Melissa Cheyney PhD, LDM is Associate Professor of Clinical Medical Anthropology at Oregon State University (OSU) and a community midwife. She co-directs Uplift—a research and reproductive equity laboratory at OSU, where she serves as the Primary Investigator on more than 20 maternal and infant health-related research projects, including the Community Doula Project. She is the author of an ethnography entitled Born at Home (2010, Wadsworth Press), co-editor with Robbie Davis-Floyd of Birth in Eight Cultures (2019, Waveland Press), and author or co-author of more than 60 peer-reviewed articles that examine the cultural beliefs and clinical outcomes associated with midwife-attended birth at home and in birth centers in the United States. In 2019, Dr. Cheyney served on the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s Birth Settings in America Study and in 2020 was named Eminent Professor by OSUs Honors College. She also received Oregon State University’s prestigious Scholarship Impact Award for her work in the International Reproductive Health Laboratory and with the Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA) Statistics Project. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care and the mother of a daughter born at home on International Day of the Midwife in 2009.

Gemma Costa has an M.S. in Student Affairs Counseling and is a Nationally Certified Counselor. Gemma has 10 years’ experience as a Career Counselor working with science and pre-health students and for the last 5 years has been the Senior Learning and Development Specialist within the AAMC’s, Careers in Medicine ® (CiM) program. In this position, Gemma trains medical school career advisors on how to advice medical students and utilize the CiM program. Gemma also creates content for the CiM Website and is focused on developing distance learning products for the program.

As Senior Vice President for Business Development and Operations, Lisa Cover is responsible for expanding ECFMG|FAIMER services, programs, and initiatives in conjunction with the enterprise’s strategic plan. Lisa provides overall leadership of signature programs including ECFMG Certification, ERAS Support Services, the Exchange Visitor Sponsorship Program, and credential verification services including the International Electronic Portfolio of International Credentials (EPIC).
Ms. Cover’s expertise and experience focus on institutional strategy; new business development, both domestic and international; and operations management. Before joining ECFMG|FAIMER in 2015, she held several leadership roles over more than a decade at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), including Senior Director of International Medicine and Assistant Vice President of Planning and New Business Development. Prior to her time at CHOP, Ms. Cover held management positions at academic medical centers, including Columbia University in New York and BJC Health System in St. Louis. She also served as Senior Associate at a prominent health care consulting firm based in New York City.
Ms. Cover holds a Bachelor of Applied Arts with emphases in public health and management from Central Michigan University School of Public Health and a Master of Health Administration from Washington University School of Medicine. She is active in a variety of professional and civic organizations.

Dr. Flick graduated Magna Cum Laude from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California with a BS in biology where he was heavily involved in high school and university level tutoring. He then moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand where he worked as a high school mathematics teacher at an international baccalaureate school. In the two years prior to starting medical school, he volunteered in seven different countries throughout Asia with international medical aid programs. Dr. Flick attended medical school at UC Irvine after receiving the Army health professions scholarship. He served on the admissions committee for four years including working on the selection committee board. He completed a family medicine residency program in Oahu, HI and served on the residency admissions committee. He is board certified in family medicine and now works as a flight surgeon for the Army.

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Dr. Le is an internationally recognized medical educator, physician executive and seasoned entrepreneur. He possesses deep experience in medical communications, health informatics, and medical practice management. Dr. Le earned his medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco. He trained in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital and completed an allergy and immunology fellowship and a masters in health sciences at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Le has authored or edited over 40 textbooks including the First Aid for the Boards series. These books have been used by over 2 million physicians and medical students worldwide. He is also section chief of allergy and immunology in the University of Louisville Department of Medicine where he pursues his interests in asthma and medical education. He is currently Founder and Chief Education Officer of ScholarRx, a global platform for student-powered medical education, and serves on the Board of Trustees for Centre College of Kentucky.

