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.

Mark S. Johnson, M.D., MPH is Professor and Chair of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Howard University. He has previously been the Dean of the College of Medicine at Howard University. He is a graduate of Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa where he earned a degree in Black Literature. He went to medical school at UMD (now Rutgers)-New Jersey Medical School (NJMS). He did his residency training at the University of South Alabama Medical Center in Mobile. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill. Prior to moving to Washington DC, he was Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at NJMS.

Johnson has previously served as the President of the Association of Departments of Family Medicine. He was a member of the United States Preventive Services Task Force, the NJ Task Force for the Prevention of Obesity and the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Academy of Sciences. He has been a reviewer for NIH, HRSA, PCORI and AHRQ. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. He is a member of the Board on Health Care Services the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the National Health Information Technology Collaborative for the Underserved (NHIT). He is the PI of the Howard University Clinical Research Network for Health Equity. His research interests include obesity, health disparities, and family violence.

Dr. Navkiran “Kiran” K. Shokar is Professor and Chair of the Department of Population Health, Associate Dean for Community Affairs, and Co-Lead for Cancer Prevention and Control at Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin. She is the inaugural Chair of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) Prevention Advisory Committee.

Born and raised in England, Dr. Shokar earned her MA from Cambridge University, her medical degree from Oxford University, completed family medicine residencies in the U.K. and U.S., and an MPH from The University of Texas Houston School of Public Health.

A clinical scientist, her research focuses on community-based interventions to reduce cancer prevention and early detection disparities among underserved populations. She has pioneered population health approaches integrating health promotion and implementation science, with a particular emphasis on colorectal cancer screening disparities. She has led multiple CPRIT-funded programs in colorectal, breast, and cervical cancer screening and is PI of the statewide Colorectal Cancer Screening Coordinating Center (CONNECT). Dr. Shokar has secured over $33 million in extramural funding from CPRIT, NIH, and other sources.

Dr. Irfan M. Asif is associate dean for Primary Care and Rural Health and professor and chair of the Department of Family and Community at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Board-certified in family medicine and sports medicine, he is dedicated to advancing patient care, medical education, quality improvement, and service. At UAB, Dr. Asif leads efforts to strengthen the primary care pipeline and address health disparities in rural and underserved communities. He also serves as a team physician for UAB Athletics and sits on the Board of Directors for the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM). He is an Associate Editor for the British Journal of Sports Medicine and Sports Health, and has provided care for athletes from the high school to professional level. His research focuses on sports cardiology and combating physical inactivity to prevent cardiometabolic disease, with recognition from AMSSM, the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, and Sports Health. A leader in sports medicine education, Dr. Asif has directed fellowship programs, chaired the AMSSM Fellowship Committee, and helped develop national and international training standards. He has been an invited speaker at major national and international venues, including the International Olympic Committee Conference on the Prevention of Injury and Illness in Sport. His contributions have earned numerous awards for research, teaching, and professional service.

Anthony Viera, MD, MPH is Professor and Chair of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine. He earned his medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina and an MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), where he also completed a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars fellowship. Prior to his academic career, he served eight years as a family physician in the U.S. Navy.

Dr. Viera has been continuously funded as a Principal Investigator by the NIH since 2009, with more than $16 million in grant support. In 2012, he established the UNC Hypertension Research Program, gaining national and international recognition for his work on blood pressure monitoring. He is certified as a clinical hypertension specialist, a Fellow of the American Heart Association, and a frequent reviewer for NIH and the American Heart Association. His research has also included NIH-funded work in obesity prevention.

At UNC, Dr. Viera served as Director of the MD-MPH Program, where he expanded enrollment, secured new funding, and launched the Primary Care and Population Health Scholars Program. The program grew significantly under his leadership and received national recognition for excellence in education.

A dedicated educator, Dr. Viera has received more than 20 teaching awards, including a university-wide Distinguished Teaching Award. He has mentored numerous trainees, including five K-award scholars, and authored influential publications, including a widely cited paper on the kappa statistic. He has also edited major textbooks in family medicine and medical leadership and created CrossWards, a crossword-based USMLE study tool.

Mark S. Johnson, M.D., MPH is Professor and Chair of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Howard University. He has previously been the Dean of the College of Medicine at Howard University. He is a graduate of Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa where he earned a degree in Black Literature. He went to medical school at UMD (now Rutgers)-New Jersey Medical School (NJMS). He did his residency training at the University of South Alabama Medical Center in Mobile. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill. Prior to moving to Washington DC, he was Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at NJMS.

Johnson has previously served as the President of the Association of Departments of Family Medicine. He was a member of the United States Preventive Services Task Force, the NJ Task Force for the Prevention of Obesity and the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Academy of Sciences. He has been a reviewer for NIH, HRSA, PCORI and AHRQ. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. He is a member of the Board on Health Care Services the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the National Health Information Technology Collaborative for the Underserved (NHIT). He is the PI of the Howard University Clinical Research Network for Health Equity. His research interests include obesity, health disparities, and family violence.

