Jan N. Basile, MD, FACP, FASH, FAHA
Professor of Medicine
Seinsheimer Cardiovascular Health Program
Medical University of South Carolina
Ralph H Johnson VA Medical Center
Vice-Chair of Clinical Programs AHA Council of Hypertension
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 is now serving 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. Recently, 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. 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 continues to direct the resistant hypertension clinic within the Seinsheimer Cardiovascular Health Program, a multi-risk factor lipid and resistant hypertension referral clinic at MUSC.

Dr. Basile’s research interests include outcome-based studies involving hypertension, lipid disorders, and diabetes. He has been involved in many large hypertension trials including the ALLHAT, ACCORD, VALUE, ONTARGET, ACCOMPLISH, ACCORD and SPRINT and SPRINT-MIND trials most under the auspices of the NHLBI. He 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

Dr. Basile has published more than 300 original papers, abstracts, and book chapters, as well as a textbook, Hot Topics: Hypertension. He is a contributing author for the hypertension section of "Up To Date".

Peter Buch, MD, AGAF, FACP
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, GI
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine
Frank H Netter School of Medicine/Quinnipiac University
Manchester, CT

Dr. Peter Buch is a clinical Gastroenterologist with over 30 years of teaching experience. Teaching is his PASSION. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Frank H Netter MD School of Medicine/Quinnipiac University. He has also taught at the University of Connecticut APRN School and at several PA Schools. Dr. Buch has mentored dozens of medical students, residents, GI fellows, nurses, PAs and APRNs. His teaching style is case based, practical, very interactive and fun. He always learns from his audiences and is looking forward to learning from you.

Jennifer Green, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center
Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, & Nutrition
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 currently a member of the American Diabetes Association’s Professional Practice Committee, which publishes the organization’s annual Standards of Care in Diabetes.

Ronald J. Jendry, MD
Family Physician
Southwest Family Medicine
Associate Clinical Professor, University of Colorado
Department of Family Medicine
Evergreen, CO

Dr. Ronald J. Jendry is a Family physician, presently practicing with Southwest Family Medicine in Littleton, Colorado, with an appointment as Associate Clinical Professor at University of Colorado, Dept of Family Medicine. He went to medical school at the Abraham Lincoln Campus, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1971-76. He realized his dream of moving to Colorado when accepted to the residency at Mercy Medical Center in Denver (now St Anthony Family Medicine Residency Program), where he also was Chief Resident. and first Board Certified in 1980.

After first practicing as the Ski Resort physician in Keystone Resort, Colorado, he settled down in Family Medicine in his beloved mountain town of Evergreen, Colorado for over 25 years. Always an educator, he was involved in the ground-floor of the primary care rotation at CU, having medical students in 3rd and 4th year training for 6-week clerkships, as well as occasionally mentoring new students in the "Foundations of Doctoring" experience. He then became full time faculty at the St Anthony FM program for 10 years, now settling down to practice again, but on a lighter schedule in an office in Littleton, CO! He has recently begun a part time faculty appointment, precepting every Thursday afternoon at the new Sky Ridge Family Medicine Residency, and delivering presentations (didactics) monthly in Lone Tree, CO. He has been blessed with being married over forty years to his wife, DJ, has an adult daughter, Amanda, and son, Sean, and 4 wonderful grandkids, Elle, Owen, Ariana, and Declan. Besides enjoying the family, he still loves playing his guitars, banjo or mandolin, and the outdoors, hiking, snowshoeing, occasionally skiing, and loves travelling with his retired teacher wife! Also, he's a master griller and makes a killer Margarita, and secret Mai Tai!

Ilene Robeck, MD
Director of Virtual Pain Education and Consulting
Richmond VA Medical Center
Internist, Chronic Pain & Addiction
Bay Pines VA Hospital
Bay Pines, FL

Dr. Ilene Robeck did her Internal Medicine Residency at Georgetown University. She was Chief Medical Resident at Fairfax Hospital, a Georgetown University affiliated tertiary care center in 1980. At that time, she also participated in the hospital Medical-Psychiatric Liaison Program. She was medical director and following that education director of Comprehensive Addiction Treatment Services from 1981-1991. She became board certified in Addiction Medicine in 1990.

She established a private practice in 1995 and saw patients in primary care and did consultative work in pain management and addiction medicine until 2007. She lectured on topics such as pain management, depression in the primary care setting, the high-risk chronic pain patient and addiction diagnosis/treatment while in private practice.

She began working at the James A. Haley VA Hospital in Tampa in 2007 and established and was section chief of 1.the post deployment primary care clinic and 2. A high risk chronic pain clinic for patients with co morbid pain with addiction and/or psychiatric problems and/or complex medical problems embedded in primary care.

In 2010 she became Chair of the PACT Pain Champions Initiative. In 2010 she moved to the Bay Pines VA Health Care System. While at the Bay Pines VA she developed an e-consult program doing electronic consulting for patients with chronic pain and an educational program geared for Primary Care and Mental Health providers. In addition, she did pain consultation for the Buprenorphine/Naloxone program, the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Program, the PTSD program, the Domiciliary Program for Homeless Veterans, the Inpatient units and the Emergency Department. She met regularly with the Buprenorphine/Naloxone clinic staff and patients. In addition, she had weekly groups with the residential SUD patients.

