the OSU department as a full-time faculty member. Dr. Kaide is board-certified in Emergency Medicine and Hyperbaric Medicine. Additionally, he completed advanced training in wound care, is certified by the Council for Medical Education and Testing, and practices at the Ohio State Comprehensive Wound Center.

Dr. Kaide’s academic interests include medical education, rapid-sequence intubation and advanced management of the difficult airway, hematological and oncological disorders, anticoagulation and its reversal, procedural sedation, hyperbaric medicine, and chronic wound care. He serves as core faculty in the Emergency Medicine residency program at OSU and is a highly decorated educator. Most recently, he received the 2020 Emergency Physician Medical Education Award from the Ohio Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians (Ohio ACEP) for his contributions as an exemplary physician educator. He has also been honored as "Teacher of the Year" for the Department of Emergency Medicine (2008) and has received the OSU College of Medicine Excellence in Teaching Award (2004) and Outstanding Teaching Award (2008).

Outside of medicine, Dr. Kaide is an avid martial artist who has participated in combative arts since 1978, holding a third-degree black belt in Goshin Jitsu. He has taught self-defense since high school and developed a specialized course tailored for EMS providers and healthcare professionals. Furthermore, he has served as a principal developer and Chief Medical Editor for a medical software company, producing a computer-based electronic medical record product that generates computerized ED and inpatient discharge instructions, prescriptions, and work excuses utilized by over 800 hospitals.

John R. Kalmar, DMD, PhD, is a staff oral pathologist with CTA Oral Pathology of Ohio in Columbus. He previously served as a Professor at The Ohio State University College of Dentistry for 26 years, retiring from his faculty position in 2025 to return to the private practice of surgical oral pathology. During his tenure at Ohio State, he served in multiple leadership capacities, including graduate Program Director in Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

Dr. Kalmar received his dental degree from Southern Illinois University. Following residencies in hospital dentistry at UNC-Chapel Hill and oral pathology at Emory University, he earned a PhD in Experimental Pathology at Emory. Before joining Ohio State in 1999, he served on the faculty of the Department of Pathology at the University of Rochester in New York for seven years.

A recognized leader in his field, Dr. Kalmar is a Diplomate and Past-President of the American Board of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology (ABOMP) and a Past-President of the American Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology (AAOMP). He has published over 90 manuscripts and book chapters and enjoys providing continuing education to a wide variety of professional audiences.

Dr. Eileen Kalmar earned her doctorate in Neurobiology and Anatomy from the University of Rochester, NY in 1993. With that training, Dr. Kalmar has taught anatomy, histology, embryology and neuroanatomy at the undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate levels. She has been involved with both dental and medical student education and curricula, advanced head and neck anatomy for dental residents, graduate anatomy student education and continuing education programs. In addition, Dr. Kalmar has designed and led several innovative Head and Neck Anatomy continuing education courses for dental and medical professionals.

Dr. Kalmar served as the Director for Anatomy Dental Education at Ohio State as well as Director of the University’s Body Donation Program. Over the years, her excellence in teaching has led to numerous awards, including the Distinguished Educator Award in the College of Medicine for 2022-2023.

Dr. Kaplan is a Professor in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. Dr. Kaplan is a gastroenterologist who is internationally renowned for studying the global epidemiology of digestive diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease. As the senior author, he has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Lancet and JAMA. He is an Associate Editor of Gastroenterology and an Academic Editor of PLOS Med. Clarivate, Web of Science named Dr. Kaplan a Highly Cited Researcher (2020-2024) in recognition of being in the top one percent of cited researchers. Dr. Kaplan was inducted into the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. His research has been widely cited in the news media including Time Magazine, BBC, The New York Times, and Scientific American.

Dr. Joel M. Kaufman is Clinical Professor of Neurology at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a member of the Department of Neurology at Rhode Island Hospital, where he is the Medical Director of the Neurology Resident Teaching Clinic.

Dr. Kaufman graduated from Boston University, majoring in mathematics, and from Boston University School of Medicine. He completed his medical internship at Presbyterian Hospital at Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco (now California Pacific Medical Center) and his Neurology residency at Boston City Hospital (now Boston Medical Center). He then joined Fallon Clinic (now Reliant Medical Group) in Worcester, Massachusetts. From 1988 through 1996 he was Medical Director of Fallon Community Health Plan. From 1997 to early 2014 he was Executive Director of the Lifespan/Physicians Professional Services Organization.

Dr. Kaufman is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and active with the Academy, currently chairing the Payment Alternatives Team. He is also serving or has served on many other professional boards and committees.

Dr. Kaufman's interests include physician advocacy, quality improvement in medical practice, provide-payer interaction, and clinical teaching.

Dr. Kessler is a board certified Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrician with over 35 years of clinical experience. For 21 years he was the Director of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at the Children's Health Center of St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center.

Prior to his recent retirement from clinical practice he was the Medical Director of the Children's Developmental Center at Southwest Human Development where he established a transdisciplinary evaluation program for young children with complex developmental and behavioral problems.

He also ran his private practice in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Daniel B. Kessler MD and Associates. Danny received his MD degree at New York University School of Medicine and completed his Internship and Residency Training both at NYU-Bellevue in New York and at Children's Hospital Boston where he did both an Ambulatory Pediatric Residency and completed fellowship training in Family Violence and then in Child Development with noted "baby doctor" T. Berry Brazelton MD.

From 1983 to 1990 Danny was the Director of the Division of Child Development and Behavior and the Carl C. Icahn Program for the Prevention of Child Abuse at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in NYC. In addition to his abiding interest in babies and the earliest relationships, Danny applied his expertise and experience in the evaluation of children with autistic spectrum disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and related co-morbidities, problems of learning and emotional adjustment, feeding and self-regulation.

In 1999 Danny coedited with his colleague Peter Dawson MD the book Failure to Thrive and Pediatric Undernutrition: A Transdisciplinary Approach with the expressed purpose of ending the use of the pejorative “Failure to Thrive” label. Recently Danny has been working with a distinguished multidisciplinary group through the organization “Feeding Matters” to revise our understanding of Pediatric Feeding Disorders.

In 2013 Danny was honored by the Phoenix Business Journal as it’s Health Care Hero in the Physician category. He has also been selected on numerous occasions as a Best Doc by Phoenix Magazine and Best Doctors of America. In 2018 he became a consultant to the Autism Center of Excellence at Touchstone Behavioral Services in Phoenix, Arizona and he continues to provide consultation in developmental and behavioral pediatrics in legal and educational settings when asked to do so.

Daniel H. Kett, MD, is the Associate Chief Medical Officer for Critical Care at University of Miami Hospital and a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Florida and his medical degree at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

Dr. Kett completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine followed by a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at Jackson Memorial Hospital. He is the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award by the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/Jackson Memorial Hospital Internal Medicine Residency Program.

Dr. Kett has strong clinical and research interests in severe ICU related infections, including invasive candidiasis and healthcare associated pneumonia,and infection control practices in the ICU.

Dr. Kett is an investigator for the Mycoses Study Group, a large multidisciplinary group of researchers with a primary focus on studying serious infections, and is active in several projects related to fungal infections in critically ill patients.
Results of his research have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, Lancet Infectious Diseases, Critical Care Medicine, Chest, and the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine. Additionally, Dr. Kett has presented at numerous scientific meetings and has been an invited lecturer at national and international conferences.

Dr. King is a board certified family physician who has served as Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at West Virginia University since 2012. Prior to that he was Vice Chair of Family Medicine and Director of Research at Medical University of South Carolina, and previously, was on the faculty of the East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine.

Throughout his career he has been a clinical researcher and educator with several areas of emphasis including lung disease, cardiovascular risk reduction, and clinical epidemiology. He was co-founder of the WV Practice-Based Research Network and is a senior leader in the WV Clinical Translational Science Institute. He has been a leader of the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) since early in his career and currently is an officer on the Executive Board. He has been a national speaker for the American Academy of Family Physicians on lung disease and other topics.

Dr. King has published over 100 peer-reviewed research publications and his work has been recognized with a Distinguished Paper at NAPCRG and has been a finalist for paper of the year at the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. He enjoys time with family and is an avid road bike cyclist. Dr. King is an experienced lecturer and maintains an active clinical practice.

Dr. David S. Kountz is a Professor of Medicine for the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine and Co-Chief Academic Officer for Hackensack Meridian Health. He earned his AB at Princeton, MD at SUNY/Buffalo School of Medicine, and MBA at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, NJ. He completed training in Internal Medicine at Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia.

A board-certified internist, Dr. Kountz has had progressive responsibilities in academic medicine as Associate Professor of Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine and Professor of Medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Dr. Kountz's research interests include hypertension treatment and guidelines in underserved populations, health literacy, pipeline programs and leadership development. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, editorials and abstracts, and is a frequent speaker within and outside of his health network on a variety of topics in primary care.

Dr. Richard J. Kramer is a retired Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and former Associate Chief of Gastroenterology at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC), a major teaching hospital for Stanford.

After earning his M.D. from the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine in 1972, Dr. Kramer completed his residency in Internal Medicine at SCVMC and a fellowship in Gastroenterology at Stanford University Medical Center. He is board certified in both Internal Medicine (1976) and Gastroenterology (1979).

Dr. Kramer has 25 years of experience in the private practice of Gastroenterology in San Jose, CA. During his time in practice, he gained extensive experience in procedures including Upper & Lower Endoscopy, Liver Biopsy, Esophageal Dilatation, and Variceal Injection Therapy and Banding. Despite a full career in private practice, Dr. Kramer joined the voluntary teaching staff at SCVMC and Stanford in 1978 to help educate house staff. In 2003, he left private practice to work full-time as the Associate Chief of Gastroenterology at SCVMC, a position he held until his retirement on May 8, 2015.

Since retiring, Dr. Kramer has continued his passion for education. He currently serves as the Medical Director & Supervisor of CapsoPro , teaches medical students at the University of Arizona, and mentors over 60 premed students at Arizona State University. He also teaches CME courses in Gastroenterology for Continuing Education, Inc./University at Sea.

Dr. Kramer is an elected Fellow of the American Gastroenterology Association and a member of the American College of Physicians. He was elected to the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society in 1972. His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology and the Journal of Addictive Medicine, and he has presented his work internationally, including a lecture on Hepatitis B at the International Symposium of Gastroenterology in Beijing, China.

Merrill Krolick, DO, FACC, FACP, is a triple board-certified physician in internal medicine, cardiology, and interventional cardiology. He received his bachelor's degree in biology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, and attended the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed a rotating internship at Sun Coast Osteopathic Hospital in Largo, Florida, followed by internal medicine and cardiology training at the University of South Florida, which included specialized training in interventional cardiology and cardiac transplantation.

In clinical practice since 1992, Dr. Krolick initially practiced at Fairfax Hospital in Virginia. He currently practices at The Heart Institute at Largo and is an attending cardiologist at HCA Largo Medical Center, Morton Plant Hospital, and HCA Indian Rocks Hospital. At HCA Largo Medical Center, he holds several leadership roles, including director of the cardiac cath lab, director of the interventional cardiology fellowship, and co-director of the cardiology fellowship program. Additionally, he serves as an associate professor of cardiology at the University of South Florida and Nova Southeastern University, and is a past chairperson and director of the Pinellas chapter of the American Heart Association.

Recognized as both a national and local leader in endovascular interventions, Dr. Krolick focuses on noninvasive and interventional cardiology. His special interests include peripheral vascular disease, endovascular aortic aneurysm treatment, critical limb ischemia (CLI), deep vein thrombosis (DVT), venous treatment, and symptomatic claudication. He has served as a clinical investigator on numerous drug and device trials, including the original drug-coated stent trials for coronary artery disease and drug-coated balloons for peripheral vascular disease.

Dr. Krolick is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Physicians, and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions. He is widely published, with articles in The New England Journal of Medicine and chapters in recent cardiovascular textbooks. He frequently speaks at major vascular meetings, including AMP and The Veins, and serves on advisory panels for Bard Peripheral Vascular, CSI, AccessClosure, and St. Jude Medical.

Dr. Frank Lee is an emergency physician, educator, and healthcare innovator based in Buffalo, New York. A graduate of the Emergency Medicine residency program at SUNY Buffalo, Dr. Lee has spent his career at the intersection of clinical care, leadership, and education.

As a founding member of the Exigence Group, he helped transform a local physician-led practice into a national, multidisciplinary organization. During his decade as Director of the St. Joseph Hospital Emergency Department, he led the launch of Western New York’s first full-scale emergency department EMR (outside of the VA), co-designed an award-winning new facility, and introduced systems that significantly improved care delivery and efficiency.

Dr. Lee went on to serve as Vice President of Medical Affairs for Exigence and later as Regional Medical Director for TeamHealth Northeast, where he expanded the group’s regional presence and advanced hospital design and patient flow models across multiple states.

Today, Dr. Lee serves on the Clinical Faculty at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo and works as a Special Administrative Consultant for TeamHealth. His current focus is on education, mentorship, and exploring how healthcare professionals think, communicate, and see the world differently from the general public.

Dr. Lee is also the creator of ExtremeLEE Frank, a social media series offering a candid, often humorous look at life through a physician’s lens. His content connects with audiences across platforms by highlighting the human side of medicine — the challenges, insights, and unexpected moments that shape the people behind the scrubs.

Prof. Yael Leitner, MD, is a general pediatrician and a senior pediatric neurologist. She serves as the Director of the Child Development Center, the Marot Autism Clinic, and the pediatric ADHD clinic, as well as the Chief Neurologist of the Marot Center for Autism at the Sourasky Medical Center, affiliated with the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel-Aviv University.

A Clinical Professor in Pediatrics, Dr. Leitner is the organizer of the Continuous Medical Education course in Developmental Neurology, the secretary of the Israeli Child Development Society, and an elected member of the Israeli ADHD Society council.

She has authored more than 60 publications and clinical research studies. Her research work and clinical interests center around risk factors in developmental disabilities, prematurity, intrauterine growth retardation, autism, and minor fetal MRI abnormalities and their impact on neurocognitive outcomes.

Dr. Leitner previously organized the continuous education course in Pediatric Neurology in the School of Occupational Therapy at Tel-Aviv University, and she is regularly involved in the teaching and supervision of several community Child Development Units.

Eran Leshem, MD, MHA, FESC is the Director of the Electrophysiology and Pacemaker Unit at Hillel Yaffe Medical Center and an Associate Professor of Cardiology at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He is a specialist in cardiac arrhythmias, focusing on innovative technologies for diagnosis and treatment.

Professor Leshem completed four years of advanced training at Harvard Medical School's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, including a post-doctoral research fellowship and a clinical fellowship in cardiac arrhythmias. During this time, he was deeply involved in the development and research of cutting-edge ablation technologies and electro-anatomical heart mapping, contributing to nearly 20 peer-reviewed manuscripts on these topics.

He earned his medical degree (MD) and a master's in health systems management (MHA) from Ben Gurion University in Israel. He completed his residency in internal medicine and his cardiology fellowship at Tel Aviv Medical Center, later serving as a senior physician at the Davidai Arrhythmia Center at Sheba Medical Center.

His clinical practice involves the full spectrum of arrhythmia management, from invasive electrophysiological testing to complex ablation procedures and the implantation of all types of pacemakers and defibrillators. His current research focuses on novel ablation technologies and clinical outcomes analysis using large databases. He is an active member of the Israel Heart Society and the European Society of Cardiology.

