Academic Family Medicine Speakers Bureau

Karim Hanna, MD is a husband, father, family physician, educator, and clinical informaticist serving as the founding program director for the family medicine residency at the University of South Florida at Tampa General Hospital. His academic interests include the use of artificial intelligence in medical education with critical thinking, clinical decision support, faculty development, and health tech in primary care. Dr Hanna writes AI+MedEd, a blog that has more than 140k reads internationally. He is also the founder of ResiLearn, the gamified board review platform.

Ian Bennett, MD, PhD, is a family physician, implementation scientist, and medical director of a community health center in Vallejo, California (Family Health Services), where he leads clinical quality improvement, integrated behavioral health, and the implementation of innovative care models in a federally qualified health center setting. His work focuses on ensuring that advances in artificial intelligence are practical, equitable, and directly applicable to frontline primary care. He was the co-chair of the CASFM HIT work group and serves on the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) Task Force on Artificial Intelligence in Family Medicine and is co-director of the NAPCRG+ course on AI in Primary Care.

Yun Liu, PhD, is a senior staff research scientist in Google Research. In this role he focuses on developing and validating machine learning for medical applications across multiple fields: pathology, ophthalmology, radiology, dermatology, and more. Yun completed his PhD at Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, where he worked on predictive risk modeling using biomedical signals, medical text, and billing codes. He has previously also worked on predictive modeling for nucleic acid sequences and protein structures. Yun completed a BS in Molecular and Cellular Biology and Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University.

John Hayes DO, is a family physician, associate professor, and residency program director based in Green Bay, WI. A leader in medical education innovation, he specializes in curriculum design across undergraduate medical education (UME) and graduate medical education (GME). His current work focuses on the pragmatic integration of generative artificial intelligence into clinical workflows, residency administration, and medical training curricula. By bridging cutting-edge technology with evidence-based pedagogy, he develops AI-driven solutions, adaptive evaluation frameworks, and immersive clinical reasoning simulations designed to prepare the next generation of physicians for modern practice.

May Lin, DO, is a board-certified family medicine physician and national leader at the intersection of artificial intelligence, innovative primary care, and medical education transformation. She is the assistant dean of Graduate Medical Education, Technology, and Program Development at Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr Lin is a physician at Amazon/One Medical and advises on academic development. She serves as a consultant to AACOM on national strategy for AI and emerging technologies, serves on the AAMC Advisory Committee on AI Competencies for Physician Development, STFM's AI in Medical Education Task Force, the American Osteopathic Information Association, and the National Academies’ Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education.

Linda F. Chang, PharmD, MPH, MHPE, BCPS, is assistant dean of Curriculum Integration and professor of Pharmacology at The Chicago School. She is a board-certified pharmacotherapy specialist and medical educator with expertise in curriculum development, evidence-based medicine, artificial intelligence in medical education, pharmacogenomics, population health, and interprofessional education. Her scholarship focuses on innovative teaching, competency-based assessment, and the preparation of future health professionals to use evidence and emerging FDA-approved AI technologies to improve patient care and advance health equity.

Winston Liaw, MD, MPH, is a family physician, health services researcher, and the chair of Health Systems and Population Health Sciences at the University of Houston Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine. His research focuses on the use of artificial intelligence in primary care and assessing and addressing unmet social needs within primary care settings. Prior to joining the University of Houston, he was a researcher at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and the medical director at the Robert Graham Center, a primary care policy research institute affiliated with the American Academy of Family Physicians. He also served as residency faculty at the Virginia Commonwealth University Fairfax Family Medicine Residency Program.

Enitza George, MD, MBA, MSAI, is a physician, engineer, and AI leader dual board-certified in family medicine and artificial intelligence in health care. A graduate of the University of Panama, she completed her family medicine training at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. Her career spans clinical medicine, healthcare operations, systems engineering, and organizational leadership. Dr. George focuses on redesigning how care is delivered by integrating clinical insight, systems thinking, technology, and artificial intelligence to build healthcare systems that are more effective, efficient, and human-centered.

Timothy Tsai, DO, MMCi, is a clinical assistant professor in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health at Stanford University. With specialized training in Clinical Informatics from Duke University and board certifications in both family medicine and clinical informatics, Dr Tsai brings a wealth of expertise to his work in advancing artificial intelligence (AI) applications in primary care. He serves as the associate medical director of the Stanford Healthcare AI Applied Research Team (HEA3RT), of which the vision is to be a global leader in the practice, implementation, evaluation, and teaching of AI in health and health care. Dr Tsai also serves as medical director for Stanford's Asynchronous Virtual Co-PCP program.

Brent K Sugimoto, MD, MPH, is a family physician who graduated from the University of California, San Francisco and completed his family medicine residency at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in Martinez, CA. Dr Sugimoto ventured into artificial intelligence after the birth of his first child—when parenthood made him rethink the boundaries of his professional and personal lives—and co-founded a startup which leveraged technology from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to build tools to make primary care sustainable. Since then, Dr Sugimoto has worked to increase primary care’s engagement in AI/ML as a transformative and disruptive technology through physician education and policy work, focusing on primary care transformation and health equity.

Dr Wright grew up in rural Eastern Kentucky and graduated from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and completed her Family Medicine Residency in Ventura California. She is boarded in both family medicine and addiction medicine. She has worked with the WWAMI Family Medicine Network Faculty Development Fellowship on curriculum development for 15 years and currently serves as the associate director for the fellowship, which serves more than 30 programs in the northwest. She also served as the associate program director at PeaceHealth SW Family Medicine Residency Program for more than 15 years and is currently the residency director for this program. Dr Wright is a member of the STFM Competency-Based Medical Education Task Force. She spearheads this group's efforts in the development of assessment strategies to meet the new ACGME and ABFM requirements.

Dr Wu is an associate clinical professor in the Department of Community Health and Family Medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine. She completed both her family medicine residency training and fellowship in Primary Care Sports Medicine at Halifax Health Family Medicine Residency and Sports Fellowship in Daytona Beach, FL. She received a Master of Academic Medicine degree from the Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California. She served as an assistant program director and assistant clerkship director at the University of Florida College of Medicine, assistant director of sports medicine and core faculty at Lynchburg Family Medicine Residency, and worked in a community private practice in Jacksonville, FL where she maintained a broad scope of practice. Dr Wu is on the STFM CBME Taskforce and is the UF FMIG advisor. She has experience in curriculum redesign initiatives at both the medical student and residency education levels.

Tonya L. Caylor, MD, PCC is a family physician, ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), and Accredited Coaching Team Coach (ACTC) based in Anchorage, AK. She brings over 25 years of combined clinical and academic experience in family medicine, with a focus on faculty development, coaching capacity, and collaborative learning across residency programs and networks. As a member of the STFM CBME Task Force, her work centers on integrating a coaching approach into competency-based medical education (CBME), with a particular focus on faculty roles, individualized learning plans, and physician well-being. She also contributes to STFM Faculty Development Delivered. Dr Caylor serves as a Coach Advisor in the WWAMI Family Medicine Residency Network, supporting the UW/Madigan Faculty Development Course. She coaches nationally through the Better Together Coaching Program and as a member of CHARM Connected Coaches, where she earned certification in GME well-being leadership.

Dr Lambert was faculty at East Carolina University Family Medicine Residency before joining the Cabarrus Family Medicine Residency faculty where he is currently a clinical associate professor and residency program director. A graduate of both the Faculty Development Fellowship at UNC-Chapel Hill and the National Institute for Program Director Development Fellowship, he is an active educator with all levels of learners and is an advocate for full-spectrum family medicine care. His particular interests are in competency-based medical education, wilderness medicine, and rural health. Dr Lambert is a member of the STFM CBME Task Force.

Dr Paulus is a core faculty member at the University of North Carolina Family Medicine Residency Program. He directs the point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) teaching for the residency and is a faculty instructor for POCUS education at the UNC medical school. Clinically, he works as a hospitalist and ER physician in a rural critical access hospital in addition to attending on the residency inpatient service. His first exposure to POCUS was in medical school at Ohio University and he trained in POCUS as a resident at UNC. He gained further experience by focusing on POCUS during his rural fellowship program. Dr Paulus is lead faculty for STFM's FM Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Educator's Certificate Program and STFM's Teach POCUS online modules.

Dr Wu is an associate clinical professor in the Department of Community Health and Family Medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine. She completed both her family medicine residency training and fellowship in Primary Care Sports Medicine at Halifax Health Family Medicine Residency and Sports Fellowship in Daytona Beach, FL. She served as an assistant program director and assistant clerkship director at the University of Florida College of Medicine, assistant director of sports medicine and core faculty at Lynchburg Family Medicine Residency, and worked in a community private practice in Jacksonville, FL where she maintained a broad scope of practice. Dr Wu has served as a team physician for community and professional sports teams, including youth leagues, high schools, colleges and universities, USA boxing, and minor league baseball. She has led community initiatives including a weekend free sports injury evaluation clinic and a food prescription and nutrition education program. Dr Wu served as a co-chair of the STFM Collaborative on Musculoskeletal and Sports Medicine Education and is on the STFM CBME Taskforce. She has experience in curriculum redesign initiatives at both the medical student and residency education levels.

Tonya L. Caylor, MD, PCC is a family physician, ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), and Accredited Coaching Team Coach (ACTC) based in Anchorage, AK. She brings over 25 years of combined clinical and academic experience in family medicine, with a focus on faculty development, coaching capacity, and collaborative learning across residency programs and networks. As a member of the STFM CBME Task Force, her work centers on integrating a coaching approach into competency-based medical education (CBME), with a particular focus on faculty roles, individualized learning plans, and physician well-being. She also contributes to STFM Faculty Development Delivered. Dr Caylor serves as a Coach Advisor in the WWAMI Family Medicine Residency Network, supporting the UW/Madigan Faculty Development Course. She coaches nationally through the Better Together Coaching Program and as a member of CHARM Connected Coaches, where she earned certification in GME well-being leadership.