Awards 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:
Jennifer Bello Kottenstette, MD, MS
Sarah Reves, FNP, MBA, MSN
Eric Shaw, PhD
Jennifer Molokwu, MD, FAAFP, MPH
Sarah Gebauer, MD, MSPH
Kirk Kelly, BSc
Committee on Advancing the Science of Family Medicine (CASFM)
The mission of CASFM is to promote and actively contribute scholarship that advances the science of family medicine for the betterment of patients and their communities. It assures that the development, translation, and implementation of new knowledge rapidly becomes part of the fabric of family medicine through internally led writing initiatives such as white papers and manuscripts. CASFM has six work groups:
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Chair:
Joseph LeMaster, MD, MPH
STFM Liaison:
Miranda Moore, PhD
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:
Alyssa Tilhou, MD
Anne Gaglioti, MD, FAAFP, MS
Jon Salsberg, PhD
Rachelle Ashcroft, PhD
International Committee
The mission of NAPCRG’s International Committee is to collaborate with other international oriented primary care organizations to foster our international vision for primary care research. Activities should encourage researchers from all nations to present new knowledge and high quality research advances in primary care at the NAPCRG Annual Meeting and to engage in other NAPCRG activities. The International Committee oversees outreach to countries outside the US and Canada and oversees the international awards selection and communication.
Chair:
Elizabeth Sturgiss, MD, PhD, BMed, MPH, FRACGP
Members:
Amanda Terry, PhD
David Blane, PhD, BSc, MPH
Duncan Shrewsbury, PFHEA
Liesbeth Hunik, MSc
Phyllis Lau, PhD, BPharmHon, GDip Pharm Sci
Ruth Wilson, MD, CCFP
Rohan Maharaj, MBBS, MHSc, DM
Tim Olde-Hartman, MD, GP/FP, PhD
Tochi Iroku-Malize MD, MBA, MPH, FAAFP
International Committee Objectives:
- Inform the NAPCRG board concerning approaches for non-North American primary care researchers to use NAPCRG as a forum to disseminate their research.
- Identify key international primary care research initiatives, groups and meetings that require relationships with NAPCRG.
- Identify committee members (and/or others) who can act in a liaison role between NAPCRG and these groups.
- Clarify requirements and responsibilities for these relationships.
- Be responsible for advising on and supporting the international primary care research and capacity building components of the agenda of the NAPCRG annual conference.
Committee Specific Guidelines:
- The AAAPC and SAPC representatives are encouraged to attend the live NAPCRG Committee meeting during the NAPCRG Annual Meeting.
- All committee members are expected to fund their own attendance at the NAPCRG Annual Meeting.
Updated May 9, 2022
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
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:
Doug Archibald, PhD
Vice Chair:
Emily Godfrey MD, MPH
Members:
Debora Goldberg, PhD, MBA, MHA
Don Nease, MD
Ginetta Salvalaggio, MD, MSc
Jeffrey Scherrer, PhD
Lenny Lesser, MD, MSHS
Nora Gimpel, MD
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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Chair:
US Chair: Sebastian Tong, MD, MPH
Canada Co-Chair: Open
Members:
Abiodun Otolorin, MD, MSc
Alyssa Tilhou, MD/PhD
Brian Antono, MD, MPH
Chineme Enyioha, MD
Hoon Byun, PhD
Jennifer Molokwu, MD, FAAFP, MPH
Kari Nilsen, PhD
Matthew Martin, PhD
Morhaf Al Achkar, MD
Niharika Khanna, MD
Richard Young, MD
Rodger Kessler, PhD, ABPP
Yalda Jabbarpour, MD
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:
Meghan Gilfoyle, MSc, PhD Candidate
Vice Chair:
Open
Members:
Ashley Chisholm, MSc
Caitlin Davis, MD, MSc
Elise Duwe, MD, PhD
Ione Locher, MD, MS, BA
Matthew Laird, MSc, BSc, BMBS (cand.)
T.M. Ayodele Adesanya, MD, PhD (Ayo)