Prof. Levin has been working in the fields of HIV disease for more than three decades. This work has taken her to Brazil, Barbados, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Canada, Switzerland, Ukraine, South Africa, and India. Her focus has been on managing programs to meet the needs of vulnerable and marginalized communities (youth, injection drug users, sex workers, etc) and the health care providers who serve them, as well as to recruit partners outside of the health sector (government, transport, the press, private sector) to address HIV. She works as an independent consultant and is an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine. At Georgetown, Prof. Levin has taught on the following subjects: health policy, HIV diagnosis and testing, health communications and behavior modification, preschool health interventions, harm reduction, clinical problem-solving, community health, service learning, human sexuality, cultural competency, and a course on AIDS advocacy. She is faculty advisor to the Health Justice Track and GMAAN (Georgetown Medical AIDS Advocacy Network). She received her MPH in international public health policy from George Washington University and her BA in biology with an emphasis in molecular genetics from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Adriane López works with the Visiting Student Learning Opportunities™ (VSLO®) team at the Association of American Medical Colleges. In her role as Engagement Specialist, she conducts student webinars and focuses on expanding opportunities in the VSLO Global Network.

Emily joined CFHI in 2019 as the Program Coordinator of Academic Partnerships and Affiliates. In this role, she supports a wide array of CFHI stakeholders, engaging with academic partners, global partners, and students.

Emily has experience working in global health, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), service learning, and education. Before CFHI, she worked as an independent consultant and at an international development consulting firm coordinating an extensive portfolio of M&E contracts for the USAID/Kenya and USAID/East Africa missions. She also spent four years living abroad, teaching English as a second language in Spain and leading community development trips for international volunteers in Nicaragua. Emily has a Master’s degree in Global Health from Universitat de Barcelona and a Bachelor’s degree in Public Health from University of Maryland, College Park. She is particularly passionate about amplifying evidence-based best practices in global health and shifting the foreign aid paradigm.

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Dr. Edjah Nduom is a fellowship-trained neurosurgical oncologist and physician-activist. In his academic practice, he operates on brain and spinal tumor patients while investigating novel treatments for brain tumor patients. Dr. Nduom obtained his B.S. in Biomechanical Engineering at Stanford University in 2002 and subsequently obtained his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. Dr Nduom then pursued neurosurgical training in the Department of Neurosurgery at Emory University and was awarded an NIH R25 Research Development Grant during his residency. In 2012, he completed an in-folded Research Fellowship in Neurosurgical Oncology at NIH. Dr Nduom finished his neurosurgical training in 2013 and then pursued an additional Neurosurgical Oncology Fellowship at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, where he was awarded the Jesse H. Jones Fellowship in Cancer Education.

Dr Nduom has held numerous leadership positions over his career. He was the President of the Medical Student Government at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he was also an active member of AMSA and the Student National Medical Association. In 2015, he founded Physicians for Criminal Justice Reform, Inc. a 501c3 non-profit organization focused on eliminating the damaging health consequences that can result from negative interactions with the criminal justice system. He was recently named one of the National Minority Quality Forum’s 40 under 40 Leaders in Minority Health. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for the National Brain Tumor Society and the Society for Neuro-Oncology of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Ken Patterson is the Director of Grassroots Impact for RESULTS. As Director he provides coaching, training, and support to a national network of RESULTS chapters advocating for equitable access to health, education, and economic opportunity in the U.S. and around the globe.

Prior to RESULTS, Ken was an organizational development consultant. He also worked for 5 years in urban economic development in underinvested communities in Cleveland, OH with Shorebank Enterprise Group. He has over 7 years of international development experience working with the Peace Corps in West Africa as a volunteer, regional leader, training consultant, and as the Associate Director for Agriculture & Training Manager.

Ken has a master’s degree in Organizational Change Management from New School University, a master’s degree in Higher Education Administration from the University of Minnesota, and a BA in English from Cornell College in IA.

Richard Peng is the Senior Training Specialist on the ERAS Team. Richard Peng joined the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in 2015 as a member of ERAS Client Technical Support. Since then, he has transitioned into the external facing side of the ERAS team as the Senior Training Specialist. He has extensive experience working with multiple constituent types including applicants, schools, and programs navigating through ERAS and has helped to produce many webinars or learning resources that ERAS hosts.

