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Joanna Chan, MD
is the vice-chair of pathology education and a humanities mentor at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, where she is also a practising pathologist. Her academic interests include gynaecologic health, innovations in learning technology, and wellness in healthcare providers. When she's not at Jefferson, she can be found training at Koresh Dance, where she is also a board member.
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Krisda H. Chaiyachati, MD, MPH, MSHP
Dr. Chaiyachati is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine, a Clinical Innovation Manager at Penn Medicine’s Center for Health Care Innovation, the Medical Director for Penn Medicine’s OnDemand Virtual Care, and a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Chaiyachati designs, studies, and implements innovative strategies for addressing social barriers to care and improving the accessibility of health care. He believes these are promising strategies for reducing disparities in health care as health care delivered solely through conventional face-to-face encounters will create fundamental barriers for patients and widen disparities. On the provider side, creating more in-person visits are doomed by capacity and cost constraints facing provider organizations as population health efforts and value-based payment models grow. By innovating towards lower cost, and effective, alternatives to in-person care or reducing the friction to access high-value care, better health care outcomes for low-income and minority populations can be achieved. In addition to Dr. Chaiyachati’s medical degree from the University of Michigan, he received his Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health as a Zuckerman Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership and Master of Science in Health Policy Research from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his internal medicine training with Yale's Primary Care Program and continued on as a Chief Resident. Clinically, he continues to practice as a general internist, serving as a primary care provider for Penn Medicine employees.
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Joanna Chan, MD
Dr. Chan is the vice-chair of pathology education and a humanities mentor at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, where she is also a practising pathologist. Her academic interests include gynaecologic health, innovations in learning technology, and wellness in healthcare providers. When she's not at Jefferson, she can be found training at Koresh Dance, where she is also a board member.
Shruti Chandra, MD, MEHP
Dr. Chandra is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University. She obtained her MD at Jefferson Medical College and completed her Emergency Medicine residency at Jefferson. She completed a Medical Education fellowship and received a Master’s in Education for Health Professions at Johns Hopkins University. Dr Chandra is the Clerkship Director for EM and involved in curriculum development for the medical school and residency.
Dr. Chandra is a member of the Diversity Council at Jefferson and the Academy for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine. She helped create the cultural competency curriculum at Jefferson and continues to be involved in workshops and seminars for the same.
Ruey Hu, MD, MPH
Ruey Hu, MD, MPH, who is from Toronto, Canada, served as national president of APAMSA from 2016 to 2018. Ruey studied molecular biology at Princeton with certificates in computer science, neuroscience, and Chinese language and culture. He completed an MPH in epidemiology and biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and is now a resident in internal medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Ruey finds joy in motivating others to do what they are passionate about. Ruey enjoys taekwondo, composing music, and data visualization. His favorite language (at the moment) is R. He is very passionate about clinical research and is a member of the Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society. While on national board, Ruey’s favorite part of the job was getting to meet the spirited and hardworking members of APAMSA across our chapters. He enjoys continuing to advise medical students today.
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Noel Ramirez, MPH, LCSW, BCD
Noel Ramirez is a Philly based licensed clinical social worker and public health professional. Informed by Immigrant-Filipino parents who love through a sense of home, a chosen Queer family who resist subjugation and a public health community that seeks to honor social and environmental context, my approach is relational, inter-subjective and grounded in love, honor and respect.
He received his graduate training in social work from the University of Pennsylvania and graduate public health training from Drexel University. He is completing a Doctorate in Behavioral Health from Arizona State University and focused his academic work in developing programing in patient-centered medical homes, integrated-health, recovery oriented primary care and body-positive behavioral interventions. He is a licensed anger management treatment professional, compassion fatigue educational professional and have a certificate in Clinical Social Work supervision.
Currently, Noel teaches a wide range of graduate courses that invite an intersectional approach to social work practice at Columbia University and West Chester University. He is also a behavioral health consultant for patients in primary care while also maintaining a private practice/consulting business focusing on body positivity, LGBTIQ identity, intersectional identity, Asian Pacific Islander communities, and decolonizing medical and social work. In his spare time, Noel co-hosts a Podcast (The Unapologetic Social Worker), an oral history project of intersectional social workers, and organizes with the Philadelphia Asian and Queer (PAQ) to support and cultivate community among queer API folx in the philly region.
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Dalmacio Dennis Flores,
PhD, ACRN
Dr. Flores is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, an affiliated faculty at the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Program – The Alice Paul Center, and is a Visiting Professor at the Center for Research on AIDS at Yale University’s School of Public Health. He has led several studies that investigates the role of parents in the sexual health education of their adolescent sons who identify as gay, bisexual, and queer (GBQ). Through interventions around inclusive parent- child sex communication, he believes that the early provision of sexual health information attuned to the attractions, behavior, and identities of GBQ adolescents can reduce the formation of risky sexual behavior and this population’s risks for HIV and STI infection. His current research examines how family dynamics within AAPI families impact the sexual identity milestones of LGBTQ+ Asian Americans and their formative experiences with sexual health access and use. With an awareness of the personal and contextual factors that increase sexual minority populations’ vulnerability for HIV/STI infection and poor care-related outcomes, the first study Dr. Flores led investigated the conditions that contributed to the recent HIV infection of young gay men in Atlanta. That study has fueled his subsequent HIV prevention work that includes both urban and rural community education, being a national spokesperson for HIV testing campaigns, and workforce development with around 1200 nurses across three continents. His commitment to HIV/AIDS care and leadership throughout his career includes serving in various leadership roles for the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care. Dr. Flores earned his PhD from Duke University, a Masters in Public Health Nursing Leadership at Emory University, and a Bachelors in Nursing from Kennesaw State University in GA
Hilary Lin, MD
Hillary Lin, MD is a physician founder working on The Reverie Project, a new venture in the mental health space. Her prior work at Stanford, where she obtained her B.S., M.D., and internal medicine residency, included digital health entrepreneurship and research in oncology and medical education. She is now located in NYC where she is on the boards of Stanford Alumni in Startups NYC and Global Leadership Organization. She is also active in the broader startup community both locally and nationally.