Meet The Team

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

Co-Founders

Tyler Evans, MD, MS, MPH, AAHIVS, DTM&H, FIDSA

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Medical Officer, Principal Investigator

Abinash Achrekar, MD, MPH

Senior Development Advisor

Harrison Lobdell, MD, MPH, FAAEM

Co-Founder

Board of Directors

Tyler Evans, MD, MS, MPH, AAHIVS, DTM&H, FIDSA

Chair

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Medical Officer, Principal Investigator

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

Maureen Lichtveld, MD, MPH

Benjamin Young, MD, FIDSA

Vice Chair

George Rutherford III, MD, MA

Marsha Zimmerman, M. Ed

Secretary of the Board

Abinash Achrekar, MD, MPH

Peter Marx

David Vliet, MBA

Senior Leadership

Tyler Evans, MD, MS, MPH, AAHIVS, DTM&H, FIDSA

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Medical Officer, Principal Investigator

David B. Vliet, MBA

Senior Advisor

Ludwing Salamanca, MD, PhD

Senior Behavioral Health Advisor

Nancy Anwar Evans

National Director of Administrative Operations

Jessica Jimenez, MSN,RN

National Director of Nursing

Marsha Zimmerman, M. Ed

Chief Development Officer

Shalini Shanker

Director of Operations - New Mexico

Trish Singh, PhD, LPCC

Director of Behavioral Health

Peter Marx

Chief Technology Officer

TEAM

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

    • Manda Robinson, Mental Health Provider

    • Trish Singh, Director of Behavioral Health | Bio

    • Vanessa de la Cruz, Senior Substance Use Disorder Advisor

    • Wendy Bernstein, Senior Community Psychiatrist | Bio

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

    • Mark McGrath, CHW Lead, Southern California | Bio

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

    • Richard Chamberlain, Director of CHW Task Force | BIO

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

    • Arthi Rao, PhD, MS-GIST, GISP Senior Data Scientist | Bio

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

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

    • Wendy Bernstein, Lead 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

    • Amie Bond, Grant Writer

    • Meranda Lane, Development/Operations Project Manager 

    • Shalini Shanker, B.S., M.A, Director of Operations, New Mexico | BIO

    • Louisa Garcia, MBA, Operations Manager

    • Autumn Aragon, LMSW, LSAA, Therapist

    • Tierra Lujan, MA , Medical Assistant

    • Alondra Dominguez, CHW, MPH, Lead Community Health Worker

    • Trish Singh, PhD, LPCC, Director of Behavioral Health | BIO

    • Patrick Kochersperger, CPSW, LSAA, CHW Lead and Deputy Operations

    • Gary Mares, LSAA, Licensed Substance Abuse Counselor

    • Antonella Sturniolo, Internship Coordinator

    • Carly Smith, Co-Lead Intern

    • Jo Kim, Co-Lead Intern

    • Natalie Shamilyan, Co-Lead Intern

    • Aaron Mabry, MBA, Marketing and Communications Manager

    • Antonella Sturniolo, Project Manager

    • Jessica Jimenez, MSN, RN, National Director of Nursing | Bio

    • David Vliet, Chief Operations Officer | Bio

    • Nancy Anwar Evans, National Director of Operations | Bio

    • Shalini Shanker, Director of Operations, New Mexico | Bio

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

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

    • Mark McGrath - Field Team Lead, CHW Lead, South LA | Bio

    • Ngo Imbu - People and Culture

    • Abi Baydoun, Senior Community Pharmacist | Bio

    • Seth Gomez, Senior Pharmacist, Street Medicine

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

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

    • 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

      • Judith Feinberg MD, FIDSA, Research Advisors | Bio

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

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

    • Manda Robinson, PA-C, MPAP, Lead Medical Provider

    • Daniel Gillespie, AGNP, Lead Medical Provider