David A. LeVine, MD, CMD, is board-certified in Family Medicine with Added Qualifications in Geriatric Medicine through the American Board of Family Medicine and the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is the Chief Medical Officer of Menorah Life in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he has also served as Medical Director at the Marion and Joseph Samson 180-bed skilled nursing facility for the past 35 years. His extensive leadership experience includes serving as Medical Director at Arden Courts of Seminole, an assisted living facility specializing in memory care, and Medical Director of the Geriatric Assessment Program for early dementia detection in St. Petersburg.

Currently in private practice with MDVIP, Dr. LeVine is highly regarded in the field of geriatric and post-acute care. He was named the 2016 Medical Director of the Year by the AMDA - Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine and received the 2022 Quality Champion Award from the Florida Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. Additionally, he is a recognized “Castle Connolly Top Doctor” and the recipient of the 2014 Humanitarian Award from the Association of Jewish Aging Services.

A dedicated medical educator, Dr. LeVine serves as an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at both the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) and the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences College of Osteopathic Medicine. For over 20 years, he has been the clinical preceptor for the geriatric rotation at three different residency programs in St. Petersburg. He continues to lecture locally, nationally, and for University at Sea. Dr. LeVine resides in Seminole, Florida, with his wife, Janice, and their four adult children.

After medical school Dr. Lewis joined the U.S. Air Force, completed a transitional internship and spent the next four years at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska, where he worked in Aviation Medicine as a Flight Surgeon. He had many positive experiences, ranging from medical care of the pilots and their families to traveling the globe in support of military operations to flying in F-16 fighters.

He then returned to his native Florida as one of six members of the inaugural class of the USF-MPM Family Medicine Residency program in 1998, serving as Chief Resident from 2000-2001. Dr. Lewis joined the faculty after graduation and held the position of Medical Director from 2007 until 2012. During his tenure as Medical Director he led the Turley Family Health Center team in achieving NCQA certification as a Level 3 Patient Centered Medical Home. This recognition in 2011 was the 1st Residency Practice Site in the State of Florida to achieve certification. He was also one of the lead Physician Informaticists in the Baycare Health System during the implementation of its inpatient electronic medical record and chaired the Internal Medicine and Critical Care Committees. Additionally, he received the Certified Physician Executive designation in 2013 from the American College of Physician Executives

He has a passion for clinical medicine and has for several years in a row been listed in the Best Doctors in America database as elected by his peers. His clinical interests include informatics, inpatient medicine, geriatrics and dermatology.
In his spare time, he enjoys camping and spending time with his wife and two young daughters. He loves water sports, scuba diving and the local beaches.

Dr. Simiao Li-Sauerwine is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at The Ohio State University, where she serves as Lead for Physician Well-being, Associate Residency Program Director, and Medical Education Fellowship Director.

Dr. Li-Sauerwine is a nationally recognized medical education researcher with expertise in physician well-being, graduate medical education, and the advancement of physicians in academic medicine. Her national leadership includes serving as Chair of the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine (CORD) Well-being Committee and Education Research Track. At Ohio State, she directs the Sam Kiehl III Emergency Medicine Resident Well-being Endowment and is the founder and faculty lead of Residents And Faculty Focused on Thriving Together (RAFFT), a longitudinal leadership development and mentorship program to support women in academic emergency medicine.

Dr. Li-Sauerwine earned her undergraduate degree from Pomona College and completed her MD and Master of Science in Clinical Research at the University of Pittsburgh as a Doris Duke/National Institute of Mental Health Clinical Research Fellow. She trained in Emergency Medicine at Northwestern University, where she was honored with multiple Outstanding Teacher Awards and selected by her peers for the Best Resident Role Model award.

Dr. Li-Sauerwine has been recognized with numerous faculty awards, including the Diane L. Gorgas Award for National Leadership in Emergency Medicine, the Clotilde D. Bowen MD Women of Excellence Faculty Award, the Women in Medicine and Science Emerging Leader in Healthcare Award at Ohio State, and designation as a Distinguished Educator in Educational Research by the CORD Academy for Scholarship in Education. She lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband and three children.

Dr. Gil Lichtshein is Board Certified in General and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

His clinical practice in Boca Raton, FL specializes in a variety of disorders including mood disorders, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), Autism Spectrum Disorders and attention deficit disorders (ADD/ADHD). He also performs forensic evaluations which involves psychiatry and the law.

He also is also a TMS and Esketamine practitioner. TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation) is a non-pharmacological, non-invasive form of neuromodulation which uses highly focused, MRI-strength alternating magnetic pulses to target the brain in those areas where under-activity or dysfunction is linked to depression or other neuropsychiatric disorders. Esketamine is the only FDA-approved nasal spray for treatment resistant depression and is an NMDA receptor antagonist that is believed to work differently by acting on a pathway in the brain that affects glutamate.

He also in on faculty at the Florida Atlantic University Charles E Schmidt College of Medicine and teaches a Foundation of Medicine course to first and second year medical students which teaches students the skills in performing history and physical exam on patients.

Deanne Long, MD, has been practicing emergency medicine for 18 years. She spent 15 years working at the University of Utah School of Medicine Level 1 Trauma Center, teaching residents and medical students in addition to her clinical duties. She is board-certified in Emergency Medicine and Hyperbaric Medicine and will take the Obesity Medicine Board Exam in the Fall. She has worked in hyperbaric medicine at Salt Lake Regional Hospital’s Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Clinic and Cache Valley Hospital’s Hyperbaric Medicine and Wound Care Clinic. Dr. Long is the owner and provider of Utah Body and Soul Hyperbarics and Wellness. A unique medical clinic in Salt Lake City, UT that uses integrative medicine to enhance patients' mental and physical well-being. She is very interested in international medicine and has traveled to Peru and China to participate in a cooperative teaching effort with local healthcare providers. Dr. Long is an avid golfer and roots for her Alma Mater, Brigham Young University, at every opportunity.

As a registered nurse for 40 years, Dr. Long has worked in critical care, emergency medicine, primary care, and endocrinology. She earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing science and Spanish from Brigham Young University, a master’s degree in public health education at California College of Health Sciences, a master’s degree in nursing as a Family Nurse Practitioner from Purdue University, and a PhD in Nursing Education and Leadership from UNLV and Charisma University.

Dr. Long is a Professor of Nursing at Chamberlain University and a Family Nurse Practitioner Instructor at Western Governor’s University. She has been a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist for 25 years. She speaks on a variety of topics at national conferences to help people understand their amazing body and learn how to honor it through habits of health. One of her favorite activities is taking nurses, students, and healthcare professionals around the world to offer free medical clinics to underserved communities, supporting global health one person at a time with her organization, Bridges for Health.

As a published author, she has written three children’s health books, three books on family history, and numerous professional research articles. She married her college sweetheart, and they have their own “Long Legacy” of six children who teach her what’s important in life.

Dr. Frank LoVecchio currently works as the Medical Director of Clinical Research at the College of Health Solutions at ASU. He is a Professor and Research Scholar at the University of Arizona, Creighton and ASU College of Medicines in Emergency Medicine, Pharmacology, Medicine (Medical Toxicology and Addiction Medcine).

He also works as the Principal Investigator for the Infectious Disease Network (IDNet) studies, a group of Emergency Departments funded through the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to conduct Infectious Disease trials and received > $18M in funding.

He is board-certified in Addiction Medicine, Medical Toxicology, Medical Forensics and Emergency Medicine and received a master’s in public health from Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health with a Masters in Outcomes Research

He has received greater than a dozen research and teaching awards.

Lovecchio is the author of more than 250 peer review articles and has given lectures in over 20 countries.

Dr. Lovecchio has organized and participated in multiple international medical missions and has been honored locally and nationally as a Health Care Hero.

In her role at MCW, Professor MacKinnon is responsible for developing corporate partnerships, activities and services that support the creation of new pharmacy practice models. Professor MacKinnon has over 25 years of experience in teaching and has assisted in the establishment of three previous academic pharmacy programs, having served in the roles of Director of Experiential Education and Director of Professional Laboratories.

Professor MacKinnon has practiced in institutional and community pharmacy practice settings throughout her career. Professor MacKinnon is currently engaged with local and state immunization grants to support pharmacists’ role in optimizing and expanding immunization access in Wisconsin.

Dr. George E. MacKinnon III began responsibilities as Founding Dean of the School of Pharmacy at the Medical College of Wisconsin October 1, 2015. His primary academic appointment is as Professor of Pharmacy Administration with secondary appointments within the School of Medicine in the Institute for Health and Equity (Division of Population Health Improvement), Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine Center.

Dr. MacKinnon received both his BS (Pharmacy) and MS (Hospital Pharmacy) from University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy. He completed two-years of post-graduate clinical pharmacy residency training at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, earning his PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from Loyola University Chicago.

Over the past 30 years he has held academic appointments in medicine and pharmacy engaging in clinical practice, research, teaching, and academic administration. His previous appointments include Founding Dean of Pharmacy & Vice Provost for Health Sciences at Roosevelt University Chicago, Vice President of Academic Affairs with the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, and Director of Global Health Economics & Outcomes Research of Abbott Laboratories, in Chicago.

Dr. MacKinnon has engaged in significant curricular pharmacy innovation (e.g., accelerated graduation and non- traditional pathways, integrated curricula, and interprofessional education) and post-graduate training development. He taught one of the first required courses in health economics and outcomes assessment and is Editor of the textbook, Understanding Health Outcomes and Pharmacoeconomic. His research interests align in expanding pharmacist care models (e.g., primary care, pharmacogenomics, immunizations).

Dr. Charles "Scott" Mahan is an infectious disease doctor certified in tropical medicine. He is active in teaching medical students, medical residents, and staff clinicians. He is a clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at both the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine. He currently works in Asheville NC, previously having done clinical work and research in Ghana, Zambia, and Uganda. He continues to go on regular medical missions in the developing world. Dr. Mahan is co-author of the popular book Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple and author of Are you Afraid of Snakes? A doctor's exploration of Alternative Medicine. Areas of interest include clinical tropical medicine, tuberculosis, and HIV. He is happily married and the father of three boys: Connor, David, and Thayer.

Darla Maier, MN, RNC-OB, is the Maternal Child Women’s Health Nurse Manager at Kaiser Permanente Westside Medical Center. With over three decades of experience in maternal and neonatal care, she also serves as the owner of Maier Healthcare Consulting, where she provides specialized legal nurse consulting services.

Maier's extensive clinical background includes over 21 years of dedicated service as a Labor and Delivery Nurse at Providence St. Vincent Hospital. Throughout her career, she has held several prominent educational and leadership roles in the Portland metropolitan area. She previously served as a Perinatal Nursing Education and Practice Specialist at Legacy Health, as well as a Professional Development Specialist for Kaiser Permanente.

A dedicated nursing educator and published author in peer-reviewed literature, Maier co-founded the Pacific Perinatal Group, a nursing continuing education and consultation consortium, and served as adjunct faculty for online didactic instruction at the Concordia University School of Nursing. In recognition of her exceptional contributions to the field, she was honored as the March of Dimes Nurse of the Year in Education and Research.

Nadia R. Malek, DC, DACBN, DABCI, is the owner and lead practitioner at the Malek Clinic for Natural Healing in Greenacres, Florida. With over four decades of experience in chiropractic medicine and functional health, she specializes in internal disorders and clinical nutrition, focusing on a holistic approach to patient care that integrates structural, chemical, and emotional well-being.



Dr. Malek earned her Doctor of Chiropractic degree from New York Chiropractic College in 1983. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Long Island University/CW Post College. A dedicated lifelong learner, she has achieved Diplomate status with both the American Board of Chiropractic Internists (DABCI) and the American Clinical Board of Nutrition (DACBN). She also holds a Certificate of Clinical Proficiency in Nutrition from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.



Throughout her career, Dr. Malek has pursued extensive post-graduate training in areas such as functional endocrinology, neuroimmunology, and the gut-brain axis. She is certified in the NeuroEmotional Technique (NET) and has served as a certification coach for the organization. Her clinical approach often incorporates detailed blood chemistry analysis and nutritional protocols to address complex chronic conditions.



In addition to her clinical practice, Dr. Malek is an active leader in her field, currently serving as Treasurer on the Executive Board of the American Clinical Board of Nutrition. She has previously shared her expertise as a nutrition speaker and educator, including roles as a professor of Anatomy & Physiology and a speaker for Standard Process. She is fluent in English, French, Portuguese, and Arabic.

Dr. Frank Marsalisi is the Director of Gynecology at the Bayfront OB/Gyn Residency Program , Bayfront Health St. Petersburg -Orlando Health Inc.. Originally from New York, he preceded his medical degree from Michigan State University with two years of research with publication in Hypersensitivity Diseases at USV Pharmaceutical and the Upjohn Company.

After completing his Obstetrics and Gynecology residency as Chief resident at the University of South Florida, he went on to fulfill his four-year commitment with the National Health Service Corp as Director of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Ruskin Migrant and Community Health Center in Ruskin, Florida. While at Ruskin, he was made a Clinical Assistant Professor of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of South Florida and received the U.S. Public Health Service Regional Health Administrator's Award.

Throughout his residency training and postgraduate career, Dr. Marsalisi has been the recipient of many prestigious university and national teaching awards, including the University of South Florida's Distinguished Professor Award and the John Turlich Medical Student Teaching Award, the Council on Resident Education in Ob/Gyn National Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, and many Bayfront Health Teaching Faculty of the Year awards.

He has been honored as being one of the "Top Obstetricians and Gynecologists in America" by the Consumer Research Council of America, and in 2017 he was recognized by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd to be among the"Leading Physicians of the World".

He is a medical community leader serving on the Board of his county medical association and is a delegate to the Florida Medical Association. He has been a speaker on women's health issues for the University at Sea since 2012.

Daniel R. Martin, MD, MBA, is a Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine at The Ohio State University. A distinguished educator and faculty member since 1988, Dr. Martin recently transitioned to emeritus status after decades of dedicated service, which was marked by his 2026 induction into the Ohio State Emeritus Academy.
During his tenure, Dr. Martin served in numerous foundational leadership roles at OSU. He was the department's inaugural Vice Chair of Education from 2010 to 2023, and he served as the longtime Program Director for both the Combined Emergency Medicine-Internal Medicine Residency (2012–2025) and the Categorical Emergency Medicine Residency (1990–2010).

Dr. Martin received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Indiana University. He completed an Internal Medicine residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and an Emergency Medicine residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin, where he served as Chief Resident. He later earned an Executive MBA from The Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business.

His clinical and research interests include cognitive errors in medicine, the treatment of infectious diseases in the emergency department, respiratory illnesses, and leadership development. He remains active in studying ethical issues in medicine and leadership, having published on these topics in prominent journals including the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of Healthcare Leadership. In recognition of his extensive contributions to the field, Dr. Martin has received numerous honors, including the Woody Hayes Leadership Award (2025), the Ohio ACEP Bill Hall Award for Service, and inductions into the Mazzaferri-Ellison Society of Master Clinicians (2025) and the Gold Humanism Honor Society.

