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Committee, Fellow, and Staff Biographical Sketches

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RAMON CANCINO, M.D., M.B.A., M.S., FAAFP (Cochair), is executive director of the UT Health San Antonio Primary Care Center and senior medical director of Medical Management. Dr. Cancino also helps guide cancer prevention and screening strategies as the cochair of the joint UT Health San Antonio-MD Anderson Mays Cancer Center Cancer Prevention and Screening Committee. Prior to this role, he was chief medical officer of Mattapan Community Health Center, a federally qualified health center in Boston, Massachusetts. A family medicine physician with more than 10 years health care executive experience in academic and federally qualified health center settings, Dr. Cancino has led all aspects of primary care, including value-based care, cancer prevention and screening, and workforce development. His research interests include utilization and quality measurement, use of novel cancer screening strategies, and digital health. He sits on the Texas Primary Care Consortium Advisory Committee, a Medicare shared savings accountable care organization, where he guides the direction of statewide primary care initiatives, and he sits on the board of directors of the UT Health San Antonio Regional Physician Network ACO. He holds multiple national committee positions. He sits on the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Practice and Quality Improvement Steering Committee, which guides the direction of relevant education for learners and clinician educators. He also sits on the Agency for Healthcare Quality Healthcare Safety and Quality Research study section.

Prior to these roles, Dr. Cancino completed his residency training at Mayo Clinic, completed an academic medicine fellowship at Boston University School of Medicine, attained a Master of Science in health services research at Boston University School of Public Health, and completed his M.B.A. at University of Texas at San Antonio.

ALEX H. KRIST, M.D., M.P.H. (Cochair), is a professor of family medicine and population health at Virginia Commonwealth University and an active clinician and teacher at the Fairfax Family Practice Residency. He is the director of the Virginia Ambulatory Care Outcomes Research Network, director of community-engaged research at the Center for Clinical and Translational Research, and past chairperson for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Dr. Krist’s areas of interest include implementation of preventive recommendations, patient-centered care, shared decision making, cancer screening, and health information technology. He is the primary author of numerous peer-reviewed publications and has presented to a wide range of audiences at national and international conferences. Dr. Krist completed his doctor of medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Dr. Krist was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2018, was a member of the committee that produced Implementing High-Quality Primary Care: Rebuilding the Foundation of Health Care, and was cochair of the committee that produced Achieving Whole Health: A New Approach for Veterans and the Nation.

ANDREA ANDERSON, M.D., M.Ed., FAAFP, is a family physician and an associate professor at the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She is the chair of the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), a board member of the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB), chair of the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Management Committee, a senior medical education consultant for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), and a former member of the National Advisory Council of the National Health Service Corps and National Health Service Corps Scholar. At George Washington, she serves in several roles, including as the Associate Chief of the Division of Family Medicine, the chair of the clinical curriculum subcommittee, Director of the Scholarly Concentration in Health Policy, and course director of the required Transitions to Residency internship readiness capstone course. Throughout her career, Dr. Anderson has been active in DC health policy and medical regulation as well as teaching primary care, ethics, professionalism, and physician advocacy to medical students and residents. She is the Chair of the DC Board of Medicine, licensing and determining regulatory policy for the more than 15,000 DC physicians and other licensees. She is a subject-matter expert for national advisory committees

