Jan N. Basile, MD, FACP, FASH, FAHA
Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiology
Medical University of South Carolina
Ralph H Johnson VA Medical Center
Previous Vice-Chair of Clinical Programs AHA Council of Hypertension
US National Leader SURPASS-CVOT
Charleston, SC

Dr. Jan N. Basile earned his medical degree in 1978 from the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. He then completed his internship and residency at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, where he was also Chief Resident. He is board certified in internal medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP), the American Society of Hypertension (FASH), and the American Heart Association (FAHA). For many years he served on the American Society of Hypertension (ASH) Board of Directors and has served within the AHA as Vice-Chair of Clinical Programs on the Council of Hypertension.

His honors and awards include the MUSC School of Medicine Excellence in Teaching award, the Golden Apple award, and, in 2014, he was the first recipient of the SC Department of Health and Environmental Control Hypertension Physician of the Year award. In 2019, he received the Marvin Moser Clinical Hypertension Award from the American Heart Association Council on Hypertension. He was President of the Southern Medical Association from 2008-2009.

Currently, he is Professor of Medicine at MUSC in the Division of Cardiology. He spent 31 years at the Ralph H Johnson VA Medical Center while faculty at MUSC having retired from federal service as Chief of Primary Care in 2009. He remains a volunteer at the VA, this his 44th year at that hospital. At MUSC, he continues to teach all 3rd year medical students clinical hypertension during their 3rd year core medicine rotation and currently sees clinical patients enrolled in research trials on the role of renal denervation in controlling hypertension.

Dr. Basile’s career research interests include outcome-based clinical trials involving hypertension, lipid disorders, and diabetes. He has been involved in many large hypertension trials that have defined how we treat hypertension including the NHLBI sponsored ALLHAT, ACCORD, SPRINT and SPRINT-MIND trials. In addition, he has been a principal investigator for the ACCOMPLISH, VALUE, ONTARGET, and TRANSCEND trials. Most recently, he has been involved in diabetes outcome trials with GLP1RA's including REWIND and is the US National Leader for the SURPASS-CV Outcome Trial comparing Dulaglutide with the dual-agonist Tirzepatide.

Dr Basile was a contributing reviewer of the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7) and the 2017 ACC-AHA Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults. He has published more than 400 original papers, abstracts, and book chapters, as well as a textbook, Hot Topics: Hypertension. He continues to be a contributing author for the hypertension section of “Up To Date”.

Danielle D. Campagne, MD, FACEP
Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine, UCSF-Fresno
Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
University of California San Francisco
Fresno, CA

Dr. Danielle D. Campagne is an Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at UCSF School of Medicine. She serves as Vice Chief of Emergency Medicine at UCSF-Fresno. Her academic interests include research in wilderness medicine, orthopedics, EMS and critical care. She has lectured nationally and internationally on a myriad of orthopedic and sports medicine topics. She serves as Co-Editor of Oxford Press's Emergency Medicine Board Review textbook. She is also an Associate Editor of the Orthopedics Section and Urology Section of CorePendium, EM:RAP's online textbook.

Heidi Combs, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director of the Psychiatry Clerkship
UW School of Medicine
Seattle, WA

Dr. Heidi Combs is a board-certified psychiatrist and medical director of Inpatient Psychiatry at Harborview, a UW associate professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and director of the Psychiatry Clerkship for the UW School of Medicine. Dr. Combs earned her MD and MS at the UW. Her clinical interests include acute psychiatric care and catatonia. Her research interests include feedback in medical education and effective teaching methods.

Dr. Combs is an expert in acute inpatient psychiatry and the diagnosis and treatment of catatonia. She takes pleasure in teaching patients about their illness and how their biology and life experiences have created who they are.