José Darío Martínez Villarreal, MD, IFAAD, EADV, is a Professor and physician specializing in both internal medicine and dermatology. He currently serves as the Head of the Internal Medicine Clinic at the Hospital Universitario "Dr. José E. González" at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, and practices at the Hospital Christus Muguerza Alta Especialidad. Dr. Martínez Villarreal earned his medical degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León before completing his internal medicine training at Christus Muguerza Hospital. He subsequently pursued dermatology training at the Hospital General de México and completed a dermatology fellowship at the University of Miami Hospital in Florida.

A distinguished leader in the global medical community, Dr. Martínez Villarreal serves on the Board of Directors for the International Society of Dermatology and is an International Honorary Member of the American Dermatological Association.

He is a prolific researcher and author with a publication history spanning decades. Dr. Martínez Villarreal has authored numerous book chapters and peer-reviewed articles in highly regarded journals such as the International Journal of Dermatology, Clinical and Experimental Dermatology, and Dermatología Revista Mexicana. His extensive clinical research focuses heavily on the intersection of internal medicine and dermatology, with particular expertise in severe cutaneous adverse reactions (such as Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and DRESS syndrome), generalized pustular psoriasis, autoimmune bullous diseases, and tropical dermatology.

Dale A. Matthews, MD, FACP has served on the faculties of Yale University, the University of Connecticut, and Georgetown University and has lectured at over 30 medical schools. He gives lectures on primary care general internal medicine, the doctor-patient relationship, and the psychological and spiritual dimensions of medicine, including the role of religion, faith, and prayer in clinical care. He is the author of The Faith Factor: Proof of the Healing Power of Prayer (Viking, 1998), a four-volume research work (The Faith Factor: An Annotated Bibliography of Clinical Research on Spiritual Subjects), three documentaries, and over 65 peer-reviewed scientific articles, book chapters, and other publications.

Dr. Matthews is a graduate of Princeton (AB, cum laude, Romance Languages, 1976) and Duke University School of Medicine (1980). His internship and residency in internal medicine took place at the University of Connecticut (1980-3) and he completed the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar Program and Fellowship in Clinical Epidemiology at Yale (1983-5). In 1989, he was named the George Morris Piersol Teaching and Research Scholar of the American College of Physicians. He has received many awards for his compassionate patient care, including Washingtonian Magazine Top Doctor recognition. He has appeared on numerous television shows, including the Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, and Good Morning America.

He lives in McLean, Virginia with his wife, Demetra, a certified public accountant. He has two adult children and three grandchildren. He enjoys family and church activities, Bible study and teaching, golf, baseball, piano, singing, songwriting, ballroom dancing, travel, and photography.

Nancye McCowan, MD, is a Professor of Dermatology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. She served as the institution's inaugural Dermatology Residency Program Director until 2024, during which time her program received a "notable practice" designation in 2013 and a commendation from the ACGME in 2016.

Dr. McCowan attended Rhodes College before earning her medical degree from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (AOA), where she also completed her dermatology residency. Following her training, she served in the United States Air Force and held academic positions at the University of Arkansas and the University of Nebraska before moving to Mississippi. Throughout her career, she has been deeply involved in medical education, providing bedside and didactic instruction and mentoring scores of medical students.

A frequently recognized physician, Dr. McCowan has been listed among America’s Top Dermatologists and Best Doctors on numerous occasions. She has authored 16 book chapters and peer-reviewed articles, and she has presented at dozens of regional and national meetings. She also represented the UMMC Department of Dermatology on the "Southern Remedy" syndicated radio broadcast. Outside of her medical practice, Dr. McCowan is an accomplished equestrienne who has won a host of championships and top-five finishes in regional and national competitions over the past two decades.

For more than a decade, Dr. Jeanne McCoy has established a reputation as a pediatric hospitalist with a below average joke telling ability and a love of talking. As a result of this, Dr. McCoy finds joy in subjecting students, colleagues, and audiences to her sense of humor during her presentations and lectures, combining her passion for teaching with a captive audience.

Since 2009, she has served in leadership positions in several peer review and quality improvement committees, including a term as Medical Staff President (and now serves as Immediate Past President), and as Chair of Pediatrics since 2012. In her clinical role as a pediatric hospitalist, she cares for newborns on the maternity service, pediatric patients on the inpatient and observation units, and pediatric patients in the emergency department. She is a board-certified pediatrician (FAAP) and also an instructor in both Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) and Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP). Her personal mission statement is to “Improve the experience of healthcare for patients, colleagues, and families.” In the post-pandemic era, she has been attempting to work on prevention of burnout and moral injury.

Jeanne enjoys running (slowly) and has completed two marathons. Her homestead is home to chickens, guinea fowl, goats, cats, and a variety of wildlife. She and her husband enjoy travel and camping.

Neil Mehta, MBBS, MS, FACP, is a Professor of Medicine and the Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). He actively practices as a Staff Physician within the Medicine and Geriatrics Institute at the Cleveland Clinic.

A dedicated medical educator and innovator, Dr. Mehta holds the prestigious Jones Day Endowed Chair in Medical Education at the Cleveland Clinic. He also serves as the Director of the Center for Technology-Enhanced Knowledge and Instruction (cTEKI), where he works to integrate modern technology into clinical education. Additionally, Dr. Mehta is an Adjunct Faculty member in the College of Education and Human Services at Cleveland State University.

Raun Melmed, MD, FAAP, a developmental and behavioral pediatrician, is director of the Melmed Center in Scottsdale, Arizona and co-founder and medical director of the Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center.

Dr. Melmed is on faculty at Arizona State University in Phoenix, the University of Arizona in Tucson and Creighton Medical School. He earned his medical degree at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and completed fellowship training at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, where he was an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. He is a member of the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics and a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is board certified in both Pediatrics and Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.

He has set up nationally recognized physician training programs for the early identification of infants and toddlers with developmental and behavioral concerns and has authored programs geared toward screening for autism spectrum disorders.

Dr. Melmed is an investigator of novel psychopharmacological agents and digital therapeutic devices for the treatment of ADHD, autism, Fragile X and related disorders. He studies include the identification of biomarkers in ASD as well as the development of diagnostic tools for developmental disorders.

He is the author of the ST4 Mindfulness Series for Children including Marvin's Monster Diary ‐ ADHD Attacks, Timmy's Monster Diary: Screen Time Attacks! (But I Rock it Big Time), Harriet's Monster Diary ‐ Awfully Anxious (But I Squish it Big Time), Marvin's Monster Diary 2 (+ Lyssa): ADHD Emotion Explosion (But I Triumph, Big Time), Marvin's Monster Diary 3: Trouble with Friends (But I Get By, Big Time!) and Marvin's Monster Diary 4: Neighborhood Bully (But We Stand Up, Big Time).
He is also the author of books for families including Autism: Early Intervention; Autism and the Extended Family; and Autism Parent Handbook: Beginning with the End Goal in Mind.

Professor Samuel Menahem from Melbourne, Australia is a Consultant Paediatrician with extensive experience in General Paediatrics and Neonatology. In addition he has researched and published widely on the interface of Child Psychiatry and Paediatrics and has trained as a Child Psychotherapist. He has a subspecialty of Paediatric Cardiology extending from the foetus to the adult with congenital heart disease.

He has held Consultant appointments at the Royal Children's Hospital both as a Physician and Cardiologist, and at Monash Medical Centre as a Consultant Paediatrician and Paediatric Cardiologist. He has previously headed the General Paediatric Unit and the Paediatric Cardiology Unit and was Foundation Co-Director of the Foetal Cardiac Unit at the latter institution. He continues to hold consultant appointments as a Paediatrician and Cardiologist.

Professor Menahem has an illustrious academic career. He graduated as top of his year from the University of Melbourne and subsequently successfully completed 4 research degrees. He gained his specialist qualification to the Royal Australasian College of Physicians after completing his residency. His Membership was subsequently elevated to a Fellowship of that College. He also is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand.

He continues to teach and mentor students and graduates. He has also been a Visiting Professor and/or Examiner to institutions overseas and has presented and lectured at National and International Meetings. He continues to be active especially in clinical research and has an extensive publication list.

Professor Menahem now spends most of his time in private consultant practice and continues to conduct teaching clinics in rural Victoria. Many of his patients have stayed with him since infancy into adult life including a number of women with congenital heart disease who he has successfully cared for during their pregnancies. His utilizes a holistic approach in all his consultations.

Dr. Mencl has been practicing and teaching emergency medicine and prehospital care for almost 30 years. A graduate of Case Western Reserve (BA), Cleveland State (MS), and NEOMED (MD), He completed his residency in EM at Akron City Hospital (Summa Health System) where he stayed on as faculty, eventually becoming the system EMS Medical Director and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at NEOMED. In this leadership position, he assisted the hospital in acquiring and maintaining a variety of certifications and accreditations including level 1 trauma center, STEMI and chest pain, as well as stroke center. In his EMS capacity he served as medical director to the paramedic training program, started and ran an EMS fellowship and an EMS medical student rotation.

Currently Dr. Mencl is working for Penn State in Hershey Pennsylvania where he is responsible for the hospital-based ambulance and critical care service (Life Lion) which includes 2 helicopters. He is the EMS fellowship Director and a teaching attending in the EM residency there.

Dr. Mencl’s passions include teaching and research and he is a veteran of a number of University at Sea cruise conferences. He lectures nationally and internationally, and is on the editorial board of Prehospital Emergency Care. He has translated research into practice using some of his published work to develop best practices for his EMS agencies and helped Summa’s STEMI program achieve significant savings in time-to-intervention. From 2004-2006, Dr. Mencl took a sabbatical to serve as the program director of a new EM residency at the OLVG hospital in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, thus gaining additional insight into different health care systems. He also participates regularly in the Rally Rejviz an international EMS/Ambulance competition held in the Czech Republic that attracts participants from around the world.

Investigator of the mammalian cardiovascular system, full professor, teacher, author (e.g. Our Intelligent Bodies, 2020; Our Aging Bodies, 2015; Our Marvelous Bodies, 2008; all published by Rutgers University Press).

Dr. Michaels completed his undergraduate degree in History & Science at Harvard University. He then completed his medical degree, internship, cardiology fellowship, and interventional cardiology fellowship at University of California-San Francisco (UCSF). He then worked 6 years as Co-Director of the UCSF Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, followed by 4 years as the University of Utah Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory. After spending the next 12 years as a full-time interventional cardiologist in community practice, he has transitioned to part-time locums tenens as an interventional cardiologist based in Michigan.

Erin D. Michos, MD is an Associate Professor in the Division of Cardiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, with joint appointment in Epidemiology at the School of Public Health. She is the Director of Women’s Cardiovascular Health Research and the Associate Director of Preventive Cardiology at Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Michos is an internationally known expert in Preventive Cardiology and Women’s Health, having authored >650 publications and 11 book chapters. Her clinical and research is focused on (1) Women’s Cardiovascular Health; (2) Lipids and Lipid management; (3) Cardiometabolic diseases (4) Coronary artery calcium, inflammation, and other biomarkers of cardiovascular risk.

She is the co-Editor-in-Chief for the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology and an Associate Editor for Circulation. She is Co-Director of the IMPACT Center (Improving Participation Among Diverse Populations in Cardiovascular Clinical Trials) at Johns Hopkins, funded by the American Heart Association (AHA). She is a co-investigator in several NIH-funded studies including the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities cohorts. She is the Training Director for four AHA Strategic Focused Research Networks. She has mentored over 60 individuals and the recipient of 2 mentoring awards.

Dr. Michos completed medical school at Northwestern University, Internal Medicine residency and Cardiology fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and a Master of Health Science degree at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

Charles S. Mills, MD, FACP, FAAHPM, HMDBC, is a board-certified internist and palliative care specialist with over 35 years of medical experience. He is a Fellow of both the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Dr. Mills practiced for many years in both clinical and administrative positions at the former Fallon Clinic and Fallon Community Health System. It was here that he built a strong knowledge of the impact of health care systems and economics on the delivery of care. In these various roles, he became a strong advocate for physician education to assist the evolution of the care models necessary for success in the developing health care market.

Dr. Mills' extensive work in geriatrics during his clinical practice led to his growth in palliative and hospice medicine. Taking on a medical directorship at a local hospice, he gained practical knowledge of this field and went on to complete additional study, leading to his successful completion of board certification in 2008.

He is a zealous proponent of interactive learning processes and enjoys leading and mentoring invigorated medical education forums. Dr. Mills has lectured and taught broadly at the community, medical school, residency, and attending levels.

Jennifer Mitzman, MD, is a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. She is an experienced and grant-funded medical educator, lecturing nationally on a variety of topics in adult and pediatric emergency medicine (PEM), secondary trauma, and obstetric emergencies. She is widely published on curricular and educational innovations in PEM for the general emergency medicine and general pediatric learner and serves as an associate editor for Rosen’s Textbook of Emergency Medicine.

Actively involved in graduate medical education, Dr. Mitzman dedicates a significant amount of time to mentorship and scholarly discourse on the role of women and individuals underrepresented in Emergency Medicine, with a focus on professional development and career advancement.

Dr. Mitzman received her Bachelor of Arts from Brandeis University, after which she spent several years teaching high school. She returned to school to earn her medical doctorate at the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. After completing her emergency medicine residency at University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Mitzman pursued a Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship at Wake Forest University Brenner Children's Hospital in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Emergency Medicine in both emergency medicine and pediatric emergency medicine.

Elizabeth Moberg-Wolff, MD, FAAPMR, is the Medical Director of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Associates in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. She holds board certifications in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), Brain Injury Medicine, and Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine. She also serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

A recognized leader in her field, Dr. Moberg-Wolff is a past Chair of the Pediatric and Developmental Disabilities Council for the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPM&R). In recognition of her clinical excellence, she has been named one of the "Best Doctors" annually since 2005 and a "Milwaukee Top Doctor" since 2010.

Her medical practice includes both children and adults with diagnoses such as cerebral palsy, brain injury, stroke, spinal cord injury, and neuromuscular disorders. She is an expert in spasticity management, including the use of botulinum toxins and intrathecal baclofen. In her spare time, she enjoys travel, gardening, and cooking for her family.

Caroline M. Molins, MD, MSMEd, FACEP, FAAEM, is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Alabama (USA) and a full-time emergency medicine physician at USA University Hospital and Children & Women’s Hospital. Previously, she served as the Assistant Program Director and Curriculum Director at the AdventHealth Emergency Medicine Residency, and held academic appointments at Loma Linda University, the University of Central Florida, and Florida State University.

Dr. Molins received her Master of Science in Medical Education (MSMEd) from the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. She completed her Emergency Medicine Residency at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine after earning her Doctorate in Medicine from the Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Florida International University.

An active contributor to academic emergency medicine, Dr. Molins has presented at regional, national, and international conferences, including the CORD Academic Assembly and the Mediterranean Emergency Medicine Congress. She frequently serves as a judge in national emergency medicine competitions and has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles in journals such as AEM Education and Training, Cureus, and the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Molins is a member of several professional organizations, including CORD, AAEM, and ACEP, and has participated in advanced professional development programs such as ALiEM, EDDA, EMBRS, and MERC Scholars.

