Nadine Tenn Salle, MD is the QHS Clinical Program Chief of Pediatrics. She believes in the philosophy of patient-centered, patient-first health care. She is an advocate of preventive medicine, patient advocacy and patient education. Dr. TennSalle considers herself privileged to be a physician and she enjoys her work. After over 20 years in private practice and various healthcare leadership positions, Dr. TennSalle recently joined the Queen’s Medical University Group to focus on building a Pediatric Clinical program for the Queens Health System. She previously worked as an electrical engineer and merchant mariner. Dr. TennSalle received her medical degree from the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine.

Email: nadinet@hawaii.edu

Jim Winkler has practiced medicine in Hawaii for 28 years. He is the founder and CEO of Kauai Community Health Alliance and a medical provider at Hale Lea Family Medicine & Urgent Care. A graduate of USC School of Medicine in 1984, he has taught at Pacific College and the Fort Collins Family Medicine Residency Program. He is an active member of the Hawaii Physician Shortage Crisis Task Force. Winkler has been a published medical newspaper columnist for years. He is also the founding director of a non-profit humanitarian organization, the Amicus Foundation, which sponsors projects in medicine, education, and women’s needs overseas. Also, a professional musician Winkler has performed with Charles Mingus, Gabor Zabo, Johnny Guitar Watson, Weather Report, Grateful Dead, Steely Dan, Todd Rundgren, Makana, and others, and has worked as a feature film composer. He resides on Kauai.

Email: winkler@kauai-medical.org

Dr. Chun has been Chief Executive Officer of the Hawai‘i Pacific Health Medical Group since November 2019. Prior to joining Hawai‘i Pacific Health, Dr. Chun was Chief Quality Officer and Chief Medical Officer at The Queen’s Health Systems, and prior to that, Chief of Clinical and Medical Affairs for Maui Memorial Medical Center. Dr. Chun is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Hawai‘i John A. Burns School of Medicine. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Biological Sciences from Harvard University, where he graduated cum laude, and received his Doctor of Medicine from UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and Master of Business Administration from UCLA Anderson School of
Business. Dr. Chun completed his residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, is board certified in internal medicine, served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, and has practiced as a hospitalist, a primary care physician for the underserved, and in a medical walk-in clinic.

Email: leslie.chun@hphmg.org

Dr. Natasha Parekh is a board-certified internist and the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of the Queen’s Clinically Integrated Physician Network (QCIPN), where she provides organizational oversight and strategic leadership of services, functions, and activities of the population health network. This includes facilitating collaboration between internal and external stakeholders and leading staff to achieve population health management, including improvement of quality, efficiency, and access to the network. She serves key functions in QCIPN’s quality and analytic strategies, network development and recruitment, provider relations, and communication and messaging. She is also Medical Director for Primary Care Practice Transformation at Queen’s, a practicing primary care provider at Queen’s EmPower Health, and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine Her special interests include population health, health system management, care of underserved populations, and women’s health issues. Dr. Parekh is originally from Florida and moved to Hawaii in 2019 from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, hiking, stand-up paddle boarding, dancing, and spending time with her family and two dogs.

Email: NParekh@queens.org

Dr. Stefanie Park is a vice president and chief medical officer at HMSA. Her main roles are to coordinate HMSA’s medical directors and pharmacists to ensure that the company’s decisions have clinical input, oversee the relationship with the pharmacy benefit manager, and lead the workstream dedicated to improving HMSA’s employee wellness. In addition to her leadership role at HMSA, Dr. Park is an internal medicine board-certified physician and an associate clinical professor of medicine at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine. She worked as a hospitalist with Medical Specialists of Hawaii before joining HMSA in 2013. Dr. Park was born, raised, and educated in Hawaii. A graduate of Punahou School, she earned a bachelor’s degree in biology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and her medical degree at JABSOM. She did her internal medicine residency in the UH Internal Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Park also has an executive master’s degree from the UH Shidler College of Business. Dr. Park’s greatest joy is spending time with her daughter, Mari. She achieves work-life balance through exercise and healthy doses of self-care. She’s also a huge Disney fan and strongly believes that "each healthy day in this unrepeatable life is a blessing."

Email: Stefanie_Park@hmsa.com

Greigh was born and raised in Honolulu. He attended undergraduate, medical school, residency, and fellowships in the Los Angeles area. He returned in 1990 to practice as an employed physician in Maternal Fetal Medicine and Medical Genetics. He left Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children in 2004 and opened the Fetal Diagnostic Institute of the Pacific with a full staff of genetic counselors, sonographers, nurses, and dieticians. The primary focus of practice is on prenatal diagnosis, ultrasound, reproductive and cancer genetics, diabetes in pregnancy, and co-management of high-risk obstetrical patients. The professional staff has also expanded to two additional MFM physicians. The group sees patients in two locations on Oahu, Maui, Hilo, Kauai, and Guam.

