Appendix C

Speaker Biosketches

Nirav Bhakta, M.D., Ph.D., is director of education and associate director in the Adult Pulmonary Function Laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). As vice chair of the American Thoracic Society Pulmonary Function Testing (PFT) Committee, he is committed to disseminating best practices for PFTs through technical standards and guidelines. After a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine and postdoctoral work in translational asthma research, both at UCSF, Dr. Bhakta joined the faculty in 2013. His computational and clinical research activities in PFTs and asthma synergize with his delivery of evidence-based, patient-centered medicine and education. In addition to the PFT lab, he also attends in the general pulmonary clinics and intensive care units.

Amaka Eneanya, M.D., M.P.H., FASN, is a nephrologist and adjunct associate professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds an undergraduate degree from Cornell University, a medical degree from Meharry Medical College, and a master’s degree in public health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and nephrology training at the combined nephrology fellowship program at Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Eneanya’s research and clinical interests center on care delivery models and health equity. Her most recent scholarship resulted in a change in national and international standards for estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) lab reporting for

individuals with and at risk of kidney disease. This work has been heavily cited in leading academic journals and major news outlets including The New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, The New York Times, NPR, and Scientific American. In 2020, she was recognized as a 40 under 40 Leader in Minority Health by the National Minority Quality Forum. In 2021, she received the Radhika Srinivasan Award for Humanism & Professionalism from the Department of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Nadia Islam, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Population Health at the New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine and the Associate Director for NYU Langone’s Institute for Excellence in Health Equity (IEHE). Her rigorous research program, marked by a collaborative approach involving multiple clinical and community stakeholders, focuses on developing culturally relevant community-clinical linkage models to promote health equity in disadvantaged communities. Dr. Islam is a lead principal investigator for several National Institutes of Health (NIH)- and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)funded initiatives evaluating the impact of community health worker intervention on chronic disease management and prevention in diverse populations. Dr. Islam also co-directs the NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center, the Community Engagement and Population Health Research core of NYU’s Clinical Translational Science Institute, and the Community Engagement Pillar for IEHE. She is also a lead investigator in the NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health, the nation’s only NIH-funded research center of excellence dedicated to eliminating disparities in Asian communities. Dr. Islam’s work has been featured in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, American Journal of Public Health, and numerous other peer-reviewed journals.

Rohan Khazanchi, M.D., M.P.H., is a health equity advocate, health services researcher, and future internist-pediatrician. He is a resident physician in the Harvard Internal Medicine & Pediatrics (“Med-Peds”) combined residency program at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Boston Medical Center. He has a wide array of research and advocacy focus areas including racial/spatial inequities in access to care; intersections of incarceration, health, and health policy; health care utilization and exposure to adverse childhood experiences; structural competency in medical education; and redressing racism in medicine through clinic, institution, and policy-level interventions. Dr. Khazanchi’s work broadly aims to advance health equity for and with marginalized populations. He completed medical school at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (2022), where he co-founded and longitu-

dinalized a new community-engaged structural competency curriculum and completed MD capstone research analyzing race and place-based inequities in HIV and COVID-19. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health (2021), where his M.P.H. practicum with the Health, Homelessness, and Criminal Justice Lab leveraged novel cross-sector data from the Minnesota EHR Consortium to inform local and state COVID-19 policies. He received the Nebraska Medical Association’s 2020 Student Advocate of the Year Award for leading the writing and adoption of landmark American Medical Association resolutions on racism as a public health threat, racial essentialism in medicine, reparations for the impacts of race-based medicine, and redressing the harms of the Flexner Report on health workforce diversity, each of which helped fundamentally reshape the organization’s investment in efforts to advance health equity. Dr. Khazanchi is an affiliate researcher with the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University. He has presented twice to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on antiracism in medicine and health policy. He is a Strategic Advisory Council member for the Rise to Health Coalition, a national initiative led by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement to embed equity across the health care ecosystem and an appointed commissioner on The Lancet Commission on Racism & Health. He recently served as a consultant for the NYC Health Department Chief Medical Officer’s Coalition to End Racism in Clinical Algorithms (CERCA) and was lead author of CERCA’s inaugural report. He was an appointed member of the AMA’s Council on Medical Education from 2020–2022 and was co-director of the Clinical Problem Solvers Podcast’s Antiracism in Medicine series from 2021–2023.

Michelle Morse, M.D., M.P.H., is NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s inaugural chief medical officer (CMO). She also serves as deputy commissioner for the Center for Health Equity and Community Wellness. Dr. Morse works toward health equity through global solidarity, social medicine, antiracism education, and activism. She is a general internist, part-time hospitalist at Kings County Hospital, co-founder of EqualHealth, and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. Previously, she served as deputy CMO of Partners In Health, Soros Equality Fellow, and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow.