She holds active medical licenses in Alabama and Florida. Throughout her career, Dr. Molins has received multiple teaching accolades, including the Golden Apple Award from the UCF College of Medicine and Preceptor of the Year from the AdventHealth Emergency Medicine Residency. Her volunteer and community work includes serving as a founding member of the Women’s Philanthropic Giving Circle of Central Florida, participating in the AdventHealth for Children’s Pet Therapy Program, and providing care to the underserved Hispanic community at Clinica MiSalud. Outside of her clinical and academic duties, she plays competitive tennis.

Daniel Montero, MD, FAAFP, is a sports medicine specialist at Mayo Clinic Florida in Jacksonville. He serves as a Consultant in the Departments of Family Medicine and Orthopedics, an Assistant Professor of Orthopedics, and the Associate Director for the Program in Professionalism and Values, Communication in Healthcare.

Dr. Montero earned his medical degree from Eastern Virginia Medical School after graduating from the University of Virginia. He completed his Family Medicine residency at Mayo Clinic Florida, followed by a Sports Medicine Fellowship at The Ohio State University. He has extensive experience working with athletes of all ages and skill levels, including collegiate, Olympic, and professional.

An active leader at Mayo Clinic, Dr. Montero served as the President of Officers and Councilors in 2019. In recognition of his outstanding contributions to patient care, he was awarded the prestigious Mayo Clinic Distinguished Clinician Award in 2023.

Angele Moss-Baker, LPC, LMFT, MAC, SAP, is the founder of Comprehensive Addiction & Psychological Services LLC (CAPS). She is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with years of experience providing a broad spectrum of comprehensive, person-centered, integrated treatment to individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders in various treatment settings. CAPS specializes in developing and facilitating behavioral health training and clinical consultation to improve service delivery. Her interactive workshops are practical and engaging, offering valuable insights for behavioral health practitioners.

Dr. Mularoni is a Pediatrician who splits his clinical time between Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Sports Medicine. He is board certified in Pediatrics, Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Sports Medicine. Dr. Mularoni is the Medical Director of Ambulatory Operations including 23 outpatient care sites and is the Medical Director and Team Physician at IMG Academy.

Dr. Mularoni completed his Pediatric Residency at St. John Hospital and Medical Center in Detroit, Michigan. His first Fellowship was in Pediatric Emergency Medicine through Emory University in Atlanta. Dr. Mularoni has been practicing Pediatric Emergency Medicine at All Children’s Hospital Johns Hopkins Medicine since 2007. He completed his second fellowship in Primary Care Sports Medicine through Bayfront Health in 2014. He is the founder and medical director of the Primary Care Sports Medicine division at All Children’s Hospital Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Dr. Mularoni leads a concussion research lab that is grant funded by the Kart for Kids Concussion Initiative. His research interests include predictors of concussion and its resolution, wearable technology and its use in concussion management and concussion in motorsports athletes. Dr. Mularoni lectures locally and internationally on Pediatric Emergency and Sports related topics and is a regular contributor to local and national media organizations providing education on Pediatric Sports Medicine and Emergency Medicine topics.

Dr. Mularoni lives in St. Petersburg, Florida with his wife Kim who is also a pediatrician and their three children. During free time he enjoys travel, watching Michigan State sports, skiing, weight training and competing in running events.

Dr. Timothy A. Munzing has been a family physician with Kaiser Permanente in Orange County, California, for over four decades, and served for over 30 years as the founding Program Director of the KP-OC Family Medicine Residency Program before transitioning to Program Director Emeritus. A dedicated leader in medical education, he completed a six-year term on the national ACGME Family Medicine Review Committee, which oversees the accreditation of over 600 residency programs, and currently serves on the ACGME Family Medicine Accreditation Appeals Committee. Over the course of his extensive clinical practice, Dr. Munzing has taught hundreds of residents and thousands of medical students. He holds appointments as a full Clinical Professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, and as a faculty member at the Bernard J. Tyson Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine, where he also assisted in the institution's initial development.

A highly decorated educator, Dr. Munzing is a recipient of the National Family Medicine Outstanding Residency Program Director of the Year Award and the California Academy of Family Physicians Hero of Family Medicine Award. Additionally, he is a leading national expert on appropriate opioid and controlled substance prescribing. In recognition of his work, he received a major national Medical Director’s Award from the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association. For nearly two decades, Dr. Munzing has served as a medical expert reviewer for the DEA, FBI, and the Medical Board of California, reviewing hundreds of cases across the United States. He authored the peer-reviewed “Guide to Appropriate Opioid Prescribing for Noncancer Pain" in The Permanente Journal, a widely utilized resource for physicians, law enforcement, and prosecutors. Dr. Munzing frequently lectures on safe prescribing practices and diversion investigation to thousands of healthcare providers and law enforcement professionals nationwide.

Kim Murphy has over 36 years of nursing experience including 32 years in labor and delivery and 16 years as a women's health nurse practitioner.

She currently fills the role of staff nurse and charge nurse at The Ohio State University, a large Level 3 academic medical center along with being a women's health NP in private practice. She also is the lead provider in public health for prenatal care and sexual health services in a Title X agency.

She has been a leader in education while making multiple speaking presentations on a variety of topics related to obstetrics and women's health. She recently spoke at the national AWHONN conference in 2019. She is a designated instructor for fetal monitoring through AWHONN. She also participates in legal review of malpractice cases.

Allen Musil has been practicing child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry for over 20 years. His education includes an undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University, a stint at Dallas Theological Seminary, and medical school at Quillen College of Medicine in Tennessee.

He completed a triple board residency and fellowship at the University of Kentucky and is board certified in general pediatrics, child-adolescent psychiatry, and adult psychiatry. He has worked as an emergency room pediatrician and medical director of both in and out patient child psychiatric services. He currently works as a child psychiatrist and medical director for Frontier Health in Johnson City, TN.

He is also a part time assistant clinical professor at East Tennessee State University and Lincoln Memorial University in both the departments of pediatrics and psychiatry. He has been appointed by TN Governor Haslam for participation on the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners. His expertise is in ADHD issues, mood disorders, and autistic disorders.

Dr. Narayanan received his medical degree at Christian Medical College in Ludhiana, India, and completed residencies in Internal Medicine at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research in India and at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. He completed clinical fellowships in Nephrology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago and at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Nephrology, and Geriatric Medicine, and is a Certified Specialist in Hypertension by the American Society of Hypertension.

Dr. Narayanan is a Professor of Medicine at the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine and Baylor Scott & White Healthcare in Temple, Texas, where he serves as Director of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension and Medical Director of the Abdominal Transplant Program.

A fellow of the National Kidney Foundation, the American Society of Nephrology, the American College of Physicians, and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Dr. Narayanan's clinical practice focuses on all aspects of nephrology as well as kidney and pancreas transplantation.

A frequent lecturer, presenter, and author, Dr. Narayanan's work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals including the American Journal of Kidney Disease, American Journal of Transplantation, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Hemodialysis International, Investigative Radiology, and Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, among many others. He is also the Principal Investigator for several industry-sponsored clinical trials. Dr. Narayanan serves on the editorial board of the journal Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease and is a reviewer for the American Journal of Transplantation.

Dr. Nathanson completed his medical degree and internal medicine training at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine and has been practising internal medicine and critical care medicine at Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket, Ontario since 1995. In 2010, he earned a Master of Science in Health Care Management from the Harvard Graduate School of Public Health. He is currently pursuing graduate studies in Medical Bioethics and Jewish Health Law at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University in New York.

Throughout his career, Dr. Nathanson has held numerous administrative and leadership roles at Southlake, including Medical Director of the Inpatient Palliative Care Unit, founding Medical Director of the Heart Function Program, President of the Medical Staff Association, Chair of the Clinical Quality and Resource Utilization Committee, and Medical Director of Acute Medicine Programs. He was instrumental in founding the Clinical Resource Utilization Management Program, establishing and equipping the Southlake Simulation Lab, and designing and launching the Southlake Hospital Medicine Program.

Dr. Nathanson has contributed to health policy at the provincial level, serving on two Ontario task forces focused on hospital resource utilization. During the COVID-19 pandemic—from January 2020 through mid-2022—he served as Medical Director of the Intensive Care Unit at Southlake, where he founded the physician-led Critical Care Outreach Program; concurrently held the role of Chief of Staff at Stevenson Memorial Hospital in Alliston, Ontario; and advised local, regional, and provincial pandemic policy panels.

Dr. Nathanson remains actively engaged in medical education, mentoring senior residents through the transition to independent practice. His current clinical work is focused on the inpatient Medicine Consult Service and the Southlake Extensivist Clinic. He also maintains a busy practice as an expert witness in medical malpractice litigation.

Outside of medicine, Dr. Nathanson spends his Canadian winters in the southern United States. He is an avid cyclist and motorcyclist, and enjoys exploring Ontario, the United States, and beyond alongside his wife, Genny.

Dr. Cassie Nelson is an assistant teaching professor in the Division of Life Sciences and in the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience at Rutgers University. Dr. Nelson received her undergraduate degree from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in physiological sciences. She went on to earn a master’s degree in Cellular and Integrative Physiology from the Indiana University School of Medicine and received her Ph.D. in Biology from Marquette University, where her dissertation explored the cellular mechanisms of skeletal muscle fatigue.

Since graduating with her PhD in 2014, Nelson has worked at 3 universities and taught all kinds of courses, ranging from introductory biology to comparative vertebrate anatomy. At Rutgers, Nelson teaches Systems Physiology to over 800 students per academic year. In addition to teaching, Nelson mentors learning assistants, guides undergraduate students through their senior research theses, and serves on several committees. Nelson recently received financial support for an interdisciplinary research fellowship, where she will work with 3 undergraduate students to explore the relationship between microplastics and human cells and tissues.

As a teaching professor, Nelson loves the Rutgers student body and feels truly privileged to spend her time as a faculty member focused on student education and growth. Outside of teaching and mentoring undergraduate students, Dr. Nelson is a wife and mom of 3 kids, and enjoys running, strength training, listening to podcasts, baking, and coaching her kids’ sports teams. Nelson is a former division 1 track and field and cross-country athlete and loves to talk about all things running related.

Dr. Janet Osborne is the Chief of Gynecologic Oncology at Carilion Clinic and an Associate Professor at Carilion Virginia Tech School of Medicine in Roanoke, VA. She received her medical degree from the Medical School of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and did her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Minnesota and fellowship training in Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Michigan.

Prior to joining Carilion in 2011, Dr. Osborne was the Director of Gynecologic Oncology at the Medical College of Wisconsin for 11 years. She is also board certified in hospice and palliative care. In addition to patient care, Dr Osborne is very involved in training medical students and residents. She is the site principal investigator for many clinical trials and has multiple publications including several book chapters. She loves traveling, the Green Bay Packers, and relaxing at Smith Mountain Lake with her two dogs.

Herdley O. Paolini, Ph.D., L.P., gained national attention by creating the first-of-its-kind holistic physician integrative wellness program designed to counteract physician burnout and foster physician resiliency, well-being, and leadership development to support the patient-care mission of the Advent Health care organization. She subsequently left Advent Health after 12 years as director of Physician Support Services to share the program she created there with medical staffs and health systems across the nation. She is the Founder and President of The Institute for Physician Integration.

She has been engaged by several health systems for consultations, including the Mayo Health System, Wisconsin; Centura Health, Colorado; Loma Linda Medical Center, California; St. Helena Health System, California; Tampa General Hospital, Florida; Baylor, Scott & White, Texas; Orlando Health, Florida; Wentworth-Douglas Hospital & Concord Hospital, New Hampshire; Nemours Pediatric Hospital, Florida & Delaware, Spectrum Lakeland, Michigan, Summa Health, Ohio, Akron Children's Hospital, Ohio.

Dr. Paolini is a licensed psychologist, teacher, and author of Inside the Mind of a Physician, published in 2009 by the Florida Hospital Press. She also has authored numerous articles and academic papers and is lead author of Healers in Need of Healing cannot Heal, recently published by Medscape, a multi-specialty online journal serving physicians and other medical professionals.

She earned her doctorate from Western Michigan University, and she has 30 + years of experience influencing change through coaching, psychotherapy, CME curriculum, leadership development, and creative programing at both the individual and organizational levels.

Dr. Patel practices family and sports medicine at Yorkville Primary Care and Sports Medicine in Yorkville, IL and is the Medical Director for Rush Copley Sports Medicine in Aurora, IL. He is also Director of Sports Medicine for Rush Copley Family Medicine Residency and Assistant Professor at Rush Medical College in Chicago.

He has authored, mentored, and served as section editor for several publications and textbooks on sports medicine topics. Dr. Patel has been honored with multiple teaching awards and speaking invitations. He has presented on sports medicine topics at the annual AAFP Scientific Assembly (now FMX) and numerous other CME events at national and regional levels. With his passion for teaching and his combination of family and sports medicine experience, he's uniquely able to deliver effective presentations to a primary care audience.

Ms. Payne received her Master's in Nursing, Master of Family Nurse Practitioner degree from D'Youville College.

Ms. Payne has served as a Clinical Associate professor at D'Youville College, teaching a clinical skills lab to nursing students earning their BSN.

Ms. Payne has served as a Clinical Associate Professor at University at Buffalo, school of Nursing teaching a clinical rotation in Labor and Delivery at Sisters Hospital, Buffalo New York.

Ms. Payne practiced as a Registered Nurse for 16 years in clinical areas at Children's Hospital, Buffalo New York working in Neonatal Intensive care unit for 4years. Then choosing to work at People Inc., Buffalo New York serving the physically and developmentally disabled as a RN Field Supervisor for the next 5 years.

Ms. Payne practiced as a Registered Nurse from 1999-2008 at Mt. St. Mary's Hospital, Lewiston New York as a staff nurse in Labor and Delivery and Newborn Nursery where she was a clinical preceptor to new RN's and a charge Nurse in the Newborn Nursery.

Ms. Payne after graduating from D'Youville with her Masters in Family Nurse Practitioner has worked in Underserved Clinical settings, Lifetime Health Medical Group working in Primary Care and Urgent Care and has helped implement a Health and Wellness Office in Elma, New York Moog location.

Ms. Payne holds certifications from American Nurses Credentialing Center, First and Second Degree Reiki, American Heart Association holding a Basic Life Support Provider (BLS) and American Cardiovascular Advanced Life Saving (ACLS) provider and Pediatric Advanced Life Saving provider (PALS).

Ms. Payne is active and holds membership at Nurse Practitioner Association- Western New York Chapter, Sigma, Theta Tau International, and American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

Ms Payne collaborates with many advanced health care providers within the community in order to provide the best care possible to patients.

Ms. Laurie Persh, LPC, LCPC, is a distinguished clinician, critical incident responder, and trainer, recognized for her extensive expertise in trauma, grief and loss, family systems, work-life balance, and cross-cultural counseling. She has delivered training and disaster response services for organizations including the American Red Cross, FEMA, and Project Medishare in Haiti. Her professional experience spans nonprofit and for-profit public mental health agencies, providing a full spectrum of counseling services from in-home care to inpatient and outpatient settings. In addition to her clinical roles, Ms. Persh has served as a college instructor, supervisor, and manager. For over a decade, she has successfully operated her private practice in Silver Spring, MD, while also presenting numerous workshops to share her expertise and accumulated knowledge with the professional community.

