Community Clinician Advisory Group (CCAG)

The mission of the Community Clinician Advisory Group (CCAG) is to bring more voices from community practice to inform (1) the functions of the NAPCRG and PBRN Annual Meetings and (2) add community clinician perspectives to formulating the future primary care research agenda.

History
The NAPCRG Board of Directors created the CCAG as a new Board Committee under the chairmanship of the NAPCRG Clinician Representative. 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 membership is bi-national (US and Canada) and broadly representative. Individual CCAG member terms are three years, staggered.

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:
Andrew Pasternak, MD, MS

Staff Liaison:
Leyla Haddad, MBA

Communications Committee

The Communications Committee is in charge of communications for NAPCRG. This includes identifying and communicating relevant news to our members using methods such as our 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.

Awards Committee (Sub-committee of Communications Committee)

The Awards Committee oversees administration of the NAPCRG Awards Program by soliciting and evaluating nominations and selecting recipients and oversees the Awards Breakfast at the Annual Meeting.

Chair:
Kelly Nottingham, MPH

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

Governance Committee

It is the Governance Committee’s responsibility to develop leadership and submit nominations for open Board positions to the Board for approval and appointment.

Chair:

Andrew Bazemore, MD, MPH

Members:
Joy Melnikow, MD                                                                 
Michael Green, MD, MPH                           
Eric Shaw, PhD                                                
Fiona Webster, PhD                              

Staff Liaison: 
Julie Sutter, MPA, MS, CAE

International Committee

The mission of the International Committee is to provide a strategic plan and direction to extending and supporting NAPCRG’s international outreach beyond the US and Canada to both resource-rich and resource-poor nations. Research is a core component of primary care clinical practice and education in all nations. All nations should prioritize and fund primary care research. Primary care researchers from all nations should have the opportunity 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 is responsible for recruitment of new NAPCRG members, promotion of diversity among the membership and 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 communicate its work to NAPCRG’s membership.

Staff Liaison: 
Leyla Haddad, MBA

Program Committee

The Program Committee helps 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. The Program Committee selects and invites the plenary speakers, reviews submissions where there is a high score to select distinguished and extended papers. 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. The committee is responsible for the academic part of the program and makes decisions on various details of the meeting.

Chair:
Hazel Tapp, MD

Members:
Joshua Fenton, MD
Susan Flocke, PhD
Nora Gimpel, MD
Emily Godfrey (PaCE representative)
Debora Goldberg, PhD, MBA, MHA
Lenny Lesser, MD
Kathryn Nicholson, PhD
Caroline Richardson, MD
Grant Russell, PhD, MBBS
Jeffrey Scherrer, PhD
Susan Smith, MD, MSc
Fiona Webster, PhD

Staff Liaison: 
Julie Sutter, MPA, MS, CAE
Priscilla Noland

Research Advocacy Committee

The Research Advocacy Committee's purpose is multifaceted as follows:

• Provide tools, training and resources for NAPCRG members to use in their own advocacy work at the local, state and national levels in the US and Canada.
• Disseminate primary care research advocacy messages to key federal, state/provincial public policy leaders in the US and Canada.
• 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 in the US and Canada.

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Trainee Committee

Chair:
Sarah Gebauer, MD, MSPH

Vice Chair:
Ashley Chisholm, MSc

Staff Liaison:
Julie Sutter, MPA, MS, CAE