Tamera Coyne-Beasley, MD, is the Derrol Dawkins Endowed Chair in Adolescent Medicine, Division Director for Adolescent Medicine, Vice Chair of Pediatrics for Community Engagement, and Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Children’s of Alabama. Her areas of expertise include adolescent medicine, preventive medicine, health services research, epidemiology, and public health. Her research and policy and program development focus on adolescent health and well-being, sexual and reproductive health, risk behaviors and resiliency, global health, immunizations, health disparities and equity. Dr. Coyne-Beasley has tackled sensitive issues that arose on race and its impact on the health of children and adolescents as President of the SAHM.

Charles Vega, MD, is the Health Sciences Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at UC Irvine (UCI). Also, he is the Executive Director of UCI’s Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community and won a Macy Faculty Scholarship to improve patient-centered health education at UCI. Currently, Dr. Vega serves as Assistant Dean for Culture and Community Education in the UCI School of Medicine. His academic interests are focused on access to quality, compassionate medical care for underserved populations, and the development of training programs to promote this vision of healthcare. Dr. Vega has seen patients and taught medical students and residents at UCI’s Family Health Center, a federally qualified health center and the largest safety-net clinic for Orange County.