Dr. Wayne L. Peters is a native of Rapid City, South Dakota. He received his BA from Saint Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, his BS from the University of South Dakota, and his MD from the University of Colorado. He completed his internal medicine training at the University of Florida, Jacksonville, and served as Chief of the General Internal Medicine Division at that institution from 1976 to 1982. From 1982 to 1984, he served as a Henry J. Kaiser Fellow in General Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Following his fellowship, he remained at Massachusetts General Hospital as Director of the Lipid Consultation Service. He also taught in the Department of Preventive Medicine at Harvard Medical School under the direction of Dr. Alexander Leaf, who was involved in marine-oil research for over 25 years.

In 1986, Dr. Peters returned to Colorado to assume positions as Medical Director and Partner of HealthMark LLC, a private preventive medicine clinic, and as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He transitioned to Senior Medical Physician at HealthMark/OnPoint Medical Group on January 1, 2018. He is currently a Senior Participating Provider with Executive Health Exams/Life Extension Institute.

Louise Pilote, MD, MPH, PhD, is a Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at McGill University. She holds a James McGill Chair and a research scholarship from the Fonds de Recherche en Santé du Quebec. She is also a practicing internist and epidemiologist at the Montreal General Hospital.

Dr. Pilote received her MDCM from McGill University. She then obtained an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health and a PhD in Epidemiology at the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Pilote's research focus includes cardiovascular epidemiology, outcomes research, and health services research. She is the principal investigator for GENESIS, an intercapacity enhancement team on gender and sex determinants of cardiovascular diseases funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Additionally, she leads other studies related to access to care for patients with heart disease and pharmacoepidemiology studies of cardiac medications. To date, she has published over 200 manuscripts.

Tony Pogrel received his dental degree in 1967 from Liverpool University in England and his medical degree from Aberdeen University in Scotland in 1974. He then received further general surgery training and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery training in Great Britain, Holland and Miami, Florida. In 1979, he was appointed consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon in Peterborough and Cambridge in England and since 1983, has been on the full-time faculty of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. He is a former chairman of the department and is currently a professor and Associate Dean. Dr. Pogrel holds both medical and dental licenses in California and is board certified in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.



He is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, the American College of Surgeons, American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, the British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, the International and American Associations of Dental Research and the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons. Dr. Pogrel has more than 200 publications in the literature on a variety of topics and is a frequent presenter at specialty meetings nationally and internationally.

Dr. Jay Portnoy is an allergist in the Division of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology and he is the Medical Director of Telemedicine at Children's Mercy-Kansas City and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. He received his medical degree at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine and he did his pediatric residency at the Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City and his Allergy fellowship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Following that he returned to Children's Mercy Hospital.

Dr. Portnoy has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals involving asthma disease management, environmental control and mold allergy. More recently he has been involved in use of Telemedicine to deliver patient care and in evidence-based medicine. He founded the UMKC School of Medicine allergy program and directed it from 1997-2006.

Dr. Portnoy served as President of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology in 2008 and he currently serves on numerous committees both of the American College and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. He also is Chair of MOC for the American Board of Allergy and Immunology and he serves on the FDA advisory panel for allergenic extracts.

Dr. Portnoy lives in Overland Park Kansas with his wife and 2 cats. Fortunately, neither are cat-allergic.

Dr. Gregory L. Psaltis is a pediatric dentist with over five decades of clinical experience. After serving for three years as a pediatric dental specialist in the United States Navy stationed in Japan, he dedicated the majority of his career to private practice in Olympia, Washington. Deeply committed to philanthropy, Dr. Psaltis developed and administered two volunteer clinics in Mexico, providing comprehensive dental care for indigent and medically compromised children in the Cabo San Lucas and Zihuatanejo areas for over twenty years.

A highly regarded educator and lecturer, Dr. Psaltis has presented at every major dental meeting in the United States and has delivered keynote addresses for the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry and the Australia-New Zealand Society of Pediatric Dentistry. His international speaking engagements have taken him across the globe to countries including Germany, Mexico, Australia, Russia, Canada, and Kuwait. In recognition of his excellence in professional presentations, he is a recipient of the Gordon Christensen Speaker Recognition Award from the Chicago Midwinter Meeting. Dr. Psaltis has published numerous articles in professional dental journals and is the author of the memoir, Into and Out of the Mouths of Babes<.em>.

Mary Ellen Psaltis has spent over three decades writing professionally about food, health, and lifestyle. Her extensive interactions with chefs, farmers, and restaurateurs inspired a deep commitment to teaching and nutrition education. She speaks nationally on creating optimal nutrition and making thoughtful life choices, while also leading local classes designed to support individuals along their daily wellness journeys. In addition to her nutritional advocacy, she actively supports international philanthropic efforts by serving as a dental assistant alongside Dr. Greg Psaltis during their volunteer mission trips to provide care in Mexico.

Dr. Radhakrishnan is Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. He is the Director of Clinical Services of the Nephrology Division. His clinical and research interests are the in the therapy of chronic kidney disease (including glomerular diseases and lupus kidney disease) and intensive care nephrology.

He is a fellow of the American Society of Nephrology and National Kidney Foundation. His commitment to medical education and patient care is exemplified by his numerous teaching awards and his inclusion in the Who's Who among America's Teachers & Educators, America's Best Doctors and Castle Connolly's Top Doctor.

Steve Raskin is a practicing clinical cardiologist and is currently is the Director of the Sutter Eastbay Medical Foundation Lipid Clinic in Oakland, California. He has practiced cardiology for nearly 40 years and in addition has served as a mentor at the University of California, Berkeley, and San Francisco Combined Medical School Program and as Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF.

He has participated in many important clinical trials and served as principal investigator of many pivotal cardiology trials including the Beta Blocker Heart Attack Trial, Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial (CAST) and many of the first acute myocardial infarction thrombolytic trials (GUSTO program).

He obtained his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin followed by internship and medical residency at the Boston City Hospital. Cardiology fellowship was completed at Mt. Zion-University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Raskin is a member of AOA and is board certified in cardiology, clinical lipidology and cardiovascular computed tomography. He is an avid photographer and ocean sailor completing two transpacific crossings and was cardiology consultant to the Swedish America’s Cup ARTEMIS Sailing Team.

He is the Chief Medical Officer of MedChefs, a company dedicated to improving health by providing a novel e-solution to foster a healthy lifestyle and nutrition pattern.

A nationally recognized leader in sports medicine, Dr. Raukar has dedicated her career to preventing and managing life-threatening and performance-limiting conditions such as concussion, sudden cardiac arrest, and exertional heat illness. She has served on the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Science Committee on Sports-Related Concussion in Youth and the Sports Medicine Advisory Committee for the National Federation of State High School Associations, contributing to national safety policy and education. Her extensive sideline experience includes caring for high school, collegiate, Olympic, and professional athletes, and she currently serves as a team physician for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team, USA Hockey, and U.S. Figure Skating. Her research and advocacy focus on translating cutting-edge science into actionable readiness for those on the field and beyond.

In her faculty development work, Dr. Raukar leads initiatives that enhance procedural competence and integrate emerging technologies into medical education. She has developed a novel, technology-enabled learning approach that brings concise, on-demand teaching to the bedside and classroom, bridging traditional instruction with modern AI and adaptive learning principles. Her programs help faculty stay current, mentor effectively, and thrive as leaders in an ever-evolving clinical landscape.

Dr. Raukar is driven by the belief that the health of a community is strengthened through the delivery of top-tier, patient-centered care in an environment of active innovation and education. Her work continues to bridge emergency medicine, sports medicine, and leadership development ensuring that those who care for others are equally equipped, empowered, and inspired to perform at their best.

Katherine D. Redmond, DO, is a board-certified pediatrician and sports medicine physician serving as the Medical Director of SOMC Sports Motion at Southern Ohio Medical Center. She also holds a faculty appointment as an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Dr. Redmond completed her pediatric residency and sports medicine fellowship at Marshall University School of Medicine, where she cultivated a dual passion for adolescent athlete health and rural community wellness. Her clinical interests include overuse injuries, concussion management, relative energy deficiency in sport (RED-S), and injury prevention in young athletes.

An active sideline and team physician for more than a dozen schools across southern Ohio and northeastern Kentucky, Dr. Redmond combines evidence-based medicine with real-world athletic experience to bridge the gap between pediatric and sports performance care. She is a frequent invited speaker at state and national meetings, and has published on cannabis intoxication in athletes and HPV vaccination accessibility in Appalachia.

With a reputation for engaging, practical, and high-energy presentations, Dr. Redmond brings a unique perspective as both a pediatrician and sports medicine physician dedicated to helping young athletes play safely, recover fully, and thrive.

Dr. Rehman is the Associate Chief of Staff for Education & Founding Director of Academic Primary Care Clinic at the Phoenix VA Healthcare Systems, where he is also the Chair of Continuing Professional Education (CPE), High Reliability Organization (HRO) and Schmitz Practitioner Awards Committees. He has founded the Biomedical Informatics Fellowship & currently serving as the Chair/Professor of Department of Biomedical Informatics (BMI), Professor of Internal Medicine & Professor of Humanism at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix (UACOM-P). He also Chairs the UACOM-P Graduate Medical Education Committee.

He has served as the President of the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM)-Mountain Region; Vice- President of the Academy on Communications in Healthcare (ACH); Conference Chair, International Conference on Communication in Healthcare (ICCH); Chair of Practice & Policy committee of European & International Association on Communication in Healthcare (EACH), Chair of American College of Physicians (ACP) Arizona Chapter’s Health and Public Policy committee (HPPC); founding member of ACP Council of Young Physicians (CYP); & Chair of ACP-SC Chapter CYP & HPPC and Chair of CME committee of Arizona Medical Association (ArMA).

Dr. Rehman is a national expert in “Healthcare Communication” and “Hypertension”. He has been invited to teach courses/workshops around the country as well as in many countries outside the USA. He was invited to give the Commencement Address on the Graduation Ceremony of Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) MD class of 2013.

He has been awarded the Master of the American College of Physicians (MACP) (highest award), Fellow of Academy on Communication in Healthcare (FACH), Fellow of International Association on Communication in Healthcare (FIACH), American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA), award-winning member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and the Gold Humanism Honor Society. American Society of Hypertension designated him a Clinical Specialist in Hypertension. He is a certified Mentor for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

He has received numerous awards including American Medical Women Association (AMWA) Exceptional Mentor Award, Medical University of South Carolina Best Mentor & Teacher Award, Best Doctors in America ® Award, David E. Rogers Teaching Award from Society of General Internal Medicine twice, Department of Veterans Affair Excellence in Medical Education Award, American College of Physicians (ACP) Young Physician Award, ACP James A. McFarland Award in Excellence in Teaching and Humanism, ACP Laureate Award, ACP Arizona Chapter Leader of the Year Award and Outstanding International Medical Graduate (IMG) award. He has been awarded the Best Faculty Award and inducted in the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Medical Honor Society & Gold Humanism Honor Society. He has received the Phoenix VA Healthcare Systems Gerald Schmitz Award.

Dr. Rehman has participated in many landmark research trials as the VA Principal Investigator; examples include ACCORD, SPRINT, ACCOMPLISH, ONTARGET, PROMINENT etc. He has published hundreds of articles and book chapters. He is reviewer for many scientific journals such as Annals of Internal Medicine, Journal of General Internal Medicine, and American Journal of Hypertension etc. He is the Associate Editor of Medical Encounter and was the editor of Journal Scan.

Dr. Rodgers is an Associate Professor of Medicine and the Associate Chief of Cardiology for Education at The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School. He led the development of the cardiovascular curriculum for the new medical school. Dr. Rodgers teaches medical students, residents and cardiology fellows on a regular basis. Beyond medical education, he has a particular interest in prevention the early detection of heart disease, team-based care and innovative value based care for the safety net population.

Dr. Rodgers received his medical education at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. He completed his fellowship training in cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He began his cardiology practice in Austin in 1989. Dr. Rodgers has been very active in the American College of Cardiology over the last 25 years. He has served as the Chair of the Board of Governors, the Board of Trustees and as Co-chair Leadership Council of the Cardiovascular Team.

He has also served on a number of other committees and writing groups within the College He received the Distinguished Fellow of the American College of Cardiology Award in 2017. This year he was awarded Master of the American College of Cardiology.

Carlos R. Rodriguez, MD, FAAFP, CAQSM, is the Program Director of the Family Medicine Residency and Designated Institutional Official at Evara Health Systems in Clearwater, Florida. He is the former Program Director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship and Assistant Director of the Family Residency Program at Bayfront Health Saint Petersburg.

Dr. Rodriguez received his Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Harvard University in 1989. He completed his medical degree at the Rosalind Franklin University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School in North Chicago, Illinois, in 1993. Following medical school, Dr. Rodriguez completed a General Surgery Internship at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. He then joined the United States Navy, where he served as a General Medical Officer from 1994 to 1997. After completing his active duty commitment, he remained in the United States Naval Reserve until 2002 when he was honorably discharged.

He completed the Family Medicine Residency Program at The Medical Center of Central Georgia/Mercer University School of Medicine in 2001, where he served as Chief Resident during his final year and received the Resident Teacher Award. Subsequently, he completed a fellowship in Sports Medicine at Bayfront Medical Center.

Dr. Rodriguez has published sports medicine articles in FP Essentials, Florida Family Physician, and American College of Sports Medicine Health and Fitness Journals. He is a former editorial member of the AAFP’s FP Essentials and serves as faculty for University at Sea, providing sports and family medicine CME courses.

Dr. Rodriguez is a diplomate of the American Board of Family Medicine and holds a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Sports Medicine. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians and a member of the Florida Academy of Family Physicians and the American Medical Society of Sports Medicine.

Outside of his professional duties, Dr. Rodriguez enjoys playing tennis, home remodeling, and spending time with his family. He is dedicated to his patients and to teaching the future generation of Family Medicine physicians who will continue the mission of serving those in need.

Dr. Domingo Rodriguez-Cue is a board-certified physician in sleep medicine and family medicine who has dedicated his career to the holistic pillars of health. After earning his medical degree in San Pedro de Macoris in the Dominican Republic, he completed general surgery training at Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey before transferring to East Carolina University (ECU). At ECU, he completed a rural residency program and a faculty development fellowship. Dr. Rodriguez-Cue spent the early part of his career training students and residents at ECU before entering private practice in Williamston, North Carolina. There, he served as Chief of Staff for seven years and provided comprehensive family medicine care, ranging from obstetrics to intensive care. His innovative use of telemedicine in rural practice was also notably featured on ABC’s World News Tonight.

Recognizing sleep as a critical component of overall well-being alongside diet and exercise, Dr. Rodriguez-Cue transitioned his clinical focus and completed specialized training at the Atlanta Sleep School at Northside Hospital. Today, he operates a dedicated sleep practice spanning multiple locations across North Carolina. His clinical work includes a strong pediatric focus and specializes in non-pharmacologic approaches to insomnia, movement disorders, sleep apnea, narcolepsy, and circadian rhythm disorders. He is highly experienced in interpreting comprehensive Level I polysomnograms as well as Level II-IV home-based tests, frequently collaborating with dentists to provide oral appliance therapies alongside traditional CPAP treatments. An active member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine, CHEST, and the AAFP, Dr. Rodriguez-Cue is also a published author, having contributed a chapter on sleep diagnosis and home sleep apnea testing to the textbook Dental Sleep Medicine: A Clinical Guide.

