Whole Health Summit

Faculty

• Olusola Adegoke, MD, MPH, FAAFP
• Maya Bass, MD, MA, FAAFP
• Lance Braye, MD, MPH
• Lauren Brown-Berchtold, MD, FAAFP
• Joshua Cox, DO, FACOFP
• Ronya Green, MD, MPH, FAAFP
• Mark Greenawald, MD, FAAFP
• Meagan Grega, MD, FACLM, DipABLM, DipABFM
• Ruaa Hassaballa, PhD, MPH
• Charles Inniss, DPT, PCC, NBC-HWC
• Anthony Lim, MD
• Jason Marker, MD, FAAFP
• KrisEmily McCrory, MD, MS. M. Ed, FAAFP
• Paulius Mui, MD
• Michelle Owens-Kumar, DO, FAAFP
• Deepak Patel, MD, FAAFP
• Cleveland Piggott, MD, MPH, FAAFP
• Beth Polk, MD, FAAFP
• Tim Riley, MD
• Margot Savoy, MD, MPH, CPE, FAAFP
• Thomas Weida, MD, FAAFP

Keynote Presenters

• Rachel Carlton Abrams, MD, MHS, ABFP, ABoIM
• Dr. Will Bynum, MD, PhD

Olusola Adegoke, MD, MPH, FAAFP: LinkedIn

Olusola “Sola” Adegoke, MD, MPH, FAAFP, is a hospitalist, clinical informaticist and quality improvement leader based in Minnesota. He practices in the Healthpartners Hospitals and serves as faculty with the Western Wisconsin Family Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Adegoke currently holds two statewide leadership roles: President-Elect of the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians and Alumni Secretary for the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

His professional work focuses on advancing clinician efficiency, strengthening documentation quality, and improving patient and clinician experience through evidence-based informatics and operational redesign. He leads several systemwide initiatives in Epic optimization, AI-enabled clinical workflows, partnered bedside rounding, and clinician well-being. Dr. Adegoke is also dedicated to mentoring trainees and early-career clinicians, and he actively contributes to statewide and national efforts to transform care delivery and support the clinical workforce.

Maya Bass, MD, MA, FAAFP: LinkedIn | Chronic Conditions Forced FMX Presenter to Learn Resilience

Maya Bass, MD, MA, FAAFP, is an Assistant Professor and Program Director for the Cooper/CMSRU Family Medicine Program in the department of Primary Care at Cooper University, The Cooper University Graduate Medical Education Wellness Chair, Regional Clinical Leader for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Region for the Reproductive Health Access Project, and the Co-Chair for the Reproductive Freedom Task Force for the Committee to Protect Healthcare.

Dr. Bass earned a master’s degree in Stem Cell and Developmental Biology from Wesleyan University, Connecticut, and her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College (now Sidney Kimmel Medical College) at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia. She completed her family and community medicine residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia. She completed her fellowship in the Leadership Training Academy through Physicians for Reproductive Health, learning to be a physician advocate for Reproductive Rights and Justice. She is a certified yoga instructor, a certified trainer of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder through Providers Clinical Support System, and faculty for training of management for early pregnancy loss for both American Academy of Obstetricians and Gynecology and American Academy of Family Physicians.

She is dedicated to providing compassionate care to stigmatized populations, incorporating social justice into medical education, and improving the overall wellness of her patients, learners and communities.

Lance Braye, MD, MPH: LinkedIn

Lance Braye, MD, MPH, is a family medicine physician practicing in Greenwood, South Carolina. The son of a nurse, he grew up in Walterboro, South Carolina, where he developed an interest in medicine. Dr. Braye received his undergraduate degree from The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, before attending the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). While at MUSC, he earned his Master's in Public Health in Health Behaviors and Health Promotion. After graduation, he completed residency at Lawrence Family Medicine Residency in Lawrence, Massachusetts with a concentration in Health Systems Leadership.

Dr. Braye currently serves as the Director of Family Medicine for Carolina Health Centers, Inc. Professionally, he’s interested in finding ways to improve the health system for all patients, addiction treatment, reproductive justice, mental health, and nutrition. Personally, he loves sports, gardening, cooking, and spending time with his wife, Paris, and their cat, Obi.

