As the Association of American Medical College’s (AAMC) Senior Director, Health Equity Research and Policy, Philip M. Alberti, Ph.D., supports the efforts of academic medical centers to build an evidence-base for effective programs, protocols, policies and partnerships aimed at eliminating inequities in health and healthcare. He joined the AAMC in 2012 to increase the visibility and to identify and develop opportunities that facilitate the conduct of health equity research at AAMC-member medical schools and teaching hospitals. Previously, Dr. Alberti led research, evaluation, and planning efforts for a Bureau within the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene that works to promote health equity between disadvantaged and advantaged neighborhoods. In that capacity, he developed research partnerships between government, academic, and local institutions, helped design policies and interventions targeting local inequities, and evaluated these and other efforts. Dr. Alberti holds a B.A. in psychology and a Ph.D. degree in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University and was a National Institute of Mental Health Fellow in the Psychiatric Epidemiology Training program.

Lolita Alkureishi, MD FAAP, is an Associate Professor in the Section of Academic Pediatrics at the University of Chicago and her main clinical practice is located at the Friend Family Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center. She is a leading researcher on incorporating computers in the exam room and on developing curricula to improve patient-centered technology use to enhance communication. She and her team have published extensively in this area, and have presented results of their work in a variety of national and international settings. Lolita serves as the Pediatric Clerkship Co-Director for the Pritzker School of Medicine, and is a dedicated mentor and educator for medical students and residents in both ambulatory and inpatient settings. She was a recipient of the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award from the Gold Foundation, which recognizes faculty members who demonstrate both clinical excellence and outstanding compassion in the delivery of care and who show respect for patients, their families, and healthcare colleagues.

Amarpreet (Preet) Ahluwalia is a fourth-year medical student at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, PA (graduating May 2019). She received her BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2013 from Schreyer Honors College, Penn State University and her MEd from the University of Missouri – St. Louis in 2015. She continues to apply her love for biomedical science and educational theory through medical education scholarship, with a particular focus on Health Systems Science. Her passion for enacting “learning with purpose” within clinical environments to best serve the needs of patients and communities continues to drive her passion for quality improvement efforts at a systems-wide level. She is starting her Categorical Internal Medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, MD in June 2019.

Dr. Arora is Assistant Dean of Scholarship & Discovery, and Director of GME Clinical Learning Environment and Innovation at University of Chicago. She bridges educational and hospital leadership to engage frontline staff, including physician trainees, to improve quality, safety, and value of care. She is an expert in using systems change principles and adult learning theory to engage frontline clinicians to improve care. She has served as PI of FDA, NIH, AHRQ, and ABIM Foundation grants in these areas and has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, with significant contributions to enhancing patient handoffs, improving sleep and fatigue for both residents and hospitalized patients, and in improving value through better alignment between GME and the health system. She has coauthored Understanding Value-Based Healthcare, a textbook from McGraw-Hill and is the Director of Educational Initiatives at Costs of Care, a global NGO curating clinical insights that drive better care at lower costs of care. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for American Board of Internal Medicine, the Media Advisory Board for Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the Steering Committee for AAMC Integrating Quality, the Advisory Panel for AHRQ Patient Safety Network, the Editorial Board of The Joint Commission Journal of Quality and Safety, and as the Social Media Deputy Editor for the Journal of Hospital Medicine. She is an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation, and she has been named a Master of Hospital Medicine by Society of Hospital Medicine and as one of "20 People Who Make American Healthcare Better" by HealthLeaders Magazine.

David Asch is Executive Director of the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation. He is the John Morgan Professor at the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He practices internal medicine at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, where he created and from 2001 to 2012 directed the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion. From 1998 to 2012 he was Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. His research is in the area of behavioral economics and aims to understand and improve how physicians and patients make medical choices. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and he has received awards for teaching, mentorship, and scholarship.

Brenda Battle, MBA, BSN serves as The University of Chicago Medical Center’s Vice President for the Urban Health Initiative (UHI) and Chief Diversity, Inclusion & Equity Officer (CDIO). She is responsible for designing and implementing care management initiatives that support integration of care between the hospital and community. Battle leads the UHI, UCMC’s community and public health division focused on eliminating health disparities and improving health and access to quality care for persons living on the Chicago’s South Side. As CDIO, Battle is responsible for crafting strategies and programs to create an environment that promotes diversity, inclusion and health equity. Prior to joining UCMS, was the founding director of the Center for Diversity and Cultural Competence for Barnes-Jewish Hospital on the Washington University Medical Center Campus, St. Louis, MO. She served as a health care lobbyist for several years and held several leadership roles in the managed care industry.

Dr. Karyn Baum is Professor of Medicine and Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, and Vice President, System Clinical Operations for M Health-Fairview. In her role as VP she co-directs the Health Transformation Center, which innovates, simplifies, and studies improvement in health delivery across the largest health system in Minnesota. She is a practicing hospitalist. Dr. Baum also teaches the QI/PS course for the University of Minnesota Executive MHA program. At the national level, she served as the senior consultant with Association of American Medical Colleges in Washington DC, directing their Educating for Quality initiatives nation-wide from 2015-2017. Dr. Baum earned her medical degree from the University of Michigan, her Masters of Science in Education from the University of Southern California, and her Masters of Healthcare Administration from the University of Minnesota.

Heather Britt is the Senior Director for healthcare burnout research at the Minnesota Hospital Association (MHA). She partners with MHA’s Chief Medical Officer in advancing the organization’s understanding of and action around healthcare burnout. Prior to joining MHA, Dr. Britt worked with a large provider organization in Minnesota engaging in applied research and one of her core areas of focus was physician burnout. Dr. Britt completed her undergraduate degree at Cornell University and has an MPH in health behavior from the University of North Carolina, along with a doctorate in epidemiology from the University of Minnesota.

Jo Ann Brooks, PhD, RN recently retired as the System Vice President for Safety and Quality at Indiana University Health (a 16 hospital system) based in Indianapolis, IN. She responsible for evaluating and aligning quality and safety activities/initiatives across the system for internal and external measure reporting. She is presently a Healthcare Quality Consultant. Dr. Brooks is also Director of the “Quality Thread” for the IU School of Medicine revised curriculum. She has lectured extensively on quality and CMS pay for performance measures. She presently serves on the National Quality Forum Admissions/Readmissions Steering Committee. Her clinical background is pulmonary and thoracic surgery. She has published extensively with both book chapters and articles. She serves as a non-branded speaker for Janssen Pharmaceuticals with lectures on Hospital Readmissions and Transitions of Care.