Marc Romain, MBBCh(Wits), DCH(SA), FCP(SA), MMed(Wits), is a specialist in internal medicine, general intensive care, and nephrology. He serves as a senior physician in the Medical Intensive Care Unit and is the Head of the Critical Care Nephrology and Nutrition Unit at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. Additionally, he is a Senior Lecturer in clinical education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Faculty of Medicine.

Dr. Romain completed his undergraduate medical studies and specialty training in internal medicine in South Africa before moving to Israel, where he completed his fellowship training in both General Intensive Care and Nephrology at Hadassah University Hospital. His clinical and academic interests focus on multi-organ support therapies—including continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), hemoperfusion, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)—as well as aviation and disaster medicine. He has served on international medical delegations for disaster relief and emergency response, including a deployment to the Israeli Defense Force Field Hospital in Turkey following the 2023 earthquake.

With a deep passion for educating the next generation of healthcare professionals, Dr. Romain is the founder and co-director of the ICU Academy and the Director of the CRRT School at Hadassah. He is highly active in teaching medical students, nurses, and fellows, and has been awarded multiple outstanding teacher and outstanding doctor accolades from both Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical Center.

Outside of his clinical and academic work, Dr. Romain is an active volunteer physician for United Hatzalah. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family and running marathons.

I Leslie Rubin MD is Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Morehouse School of Medicine, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine, Co-director of the Southeast Pediatric Environmental Health Unit at Emory University, Medical Director of The Rubin Center for Autism and Developmental Pediatrics, and Founder of Break the Cycle of Health Disparities Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia.

As a Developmental Pediatrician, he has provided care for children and adults with developmental disabilities for decades, and in 2016 published the 3rd edition of his text: “Health Care for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Across the Lifespan, (Springer Switzerland)”

As an Environmental Pediatrician, he started a program in 2004 called: Break the Cycle of Children’s Environmental Health Disparities, to raise awareness of children’s environmental health disparities and cultivate future leaders. This program, now in its 15th year, has resulted in the publication of more than 100 student papers in 10 international journal supplements and 10 Books with Nova, publishers in their Public Health Series.

He is actively involved in a number of local, national and international organization and has received a several awards for his work.

Dania Rumbak, M.D.

Attending Physician, Halifax Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
Florida State University School of Medicine
Dania Rumbak is a pediatrician, pediatric intensivist and healthcare entrepreneur. She received her BA from the University of Florida and her MD from the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine and is Board-Certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care.

She is currently an Attending Physician in Pediatric Urgent Care at Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach, Florida and serves as Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Florida State University School of Medicine. She has previously worked at Columbia University Medical Center, New York University Medical Center, and the Children's Hospital at Montefiore, where she received all her medical training (residency and fellowship.) She has published multiple works in medical journals. She was also co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of a healthcare startup called Baby Doctor. She lives in Ormond Beach, Florida with her husband and two children.

Camille Sabella, MD, is the Director of the Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Cleveland Clinic Children’s and a Professor of Pediatrics at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.

Dr. Sabella received his M.D. degree from the Northeast Ohio Medical University, served a pediatric residency at Akron Children’s Hospital in Akron, Ohio, and completed a fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, CA. Dr. Sabella is board-certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Sabella attends on the Pediatric Infectious Diseases consultation service at Cleveland Clinic Children’s, where he sees pediatric patients with a wide variety of infections. His research interests include viral infections, antimicrobial therapy and stewardship, infections in immunocompromised patients, hospital-acquired infections, and the use of telemedicine in pediatric infectious diseases.

Dr. Sabella is the editor of the Cleveland Clinic Intensive Review of Pediatrics textbook (now in its fifth edition), co-editor of The Color Atlas of Pediatrics, and associate editor of the 5-Minute Pediatric Consult (7th and 8th editions). He also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of AccessPediatrics. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles dealing with diverse aspects of pediatric infectious diseases.

Dr. Sabella has received numerous awards related to his educational commitment to fellows, residents, and medical students. He directs the annual Pediatric Board Review Course at the Cleveland Clinic, which is currently in its 30th year. He is the past Chair of the Education Committee of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.

Dr. Sabella is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. He is also a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.

Dr. Carolyn Joy Sachs graduated from the honors program in medical education at Northwestern University in 1990 and then went on to completed an emergency medicine residency and research fellowship at the UCLA Emergency Medicine Center where she has stayed on ever since and currently serves in the rank of Clinical Professor step III. Her career research interests have centered on violence against women and she has authored many peer reviewed publications and book chapters on sexual assault and intimate partner violence.

For the last 23 years she has served as a chairwoman of the UCLA Intimate Partner Violence Committee. She serves as the voluntary medical director for a comprehensive forensic sexual assault examination program which provides over 1200 emergent sexual assault examinations to adults and children living in Southern California each year.

Dr. Sachs also a full time practicing academic emergency physician in the UCLA Emergency Department with an interest in physician well-being. She serves on the UCLA physician Health and Wellness committee and as the faculty advisor for the UCLA/OV Emergency Residency Wellness Committee. She has lectured nationally and internationally about intimate partner violence, sexual assault, provider well-being and other emergency medicine topics.

Frances M. Sahebzamani (Rankin), PhD, ARNP, FAANP, is an Adult Nurse Practitioner at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute. She joined Moffitt's Team Member Medical Clinic in June 2014 to develop, implement, and manage the Healthy Weight and Cardiovascular Risk Reduction Program, which focuses on treating patients with obesity and metabolic dysregulation.

Prior to joining the Moffitt team, Dr. Sahebzamani served as an Assistant Professor in the University of South Florida (USF) College of Medicine's Family Medicine Division for 23 years, where she also practiced in the college's Family Medicine Clinic. In 2006, she was recruited to the USF College of Nursing to develop and direct their Advanced Nursing Practice Doctorate (DNP) Program.

Dr. Sahebzamani is a Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Her clinical practice expertise lies in primary care, obesity, metabolic dysregulation, and preventive cardiology. Her dedicated research program mirrors her clinical work, emphasizing obesity, metabolic dysregulation, and cardiovascular risk reduction within primary care settings.

Tracy G. Sanson, MD, FACEP, is an emergency physician with more than 20 years of experience in emergency medicine education, emergency department management, and leadership. She is the founder and CEO of TracySansonMD, LLC, where she serves as a consultant, coach, and educator specializing in leadership development and medical education.

Dr. Sanson completed her medical degree and residency training at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Over the past two decades, she has held director positions within the US Air Force, the University of South Florida, and TeamHealth.

A dedicated leader in her specialty, Dr. Sanson has served in varied leadership positions with the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), the Council of Residency Directors (CORD), and the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). She is a member of the ACEP Speaker's Bureau and the 911 Network. She has also been a member of the ACEP faculty for many years, instructing for the ACEP Teaching Fellowship and the Emergency Department Directors Academy.

Dr. Sarantopoulos serves as Chief of the Division of Pain Management within the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine and Pain Management at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He also holds dual academic appointments as Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Professor of Ophthalmology at the university.

With extensive experience in pain medicine, Dr. Sarantopoulos places a special emphasis on evaluating and managing patients suffering from chronic eye pain. Clinical research in his department focuses on preventing the transition from acute to chronic pain, alongside ongoing studies into the management of chronic ocular pain. Additionally, his basic science investigations explore neuronal ion channels and signal transduction in peripheral neuropathic pain. An active contributor to the medical community, Dr. Sarantopoulos has published extensively in peer-reviewed biomedical journals and authored numerous book chapters pertinent to his specialties.

Dr. Sareen is Professor and Head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Manitoba, Provincial Specialty Lead for Mental Health and Addictions, Shared Health. He has published over 450 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of traumatic stress, anxiety disorders, indigenous suicide prevention, and military and veteran mental health.

Brooke Schaefer is a nurse practitioner and the Senior Vice President at Volunteers of America, Ohio & Indiana. Certified in addiction medicine and holding a Master of Business Administration, she has dedicated her career to improving patient outcomes and advancing integrated services. Brooke is also the founder of Renewal Library, a nonprofit dedicated to providing books to individuals in recovery programs.

She lives on a farm in central Indiana with her husband and four children, along with their two pet mini ponies and two pet mini sheep.

My research focus is centered on the design of novel strategies to improve patients suffering from thrombotic disorders. My three areas of interest are in the utility of inhibitors of the contact activation pathway of blood coagulation to prevent medical device-related thrombosis, the prevention of blood clotting in patients with sepsis, and the resolution and prevention of post thrombotic syndrome.

Dr. Khalid H. Sheikh is a preventative cardiologist specializing in cardiac wellness, longevity, and cardiovascular imaging. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases, holding additional sub-specialty certifications in echocardiography, cardiac CT imaging, and advanced lipid management. In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Sheikh serves as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine and as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Duke University Global Health Institute.

A dedicated researcher and global health advocate, Dr. Sheikh’s passion for global heart health has led him to deliver volunteer medical services, teach, and conduct research in medically underserved countries. He has served as the principal investigator in over 100 national and international clinical trials and has authored more than 150 scientific abstracts, peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and reviews. Dr. Sheikh frequently speaks at national and international forums on cardiovascular disease and cardiac wellness, and he is the author of the critically acclaimed heart wellness book, "Don’t Let Your Heart Attack."

Dr. Sieg received his medical degree and completed his residencies at the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Kansas City, Kansas. He is currently board certified in Addiction Psychiatry, Adult Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry.

He is also a board-certified Medical Review Officer. Serving as Medical Director of Behavioral Health, Dr. Sieg has over 35 years of experience in practice having worked in a variety of settings including outpatient, community mental health & managed care as well as private, public & state psychiatric hospitals and addiction treatment programs. He has authored numerous scientific articles and also had past involvement in clinical psychopharmacology research.

Dr. Sieg maintains memberships with the American Psychiatric Association, the Florida Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Psychiatry & the Law, and the American Medical Association. He currently practices and resides in the Orlando, Florida metropolitan area.

Mervyn Singer is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University College London (UCL), UK. He trained in medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, London, and then undertook subsequent junior doctor posts in hospitals around the London area. He performed his doctorate research thesis developing a novel hemodynamic monitoring tool using esophageal Doppler ultrasonography; the subsequent technology (CardioQ) is now used in over 30 countries worldwide. He then began formal critical care training in an academic rotation at UCL in 1989 and was appointed Professor in 2001.

He is currently Director of the Bloomsbury Institute of Intensive Care Medicine and runs a research group with specific interests in sepsis and multi-organ failure, tissue oxygenation, infection, novel diagnostics, and monitoring. His research funding comes from the Wellcome Trust, UK Medical Research Council, European Union, and UK National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), among others. He has published widely, with multiple papers in the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, and JAMA.

In addition to his esophageal Doppler monitor, Dr. Singer has developed a novel tissue PO2 monitor to gauge the adequacy of tissue perfusion. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he collaborated with the Mercedes Formula-1 racing team to develop a flow generator that provided continuous positive airways pressure (CPAP) for patients, a device utilized in 110 hospitals in the UK and approximately 25 countries worldwide. He is currently developing two novel drugs: one for inducing a "suspended animation" state for ischaemia-reperfusion injury and another for improving cardiac function in sepsis. Dr. Singer was the first intensivist appointed as a Senior Investigator by the NIHR (now Emeritus) and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 2024 for his services to intensive care medicine.

Dr. Singer lectures widely and has delivered four plenary lectures at the Congresses of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and the US Society of Critical Care Medicine, as well as at multiple other international congresses and symposia. He has authored and edited several textbooks, including the Oxford Textbook of Critical Care and the Oxford Handbook of Critical Care, now in its 4th Edition. He previously served as Editor-in-Chief of Intensive Care Medicine Experimental (ICMx) and co-chaired the International Sepsis Redefinitions Task Force that developed the latest Sepsis-3 definitions.

Itzchak Slotki, MD, is an Emeritus Associate Professor of Medicine at Hadassah Hebrew University in Jerusalem and currently serves as the Director of the Amal Adumim Dialysis Unit. He previously served as the Director of the Division of Nephrology at Shaare Zedek Medical Center for nearly 20 years.

Dr. Slotki received his medical training at Manchester University in the United Kingdom. He completed fellowships at the University of Wales in Cardiff and a research fellowship in the Renal Physiology Section at Boston University Medical Center in the United States.

A recognized leader in his field, Dr. Slotki is a Past President of the Israeli Society of Nephrology and Hypertension and has served as the Israeli Delegate to the European Union Medical Section (Renal Section) since 2009. His primary research interests include anemia management in chronic kidney disease (CKD), monitoring iron status, and biomarkers for acute kidney injury. He has authored six book chapters and over 60 peer-reviewed articles.

Dr. Slotki resides in Israel, where he is married and the proud father of five children and grandfather to 23 grandchildren.

Benn E. Smith, MD, FAAN, FANA, is a member of the Mayo Clinic Emeritus Staff and serves on the Board of Directors for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN).

Dr. Smith served on the Mayo Clinic Arizona (MCA) Neurology Faculty for over three decades, having joined in 1990 following the completion of his fellowship training in EMG and Peripheral Nerve at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. During his tenure in the Neuromuscular Division, he held several leadership positions, including Director of the EMG Laboratory, Director of the Sensory Laboratory, and Director of the Neuromuscular Fellowship Program.

In 2025, Dr. Smith transitioned to Emeritus Staff at Mayo Clinic. He continues to practice part-time, performing electromyography (EMG) consultations in the Arizona community.

Michael Snyder, MD, FACS, FASMBS, DABOM, is a nationally and internationally recognized bariatric and advanced laparoscopic surgeon. He serves as the Medical Director of the Bariatric Surgery Program at Rose Medical Center in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Snyder earned his medical degree from the University of Miami School of Medicine and completed his surgical internship and residency at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon. He is board-certified in General Surgery and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine.

A leader in metabolic and bariatric surgery, Dr. Snyder is an active member of the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS). He leads one of the most comprehensive and highest-volume bariatric programs in the region, having performed more than 10,000 primary and revisional bariatric procedures. He regularly cares for patients from across the United States and internationally.

Known for his expertise, innovation, and commitment to patient-centered care, Dr. Snyder is dedicated to advancing the field of obesity treatment. He focuses on improving long-term outcomes through a multidisciplinary, evidence-based approach.

Lucille Contreras Sollazzo, MSN, RN-BC, NPD, is a healthcare law specialist and has been an educator since 2012, addressing a primary target audience of Registered Professional Nurses, Nurse Practitioners and licensed healthcare multidisciplinary teams. She holds a master's degree in nursing education and is Board Certified in Nursing Professional Development.

Lucille has been a Registered Professional Nurse since 1986 and has worked in various nursing specialties including the telemetry, home care, medical-surgical and oncology areas of concentration, but most of her bedside nursing experience was in critical care nursing.  

