Healio Primary Care unveils new Peer Perspective Board
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Healio Primary Care is pleased to announce the creation of its Peer Perspective Board — a group of dedicated experts who will help guide our efforts to provide the latest news and updates that impact daily practice.
Our members are a diverse group of clinicians from various medical specialties, including primary care, nutrition, oncology, emergency medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and more. Their knowledge and expertise will help inform our coverage and support Healio’s ongoing mission to select and tailor news and education for the practicing physician.
Meet our esteemed Peer Perspective Board:
Irfan M. Asif, MD, is a professor and chair in the department of family and community medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Emily S. Barrows, MD, is an assistant professor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Peter F. Bidey, DO, MSEd, FACOFP, is the Dean and Chief Academic Officer of the Osteopathic Medicine Program as well as an assistant professor in the department of family medicine at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is also chair of a National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners Committee and serves on the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians Board of Governors.
Sharon A. Brangman, MD, is Distinguished Service Professor and chair of geriatrics, department chief of geriatrics, division chief for the Center of Excellence for Alzheimer’s Disease and division chief of University Geriatricians at SUNY Upstate Medical University.
Alan Dow, MD, MSHA, FACP, is the Ruth and Seymour Perlin Professor of Medicine and Health Administration and Assistant Vice President of Health Sciences for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Care at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.
David B. Duong, MD, MPH, is the director of the Harvard Medical School Program in Global Primary Care and Social Change. He is also a member of WHO’s Primary Healthcare Young Leaders Network, serves on the 2020 World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Health and Healthcare and is co-chair of the Massachusetts Primary Care Practice Health Equity Task Force.
Martin J. Edelman, MD, FACP, is G. Morris Dorrance Jr. Chair in Medical Oncology, deputy cancer center director for clinical research and department chair of hematology/oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center.
Conrad L. Flick, MD, is a partner at Family Medical Associates of Raleigh, co-medical director of the Community Care Physician’s Network and co-president of the Community Care Physican’s Network Board of Managers.
Anita Gupta, DO, PharmD, MPP, GMP, FASA, is an adjunct assistant professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She is also an expert in health policy, biotechnology, drug development and corporate and government affairs.
Manu Jain, MD, is a professor of medicine (pulmonary and critical care) and pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Ali Khan, MD, MPP, FACP, is the executive medical director of Oak Street Health, a private health care system that uses a value-based managed care model. He is also a faculty member in the department of medicine at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine.
Alexander Kowalski, DO, is assistant professor of family medicine and associate program director of the Family Medicine Residency program at Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine.
Krutika Kuppalli, MD, is a medical officer in the COVID-19 Health Operations in the Emerging Diseases and Zoonoses Unit at WHO. She has worked in Ethiopia, India, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Haiti.
Rita K. Kuwahara, MD, MIH, is a primary care health policy fellow and internal medicine physician at Georgetown University. She also serves on the National Steering Committee for Prescription Drug Affordability at Doctors for America.
Megan S. Lemay, MD, is an associate professor of internal medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Shivaraj Nagalli, MD, FACP, is a board-certified internal medicine physician at Shelby Baptist Medical Center in Alabaster.
Lewis S. Nelson, MD, is a professor and chair in the department of emergency medicine and director of the division of medical toxicology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. He is also chief of service in the ED at the University Hospital of Newark and senior consultant for the New Jersey Poison Information and Education System.
Margot L. Savoy, MD, MPH, FAAFP, is senior vice president for education at the American Academy of Family Physicians. She is also an associate professor of family and community medicine as well as urban bioethics and population health at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, and an adjunct associate professor at Maurice H. Kornberg School of Dentistry, Temple University.
Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPA, MPH, FAAP, FACP, FAHA, FTOS, is an obesity medicine physician, internist and pediatrician at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School. She is the director of diversity at the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at Harvard, director of MGH Neuroendocrine Anti-Racism Initiatives, and member of the MGH Mongan Institute for Health Policy and Midlife Women’s Health Center Leadership Team.
Justin F. Tondt, MD, is an assistant professor of family and community medicine at Penn State College of Medicine. He is also board certified in obesity medicine and serves as an associate editor for the journal Obesity Pillars.
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