Brisa Urquieta de Hernandez, PhD

Ms. Hernandez’s main research interest includes use of community participatory research to decrease health disparities, development of disease interventions and increase primary care utilization in working with underserved populations in Charlotte, NC. As research coordinator at MAPPR, The Mecklenburg Area Partnership for Primary Care Research, she works with a transdisciplinary research team to develop research projects to increase health care utilizations for vulnerable populations.

Holly Dockery,
BS

Holly Dockery grew up outside of Baltimore, MD, and moved to North Carolina to study Health Policy and Management at UNC Chapel Hill. After graduation, she worked for Atrium Health in Charlotte, focusing on improving care for underserved groups and conducting community-based research. Holly has a passion for working with Spanish-speaking individuals and is enrolled in the CAMPOS medical Spanish program at UNC School of Medicine. She will be applying into Internal Medicine this fall and is excited to serve as a Student Chief.

Iris Cheng,
MD

Dr. Cheng is board certified in internal medicine, with a clinical interest in preventive care and chronic disease management. She is a professor of medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, where she also serves as the director of the internal medicine ambulatory clerkship and director of interprofessional education. She is actively involved in research addressing social determinants of health to improve health outcomes, the efficacy of team-based care for complex cases and the use of virtual care in primary care.

Maria Reese,
MPH

Maria Reese is the Senior Director, Health Equity and Community Service Operations at Get Well where she works to optimize the patient navigator delivery model through the innovation of bi-directional text messaging and docents (patient navigators) with a focus on health equity. She previously worked as the Senior Director, Community Engagement & Corporate Responsibility at Atrium Health.

Alisahah Jackson, 
MD

Alisahah Jackson, MD, currently serves as the System Vice President, Population Health Innovation and Policy at CommonSpirit. She completed her residency in Family Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center, where she was part of the Urban Track program. After residency, she worked in a rural health clinic in Union, SC for 4 years. She has served in multiple leadership roles, including Vice Chair of the Department of Family Medicine and System Medical Director of Community Health for Atrium Health.

Meghna Patel,
MHA 

Meghna Patel serves as the Assistant Vice President of Practice Improvement and Consulting at the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. She oversees the training and technical assistance, capacity building and consulting services focusing on promoting the CCBHC model and guiding public health issues related to substance use, mental illness and health equity across the nation.

Carolyn Minnock,
MBA 

Carolyn Minnock, PeraHealth’s Chief Growth Officer, is passionate about improving healthcare through technology. She began her career at Atrium Health as Director, Area Health Education Center (AHEC) and spent time at Salesforce focused on their Health Cloud solutions. Carolyn has a degree in Biology and MBA, focused on management, from John Carroll University.

Brian Sneve,
MPH 

Brian Sneve is the Director, Healthcare Analytics at Blue Cross NC. A data-driven Analytics Leader with more than a decade of experience identifying profit-based marketing and product opportunities, Sneve is currently a Doctoral Candidate for Executive Leadership in Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.