Communications Committee

The Communications Committee is in charge of communications for NAPCRG. This includes curating and communicating relevant news to our members using methods such social media, NAPCRG newsletter and the NAPCRG website, as well as promoting NAPCRG and primary care research to those outside our organization, such as policy makers, funding agencies and community physicians, through public relations and outreach initiatives.

Chair:
Alison Huffstetler, MD

Members:
Michele Allen, MD, MS
Tammy Chang, MD
Elizabeth Cope, PhD, MPH
Roland Grad, MD, MSc
Kirk Kelly
Sudha Koppula, MD
John Lind

Staff Liaison: 
Julie Sutter, MPA, MS, CAE

Awards Committee (Sub-committee of Communications Committee)

The Awards Committee oversees administration of the NAPCRG Awards Program by soliciting and evaluating nominations from a diverse array of constituents and selecting recipients.  It also oversees the Awards Presentation at the Annual Meeting.

Chair:
Alison Huffstetler, MD

Members:
Eric Shaw, PhD
Frances Wen, PhD
Jennifer Bello Kottenstette, MD, MS
Kelly Nottingham, MPH
Sarah Reves, FNP, MBA, MSN

Staff Liaison: 
Leyla Haddad, MBA

Community Clinician Advisory Group (CCAG)

The mission of the Community Clinician Advisory Group (CCAG) is to bring more community clinician voices to inform

(1) the functions of the NAPCRG and PBRN Annual Meetings and
(2) add community clinician perspectives in formulating the primary care research agenda.

The CCAG is composed of primary care clinicians who describe their primary role as “clinical practice” (if they also engage in teaching and research, these roles should be described as secondary). In keeping with the NAPCRG charter, CCAG welcomes members from all nations and strives to be broadly representative.

Activities

• Vetting NAPCRG “Pearls” (presentations at the NAPCRG Annual Meeting of most interest and relevance to practitioners). View the NAPCRG Pearls
• Disseminating “Pearls” at local, regional and state/province-wide venues.
• Membership on other NAPCRG Board Committees at the discretion of the respective Chair.
• Facilitating greater clinician-researcher interactions via formal and informal participatory activities at the NAPCRG Annual Meeting (including panel discussions or other dialogues).

Community primary care clinicians from all disciplines who are interested in learning more about the CCAG or applying for membership are invited to contact the NAPCRG Clinician Representative.

**There are no members in this group

Chair:
Vivian Jiang, MD

Staff Liaison:
Leyla Haddad, MBA

Governance Committee

It is the Governance Committee’s responsibility to select and submit nominations to the Board for open leadership positions, orient new appointees to their roles and responsibilities, review proposed new and modified bylaws and make recommendations back to the Board, and propose new initiatives that address issues of high priority to the policy and governance of the organization for Board consideration. One current focus of governance committee efforts is to ensure that the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion underpin all aspects of NAPCRG operations such as recruitment, leadership, programmatic content, among others.

Chair:
Andrew Bazemore, MD, MPH

Members:
Rachelle Ashcroft, PhD
Michael Green, MPH
Kathryn Nicholson, PhD
Alyssa Tilhou, MD
Anne Gaglioti, MD, FAAFP, MS
Jon Salsberg, PhD
                    

Staff Liaison: 
Julie Sutter, MPA, MS, CAE

International Committee

The mission of the International Committee is to provide and help implement strategic planning that supports NAPCRG’s commitment to being an international organization.  This includes outreach beyond the US and Canada to all nations. Research is a core component of primary care clinical practice and education. Therefore, NAPCRG strives to support all nations in prioritizing and funding primary care research. In accordance with NAPCRG’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, NAPCRG welcomes primary care researchers from all nations to present new knowledge and research advances in primary care at the NAPCRG Annual Meeting and to engage in other NAPCRG activities.

Membership Committee

The Membership Committee leads recruitment efforts for new NAPCRG members, promotion of diversity among the membership, assessment of membership needs, and coordination of strategies to meet those needs. The Committee conducts membership evaluations, reaches out to underrepresented constituencies, develops and maintains programs to meet members’ needs and communicates its work to NAPCRG’s membership.

Patient and Clinician Engagement (PaCE) Committee

The purpose of PaCE is to develop a robust community of patients and primary care providers with knowledge of patient-centered outcomes research in primary care to inform NAPCRG’s efforts to improve patient outcomes

Too often, community partners in health research consist of health professionals and organizational leaders. The PaCE Committee exists to identify and give voice to our patients and partners in research who are the “non-usual suspects” – people who are not necessarily medical or public health professionals, who are not aligned with a particular professional or personal research policy agenda, and whose local influence is defined within the context of the community versus job titles or credentials.  The committee is charged with bringing patient and partner suggestions relevant to improving patient experience and NAPCRG work back to the Board, and to helping design and implement new initiatives related to PaCE program efforts where appropriate.

Chair:
TBD

Members:
TBD

Staff Liaison: 
Priscilla Noland

Program Committee

The committee is responsible for the academic part of the program and makes decisions on various details of the meeting. The Program Committee selects and invites plenary speakers and reviews submissions with high scores to select distinguished and extended papers. They also help establish the format of the Annual Meeting, for example changing ratios of posters to oral presentations depending on the venue and the number of submissions. Where the reviewers have given a low score or there is a discrepancy, the Program Committee reviews the abstracts and decides which will be accepted.

Chair:
Hazel Tapp, MD

Vice Chair:
Grant Russell, PhD, MBBS

Members:
Debora Goldberg, PhD, MBA, MHA
Don Nease, MD
Emily Godfrey (PACE), MD, MPH
Fiona Webster, PhD
Ginetta Salvalaggio, MD, MSc
Jeffrey Scherrer, PhD
Kathryn Nicholson, PhD
Lenny Lesser, MD, MSHS
Nora Gimpel, MD
Susan Flocke, PhD
Susan Smith, MD, MSc, MICGP FRCG

Staff Liaison: 
Amy Schiska-Lombard

Research Advocacy Committee

The Research Advocacy Committee's purpose is multifaceted and includes the following activities:

• Provide tools, training and resources for NAPCRG members to use in their own advocacy work at the local, state and national levels
• Disseminate primary care research advocacy messages to key federal, state/provincial public policy leaders.
• Identify and build strong partnerships with organizations around collaboration, sponsorship, funding and/or support for NAPCRG’s efforts.
• Promote primary care research opportunities to define the direction of primary care research.

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Trainee Committee

In 2018, NAPCRG established The Trainee Committee to give a voice to the newest members of the primary care research field. The Trainee Committee hosts virtual sessions to engage trainees around high priority topics in primary care research and provides career pathway support for those interested in pursuing primary care research. The committee is also charged with bringing ideas and suggestions to the Board relevant to improving the trainee experience at NAPCRG.

Chair:
James Wang, MD

Vice Chair:
Meghan Gilfoyle, MSc, PhD Candidate

Members:
Elise Duwe, MD, PhD
Ione Locher
Levi Bonnell, MPH
T.M. Ayodele (Ayo) Adesanya, MD, PhD

Staff Liaison:
Julie Sutter, MPA, MS, CAE