Special Interest Groups

Networking and collaboration is an essential component of our members' professional success, and NAPCRG holds a unique position to facilitate relationships in the primary care research community. NAPCRG's Special Interest Groups (SIGs) offer a way for members with similar interests to come together and communicate throughout the year to share experiences, resources, and plans.

Feel free to reach out to the chair listed with each SIG below with questions or join SIG discussion pages on NAPCRG Connect.

To begin a new Special Interest Group, contact Ashlyn (conference@napcrg.org) with the name, university, and e-mail address of the SIG chair and the title of the SIG.

Cancer Research in Primary Care
Hunter Holt, MD, MAS
University of Illinois at Chicago
hholt2@uic.edu 

Denalee O'Malley, PhD 
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
omalledm@rutgers.edu 

Climate Change and Health in Primary Care
Jon Temte
University of Wisconsin
Jon.Temte@fammed.wisc.edu

Community Oriented Primary Care
Jalila Jbilou MD, PhD
Université de Moncton
jalila.jbilou@umoncton.ca

Dementia Research in Primary Care
KJ Hansmann
University of Wisconsin-Madison
kellia.hansmann@fammed.wisc.edu 

Homelessness
Lillian Gelberg, MD, MSPH
LGelberg@mednet.ucla.edu

Kate Vickery, MD, MS
Katherine.Vickery@hcmed.org

Indigenous Health
Wanda Phillips-Beck 
wphillips-beck@fnhssm.com

Stephanie Sinclair
ssinclair@fnhssm.com

Interprofessional Research Group
Denny Fe G. Agana, PhD, MPH, CPH
Baylor College of Medicine
DennyFe.Agana@bcm.edu

Mentoring Residents on their Scholarly Activities
Kyulee Park, PhD, LPC, NCC
Eastern Virginia Medical School, Macon
parkk@odu.edu

Joan Brock
Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion University

Multimorbidity/Comorbidity

Barbara Nicholl
University of Glasgow
Barbara.Nicholl@glasgow.ac.uk 

North American Respiratory Infection Study Group
Jonathan Temte, MD, PhD
University of Wisconsin
jon.temte@fammed.wisc.edu

Organizational Participatory Research
Paula Bush, PhD
paula.bush@mcgill.ca

Participatory Research in Primary Care
(this group is now a CASFM Workgroup, visit their new page)

Pharmacotherapy
Patricia Klatt, PharmD
University of Pittsburgh
klattpm@upmc.edu

Refugee and Immigrant Healthcare Research
Brendan Prast, MH, MPH
MaineHealth
Brendan.Prast@mainehealth.org 

Anne MacFarlene
University of Limerick
anne.macfarlane@ul.ie 

Substance Use and Related Disorders
Lillian Gelberg, MD, MSPH
UCLA Dept of Family Medicine
lgelberg@mednet.ucla.edu

Lara Weinstein
Sidney Kimmel Medical College
Lara.Weinstein@jefferson.edu 

Technology for Vulnerable Populations
Beth Careyva, MD
University of South Florida/Lehigh Valley Health Network
beth_a.careyva@lvhn.org

Treah Haggerty, MD
West Virginia University
haggertyt@wvumedicine.org