Planning Committee

Chair
Yuri Jadotte, MD, PhD, MPH, FACPM

Dr. Yuri T. Jadotte is an Assistant Professor and Associate Program Director of the Preventive Medicine (PM) residency at Stony Brook University (SBU). A double board-certified physician in Public Health Preventive Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine, and dually trained as a social scientist in the field of Urban Health, Dr. Jadotte’s research and teaching center on health equity, interprofessional collaboration, and evidence synthesis methodology. He has served as principal investigator (PI) for an R03 methods research study on developing novel meta-analytic methods to measure the impact of having multiple chronic conditions on health outcomes, co-investigator for a 5-year Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) PM training grant, co-investigator for a 3-year American Cancer Society PM training grant, and he is currently co-PI and co-project director for a 4-year HRSA training grant recently awarded to the PM residency program at SBU. He is the current and founding Editor-in-Chief of AJPM Focus, the official fully open access journal of ACPM and the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research. He practices clinical preventive medicine in the SBU Hospital Employee Health and Wellness Service, directs the SBU Tele-Preventive Medicine Service, heads the Generalist concentration in the SBU Master of Public Health Program, and serves as Deputy Head of the Division of Preventive Medicine and Population Health in the Department of Family, Population, and Preventive Medicine at SBU. He is also a Professor and Deputy Director of the Northeast Institute for Evidence Synthesis and Translation at Rutgers University. His long-term professional goal is to continue working in academic Preventive Medicine to advance population health through research, teaching, clinical practice and policymaking.

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Vice Chair
Jennifer Chevinsky MD, MPH, FACPM

Dr. Jennifer Chevinsky is a double-boarded Preventive Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine physician serving as Deputy Public Health Officer for Riverside County Public Health, an Assistant Professor for Loma Linda University’s Department of Preventive Medicine and School of Public Health, an Editor for the American Journal of Preventive Medicine Focus and a member of the AAMC Multidisciplinary Advisory Committee for Building Confidence in Vaccines. In Riverside County, Dr. Chevinsky oversees the Division of Infectious Disease, Community Health Planning and Health Equity as well as the Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Student Training Programs.

She also serves as the Medical Advisor for the local COVID-19, MPOX and H5N1Bird Flu emergency responses. Clinically, she serves as the TB controller, treating patients with tuberculosis throughout the county. Prior to Riverside County, she worked for CDC as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer where she participated in multiple deployments for the COVID-19 pandemic and was the lead author for CDC’s interim guidance on post-COVID conditions, also known as long COVID. She completed her undergraduate medical education at University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, internship at Lehigh Valley Health Network and specialty residency training in Preventive Medicine as well as Master’s degree in Public Health at Loma Linda University.

For ACPM, after being appointed as a fellow, receiving the 2023 rising star award and serving as Track Chair for Community and Population Health, Dr. Chevinsky now serves as the 2024 Conference Vice Chair as well as on the Strategy Committee and as a Vaccine Confident Ambassador.

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Track Chairs

Community and Population Medicine

Chelsea Isom, MD, MPH

Dr. Isom is an associate physician at the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health at the University of California San Diego and board certified in Preventive Medicine. Her current role is as a physician researcher with the Transportation Research and Education for Driving Safety group. Dr. Isom has been a part of ACPM since 2021 and joined ACPM as an abstract reviewer and moderator for ACPM since 2022. Dr. Isom obtained her medical degree from the University of Nevada in 2013 and then went on to be a general surgery resident at Vanderbilt Medical Center (2013-2021). She obtained her master’s in public health from Vanderbilt University (2016-2018), with an emphasis in Epidemiology. After this she transitioned to a preventive medicine residency at the University of California San Diego (2021-2023).

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Clinical Preventive Medicine

Sherry Mills, MD, MPH

Dr. Sherry Mills received her undergraduate degree in human biology from Brown University. She matriculated at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and completed a Preventive Medicine Residency and a Master's degree in Public Health in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health. She completed post graduate training as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There at the Office on Smoking and Health, she began her career as a medical epidemiologist. In 1991, Dr. Mills joined the National Cancer Institute in the now Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences where she held several extramural program leadership roles. In 2000, Dr. Mills left federal service and joined Abt Associates, a Cambridge-based consulting firm, as the Managing Vice President for Public Health Applications and Research. In 2005, Dr. Mills rejoined the NIH in the Office of Extramural Research (OER) as the senior advisor to the Deputy Director of OER.  In 2009 she was named Director, Office of Extramural Programs (OEP) in OER. Dr. Mills also served as the acting director, Division of Loan Prepayment, OER. Dr. Mills has been recognized with many awards both within government and the private sector for her outstanding contributions to public health interventions, public health policy, mentorship and outreach.

