June 10th, 2026

Innovations in Family Medicine Abortion Care: Education and Implementation in Diverse Primary Care Settings

Ying Zhang, MD MPH FAAFP (she/her)

Ying Zhang, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington. She is a co-lead for the Won’t Go Back Initiative: Building Access to Abortion in Primary Care and ECHO program. Dr. Zhang is a broad spectrum family physician with a special interest in family planning and is co-director for the Reproductive Healthcare and Advocacy Fellowship at the University of Washington. She is enthusiastic about expanding access to sexual and reproductive health services and training, including abortion care, in the primary care setting and advocating for reproductive justice and trauma-informed approaches to care.

Anna Fiastro, PhD MPH MEM

Anna Fiastro is a Research Scientist in the University of Washington Department of Family Medicine and a co-lead for the Won’t Go Back Initiative: Building Access to Abortion in Primary Care and ECHO program. She is a public health professional and researcher focused on sexual and reproductive health and rights, exploring opportunities to expand access to abortion care through the implementation of new technologies, provider practices, and health policies.

Debra Stulberg, MD, MAPP

Debra Stulberg is Professor and Chair of Family Medicine at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on reproductive health service delivery in the United States. This includes studies on incorporating reproductive health in primary care, addressing racial and socioeconomic disparities in pregnancy outcomes, and understanding how institutional policies affect care delivery. She directs the Reproductive Health Outcomes and Disparities (RHOADs) Research Group, a multi-disciplinary and multi-organization lab focused on improving reproductive care and outcomes in the United States and reducing disparities. She co-founded and co-directs the ExPAND Mifepristone learning collaborative, which supports primary care clinics in establishing medical management of early pregnancy loss and abortion care. Dr. Stulberg provides patient care at Friend Health, a federally qualified health center on Chicago’s south side.

Rory Tito, MPH

Rory Tito is the Manager of Training and Education at the Reproductive Health Access Project, where she has designed and led initiatives to support the integration of abortion and early pregnancy loss care into primary care settings. She provides coaching, training, and support to clinicians and healthcare organizations nationwide and assists with keeping RHAP’s resource hub of patient education materials and clinical tools up to date, evidence-based and patient-centered. She is a family planning training consultant for Boston’s Title X Network and previously managed the Reproductive Health department at a Federally Qualified Health Center. With a background in public health, she believes in using a health equity framework to address public health challenges on a systems-level.

Latona Giwa BSN RN IBCLC, Executive Director of Repro TLC

Latona Giwa (she/they) is a Full-Spectrum Doula, Registered Nurse, Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and reproductive justice advocate. Latona co-founded Birthmark Doula Collective and the New Orleans Breastfeeding Center, Louisiana’s first freestanding breastfeeding clinic. In 2023, she became the Executive Director of Repro TLC (formerly known as Midwest Access Project), which fills gaps nationwide in comprehensive sexual and reproductive healthcare provider training, education, and movement building. Latona has elevated Louisiana Black birth worker and parent advocacy to channel regional and national media and policy action on the Black maternal mortality crisis. Her reproductive justice impact has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, CBS’s 60 Minutes, and Yes! Magazine.

May 13th, 2026

Applied Digital Health: Increasing the Impact of Family Medicine

John Scott, MD, MSc, FIDSA
Professor of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Chief Digital Health Officer, UW Medicine

Crystal Wong, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, UW Department of Family Medicine
Associate Chief Digital Health Officer, UW Medicine

John Scott, MD, MSc, FIDSA is a Professor of Medicine (Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) and Chief Digital Health Officer at UW Medicine. He graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Human Biology, attended Georgetown University School of Medicine cum laude, completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Stanford University Hospitals, and then obtained sub-specialty training in Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington. He joined the University of Washington faculty in 2005. In 2009, he launched Washington State’s first Project ECHO program outside of New Mexico, expanding telehealth access for clinicians serving rural and underserved communities, and later received the Warren Reid Award (2015) and the Washington State Medical Association’s Grassroots Advocate Award (2020) for his leadership in telemedicine and policy advocacy. As Chief Digital Health Officer, he leads virtual care delivery and is developing a unified “Digital Front Door” to integrate UW Medicine’s digital tools into a streamlined, single sign-on platform.

