Bio: Dr. Peter Seidenberg is a Family Medicine physician at Ochsner LSU Health. He has been Professor and Chair of Family Medicine at LSU Health Shreveport since May 2020. He was born in Brooklyn, NY and grew up in Manalapan, NJ. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Biology from King's College, in Wilkes-Barre, PA. He completed his medical degree at Milton S. Hershey Penn State College of Medicine and his family medicine internship and residency at the Scott Air Force Base - St. Louis University Family Medicine Residency Program. He accomplished his sports medicine training with the National Capital Consortium with Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. He is a 13-year Air Force veteran who has served stateside, in Latin America, and the Middle East. He is board certified in family medicine and primary care sports medicine and is a registered musculoskeletal ultrasonographer. He also has a Master’s in Organizational Leadership from Crown College in Saint Bonifacius, MN and completed the LEADS (Leadership Education for Academic Development and Success) Fellowship through the Association of Departments of Family Medicine.

Bio: Dr. Stephen K Stacey, DO is a family physician and Director of Osteopathic Education at the La Crosse-Mayo Family Medicine Residency Program in La Crosse, WI. He is an assistant professor of family medicine and the regional family medicine research chair in the Southwest Wisconsin region of Mayo Clinic Health System. He graduated from Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine and did his residency in osteopathic family medicine in Colorado Springs. He was active duty in the Army where he was an airborne paratrooper in Vicenza, Italy and a flight surgeon for an Apache helicopter battalion in the 4th Combat Aviation Brigade. He loves his current role teaching residents, building clinician-led research programs, and expanding the role that family physicians play in the lives of patients, communities and health systems. He is married to Emily Stacey and is the father of five energetic children. He loves board games, Lego, and all kinds of outdoor adventures, especially trail running in the summer and cross-country skiing in the winter.

Bio: Dr. Richelle Koopman is the Jack M. and Winifred S. Colwill Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Missouri. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pittsburgh School Of Medicine. She completed a Masters of Clinical Research at Medical University of South Carolina and is a practicing family physician. Dr. Koopman has been a clinical and health services researcher for 20 years, with funding from AHRQ K08, R01, and R18 awards. Her work focuses on improving care for chronic conditions through patient and physician use of electronic clinical decision support tools, particularly focusing on decision support for shared decision making in hypertension. Dr. Koopman is committed to making it easy for patients and physicians to make good decisions to improve health. She is a graduate of the ADFM LEADS fellowship and of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) fellowship. She serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Annals of Family Medicine and is serving NAPCRG as its President in 2023-2024.

Bio: Melanie Steiner (she/her), PhD, is Assistant Professor of Clinical Family Medicine and Director of Research Development in the Department of Family Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. She received her PhD in the humanities from Cornell University before transitioning to a career in research development. Prior to joining IUSM in 2024, she worked at the University of Utah for 8 years, first in the Office of the Vice President for Research, where she helped interdisciplinary teams of investigators develop multi-project center grants proposals, then in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, where she focused on growing research capacity by building a robust research infrastructure to advance primary care and public health research and scholarship. With expertise in grant writing, research mentoring, and team science, Melanie contributes to several NIH-funded workforce development programs to diversify biomedical research. She was an inaugural fellow in the 2021-22 BRC Fellowship.

Bio: Peter F. Cronholm, MD, MSCE, is a Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (DFMCH) at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Cronholm is trained in biostatistics, mixed methods, and epidemiology with content expertise in program evaluation, implementation science, and the science of community engagement. His research focuses on community-based, participatory health services regarding: 1) Integration of trauma-informed care and primary prevention strategies into systems of care; 2) Advancing the use of mixed methodologies and patient-reported outcomes (PRO) into research and implementation paradigms through the science of community engagement; and 3) Improving models of care for patients with both medical and social complexity. He has developed and serve as the Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Mixed Methods Research Lab (MMRL) – A university Service Center housed within DFMCH – to foster the use of qualitative and mixed methods research methodologies to integrate the values, perspectives, and goals of multi-expertise and lived experience partners into research designs. He has extensive experience in the science of engagement having served as the PI/engagement consultant on multiple Engagement Awards, leading engagement cores, and have supported federally funded initiatives developing PRO measures and clinical trial dissemination efforts implementing identified best-practices.