Linda Prine is a professor of Family and Community Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She is a practicing family physician and the Director of Women’s Health at the Institute for Family Health, a large FQHC network in New York State. She is a co-founder of the Reproductive Health Access Project (RHAP) and the Access list, a lively list serve and safe space for discussing reproductive health issues. In these capacities, she has been a leader for full-spectrum women’s health care: the integration of abortion, miscarriage and contraceptive care into family medicine teaching and services. She has been honored with teaching awards and mentoring awards from a range of professional societies.  With RHAP and the Institute she founded a Reproductive Health and Advocacy Fellowship which has now expanded to four sites around the country and has graduated more than 20 fellows.

Dr. Prine maintains an active practice in which she provides and teaches to her fellows and residents this full scope of care, including medication and manual vacuum aspiration abortion. She helped found the AAFP’s Reproductive Health Care Member Interest Group (MIG) and through the Reproductive Health Access Project heads up a national network of clusters of activist medical practitioners who meet locally to advance the struggle for access to abortion.  She also actively advocates for single payer health care reform, which must include coverage for abortion services, and for livable streets with protected bike lanes.

Timothy E. Quill, MD is Distinguished Professor in Palliative Care at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) where his is also Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, Medical Humanities and Nursing.  He was the Founding Director of the URMC Palliative Care Division and a Past President of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He is Acting Director of the URMC Schyve Center for Biomedical Ethics.

Dr. Quill has published and lectured widely about various aspects of the doctor-patient relationship, with special focus on end-of-life decision making, including delivering bad news, nonabandonment, discussing palliative care earlier, and exploring last-resort options.  He is the author of several books on end-of life care and over 150 articles published in major medical journals.  Dr. Quill was the lead physician plaintiff in the New York State legal case challenging the law prohibiting physician-assisted death that was heard in 1997 by the U.S. Supreme Court (Quill v. Vacco).

Dr. Quill received his undergraduate degree from Amherst College (1971), and his M.D. from the University of Rochester (1976).  He completed his Internal Medicine Residency in 1979 and a Fellowship in Medicine/Psychiatry Liaison in 1981, both from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.  Dr. Quill is a Fellow in the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, a Master in the American College of Physicians and an ABMS certified palliative care consultant.

Hanan Rakine recently graduated from Wayne State University Irvin D. Reid Honors College with a B.S. in Public Health with Departmental and University Honors. During her gap year before beginning medical school, she is a full time clinical research intern at Kellogg Eye Center, Michigan Medicine. Hanan is currently the AMSA Healthcare for All Campaign Chair-Elect for her second year. Hanan uses her outlets in her community roles and AMSA to fight for health equity and social justice for underrepresented and disadvantaged communities. She is also the CEO of the Detroit Ronald McDonald House Care Mobile, a mobile van that will bring free health care services to children in the metro-Detroit area in 2021. Hanan currently researches at the University of Michigan Medical School with intentions to reduce health disparities, highlight healthcare needs, and fight stigma within the Arab American community to improve health outcomes. Her intention is to pair her passion for mentorship with a world-class medical education to buoy the health status of marginalized communities.

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Mattie Renn is a third-year medical student at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in the Columbia-Bassett track, a specialized program oriented towards training future healthcare professionals in health systems leadership and trauma-informed care. She graduated with a BA in Cellular and Molecular Biology with a minor in Human Rights from the University of Chicago in 2016. Mattie joined AMSA in 2018, serving as co-founder and co-chair of AMSA’s Medical Students for Gun Safety campaign, along with Vishnu Muppala. She is also a national leader of Scrubs Addressing the Firearm Epidemic, and developed Columbia’s inaugural Gun Violence Action Week. She has also developed curricula and programming as Columbia’s Interprofessional Education Fellow.
Mattie has an interest in primary care, and is a passionate advocate for health rights for native populations, gun violence prevention, access to mental health resources, and immigrant rights. She plans to pursue a career in health equity and in providing ethical care to underserved communities.

Gary Rose, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University.  As a former Chairman of the Admissions Committee of the Regional Campus of the University of Miami School of Medicine, in Boca Raton, and as a longtime member of the Admissions Committee of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine in Boca Raton, Florida, Dr. Rose has evaluated and interviewed hundreds of medical school applicants He recognizes the skills, characteristics, and attitudes expected of a successful med school applicant. He is the author of The Medical School Coach in which he teaches the reader how to develop the qualities and traits that are most desirable and necessary to be accepted into medical school. He is also the Director of the BS/MD Pipeline Program and Director of the Post Baccalaureate Program at The College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University.