Email: drpayanal@keolaponofm.com

CJ Johnson is an advocate and organizer who works at the intersection of health equity, community engagement, and the built environment. He currently serves as the member engagement manager at AlohaCare where he focuses on building community partnerships to overcome barriers to health and healthcare for Hawaiiʻs Medicaid population. He has also worked for the Department of Health and the Honolulu Department of Transportation Services. CJ was recognized by the Healthcare Association of Hawaii as their “2021 Healthcare Hero of the Year” in the field of public health for his leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Email: cjohnson@alohacare.org

Lisa Rantz is the Executive Director of Hilo Medical Center Foundation (HMCF), which also serves as the Hawaii Island Area Health Education Center (AHEC) facilitating health careers recruitment across the workforce pipeline (high school through graduate medical education), professional development training, and collaborative group activities. Ms. Rantz also serves as President of the Hawaii State Rural Health Association (HSRHA) and Secretary for the Hilo Rotary Club
Foundation, and was appointed by the governor of Hawaii to the Hawaii Medical Education Council on February 7, 2018. Ms. Rantz has over fifteen years of facilitation and focuses group experience in both the education and health care industries. She has developed programs to assist researchers, educators, policymakers, and rural residents to address changing rural environments by identifying and researching rural health issues, analyzing health policy, strengthening local capabilities, developing community-based alternatives, and advocating for rural health issues.

Email: rkurohara@communityfirsthawaii.org

Randy Kurohara is the Executive Director of Community First Hawai‘i, a nonprofit established in 2014 that serves as a convener for health-related organizations to address challenges that can best be solved by working together. He served for 8 years with Mayor Billy Kenoi in various roles including Director of the Department of Research & Development, Deputy Managing Director, and Managing Director for the County of Hawaii. Mr. Kurohara is also a long-time Hawaii Island small business owner that includes Creative Arts Hawaii and Aloha Grown. He graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing. Mr. Kurohara is a member and past President of the Rotary Club of South Hilo; director and past President of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Hawaii; member of the Kona Kohala Chamber of Commerce; Vice President of the Hawaii Island Chamber of Commerce; board member of the Hawaii Health System Corporation’s East Hawaii Regional Board; board member of the Salvation Army; board member of Keahole Center for Sustainability; and emeritus board member of the Boys and Girls Club of the Big Island.

Email: rkurohara@communityfirsthawaii.org

Lisa Grove has been the lead strategist and pollster for political candidates, nonprofit organizations, labor unions, and responsible corporations for over 30 years. She has a reputation for providing rock-solid research and unique insight that provides a foundation for successful policymaking, communications, and strategy for her clients. She polled for President Obama, has been rated one of the three most accurate pollsters in America, and earned national “Pollster of the Year” in 2019. A resident of Lānaʻi, Hawaʻi, Grove has queried thousands of Hawaiʻi voters and residents starting with Daniel Akakaʻs first election to the US Senate. She has surveyed the people of Hawaiʻi on a wide range of topics including health care; the economy and cost of living; climate change; views of the state's dominant industries; and a number of issues related to education in Hawaiʻi.

Email: lgrove@groveinsight.com

Gregg Kishaba received his B.S. in Family Resources from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He currently serves as the Rural Health Coordinator at the Hawaii State Department of Health, Office of Primary Care and Rural Health. In his position, he coordinates federal, state, and local efforts aimed at improving the health of Hawaii’s rural and medically underserved populations. He collaborates with community organizations to develop integrated systems of care to provide the greatest number of services to rural and remote areas and researches alternate delivery systems of care.

Email: gregg.kishaba@doh.hawaii.gov

Born and raised in Central Ohio. Undergraduate Ohio State (yes, “The” Ohio State University) 1974 and Medical School 1977. Family Practice Residency at Grant Hospital (now Grant Medical Center) in Columbus, Ohio 1977-80. Board Certified in FM with ABFM and CCFP (Canadian College of Family Physicians).
Master of Science in Health Administration (MSHA) 1993 from Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. Practiced Family Medicine, Addiction Medicine, and taught on Big Island, Molokai, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Canada, and various US mainland locations. Experience with Medical Director positions in FQHC’s and Family Medicine Residencies.

Email: johnengle.md@hmono.org

Damien Kapono Chong-Hanssen, MD has served as the Medical Director of Ho`ōla Lāhui Hawai`i/Kaua`i Community Health Center, the Native Hawaiian Health Care Systems office and the only federally qualified health Center on Kaua`i, since 2018 After receiving the Native Hawaiian Health scholarship he began working there as a family physician in 2012. He currently supervises five other medical providers including a telehealth psychiatric nurse practitioner, a psychologist, nutritionist, and nursing director at three clinic locations with an upcoming expansion with an RV based mobile clinic. He also serves as the chair of the advocacy committee for `Ahahui o nā Kauka (Association of Native Hawaiian Physicians) and is a board member for Kaua`i Hospice. He was honored to be recognized as a public health hero by the Hawaii Public Health Institute in 2021, and HRSA (Health Resources Services Administration) recently honored the health center with five quality recognition badges, including a designation as a COVID-19 public health champion which was awarded to only one other FQHC in Hawai`i. Lastly, his experience as a high school and youth soccer coach has influenced his approach to patient care and health care leadership.

