Selected Presentations & Appearances
Primary Health Care Towards Universal Health Coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals
September 23 @ 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm. Organized by Kazakhstan and the United States of America
UN Headquarters, Conference Room 1. 405 East 42nd Street, New York, New York
Primary Health Care is a cornerstone for universal health coverage and health-related Sustainable Development Goals.
Keynote Speakers: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, WHO;
Henrietta H. Fore, Executive Director, UNICEF
David Malpass, President, World Bank Group
Yelzhan Birtanov, Minister of Health, Kazakhstan
Alex M. Azar II, Secretary, HHS, USA
Panelists include Ministers of Health and global PHC leaders.
Leadership in Family Medicine, Keynote address to close the 5th WONCA Congreso Iberoamericano de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria “Pasion por el Cuidado de las Personas” in Lima Peru, August 19 2017
Invited by the Korean Academy of Family Medicine
The role of Family Physicians in improving Population Health, May 2016, KAFM Annual Meeting. Geongju, South Korea
Invited by Seoul National University Hospital, Korea
7. Primary Care’s Role in Improving Population Health. At Prevention and Control of Non Communicable Diseases Through Primary Care, SNUH, Seoul, South Korea, May 19th 2016.
Invited by Sociedad Chilena de Medicina Familiar, Chile , 2015
Leadership in Family Medicine. XVII Congreso Chileno de Medicina Familiar, Puerto Varas, Chile. Nov 2015
"Training a Family Medicine Workforce to Decrease Inequities in Health” Panel Speaker with Panamerican Health Organization at the CIMF 4th Congress of Wonca Iberoamericana CIMF Quality and Equity in Health Care. Montevideo , Uruguay, March 2015
Invited by Sociedad Peruana de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria. Lima, Peru, 2014
Leadership, Population Health. VI Congreso Peruano de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria, Lima, Perú, Dec 2014
Family Medicine training in the United States and Iberoamerica. Congreso Regional de Medicina Familiar Wonca Iberoamericana –Panel speaker. CIMF X Seminario Internacional de Atención Primaria de salud; La Habana, Cuba, March 12-16, 2012
Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
North Carolina
Service to the Profession
World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of Family Physicians- WONCA
• Executive Board. Member-at-Large, elected November 2016, re-elected 2018
• Liaison to the World Health Organization
• Organizational Equity Commitment. Appointed by Wonca World Council 2013-2016, representative from the North American Wonca region. Re appointed as Chair 2018-2021. Member since 2022
• Member of the Working Group on Education 2013-present,
• Member of the Special Interest Group on Migrant Health care, 2013 -present.
• Representative to the United Nations Follow Up Meeting on Non Communicable Diseases June 2014
• Representative to the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Disease Prevention and Control, 2011
Family Medicine for America’s Health- FMAH
• Health Equity Cross Tactic Team Chair. Appointed in 2015-present.
• Summit Co-Chair Starfield II: Health Equity Summit- Primary Care's Role In Achieving Health Equity, Portland, Oregon. April 22-25, 2017-