of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME), namely the Patient Characteristics Advisory Panel and the Legal/Ethical Task Force. She has served on multiple national advisory committees for the FSMB, including chairing the 2024 Workgroup on the Regulation of Physicians in Training and the National Ethics and Professionalism Committee, which creates model practice national guidelines for state medical licensing boards, such as the current medical misinformation guidelines for state medical boards. Dr. Anderson is the recipient of the 2022 GW Distinguished Service Award, the 2021 National Exemplary Teaching Award from the American Academy of Family Physicians, the 2019 Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) Advocate Award, the 2016 Brown School of Medicine Young Alumnae Achievement award, and the 1997 National Health Service Corps Scholarship. She is a current fellow of the Hedwig Van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program, 2023 graduate of the International Leadership Excellence in Educating for Professionalism (LEEP) Faculty Scholars Program from the Academy for Professionalism in Health Care, a 2018 graduate of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Emerging Leaders Program, and a 2017 graduate of the GW Master Teacher Leadership Development Fellowship. Dr. Anderson is an alumna of the Program in Liberal Medical Education (PLME) at Brown University and Brown University School of Medicine. She completed a Master’s degree of Education at the GW School of Education and Human Development. She completed her Family Medicine residency and Academic Medicine fellowship at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where she served as the Chief Resident. Following this, she spent 15 years in clinical practice at the Upper Cardozo Health Center, a multilingual Federally Qualified Health Center in Washington, DC.

BETH BORTZ, M.P.P., is the founding President and CEO of the Virginia Center for Health Innovation, a nonprofit, public–private partnership established to accelerate value-driven health care. Ms. Bortz has secured more than $25M in funds for innovation initiatives, including grants from Arnold Ventures, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Virginia Department of Health, and the Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services. She has served as the implementation lead for the Virginia Task Force on Primary Care, Smarter Care Virginia, Virginia Vaccinates, the State Innovation Model Design grant, and Virginia’s EvidenceNow grant. She is a public member of the American Board of Medical Specialties. Previously, she served as Executive Director of the Medical Society of Virginia Foundation, Deputy Director of the Virginia Health Care Foundation, and Senior Associate Legislative Analyst for the Virginia General Assembly. In addition to serving on the National Task Force to Reduce Low Value Healthcare, and the

boards of Rx Partnership, LEAD Virginia, Virginia Health Information, and the American Board of Family Medicine, she has received the Virginia Leader Award from LEAD Virginia, Influential Women of Virginia Award from Virginia Lawyer’s Media, and the Medallion Award for Community Partnership from Mutual of America. She earned her undergraduate degree in Economics and Government and her master’s in public policy from the College of William and Mary.

KAREN L. FORTUNA, Ph.D., M.S.W., is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and cofounder of the Collaborative Design for Recovery and Health. As an international collaborative of patients, community health workers, peer-support specialists, caregivers, policy makers, and payer systems, the collaborative uses community-based participatory research to facilitate the development, evaluation, and implementation of digital tools that use mobile health to address needs identified by community members from vulnerable populations at the intersection of race and disability status, including but not limited to older adults with multiple chronic health conditions and people with disabilities, rare diseases, and psychiatric disorders. Her work spans many settings from primary care to community-based care. Dr. Fortuna has received funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), National Institute of Mental Health, American Federation of Aging, Brain and Behavior Foundation, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, and the New York Academy of Sciences. Overall, she has been responsible for conducting or collaborating on more than 30 research projects, including topics such as health disparities, self-management, patient engagement in digital technologies, participatory human-centered design, and has pioneered a new field of study “digital peer support.” She is the 2022–2023 Chair of the Patient Engagement National Advisory Council to PCORI.

Dr. Fortuna is an invited member of the American Psychological Association’s Mental Health Technology Advisory Committee, American Psychiatric Association’s Smartphone App Advisory Panel, Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts Advisory Panel, and the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft Research Group Die Offene Tür’s Open Innovation international advisory panel. Dr. Fortuna was the recipient of the Japanese Agency for Medical Research and Development Research Proposal of the year, Ally of the Year Award from the Western Mass Peer Network, Alvin R. Tarlov & John E. Ware Jr. Award in Patient Reported Outcomes, and the Faculty Achievement Award from the National Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work. She serves as a scientific advisor for Emissary Health (a digital platform for respite care) and Skyview (a lamp designed to promote wellness).