In 2013 she became director of virtual pain care for the Richmond VAMC. In this capacity, she produces 2 scan-echo programs each week, does e-consults and sees patients using clinical video teleconsulting.

She continues to work as Co-Chair of the national VA PACT Pain Champions Initiative. Her role has expanded to include national education and consultation with primary care programs looking to improve their approach to pain care in the primary care setting as well as consult with facilities improving the approach to high risk chronic pain patients through the development of high-risk pain clinics. She also works with pharmacy, SUD, pain, mental health and academic detailing clinicians to improve pain care options and education for clinicians and patients.

She is the lead editor for the ASAM Manual on Pain and Addiction. In October she will be leaving the VA and continue to work as a consultant in Pain and Addiction for the DoD.

Andrew W. Urban, MD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Madison, WI

Dr. Andrew W. Urban is the Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. Dr. Urban graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine and completed his Internal Medicine residency and fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the University of Wisconsin. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and ID and is certified as a HIV Specialist by the American Academy of HIV Medicine. He has received numerous teaching awards and is extensively involved in medical education at all levels. His clinical interests include primary care of individuals with HIV and consultative general infectious diseases.

Richard P. Usatine, MD
Professor of Family and Community Medicine
Professor of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery
University of Texas Health San Antonio
Medical Director, Skin Clinic, University Health System
San Antonio, TX

Dr. Richard P. Usatine is a full Professor of Family and Community Medicine and of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery. He received his MD from Columbia University and completed his family medicine residency at UCLA Medical Center. He is the co-author of 9 books and the lead author of The Color Atlas of Family Medicine and Dermatological and Cosmetic Procedures in Office Practice. He has published over one-hundred and twenty peer-reviewed articles and has won numerous teaching awards. Among his numerous honors and awards is the 2000 Humanism in Medicine Education award, presented by the Association of American Medical Colleges. He received the UTHSCSA Family Medicine Residency Faculty Recognition Award in 2004 and the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2006. Dr. Usatine has been working with medical students to provide health care to homeless families and the medically underserved since 1984. He is the founder and medical director of the University Health System Skin Clinic in San Antonio, which provides underserved patients access to medical and surgical care for their dermatological needs. He also directs the only underserved dermatology fellowship for family physicians in the US. Dr. Usatine is the founder of the Interactive Dermatology Atlas on the web and the editor of Photo Rounds in the Journal of Family Practice. He is also the national chair of the yearly Skin Course put on by the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Salim S. Virani, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA
Professor, Section of Cardiovascular Research
Director, Cardiology Fellowship Training Program
Baylor College of Medicine
Staff Cardiologist, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center
Houston, TX

Dr. Salim S. Virani is a Professor in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Sections at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He is also an investigator in the Health Policy, Quality, and Informatics Program at the Michael E. DeBakey VA HSR&D Center of Innovation in Houston, TX. His clinical practice includes being a Preventive Cardiologist at Baylor College of Medicine and the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, with a special emphasis on management of complex dyslipidemias. He also serves as the Director for the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine.

Dr. Virani’s research portfolio aims to understand several domains in the delivery of high quality primary and secondary cardiovascular disease preventive care including effectiveness, equity, safety, and efficiency. Via funded research grants from the Department of Veterans Affairs, American Diabetes Association and the American Heart Association, his team is evaluating models of delivery of cardiovascular disease preventive care, how to leverage machine learning to identify statin intolerance, and how point-of-care informatics driven interventions can improve guideline-concordant care delivery. His team is also evaluating how best to leverage technology to deliver high-quality care in Low-Middle Income Countries. He has authored or co-authored >300 peer-reviewed publications or book chapters (several with his mentees) related to various preventive therapies including cholesterol, blood pressure control and aspirin therapy with several in high-impact journals such as Circulation, European Heart Journal, JAMA Internal Medicine, JAMA Cardiology, and Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Dr. Virani has been a recipient of the Scott Grundy Award for Excellence in Lipids Metabolism Research from the American Heart Association (AHA) and the Jeremiah Stamler Distinguished Young Investigator Research Award. Dr. Virani serves as the Chair for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Section of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and Chair for the AHA's Cardiovascular Disease Statistics Committee. He also serves as the Chair for the Research and Publications Committee of the ACC’s PINNACLE Registry (the largest outpatient cardiovascular disease care delivery registry in the world). He also serves as the Associate Editor for Innovations for ACC.org and the Chair for Digital Strategy for the cardiovascular disease prevention related content for ACC.org. He has been a panel member for the 2018 AHA/ACC Multisociety Cholesterol Guidelines and the 2019 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease.

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 600 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 3 active NIH supported grants from NIDDK and two 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.

Mark S. Williams, DO
Primary Care Sports Medicine
Direct Orthopedic Care
Team Physician at Columbia High School
Nampa, ID

Dr. Mark S. Williams, Primary Care Sports Medicine, is Direct Orthopedic Care Medical Director and head of occupational medicine at Direct Orthopedic Care. He is the team physician at Columbia High School in Nampa, Idaho. He is practicing Sports Medicine worldwide; medical coverage for Ironman Triathlons, Marine Corps Marathon, and many more. He currently does full-time non-surgical Sports Medicine at Urgent Care Orthopedic Clinic. Dr. Williams is a former doctor in the US Army.