Lauren Brown-Berchtold, MD, FAAFP: LinkedIn | Physician Well-being Leader Driven to Help Peers

Lauren Brown-Berchtold, MD, FAAFP, is the program director for the Valley Consortium for Medical Education (VCME) Family Medicine Residency program in Modesto, California. She was previously a core faculty member and program director of San Joaquin General Hospital Family Medicine Residency. She graduated from Keck School of Medicine of USC in Los Angeles, then joined John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, to complete her family medicine residency and Maternal-Child Health fellowship equivalent training.

Dr. Brown-Berchtold is a fervent advocate for physician mental health protections and burnout prevention, spending her extracurricular time working on this topic. When away from the hospital, she loves to read as well as explore life with her husband and very active daughter!

Joshua Cox, DO, FACOFP

W. Joshua Cox, DO, FACOFP, is the Executive Dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine (COM) and Vice Provost for Medical Affairs at Kansas City University (KCU). He began his career as a family physician for the U.S. Army and, in 2006, joined the KCU faculty. During his tenure at the university, he has served in a number of capacities, including Professor of Family Medicine, Chair of Primary Care, Associate Dean of Clinical Education, COM Campus Dean for Kansas City, and interim Director of Campus Health and Well-being. Dr. Cox has also organized and participated in numerous global health outreach trips to Kenya, the Dominican Republic, China, and India. Additionally, he has served as a supervising physician for the Score One for Health program.

Dr. Cox earned a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from KCU-COM and is residency trained and board certified in Family Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment. He is a fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) and has been awarded the Osteopathic Family Medicine Educator of the Year Award. Dr. Cox is a national faculty member for the National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners and the American Academy of Family Physicians and has been invited to give numerous national and international presentations. He received the Army Commendation Medal for his services in Family Practice and has received numerous other awards, such as the Ingram’s magazine Heroes in Healthcare Award, the Missouri Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons Medallion Award, American Academy of Osteopathy Academy Award, and the KC Business Journal 20 Healthcare Professionals to Know.

Dr. Cox has served on multiple boards and professional committees. A few examples include the AACOM Board of Deans, Board of Directors of DO Care International, Missouri Society of the ACOFP Board of Governors, the American Association of Family Physicians (AAFP) Commission on Education, the AOA and ACOFP House/Congress of Delegates, Guadalupe Centers Board, Rockhurst University College of Business and Technology Helzberg School of Management Deans Advisory Board, and multiple National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners committees and standard setting panels.

Ronya Green, MD, MPH, FAAFP: LinkedIn | Direct primary care and health IT: How one family physician found fulfillment

Ronya Green, MD, MPH, FAAFP, is a distinguished, board-certified family medicine physician and healthcare leader dedicated to fostering improved health outcomes for diverse populations. She is the owner and operator of Rapha Healthcare, PLLC, a membership-based primary care practice integrated with behavioral health, which offers comprehensive, patient-centered care to individuals of all ages, delivered through both in-person and virtual services.

Dr. Green is also the founder of Care Nexus, a beginning-to-end practice and patient management solution. She developed the Care Nexus model based on insights gained from running her own successful, membership-based practice—where she recognized the need for an integrated, patient-focused, HIPAA-compliant tech solution that cares for the entire patient journey. Drawing upon her clinical background and first-hand experience in practice management, Dr. Green has spearheaded marketing strategies that resonate with both patients and professionals. Under her leadership, Care Nexus has become a trusted brand known for its comprehensive patient journey model that reduces administrative burden and enhances the patient-provider relationship.

Mark Greenawald, MD, FAAFP: LinkedIn | Burnout Survivor Strives to Help Peers

Mark Greenawald, MD, FAAFP, is Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, Well-being, and Professional Development in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine (VTC) and Carilion Clinic. He also serves as the Medical Director for the Carilion Clinic Institute for Leadership Effectiveness (ILE). He is a former President of the Virginia Academy of Family Physicians and in 2016, was named Virginia Family Physician of the Year.

Dr. Greenawald has served as Chair for the 2018-2025 American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Physician Health and Well-Being Conferences. In addition, he is part of the faculty for the AAFP Leading Physician Well-being Certificate Program, now in its fifth year. Dr. Greenawald also served as the Director for the AAFP Chief Resident Leadership Development Program for 10 years and was on faculty for 25 years. He is trained as a leadership and executive coach and serves on the faculty for the Healthcare Coaching Institute, a coach training program preparing professional coaches to work in healthcare.