Formally trained in health services research, evaluation and administration, Suzanne Cashman has spent the forty years of her professional career teaching graduate courses in public health, conducting community-based evaluation research, developing partnerships aimed at helping communities improve their health status, and advancing interprofessional education. Suzanne is Professor and Director of Community Health in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health where she has leadership responsibilities for developing the Department’s community health agenda. In 2010, Suzanne became co-director of the school’s Determinants of Health course and from 2007 to 2010, she served as co-PI for the Family Medicine residency’s Regional Public Health Medicine Education Center grant. From 2006 until 2019, she served as Community Engagement Core Co-Director for the University of Massachusetts Clinical and Translational Science Research Center. In addition, she is a core investigator for the Prevention Research Center and from 2009-2012, served as Principal Investigator for the school’s Corporation for National and Community Service Learn and Serve grant. Suzanne founded and currently co-leads UMass’s Rural Health Scholars Pathway and has been a leader in developing and nurturing Worcester’s healthy community coalition. Dr. Cashman served on the board of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health from 2011 to 2018 and from 2002-2010, she was on the board of directors for the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research.

Kelly J. Caverzagie, MD, FACP, FHM is the Associate Dean for Educational Strategy for the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) where he is responsible for having led the implementation of the Training the Physicians of Tomorrow curriculum which launched in August 2017. He also serves as the primary investigator for UNMC’s participation in the American Medical Association (AMA) Accelerating Change in Medical Education (ACE) consortium. Dr. Caverzagie also serves as the Vice-President for Education for Nebraska Medicine, the clinical partner of UNMC. As Vice-President, Dr. Caverzagie reports to the health system CEO and Chief Academic Officer and has primary accountability for all aspects of education related to the health system for health professions learners, faculty and staff. To accomplish this goal, he has established the Office of Health Professions Education, a department dedicated to aligning and integrating the clinical and educational missions of Nebraska Medicine and UNMC. Dr. Caverzagie has expertise in the assessment and evaluation of learners, with a particular focus on assessing resident competence and competency-based medical education. He has been a leader in the development and implementation of the Internal Medicine Milestones and has served in a variety of roles for many national and state organizations including the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM), American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and American Medical Association (AMA). He has also served as Co-Chair of the International Conference on Residency Education (ICRE) and is a member of AMA House of Delegates. Clinically, Dr. Caverzagie continues to practice as an academic hospitalist where he enjoys teaching about topics including complex decision-making, communication skills in difficult situations and issues surrounding health care policy, health system redesign, education reform and the hidden curriculum. His personal mission is to continuously work towards the redesign of health professions education in order to more effectively meet the needs of patients and populations.

Dr. Ciesielski is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Associate Program Director for Curriculum Development, Director of the Medicine Preliminary and Neurology Track, and GME Medical Director of Patient Safety and Quality Education and the CLER Program, Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, MO. His true passion remains medical education and his new role as associate program director in internal medicine and as the new Graduate Medical Education director of patient safety education allows him to focus on patient safety and quality improvement education not only in the internal medicine residency training program but also across our medical campus. There are over 800 residents and fellows at his medical center and this role helps to coordinate safety and quality education for all trainees as well as integrate trainees into the safety and quality infrastructure. He is also currently serving as a Series Editor for books the Washington Manual series.

Marshall Chin, MD, MPH, is a general internist with extensive experience improving the care of vulnerable patients with chronic disease. He has worked to advance diabetes care and outcomes on the South Side through health care system and community interventions. He also leads initiatives to improve health strategies at a national level as director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)'s Finding Answers: Solving Disparities Through Payment and Delivery System Reform Program Office and Co-Director of the Merck Foundation's Bridging the Gap: Reducing Disparities in Diabetes Care National Program Office. Dr. Chin performed many of the key research studies informing how to improve diabetes care and outcomes in federally-qualified health centers serving vulnerable populations with limited resources. His work over the past decade leading RWJF’s Finding Answers program led to the creation of the Roadmap to Reduce Disparities. Current projects include improving diabetes outcomes in real-world settings, reducing health disparities by transforming the way care is organized and paid for, enhancing care by facilitating partnerships between the health care system and other sectors such as food and housing, and improving shared decision making among clinicians and LGBTQ people of color. In addition to his clinical and research roles, Dr. Chin is a teacher and award-winning mentor, committed to providing opportunities for trainees. As co-director of the Summer Program in Outcomes Research Training (SPORT), Dr. Chin educates faculty, fellows and students about outcomes research methods — to better understand and improve quality of care. An expert in health care disparities in medicine, Dr. Chin frequently is invited to present his work at national conferences and serve on policy committees. He serves on the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities National Advisory Council and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Community Preventive Services Task Force. He co-chairs the National Quality Forum (NQF) Disparities Standing Committee and is a former President of the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM). Dr. Chin was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2017.

Dr. Compton is a surgical pathology fellow at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN. She received her BA in Biochemistry from Oberlin College and attended medical school at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. While at the University of Rochester, she completed the William B. Hawkins Post-Sophomore Fellowship in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. During this fellowship, she assisted in the development of a team-based learning pathology curriculum for medical students, which has helped to spark her current interest in medical education. Dr. Compton is interested in both undergraduate and graduate medical education, and has assisted in developing an initiative to improve the quality of feedback to learners within her home institution.

Michael Currie has held roles in both the public and private sectors with responsibilities related to disease prevention, wellness and health benefits, and has spent more than 20 years of his educational and professional life focused on population health management. Michael has lead the UHG Health Equity Services Program since its establishment in June of 2010 and is responsible for the development and coordination of enterprise efforts, initiatives and interventions to identify health disparities, as well as the enhancement or implementation of programs and services to address identified health disparities. Prior to joining UnitedHealth Group, Michael was a Major Accounts Manager at CareFirst BCBS, managing CareFirst’s largest block of public sector business, a Wellness Director at Baltimore Gas & Electric, and a Program Director at both the State and local county health department level.Michael received his MPH from George Washington University and his MBA from Johns Hopkins University, and has served on various boards and committees of local and national organizations.