Crystal Wong, MD is a Family Doctor and Associate Chief Digital Health Officer for UW Medicine. After receiving her MD from the University of Michigan, Dr Wong completed residency and a chief residency at the University of Washington Department of Family Medicine. After residency, she helped open the UW Primary Care Ravenna Clinic where she has practiced full spectrum Family Medicine since 2011. Dr Wong is passionate about providing high quality healthcare that is patient centered and innovative. She has held positions as Clinic Medical Director for UW Primary Care Ravenna and then Associate Medical Director for the Central Region at UW Primary Care prior to stepping into her role in the Digital Health Office.

March 11th, 2026

The Many Faces of Loneliness: Enhancing Social Prescribing in Primary Care

Brooke Ike, MPH, Lead Research Scientist, University of Washington Department of Family Medicine

Brennan Keiser, MSW, Lead Research Scientist, University of Washington Department of Family Medicine

Brooke Ike, MPH, is a Lead Research Scientist in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington where she has conducted practice-based public health research since 2005. Ms. Ike has expertise in qualitative and mixed methods, implementation science, and community-engaged research aimed at helping to improve primary care services, particularly in rural and underserved settings. Her work includes leading the community co-design and evaluation of patient navigation, practice facilitation, and social prescribing interventions, as well as examining the lived experiences of patients with chronic pain, cancer survivorship, and loneliness. She has served as a lead qualitative scientist on multiple NIH-funded studies, including pragmatic trials to increase colorectal cancer screening and to improve implementation of primary care interventions for cancer prevention, survivorship care, and chronic pain management. Her research emphasizes real-world implementation and translating patient, clinician, and staff perspectives into feasible, meaningful improvements in care content and delivery.

Brennan Keiser, MSW, is a Lead Research Scientist in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington, where they direct operations of the Primary Care Research Implementation and Engagement (PRIME) Lab. Their work focuses on developing and integrating behavioral health interventions into primary care, with particular attention to loneliness as a multidimensional determinant of health. Drawing on their training as a social worker, Brennan co-leads patient-centered intervention design that emphasizes relational safety and targeted skill-building. They are a co-investigator on multiple studies examining social prescribing, nurse care management, and cognitive behavioral therapy for populations including young adults, people with chronic pain, and cancer survivors. Rooted in implementation science, Brennan designs interventions that fit the constraints of primary care while preserving the human elements that make them effective and meaningful.

February 11th, 2026

Fasting: Approach to care and cultural humility

Samira Farah, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington

Samira Farah, MD, is a family physician who sees patients at Harborview Family Medicine Clinic. She is interested in providing healthcare for patients of all ages. She is the director of the Family Medicine Interest Group and the co-director of the Underserved Pathway. Dr. Farah graduated medical school from the University of Washington School of Medicine. She completed her residency at Valley Family Medicine Residency Program.

January 14th, 2026

Evidence-Based Approach to Screening, Diagnosis, and Pharmacological Management of Bipolar Disorder in Primary Care Settings

Hsiang Huang, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Hsiang Huang, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a Fulbright Scholar, currently directing the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship and the Primary Care Behavioral Health Integration Program at Cambridge Health Alliance (MA). Dr. Huang has dedicated 15 years to integrating mental health care into medical settings, influencing his clinical work, teaching, and research. He provides psychiatric consultations in primary care for underserved populations in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. From 2015 to 2019, he was a Master Trainer in Collaborative Care for the CMS-funded Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative, contributing to the training of over 3,500 U.S. psychiatrists. Dr. Huang has authored more than 90 peer-reviewed papers and founded Safineia Psychiatry, PLLC. 

December 10th, 2025

Beyond Efficiency: Reclaiming Family Medicine as a Soul-Aligned Practice

Dominic Tapia, MD (they/he)
Family Medicine Resident Physician, PGY2
DFM, University of Washington

Dominic Tapia is a family medicine resident physician with roots in rural Arizona and a decade spent in the Pacific Northwest. Before entering medicine, they worked for seven years in environmental public health, gaining a deep understanding of how environments shape well-being. Volunteering in hospice care taught them that living fully and caring deeply go hand in hand, guiding their current approach to patient care. Their clinical interests include chronic disease management, preventive medicine, mental health, substance use treatment, queer and gender-affirming care, perinatal care and hospice. Outside of medicine, Dominic enjoys art, sunshine, and spending time with loved ones and their dog, Obi. 