In 2019, Dr. Greenawald launched the nationally acclaimed PeerRxMed program (www.PeerRxMed.org). This program is intended to help healthcare professionals provide proactive support for each other on their professional journey, away from distress and toward thriving, with the tagline “No One Should Care Alone.”

Dr. Greenawald and his wife Joanne, who is trained as an Adult and Child Psychiatrist, reside in Roanoke, Virginia, which has been home for 30 years and they hope for many more. They have three adult children who still visit because they want to. In his spare time, you will find Dr. Greenawald stand-up paddleboarding year-round, writing poetry and a weekly PeerRx blog, and perpetually trying to learn how to say “no” so he can say “yes” to the things he is most passionate about.

Meagan Grega, MD, FACLM, DipABLM: LinkedIn | AAFP Chapter Leaders Reflect on Lifestyle Medicine Efforts

Meagan L. Grega, MD, FACLM, DipABLM, is the Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Kellyn Foundation (www.kellyn.org), a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice. Through the “Healthy Neighborhood Immersion Strategy”, Kellyn provides school-based healthy lifestyle education and “Garden as a Classroom” programs; supports access to nutrient-dense produce via the Eat Real Food Mobile Market; engages participants in hands-on, plant-based cooking classes in community settings, and offers intensive therapeutic lifestyle change interventions for families, employers and community groups. She is a graduate of Bucknell University with a B.S. in Biochemistry/Cell Biology and earned her MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School.

Dr. Grega spent several years as a medical officer in the United States Navy and is currently the Managing Director of Llantrisant Retreat and Wellness Center (www.llantrisanteventvenue.com). She is honored to serve as faculty for the St. Luke’s University Health Network Anderson Campus Family Medicine and Internal Medicine Residency programs, Clinical Assistant Professor for the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, faculty advisor for the LKSOM/SLUHN medical student Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group, as the current conference chair for the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) Annual Meeting and as an ACLM representative to the American Medical Association House of Delegates. Dr. Grega is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, a Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, serves on the governing Board of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and is board-certified in Family Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine.

Ruaa Hassaballa, PhD, MPH: LinkedIn

Ruaa Hassaballa, PhD, MPH, is a Health Equity Strategist at the American Academy of Family Physicians’ Center for Diversity, Health Equity and Global Health. With more than a decade of experience advancing equity and systems transformation, she leads national initiatives that strengthen primary care, advance health equity, and translate lived experience into meaningful systems change. In 2024, Hassaballa served as President of the Kansas Public Health Association.

A skilled facilitator and behavioral scientist, she has led trainings in cultural humility and designing systems that support belonging, well-being and whole-person care. Hassaballa has partnered with organizations including the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Rooted in community and grounded in the Heartland, she brings clarity, compassion, and courageous leadership to advancing whole health for individuals, communities and care teams.

Charles Inniss, DPT, PCC, NBC-HWC: LinkedIn | Reclaim your sense of autonomy at Whole Health Summit

Charles Inniss, DPT, PCC, NBC-HWC, is a National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach and a Professional Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation. He earned his Doctorate degree in Physical Therapy at Boston University.

After spending the first half of his career working as a physical therapist and personal trainer, Inniss was hired to be the onsite corporate wellness coach for employees at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. There, he developed a passion for positive psychology, motivation and behavior change.

Inniss sometimes refers to himself as an Optimism coach because he believes that our ability to cultivate optimism and positivity is the most important skill connected to well-being and thriving. In addition to being a professional speaker, he now teaches coaching theory to health professionals and aspiring coaches as a faculty member of Wellcoaches Corporation. He’s on a mission to help make the world a healthier and happier place.

Anthony Lim, MD

Anthony Lim, MD, is the Medical Director of the McDougall Program, a lifestyle medical program based in Santa Rosa, California, that has helped thousands of patients successfully transition to a whole-food, plant-based diet and radically improve their overall health and well-being.

He also teaches the plant-based classes offered by Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa Medical Center. Dr. Lim is a graduate of Stanford University, Harvard Law School, and Boston University School of Medicine. He is board-certified in family medicine and lifestyle medicine and completed his residency training at Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency. He is also a bar-certified attorney in the state of California.

Dr. Lim lives in Santa Rosa with his wife, Jean, and their two children, Joshua and Julia, who bring them endless joy and laughter. His outside interests include playing out in nature, learning guitar, and continually growing in his Christian faith.

