Blog Editors & Authors

Editors

Sarah G. Candler, MD, MPH

Sarah is the Chair-Elect of ACP's Council of Resident Fellow Members (CRFM). She completed medical school and her MPH at Emory University and residency at Tulane University. She is now a primary care physician at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center. Sarah also serves as Assistant Professor of Medicine for Baylor College of Medicine, where she teaches on topics of health advocacy, health economics, and social determinants of health. Her quality improvement projects focus on patient experience and perceptions of care.

Joshua M. Liao, MD, MSc

Josh is a faculty member of the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, where he is also the Associate Medical Director of Contracting and Value-Based Care. He is also an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he obtained his health services and policy training. He obtained his MD from Baylor College of Medicine and trained at Brigham & Women's Hospital, where he was also a Clinical Fellow in Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Fatima Z. Syed, MD, MSc

Fatima is an internist and endocrinologist in North Carolina. She recently completed her fellowship in endocrinology in Philadelphia where she also completed her residency training. She is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. She has a background in public policy, having received her MSc in comparative social policy from the University of Oxford. 

Authors

Moises Auron, MD, FAAP, FACP, SFHM

Moises is an academic Med-Peds hospitalist and an Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, where he is the Quality Improvement Officer of Hospital Medicine and a Core Faculty of the Internal Medicine Residency Program. He is the immediate past-chair of the ACP Council of Early Career Physicians and an immediate past-member of the ACP Board of Regents.

Brian Block, MD

Brian is a member of ACP's Council of Resident Fellow Members. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 2012; completed his internal medicine residency at Columbia University, where he was also Chief Resident, and is currently a fellow in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. His academic interests include medical education, medical ethics, and research on decision making in the intensive care unit.

John Hunninghake, MD

John Hunninghake, MD, is the Chair-Elect of the National ACP Council of Resident and Fellow Members (CRFM). He is currently completing his second year as a pulmonary and critical care fellow at San Antonio Military Medical Center, where he also completed his residency. He graduated from medical school from the University of Kansas School of Medicine in 2013. His views are his own and do not reflect those of the U.S. Department of the Air Force nor the U.S. Department of Defense.

Joseph H. Joo, BS, BA

Joseph is a medical student at the Texas A&M University College of Medicine, class of 2019, and an ACP medical student member. He received undergraduate degrees in exercise science and economics at The University of Texas at Austin.

Sandeep Palakodeti, MD, MPH

Sandeep is a Regional Medical Officer at CareMore Health, Memphis, Tennessee. He is a former member of the ACP Council of Resident/Fellow Members. He is a dedicated advocate for quality and humanity in health care and is currently leading a dynamic team working in a capitated Medicaid model serving a diverse patient population.

Kunal Sindhu, MD

Kunal is a radiation oncology resident. He completed his internship in internal medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in New York and is a graduate of the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University. Prior to medical school, he worked as a middle school science teacher in Newark, New Jersey, and as a management consultant in New York.