Eddie Needham, MD, FAAFP
Program Director and Academic Chairman
AdventHealth Winter Park Family Medicine Residency Program
Professor of Medicine, University of Central Florida College of Medicine
Professor of Medicine, Loma Linda School of Medicine
Clinical Associate Professor, Florida State University College of Medicine
Winter Park, FL

Dr. Eddie Needham is the Program Director and Academic Chairman for the AdventHealth Winter Park Family Medicine Residency Program in Winter Park, Florida. Additionally, he is Professor of Medicine at UCF College of Medicine and Professor of Medicine at Loma Linda University College of Medicine. He practices full-service family medicine providing care from “conception to resurrection”. He has taught family medicine for 25 years and was on the AdventHealth Physican Network Board of Managers for five years. He served as a physician in the US Army for seven years. In 2013, Dr. Needham received the Full-Time Florida Family Physician Educator award. He has previously received the AFMRD Gold Award as a Program Director in 2017, the GAFP Teacher of the Year in 2007 and the 1996 AAFP Parke-Davis Teacher awards. It is his joy and passion to teach all students of medicine the wonders of the human body. He loves his wife of 34 years, his five adult children and two granddaughters, the wonder and surprise of fishing, and outdoor adventures with friends.

Barbara S. Norquist, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Division of Gynecologic Oncolgy
UW School of Medicine
Seattle, WA

Dr. Barbara S. Norquist is a board certified gynecologic oncologist and an assistant professor in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology. Dr. Norquist graduated with honors from the University of Washington School of Medicine and went on to a residency there in obstetrics and gynecology. Following residency, she completed a fellowship in gynecologic oncology.

Dr. Norquist's clinical expertise is in the care of women with known or suspected gynecologic malignancies. She is an expert in both surgical and medical management of gynecologic malignancy, including minimally invasive surgery and chemotherapy. Additionally, Dr. Norquist specializes in the care of women at risk of ovarian cancer (such as those with inherited BRCA mutations) and offers prevention strategies including surgery.

Dr. Norquist believes that all patients should have access to the best possible care, and should be treated with compassion, respect, and honesty.

Martin A. Quan, MD
Professor of Clinical Family Medicine
Vice Chair for Academic Affairs
Director, Office of Continuing Medical Education
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA

Dr. Martin A. Quan is a Professor of Clinical Family Medicine and Director, Office of Continuing Medical Education, at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Vice Chair for Academic Affairs for the UCLA Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Quan serves as a Senior Advisor to the American Board of Family Medicine. In addition, he is a member of the Standing Panel for Accreditation Appeals in Family Medicine, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and a member of the KLS (Kidney Learning System) Advisory Board for the National Kidney Foundation.

Adam C. Stein, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL

Dr. Adam C. Stein specializes in the evaluation and treatment of gastrointestinal disorders that involve the small bowel, including Crohn's disease, intestinal failure (such as from short bowel syndrome), celiac disease, enteropathy, fat/protein malabsorption, cystic fibrosis, and obscure gastrointestinal bleeding. Additionally, he sees patients with ulcerative colitis. He performs both video capsule endoscopy as well as double balloon enteroscopy and is able to evaluate abnormal small bowel findings as well as small bowel bleeding. Dr. Stein also specializes in the evaluation and management of malnutrition, providing nutrition through the vein (parenteral nutrition, or "TPN") as well as tube feeding.

Salim S. Virani, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research
Baylor College of Medicine
Investigator at the Health Policy, Quality, and Informatics Program
Michael E, DeBakey VA Medical Center
Houston, Texas

Dr. Salim Virani's clinical practice includes being a Preventive Cardiologist at Baylor College of Medicine and the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center (MEDVAMC), with a special emphasis on management of complex dyslipidemias. He also serves as the Director for the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Training Program at Baylor College of Medicine and Co-Director for the VA Advanced Fellowship Program in Health Services Research & Development at MEDVAMC. Dr. Virani earned his medical degree from the Aga Khan University in Pakistan, graduating with the Best Medical Graduate Award. Dr. Virani completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Miami, there receiving an award as the Best Resident. He then completed a Cardiology fellowship at the Texas Heart Institute, where he served as the Chief Cardiology Fellow and received the Tauber Award for the Outstanding Graduating Fellow. Dr. Virani’s research portfolio aims to understand the pathophysiology and epidemiology of atherosclerosis with a special emphasis on South Asians. His team is also studying several domains in the delivery of high-quality guideline concordant primary and secondary cardiovascular disease preventive care via funded research grants from the Department of Veterans Affairs, American Diabetes Association, American Heart Association, NIH, AHRQ, and the World Heart Federation.