Dr. Nancy Davis is Associate Dean, Continuing Professional Development and Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. She has oversight of Faculty Development, Continuing Medical Education and the Maintenance of Certification Portfolio Program. Previously, she served as Director of Postgraduate Education on the KUSM-W campus and then as Director of CME for the American Academy of Family Physicians; Executive Director of the National Institute for Quality Improvement and Education; and Director of Practice Improvement and Lifelong Learning at the Association of American Medical Colleges. She returned to KU School of Medicine in 2014. Dr. Davis earned a PhD in Adult and Continuing Education at Kansas State University; a master’s degree in healthcare administration; and a bachelor’s degree as a physician assistant at Wichita State University. An experienced clinician, educator and researcher, Dr. Davis has taught across the medical education continuum, presented in numerous national forums, and published in peer reviewed journals.

Amy DiLorenzo serves as the Graduate Medical Education Assistant Dean for Educational Innovation and Scholarship and is a Senior Lecturer for the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Kentucky. She is an Education Specialist with experience in quality improvement, simulation, and curriculum development. Amy has been a co-investigator on several grants related to resident knowledge acquisition, educational development, and patient safety. She has been featured for multiple speaking engagements on quality improvement, learning techniques, and educational methodology. Amy is currently completing a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership Studies and her research focuses on the role of program directors in supporting anesthesiology resident well-being.

Dr. Dolansky is an Associate Professor at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and Senior Faculty in the Veterans Administration Quality Scholars program and Director of Interprofessional Education and Integration both at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA. Dr. Dolansky is Director of QSEN Institute (Quality and Safety Education for Nurses) an international community of healthcare providers providing resources for enhancing quality and safety competencies in both academia and practice. Her contributions to interprofessional quality improvement include two co-published books, several book chapters, articles, and guest editor on a special quality improvement education Issue in the Journal of Quality Management in Health Care. She is a member on the CWRU Macy Foundation Interprofessional Education Grant for pre-licensure students and serves on the National Collaborative for enhancing the interprofessional learning environment (NCICLE). She is co-author of the massive open online course (MOOC) “Take the Lead on Healthcare Quality” that has reached over 15,000 interprofessional professionals across the world.

Dr. Dressler is a board-certified internist and nephrologist, and the Quality and Safety Officer for Academic and Medical Affairs. In this role since 2015, Dr. Dressler is engaged in initiatives to advance the clinical learning environment; with the goal to improve the quality, cost and value of care through the interprofessional application of high reliability principles. Current activities include leading Christiana Care’s Resident Quality and Safety Council, and the Advanced Quality and Safety Improvement Science Program; developing bridges between interprofessional education and system-wide safety; implementing institutional and statewide initiatives focused on the Choosing Wisely® framework. Nationally, Dr. Dressler serves as the President of the board of the Alliance of Independent Academic Medical Centers (AIAMC), and chaired the AIAMC’s Committee on the Integration of Academics and Quality, a team that led AIAMC’s National Initiative V: Improving Community Health and Health Equity Through Medical Education; nationwide learning collaborative involving 29 teams from 2015-2017. Dr. Dressler, MD, MBA, received his medical degree from the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University in Israel, and completed his internship and residency at Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center, his nephrology fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and earned his MBA from the University of Delaware Lerner School of Business and Economics. Dr. Dressler is a Professor of Medicine, Clinical and Educational Scholarship Track, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.

Barbara Gold, MD, MHCM, is Professor of Anesthesiology and Executive VP for Medical Affairs at University of Minnesota Medical Center. She is a practicing anesthesiologist and faculty member at the University of Minnesota, serving in various leadership positions for over 25 years. Current responsibilities include oversight for medical staff affairs, which includes more than 2200 credentialed providers. While primarily focused on improving clinical performance and patient outcomes, Dr. Gold has been instrumental in promoting high reliability methodology for patient safety, developing a preoperative assessment program for high risk surgical patients, designing quality improvement training for physicians, medical students, and nurses, organizing physician peer review, and developing methods to deliver actionable data regarding performance metrics to medical staff. Most recently, and in partnership with risk management and the medical school, she is developing a proactive and principled communication and resolution program for medical staff, patients and families when adverse events occur. Dr. Gold received her MD at Stanford University, completed residencies at University of Pennsylvania in Internal Medicine and Anesthesiology, and is board certified in both. In 2008, as a recipient of the Bush Medical Fellows award, she completed a Masters in Health Care Management at Harvard University School of Public Health.

Emily Gottenborg completed her medical training at Boston University School of Medicine, before moving to San Francisco for her Internal Medicine Training at the University of California, San Francisco. There, she was part of the Health Systems and Leadership Pathway, where she developed her interest in health systems redesign. Shen then pursued a Chief Medical Residency focused on Quality Improvement and Patient Safety. She joined the faculty at the University of Colorado in 2014, and since then has held multiple educational leadership positions with a focus on medical leadership, healthcare redesign, and system improvement. Dr. Gottenborg is now one of the Program Directors of the Hospitalist Training Program, a selective residency program focused on training future leaders in hospital medicine, and teaches in the Quality and Safety Academy for GME trainees and new faculty members.

Dr. Nageshwara Gullapalli is a hospitalist and program director for the internal medicine residency program at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, teaching physician residents and medical students in inpatient and outpatient settings. Dr. Gullapalli is a graduate of Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad, India. He did his Internal Medicine Residency at Wright State University, graduating in 2004. He then moved to the University of Nevada, Reno where he was the chief resident from 2004-2005 and Associate Program Director from 2005-2009. He went on to become interim program director, then program director in 2012. He is strongly interested in medical student and resident education. He also has his Masters degree in public health. His research interests include myocardial ischemia, or reduced blood supply to the heart and observational studies using databases. He is a champion for QI/PS activities at his institute. He is fluent in Urdu, Telugu and Hindi.

Dr. Reshma Gupta, MD, MSHPM is a practicing internist and has been the Interim Chief Quality-Value Director at UCLA- Olive View Medical Center and previous Medical Director for Quality and Value at UCLA Health leading over 70 clinicians in value improvement initiatives across all departments, linking initiatives to trainee education, and managing the health system’s Value Analytics and Program Management Team. Here she has designed strategy and implementation design for value improvement with the UCLA Office of Population Health and Olive View Medical Center. Dr. Gupta’s work focuses in health system innovation, policy, implementation design, and education to better define and improve the culture of delivering high quality care at lower cost for health systems and patients. She works as an expert adviser with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to test new models of value promoting payment reform. Her research created the first High Value Care Culture Survey, evaluated drivers of value-based decision making across California medical centers, and evaluated interventions to reduce expenditures for high cost populations. Dr. Gupta advises value transformation across participating health systems in the American Hospital Association’s Value Initiative and Kaiser Permanente Research Institute-RWJF’s Safety-net Clinical Value Champion Fellowship. Dr. Gupta serves nationally as the Director of Evaluation and Outreach at Costs of Care, Inc. a global NGO working to curate provider insights to provide high value care. Here, she leads a learning community of over 500 health system managers and educators across six countries. She speaks nationally on topics related to educating clinicians and implementing programs to improve healthcare value and affordability.