Bio: Joan Ilardo, PhD, LMSW is the Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Family Medicine and the Director of Research Initiatives for the Michigan State University (MSU) College of Human Medicine. She facilitates faculty research collaborations and oversees medical student research activities. Her research areas of interest are patient-provider partnerships, comorbid chronic conditions, long-term care services and supports, and coordinating primary care and community-based supports and services.

Before joining the College of Human Medicine in 2009, Dr. Ilardo directed the MSU School of Social Work’s MSW program and taught graduate courses in Research Methods and Administrative Practice Skills. She was a Senior Consultant at Health Management Associates for 12 years and served as the Director of Patient Information at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. Dr. Ilardo is a member of the steering committee of the Michigan Dementia Coalition and serves on the Evaluation Advisory Committee of Michigan’s CDC grant, Building Our Largest Dementia (BOLD) Infrastructure Public Health Program. She is on the executive committee of the NIA-funded Michigan Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. She is a member of the team evaluating the Flint Water Crisis Medicaid Waiver. She serves on several health and human services-related committees and task forces in Michigan and greater Lansing. She served on the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Advisory Panel on Outreach and Education from 2019-2023. She served on the 15-member Michigan Commission on Services to the Aging from 2013-2019.

Dr. Ilardo earned a Bachelor’s in Finance from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a Master’s of Social Work from Michigan State University, and a PhD in Social Work from Michigan State University.

Bio: William Sawaya is an associate professor of Supply Chain Management in the Department of Management of Bowling Green State University, and is currently the Department Chair. He holds a PhD in Business Administration with an emphasis in Operations and Management Science and a supporting field of Strategy from the University of Minnesota. Prior to joining Bowling Green State University he was an assistant professor at Texas A&M University and a post-doctoral researcher at Cornell University.  He has a Master’s degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and graduated magna cum laude with Bachelor’s Degree in Manufacturing Engineering with minor in Business from Brigham Young University. His current research focuses are on decision making in complex environments such as supply networks and other multi-stakeholder and multi-objective systems, the use of technology in supply chain systems, the use of quality tools in improvement efforts and organizational change, sustainable operations, and developing robust systems. He teaches operations, supply chain management, quality, sustainability, and strategy to both graduate and undergraduate students; and has been honored with teaching awards. He is a founding member of the Complex Adaptive Supply Networks Research Accelerator at Arizona State University. His research has been published various academic journals including IIE Transactions, Decision Sciences, Research in Transpiration Economics, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, Business Horizons, and others and he is an associate editor for Decision Support Systems. He has worked and consulted for a variety of industries. He has also conducted professional education in supply chain and strategic sourcing, quality and lean systems, inventory stratification, customer stratification, and pricing.

Bio: Brandon has nearly 20 years of significant expertise in people and systems change, leadership development, and strategic business planning specializing in organizational design and transformation.

He is certified as a project management professional (PMP), Agile practitioner (PMI-ACP), Executive coach and DiSC facilitator. He has worked across several industries (corporate, government, non-profit, start-up) with companies of various sizes ranging from small/boutique to Fortune 500. He is also a published author with works printed in the Organization Development Review and Cyber Defense Magazine. 

Brandon holds a Doctorate in Organization Development and Change from Bowling Green State University.  In addition, he holds a Master’s degree in Positive Organizational Development and Change from Case Western Reserve University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Kent State University.

Originally a “Clevelander”, he moved to Columbus in 2011 and it has truly become home to him due to making friends who have become family. Away from work, Brandon is a self-proclaimed “karaoke junkie” who loves his family, friends, playing the saxophone, singing and weightlifting. Welcome Brandon!