November 12th, 2025

Primary Care Telehealth Utilization and Care Quality

Jonathan Staloff, MD, MSc, Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington

Dr. Staloff is a family medicine physician, health services researcher, and acting Assistant Professor at the University of Washington (UW) Department of Family Medicine. He is an affiliate investigator with the Primary Care Analytics Team at the Veterans Health Administration and practices primary care at Harborview Family Medicine Clinic. He also serves as the medical director of Population Health Value Management, supporting value-based care initiatives across UW Medicine. Dr. Staloff’s research focuses on primary care investment and telehealth in primary care, and is also co-author of Reshaping Health Systems: What Drives Health Care and How You Can Change It, a foundational textbook for health systems science education. He completed his fellowship in health systems research at the VA Puget Sound, his family medicine residency at UW, and his medical school and masters in population medicine at Brown University.

October 8th, 2025

Critical Connections, Equity and Heart Disease: How did we get here and what’s the path forward?

Courtney Jordan Baechler, MD, MS
Preventive Cardiologist
Park Nicollet, Heart and Vascular Clinic, Health Partners

Dr. Courtney Jordan Baechler is cardiologist specializing in prevention at Park Nicollet Heart and Vascular Clinic, part of HealthPartners. She has a master’s in epidemiology and public health and is passionate about a healthy state of wellbeing — body, mind and spirit— for patients, families and communities. Previous roles include medical director for health equity and health promotion at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, assistant commissioner for the MN Department of Health and vice president for the Penny George Institute for Health and Healing. She is a national leader in holistic medicine, health disparities, and prevention. Leadership roles include co-chair for the 2035 MN Heart Disease Prevention and Stroke Committee, serving on the YMCA of the North General Board, and the CVS Health National Health Equity Board.

September 10th, 2025

Evolving Strategies for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

Richard Waters, MD, MSc
Medical Director,
Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC)

Richard Waters, MD, MSc, is a family physician and addiction medicine physician in Seattle, Washington.  He works as medical director for the Downtown Emergency Service Center, where he sees patients for behavioral health needs and supports operations and program evolution.  He previously served as the addiction medicine lead clinician at Neighborcare Health and medical director for Neighborcare Health’s Housing & Street Outreach Programs..  He completed his residency and chief residency at the University of Washington / Harborview Medical Center and medical education from Duke University.  His clinical interests are in providing high-quality health care, with a focus on addiction medicine care, to individuals formerly or currently living homeless, guided by the principles of harm reduction, trauma-informed care, and a belief in the right of all persons to housing and health care.

July 9th, 2025

The pre-travel encounter and battling misinformation in the age of social media

Christopher Sanford, MD, MPH, DTM&H
Associate Professor, Emeritus, Depts. of Family Medicine, Global Health
University of Washington

Dr. Christopher Sanford is a family medicine physician who has practiced at the University of Washington since 2000. His published books include The Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual, 5th Edition (Elsevier, 2016) with co-editors Drs. Elaine Jong and Paul Pottinger, and a layman’s guide to travel health, Staying Healthy Abroad: A Global Traveler’s Guide (University of Washington Press, 2018). He is the founding director of the University of Washington Dept. of Family Medicine Global Health Fellowship, which accepted its first fellow in 2012. He is Chair of a biennial CME course, Update, Travel Medicine & Global Health. He is co-host of the Germ and Worm Travel Health Podcast, available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and his website, doctortravel.com.