Lisa Howley is an experienced Educational Psychologist who has spent over 20 years in the field of medical education supporting learners and faculty, conducting research, and developing curricula. She joined the AAMC in 2016 to advance the continuum of medical education, support experiential learning, and curricular transformation. Prior to joining the AAMC, she spent eight years as the Associate DIO and AVP of Medical Education and Physician Development for the Carolinas HealthCare System in North Carolina. In that role, she led a number of medical education initiatives across the professional development continuum, including graduate medical education accreditation, as well as physician leadership development for the large integrated healthcare system. She concurrently served as Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, where she led curriculum and faculty development. She also held a faculty appointment in educational research at UNC-Charlotte where she taught social science research methods, led and collaborated on numerous studies of effective education. From 1996 to 2001, she was a member of the medical education faculty at the University of Virginia School of Medicine where she designed and led performance based assessments and simulation-enhanced curricula. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Central Florida, and both her Master of Education and Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Virginia.

Kevin Hummel is a pediatric critical care fellow at the University of Utah, following pediatric residency training at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He completed medical school at the University of Arizona College of Medicine where he created an education distinction track in health innovation and leadership. During this time, he interned at Healthcare Transformation Institute in Phoenix, AZ with former leadership of the Mayo Clinic working on tools to assess system readiness to transition to accountable care organizations. He has received training in lean leadership methodology, crisis resource management, and systems improvement principals at the University of Utah and Intermountain Healthcare. He is currently studying how to transform family experience into big data, using registry data as transparent clinical support tools at the bedside, and determining worldwide patient reported outcomes in congenital heart disease. His long-term aim is to improve healthcare value from the patient perspective by delivering exceptional service to patients, and to use congenital heart disease as an example for improving lifelong value of care.

Cara James is the Director of the Office of Minority Health at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Prior to joining the Office of Minority Health at CMS, Dr. James was the Director of the Disparities Policy Project and the Director of the Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, where she was responsible for addressing a broad array of health and access to care issues for racial and ethnic minorities and other underserved populations, including the potential impact of the Affordable Care Act, analyses of state-level disparities in health and access to care, and disparities in access to care among individuals living in health professional shortage areas. Prior to joining the staff at Kaiser, she worked at Harvard University and The Picker Institute. Dr. James is a member of the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities and has served on several IOM committees including the Committee on Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2020. She has published several peer-reviewed articles and other publications, and was a co-author for one of the background chapters for the IOM Report Unequal Treatment. Cara received her Ph.D. in Health Policy and her A.B. in Psychology from Harvard University.

Dr. Jennings is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa College of Nursing and practices as a Family Nurse Practitioner at Community Health Care, Inc. She enjoys providing care to disadvantaged populations while working to reduce health disparities on a daily basis. She has been involved in Quality Improvement projects in both large academic teaching hospitals and community health centers. She teaches doctoral level courses in Population Health. She received her BA in Biology with a certificate in Global Health from the University of Northern Iowa, BSN from Johns Hopkins University, and DNP as a Family Nurse Practitioner from the University of Iowa.

Richard Jones is an experienced healthcare and non-profit executive with experience in developing clinical programs, human resource management, systems restructuring and all aspects of financial management. He has worked across multiple domains including mental health, substance use disorders, co-occurring disorders, & intellectual disabilities. He has over 18 year’s management experience and has provided leadership and administration to start up non-profit organizations and program rebuilds nationally and regionally. Rich is currently the CEO/COO of Faces And Voices Of Recovery (FAVOR) Greenville. FAVOR Greenville is an exceptionally innovative and unique program that aggressively attacks the problem of addiction and other behavioral health issues. FAVOR Greenville is focused on fundamentally changing the way that recovery support is provided. Rich has been able to guide FAVOR Greenville from a start-up idea/concept to the premier provider of recovery support services nationwide. FAVOR Greenville has served over 35,000 individuals and over 9,000 families in the past 5 years. Service delivery includes 20 plus locations in Greenville county and expansion satellites in Anderson and Spartanburg County. In 2017 FAVOR Greenville was named a national model program by the federal government (SAMHSA) and again in 2018 by the federal Department of Justice. He earned his Master of Arts in Sociology with a concentration in Addiction Studies from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Healthcare Management from University of Scranton and holds several certifications including Certified Addiction Counselor, Certified Clinical Supervisor, Certified Co-Occurring Disorder Professional, DOT Certified Substance Abuse Professional, Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist, Certified Employee Assistance Professional, Certified ARISE Interventionist.Richard is a person in long term recovery from since 2001.

Rachel R. Kelz, MD MSCE MBA DABS FACS is a Professor of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery (c.2005, rc.2015) with an active endocrine surgery practice and formal training in health services research. She serves as the Vice Chair of Clinical Research, an Associate Program Director of the General Surgery Residency Program, the Director of the Center for Surgery and Health Economics in the Department of Surgery and the surgeon champion for the ACS NSQIP at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Kelz has received the Gordon P. Buzby Award for leadership and the Mentorship Award from the Department of Surgery. She was awarded the Christian R. and the Mary F. Lindback Award for distinguished teaching from the Provost’s office at the University. The Lindback is the most prominent educational award given by the University. Dr. Kelz leads the Quality In-Training Initiative (QITI) of the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Improvement Program. The QITI is a national collaborative of teaching hospitals designed to integrate outcomes and quality improvement into surgical education. Dr. Kelz has focused her research on the improvement of surgical outcomes through the use of innovative investigation and the development of novel education techniques. She has received private and public grant support for her research and has authored numerous chapters and more than 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts. She is currently funded by the National Institutes on Aging to use patient outcomes to inform medical education. Dr. Kelz received a BS in Mathematics from Union College in Schenectady, NY, her MD from Yale University in New Haven, CT, and a MS in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. Most recently, Dr. Kelz received an Executive MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA.