Timothy Spruill earned his M.A. in Counseling Psychology (George Mason University, 1977). After 4 years teaching undergraduate psychology, he worked in a private psychiatric hospital while pursuing his Ed.D. In Counselor Education & Counseling Psychology (Western Michigan University, 1992). Following three years as a rehabilitation psychologist, he was appointed Associate Professor in Counseling Psychology at Andrews University. In 1998 he became the first Behavioral Medicine faculty member at AdventHealth"s Osteopathic Family Medicine residency. After joining the medical staff (Psychiatry Department) in 2001, he became a consultant to the E.D. which ultimately lead to the clinical examination of approximately 4000 suicidal patients over the following 15 years. His role was to assess their imminent risk of self-harm and recommend disposition. Drawing on this expertise, he began conducting day-long training seminars on the ethical assessment and treatment of suicidal patients for mental health professionals in 2010. Since that time, he has presented in 100 cities in 37 states. As a direct result of his extensive consultation in the E.D., In 2007 he was the first psychologist nationally to be invited to join the Emergency Medicine residency faculty. He currently has clinical appointments at three Florida Medical schools and ten scholarly publications. Motivated by his belief that the future of counseling involves integrating services into primary care, in August of 2014, he created an internship program embedded in the Primary Care residency clinic for University of Central Florida graduate students in the Mental Health Counseling Marriage, Couple and Family Therapy Master"s Degree Program. He has maintained his FL license as a Psychologist since 2002.

Professor Charles Sprung, MD, JD, is the Director Emeritus of the General Intensive Care Unit in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and full Professor at Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel, where he has worked for the last 37 years. He was previously the Director of the Section of Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the VA Medical Center and the University of Miami for 13 years. He graduated from the University of Miami School of Law in 1988. Professor Sprung was the Chairman of the Committee on Ethics Section of the US Society of Critical Care Medicine and of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) for many years.

Professor Sprung has been active in research, particularly studying sepsis, septic shock, and ethical issues for more than 40 years. He was a member of the ACCP/SCCM consensus conference on definitions of sepsis in 1991 and a member of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines from 2002 to 2021.

He has participated in many sepsis studies, including those of encephalopathy and treatments with corticosteroids, monoclonal antibodies to endotoxin and tumor necrosis factor, interleukin-1 receptor antagonist, antithrombin III, tissue factor pathway inhibitor, human activated protein C, and recombinant platelet-activating factor. He has also served as a member of Clinical Evaluation and Data Safety and Monitoring Committees for many phase III, multicenter sepsis trials. Professor Sprung coordinated the prospective, multicenter European trial of corticosteroids in septic shock, Corticus. He was the Coordinator of several multi-center studies in ethics including End of Life Decision Making and Procedures in European Intensive Care Units (ETHICUS), Systematic Study of General Ethical Principles Involved in End of Life Decisions for Patients in European Intensive Care Units (ETHICATT), Triage Decision Making for the Elderly in European Intensive Care units (ELDICUS), and Worldwide Consensus for End of Life Decisions (Welpicus).

The Hadassah General ICU has treated more terror victims than any other ICU in the world. In addition, Professor Sprung served as the Chairman of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Ethics Section Task Force for ICU Triage for Disasters and Pandemic Influenza, which produced recommendations for the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, and he was a member of the American College of Chest Physicians Task Force for Mass Critical Care during a Disaster, which also published recommendations. During COVID-19, he was the first author of a paper written by an international group of triage experts on a new algorithm for triaging patients to the ICU during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic and the Chairman of the Medical Subcommittee that developed the National policy of the State of Israel for Triage Decisions for Severely Ill Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Professor Sprung has been or continues to be a member of several international committees of medical organizations, world health organizations, and governmental agencies. He has published extensively on all of the above and multiple ICU areas with more than 380 original articles and 50 book chapters. He received the 2011 ESICM Medal for outstanding contributions to both ESICM and to the development of Intensive Care Medicine worldwide, and the Roger C. Bone Advances in End-of-Life Care Award from the CHEST Foundation of the American College of Chest Physicians in October 2013. He was the 2015 Bonei Zion Prize Recipient for Science & Medicine, an award recognizing outstanding Anglo Olim who encapsulate the spirit of modern-day Zionism by contributing in a significant way towards the State of Israel.

Kevin T. Stephan, MD, FACP, is a board-certified Infectious Disease physician who currently serves as the Chief of Infectious Disease at San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington, New Mexico. In this role, he is active in patient care, antibiotic stewardship, infection prevention, and serves as a GME Infectious Disease Instructor for the Internal Medicine Residency program.

Prior to joining San Juan Regional Medical Center, Dr. Stephan served as the Vice President of Medical Affairs for nodSpecialists, a telemedicine-based Infectious Disease practice. Before that, he spent 15 years at St. Mary’s Medical Center in Duluth, Minnesota, where he built the Infectious Disease section from the ground up and eventually became the Chief of Medical Specialties and Chief of Infectious Disease. During his tenure in Duluth, he was voted a top Infectious Disease physician by Duluth Superior Magazine and received multiple PRC Five Star Excellence Awards for ranking in the top 10% of physicians nationally for overall quality of care.

Dr. Stephan also has a distinguished 23-year career in the United States military, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force Medical Corps. He served in multiple roles as a physician, researcher, and educator, including directing the HIV Unit at Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. He deployed as a medical group leader during Operation Enduring Freedom and provided care in humanitarian operations in Central America and Africa, earning the Meritorious Service Medal and Air Force Commendation Medal for his service.

Dr. Sara Szkola is an Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine and a pediatric hospitalist at Stanford Health Care TriValley and California Pacific Medical Center. She is a national leader in wellness and interdisciplinary education, serving as Physician Wellness Champion for the Stanford Pediatric Hospital Medicine Division and Chair of the CPMC Health and Wellness Committee, where she advocates for the well-being of over 1600 clinicians. Dr. Szkola also co-chairs the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Community Pediatric Hospital Medicine Subcommittee, leading national initiatives that elevate the voices and needs of community-based pediatric hospitalists. She is a Co-Director of Stanford Pediatric Hospital Medicine Regional Simulation Programs, and her work in simulation, resuscitation training, and low-cost, high-impact education has been recognized across multiple institutions. Dr. Szkola is passionate about creating resilient systems that support high quality pediatric care and the teams that deliver it.
Education & Board Certifications

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  Board Certification: Pediatric Hospital Medicine, American Board of Pediatrics (2019)
  


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  Board Certification: Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics (2011)
  


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  Residency: University of Chicago Pediatric Residency (2011)
  


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  Medical Education: MD, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine (2008)
  

Michael J. Tan, MD is Professor of Internal Medicine at Northeastern Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) in Rootstown, Ohio. At NEOMED, he is Section Chief of the Infectious Disease Section of the Drugs and Therapeutics course. Dr. Tan is Physician Lead for Summa Health Medical Group-Infectious Disease at Summa Health in Akron, Ohio where he is also Division Chief of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Summa Health, and Medical Director for the Summa Health Clinical Research Center. Dr. Tan is board certified in infectious disease and internal medicine. He obtained his medical degree from the Northeastern Universities College of Medicine (now NEOMED) and completed his residency training at Summa Health System. He then completed a fellowship in Infectious Disease at the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. He is a practicing infectious disease specialist and a frequent lecturer on various infectious disease topics.

Dr. Tan is a Master of the American College of Physicians (ACP) and Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). He is former Regent for the American College of Physicians and past-Governor for the Ohio Chapter of the ACP. He is currently Treasurer of the ACP, chair of the Financial Policy and Audit Committee, member of the Governance, Compensation, and Membership Insurance Trust Committees. He chaired the Mastership and Awards Committees and was a member of the IM2019 Scientific Program committee, member of the Credentials committee 2019-2021, member of the Chapters subcommittee 2015-2019, and Chair of the Chapters subcommittee 2017-2019.

Dr. Tan’s primary research interests include participation in multi-centered controlled trials of new and novel treatments for Clostridium difficile infection, skin and soft tissue infection, and pneumonia. He is co-editor of Tan JS, File TM Jr., Salata RA, Tan MJ (eds.) Expert Guide to Infectious Diseases, 2nd edition (2008, ACP Press) and Rosenthal KS and Tan MJ (eds.) Rapid Review Microbiology and Immunology 3rd edition (2010, Mosby). Dr. Tan is listed in Best Doctors in America (2010 to present).

William O. Tatum IV, DO, FAAN, FACNS, is a Professor in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Health Sciences and a senior consultant in the Department of Neurology at Mayo Clinic Florida. Board-certified in Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology, and Epilepsy, he serves as the Director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center and the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Neurological Association, and the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society.

Dr. Tatum completed his medical education at the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery in Des Moines, Iowa, followed by a neurology residency at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. He then completed a two-year epilepsy fellowship at Graduate Hospital, affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the Mayo Clinic as a clinician-educator in 2009, he pioneered the Tampa General Hospital-University of South Florida Comprehensive Epilepsy Center.

A dedicated leader and researcher, Dr. Tatum serves on the board of the Epilepsy Foundation of America and is the Chair of the clinical neurophysiology section of the American Academy of Neurology. He is a past president of the American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology and the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society. His research focuses on drug-resistant epilepsy, seizure semiology, and clinical neurophysiology, and he frequently serves as a principal investigator for pharmacologic and device clinical trials. An accomplished author and invited international speaker, Dr. Tatum has published 160 peer-reviewed manuscripts, authored 35 book chapters, and edited eight books. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief for Epilepsy and Behavior Reports and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology.

Dr. Randolph Taylor II earned his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Taylor completed both his internship and residency in family medicine at Womack Army Medical Center in Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. He also received his primary care sports medicine fellowship from Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg, Florida. He has served as the team physician for the University of South Florida volleyball team, Eckerd College athletics, and Houston Baptist University athletics. He serves as a ringside physician for professional and amateur boxing and MMA, and has served as the Finish Line Medical Captain for the Houston Marathon.

Dr. Taylor found his way into medicine through a combination of a strong interest in science and a love of sports. His diverse background includes providing inpatient, outpatient, and battlefield medical care as a staff physician to soldiers, their families, and veterans during his military service. While on active duty, Dr. Taylor completed a combat tour in Iraq supporting Operation New Dawn. He was also the medical director for the Warrior Transition Battalion at Ft. Campbell, KY. Dr. Taylor received an honorable discharge at the rank of Major from the United States Army in 2013.

Previously, Dr. Taylor served as faculty for the Memorial Family Medicine Residency in Sugar Land, TX, and as clinical faculty at Texas A&M College of Medicine. Currently practicing at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, he treats acute injuries and chronic medical diseases. He is highly interested in concussion management, ultrasound-guided therapy for treating musculoskeletal injuries, combative sports, and innovative nontraditional methods of advancing health care. In his spare time, Dr. Taylor enjoys spending time with family, flag football, softball, and bowling.

Dr. Davis Thomas is an Orofacial Pain specialist with numerous academic appointments, including Clinical Associate Professor and Program Director at Rutgers School of Dental Medicine, Associate Professor of Dentistry at Rochester Medical School, and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia.

After earning his Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) in India and his Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) from New York University, Dr. Thomas completed an extensive series of post-graduate degrees. He holds Master's degrees in Orofacial Pain (MSD) from Rutgers University, Clinical Pain Management (MSc) from the University of Edinburgh, and Sleep Medicine (MSc Med) from the University of Sydney. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Pharmacology and Pharmacogenomics.

A prolific author and educator, Dr. Thomas has published scores of peer-reviewed articles and multiple textbook chapters. He has also served as a Special Guest Editor for leading journals, including the Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA). He lectures extensively around the world and serves as a director for advanced courses in Orofacial Pain, TMD, and Sleep Medicine.

Dr. Thomas is a commissioned officer in the United States Army Reserves and maintains multiple faculty appointments at universities internationally. His work is focused exclusively on the research, teaching, and practice of Pain, Orofacial Pain, Sleep Medicine, and Pharmacology.

Kenneth Tomecki, MD, FAAD, is a staff physician and Vice Chairman of the Department of Dermatology at the Cleveland Clinic, where he has practiced since 1980. He earned his undergraduate degree from Columbia College and his medical degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Tomecki completed his internship and dermatology residency at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, followed by a prestigious fellowship at the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

A clinician and educator whose expertise covers the gamut of adult clinical dermatology, Dr. Tomecki has special interests in infectious diseases and medical education. He is a highly distinguished leader in his specialty, having served as President of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) from 2021 to 2022, and as Vice President from 2016 to 2017. He has dedicated extensive service to the AAD, including time on the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, and numerous task forces. Furthermore, he is a former Vice President of both the International Society of Dermatology and the American Dermatological Association.

An active lecturer on both national and international stages, Dr. Tomecki has authored more than 100 primary and secondary publications, including over 40 book chapters. He has also served as an assistant editor and editorial board member for the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology (JAAD). Beyond his extensive medical career, he enjoys politics, history, baseball, and spending time with his wife of over 40 years, Eileen, and their family.

Gina Touch, PhD, is the Behaviorist and Core Faculty for the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix (UA COM-P) Banner Family Medicine Residency, with a dedicated focus on Graduate Medical Education and Lifestyle Medicine curriculum development. She holds an appointment as an Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Family, Community, and Preventive Medicine at UA COM-P. Her extensive academic and clinical background includes directing the Behavioral Sciences, Wellness, and Professional Identity Development curricula at the college, as well as serving as a clinical psychologist in Addiction Medicine within the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Dr. Touch graduated from the University of Houston with a doctorate in Counseling Psychology and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Geropsychology at the Houston VA Medical Center. She has been a practicing clinical psychologist and a core faculty member in graduate psychology and medical education programs for over 25 years.

Stacey Van Gelderen, DNP, MS, RNC-MNN, PHN, is a full professor at Minnesota State University in Mankato, where she has focused her career on supporting perinatal women and neonates, and building family-focused caring practices. For over 24 years, she has supported clients in obstetrics, women's health, and family care.

Dr. Van Gelderen offers workshops and consultations for maternal-newborn care, nursing education, family practice, and simulation. She has a special clinical interest in supporting high-risk, low-occurrence obstetrical emergencies, such as hypertension in pregnancy, postpartum hemorrhage, cardiac conditions during pregnancy, and infertility.

She is the primary author of the Van Gelderen Family Care Rubric (VGFCR), an evidence-based, validated tool that helps healthcare professionals develop family assessment and communication skills. This tool is recognized by the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning and was honored as a 2018-2019 Article of Influence by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. The VGFCR instrument is currently utilized by healthcare staff and educators in twelve countries across the globe.

Dr. David Weiland is Board Certified in Internal Medicine & currently works with Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care. He is also working as the Director of Palliative Care at Advent Hospital in North Pinellas County. He has significant administrative and quality experience as Chief Medical Officer at HCA/Largo Medical Center for 5 years. He also served as the VPMA of Bayfront Medical Center for four years.

Dr. Weiland was Medical Director of Suncoast Hospice, where he oversaw quality, community outreach and developed inpatient hospice units and hospital-based palliative care teams. In addition, Dr. Weiland has served as Family Practice Faculty for the University of South Florida. He was board certified in Internal Medicine as well as Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

Dr. Weiland has served on numerous community boards including current Chairman of the Pinellas EMS Advisory Committee and the Pinellas County Commission Pill Mill Task Force dealing with illicit pain medication prescribing. He was the past president of the Pinellas County Medical Association and continues to take an active role in PCMA and FMA activities.

He lectures and presents clinical presentations nationally for the AAFP, including a diverse array of palliative and primary care topics including The Physiological Benefits of Humor, Medical Ethics, Depression, Alzheimer's Disease, Palliative Pain Management, Quality and Patient safety issues as well as conducts workshops on patient-centered communication to enhance the patient care experience.

Dr. Weismiller is a graduate of Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He completed his residency at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center in Charlottesville and a fellowship in Maternal-Child Health and graduate degree in Epidemiology at Brown University School of Medicine, Providence.