Email: dr.chong-hanssen@hoolalahui.org

Dr. Nicole Mahealani Lum, D.O. was raised in ʻAiea, Oʻahu, and practices primary care Family Medicine and Geriatrics at Ke Ola Mamo Native Hawaiian Health System. She is a scholar of Papa Ola Lokahi’s Native Hawaiian Health Scholarship Program, and serves on the board of directors for ʻAhahui o nā Kauka, the Association of Native Hawaiian Physicians. Dr. Lum provides community education and medical home visits to kūpuna in collaboration with Kula No Na Po'e Hawai'i o Papakōlea, Kewalo, Kalawahine. In her spare time, Dr. Lum enjoys studying hula and oli, making lei, learning lomi lomi, and helping her ʻohana lead ʻāina restoration efforts at Loko Iʻa Pāʻaiau fishpond and Ka Mahiʻai ‘Ihi o Wailea maile farm.

Email: mahe.lum@gmail.com

Lisa is the Engagement Specialist at Mauli Ola Mālamalama, the healthcare workforce development center at Papa Ola Lōkahi, the Native Hawaiian Health Board. She was born and raised in Alaska and received her Master’s of Public Health at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and originally began working with Papa in 2003, and returned in 2019. Random fact about Lisa, she doesn’t like pumpkin pie, she’d rather have pecan pie or bread pudding instead.

Email: lkaanoi@papaolalokahi.org

Cliff Bersamira, PhD, AM is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health. He received his PhD and AM (MSW equivalent) from the University of Chicago Crown Family School and BA from the University of Pennsylvania. While at the University of Chicago, he received health services research training through an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)-funded National Research Service Award T32 program. Dr. Bersamira’s research broadly relates to substance use policy and service delivery with focus on recovery-oriented policies and practices, workforce development, and Filipino American behavioral health disparities.

Email: clifford.bersamira@hawaii.edu

Dr. Seunghye Hong is an Associate Professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health, Department of Social Work. She earned her Ph.D. in Social Welfare from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, and an M.A. and a B.A. in Social Work from the Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea. Her research focuses on social, cultural, and developmental contexts and the associations with health and behavioral mental health outcomes including substance use disorders and co-occurring disorders and the healthcare and health services use among racial and ethnic minorities. She has extensive experience in quantitative research methods and evaluations and data analytics. She is serving as Principal Investigator for the Hawaiʻi Behavioral Health Training Institute (HBHTI) project, funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) Care Coordination & Capacity Building (C3) project, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through the Hawaiʻi State Department of Health (DOH), Behavioral Health Administration (BHA)

Email: shong9@hawaii.edu

Dr. Gwen Williams is a Professor in Human Services and the developer and Coordinator of the Certificate of Competence in Substance Use Disorders Counseling Program (COSUDS) at the University of Hawai’i’s Leeward Community College. She secured her two BA’s from the University of California at Santa Cruz, in Psychology and Environmental Studies, and an MSW from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa’s Graduate School of Social Work, with a specialization in mental and behavioral health. She received her Ph.D. in Transformative Learning and Change from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Gwen is the Co-PI for a four-year HRSA grant and manages the Hawai’i Behavioral Health Training Institute (HBHTI) Level 1 Pre-service part which is connected to the Leeward COSUDS program. The grant allows her to support the financial needs of many of her learners in the program and extend the reach of SUDS counselors throughout the Hawaiian Islands. Gwen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and also holds a Diplomate in Clinical Social Work (DCSW). While her full-time work has been primarily in teaching and coordinating the COSUDS program, for decades, she has also had a part-time psychotherapy practice. Although her work involves intervention with a multitude of mental and behavioral health conditions, a good amount of her focus has been on healing the trauma from intimate partner physical and sexual violence. She is a student of consciousness and her life’s path has involved engaging in healing processes and practices that have helped her and others transform and move toward greater wholeness.

Email: gwenw@hawaii.edu

Austin Ajimura is a second-year Master of Public Health student at the Thompson School of Social Work and Public Health, specializing in Social and Behavioral Health Sciences. He earned his BS in Biology and BA in Women's Studies from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM) in 2019. Austin is currently working as a Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) with the Hawaiʻi Behavioral Health Training Institute (HBHTI) project. He previously worked as a GRA with the Hawaiʻi Coordinated Access Resource Entry System (CARES), which was a collaboration between UHM and the Hawaiʻi Department of Health to provide crisis, mental health, and substance use support for residents statewide. Austin recently served as a Contact Tracing and Community Specialist for the City and County of Honolulu Emergency Services Department from 2020 through 2022, where he contact traced and advocated for our City's first responders. Austin currently serves as a volunteer and Patient Advocacy Lead for the Hawaiʻi Houseless Outreach and Medical Education (HOME) Project through the UHM John A. Burns School of Medicine.