Dr. Kim is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Washington Medical Center. He arrived to the Pacific Northwest in 2015, after spending the first 15 years of his career at the University of Michigan. Dr. Kim is a practicing hospitalist, and has worked on several health system projects to improve the safety, quality, and efficiency of clinical care delivered while in the CMO’s office at the University of Michigan. While in Michigan, he also served as the program director for the Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Michigan’s Physician Group Incentive Program on transitions of care, called Michigan Transitions of Care Collaborative (M-TC2). The goal of this collaborative is to work with physician group throughout the state to develop, implement, and share innovative ideas that can lead to improved processes of care as patients transition from the hospital setting, which in turn can lead to overall better health and well-being for those patients we serve. Currently, Dr. Kim is the Associate Medical Director for Quality and Safety at the University of Washington Medical Center. In this role, he oversees the Quality, Analytics, Patient Safety, and Clinical Documentation Programs in the Center of Clinical Excellence at the Medical Center. In addition, he has oversight for Infection Prevention and Epidemiology & Employee Health, Regulatory and Compliance, and Risk Management. He is also a core team member of the hospital’s “Operation Excellence” work, focused on improving clinical efficiency, patient flow and throughput. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine, and a master of business administration from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He completed his residency training in the combined internal medicine and pediatrics program at the University of Michigan.

Rahul Koranne, MD MBA FACP serves as the first chief medical officer of the Minnesota Hospital Association. Prior to joining MHA, Dr. Koranne practiced in the smallest critical access hospital system MN and served as vice president for HealthEast Care System, a large integrated delivery network in Saint Paul. Rahul is board-certified in internal medicine and geriatrics and was elected a Fellow of the American College of Physicians in 2006. Rahul serves as faculty at several schools at the University of Minnesota including the medical school and Carlson School of Management and he is passionate about creating a strong pipeline of future leaders in healthcare. Rahul’s areas of interest are health care transformation by aligning health care delivery systems with community based services (both medical and social) and innovative systems to promote health while striving to achieve all of the quadruple aims for our communities.

Professor Edwin Lindo has embarked on the unique journey to ask and explore the hard questions of Race & Racism within the institutions of Medicine and Law. Professor Lindo brings the interdisciplinary study of Critical Race Theory, Lat Crit, and others to Medicine and Law so we can better learn how Racism detrimentally affects our health, our learning, our teaching, and justice. As a faculty member of the Department of Family Medicine, Professor Lindo works closely with the the Community Urban Scholars Program to develop future physicians interested in serving urban populations; has developed curriculum and teaches Critical Race Theory and Medicine; and provides student and faculty development around the issues of race and equity in medical education and patient care. Professor Lindo’s research and scholarship has focused on the history of racialized medicine, race & racism within medicine, social justice and social movements, and decolonized pedagogies for critical education.

John Luk serves as the assistant dean for interprofessional integration at Dell Medical School, and works with colleagues and stakeholders on and off campus to create experiences that will prepare graduates to be effective team players, communicators and leaders. On campus, he serves on the Health Interprofessional Practice and Education Steering Committee, helping to create the UT Austin Center for Health IPE. He has presented regionally and nationally on medical education and interprofessional education. He serves as the inaugural director of the Dell Medical School Academy of Distinguished Educators and was selected as a 2018 member of The University of Texas Kenneth I. Shine, M.D., Academy of Health Science Education. Luk also cares for hospitalized children and their families at Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas. His passion to better prepare physicians for 21st-century health care practice has also led him to work with premedical college students on health care ethics and professional identity formation. Prior to joining Dell Medical School, Luk served as the assistant dean for regional medical education in Austin for the University of Texas Medical Branch. He completed his pediatric training at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland in California and went to medical school at Drexel University College of Medicine. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Luk volunteers at his kids’ school as a yearbook photographer and classroom helper. He and his wife, a pediatric dentist, enjoy photography, live music, cycling and running.

Eran Magen, PhD, applies his deep expertise in psychological research, education and relationships to help hospitals and medical schools reduce rates of provider/trainee burnout and suicide. Dr. Magen earned his in PhD in psychology from Stanford University and completed postdoctoral training in population health as a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar. Dr. Magen's work has been published in top-tier peer-reviewed journals including Psychological Science, Emotion, and Academic Pediatrics, as well as in popular outlets such as the Gold Foundation blog.

Dr. Kristi Moore holds the position of Associate Residency Program Director, Internal Medicine at Atrium Health. She has a background in sports medicine after graduating from the Honors Program at East Tennessee State University with a double major in athletic training and biology. She went on to receive her medical degree Magna cum Laude from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia, where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. Dr. Moore completed her internal medicine internship and residency at the University of Maryland and VA Medical Centers in Baltimore, Maryland, after which she was selected to serve as Chief Resident at Mercy Medical Center, a University of Maryland-affiliated hospital in Baltimore. She spent her year as Chief Resident heavily involved in education and advocacy for the residency program. Afterwards, she remained in Baltimore for several years as an attending academic hospitalist before travelling south to Charlotte, NC in 2012 to join the faculty at Carolinas Medical Center. Dr. Moore is a Clinical Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Moore’s clinical interests include resident and medical student education, consultative medicine, mentoring, and transitions of care. She co-coordinates the medical grand rounds series for the Department of Internal Medicine and is very involved in the Morning Report and conference series, all while frequently attending on the inpatient general medical services. When not in the hospital, she enjoys photography, hiking, and, most of all, spending time with her husband and three young children.

Dr. Myers is Professor of Clinical Medicine and the Director of Quality and Safety Education in the Department of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University Of Pennsylvania. She is also the Director of Penn’s Center for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Safety fellowship program which is integrated into Penn’s Masters of Science in Health Policy Program and prepares post-graduate fellows and junior faculty for careers in quality and safety research, policy, education, and administration. Prior to these roles, she was the founding co-director of a GME-wide Healthcare Leadership in Quality residency track which has trained over 100 residents in the past 6 years, the Patient Safety Officer at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for 8 years, and the Associate Designated Institutional Official for Quality and Safety in GME. Nationally, she is the Co-chair of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) Patient Safety Test Development Materials Committee and the founding director of the “Quality & Safety Educators Academy” – the first national faculty development program of its kind which is now in its 6th year and has trained over 500 faculty members from across the country. Dr. Myers has spoken and written nationally on patient safety issues in healthcare, medical education innovations in quality and safety, inter-professional health care education, and the need for integration between medical education and health care systems. In 2011 she was awarded and named as a Josiah Macy Faculty Scholar for her innovations at the intersection of medical education and health care systems.

