Jennifer Green, MD
Professor of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nutrition
Duke University Medical Center
Durham VA Medical Center
Durham, NC

Dr. Jennifer Green is a professor of medicine in the division of endocrinology, metabolism, and nutrition at Duke University and a faculty member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute. Dr. Green’s research has focused primarily upon strategies to treat diabetes mellitus and reduce the risk of cardiovascular and other diabetes-related complications. She is very clinically active caring for patients with a wide array of endocrine conditions, including diabetes, thyroid disease, and metabolic bone disease. She is currently a member of the American Diabetes Association’s Professional Practice Committee, which publishes the organization’s annual Standards of Care in Diabetes.

Alanna A. Morris, MD, MSc, FHFSA, FACC, FAHA
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director of Heart Failure Research
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant/LVAD
Emory University School of Medicine
Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute
Atlanta, GA

Dr. Alanna A. Morris currently serves as Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of Heart Failure Research in the Division of Cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine. Her clinical time is spent as faculty for Emory’s Center for Heart Failure Therapy and Transplantation. She received her undergraduate degree from Xavier University of Louisiana, and her medical degree from the Harvard Medical School. She completed her residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts in 2008. Subsequently, she came to Emory University to complete fellowships in general cardiology in 2012, and advanced heart failure and transplant in 2013. After completion of her fellowship training, Dr. Morris also joined the faculty of the Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute in 2013. Her research interests include studying the importance of non-modifiable risk factors such as race/ethnicity and gender, as well as social determinants of health that may contribute to excess disease in high risk populations. Finally, her research examines race- and gender-based differences in outcomes in patients with heart failure, and after heart transplantation and left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation.

Ramon L. Rodriguez, MD
Medical Director, Neurology One
Professor of Neurology
University of Central Florida, College of Medicine
Orlando, FL

Dr. Ramon L. Rodriguez is a Professor of Neurology at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. Dr. Rodriguez graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus and completed his internship and residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. After this, he completed a Fellowship in the Medical and Surgical Management of Movement Disorders and has been practicing academic medicine since then. Dr. Rodriguez has been involved in more than 40 research studies and more than 50 publications in both national and international journals. He is currently the director of the National VA PD consortia in Orlando, Florida.

David G. Weismiller, MD, ScM, FAAFP
Professor
Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at University of Nevada
Las Vegas, NV

Dr. David G. Weismiller is a Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He provides full-scope care that includes inpatient and maternity care. David is a graduate of Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He completed his residency at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center in Charlottesville and a fellowship in Maternal-Child Health and graduate degree in Epidemiology at Brown University School of Medicine, Providence. A proponent of "reflection in practice" and "learner-centered instruction," he is recognized nationally for his work in continuing medical education and faculty development. Having taught board review programs for the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) for more than 20 years, he is the founding and current chair of the AAFP Family Medicine Board Review Express™, as well as the AAFP's annual Family Medicine Update live course. He is a frequent presenter at AAFP Family Medicine Experience (FMX) and teaches American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) Knowledge Self-Assessments throughout the country. Dr. Weismiller is the author of numerous publications on issues related to women's and children's health, and he is an advocate for empowering individuals to make sound health care choices.