2021 Annual Scientific Assembly: Meet the Speakers
Philip Hartman, MD
Originally from Southwest Ohio, Dr. Hartman received his bachelors of science in Biology at Wheeling Jesuit University in West Virginia and returned to the Cincinnati area for medical school at the University Of Cincinnati College of Medicine. After medical school, he became a board certified Family Physician through training with St Elizabeth Healthcare of Northern Kentucky. He practices broad-based, integrative family medicine in an outpatient setting for infants through the elderly, performing numerous procedures, acupuncture for the treatment of pain and traditional Western medicine for other chronic disease states and ailments such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and drug addiction. He is passionate about providing for his patients' needs with high quality, evidence-based care.
He regularly teaches medical students from his own alma mater as well as the University of Louisville, holding a gratis associate faculty positions at each. Taking his mission abroad, he has left the country numerous times to see patients in Belize and Haiti.
In his spare time, he enjoys reading suspense novels and participating in outdoor activities with his wife, three children and two dogs. He also enjoys farming and attempts to play an active role in the production of as much of his family's food as possible through raising fruit trees, crops, chickens, fish and bees.
Don W. Powell, MD
Dr. Powell is currently a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Internal Medicine/Gastroenterology at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston. Previous academic roles there were the Edward Randel and Edward Randel, Jr Distinguished Chairman of Internal Medicine and Professor of Neuroscience, Cell Biology & Anatomy; Associate Dean for Research; Director of the UTMB Institute for Translational Sciences (CTSA) Clinical Research Center; Director of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and Program Director of the Gastroenterology Fellowship.
A native of north Alabama (Powell, AL), he attended high school in Hattiesburg, MS. He received a BS in 1960 from Auburn University and MD with highest honors from the Medical College of Alabama (now UAB) in 1963. While in medical school, mentorship by Dr. Basil Hirschowitz, a translational scientist and inventor of the fibro-optic endoscope, led to his interest and career in gastroenterology. He completed his internal medicine residency training at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Yale-New Haven Community Hospital and was a Special National Institutes of Health Fellow in Physiology at Yale University. He served as Captain in the Army Medical Corp from 1965-68 at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Following training and military service, he was a member of the faculty at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill from 1971-1991, where he became Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition and Director the NIH-funded Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease.
Julio Leey, MD
Dr. Leey is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Florida. He is the Director of Diabetes Clinic at the Malcolm Randall VA Medical Center (VA) and Diabetes Technology at University of Florida (UF) both in Gainesville, FL.
Dr Leey received his medical degree at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in his native Peru, followed by an Internal Medicine Residency at University of Louisville, KY and an endocrinology Fellowship at Washington University St Louis, MO.
His clinical practice focuses in all clinical aspects of diabetes mellitus, in particular diabetes technology, type 1 diabetes, Cystic Fibrosis-related diabetes, and artificial pancreas technology. His research focuses in diabetes technology and has VA funding to optimize the use of continuous glucose monitoring in rural settings.
Christopher D. Jackson, MD, FSSCI
Dr. Chris Jackson serves as Associate Program Director for Curriculum and Education, and Assistant Clerkship Director for Internal Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Center for Health System Improvement. A native of Augusta, GA, he studied Biology and Sociology at Emory University and received his Doctor of Medicine degree at the Medical College of Georgia. He completed his residency and a year as Chief Medical Resident residency at UTHSC where he joined the faculty in the Division of General Internal Medicine and the Center for Health System Improvement in 2019. Dr. Jackson's research interests focus on evaluating educational and quality improvement efforts to improve primary care practice, patient-centered health outcomes, and delivery of evidence-based medicine.
Anuja Mehta, MD, is a board certified adult, child, and adolescent psychiatrist. She completed her Undergraduate, Medical School and Residency training at the University of Florida (UF) in Gainesville, Florida. She went to Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School to complete a fellowship training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Dr. Mehta has been with the UCF College of Medicine since 2016. She served as Assistant Clerkship Director for a year, followed by serving as the Clerkship Director of Psychiatry for another 18 months. She took over the leadership of UCF/HCA’s Greater Orlando Psychiatry Residency program in August 2019. She currently maintains her clinical practice at Nemours Children’s Hospital. She has authored peer-reviewed publications, a book chapter, and presented numerous posters and workshops on topics ranging from ADHD, childhood anxiety, narrative medicine, and promoting resilience and wellness.
Lisa Spector, MD, is a certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in Child Abuse Pediatrics, Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics and General Pediatrics. She is Division Chief of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at Nemours Children’s Hospital in Orlando, Florida and is a Professor of Pediatrics through University of Central Florida.
Shirin Hasan, MD, is a board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist. Dr. Hasan has been board-certified in adult psychiatry and pediatrics. She completed her Undergraduate, Medical School and Residency Training in the Triple Board Program (Pediatrics, Adult Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) at the University of Kentucky (UK) in Lexington, Kentucky, where she also served as Chief Resident.
Dr. Hasan has worked in multiple clinical and leadership positions in a variety of clinical settings including Kaiser Permanente in Maryland, as a civilian physician with the United States Navy and Hope Haven Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida,where she was an integral part of the team that diagnosed and treated Autism Spectrum Disorders.