Aanand D. Naik, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Health Policy and Behavioral Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. His professional roles focus on quality improvement and innovation (QII), including research, education, and training responsibilities. He is Vice Chair for QII in the Department of Medicine at BCM and he directs the Coordinating Center for the national VA Quality Scholars training program, which develops the careers of interdisciplinary scholars across nine program sites in North America. Dr. Naik is a research investigator at the Houston Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety (IQuESt), a joint BCM and VA research center. His funded research program develops interventions to enhance patient-centered care as a dimension of healthcare quality for older adults with co-morbid conditions. Dr. Naik received his Medical Degree and clinical training in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas. He also completed post-doctoral research fellowship training at the RWJ Clinical Scholars Program at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He provides geriatrics care at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, Texas

Anna Neumeier is an Assistant Professor of Medicine within the Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine as well as the Associate Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Colorado. Her academic interests involve developing innovative approaches to postgraduate medical training in QIPS with the goal to identify and study the optimal pedagogical approaches to promote sustainable practice in health systems improvement. She is a core faculty member for the Quality and Safety Academy at the University of Colorado, a program which offers residents and fellows a series of workshops designed to build foundational knowledge in quality improvement and patient safety.

Michelle Ogunwole, MD is an internal medicine physician and a general internal medicine research fellow and PhD candidate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of public health. Her research is focused on racial disparities in maternal health among African American women. Specifically, she is interested in three main topics. 1. The role of the general internist in managing chronic disease in the postpartum period particularly for women with medically complicated pregnancies that confer elevated future cardiovascular risk. 2. African American women's experience with the healthcare system (specifically their experiences of racial discrimination) and barriers to follow up after pregnancy. 3. Quality improvement around transitions of care from obstetrics to primary care for racial/ethnic minorities who experience medically complicated pregnancies. Prior to her research fellowship she completed a one-year chief residency position in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety in San Antonio, Texas. During that time she focused her efforts on enhancing equity in quality improvement and patient safety education and implementation. As an example, she worked on a large scale project focused on the collection of social determinants of health in the Electronic Medical Record as a way to enhance data collection for health disparities quality metric reporting. She currently serves on the AAMC Quality Improvement and Patient Safety competencies working group where she has worked extensively on the health and healthcare equity domain. She continues to have an active role in medical education, participating in student engagement around implicit bias mitigation in clinical care and patient centered communication.

Dr. Andrew Olson is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota, where he practices hospital medicine and pediatrics. He serves as the Director of Medical Educator Scholarship and Development, and is the founding Director of the Medical School's “Becoming a Doctor” course. His areas of interest and study are in the development of expertise in decision-making, methods to improve diagnostic reasoning education, and competency-based medical education. He is the PI of the DX: Diagnostic Excellence project, a national project to develop, implement, and evaluate a novel curriculum for medical students about diagnostic reasoning and error. He is also the Co-Chair of the Education Committee of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. Dr. Olson is a leader on a project funded by the Macy Foundation to develop an Interprofessional Curriculum to Improve Diagnosis.

As chief health care officer, Janis M. Orlowski, MD, MACP, focuses on the interface between the health care delivery system and academic medicine, especially how academic medical centers can leverage their expertise in research and innovation to support emerging reforms. She leads several AAMC groups, including the Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems, which represents the interests of approximately 400 major teaching hospitals and health systems, including 64 Veterans Affairs medical centers. Dr. Orlowski joined the AAMC after serving as the chief operating officer and chief medical officer of MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, D.C. From 2004-2013, Dr. Orlowski oversaw the medical staff, clinical care, quality, patient safety, medical risk, perioperative services, ambulatory care, and medical education programs. Prior to MedStar Washington, she served as associate vice president and executive dean of the Rush University Medical School in Chicago. Dr. Orlowski earned her BS degree in biomedical engineering from Marquette University and her MD from the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Shannon Pergament is a founding member of the Somali, Latino and Hmong Partnership for Health and Wellness (SoLaHmo), a community driven translational research program of Minnesota Community Care (MCC) and is Co-Director of Community Based Research at MCC. She holds Master’s degrees in Public Health (M.P.H.) and Social Work (M.S.W.) from the University of Minnesota. For over 20 years, Shannon has worked in the area of health equity, building collaborations with ethnically diverse communities to promote community and cultural assets and reduce health disparities through community based participatory action research (CBPAR), health education and policy.

Dr. Price is Senior Vice-President, American Board of Medical Specialties Research and Education Foundation, and Executive Director of the ABMS Multi-Specialty Portfolio Approval Program. He is also Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) and participating in Maintenance of Certification. Dr. Price spent 27 years in the Kaiser Permanente (KP) system in several roles, including Director of Medical Education for the Colorado Region and the (national) Permanente Federation; physician investigator with the KP Colorado Institute of Health Research; Co-director of the Kaiser Colorado Center for Health Education, Dissemination and Implementation research; Clinical Lead for Kaiser National Mental Health Guidelines; member of the Kaiser National Guideline Directors Group, and Chair of Family Medicine for the Colorado Permanente Medical Group. He served on the ABFM Board of Directors from 2003 – 2008, where he chaired the R&D and Maintenance of Certification committees, and was Board Chair from 2007-2008. He is also a past Director of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education and a past-president of the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians, and is past chair of the AAMC Group on Educational Affairs section on Continuing Education and Improvement. He is widely published and has spoken nationally and internationally and published in areas ranging from continuing medical education/professional development, quality and practice improvement, mental health, and evidence-based medicine. Dr. Price received his M.D. degree from Rutgers Medical School in 1985 and completed his Family Medicine Residency and chief residency at JFK Medical Center, Edison, NJ, in 1988. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians and of the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions, and the recipient of the 2018 Distinguished Service in CME Award from the Society of Academic Continuing Medical Education.

Dr. Cori Rogers is a third-year Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery resident at Indiana University in Indianapolis. She completed her undergraduate studies in Biology and Chemistry at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC and medical school at University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, TN. She became involved with the IU Preoperative Wellness and Enhanced Rapid Recovery (POWERR) program during her first year of residency under the guidance of Dr. William Wooden. She has since become passionate about pre-operative wellness and other quality improvements that help patients have a healthier and more cost-conscious surgical experience.