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Dr. Sakran is an assistant professor of surgery, director of emergency general surgery, and associate Chief of the Division of Acute Care Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. After a comprehensive general surgery training at Inova Fairfax Hospital, Joe completed his fellowship in traumatology, surgical critical care, and emergency general surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. His past experience is in resource-poor settings, working with underprivileged and minority high school students, and has a public health background that has provided him with the skill-set needed to take on the challenges of improving care among vulnerable populations both domestically and abroad. As a former victim of gun violence, Joe spends a significant portion of his time as a clinician, researcher, and advocate with a primary goal of reducing firearm death and disability in America. To this end, he recently founded the organization @ThisIsOurLane, a platform to help unite healthcare providers and deliver one strong voice in ending gun violence. Dr. Sakran completed a one-year educational sabbatical at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where he developed a unique skill set within public policy, economics, and leadership development. During the most recent Presidential Campaign, he founded Doctors for Hillary, bringing to the forefront through a grassroots effort healthcare issues important to Americans all across this country. He was recognized by Secretary Clinton for his work and advocacy specifically on Gun Violence. In 2017, Joe was selected by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of Healthcare’s Leaders under 40. Joe has been a powerful advocate on behalf of gun violence prevention, and helped bring together the healthcare community under the platform @ThisIsOurLane. He has testified in front of Congress numerous times and is a sought after national and international speaker, and holds numerous national roles in surgical organizations most recently serving as Chair of the Resident and Associate Society for the American College of Surgeons (ACS), and Chair of the Injury Control and Violence Prevention Committee for the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST). Joe currently serves on the Young Fellows Association Governing Council, and is the Vice-Chair of the International Sub-Committee for Operation Giving Back of the American College of Surgeons. Beyond medicine, Joe recently served as a Board Director for the Brady Campaign and also selected to the Presidential Leadership Scholars program. Currently he is on sabbatical after being selected by the National Academy of Medicine to serve as the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow on Capitol Hill.

Dr. Joshua M. Sharfstein is Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement and Professor of the Practice in Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is also the Director of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative. He is the author of the Public Health Crisis Survival Guide: Leadership and Management in Trying Times​, published by the Oxford University Press. He is also co-author of the recently released book, ​The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know​.

Previously, Dr. Sharfstein served as Secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from January 2011 to December 2014. In this position, he led efforts to align Maryland’s health care system with improved health outcomes, culminating in the adoption of a revised payment model for all hospital care for Maryland residents. He also oversaw the development of a statewide health improvement process with 18 local public-private coalitions and the reshaping of state’s approach to health information exchange, long-term care, and behavioral health.

Anishaa Sivakumar is a senior at the University of Central Florida and the 2019/20 AMSA AIDS Advocacy Network (AAN) Chair. Having been a member of AMSA for the past three years, her interest in healthcare advocacy stemmed from her involvement in the AAN Steering Committee and AMSA’s Advocacy Day experience. As Chair, Anishaa has had the opportunity to collaborate on and lead multiple AIDS-related advocacy efforts, including Harm Reduction in Medical Training and Syringe Access Programs. Aside from her work with AMSA, Anishaa also serves as an MCAT Prep Instructor for Kaplan, Inc. and works in a lab setting studying the molecular basis of Parkinson’s Disease.

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Bruce Wartman is the Manager of Educational Development and Instructional Design for DocCom, an online healthcare communication skills training tool, developed by Drexel University College of Medicine.

Bruce began his career in business-to-business advertising before starting his own business in 1995 developing interactive multimedia communications and training materials for corporations such as GlaxoSmithKline. Concurrently, with the start of the digital age in marketing and education, Bruce was invited to develop curriculum in digital imaging and processing for Drexel University’s photography program in 1998. Combining his experience in education management, instruction, and technology, Bruce earned his Master of Science in Education degree in Instructional Design & Technology from Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA.

Bruce joined Drexel University College of Medicine in 2019 to manage and develop DocCom and other online training programs in healthcare that serve students, residents, and practitioners. He also works with faculty and professional staff to enhance online curricular materials for Drexel’s medical students.

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