Whole-Person Care Workgroup
The Primary Care Collaborative has convened a work group to guide the organization’s whole-person care and lifestyle medicine initiative.
The work group's objectives are:
- Serve as subject matter experts to inform, review, and contribute to PCC’s whole health activities.
- Advise PCC’s whole-person primary care work by offering strategic guidance on how to advance relevant policies, broaden partnerships, and catalyze change.
- Amplify whole health messages and models within their networks and to the broader primary care community to foster awareness and buy-in for whole-person approaches.
- Bring their unique stakeholder perspectives to PCC’s whole health work to ensure efforts are representative and relevant to the diversity of organizations needed for change.
Workgroup Members
Alex Krist
Co-Chair, NASEM Committee on Transforming Health Care to Create Whole Health
Professor of Family Medicine and Population Health, Virginia Commonwealth University
Alison Steiber
Chief Mission, Impact, and Strategy Officer, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Amy Locke
Immediate Past Chair, Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health
Chief Wellness Officer, University of Utah
Anna Flattau
System Chief for Primary Care, Jefferson Health
Chair of Family and Community Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University
Bob Chestnut
Chief Medical Executive Director, Cummins Inc.
Brandon Wilson
Executive Vice President & Chief of Staff, Office of the Chief Executive, Community Catalyst
Brenda Reiss-Brennan
Mental Health Integration Implementation Science Senior Advisor, Intermountain Health
Cara Nikolajski
Senior Director, UPMC Center for High-Value Health Care, UPMC
Christina Bell
Senior Director of Healthcare Advancement, National Alliance on Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions
Jacob Mirsky
Medical Director, Massachusetts General Hospital DGIM Healthy Lifestyle Program
John Morgan
Vice President of Clinical, Waymark
Karen Johnson
Vice President, Practice Advancement, American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
Kavitha Reddy
Associate Director of Employee Whole Health, Veterans Health Administration’s Office of Patient-Centered Care and Cultural Transformation
Mary Giliberti
Executive Vice President of Policy, Mental Health America
Michael Knight
Senior Medical Director, Population Health, Oak Street Health
President, Renewing Health Foundation
Padmaja Patel
President, American College of Lifestyle Medicine
Chief Medical Officer, Nudj Health
Stephanie Krenrich
Senior Vice President, Policy & Government Affairs, Advocates for Community Health
Tich Changamire
President and CEO , Wellpoint, District of Columbia (Elevance)
Sponsors
PCC’s initiative is jointly funded by the Healing Works Foundation (HWF) and the Ardmore Institute of Health (AIH). HWF makes grants to advance the understanding and availability of whole person care in primary care and cancer care in a way that is sustainable and scalable. AIH funds initiatives that promote healthy lifestyles as an equitable and preferred method to prevent, treat, and reverse chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.