Associate Dean, Diversity and Inclusion Associate Professor, Emergency Department Office of Diversity and Community Engagement Rutgers New Jersey Medical School President, Building the Next Generation of Academic Physicians Inc., www.bngap.org Executive Director, LMSA National Inc. Dr. Sánchez has worked extensively to promote diversity and inclusion in the physician and academic medicine workforces. In 2014, he joined Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and since then has co-led the development of a longitudinal Community Engaged Service Learning elective; developed a Safe Zone LGBT Allies Program and OutList; re-vamped the Men of Distinction Program for minority men; and developed an Academic Medicine Fellowship Program for the NJMS’ Hispanic Center of Excellence. He currently serves as Associate Dean of Diversity and Inclusion and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine. Additionally, he serves as the Executive Director of LMSA National Inc., an organization dedicated to increasing Latino medical students; President of the Building the Next Generation of Academic Physicians (BNGAP) Inc., an organization dedicated to encouraging diverse trainees to consider academic careers; Editorial Board Member of Academic Medicine; and as Associate Editor for MedEdPORTAL. He previously served as Chair of the NHMA Council of Residents and Founding Chair of the NHMA Council of Young Physicians. He received his medical degree from Einstein, completed his residency training at Jacobi/Montefiore, and is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine. He also holds a Masters of Public Health, with a concentration in the epidemiology of infectious diseases, from the Yale School of Public Health. He is of Puerto Rican ancestry, gay-identified and was raised in the Bronx, NYC.

Bre Scherler is the Quality Coordinator for Community Health Care, Inc (CHC). This position gives her the opportunity to partner with all clinical departments to improve patient outcomes and develop workflows that meet federal reporting guidelines leading to a sustainable bottom line. Two of Bre’s most successful initiative were the implementation of Azara DRVS and achieving Patient Centered Medical Home Level 3 recognition. Azara DRVS is a population health tool that quantifies data for the most up to date need of the patients while decreasing workload on all clinical staff. Patient Centered Medical Home, or PCMH recognition proves CHC gives superior care in medical, dental and behavioral health services. Bre has demonstrated her ability to work with care teams consistently to improve struggling UDS metrics, like hypertension control in 2017. In collaboration with the care teams and the Clinical Trainer, patients with hypertension improved their blood pressure control to 70% or greater, a 24% improvement from the prior year. CHC was awarded Million Hearts recognition, a first for the organization. As the leader of the Patient Navigator program, over 30,000 patients were contacted regarding lifesaving screenings in 2017 and 2018. With the success of the Patient Navigator program, Bre was charged with the development of the Care Management Program. These care management patients with complex chronic conditions like Diabetes and Hypertension meet with the RN Care Manager between visits to ensure follow through on goals and medication regimens. Bre’s strong background in Performance Improvement can been seen in over 30 PI projects she led while chairing the Performance Improvement Committee. Bre completed her bachelor’s degree in Nursing and a minor in Biology from St. Ambrose University in Davenport, IA. She holds a certificate from the University of Michigan for LEAN Healthcare in June 2017. She also serves as the Infection Control Committee Chair.

Dr. Schumacher’s academic and research interests focus on the important intersection of learner outcomes and patient outcomes. He believes that meaningful learner assessment is foundational to this work, and much of his work to date has been in this area. He is a member of the Pediatrics Milestone Project Working Group, which has led him to publish and lecture widely on the Milestone Project and competency-based medical education, both within and outside the pediatric community. Dr. Schumacher joined the faculty at Cincinnati Children’s from his role as an associate program director at the Boston Combined Residency Program, the training program of Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center. In that role, he directed the program’s competency-based assessment system. This gives him practical knowledge that is informing his current research program focused on milestones-based assessment, the use of entrustable professional activities in outcomes-based assessment, and the structure and function of clinical competency committees that analyze assessment data to make summative assessment decisions. In this work, Dr. Schumacher is fortunate to be mentored by national and international experts in outcomes-based assessment. Dr. Schumacher is a current visiting scholar of the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) and a previous visiting scholar of the American Board of Medical Specialties. He has been part of national efforts of the ABP, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Association of American Medical Colleges, National Board of Medical Examiners, Federation of Pediatric Organizations, American Academy of Pediatrics, Association of Pediatric Program Directors, and Academic Pediatric Association. He is currently pursuing a PhD in medical education.

Dr. Sehgal is a Professor of Medicine and the Vice President & Chief Quality Officer for UCSF Health. The latter leadership role provides responsibility for setting a vision for quality over a rapidly growing health system, which includes new partnerships, affiliations, and opportunities for leveraging the education and research missions. His academic interests have focused on improving healthcare systems by leading initiatives that foster teamwork & communication, promote a culture for learning and improvement, and support workforce development as key strategies to deliver better patient outcomes. Dr. Sehgal was an active part of the UCSF Center for the Health Professions where he developed and led a portfolio of leadership development training programs. The programs offered leadership and management development, a mentored-­improvement project, executive coaching, and peer learning through both in-person seminars and structured distance learning activities. Dr. Sehgal graduated from Washington University, earned his medical degree from Rush University School of Medicine and a Master’s in Public Health from UC Berkeley. He was a resident and chief resident at Stanford University before completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Stanford Prevention Research Center. He was later a selected fellow and graduate of the California Healthcare Foundation Leadership Program. He was also recognized for his teaching and mentoring excellence with induction into UCSF’s Academy of Medical Educators.

Scott Shipman, MD, MPH, is Director of Clinical Innovations and Director of Primary Care Affairs at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Dr. Shipman works with a wide range of health system leaders to promote effective innovations in ambulatory care delivery and teaching. A general pediatrician and health services researcher by training, Dr. Shipman has studied the healthcare workforce extensively. He guides AAMC activities promoting emerging high-value ambulatory care models within AMCs and affiliates, with a focus on improving care at the interface of primary care and specialty care. Dr. Shipman completed medical school at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine, residency at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, and a fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Johns Hopkins, where he also received his MPH. Dr. Shipman maintains a faculty position at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.