Jason Marker, MD, MPA, FAAFP: LinkedIn | FMX speaker played vital role in AAFP leadership programs

Jason E. Marker, MD, MPA, FAAFP, is an Associate Director at the Memorial Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program in South Bend, Indiana. He also serves as the Clinic Director for the E. Blair Warner Family Medicine Center. Dr. Marker has been in these roles since 2017 after transitioning into full-time teaching following a 15-year career in solo, full-scope private practice in the farming town of Wyatt, Indiana.

Dr. Marker has been a leader in family medicine policy and advocacy, having served as a Past President of the Indiana Academy of Family Physicians, as a past New Physician member of the AAFP Board of Directors and a Past President of the AAFP Foundation. He continues his work for the AAFP Foundation as the Faculty Chair of the Emerging Leader Institute. Dr. Marker is also the General Chair of the AAFP’s Leading Physician Well-being Certificate Program and co-host for the AAFP’s CME On the Go podcast.

Dr. Marker describes himself as an optimist, leader, teacher, dreamer, writer, big-picture strategic thinker, philanthropist, and doting grandfather. He believes to his very core that family medicine is the antidote that will restore the health of our nation.

KrisEmily McCrory, MD, M. Ed, FAAFP: LinkedIn

KrisEmily McCrory, MD, M.S. Med Ed, FAAFP, is the Associate Program Director at the Cheshire Medical Center-Dartmouth Health Family Medicine Residency Program and an Assistant Professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. A dedicated educator focused on practical solutions for the modern physician, she serves as faculty for the AAFP Leading Physician Wellbeing Certificate Program and has authored work addressing how to tackle burnout in employed physicians.

Dr. McCrory brings extensive leadership experience to the challenges of team strain and practice complexity, having served as Board Chair of the New York Academy of Family Physicians and on the STFM National Taskforce on Competency-Based Medical Education. Recognized as the 2019 NYSAFP Family Physician Educator of the Year, her work emphasizes applying performance improvement and effective leadership strategies—including pearls for introverted leaders—to create sustainable change in everyday practice. She holds a Master of Science in Medical Education and is a Harvard Macy Scholar and faculty member.

Paulius Mui, MD

Dr. Paulius Mui is a family physician and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in technology, clinical operations, patient care, and primary care leadership at the state and national levels. He is the founder and CEO of XPC, an AI-driven company focused on automating workforce quality audits in primary care, and he continues to practice independently in Boston.

Michelle Owens-Kumar, DO, FAAFP: LinkedIn | Palliative Care Doctor Found Her Voice As Well-being Expert

Michelle Owens, DO, FAAFP, serves as the Director of Integrated Professional Well-being & Lead Supportive & Palliative Care Physician working across the enterprise to advance clinician well-being, sustainability, and professional fulfillment—while continuing to provide compassionate, team-based palliative care to individuals living with a serious illness.

Dr. Owens prioritizes policy, process development and well-being initiatives. She was a former scholar of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Leading Physician Well-being Certificate Program and now serves as faculty in their Leadership track. She co-founded and co-chaired the American Academy of Hospice & Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) self-care community. She has been trained in facilitating Balint groups to tend to the clinician-patient relationship through exploration of challenging cases. Beyond her professional endeavors, Dr. Owens treasures family time with her spouse and two children. Her passions span live music, culinary experiences and travel.

Deepak Patel, MD, FAAFP: LinkedIn

In addition to Dr. Patel’s academic affiliation, his primary work is practicing family medicine and sports medicine in Aurora and Yorkville, IL. He is medical director for Rush Copley Sports Medicine and has held GME teaching roles in Family and Sports Medicine since 2006. Dr. Patel has published several articles and textbooks on sports medicine and musculoskeletal topics. Some notable examples are subsection editor for the 5 Minute Sports Medicine Consult 2nd, 3rd, 4th editions. In 2020, Dr. Patel was editor and author for a book on concussions and a second edition in 2025.

