Zykevise Gamble is a 2nd-year student at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University studying Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences.

I am a doctorate-level social worker and a patient-centered clinical and translational investigator who is passionate about examining and addressing the psychosocial factors that drive health inequities in pediatric asthma. I am particularly interested in examining the effectiveness and implementation of co-located care for maternal depression and childhood asthma.

Assistant professor who studies health and cancer disparities with the Institute for Health Informatics at the University of Minnesota.

Melissa Prideaux is a Registered Dietitian whose passion is teaching people how to eat healthy on any budget. Melissa received her MS in Nutrition from Montclair State University in New Jersey and became an RDN in 2015. She currently manages the Food Prescription Program at Harris Health in Houston, TX.

Ashley Brewer, LSW, MPH has worked with at-risk populations since becoming a social worker. She began her work at Community Health & Wellness Partners establishing integrated care, but after earning her Masters of Public Health, she transitioned to the quality department with a focus on safety, compliance, & quality metrics.

Dr. Julia Seay is a Program Director at NINR. Dr. Seay’s prior research focused on addressing health disparities within underserved communities, as well as on improving psychological and behavioral health outcomes among active-duty service members. Before joining NINR, Dr. Seay was a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Miami and a Research Psychologist at the Naval Health Research Center. Dr. Seay received her PhD in Psychology from the University of Miami.

Lucy Rabinowitz Bailey, MPH, is the Head of Research at Art Pharmacy, where she oversees research and development. She is a seasoned mixed-methods researcher with ten years of experience examining innovative care models that integrate behavioral and physical health services, promote mental health, and address health inequities.

I am a Health Science Specialist in the Biostatistics and Informatics Core at the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System. I have experience in survey-weighted analyses, database management, and clinical trial coordination.

I'm Priya George, a 3rd-year medical student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Inspired by my school's mission of intertwining social justice with medicine, my research addresses health disparities, accessibility, and advocacy for marginalized communities in the Bronx, consistently ranked as New York's state's least healthy county.

Julie is a Family Medicine Physician who has been working with on SDOH screening and referrals for the NYC Health + Hospitals system.

Anand Habib is a hospitalist physician and National Clinician Scholars Program postdoctoral fellow at Yale School of Medicine. His research and advocacy efforts focus on (1) understanding interest holders’ perspectives on universal health-related social needs screening and (2) investigating policies to reduce medical debt and financial toxicity of health care.

I am a second year PhD student in epidemiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a data analyst at the University of Chicago. My research interests include social risks and how they relate to chronic disease.

Alex is a Health Policy PhD candidate at UC Berkeley whose research focuses on improving reproductive healthcare access and quality.

Meagan C. Brown, PhD, MPH, is a health equity and implementation science researcher at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute. She is also the associate director of Kaiser Permanente's SONNET: Social Needs Network for Evaluation and Translation, which aims to address the social needs of Kaiser Permanente members.

I am a Pediatric Hospitalist, Health Services Researcher, and Child Health Advocate that aims to develop effective and equitable approaches to connecting families with social needs identified in the hospital to resources in their community in order to improve health outcomes.

Dr. Erin Westfall is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and the Program Director for the Mayo Clinic Family Medicine Residency in Mankato. Dr. Westfall’s research interests are around issues of health equity and healthcare access, and she chairs the Mayo Clinic Subcommittee on SDOH.

Megan Schoonveld-Diaz is the Research and Evaluation Manager at Patient Advocate Foundation. She leads qualitative data collection, analysis, and visualization and supports engagement activities. She is passionate about advocating for the inclusion of patient and family voices in research, recognizing their invaluable perspectives and contributions to advancing healthcare practices.

Dr. Kling is a quantitative research scientist in the Evaluation Sciences Unit and has six years of experience in mixed methods research and evaluation in clinical and community healthcare settings. She is dedicated to helping collaborators design and execute pragmatic evaluations that meet their needs and facilitate rapid learnings to ultimately improve healthcare at Stanford Medicine and beyond.