Email: aajimura@hawaii.edu

Len M. Nichols is a Non-Resident Fellow in the Health Policy Center of the Urban Institute. He was the Director of the Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics (CHPRE) and Professor of Health Policy at George Mason University from 2010-2020. He is the President of NS Ideas, LLC, a health policy research and consulting partnership with his wife, Nora Super, also of the Milken Institute. He has been intimately involved in health reform debates, policy development, and communication with the media and policy makers for almost 30 years, after he was Senior Advisor for Health Policy at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the first two years of the Clinton Administration. Through testimony, publications, public speaking and technical advice, Len has helped shape the opinions of policy makers, researchers and policy analysts. He has consistently sought to add moral arguments to the technical health policy debate.

After OMB, Len was a Principle Research Associate at the Urban Institute, Vice President of the Center for Studying Health System Change, and Director of the Health Policy Program at the New America Foundation, before moving to George Mason. Len has been on the Board of Directors of the National Committee for Quality Assurance since 2008. Len was an advisor to the Virginia Health Reform Initiative from 2010-2013 and an Innovation Advisor to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation at CMS in 2012. Len served on the Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC), which advises the Secretary of HHS on Alternative Payment Models, from 2015-2019. Len’s research focus now is on incentivizing collaborative financing of social determinants of health. Len’s first professional job was teaching economics at Wellesley College from 1980-1991, where he became Associate Professor and Economics Department Chair, after receiving his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois in 1980. Len got his B.A. from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, and an M.A. in Economics from the University of Arkansas.

Email: lnichol9@gmu.edu

Kelley Withy, MD, PhD, is Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine and the Director of the Hawaii/Pacific Basin Area Health Education Center (AHEC). Her research focuses on health workforce assessment and health careers development. Dr. Withy is the primary physician workforce researcher in Hawaii and has developed the only statewide database of supply and demand for physician services. She has designed programs for all years of schooling that are being employed with more than 4,000 students a year.

Email: withy@hawaii.edu

Katherine Burke, MPH is the principal investigator of the Māpuna Lab. Her research areas include social determinants of health, health equity, cultural safety, social justice and ancestral connection. An evaluator by trade she holds a bachelor's degree in Neuroscience and Behavior from Mount Holyoke College and a master's degree in public health, social and behavioral health sciences from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa where she is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Community-Based and Translational Research. Burke is of Hellenic (Peloponnese), Irish (County Mayo), French (Île-de-France), Bavarian and Romanche ancestry and was given a love for the role of plants in public health by her Greek grandfather. As a settler transplant she is passionate about connecting through genealogy and caring for the land and water system that feed us through practices she learned on the ʻili ʻāina of ʻOuaua and Māluawai in the ahupuaʻa of Kalihilihiolaumiha from aloha ʻāina leadership at Ho'oulu 'Āina.

Email: kymburke@hawaii.edu

Kuulei Perreira-Keawekane is a kanaka maoli practitioner from the ʻili ʻāina of Panaewa on the island of Hawaiʻi. As a culture and language bearer, she has experience connecting native Hawaiian individuals to the traditional knowledge that makes up the essence of Mauli Ola, Native Hawaiian Wellness. She has worked with institutions like the John A Burns School of Medicine, San Diego State University, Liliuokalani Trust, Nā Pua Noʻeau, and multiple K-12 schools in Hawaii.

Dr. Dayna Schultz, Psy. D., LSW, CSAC

“To understand with your heart is Aloha” Queen Lili’uokalani

Dr. Dayna Schultz was led to the field of service two decades ago upon surviving her own struggles related to trauma. Since then, she has obtained a master’s in social work, Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and is a Licensed Certified Substance Abuse Counselor in the State of Hawaii. This journey has allowed her to work with individuals suffering with various substance addictions, accompanied with comorbidities such as housing, domestic violence, and incarceration. Dr. Schultz serves as the Clinical Advisor for the Māpuna Lab offering understanding of Western concepts through a Indigenous lens. Dr. Schultz also provides therapeutic services at the Lavender Clinic Hawaii serving the gender minority population. Dr. Schultz believes that everyone has a story to tell and possess the ability to change their narrative as they while turning their struggles into strength.