His presentation specialty topics are diverse across sports and musculoskeletal medicine and include exercise recommendations, concussions, joint specific (shoulder, elbow, wrist, finger, hip, knee, ankle and foot), joint examinations, pediatric overuse injuries, tendonitis/tendinopathy, musculoskeletal imaging, osteoarthritis, fractures, and stress fractures. Dr. Patel is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. Since he also practices family medicine, he can deliver effective presentations to help family medicine and primary care providers address sports medicine and musculoskeletal complaints. He says that staying current with medical advances and with evidence-based medicine is the most challenging aspect of family medicine. He has been a repeat presenter for AAFP CME courses, FMX, and other national conferences for several years. He has served as Chair for several AAFP programs, such as 2019-2022 AAFP Musculoskeletal and Sports Care conferences, the 2020-2026 FMX Musculoskeletal and Sports Medicine content. Recently, he was also selected to serve as AAFP’s Education Advisory Panel Member for the clinical pillar on Emergency and Urgent Care starting in 2024.

With his passion for teaching and his combination of family and sports medicine experience, Dr. Patel is uniquely able to deliver effective presentations to a primary care audience.

Cleveland Piggott, MD, MPH, FAAFP: LinkedIn

Cleveland Piggott, MD, MPH, FAAFP, is a family physician at the University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine (DFM). He received his MD and MPH from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and completed his residency training at the University of Colorado Family Medicine Residency. As a faculty member, he co-founded the Justice League, a working group on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at Colorado's DFM, and was the inaugural Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Family Medicine.

Dr. Piggott has worked on DEI and antiracism issues at the local, state and national level both inside and outside of organized medicine. He has also been an active member of the Academy since medical school, starting as a regional coordinator for family medicine interest groups and eventually becoming the youngest president of the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Piggott has a full panel of patients and teaches at the medical school and residency program on various topics. In his free time, he enjoys visiting national parks, ballroom dancing and spending time with friends.

Beth Polk, MD, FAAFP: LinkedIn | FP’s Quest to Improve Own Health Changed Her Practice

Beth Polk, MD, FAAFP, graduated from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and completed residency in Family Medicine at Carilion Clinic. She completed her board certification in Lifestyle Medicine in 2017 and has been speaking locally and at state and national meetings about ways to integrate it into clinical practice, serving as faculty at AAFPs Family Medicine Experience (FMX) and the AAFP Physician Health and Wellbeing Conference. From 2023-2025 she served as a co-chair for the AAFP Lifestyle Medicine Live Course. She coauthored the “Incorporating Lifestyle Medicine into Family Practice” tool for AAFP members.

Dr. Polk is an Associate Professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and was the inaugural Family Medicine Clerkship Director, a position she held from 2011-2018. Dr. Polk has integrated Lifestyle Medicine into the medical school curriculum at VTC and continues to participate actively in teaching medical students. In 2022, after 25 years of clinical practice, Dr Polk transitioned to faculty in the Family Medicine residency program at VTC to bring Lifestyle Medicine into residency training. She started the Lifestyle Medicine Residency Curriculum and a focused lifestyle medicine practice where she works directly with patients with multiple medical conditions to apply lifestyle prescriptions that treat and reverse their disease states. She was recently appointed Director of Well-being for the Department of Family and Community Medicine. She is a passionate advocate for health and well-being, starting with ourselves.

Tim Riley, MD: LinkedIn

Tim D. Riley, MD, a professor and associate vice chair for wellness in the Penn State Department of Family and Community Medicine, hopes to share what he has learned from his journey through burnout. Unprepared for the emotional and logistical challenges of underserved community medical practice, he found himself thoroughly exhausted and cynical early in his career. With help from supportive colleagues, mindfulness practice, and voracious reading, he identified habits that contributed to his burnout and now finds himself in a much more balanced place in his professional and personal life.

Dr. Riley teaches and writes about lessons learned for anyone who will listen and read. His efforts have included residency curricula in well-being, humanities, and practice management; teaching Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, mindfulness CME, 1:1 stress reduction sessions with patients in his office practice; and multiple articles on clinician well-being, physician depression and suicide, self-compassion, and use of self-determination theory in clinical practice.

Margot Savoy, MD, MPH, CPE, FAAFP: LinkedIn

Margot L. Savoy, MD, MPH, FAAFP, serves as AAFP’s Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Savoy oversees all organizational activities related to medical education and continuing professional development. She also serves as the organization’s champion for physician well-being and the executive lead for the AAFP’s diversity, equity, and inclusion work with the Center for Diversity, Health Equity and Global Health.