Yuri Cartier, MPH, is a Senior Research Associate at the Social Interventions Research & Evaluation Network (SIREN) at the University of California, San Francisco. She carries out research and dissemination activities focused on the integration of social care into health care, and is particularly passionate about deepening lived experience engagement in research and anti-racist research methods. Previously, she led scientific activities at the International Union for Health Promotion & Education. Yuri lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and is an avid admirer of other people’s dogs.

Cody Carrier is a second-year medical student at the Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine who is focused on studying the impacts of social determinants of health on the well-being of populations.

Dr. Shah is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrician. As a physician-scientist, she studies educational and developmental disparities with a health equity focus. She designs, implements, and evaluates accessible strategies to support childhood development in healthcare settings serving historically marginalized communities.

Dana M. Parke is the Program Manager for Clinical & Social Health Integration at Henry Ford Health, where she leads initiatives to address social determinants of health among patients, particularly housing. She holds a MA in International Development, with specializations in Urban Planning and Housing, from the University of Denver.

Brenda Luther, PhD, RN is a Professor at the College of Nursing and within the Gerontology Interdisciplinary Program at the University of Utah. Dr. Luther teaches courses in primary care, care management, evidence-based practice and health promotion. Dr. Luther's clinical specialty is disability care and care management, working clients and families in community settings. She started her career in care coordination at Shriners working with public, private and non-profit agencies to bring about coordinated and connected services for children in the Intermountain West. Her research interests are primary care, care management, successful transition to adulthood for children with disabilities, and most recently researching how healthcare systems measure and refer for social support services. Luther has researched and published in the areas specific to children with physical disabilities including: promoting successful transition to adulthood, family caregiving, health promotion and self-care. Most recently, she is a member of a research team investigating how best to screen and refer for social needs.

Bonnie Ewald is the Managing Director of CHaSCI and Manager of Strategic Development and Policy for Rush University Medical Center’s Social Work and Community Health department. She has her master’s degree in public policy studies (University of Chicago, 2018) and bachelor’s in mathematics and geography (University of Wisconsin, 2011).

I will be presenting Two posters: Impact of HC Discrimination on Social Needs: Evidence from an integrated health system; and Predictive value of a financial strain question to pre-screen individuals for social risks.

Lyndsay Nelson is a social psychologist with expertise in experimental and translational health psychology. Her research is grounded in self-care promotion for type 2 diabetes and technology- and community-based health interventions for underserved populations.

Liz Bell is a Research Services Professional and Practice Facilitator supporting translational and implementation science in primary care. Her passion is the intersection between physical, mental, and social health. Liz is an MPH candidate at the Colorado School of Public Health, a Cornell University graduate, and a devoted special needs mom.

Dr. Ado Rivera is an assistant professor at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and former postdoctoral fellow at Kaiser Permanente Southern California. His research aims to understand and intervene on drivers of health disparities especially in relation to healthy aging and chronic disease risk and management.

I study how to improve health equity using HIT-based interventions in safety net clinics. Expertise in social risks, health services, clinical decision support, and implementation science.

Ms. Coleman serves as director of Kaiser Permanente’s Social Needs Network for Evaluation and Translation (SONNET), a national learning network of researchers and evaluators who build the field of health-related social needs implementation and impact. She also co-directs the ACT Center which supports care transformation in KP & FQHCs.

Bio coming soon.

I am a medical educator interested in teaching residents how to address social need in clinic through interprofessional collaboration.

Dr. Halima Ahmadi-Montecalvo is the Vice President of Research and Evaluation at Unite Us, where she leads evaluation efforts to measure the value of social care investments. She is an epidemiologist and social and behavioral scientist by training. Her research focuses on social drivers of health.

Tashyana Copeland-Smith is a public health researcher and Certified Health Education Specialist dedicated to health disparities research exploring social/behavioral impacts on health. Currently, Tashyana works as Project Coordinator for the Center for Child Health & Policy at UH Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, implementing mixed-methods in program planning and evaluation.

Mackenzie Kemp is the Manager of the Center for Connected Care at Thomas Jefferson University. She supports the development and implementation of operational and administrative systems. Mackenzie also manages the Center's nutrition research portfolio. Trained as a program evaluator, Mackenzie is passionate about asking questions and telling data-driven stories.