Me ka ha'aha'a,

Dr. Dayna Schultz, Psy. D., LSW, CSAC

Mananui Ho ‘ōla

dayna.clinical@gmail.com

Len M. Nichols is a Non-Resident Fellow in the Health Policy Center of the Urban Institute. He was the Director of the Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics (CHPRE) and Professor of Health Policy at George Mason University from 2010-2020. He is the President of NS Ideas, LLC, a health policy research and consulting partnership with his wife, Nora Super, also of the Milken Institute. He has been intimately involved in health reform debates, policy development, and communication with the media and policy makers for almost 30 years, after he was Senior Advisor for Health Policy at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the first two years of the Clinton Administration. Through testimony, publications, public speaking and technical advice, Len has helped shape the opinions of policy makers, researchers and policy analysts. He has consistently sought to add moral arguments to the technical health policy debate.

After OMB, Len was a Principle Research Associate at the Urban Institute, Vice President of the Center for Studying Health System Change, and Director of the Health Policy Program at the New America Foundation, before moving to George Mason. Len has been on the Board of Directors of the National Committee for Quality Assurance since 2008. Len was an advisor to the Virginia Health Reform Initiative from 2010-2013 and an Innovation Advisor to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation at CMS in 2012. Len served on the Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC), which advises the Secretary of HHS on Alternative Payment Models, from 2015-2019. Len’s research focus now is on incentivizing collaborative financing of social determinants of health. Len’s first professional job was teaching economics at Wellesley College from 1980-1991, where he became Associate Professor and Economics Department Chair, after receiving his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois in 1980. Len got his B.A. from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, and an M.A. in Economics from the University of Arkansas.

Email: lnichol9@gmu.edu

Bianca Kiyoe Frogner, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of Washington (UW). She is the Director of the UW Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWS) and Deputy Director of the Primary Care Innovation Lab (PCI-Lab), which is housed in the Department of Family Medicine. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health. Dr. Frogner is a health economist (NIH T32 trainee) with expertise in health services delivery, health workforce, labor economics, health spending, health insurance coverage and reimbursement, and international health systems.

Email: bfrogner@uw.edu

Dr. May Rose Dela Cruz is the Director of Health Equity and Research at the Hawai‘i Public Health Institute and an Assistant Researcher at the University of Hawai‘i’s (UH) Office of Public Health Studies (Thompson School of Social Work and Public Health). Her previous roles were at ‘Imi Hale Native Hawaiian Cancer Network, a program of Papa Ola Lōkahi and the UH Cancer Center. Dr. Dela Cruz’s current research involves underage drinking prevention, reducing health disparities among Filipinos and increasing COVID-19 vaccination and outreach to Hawai‘i’s most vulnerable communities. She has received her Bachelor degree in Psychology, Master and Doctoral degrees in Public Health from the University of Hawai‘i.

Email: isnec@hawaii.edu

Dr. Nicole Mahealani Lum, D.O. was raised in ʻAiea, Oʻahu, and practices primary care Family Medicine and Geriatrics at Ke Ola Mamo Native Hawaiian Health System. She is a scholar of Papa Ola Lokahi’s Native Hawaiian Health Scholarship Program, and serves on the board of directors for ʻAhahui o nā Kauka, the Association of Native Hawaiian Physicians. Dr. Lum provides community education and medical home visits to kūpuna in collaboration with Kula No Na Po'e Hawai'i o Papakōlea, Kewalo, Kalawahine. In her spare time, Dr. Lum enjoys studying hula and oli, making lei, learning lomi lomi, and helping her ʻohana lead ʻāina restoration efforts at Loko Iʻa Pāʻaiau fishpond and Ka Mahiʻai ‘Ihi o Wailea maile farm.

Email: mahe.lum@gmail.com

As Kūpuna Program Manager at the Hawaiʻi Public Health Institute, Lindsey combines her interests in working alongside community partners to address social drivers of health among minoritized groups with her life experience as a primary caregiver for her grandparents. She is the Co-Coordinator for the Kūpuna Collective, a social incubator for aging impact that aims to build a vibrant, age-empowered society that maximizes the health, independence, and engagement of kūpuna across the state. Lindsey is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chapman University, and Kamehameha Kapālama.

Email: lindsey@hiphi.org

Laura Reichhardt, AGPCNP-BC, MSN, RN, received her B.S. in Health Sciences with an emphasis in Community Health from the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona and completed her nursing education he University of Hawai’i at Manoa Nancy Atmospera Walch School of Nursing Master’s Entry Program in Nursing. She is certified as an Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner. Her professional experience includes work in public health on the U.S.-Mexico Border and quality assurance and healthcare delivery design in health insurance. After pivoting to nursing, Laura focused her efforts in state health and nursing policy and planning, workforce recruitment and retention, and statewide strategy. Her patient care focused on federally qualified health center and school nurse settings. She serves on several boards including the Hawaii State Rural Health Association and is an active member of the National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers. Laura was identified by Johnson & Johnson as a nurse who disrupts healthcare, has been recognized for her advocacy work by the Healthcare Association of Hawaii, AANP, and the Daisy Foundation, and was named as one of Hawaii's 40 under 40 in 2021. She lives on Oahu with her husband and two young children.

