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.

ANDREA ANDERSON, M.D., M.Ed., FAAFP, is a family physician and an associate professor at the George Washington (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She is the immediate past chair of the American Board of Family Medicine, a board member of the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB), chair of the United States Medical Licensing Examination Management Committee, a past senior medical education consultant for the Association of American Medical Colleges, and a former member of the National Advisory Council of the National Health Service Corps and National Health Service Corps Scholar. At GW, she serves in several roles including as the associate chief of the Division of Family Medicine, 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 over 15,000 DC physicians and other licensees.

She is a subject-matter expert for national advisory committees of the National Board of Medical Examiners, 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. 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 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 program, 2023 graduate of the International Leadership Excellence in Educating for Professionalism 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 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 $25 million in funds for innovation initiatives, including grants from Arnold Ventures, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Virginia Department of Health, and 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 and a registered lobbyist in the Commonwealth of Virginia. 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, as well as pioneering 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 to 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 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).

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 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 Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation 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 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 also 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 residency at the University of Washington. Since 2021, Dr. Hughes has been a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Board on Health Care Services.

ALEX H. KRIST, M.D., M.P.H., 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 is 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.

He is a graduate of Colorado College and the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

ADRIENNE FORMENTOS, M.S., is an associate program officer of the Board on Health Care Services at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, where she supports the Forum on Advancing Diagnostic Excellence. Prior to this role, she was a research assistant with Knowledge Ecology International. Grounded in public and community health and health care access, she has worked with the American Red Cross as a Disaster Action Team Administrator and case manager in San Francisco County, and with RotaCare Bay Area as a patient services navigator assisting uninsured patients with follow-up care and coverage. Through a year of service with AmeriCorps at St. Vincent Medical Center, she worked as a patient advocate and community services coordinator, organizing health fairs and outreach for uninsured and underinsured populations. She holds a B.A. in political science and English with a writing emphasis from Dominican University of California, and an M.S. in global health from Georgetown University.

SHARYL J. NASS, Ph.D., serves as senior director of the Board on Health Care Services and co-director of the National Cancer Policy Forum at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies). For more than two 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; development of 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).

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