A Professor of Family Medicine at the new medical school of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, he provides full-scope care that includes inpatient and maternity care. A proponent of "reflection in practice" and "learner-centered instruction," he is recognized nationally for his work in continuing medical education and faculty development.

Having taught board review programs for the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) for more than 20 years, he is the founding and current chair of the AAFP Family Medicine Board Review Express™, as well as the AAFP's annual Family Medicine Update course.

He is a frequent presenter at AAFP Family Medicine Experience (FMX) and teaches American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) Knowledge Self-Assessments throughout the country. Dr. Weismiller is the author of numerous publications on issues related to women's and children's health, and he is an advocate for empowering individuals to make sound health care choices.

He is the father of three amazing daughters. He and his partner Brian make their home in Las Vegas.

Professor Ariel Weissman graduated from the Hadassah–Hebrew University Medical School in Jerusalem in 1988. He completed his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot in 1994, and subsequently served for two years as a senior physician in the IVF Unit. Prof. Weissman then undertook a two-year clinical and research fellowship under Professor Bob Casper at the Division of Reproductive Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Toronto, Canada.

Upon returning to Israel in 1998, he joined the IVF Unit in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Wolfson Medical Center, affiliated with Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Medicine, where he now holds the position of Full Professor. Since 2000, Prof. Weissman has co-authored the renowned Textbook of Assisted Reproductive Techniques: Laboratory and Clinical Perspectives. Now in its sixth edition, the textbook is regarded as one of the leading authoritative works in the field of assisted reproductive technology (ART).

Carol Weitzman, M.D. is a Developmental Behavioral Pediatrician and the Co-Director of the Autism Spectrum Center at Boston Children’s Hospital and Director of the CT Center for Developmental Pediatrics. She is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine. While at Yale, Dr. Weitzman was the Director of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics (DBP) and oversaw the fellowship training in DBP. Nationally, she is a past president of the Society for Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics (SDBP), and a past chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section of Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics. Dr. Weitzman is the author of the AAP Clinical Report “Promoting Optimal Development: Screening for Behavioral and Emotional Problems,” and the Health Care for Youth With Neurodevelopmental Disabilities: A Consensus Statement. She is a member of the American Board of Pediatrics Sub-Board and the American Academy of Pediatrics Autism Committee.

Michael J. Wilsey, Jr., MD, FAAP, NASPGHAN-F, is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine. He serves as the Director of Interventional Endoscopy and the Vice-Chief of the Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he also served as the former Chief of the Medical Staff.

Dr. Wilsey graduated from the University of Miami School of Medicine and completed his residency training in Pediatrics and fellowship training in Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition at Texas Children's Hospital and the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.

A leader in his field, Dr. Wilsey has authored over 100 publications and serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. He is a reviewer for several medical journals and has been nominated numerous times for awards in teaching excellence. Additionally, he is the Past-President of the Hillsborough County Pediatric Society, the former Florida Region 5 Representative for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and the former Associate Residency Director for the USF pediatric residency training program.

Dr. Winfield is a graduate of McGill Medical School in Montreal, Canada. After graduating in 1978, he went on to complete a Rotating Internship in Toronto and urological surgery residency (1978-84) at McGill University Teaching Hospitals. He then pursued two years of Fellowship training focusing on newer aspects of Endourology between 1984 and 1986.
Most of his professional academic career was at The University of Iowa where he moved through the ranks to Full Professor of Urology with tenure. While at University of Iowa he helped to pioneer laparoscopic and robotic surgery in the field of urology. Based on this work as well as numerous scientific publications, he became nationally and internationally recognized in this area of surgery. He performed the first laparoscopic partial nephrectomy in the world and continued to be a leading force in minimally invasive surgery through the 1990’s to 2015.
Dr. Winfield was elected to the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons in 2001, was president of the Northcentral Section of AUA in 2011, and has received numerous awards for cutting edge publications and contributions to urology. He has been a Reviewer for many peer-review journals.

He has lectured and operated in medical centers throughout the world. In 2009, Dr. Winfield was recruited by DCH Health Authority in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to begin a robotic surgical program and to help improve the laparoscopic surgical options for patients with urologic disorders. This hospital-based urology practice has allowed pursuit of academic interests in the private practice setting. As such, Dr. Winfield continues his teaching interest as Adjunct Clinical Professor at University of Alabama.

After receiving his M.D. from Northwestern University, Dr. Wolf completed a Urology residency at UCSF and then an Endourology/Laparoscopy Fellowship with Ralph Clayman. He joined the University of Michigan in 1996, and over the ensuing 20 years, he served as the Director of the Division of Endourology, the Director of the Endourology/Laparoscopy Fellowship, and the Associate Urology Department Chair for Surgical Services. In 2016, he joined the Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care at the Dell Medical School of the University of Texas at Austin, where he serves as the Associate Chair for Clinical Integration and Operations, Executive Associate Chair, and Chief of the Division of Surgical Specialties.

Dr. Wolf has served on the Boards of Directors of the Michigan Urologic Society, the Endourological Society, the Society of Academic Urologists, and the Texas Urological Society. He chaired the American Urological Association (AUA) Practice Guidelines Committee and was the inaugural chair of the AUA Science & Quality Council. At the University of Michigan, Dr. Wolf received the Silver Cystoscope Award for Urology Residency Teaching Excellence three times (1999, 2002, and 2005). He was appointed the inaugural David A. Bloom Professor of Urology in 2006. The Department of Urology awarded him the Faculty Service Award in 2011 and the Outstanding Achievement Award in 2012. He was inducted into the League of Educational Excellence of the University of Michigan Medical School in 2015, and that year he also received the inaugural Program Director's Award from the Endourological Society and was the Malcolm Coptcoat Lecturer for The British Association of Urologic Surgeons. In 2010, Dr. Wolf was elected to the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons. In 2018, he started a 6-year term as a Trustee of the American Board of Urology, assumed the role of President-Elect in 2022, and served as President in 2023. Dr. Wolf received a Distinguished Service Award from the AUA in 2019.

An author of over 325 peer-reviewed articles and videos, and over 175 invited publications, Dr. Wolf has served on the editorial boards of 12 journals. His scholarly work has been recognized by awards and/or research grants from the American Foundation for Urologic Disease, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Endourological Society, the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, and the AUA and 2 of its Sections.

Dr. Jeannette Wolfe is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Joy McCann Endowed Professor at the UMass Chan School of Medicine - Baystate. She has spent her entire attending career working and teaching in one of the busiest emergency departments in the Northeast.

In addition to emergency medicine, her passion lies in understanding the ways in which biological sex and gender influence wellness and disease. Cutting-edge research definitively shows that men and women often have different responses to the same illnesses, traumas, toxins, and therapies.

Dr. Wolfe's personal mission is to increase awareness of this information and use it to improve the medical care of both men and women. She is a national lecturer and writer, and she hosts the podcast Sex and Why, which explores how biological sex and gender influence our brains, bodies, and behavior.

Nathan D. Wong, PhD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, FNLA, FASPC, is a cardiovascular epidemiologist and specialist in preventive cardiology. He is a Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Heart Disease Prevention Program within the Division of Cardiology at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). He also holds joint appointments as a Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health at UCI, and as an Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at UCLA. He earned his BA in Biochemistry from Pomona College and his MPH and PhD degrees in Epidemiology from Yale University.

A globally recognized leader in his field, Dr. Wong currently serves as the President of the Interamerican Heart Foundation. He is a Past President of both the American Society for Preventive Cardiology (ASPC) and the Pacific Lipid Association. Additionally, he is an elected Academician of the Republic of Srpska Academy of Sciences and Arts and a Full Professor of the European Center for Peace and Development.

Dr. Wong’s primary research focuses on the epidemiology of subclinical atherosclerosis—particularly vascular calcification—as well as lipid and diabetes management. He has served as a funded investigator and CT reading center co-director for major collaborative groups, including the NIH-sponsored Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) and the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study. A prolific scholar, he has authored over 400 peer-reviewed manuscripts and co-edited seven textbooks, including the Braunwald Companion on Preventive Cardiology and two editions of the ASPC Manual on Preventive Cardiology.

Throughout his career, Dr. Wong has been honored with numerous prestigious awards. Most recently, he received the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award in Clinical Research from the UCI School of Medicine and the 2021 Joseph Stokes III, MD, Lifetime Achievement Award in Preventive Cardiology from the ASPC. He is also a recipient of the Jan Kellerman Memorial Award for Achievement in Preventive Cardiology and is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World.

Ameigh Worley, MD, MMS, FACOG, is a board-certified OB/GYN serving women of all ages. A highly skilled and compassionate physician, Dr. Worley has extensive training in high-risk obstetrics, minimally invasive gynecologic surgery, and infertility.

Dr. Worley earned her medical degree from the University of South Florida College of Medicine in Tampa, where she held a scholarly concentration in research. She completed an internship at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta and her residency training at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Prior to medical school, she earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology with honors and completed a post-baccalaureate pre-medical program at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, followed by a Master of Medical Sciences degree at Boston University School of Medicine.

Following her residency training in 2014, Dr. Worley joined Wake Forest University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. In 2016, she returned to her Central Florida roots, where she currently works as an OB/GYN Hospitalist at Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach and in a boutique-style private practice, Alliance Obstetrics & Gynecology, in Winter Park. In 2018, Dr. Worley received a Focused Practice Designation in Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology from the American Board of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Dr. Worley’s commitment to patient care extends well beyond the clinic. She has extensive experience in resident and medical student education, holding faculty affiliations with Wake Forest University, the University of Central Florida, and Florida State University. She is actively involved in simulation training, quality improvement initiatives, and clinical research. An experienced lecturer, Dr. Worley frequently educates other medical professionals and the public, and she is an avid volunteer in her community.

Dr. Worley is certified by the American Board of Obstetricians and Gynecologists as well as the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, and she is licensed to practice in Florida and North Carolina.

Dr. George Y. Wu is Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Hepatology Section, and holds the Herman Lopata Chair in Hepatitis Research at the University of Connecticut Health Center.

He has been a pioneer of targeted delivery of biological substances, including genes and mitochondria, specifically to hepatocytes. He has received an American Gastroenterological Association/Industry Research Scholar Award, an American Liver Foundation Research Prize, and an AGA-Gastroenterology Research Group Young Scientist Award.

Dr. Wu was elected a Fellow of both the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) and the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). He was also elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and the National Academy of Inventors, and has undertaken three Fulbright Scholar/Specialist programs. He has published more than 235 articles, edited 15 books, and is the founding Comprehensive Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Clinical and Translational Hepatology.

Erica B. Young, MD, is a board-certified Family Medicine physician and the owner of Relief Direct Primary Care in Savannah, Georgia. In addition to her clinical practice, where she holds a Certificate in Integrative Medicine, Dr. Young serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Clinical Preceptor for Mercer University School of Medicine.



Dr. Young earned her medical degree from the University of Alabama School of Medicine at Birmingham and completed her family medicine residency at Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah. Her background includes over a decade as a high school history teacher before pursuing a career in medicine.



Her dedication to medical education has been recognized with honors such as the Arnold P. Gold Humanism & Excellence in Teaching Award from Mercer's School of Medicine. She is a frequent lecturer and has been a featured speaker at national conferences and on medical podcasts.



Dr. Young resides in Savannah, Georgia, with her husband of 25 years. Their two daughters are pursuing their education at the University of Georgia and the University of Arkansas. In her free time, Dr. Young enjoys thrift store shopping, kayaking, party planning, and relaxing with her cats, Milo, Sybil, and Magnolia.

Jocelyn C. Young, DO, FAAFP, MSc, MSc(Ed), is a Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the United Health Services/Wilson Family Medicine Residency and SUNY Upstate Medical University, Binghamton Clinical Campus. She is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine.

Dr. Young completed medical school at the NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine and her residency at the University of Rochester Medical Center. She furthered her interest in medical education by completing a Master's degree in Health Professions Education at the Warner School of Education.

Dr. Young practices both inpatient and outpatient family medicine. She regularly teaches medical students and residents, and educates her peers through continuing medical education presentations.

Hoda Yousef, DMD, MS, is a distinguished prosthodontist, educator, and academic leader whose career reflects a sustained commitment to excellence in clinical care, scholarship, and teaching. She completed her specialty training in Prosthodontics at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (now Rutgers School of Dental Medicine), earning both a Certificate in Prosthodontics and a Master of Science degree in Oral Biology.

Dr. Yousef is a Diplomate of the American Board of Prosthodontics, reflecting the highest level of professional achievement in her specialty. She is also a Fellow of the American College of Prosthodontists, the International College of Dentists, and the Greater New York Academy of Prosthodontics.

At Rutgers School of Dental Medicine, Dr. Yousef serves as Professor and Vice-Chair in the Restorative Department of Prosthodontics and Biomaterials. She holds multiple key leadership roles, including Director of the Undergraduate Restorative Department, Director of Quality Assurance for the Restorative Department, Course Director of the Pre-Clinical Fixed Prosthodontics Course, Course Director for Implant Dentistry, and Clinical Director of the Implant Program. She also serves on the Research Committee for the Master’s Program in the Postgraduate Prosthodontics Program and previously served as President of the Academic Assembly Committee.

In addition to her academic leadership, Dr. Yousef maintains an active faculty practice as a prosthodontist at Rutgers Dental School, providing advanced restorative and implant care. She served as Past President of the New Jersey Chapter of the American College of Prosthodontists and currently serves as Chair of the Scientific Investigation Committee for the Greater New York Academy of Prosthodontics.

A respected lecturer and scholar, Dr. Yousef has delivered numerous presentations on implant prosthodontics at national meetings, including the Academy of Osseointegration and the American College of Prosthodontists, as well as at universities and study clubs across the country. She has also lectured internationally on the surgical placement and prosthetic restoration of dental implants. Her research interests focus on implant prosthodontics, with multiple publications stemming from her scholarly work. Dr. Yousef is deeply committed to education, mentorship, and the advancement of prosthodontics, viewing the opportunity to share knowledge as both a privilege and a professional responsibility.

Dr. Zappert is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. As a faculty member at the Center for Neuroscience in Women’s Health, Dr. Zappert was instrumental in developing and directing the first Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program in Women’s Health. Previously, Dr. Zappert had served as Director of Clinical Training at Vaden Student Health Services at Stanford.

Currently, she teaches a course on Sexual Violence and Recovery and supervises the clinical work of residents in the Department of Psychiatry. In addition to her clinical, teaching, and research responsibilities, Dr. Zappert served as the founding Director of Stanford University's SHARE/Title IX office (Sexual Harassment/Assault Prevention Education) from its inception in 1993, and now holds the title of Director Emerita.

In 2001, Dr. Zappert initiated the Allies for Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program for women graduate and post-doctoral students at Stanford, and more recently, extended that program to create the Allies for Women in Social Science and Humanities (WISSH) program.

Dr. Zappert's clinical work and research have focused on the areas of women's mental health, work, and wellness. Her book, Getting It Right: How Working Mothers Successfully Take Up the Challenge of Life, Work and Family, has been nationally recognized as an authoritative resource for professional women and their families. Most recently, Dr. Zappert was the senior author of an article on The Impact of a Support Group Intervention for Women in STEM. In 2017, she was awarded a Faculty Fellowship at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research.