Email: lrnr@hawaii.edu

Aimee Malia Grace, MD, MPH, FAAP directs strategic health initiatives and federal relations for the University of Hawaiʻi (UH) System. She is a pediatrician by background and previously worked as health policy advisor for U.S. Senator Brian Schatz in Washington, D.C. for three years, where she led legislative and appropriations efforts on telehealth, Native Hawaiian Health, tobacco to 21, Medicaid buy-in, public health preparedness, and more. Dr. Grace was educated and trained at Stanford University for her human biology degree; the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine for her medical degree; Stanford Children’s Hospital for her pediatrics residency; Harvard School of Public Health for her Master of Public Health degree; and Children’s National Health System for her General Academic Pediatrics fellowship. At the University of Hawaiʻi, Dr. Grace leads the UHealthy Hawaiʻi Initiative to improve health and health care in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific as well as the federal appropriations process and other federal legislative activities for the university. Dr. Grace is also Principal Investigator for the UH Rural Health Research and Policy Center and the Hawaii State Department of Health-UH Contact Tracing Training Program (which also serves a training mechanism for Community Health Workers) as well as co-Principal Investigator for the UH Center for Indigenous Innovation and Health Equity. She currently serves on the Executive Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Council on Injury, Violence, and Poison Prevention. Dr. Grace lives in Honolulu with her husband, daughter, and cat.

Email: amgrace@hawaii.edu

Dr. Elizabeth Ann Ignacio is a Radiologist who practices throughout Hawaii state. She received her medical degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and completed Interventional Radiology at Johns Hopkins Medical Institute. A past president of the Hawaii Radiological Society (HRS), she has represented Hawaii as a Councilor to the American College of Radiology (ACR). Dr. Ignacio is presently serving in her second elected term as a CSC Delegate for the ACR, and is a member of the ACR IR Commission. She is a new Fellow of the ACR (2022) and also a Fellow of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR, 2016).

With 20 years experience, Dr. Ignacio has focused on quality and safety and has chaired consensus panels for numerous practice parameters and technical standards in her field. Dr. Ignacio continues county and state advocacy efforts in Hawaii for health equity and healthcare workforce challenges.

Email: e.ignacio@hawaiimedicalassociation.org

Dr. Ignacio's Presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AppNOsOG1CcRxbZ8zIn2LjcBxxl_Cf3P/view

Summer Mochida-Meek is committed to improving health accessibility and mitigating health and social inequities amongst Hawai’i’s rural and minority communities. She earned her Master’s degree in Public Health and currently serves as Hawai’i State Rural Health Association’s Project Coordinator of Project ECHO’s Pediatric and Behavioral Health clinics. When she is not busy, Summer enjoys spending time with her family, practicing yoga, and diving into new audiobooks.

Email: summer@hsrha.org

Lisa Rantz is the Executive Director of Hilo Medical Center Foundation (HMCF), which also serves as the Hawaii Island Area Health Education Center (AHEC) facilitating health careers recruitment across the workforce pipeline (high school through graduate medical education), professional development training, and collaborative group activities. Ms. Rantz also serves as President of the Hawaii State Rural Health Association (HSRHA) and Secretary for the Hilo Rotary Club
Foundation, and was appointed by the governor of Hawaii to the Hawaii Medical Education Council on February 7, 2018. Ms. Rantz has over fifteen years of facilitation and focuses group experience in both the education and health care industries. She has developed programs to assist researchers, educators, policymakers, and rural residents to address changing rural environments by identifying and researching rural health issues, analyzing health policy, strengthening local capabilities, developing community-based alternatives, and advocating for rural health issues.

Email: lrantz@hhsc.org

Kelley Withy, MD, PhD, is Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine and the Director of the Hawaii/Pacific Basin Area Health Education Center (AHEC). Her research focuses on health workforce assessment and health careers development. Dr. Withy is the primary physician workforce researcher in Hawaii and has developed the only statewide database of supply and demand for physician services. She has designed programs for all years of schooling that are being employed with more than 4,000 students a year.

Email: withy@hawaii.edu

Weblink to the Presentation, Hawai'i Physician Workforce Assessment 2021:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Q22e3ihg9MYtXY9QxgSExvhpawbYnbfp/edit#slide=id.p1

Jana Ortiz-Misiaszsek is the coordinator for the Hawaii State Rural Health Association focusing on rural health needs, capacity building, and opioid prevention, education and treatment.