ISHANI GANGULI, M.D., M.P.H., is an associate professor of medicine, health services researcher, and practicing primary care physician at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her research focuses on primary care delivery and payment policy, including the evolution of primary care visits, Medicare’s annual wellness visit, telemedicine, direct scheduling, and fee-for-service and value-based payment models. She also studies the use and consequences (cascades) of low-value care and gender equity. She has received regional and national research awards, including the New England Regional Society for General Internal Medicine Award for Excellence in Clinician Investigation (2020), the Academy Health Annual Research Meeting Publication of the Year Award (2021), and the Seema S. Sonnad Emerging Leader in Managed Care Research Award (2022). Dr. Ganguli serves as an associate editor at JAMA Internal Medicine. She is also a former journalist who has written about science and health care for publications, including the Boston Globe and the Washington Post. She received her A.B., M.D., and M.P.H. from Harvard University and completed internal medicine/primary care residency and health policy and management fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Ganguli also serves as a consultant for F Prime Capital, a company that invests in health services, technology, and insurance companies.

KEVIN GRUMBACH, M.D., is professor of family and community medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He served as Chair of the UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine from 2003 to 2022. He is a founding director of the UCSF Center for Excellence in Primary Care and Director of the Community Engagement Program for the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute. His research and scholarship on the primary care workforce, innovations in primary care, racial and ethnic diversity in the health professions, and community health improvement and health equity have widely influenced policy and practice. Dr. Grumbach is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and California Academy of Family Physicians and cochairs the California Academy of Family Physicians Task Force on Primary Care for All to develop policy positions on primary care coverage, investment, and payment. He is also a member of Physicians for a National Health Program. He is a gubernatorial appointee to the California Health Workforce Education and Training Council and a technical expert for the California Office of Health Care Affordability Payment and Investment Workgroup, both of which are uncompensated positions. With Tom Bodenheimer, he coauthored the best-selling textbook on health policy, Understanding Health Policy—A Clinical Approach, now in its eighth edition, published by McGraw Hill. He received a Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Health Resources and Services

Administration Award for Health Workforce Research on Diversity, the Richard E. Cone Award for Excellence and Leadership in Cultivating Community Partnerships in Higher Education, and the UCSF Chancellor’s Public Service Award. Dr. Grumbach has been an advisor to congressional committees and government agencies on primary care and health reform and a member of the National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and currently serves on the California Health Workforce Education and Training Council. He cares for patients at the family medicine practices at San Francisco General Hospital and UCSF Health. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

MICHAEL J. HASSELBERG, NP, M.S., Ph.D., is an associate professor of psychiatry, clinical nursing, and data science at the University of Rochester (UR). Dr. Hasselberg is the first Chief Digital Health Officer at UR Medicine, leading the health system’s digital transformation strategy, including the development of a digital front door (patient portal, online scheduling, eCheck-in, on-demand telemedicine, and retail health) for the system’s primary care network. Dr. Hasselberg also leads UR Medicine’s digital innovation incubator, which is currently using generative AI and large language models to reduce clinician burnout. As a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar Fellow, he contributed to the development of a digitally integrated care delivery model for behavioral health into primary, acute, and postacute care settings within rural communities. Dr. Hasselberg was named to the “Top 50 in Digital Health” list by Rock Health to recognize his work to improve health equity through technology innovation during the COVID-19 pandemic and was selected as the 2023 commencement speaker for the UR School of Nursing. Board-certified as a psychiatric nurse practitioner, Dr. Hasselberg completed his Ph.D. degree in health practice research at the UR and a postdoctoral certificate in healthcare leadership at Cornell University.