Dr. Tad-y is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine where she is an academic hospitalist, Program Director for the Hospitalist Training Program, the Director for GME Quality and Safety Programs and the Associate Vice Chair of Quality for the Department of Medicine. Dr. Tad-y’s work has focused on educational program development around systems improvement and safety, hospital medicine, and aligning the clinical and educational missions of academic medical centers. She has built the quality and safety curriculum for both the Hospitalist Training Program and the Internal Medicine Residency, as well as the Leaders Track of the Hospitalist Training Program. Her work has included curricular content for hospitalist residents and faculty around the business of medicine, career development, quality and safety, in addition to the creation of a Systems-Based Morbidity and Mortality conference. Dr. Tad-y is also the Director of GME Quality and Safety Programs and a faculty member of CU’s Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety and Efficiency. Dr. Tad-y attended St. George’s University, followed by residency at Lutheran Medical Center, and completed a 2-year fellowship in Academic Hospital Medicine at Johns Hopkins focused on medical education and leadership. When she’s not teaching trainees or seeing patients, Darlene takes full advantage of the Colorado outdoors, including rock climbing, hiking, and skiing. Pub med publications: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Tad-y+darlene

Jelena Todic, Ph.D., M.S.W. is an Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at San Antonio College of Public Policy, Department of Social Work and Diversity, Inclusion & Equity Consultant at the University of Chicago Medicine. Dr. Todic’s research broadly focuses on structural interventions which aim to eliminate health inequities by targeting social determinants of health and their fundamental drivers. More specifically, she is interested in large organizations as potential hosts of such interventions as well as the role that critical and relational theories can play in guiding interventions aimed at eliminating health inequities. Dr. Todic has nearly 20 years of experience with facilitating effective teams and facilitating social justice education in academic, community and healthcare settings.

Dr. Weiss is the Chief Sponsoring Institution and Clinical Learning Environment Officer at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). He oversees Sponsoring Institutions (SI) and the Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER), including serving as Co-Chair for the CLER Evaluation Committee (CEC). Dr. Weiss came to the ACGME from the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), where from 2007 to 2012 he served as President and CEO. Under Dr. Weiss’ leadership, ABMS-International was established, with its first international collaboration in Singapore. Dr. Weiss has devoted his medical career to issues of health care quality, equity and access to care, and enhancing training experiences for physicians and other providers in health care improvement. Since the 1990s, Dr. Weiss has conducted US and international epidemiological and health services research projects related to guideline implementation, chronic care management, outcomes measurement, quality improvement, and health care equity. Dr. Weiss served as a member of the Board of Regents for the American College of Physicians, and as a member of the Board of Directors for both ABMS and the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates. Dr. Weiss completed his clinical training in internal medicine at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. He has a Master’s degree in public health from the University of Illinois School of Public Health and a Master’s degree in health services administration from Harvard University School of Public Health. He completed his post-doctoral fellowship in epidemiology at the Centers for Disease Control’s National Center for Health Statistics. Dr. Weiss is certified in internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). He also serves as a Professor of Medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.

James S. Williams Jr. has 30+ years of hospital experience serving in patient accounts, transplant, admission services and supply chain before managing UChicago Medicine’s (UCM) award winning Business Diversity Department. In 2013, James was tapped to launch UCM’s inaugural Diversity, Inclusion and Equity department responsible for designing and executing an innovative enterprise-wide diversity, inclusion and equity strategy focused on building a culturally and linguistically competent, health literate organization that ensures equitable patient outcomes. James supports the E3 Leadership Integration work in collaboration with quality performance improvement, strategic planning, operational excellence, patient experience and engagement, marketing and communications, and human resources. James’ team drives execution of the cultural competence training strategy and health literacy advancement efforts. His team’s work contributes to yearly increases in the UCM Employee Engagement Diversity & Inclusion Index and in particular a four year .41 point increase in UCM’s “inclusive organization” metric. James collaborates with leaders across the organization to stratify workforce, employee engagement and quality metrics to inform diversity, inclusion and health equity strategies. Recently, James’ team shepherded a rigorous assessment of UCM’s equity efforts using Implementation Science Theory to understand the barriers and enablers to creating an equitable organization. James’ team is now applying those lessons to develop collaborative strategies that translate equity into daily standard work and support UCM’s aim to deliver equitable patient outcomes and be at the Forefront of Advancing Health Equity.

Dr. Williams joined the faculty of the University of Virginia (UVA) in 2012 where he is an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Acute Care Surgery. He currently serves as Associate Chief Medical Officer for Clinical Integration of the UVA Medical Center. In addition to his administrative and clinical duties, he is Director of the UVA Center for Health Policy. After completing his undergraduate studies in Biology at Brown University, Dr. Williams attended the UVA School of Medicine and graduated in 1993. His postgraduate medical training was in the field of General Surgery at Louisiana State University-New Orleans program at Charity Hospital. After residency, he returned to Washington, DC and completed two one-year fellowships in Surgical Critical Care and Trauma Surgery respectively. Dr. Williams is Board Certified in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care and practiced as a Trauma and Critical Care Surgeon in the Washington metropolitan area for over a decade. He has held numerous leadership positions in both clinical and academic medicine and has multiple peer-reviewed presentations and publications to his credit. In addition, he serves as an Associate Examiner for the American Board of Surgery and was inducted into AOA as a Faculty Member in 2018. After having served in the public sector as Chief Medical Officer for the District of Columbia Fire and EMS Department, and moving back into the private sector, Dr. Williams returned to academia in 2012. He believes in the importance of patient-centered innovation in the application and management of health systems. His over 20 years of experience in health care delivery and systems design has led him to the conclusion that Health Equity starts with efficient, cost-effective health system design and management. Dr. Williams has a strong interest and background in Population Health and sees this as the greatest opportunity to achieve health equity, both in the United States and globally. Dr. Williams is married, and he and his wife have 3 children, the youngest of whom they adopted from Haiti.

Dr. Wong is an Associate Professor and Director of Continuing Education and Quality Improvement in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and Associate Director for the Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (C-QuIPS) at the University of Toronto. Clinically, he is a staff general internist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. His scholarly activities connect at the intersection between medical education, quality improvement and patient safety. At the University of Toronto he is the co-director of the C-QuIPS certificate course in QIPS, and created an innovative Faculty-Resident Co-Learning Curriculum in Quality Improvement in the Department of Medicine -- over the past 6 years, the Co-Learning program has trained over 100 faculty and nearly 500 residents in 35 residencies across the Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, Surgery and Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences at the University of Toronto. At a national level, he chaired the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada CanMEDS 2015 Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Expert Working Group and authored a report that informed the eventual integration of patient safety and quality improvement competencies into the CanMEDS 2015 physician competency framework; as a result, PSQI are now a required training standard for all subspecialty training programs in Canada. He also directs the Royal College ASPIRE train-the-trainer faculty development program, and spearheaded efforts to establish Patient Safety and Quality Improvement as an official Diploma Discipline in Canada.