Email: Jana@hsrha.org

Jared Yurow, Psy.D., a graduate of United States International (now Alliant) University, completed his M.Ed. at Columbia University and received his M.A. at the California School of Professional Psychology—San Diego. He is a licensed psychologist who has worked for the Hawaii Department of Health Behavioral Health Administration for almost twenty-nine years. Since 2002 he has worked for the Hawaii Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division, where he serves as Chief Clinical Officer/Clinical Psychologist Supervisor and currently as Acting Public Health Program Manager. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, Hawaii Psychological Association and American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. He is a registrant with the National Register of Health Service Psychologists and an initiate of Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology. He is currently President of the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD) National Treatment Network and serves as Vice-President for Treatment on the NASADAD Board of Directors. He is the first from Hawaii and Pacific Region to be elected to these positions. He has served as the Hawaii State Opioid Treatment Authority (SOTA) for the US DHHS/SAMHSA since 2002. He is the recipient of three NASADAD awards: The Opioid Treatment Network State Representative of the Year Award (2015) and the National Treatment Network State Representative of the Year Award (2018, 2021). He has presented locally, nationally, and internationally on culture and its application to addiction recovery and its service system.

Email: jared.yurow@doh.hawaii.gov

Email: Belinda.Danielson@doh.hawaii.gov

Email: brian.morton@carehi.onmicrosoft.com, brian@carehawaii.com

Email: Sherrie.Freitas@carehi.onmicrosoft.com, Sherrie.Freitas@carehawaii.com

Jennifer Pecher currently serves as Senior Director of 211 Community Response Programs and has been at Aloha United Way for two years. In her role, Jennifer leads statewide 211 Community Response Programs at Aloha United Way including the 211 Resource Helpline, SUD CARES Gateway System, and any additional programs needed in response to critical community needs including crisis response. She oversees the full range of administrative, staff management, and project management duties to drive and support the success of all Community Response Programs at AUW.
Jennifer has more than 15 years of management experience in nonprofit program development & evaluation, community outreach & engagement, collective impact work, and training. She holds a BA in Organizational Leadership and an AAS in Human Services Technology.

Email: 211sud@auw.org

Joshua Osegueda (pronounced: “O-ce-getha”) is the Program & Evaluation Manager for the Hawaii CARES, Substance Use Disorder Referral & Treatment Call Center for Aloha United Way 2-1-1. Prior to working with AUW, Josh worked with the State of Hawaii managing federal grants in juvenile justice. Prior to moving to Hawaii, Josh earned his B.A. in Psychology from UCLA and Master in Social Work from the University of Michigan.

Email: josegueda@auw.org

Elliott Plourde is the Clinical Manager for Hawaii CARES, Substance Use Disorder Referral & Treatment Call Center for Aloha United Way 2-1-1. Elliott received his bachelor's and master’s degree from the University of Hawaii/School of
Social Work and is currently working on obtaining a clinical license in social work. Elliott has several years of experience working with abused and neglected children involved in Child Welfare Services. He has also worked with children and families involved with the mental health, educational, and judicial systems. His other experiences include working with adults with severe mental illnesses that required around-the-clock supervision and in-home care assistance as well as those with Substance Use Disorder. Prior to working with AUW, Elliott provided counseling and support for U. S. Army soldiers and their families.

Email: eplourde@auw.org

Sasha Farmer, CSAC, serves the community between consumers, providers, and stakeholders in the State of Hawaii, by providing quality services for support, linkage to services, and stabilization. With over 21 years of experience in Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Sasha has experience with team building, strategic implementation, professional development, and collaboration with Adult Mental Health and Adult Drug and Alcohol Division.

Sasha’s experience includes working at CARE Hawaii, Inc. ADAD/ICM, CARE Hawaii, Inc. ACT Team, ICM, CBCM, Dual Diagnosis Treatment Program, Adolescent Drug Treatment Program, Implementation of (IDDT) Integrated Dual Diagnosis Treatment utilizing the Matrix Model, SRSP, (ATR) Access to Recovery Assessor, (CER) Community Empowerment Resources CBCM Case Manager, State of Hawaii Department of Health AMHD Access Line Screener, Crisis Line, Hawaii Cares RCUH Manager, and recently at Hawaii Cares Care Hawaii Crisis Line as TEAM Lead.

Email: Ernalinda.Farmer@carehawaii.com

Dr. Rae Seitz is a Harvard trained palliative medicine specialist who was instrumental in the design, build, and establishment of home-based palliative care first at Kaiser Permanente Hawaii then at HMSA as the lead for Supportive Care. Dr. Seitz helped to establish a hospital-based palliative care consultative service at Kaiser Foundation Hospital, and is an educator and speaker about palliative medicine and palliative care. In 2013 Dr. Seitz was recognized as one of 30 visionaries in palliative care by the Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She is committed to building capacity for high quality palliative care in Hawai’i. Dr. Seitz currently is the CEO of Hui Pohala, a nonprofit organization whose mission it is to improve access to high quality palliative care for people in Hawai’i with serious illness. She helps to lead the VitalTalk Hawai’i Consortium which offers communication training for clinicians and is a VitalTalk faculty member.