Paul M. Palevsky, M.D., is professor of medicine, critical care medicine, and clinical and translational science in the Renal-Electrolyte Division at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, is chief of the Kidney Medicine Section at the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, and is deputy national executive director of the VHA Kidney Medicine Program.

Dr. Palevsky completed his undergraduate and medical education at Northwestern University in Chicago followed by internship and residency training in internal medicine and fellowship training in nephrology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Following fellowship training, Dr. Palevsky remained at the University of Pennsylvania for 1 year as a research associate prior to joining the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh in 1989, where he has remained since. Dr. Palevsky’s research has primarily focused on acute kidney injury and critical care nephrology. Among other clinical trials, he was the study chair of the VA/NIH Acute Renal Failure Trial Network study, evaluating intensity of renal replacement therapy in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury and as co-chair of the PRESERVE trial, evaluating the comparative effectiveness of saline and bicarbonate and the efficacy of N-acetylcysteine in preventing kidney damage following angiography, is principal site investigator University of Pittsburgh AKI recruitment site for the NIDDK’S Kidney Precision Medicine Project, and is a co-principal investigator for the COPE-AKI study Scientific and Data Research Center. Dr. Palevsky has published more than 300 original articles, reviews, and book chapters. He has held multiple editorial positions including deputy editor of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology from 2011 to 2016, deputy editor of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology from 2017 to 2020 and is section editor for Acute Kidney Injury for UpToDate. He is a former member of the board of directors and past chair of the Quality, Safety and Accountability Committee of the Renal Physicians Association, is chair of the Medical Review Board of Quality Insights Renal Network 4 (ESRD Network 4), is a past member of board of directors and current member of the Medical Advisory Committee of the Forum of ESRD Networks, and is immediate past-president of the National Kidney Foundation.

Dorothy Roberts, J.D., is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, with joint appointments in the Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology and the Law School, where she is the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights. She is also the founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society. Her major books include Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (Basic Books, 2022); Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (New Press, 2011); Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books, 2002), and Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Pantheon, 1997). She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and

Sciences, and American Philosophical Society and Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Hastings Center.

Carmel Shachar, J.D., M.P.H., is an assistant clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School and the faculty director of the Health Law and Policy Clinic and the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School. Previously, Professor Shachar was the executive director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. Professor Shachar’s scholarship focuses on law and health policy, in particular the regulation of access to care for vulnerable individuals, the use of telehealth and digital health products, and the application of public health ethics to real world questions. Her work has been published in venues such as the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, the Hastings Center Report, and Nature Medicine. She has been interviewed and quoted in venues such as BBC News, Politico, CNN, and Slate. She has co-edited several books published with the Cambridge University Press, including Transparency in Health and Health Care in the United States; Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics, Consumer Genetics: Ethical and Legal Considerations of New Technologies; Innovation and Protection: The Future of Medical Device Regulation; COVID-19 and the Law (forthcoming); Diagnosing in the Home (forthcoming); and Heath Law as Private Law (forthcoming).

Jennifer Tsai, M.D., MEd, is a physician, writer, educator, and advocate. Using activism and disruptive pedagogy, she seeks to rethink and advance health and climate justice, expand social medicine praxis, and support equity across health systems. She is an emergency medicine doctor in New Haven, Connecticut, with professional experience in basic science, health care consulting, journalism, and humanities research. Her academic work centers on the intersection between race, medicine, and inequity. Her essays and reflections have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Scientific American, The Washington Post, ELLE Magazine, STATnews, and the Journal of the American Medical Association among other outlets. Dr. Tsai’s education work is inspired by 1980’s Critical Race Theory movement, which challenged the shortcomings of legal education by mobilizing an unrealized imagination: “What would the legal landscape look like today if people of color were the decision makers?” Her classrooms pose similar questions: What would medicine—its training, practice, and presumption—look like today if it were created by the scholarship and experiences of vigorously diverse people: people who are impoverished, sociologists, humanitarians, queer, sick, differently-abled, of color? What forces influence bodies, health, justice, and medicine? Dr. Tsai was a 2014 Humanity in Action Fellow. She received undergraduate degrees in ethnic studies

and human biology from Brown University, graduated from The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in 2019, and received a Master’s of Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Darshali Vyas, M.D., is a resident physician in internal medicine and an instructor in medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. After growing up in Lexington, Kentucky, she attended Harvard College where she studied social and political theory. In medical school, she was involved in student organizing around racial justice, and last summer, she coauthored a study challenging the use of race correction in common clinical algorithms.