LAUREN S. HUGHES, M.D., M.P.H., M.Sc., M.H.C.D.S., FAAFP, is a family physician working as the State Policy Director of the Farley Health Policy Center and an associate professor of family medicine at the University of Colorado. In these roles, she leads efforts to generate and translate evidence to inform the design and implementation of evidence-based health policy at the state, national, and federal levels. She participates in the Primary Care Centers Roundtable, a volunteer collective of all of the primary care research and policy centers in the United States. Her research interests include improving rural health care delivery, strengthening primary care infrastructure, and advancing behavioral health integration. She cares for patients at a rural federally qualified health center (FQHC) north of Denver. Dr. Hughes previously served as deputy secretary for Health Innovation

in the Pennsylvania Department of Health. In this role, she collaborated with the CMS Innovation Center (CMMI) to codesign and launch the Pennsylvania Rural Health Model, a new payment and delivery model that transitions rural hospitals from fee-for-service to multipayer global budgets and transforms how they deliver care to better meet community health needs. She also oversaw the creation of the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program for the Commonwealth and led the department to full accreditation through the Public Health Accreditation Board.

In 2018, Dr. Hughes was selected by former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush as a Presidential Leadership Scholar. From 2022 to 2023, she served as chair of the American Board of Family Medicine Board of Directors. She also serves on the boards of directors of the Rural Health Redesign Center Organization and the American Medical Student Association Foundation. She is a member of the Primary Care Payment Reform Collaborative through the Colorado Division of Insurance and the Stakeholder Advisory Group for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality National Center for Excellence in Primary Care Research. Dr. Hughes is a former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Michigan, where she earned an M.Sc. in health services research. She holds a medical degree from the University of Iowa, an M.P.H. in health policy from the George Washington University, and a master’s in health care delivery science from Dartmouth College, and she completed her residency at the University of Washington. Since 2021, Dr. Hughes has been a member of the National Academies Board on Health Care Services.

CANDACE SPROTT, M.D., M.B.A., FAAP, FACP, practices comprehensive outpatient internal medicine and pediatrics at the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, where she has been since 2016. She also serves as the medical director of her medical office and conducts peer review for the Department of Internal Medicine. Dr. Sprott is highly active in the American College of Physicians (ACP), the professional home for all Internal Medicine physicians. She is the chair of her local chapter’s Early Career Physician Committee as well as a member of the ACP National Council of Early Career Physicians and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee. In addition to these roles, she serves as assistant producer for the DEI shift podcast, a nationally recognized podcast hosted by the ACP that focuses on DEI topics within medicine. She’s passionate about operations and strategic planning, enjoys connecting with her patients through curiosity and empathy, and loves the thrill of a great case. Dr. Sprott trained in a combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency program at Christiana Care Health System and the Alfred I duPont/Nemours Children’s Hospital in Delaware. After her chief year she completed a patient safety and quality improvement fellowship.

EBONI WINFORD, Ph.D., M.P.H., is the vice president of Research and Health Equity and a licensed psychologist at Cherokee Health Systems (CHS) in Knoxville, Tennessee. She provides direct clinical care to patients, contributes to workforce development in community health centers, and oversees research initiatives, including those funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Tennessee Department of Health, and the National Institutes of Health. She is the clinical director for CHS’s National Consultation and Training Program, which provides individualized on-site training to other health organizations as they seek to integrate their practices. She is on the board of directors for the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association, is the chair-elect of American Psychological Association’s Ad Hoc Health Equity Committee, is secretary of American Public Health Association’s Community Health Planning and Policy Development section, and serves as the second Vice Chair of National Association of Community Health Center Committee on Service Integration for Behavioral Health and HIV.

Dr. Winford holds adjunct faculty positions in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Meharry Medical College and in the Department of Psychology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Interdisciplinary Fellow and a Health Equity Scholar in Cambridge Health Alliance’s Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy. Dr. Winford earned her doctorate in clinical health psychology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and her Master of Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a proud life member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated.

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STEPHANIE GOLD, M.D., FAAFP, 2023–2025 Puffer/ABFM Fellow, is an associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado, a practicing family physician at a federally qualified health center in the Denver Health system, and a scholar at the Farley Health Policy Center. Her research and policy work focus on payment reform for primary care and integrating behavioral health with primary care, with the goal of system transformation to enable primary care to better and more equitably care for the whole heath of individuals, families, and communities.

