Meet The Team

Meet our diverse, highly experienced, and well-respected group of population & public health leaders.

Co-Founders

Tyler B. Evans, MD, MS, MPH, DTM&H, FIDSA

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Principal Investigator

Executive Leadership

Tyler B. Evans, MD, MS, MPH, DTM&H, FIDSA

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Principal Investigator

Eric Alegria, MPA, MA

Chief Operating Officer

Casey KirkHart, DO

Chief Medical Officer

Woodrow Myers, MD, MBA

Chief Strategy Officer

David B. Vliet, MBA

Senior Advisor to the CEO

Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH

Senior Public Health Advisor

Nancy Anwar Evans

National Director of Administrative Operations

Marsha Zimmerman, M. Ed

Chief Development Officer

Ben Young, MD, FIDSA

Senior HIV Street Medicine Advisor

Peter Marx

Chief Technology Officer

Board of Directors

Tyler B. Evans, MD, MS, MPH, DTM&H, FIDSA

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Principal Investigator

Howard Hu, M.D., M.P.H., Sc.D.

Chair

Maureen Lichtveld, MD, MPH

Benjamin Young, MD, FIDSA

Vice Chair

George Rutherford III, MD, MA

Marsha Zimmerman, M. Ed

Secretary of the Board

David Vliet, MBA

Lisa K. Fitzpatrick, MD, MPH, MPA

Woodrow Myers, MD, MBA

Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH

Peter Marx

TEAM

    • Gaurav Mishra, MD, MBA, Senior Behavioral Health Advisor | Bio

    • Ludwing Salamanca, MD, PhD, Behavioral Health Consultant | Bio

    • Wendy Bernstein, Senior Community Psychiatrist | Bio

    • Lisa Ramirez - Field Team Lead, CHW Lead, Coachella Valley

    • Jazmin Martinez, CHW/Care Manager

    • Maria Kittel-Lead CHOW/Care Manager

    • Daniel Young, Lead Community Health Outreach Worker, Riverside County

    • Ryan Aldridge, Lead Care Manager/CHW

    • Richard Chamberlain, Director of CHW Task Force | BIO

    • Lisa Ramirez - Field Team Lead, CHW Lead, Coachella Valley

    • Victor Najera, CHW

    • Ishmael Ramirez, CHW/Lead Care Manager

    • Jennifer Art, Field Team Deputy Lead/CHW deputy lead

    • Hernan Santillana Villalobos, HIV Coordinator

    • Tyler Evans, MD, MS, MPH, AAHIVS, DTM&H, FIDSA, Lead | Bio

    • Jess Ghannam, PhD, QME, D.O., Mental Health Advisor, UCSF | Bio

    • Wendy Bernstein, Senior Community Psychiatrist | Bio

    • Marx Itabelo Lwabanya, MD, EMHL, AFHE, MISH, Lead Physician, Democratic Republic of Congo | Bio

    • Bapolisi Achille, PhD, Lead Psychiatrist, Democratic Republic of Congo | Bio

    • Marsha Zimmerman, M.Ed., Chief Development Officer | Bio

    • Gayle Patenaude, Grant Writer

    • Amie Bond, RFx & Grant I

    • Meranda Lane, Senior Project Manager | Bio

    • Richard Chamberlain, Senior Advisor on Health Systems Alignment

    • Tavina Singleton, Project Coordinator

    • Jill Lenhardt, Internship Coordinator/Project Manager

    • Grace Staton, Co-Lead Intern

    • Dorothy Nguyen, Co-Lead Intern

    • Eric Alegria, Chief Operating Officer | Bio

    • Nancy Anwar Evans, Director of Operations | Bio

    • Lisa Ramirez - Field Team Lead, CHW Lead, Coachella Valley

    • Jennifer Art - Deputy Field Team Lead, CHW Lead, Coachella Valley

    • Karen Petry, Credentialing Specialist

    • Ngo Blue, Recruitment Lead

    • Hari Yirga, IT Specialist

    • Abi Baydoun, Senior Community Pharmacist | Bio

    • Seth Gomez, Street lead Pharmacy Consultant | Bio

    • Tyler Evans, MD, MS, MPH, AAHIVS, DTM&H, FIDSA, Co-Principal Investigator | Bio

    • David Goodman, Jr, MD, Implementation Science Lead, Co-Principal Investigator | Bio

    • Maureen Lichtveld, MD | Bio

    • Benjamin Young, MD, Co-Principal Investigator | Bio

    • Research Advisors

      • George Rutherford, MD, Research Advisors | Bio

      • Maureen Lichtveld, MD, Research Advisors | Bio

      • Ricky N. Bluthenthal, PhD, Research Advisors | Bio

    • Casey Kirkhart, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) |Bio

    • Tyler Evans, MD, MS, MPH, AAHIVS, DTM&H, FIDSA | Bio

    • Daniel Gillespie, AGNP, Lead Medical Provider (Palm Springs) | Bio

    • Lashara Maea, MABS, PHN, MSN, FNP-BC, Family Nurse Practitioner | Bio

    • Shemiah Sullivan, MSN, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC, Director of Nursing

    • Candy Jara, RN, Nurse Manager (Palm Springs) ‍

    • Evan Locke, Primary Care Provider Physician

    • Dale Averson, Telemedicine Senior Advisor

    • Lisa Thomas, BSN, RN, Nurse Manager (San Bernardino) | BIO