Thomas Weida, MD, FAAFP: LinkedIn | Coding expert aims to help fellow family physicians get paid properly

Thomas Weida, MD, FAAFP, is a family physician, Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, Chief Medical Officer, and Professor at The University of Alabama, College of Community Health Sciences in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Previously, he was in private practice for 13 years. He then served as a Professor and Medical Director for the family medicine faculty practice at Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey Medical Center, until coming to the University of Alabama in 2015. He is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), has an ABFM Certificate of Added Qualification in Geriatrics and is an American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Fellow, an earned degree awarded to family physicians for distinguished service and continuing medical education. He is a former Speaker and Vice Speaker of the AAFP Congress of Delegates, the governing body of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Dr. Weida has served as AAFP’s alternate delegate to the AMA Relative Value Update Committee (RUC) from 2013-2019 and has been serving as delegate since 2020. He served as a member of the AMA RUC Subcommittee on Practice Expense and, since 2025, has been serving as Chair of the AMA RUC Research Committee. Since 2016, he has been serving as the RUC representative to the CPT Assistant Editorial Board.

Since 2021, Dr. Weida has served as Speaker of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama House of Delegates and is a member of the Subcommittees on Association Affairs, Third-Party Task Force, and Governmental Affairs. He has chaired the Bylaws Revision Subcommittee since 2024. He has been the Alabama Medical Association’s alternate delegate to the AMA House of Delegates since 2022.

His field of expertise is in practice management. Dr. Weida was a contributing author on the poster, “Impact of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ 2021 Outpatient Evaluation and Management Coding Guidelines on Family Medicine Residency,” accepted at the AAFP 2022 FMX. He presented an E&M Coding update at the AAFP 2024 and 2025 FMX and serves on the AAFP Education Advisory Panel. He has been a frequent speaker at the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Practice Improvement Conference. He has several publications in Family Practice Management, including “Outpatient E/M Coding Simplified” and “G2211: Simply Getting Paid for Complexity.”

Rachel Carlton Abrams, MD, MHS, ABFP, ABoIM: Doctor Rachel

Rachel Carlton Abrams, MD, MHS, ABFP, ABoIM graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University, received her Medical Degree at the University of California San Francisco as well as a Masters Degree in Holistic Health and Medical Sciences from the University of California Berkeley. She is Board Certified in Family Medicine and Integrative Medicine. She is the recent Board Chair of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine and has been a Board member of the Academy since 2019 (AIHM.org), and on the Board of the AHMA prior to that, leading in the areas of education, DEI initiatives, and ethical leadership.

She established Santa Cruz Integrative Medicine clinic in 2008 and has been voted “Best Doctor” in Santa Cruz County by two local publications annually for almost 2 decades. In 2023, she began a new model of health care and optimal wellness care called Transformational Medicine that joins personal and community care and focuses on physical, mental, emotional, sexual, and spiritual health.

She is currently bringing together integrative practice, teaching and group support to open possibilities for integrative and preventive medicine that are available for all income levels. She consults for non-profits and is working with the AIHM and Pahara Institue to bring integrative and preventive protocols to primary care practice throughout the U.S. She holds a vision for the transformation of U.S. healthcare. She has published 5 books, the most recent being: BodyWise: Discovering Your Body’s Intelligence for Lifelong Health and Healing.

Will Bynum, MD, PhD: The Shame Lab

Will Bynum, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and practicing physician and medical educator at Duke University in Durham, NC. He received his M.D. at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in 2010 and Ph.D. in Health Professions Education at Maastricht University in the Netherlands in 2023, where defended his thesis entitled “Out of the shadows: a qualitative exploration of shame in medical learners.”

Dr. Bynum is a co-creator of The Shame Space, a global consortium that advances open communication about the role of shame in healthcare, a co-producer on the award winning “Shame in Medicine” podcast series produced by The Nocturnists, and a co-founder of The Shame Lab, which catalyzes research and training to advance shame competence in healthcare and beyond.

He is the author of over 30 peer-reviewed publications and has given over 150 workshops and presentations about shame to top hospitals, conferences, and organizations such as Massachusetts General Hospital, Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania, and the American Hospital Association. Association. He has received numerous awards for his research including Best Paper by the AAMC Research in Medical Education Committee in 2021, a Research Award by the Association of Medical Educators of Europe (AMEE) in 2022, and Best Doctoral Report by AMEE in 2023. He is the proud father to two young boys, Mason and Brady, and partner to his wife Carson.

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