Current SRFCFA President
Annette Gadegbeku, MD
PRESIDENT
Annette is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family, Community, & Preventive Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine/Tower Health Medical Group. She is Clinical Faculty Advisor for the DUCOM Health Outreach Project (H.O.P.) Student Run Clinics & Programs and Associate Program Director for the Drexel-Tower Health Family Medicine Residency program where she has integrated resident preceptorship over a longitudinal community medicine curriculum. HOP was established in 1990 and has grown to include 5 clinics and 10 outreach programs over the last five years at various locations in Philadelphia including a Salvation Army drug & alcohol rehabilitation center, a women & children’s shelter, and a Prevention Point needle exchange site.
Previous SRFCFA Presidents
Natalie Long, MD
2023 SRFCFA PRESIDENT
Natalie Long is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Family and Community medicine at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is currently a faculty advisor (and previous student director) at MedZou Community Health Clinic. We provide longitudinal primary care for uninsured individuals, eight specialty clinics including dermatology, diabetes (endocrine and ophthalmology), MSK (physical medicine and rehabilitation), neurology, psychiatry, gender affirming health, and women’s health clinics and community based outreach events at organizations including homeless shelters, LGBTQ resource centers and domestic violence shelters.
Melissa Halverson, PharmD
2022 SRFCFA PRESIDENT
Melissa Halverson graduated from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences earning both a doctorate in Pharmacy as well as a Master in Public Health. She is the director of the 12th Street Health and Wellness Center, an interprofessional, student-run, free clinic. She is now the Director of Didactic Education and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physician Assistant Studies teaching the pharmacology and pharmacotherapy courses as well as coordinating the service-learning curriculum.
Jill Omori, MD
2021 SRFCFA President
Jill Omori is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine & Community Health at the University of Hawai’i John A. Burns School of Medicine. She is also the Infectious Disease Officer for the City and County of Honolulu and the Director of the Office of Medical Education, and Hawaii H.O.M.E. Project. Her main objectives as a medical educator are to empower and inspire her students to want to be more than just good doctors, but rather great doctors who push themselves to be critical thinkers and lifelong learners. Omori is establishing herself as an expert in healthcare for homeless patients through the Hawai‘i Homeless Outreach and Medical Education Project.
Jonell Hudson, PharmD
2020 SRFCFA President
Jonell Hudson is an Associate Professor in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Northwest Regional Campus. She is a preceptor and advisor for the student board of directors for the North Street Clinic which is a student led free clinic providing care to the Marshallese population in Northwest Arkansas. Students from the Colleges of Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing and Department of Physical Therapy work in interprofessional teams providing care in the clinic which started in 2014.
Rebecca Lundh, MD
2019 SRFCFA President
Rebecca Lundh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) in Milwaukee. She is faculty at the Ascension Columbia-St. Mary's Family Medicine Residency and the Medical Director for Saturday Clinic for the Uninsured (SCU), the MCW student-run free clinic which was established in 1991. Medical and pharmacy students work interprofessionally under faculty supervision to provide care for patients with acute and chronic illness at this weekly clinic.
William Hay, MD
2018 SRFCFA President
William Hay MD is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He is the Medical Director of the SHARING student run free clinics which served the poor and uninsured in Omaha Nebraska. SHARING is a group of interprofessional clinics which are staffed by students in the disciplines of Dentistry, Medical Family Therapy, Medical Lab Sciences, Medical Nutrition, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Physicians Assistants, Public Health and Social Work.
Lanita White, MD
2017 SRFCFA President
Dr. Lanita S. White joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Pharmacy in July 2012. She is the Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and Assistant Professor in the UAMS College of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacy Practice in Little Rock, Arkansas. Immediately prior to assuming the position of Assistant Dean, she was Director of the UAMS 12th Street Health and Wellness Center in the Office of Interprofessional Education (IPE), Division of Academic Affairs at UAMS. She served in that role since the clinic’s inception in 2012 until November 2018. She previously also served as the Residency Program Director of the PGY2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency Program.
Brian Sick, MD
2016 SRFCFA President
Brian Sick, MD is an Associate Professor and Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Minnesota where he completed a dual residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. He is originally from Rochester, New York where he completed both his bachelor’s and medical degrees at the University of Rochester. His academic interests include interprofessional education, history of medicine, chronic care medicine and clinical quality improvement. His clinical interests include preventative medicine and primary care for the whole family.