Email: raeseitz@gmail.com

Michelle Cantillo, RN, Advance Care Planning (ACP) Coordinator for Hawai‘i Pacific Health (HPH) has oversight responsibility for development of ACP at Kapi‘olani Women’s and Children, Pali Momi Medical Center, Straub Medical Center and Wilcox Medical Center. Her passion for advance care planning stemmed from working in critical
care over 30+ years and being at the beside of dying patients. As an ICU manager Michelle helped to promote palliative care and today continues to collaborate with the palliative care team and other health care professionals to promote goals of care discussions. Recently Michelle’s role has expanded to include navigating patients and providers thru Hawai‘i’s law on Medical Aid in Dying, Our Care, Our Choice Act. Michelle received “Health care Professional of the Year” award from Hospice Hawai’i now Navian Hospice for promoting ACP in 2014. She published “Honoring patient choices with Advance Care Planning” in the Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing in 2017 with Dr. Melinda Ashton and Dr. Amy Corliss.

Email: michell.cantillo@hawaiipacifichealth.org

Crystal Costa has been working in Graduate Medical Education (GME) for the past 10 years as a former GME Residency/Fellowship Program Administrator and currently the Program Specialist for GME at the John A. Burns School of Medicine where she supports accreditation and programmatic needs for the sponsoring institution. Over the last 3 years, Crystal has also supported the Hawai’i VitalTalk Consortium and local VitalTalk faculty. The Consortium organizes communication skills training for providers caring for people with serious illnesses. Better communication skills lead to better shared decision-making and support for patients and their families. Watching the transformation of a variety of learners though the VitalTalk training and working with such supportive and skilled facilitators continues to be a meaningful part of her work.

Email: costaca@hawaii.edu

In his healthcare career spanning over 20 years, Carl has achieved impressive outcomes leading initiatives that transform healthcare and improve the health of Hawaii’s communities. His extensive leadership achievements encompass work with health plans, health systems and hospitals, physician organizations, non-profits, and

Email: carl.barton@derigohealth.com

Blair Grant, RN, NP, is an enthusiastic advocate for physician-led team-based care models designed to improve health literacy, increase patient engagement, and teach healthy lifestyles and self-care management.
With over 10 years of experience as a registered nurse and 2+ years as a board-certified family nurse practitioner, Blair is a lifestyle medicine expert with extensive experience leading multidisciplinary care teams. As an emergency room nurse, Blair saw firsthand the detrimental outcomes of unmanaged chronic disease. She used this experience to design and deploy Hawaii Medical Services Association (HMSA) transitional case management program to reduce readmissions. The readmit and risk management program connected with patients while in the hospital and provided management 30 to 90 days post-discharge. Blair then became the nurse case manager for Hawaii’s first Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation program delivering lifestyle medicine to reverse the progression of chronic disease. In this role, she was the leader of a multidisciplinary care team that included a registered dietician, exercise physiologist, licensed clinical social worker, and stress management specialist. Then, as a nurse practitioner in a busy primary care clinic, she delivered patient care while implementing and leading a team-based care model that included clinical pharmacists providing medication management, behavioral health specialist, and case managers.

Email: blair.grant@derigohealth.com

Jo believes people get healthier when empowered to do so, and that healthcare teams who serve compassionately inspire positive change. She is driven by the potential impact of healthcare professionals of multiple disciplines working together on the way people learn, adapt, and live with vitality. Jo’s health and care passions started in her teens when she graduated from basic training and occupational training as a field medic in the US Army Reserve. After starting a family, she studied human geography and co-founded a company that focused on design thinking and peer-to-peer learning methodologies. Jo co-developed Play4Prevention, a lifestyle change program exploring habits and their relationships to recurring unhealthy behaviors that lead to chronic diseases in Native Hawaiian communities. She worked with a team that included a learning specialist, a pharmacist, and a psychologist to help people identify their unhealthy habits, then empower them to replace those behaviors with healthier ones while measuring progress throughout their journey. She learned that when people understand their vital role in lifestyle change, they are better able to manage their chronic diseases. From her observations and learnings about people’s health literacy and stages of change, she co-developed a health literacy Informed Decision-Making Model. Jo is a Health Coach and Personal Trainer specializing in Behavior Change, Senior Fitness, and Therapeutic Exercise. She is dedicated to lifestyle and behavior change. This has led to the coordination of multiple chronic disease management projects, supporting professional and personal care teams along the entire continuum of care.

Email: joann.marabella@derigohealth.com

Jarred Prudencio is an Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice at the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. He is a clinical pharmacist with board certifications in ambulatory care pharmacy and advanced diabetes management. His clinical expertise lies within family medicine and outpatient specialty clinics, providing comprehensive medication management to help optimize medication regimens and improve patient outcomes.

Email: jarred.prudencio@hawaii.edu