June 11th, 2025

Climate Medicine in Washington

Bhargavi Chekuri, MD
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
Director of Climate & Health Science Policy Fellowship
Director of Diploma in Climate Medicine
University of Colorado School of Medicine

Dr. Bhargavi (Bhar) Chekuri (she/her) is an assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Colorado, specializing in graduate and continuing medical education. She directs both the Climate & Health Science Policy Fellowship and the Diploma in Climate Medicine at CU. Her interests include the intersection of primary care, community medicine, and climate change, with a focus on systems medicine and health and gender equity. Dr. Chekuri contributed as a technical contributor to the 5th National Climate Assessment and co-chairs the Planetary Health Collaborative at the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. Before focusing on climate medicine, she trained at the New Hampshire Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency and attended medical school in Australia

May 14th, 2025

Patient-Centered Note Writing: The What, Why, and How

Angad Singh, MD
Associate Chief Clinical Information Officer, UW Medicine
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics & Medical Education
Core Faculty, Clinical Informatics Fellowship

Dr. Angad Singh is a practicing Family Medicine physician and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Washington in the Departments of Family Medicine and Biomedical Informatics & Medical Education. He serves as Associate Chief Clinical Information Officer for Ambulatory Care & Health Equity for UW Medicine. His expertise includes implementation science, reproductive health care access, digital health tools, and data-driven health equity. Dr. Singh is trained in the practice of full-spectrum care and, in 2023, led the design and implementation of Washington state’s first fully virtual abortion access program. Dr. Singh is the recipient of the 2024 David B. Thorud Leadership Award, the highest leadership honor awarded annually to one faculty member at the University of Washington.

Livingston Martin, MD
Clinical Informatics Fellow | Family Medicine Physician
University of Washington

Dr. Livingston Martin is a board-certified Family Medicine physician and Clinical Informatics fellow at the University of Washington, where he is pursuing a Master of Science in Clinical Informatics and Patient-Centered Technologies. His work focuses on optimizing EHRs, leveraging artificial intelligence to improve clinical workflows, and advancing patient-centered documentation. As part of his master’s research, he has explored how biased or stigmatizing language in clinical notes can affect patient trust and equity, emphasizing strategies to foster more inclusive, respectful, and humanizing communication in medical documentation.

April 9th, 2025

Value Based Care

Michael Myint, MD MBA FACP FIDSA Chief Population Health Officer UW Medicine

Dr. Michael Myint is an Infectious Disease Epidemiologist who takes a multi-stakeholder approach to improve clinical value for the individual patient and the populations served by UW Medicine. His focus is in how complex healthcare delivery systems can integrate meaningful, mission-aligned programs into market-relevant success in blended payment models. His work is informed by extensive experience in informatics, quality, patient safety, high-reliability, lean, and value-based care leadership across multiple organizations. His love remains patient care and he serves as an attending in the infectious disease clinic at Harborview.

March 12th, 2025

The role of primary care in the evolving opioid crisis

Claire Simon, MD Clinician Researcher, UW DFM

Claire Simon (she/her) is a clinician researcher in the Department of Family Medicine. Her research focuses on improving outcomes for primary care patients with substance use disorders as well as community partnered research methods.  She completed family medicine residency and addiction medicine fellowship at University of Washington/Harborview. She has worked with the Harborview Office Based Opioid Treatment (OBOT) Program since 2015 and currently practices primary care and provides substance use consultation at Harborview Family Medicine Clinic. 

February 12^th, 2025

Transforming primary care practice through research: approaches from the WWAMI region Practice and Research Network

Sebastian Tong, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Sebastian Tong is a practicing family physician and addiction medicine specialist. He is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Washington where he also serves as the Associate Director of the Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho region Practice and Research Network. He conducts research in practice-based research, substance use, loneliness, and chronic pain, and has received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He is one of the National Academy of Medicine’s 2023-2025 James C. Puffer/American Board of Family Medicine Fellows. He completed medical school at Boston University School of Medicine, received a Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health, and finished his residency training in family medicine at the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center.

Allison Cole, MD, MPH, Professor of Family Medicine

Allison Cole is a family physician and researcher at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She earned her MD in 2002 at the University of Iowa and completed residency training in Family Medicine at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in 2005. She was an NRSA fellow at the University of Washington and earned an MPH in Health Services in 2012. She is Director of the WWAMI region Practice and Research Network and studies implementation of evidence-based programs in primary care settings. Her research programs focus on cancer control and screening interventions and rural health equity.