Susan Spratt is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology and Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health Duke School of Medicine Senior Medical Director Duke Population Health Management Office.

Rachel Mark is a legal aid attorney focused on improving maternal-child health. She works at a medical-legal partnership in Philadelphia where she represents families in public benefits, utilities, and housing. She is motivated by interdisciplinary collaboration to address structural determinants of health with the goal of improving maternal-child health .

Dr. Andrea Wallace, Associate Dean for Research at the University of Utah College of Nursing, studies ethical and effective methods for integrating social context information into routine clinical care. Her research examines social needs screening and referrals, their impact on discharge planning and communication, and strategies to support family caregivers during care transitions.

Michael Enich, MD, PhD is a PGY-1 Internal Medicine Resident at the University of Washington. His social work dissertation focused on Z codes and their utility in documenting homelessness. His interests are in implementing and assessing health policy and programs that work to mitigate substance-use related health disparities for people experiencing chronic homelessness.

Katerina Melino is a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, clinical faculty member at the UCSF School of Nursing, and PhD candidate at the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on mental health equity, structural competency, and mental health systems transformation.

As Sr. Project Manager in CHRT, I currently lead research and evaluation projects on health integration, SDoH, health equity, and behavioral health care. Prior to CHRT, I was involved in several health and social service initiatives to assist multiple underserved populations in NYC through program management, development, funding, and data analysis.

Bio coming soon.

Dr. Goodman is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health and Director of the HS&P PhD program. She holds a PhD in Health Policy and MPH in Maternal and Child Health, both from UC Berkeley. Her undergraduate degree is from McGill University in Montreal.

I am an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University and the Medical Director of the Addiction Medicine Consult Liaison Service at Cooper University Healthcare. I am also the Medical Director of Research for the Division of Medical Toxicology and Addiction Medicine.

Emily Abramsohn, MPH is the Director of Research in the Lindau Lab at the University of Chicago. She received her Master’s Degree in Public Health in Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences from San Diego State University. She has been a member of the Lindau Lab since 2009.

Medical Student at the University of Michigan Medical School

I am a 3rd year pediatric resident at Children's National Hospital in DC. My future career goal is pediatric hospitalist medicine, which is deeply intertwined with advancements in social care.

I am a domestic violence advocate engaged in survivor-centered approaches to service delivery and research. I have worked at Lutheran Settlement House for 9 years providing advocacy in medical settings to survivors. Recently I completed a fellowship with the Robert Wood Johnson's Interdisciplinary Research Leaders program. Currently I facilitate our Research Advisory Board, made up of survivors and researchers hoping to change the research landscape to be more survivor-driven.

Alexandria Blacker, PhD, MPH is the Director of the Stanford Department of Medicine’s Community Partnership Program and adjunct faculty at George Washington University. Her work focuses on building bi-directional, equitable, and sustainable partnerships to advance local health equity. Research interest include equity in implementation, interprofessional teamwork, and team science.

I am a clinician-researcher focused on how health-related social needs impact people's ability to enact healthy behaviors and how we can adjust practice and address system inequities to change that. I am especially interested in the relationship between food insecurity, ability to engage in physical activity and diabetes and obesity.

Ariel served as the practice facilitator for social health integration with Kaiser Permanente Washington from 2021-2024. She worked with clinic teams to support implementation of universal screening in primary care, and led the qualitative data collection and analysis for a mixed-methods evaluation of social health integration.

Dr. Tiffany Bourelle is a Professor at the University of New Mexico where she works for Family and Community Medicine to develop online curriculum regarding SDOH for the broader New Mexico community and beyond.

Zackery White, PhD is a Research Analyst II on the Research and Evaluation Team at Unite Us, where he supports research studies and evaluations related to improving social care coordination and advancing health equity. He has 5+ years of research experience in community-based research, data analytics, observational data biases, and public health.

Public Health Researcher/ Project Assistant Areas of Interest/Expertise: Integrated health studies and services, community outreach and engagement, youth engagement; advocacy, equity, diversity, and inclusion.