He has authored or co-authored more than 525 peer-reviewed publications or book chapters (several with his mentees) related to various aspects of cardiovascular disease prevention including cholesterol, blood pressure control and aspirin therapy. He has published in high-impact journals such as Circulation, European Heart Journal, JAMA, JAMA Cardiology, and Journal of the American College of Cardiology. This work has received >95,000 citations. He has been recognized as “World Expert” in Cholesterol by Expertscape (top 0.01% of scholars writing about cholesterol from 2011-2021 among 181,887 published authors).

Dr. Virani has been a recipient of the Scott Grundy Award for Excellence in Lipids Metabolism Research from the American Heart Association (AHA), the Jeremiah Stamler Distinguished Young Investigator Research Award, Leadership Award from the American College of Cardiology (ACC) NCDR® Oversight Committee, National Lipid Association (NLA) President’s Service Award, and the Clark Faculty Service Award at Baylor College of Medicine for exemplary professionalism and community service. Dr. Virani serves as the Chair for the ACC’s Global NCD Academy, Digital Strategy for the cardiovascular disease prevention related content for ACC.org and the ACC International’s Global Quality Solutions Work group. He serves on the Board of Directors for the American Society of Preventive Cardiology, At-Large Board Member for the Southwest Chapter of the NLA, and as a member on the ACC’s Science and Quality Committee. He has also served as Chair for the AHA's Cardiovascular Disease Statistics Committee, Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Section of the ACC and the Research and Publications Committee of the ACC’s PINNACLE Registry (the largest outpatient cardiovascular disease registry in the world), and as the Associate Editor for Innovations for ACC.org. He has been inducted several times in the Best Doctors® Database (peer-reviewed group that includes the top 5% of U.S. physicians). More recently, Dr. Virani has served as a panel member for the 2018 AHA/ACC Multi-society Guideline on Cholesterol Management, the 2019 ACC/AHA Guideline for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, and the 2019 World Heart Federation/International Diabetes Federation’s Road Map on the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease among People Living with Diabetes. Currently, he is serving as a member of the writing group on the World Heart Federation’s Road Map on Cholesterol Management and the European Atherosclerosis Society’s Consensus statement on Lipoprotein(a). Dr. Virani firmly believes in the notion of Civil Society that one of the most important objectives of being able to acquire quality education is to serve the communities in which we live and the communities in need. In that respect, he spends ~15-20 hours per week in voluntary service with a dedicated team of volunteers to (a) provide educational and behavioral intervention related resources to combat NCDs in the community (b) play an active role in health care capacity building for communities in South Asia, Central Asia, and East Africa. He also serves on the World Heart Organization’s Technical Advisory Group on NCD related research and innovation (TAG/RI). He is married to Shireen Asharia (a Pharmacist by profession) and they are blessed to have two loving kids. Naail and Reyah.

Matthew R. Weir, MD
Professor of Medicine
Chief of Nephrology Division
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Dr. Matthew R. Weir is attending physician and Director of the Division of Nephrology in the Department of Medicine at the University of Maryland Hospital, Baltimore. He is also Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School Of Medicine. Dr. Weir’s primary research interests include the use of antihypertensive therapy for the treatment of diabetic nephropathy, hypertensive renal injury in African Americans, and preventing allograft nephropathy in transplant recipients. He has written more than 700 manuscripts and book chapters about these topics. He has edited 8 books: on topics in nephrology, transplantation, and hypertension. He has presented at numerous international scientific association meetings, hospitals, and medical schools. Dr. Weir currently reviews manuscripts for more than 30 major medical journals, including the American Journal of Kidney Disease, the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, and Archives of Internal Medicine. He is on the editorial board of 12 journals and is Section Editor of Current Hypertension Reports and Current Opinion in Hypertension and Nephrology. He has 4 active NIH supported grants from NIDDK and one from NHLBI. In addition, he is a member of numerous associations, including the American Society of Nephrology, the National Kidney Foundation, the American Heart Association, and the American Society of Transplantation. Dr. Weir received his medical degree from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. He completed his internship and residency programs in medicine at the Waterbury and Yale-New Haven Hospitals in Connecticut, and completed his nephrology training at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, in Boston, Massachusetts. He then moved to the University of Maryland where he has been a full-time faculty member since 1983.