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Advances in the Preventive Medicine Specialty

Major Terra Forward, MD, MBA, MPH

Major (Dr.) Terra Forward currently serves as the chief of epidemiology and disease control and the associate program director, preventive medicine residency program, at Joint Base Lewis McChord, Washington. She has also served as the public health director for Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Dr. Forward earned her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine at The Ohio University and her Master of Public Health degree at the University of Washington School of Public Health.

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Environmental and Global Health

Michael Jan, MD, MPH, FACPM

Dr. Michael Jan is a Clinical Safety Physician at Daiichi Sankyo, Inc., a pharmaceutical company with a strong focus in oncology. In this role he protects the health of patients and the public by ensuring the safety of medicinal products. Dr. Jan earned BAs in Biochemistry and English Literature from Columbia University followed by an MD and a PhD in Pharmacology from Temple University School of Medicine. He then completed Internal Medicine training at Temple University Hospital and Preventive Medicine training at The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He remembers well the epidemiology and biostatistics courses from UCLA Fielding School of Public Health since he applies this knowledge on a near-daily basis.

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Poster Review Committee

Co-Chair: Kim McDonald, MD, MPH

Since September 2022, Dr. Kim McDonald has been the Chronic Disease and Injury Section Chief for the North Carolina Department of Public Health. She also served as Medical Consultant to the Division through CDC Foundation in support of COVID-19 and monkeypox vaccine distribution in North Carolina.  Prior to that, she was Medical Director/Deputy Health and Human Services Director for Wake County Human Services, where she led approximately 500 staff in the Clinic Division, Public Health Division and School Health program with a $50+ million budget for more than eight years, including division level business development and strategic planning.  She also supervised the Occupational Health, HIPAA compliance programs and Public Health accreditation programs. Dr. McDonald came to Wake County from a private health information technology company where she served as Physician Consultant and Clinical Education Coordinator. 

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Co-Chair: Lorraine Yeung, MD, MPH

Dr. Lorraine Yeung  is a medical officer at the CDC’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD). Dr. Yeung received her MD from Georgetown University and her MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed a combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and a preventive medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is board certified in public health and general preventive medicine. Dr. Yeung joined NCBDDD at CDC as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer in 2002. Her current research focuses on folic acid and prevention of neural tube defects. She has been involved in public health preparedness and emergency responses at CDC. She has been a member at ACPM since 1999 and was the Planning Committee Chair for Preventive Medicine 2006. 

Liaisons

CME Liaison

COL Michele Soltis, MD, MPH, FACPM

COL Michele Soltis currently serves as the Chief Consultant to The Army Surgeon General in Falls Church, Virginia. As an Army preventive medicine physician, she has had the privilege to serve as the Director of the Public Health Directorate in the Office of The Army Surgeon General, as the Director of the Public Health Residency Program at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington and as a Preventive Medicine Officer with the 10th Mountain Division in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. COL Soltis earned her Doctor of Medicine degree from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine and her Master's of Public Health degree from the University of Washington School of Public Health.

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Technology Engagement Liaison 

Jules Bakhos, MD, MSc, MBE

Dr. Jules J. Bakhos is a dedicated medical professional and researcher with a passion for advancing healthcare through research, innovation and personalized clinical practice. As a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Cleveland Clinic’s Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute, Dr. Bakhos collaborates with leading experts to produce guideline-setting literature and address critical clinical challenges that enhance patient outcomes. His work spans bench science, clinical trials and public health initiatives, with a focus on healthcare safety, medical innovation, ethics and health equity. In parallel to his tenure at the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Bakhos is pursuing a PhD in Clinical Translational Science at Case Western Reserve University. Alongside his MD, he holds advanced Master’s degrees in Research and Biomedical Ethics. He has played a key role in various non-profit healthcare initiatives in both the United States and Lebanon, contributing significantly to public health during humanitarian crises.

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