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.

Tochi Iroku-Malize MD MPH MBA is the senior vice president of family medicine at Northwell Health and professor and chair of family medicine for the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell as well as professor of Institute of Health Systems Science at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. She is currently the president-elect of the American Academy of Family Physicians, past president of the New York State Academy of Family Physicians and serves on numerous committees for specialty societies including the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, the Association of Departments of Family Medicine, the North American Primary Care Research Group, and the World Organization of Family Doctors. Dr. Iroku-Malize is involved in diverse programs including, but not limited to, global & planetary health, clinical informatics, women's & children's health, special needs populations, cultural competency, advocacy, and leadership. She has worked for over three decades on clinical, research and academic initiatives to enhance health and equity for both providers and patients across various communities locally, nationally, and internationally. A native New Yorker, she has lived in various countries and earned her medical degree from the University of Nigeria and did her internship in Trinidad & Tobago before returning to the US. She completed her family medicine residency at Southside Hospital and is dual board certified in family medicine and hospice and palliative medicine. In addition, she holds a master's degree in public health (majoring in health policy and management) from Columbia University and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Massachusetts.

Richelle J. Koopman, MD, MS is the Jack M. and Winifred S. Colwill Professor and Vice Chair for Research and Faculty Affairs for the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri School of Medicine. She is an expert in applying user-centered design, behavioral economics, and human factors engineering principles to designing, implementing, and evaluating clinical decision support in EHRs. Her research team’s philosophy is to dual design decision support for both clinical care teams AND the patient. As such, she is innovating in the area of patient-centered electronic decision support that is integrated with the patient portal, the clinical EHR, and the patient’s care team. Previous work has focused on diabetes decision support; most recently she has been working with these tools to improve hypertension diagnosis and control in the primary care setting. Medication timelines and smoothing algorithms for blood pressure data visualization are some of the cutting edge designs that characterize this work. Beyond merely addressing usability, Dr. Koopman and her team seek to create tools that fit the patient and clinician workflow, making it easy for them to do the right things.

Dr. Irfan M. Asif is associate dean for Primary Care and Rural Health and professor and chair of the Department of Family and Community at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Board-certified in family medicine and sports medicine, he is dedicated to advancing patient care, medical education, quality improvement, and service. At UAB, Dr. Asif leads efforts to strengthen the primary care pipeline and address health disparities in rural and underserved communities. He also serves as a team physician for UAB Athletics and sits on the Board of Directors for the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM). He is an Associate Editor for the British Journal of Sports Medicine and Sports Health, and has provided care for athletes from the high school to professional level. His research focuses on sports cardiology and combating physical inactivity to prevent cardiometabolic disease, with recognition from AMSSM, the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, and Sports Health. A leader in sports medicine education, Dr. Asif has directed fellowship programs, chaired the AMSSM Fellowship Committee, and helped develop national and international training standards. He has been an invited speaker at major national and international venues, including the International Olympic Committee Conference on the Prevention of Injury and Illness in Sport. His contributions have earned numerous awards for research, teaching, and professional service.

As Head of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Dr. Jimbo is committed to advancing excellence across all areas of academic family and community medicine. A family physician researcher, he has worked extensively in primary care practice quality improvement. Having practiced in both urban and rural underserved areas, he has first-hand knowledge of how competing issues can crowd out important patient education during patients’ visits with their physicians. Initially trained in basic laboratory research, he gained expertise in behavioral intervention and research through formal training in public health at the University of North Carolina and hands-on research to improve colorectal cancer screening at Thomas Jefferson University. He has obtained major funding from the National Cancer Institute to investigate patient and clinician communication utilizing decision aids and shared decision making, cancer screening and prevention in primary care, and clinician acceptance of practice interventions. He has also worked extensively in inpatient medicine, guideline development, population-based medicine, and faculty development.

Kolawole S. Okuyemi, MD, MPH, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine, where he also serves as Associate Dean for Population Health Research and holds the OneAmerica Professor of Preventive Health Medicine Chair. Previously, he chaired the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of Utah and served as Executive Director for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the Huntsman Cancer Institute.

Dr. Okuyemi’s work over the past two decades has centered on improving health outcomes for underserved populations and advancing health equity through culturally tailored behavioral interventions and community-engaged research. His NIH-funded research—totaling over $50 million—has addressed cancer and tobacco-related disparities among African Americans, Sub-Saharan African immigrants, and people experiencing homelessness. He was a Principal Investigator for the NIH National Research Mentoring Network, fostering career development for diverse biomedical trainees, and has authored nearly 200 peer-reviewed publications.

He has received numerous awards, including the Hames Research Award and the Lynn and Joan Carmichael Award from the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, and the Pebbles Fagan Health Award from the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco. He serves on advisory boards for several national cancer centers and is committed to mentoring the next generation of researchers. A board-certified family physician, Dr. Okuyemi enjoys soccer, exercise, volunteering, and time with his family.