Dr. Gold served as president of the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP) from 2022 to 2023. Through the CAFP, Dr. Gold helped advance legislation to improve primary care investment in Colorado and has provided input on multiple state task forces and committees related to primary care payment reform. Dr. Gold coedited a book, Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care: Your Patients Are Waiting, which provides

guidance on practice transformation to integrate care. She led the development of the Building Blocks of Behavioral Health Integration, a framework of care delivery expectations for use in practice transformation and alternative payment models. Dr. Gold also teaches policy and advocacy skills and has developed novel curricula for residents and international learners. Dr. Gold received her M.D. from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and completed her residency at the University of Colorado–Denver Health track. Following residency, she completed a health policy fellowship with the Farley Health Policy Center.

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ABIGAIL GODWIN, M.P.H., is a dedicated public health professional specializing in policy analysis, legislative research, and executive administration. Currently, she serves as a research associate at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine working on enhancing provider participation in Medicare, Medicaid, and Marketplace insurance plans. She holds a master of public health from Boston University and a bachelor of science in public health from Sam Houston State University. Before her role at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Ms. Godwin worked on campaign efforts to expand long-term services and supports coverage with the Massachusetts Senior Action Council, served as a policy intern for Massachusetts State Senator John F. Keenan, and worked as a special assistant at the Brennan Center for Justice. Alongside her professional and academic milestones, Ms. Godwin is dedicated to community service, with volunteer experience at United Ways Workplace Wellness, Be The Match, and Bridge Over Troubled Water.

MARC MEISNERE, M.H.S., is a senior program officer on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (the National Academies) Board on Health Care Services. Since 2010, Mr. Meisnere has worked on a variety of National Academies consensus studies and other activities that have focused on mental health services for service members and veterans, suicide prevention, primary care, and clinician well-being. Most recently, he was the study director for the 2021 National Academies report Implementing High-Quality Primary Care: Rebuilding the Foundation of Health Care and the 2023 report, Achieving Whole Health: A New Approach for Veterans and the Nation. Before joining the National Academies, Mr. Meisnere worked on a family planning media project in northern Nigeria with the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs and on a variety of international health policy issues at the Population Reference Bureau. He is a graduate of Colorado College and the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

ADAEZE OKOROAJUZIE, M.S., is a senior program assistant with the Board on Health Care Services at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Prior to joining the National Academies, she was the president of GlobeMed at Howard University, a grassroots organization that works directly with the Nancholi Youth Organization (NAYO) in Blantyre, Malawi. She is a certified birth doula who provided free doula services to young mothers in Washington, D.C., through the Community Doula Network. Through her content creator account “DazetheDoula” she creates awareness and educates her community on birth education. Ms. Okoroajuzie obtained her Bachelor of Science from Howard University and Master of Science from Georgetown University Biomedical Graduate School.

SHARYL NASS, Ph.D., serves as Senior Director of the Board on Health Care Services and Director of the National Cancer Policy Forum at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The National Academies provide independent, objective analysis and advice to the nation to solve complex problems and inform public policy decisions related to science, technology, and medicine. To enable the best possible care for all patients, the board undertakes scholarly analysis of the organization, financing, effectiveness, workforce, and delivery of health care, with emphasis on quality, cost, and accessibility. The forum examines policy issues pertaining to the entire continuum of cancer research and care. For more than 2 decades, Dr. Nass has worked on a broad range of health and science policy topics that includes the quality, safety, and equity of health care and clinical trials; developing technologies for precision medicine; and strategies to support clinician well-being. She has a Ph.D. from Georgetown University and undertook postdoctoral training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, as well as a research fellowship at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. She also holds a B.S. and an M.S. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has been the recipient of the Cecil Medal for Excellence in Health Policy Research, a Distinguished Service Award from the National Academies, and the Institute of Medicine staff team achievement award (as team leader).