Dr. Collins is Medical Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital's Urgent Care Center in Chelsea, MA. He also serves as Medical Director of the MGH Center for Community Health Improvement in Boston. He is a course director for the MGH Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Medicine/Pediatrics courses in "Urgent Care Medicine" and "Community-Oriented Primary Care." He is an Instructor in Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and a Staff Physician for the New England Revolution MLS soccer team. Collins serves on the Board of Directors of the Urgent Care Association of America and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine. His current research interests include urgent care utilization patterns, standards of care in urgent care medicine, urgent care subspecialty referral patterns, urgent care roles in outpatient suboxone management and smoking cessation, and adult and pediatric obesity.

Ms. Gandelman is the Director of Community Benefits at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). She is also the Managing Director of Community Care Alliance-the network of seven community health centers affiliated with BIDMC. Gandelman practiced as a child/family psychologist before moving into hospital administration, serving as the Principal of Kennedy Memorial Hospital for Children's Inpatient Educational Program. After completing her MBA, Gandelman worked at Dimock Community Health Center where she developed an array of health and human service programs, and then served as Dimock's Senior Vice President of Development and Public Affairs. In 1996, she joined BIDMC where she manages the hospital's community health center partnerships, with a particular focus on underserved communities.

Ms. Grullón is the Executive Director of Lawrence Community Connections in Lawrence, MA. Previous to this role Milagro was the Director of Community Health Strategies and Research of the Mayor's Health Task Force. Ms. Grullón and several community partners, with the leadership of Mayor Michael J. Sullivan, founded the Mayor's Health Task Force, in November 2002. The task force was created to meet the needs of the community to decrease health disparities. During her tenure in city government, Ms. Grullón and the Research Initiative Working Group developed research tools to guide research in the City of Lawrence. She consults on various topics; partnership building with government and community, capacity building strategies, and community-based participatory research around the country. Milagro received her Masters in management from Cambridge College. Ms. Grullón's academic background is in planning, organizational development, nonprofit and public management.

Mr. Jacob is the Chief Public Health Officer for the City of Cambridge. In this post, he is responsible for managing all aspects of the city's health department, including public health planning, service delivery, and regulatory activities. Previously, Mr. Jacob served as the Deputy Director of the Office of Health Promotion at the Illinois Department of Public Health. He currently serves as a member of the National Association of County and City Health Officials and the American Public Health Association. He is the recipient of the 2009 M.L.K. Drum Major for Health Award, given by the Cambridge Branch - NAACP.

Myechia Minter-Jordan is the chief medical officer of Dimock Center, the second largest community health center in Boston, a community institution serving Boston's inner-city neighborhoods. The center is considered a national model of integrated comprehensive health and human services. Jordan earned both her undergraduate and medical degrees from Brown University. She joined Johns Hopkins first as an attending physician and a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical Center, and subsequently as director of medical consultation services at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, and was the physician leader for the Medical Joint Practice Committee at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. In this role, she led quality improvement and patient safety efforts for the Department of Medicine. She serves as one of seven governor-appointed physician members of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, and has published articles in various medical publications including The New England Journal of Medicine. She acts as an advocate for underserved populations, creating a tremendously positive and transformative effect on the lives of her patients as well as the surrounding communities Dimock serves, through her practice and her health education outreach.

Dr. Savage has been the coordinator of Common Pathways since January 2005. She is also Coordinator of Worcester's MassCONECT, Massachusetts Community Network to Eliminate Cancer Disparities Through Education Research and Training. As coordinator of Common Pathways, Dr. Savage has been working for the last four years on building the coalition with leaders from eleven different sectors and more that 1,000 residents engaged at different stages of the coalition process. In coordinating MassCONECT, Dr. Savage has provided a positive and proactive environment for Worcester's experts in health care, social services, affordable housing, education, transportation, mental health, as well as professionals and business leaders, researchers, and academic experts to work together in planning, implementing, and evaluating different projects that focus on decreasing health disparities within Worcester's low-income and multi-ethnic communities. Dr. Savage has extensive experience in community outreach and medical education programs, both nationally and internationally. She speaks Spanish and is an immigrant from Colombia, S.A. Dr. Savage has a Master and Doctoral degree from Harvard University in Education, Medical Training, and Public Health issues.