Natalie Long, MD

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.

Annette Gadegbeku, MD

PRESIDENT-ELECT

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.  

Melanie Menning, MD, MPH

Treasurer

Melanie Menning, MD MPH is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Family Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center. She is the Research and Education Faculty Advisor of the SHARING student run free clinics which serves the poor, uninsured patients in Omaha, Nebraska. SHARING is a group of interprofessional clinics, which are staffed by students in the disciplines of Medicine, Dentistry, Medical Lab Sciences, Medical Nutrition, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Physicians Assistants, Public Health and Social Work.

Audra Nosal, PA-C

SECRETARY

Audra Nosal graduated from Harding University with a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish in 2016 and continued her education at Harding, completing a Masters of Physician Assistant Studies in 2018. Upon graduating, she earned NCCPA national certification as a PA and practiced in family medicine in Sherwood, Arkansas. She is an Assistant Professor and Director of Didactic Education for the PA Program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

During her career, Audra has participated in numerous medical mission campaigns to Central and South America. She continues to be passionate about improving healthcare access for rural and underserved populations, both abroad and in Arkansas. She enjoys serving as a preceptor at 12th Street Health and Wellness Center in Little Rock. In her free time, she likes being outdoors, traveling, spending time with her family and friends, and completing renovation projects at her home.

Catherine Hechmer MSW/LISW-S

member AT-LARGE

Catherine a Licensed Independent Social Worker and Licensed Independent Chemical Dependency Counselor. She is the Interprofessional Education and Practice Field Coordinator for the Ohio State University College of Social Work. Catherine has most recently worked in integrated primary care federally qualified health centers in underserved neighborhoods of Columbus. She currently supervises social work students at the student-run Columbus Free Clinic. Her other focus of clinical practice has been in substance use disorder treatment.

Jennifer Liu MD

member At-Large

Jennifer is an assistant professor in family medicine at UNMC in Omaha, Nebraska. She is involved with UNMC's SRFC called the SHARING clinic designed to provide free and low-cost healthcare to underprivileged populations in the Omaha area and has served for several years on the faculty advisory board. She was co-chair of the conference planning committee for the SSFRC FA meetings in 2018 when it was held in Omaha. She is an instructor of one of the Enhanced Medical Education Tracks at UNMC for students interested in underserved communities.

Christopher Eric Ervin MD

member At-Large

Dr. Christopher Eric Ervin earned his medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine, General Surgery internship at University of Illinois at Chicago and Emergency Medicine residency at Cook County Hospital. He presently works at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) as adjunct faculty with the Department of Physician Assistant Studies and Director of Community-based Initiatives in the Department of Family Medicine, serving as the Director of Operations for Morehouse School of Medicine Student-run Free Clinic, the MSM H.E.A.L Clinic (Health Equity for All Lives), and manager for the HRSA-funded CHAMPS program (Community Advanced by Medical Practice Superstars). As an Emergency Medicine physician, he has served on multiple committees and have held assistant and interim medical director positions at numerous hospitals. He served as Chair of the Emergency Medicine Section, Secretary of the House of Delegates, and the Bioterrorism Task Force for the National
Medical Association. As a representative for the American College of Emergency Physicians on the Commission to End Health Disparities, he served on the Steering Committee, Co-Chair of the Subcommittee on Workforce Diversity, and Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Business and Health Disparities. Dr. Ervin has served in numerous capacities with community-based nonprofits, including Chair of Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Region 3 Advisory Board,  President of the South Fulton Human Services Coalition, member of Georgia Department of Public Health Community Health Worker Advisory Board, and past chair of the Georgia HIV Prevention and Care Council, In 2019, Dr. Ervin was honored by the state of Georgia with a Proclamation for his commitment to community service.

Teresa Schiff, MD

Faculty Development co-chair 

Teresa Schiff is an Assistant Professor at the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii. She serves as the Medical Director for the Hawaii H.O.M.E. Project, a student run mobile clinic that provides free health care to the homeless on the island of Oahu. HOME Project is working to increase interprofessional partnerships for students and patients in behavioral health, pharmacy, and social work. We are also developing our leadership training to empower students in various operating roles including patient advocacy, research, quality improvement, and fundraising.

Rachele Harrison, PharmD, MEd

Conference Chair

Rachele Harrison is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) School of Pharmacy. She practices as an Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist at the Ascension Columbia-St. Mary's Family Medicine clinic where she provides comprehensive medication management services. Harrison is also a Pharmacy Director for MCW's Saturday Clinic for the Uninsured (SCU), an interprofessional, student-led free clinic serving underserved populations in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, since 1991. SCU strives to provide comprehensive, quality care that empowers patients to achieve their optimal health outcomes.

Rebecca Lundh, MD

PAST PRESIDENT AND Membership Co-Chair

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.

Melissa Chen, MD

Communications Co-chair

Melissa is an internist and Clinical Director at the Interprofessional Community Clinic in North Chicago, a clinic led by students from 7 disciplines at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science and established in 2013. The clinic runs once a week and consists of 4 co-located services: medicine, physical therapy, behavioral health, and podiatry. She also teaches the Chicago Medical School students of RFU as an Associate Professor.

In 2021, she is pioneering the school's first longitudinal curriculum on health equity.

Brenden Tu MD

communications co-chair and membership co-chair

Brenden Tu grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He completed a BS degree in natural resource science from UC Davis. He then completed a Master’s degree in Wildland Fire Management, with an emphasis in fire behavior and safety, from Colorado State University. After 6 years with the USDA Forest Service, he changed careers and attended medical school at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He completed his residency training in Family Practice at UC Davis. After residency he worked for three years as the Lead Physician at Salud clinic, a Federally Qualified Healthcare Center in West Sacramento. He is currently working as a staff physician at the UC Davis Student Health and Wellness Center.

Brenden is currently the medical director for two student run clinics- Clĺnica Tepati since 2008 and the Knights Landing One Health Clinic since 2012. Clĺnica Tepati was founded in 1974 to fill the need for culturally competent primary health care to the uninsured Latinx community in Sacramento. The Knight Landing One Health Clinic was established in 2012 as part of a larger community engagement project based on the One Health concept, providing health care to the small farming community of Knights Landing.

In addition to general primary care, his specific interests include LGBTQ health, international health (mostly practiced in downtown Sacramento), teaching health professional students, and mentoring undergraduate students.

Staci Young, PhD

Research Co-ChaIR

Staci Young, PhD is an Associate Professor. She is the Interim Director of the Office of Community Engagement and Interim Senior Associate Dean for Community Engagement Director for Center for Healthy Communities and Research at the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin.