James C. Puffer, M.D./American Board of Family Medicine Fellowship

Dr. Lin is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is the Family Medicine Service Chief and the Head of Technology Innovation in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health at Stanford.  He is the founder of three nationally recognized programs – the O’Connor-Stanford Leaders in Education Residency Program (OSLER), the Stanford Medical Scribe Fellowship (COMET), and the Stanford Healthcare AI Applied Research Team (HEA3RT). Dr. Lin has a particular interest in preventive cardiology, diabetes, hepatitis B, and mental health. His current focus is at the intersection of health services innovation, digital health and emerging technologies, specifically artificial intelligence and machine learning. Dr. Lin is the author of over 260 scholarly works and conference presentations. He has received numerous national awards and is recognized among the top family physicians in the United States.

Dr. Lin earned his MD from Stanford University and completed his training at Stanford’s family medicine residency program at O’Connor Hospital. He is certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and is an active member of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.

Dr. Alicia Cohen is a family physician and health services researcher. She is an Investigator at the VA Center of Innovation in Long Term Services and Supports, and an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Health Services, Policy, and Practice at the Brown University Alpert Medical School and School of Public Health. Dr. Cohen practices primary care at the VA Providence Healthcare System’s Homeless clinic and Women’s Health clinic.

Dr. Cohen’s research aims to understand and improve how social determinants of health are identified and addressed in clinical settings, with a particular focus on food insecurity. As a current VA Career Development Awardee, she is developing and evaluating novel strategies to optimize screening and referral processes for connecting Veterans experiencing food insecurity with VA and community resources. Findings from her work have been cited in Congressional testimony on Veteran and military hunger. Dr. Cohen also co-leads a national VA social risk screening and referral initiative, “Assessing Circumstances and Offering Resources for Needs” (ACORN), conducted in partnership with the VA Office of Health Equity and VA National Social Work Program. She serves on several national VA committees and workgroups, as well as the Research Advisory Committee for the Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network (SIREN). Dr. Cohen is currently a VA Fellow with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity.

Dr. Cohen received her MD from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She completed her Family Medicine training at the UCSF-Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency, followed by an Integrative Medicine Fellowship at the University of Michigan. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Michigan, where she earned a master’s degree in Health and Health Care Research. Dr. Cohen subsequently completed an Advanced Health Services Research & Development Fellowship at the VA Ann Arbor Center for Clinical Management Research and the VA Providence Center of Innovation in Long Term Services and Supports.

Dr. Fitzgerald is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Family Medicine and Psychiatry/Behavioral Sciences at Rush University.  She is also the Associate Program Director of the Rush University Addiction Medicine Fellowship.  She is the Service Chief of Inpatient Addiction Medicine at PCC Community Wellness Center, a federally qualified health center system that serves the West Side of Chicago.

Dr. Fitzgerald’s work has focused on promoting cross-sector collaboration to improve care for persons affected by substance use disorders, with an emphasis in the perinatal/child health arena.  Her scholarly work has focused on addressing stigma, building capacity in primary care for treating opioid use disorder in special populations, and implementing evidence-based substance use disorder curricula in the next generation of clinicians.

Dr. Fitzgerald received her MD from the University of Michigan Medical School and completed her Family Medicine training with the Montana Family Medicine Residency and her Addiction Medicine fellowship with Rush University.