January 8^th, 2025

AI and Medicine

Daniel McDuff
Staff Research Scientist and Manager, Google
Affiliate Faculty University of Washington

Daniel McDuff is a Staff Research Scientist and Manager at Google and Affiliate Faculty at the University of Washington. Daniel completed his PhD at the MIT Media Lab in 2014 and has a B.A. and Masters from Cambridge University. Daniel has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers on AI and machine learning, human-computer interaction, medicine and biomedical engineering. Daniel’s work has been reported in many publications including The Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BBC News, New Scientist, Scientific American and Forbes.

Dr Matthew Thompson,
Professor UW Department of Family Medicine & Clinical Research Scientist Google

Matthew is a Family Physician and Professor of Family Medicine at the UW Department of Family Medicine. He has spent his career in the US and UK combining clinical practice with research in a number of high priority topics in primary care. He also has a strong interest in identifying new technologies that could enhance primary care. Over the last 2 years he has been working at Google in Seattle where he is responsible for a number of clinical research studies in the US and overseas. Part of his work at Google involves exploring the use of Generative AI in health care.

December 11th, 2024
Honoring American Indigenous Wisdom in Reproductive Justice

Jenny Tiskus, MD, University of Washington Family Medicine Resident PGY-3, Little Shell Chippewa of Montana and Métis

Dr. Jenny Tiskus is a Family Medicine Resident at the University of Washington. Jenny is a proud Little Shell Chippewa and Métis person who grew up on the beautiful Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation in Montana. Jenny went to college and medical school at Stanford University. Jenny’s professional interests include care and access for Indigenous Relatives, palliative medicine, reproductive justice, addiction medicine, trauma informed care, and participating in fat liberation in clinical spaces.

November 13th, 2024
Individualizing Obesity Care: Tools and Strategies for Primary care

Laura Montour MD, FAAFP, Dipl. ABOM Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine

Laura Montour, MD, is a Mohawk woman from the Six Nations Indian Reserve in Ontario Canada.  She is a dual-board certified family physician in Canada and the USA and she is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians.  Dr. Montour is a certified diplomat of the American Board of Obesity Medicine, and she is the Co-Director for the University of Washington Center for Weight Loss and Metabolic Surgery.   She is Seattle Met top doctor for Obesity medicine in 2024.  Growing up on the Six Nations Indian reserve, Dr. Montour has witnessed first-hand the impacts of Obesity and Diabetes, and it is these experiences that have led Dr. Montour to dedicate her career to the prevention and treatment of the disease of Obesity and its comorbidities.  

October 9th, 2024 
The Health of Primary Care in the United States and locally 

Yalda Jabbarpour MD Director, Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Primary Care. Associate Professor Department of Family Medicine Georgetown School of Medicine

Yalda Jabbarpour is a family physician in Washington, DC and Director of the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies. She graduated from the Georgetown University School of Medicine in 2008 and completed her residency at the Georgetown University/Providence Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program. Upon graduation she worked as a family physician for Scripps Health Medical Group in San Diego, California. She returned to Washington, DC in 2015 to serve as the Robert L Phillips Health Policy Fellow at the Robert Graham Center where she later served as Medical Director overseeing the Larry A Green scholars program and the Robert L Phillips fellowship program. Currently Dr. Jabbarpour serves as Director of the center where she oversees a research team dedicated to creating and curating the evidence to support family medicine and primary care.

September 11th, 2024
Lessons Learned From the COVID-19 Pandemic

Eric J. Chow, MD, MS, MPH, FIDSA, FACP, FAAP

Eric J. Chow is the Chief of Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Immunization for Public Health – Seattle & King County and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine and Department of Epidemiology at the University of Washington. He is board certified in internal medicine, pediatrics and adult infectious diseases and trained as a medical epidemiologist through the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service program. While at the CDC, he worked within the Influenza Division and led several COVID-19 investigations during the early days of the pandemic. He supported Public Health – Seattle & King County’s investigation of the long-term care facility COVID-19 outbreak and helped characterize the initial cases of multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) in the United States in 2020. He is an author in over 50 peer reviewed publications and his research interests are focused on community respiratory virus epidemiology, extra-pulmonary manifestations of respiratory viruses and emerging infectious diseases.