Committee on Advancing the Science of Family Medicine

Robert Phillips, MD, Chair
Robert Graham Center
bphillips@aafp.org

Economic Research Work Group Chair
Kevin Frick, PhD
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD

HIT Work Group Chair
Kevin Peterson, MD, MPH
University of Minnesota

Optimizing Practice Through Research Work Group Chair
Leif Solberg, MD, MPH
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN

Practice-based Research Work Group Chair
James Mold, MD, MPH
University of Oklahoma HSC

Communications Committee

Anton (Tony) Kuzel, MD, MHPE, Chair
Virginia Commonwealth University
ajkuzel@vcu.edu

Frederick Chen, MD, MPH
University of Washington

Vanessa Diaz, MD
Medical University of South Carolina

Christopher Dowrick, MD, MSc
University of Liverpool

Stefan Grzybowski, MD
University of British Columbia

Judith MacPhail, MSc, RN
Canadian Institute for Health Information

Kevin Oeffinger, MD
University of Texas Southwestern

Lorraine Wallace, PhD
University of Tennessee

Membership Committee

David Katerndahl, MD, Chair
University of Texas HSC, San Antonio
katerndahl@uthscsa.edu

Wendy Barr, MD, MPH, MSCE
Beth Israel Residency in Urban FP, New York

Oralia Bazaldua, PharmD
University of Texas HSC, San Antonio

Melissa Beagle, MD
University of Colorado Family Medicine Residency

Mary Ann Burg, LCSW, PhD
University of Florida

Andrew Cave, MD, MC1Sc, FCFP
University of Alberta

Jesse Crosson, PhD
UMDNJ

William Curry, MD
Penn State University

Robert Ferrer, MD, MPH
University of Texas HSC, San Antonio

Lillian Gelberg, MD, MSPH
UCLA

Kim Griswold, MD, MPH
SUNY at Buffalo

Carol Herbert, MD
University of Western Ontario

Lenard Lesser, MD
Tufts University

Erik Lindbloom, MD
University of Missouri-Columbia

Lynn Meadows, PhD
University of Calgary

David Meyers, MD
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Jose Manuel Ramirez
Leader among Mexico's Family Medicine researchers

Helen Smith, MD
University of Brighton

Anthony Valdini, MD
Lawrence FPR, Lawrence, MA

Nominations Committee

Sandra Burge, PhD, Chair
University of Texas HSC, San Antonio
burge@uthscsa.edu

June Carroll, MD, CCFP
Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto

William Phillips, MD, MPH
University of Washington

Wayne Putnam, MD
Dalhousie University

Harry Strothers, III, MD, MMM
Morehouse School of Medicine

Program Committee

Arch Mainous, III, PhD, Chair
Medical University of South Carolina
mainouag@musc.edu

Judith Belle Brown, PhD
University of Western Ontario

Martin Dawes, MBBS, PhD
McGill University

Felicity Goodyear-Smith, MBChB
University of Auckland

Dana King, MD
Medical University of South Carolina

Paul Little, MD, MBBS, MRCP, MRCCP
Southampton University

M. Diane McKee, MD
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Rebecca Meriwether, MD, MPH
University of South Carolina