Reports to
Senior Vice President, Medical Education Division
Charge
Provide ongoing advice to management to enhance member well‐being and professional fulfillment. This includes key input into current and future strategies and advocacy designed to promote the well‐being and professional fulfillment of internists and their clinical teams. The committee will also help identify opportunities for further integration of well‐being best practices into ACP initiatives.
Composition (13)
Chair, who is an ACP member physician; Vice Chair, who is a Governor; one Regent; one Governor; one Medical Student Member; one Resident/Fellow member; one Early Career Physician member; one non‐clinician representative with relevant experience and expertise; five at‐large positions.
Terms
Chair, Vice Chair, and members serve one‐year terms renewable up to three times for a total of four years, unless extended by the Chair, Board of Regents. The early career physician, resident/fellow member, and student member positions are appointed according to the BOR‐approved policy for council appointments.
2022-23 Members
Susan Thompson Hingle, MD, MACP, Chair
Professor, Associate Dean for Human and Organizational Potential
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Springfield, IL
Specialty: Internal Medicine
shingle@siumed.edu
Daniel H. Pomerantz, MD, MPH, FACP, Vice Chair (Governor)
Director, Ambulatory Care, Montefiore New Rochelle
Director, Palliative Care, Montefiore New Rochelle
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine, Montefiore New Rochelle
Associate Professor, Medicine (General Internal Medicine), Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Family Medicine (Palliative Care), Albert Einstein College of Medicine
New Rochelle, NY
Specialty: Internal Medicine
dhpomerantz@outlook.com
Stewart F. Babbott, MD, FACP
Professor of Medicine; Section Head, General Medicine
University of Virginia, School of Medicine
Charlottesville, VA
Specialties: Internal Medicine
sbabbott@virginia.edu
Jay Bhatt, MD, FACP
Chief Clinical Product Officer and Medical Director
Medical Home Network
Chicago, IL
Specialties: Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine
jbhattd@gmail.com
Charles J. Hamori, MD, FACP (Regent)
Partner; Voluntary Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
Southern California Permanente Medical Group
La Mesa, CA
Specialty: Internal Medicine
charles.j.hamori@kp.org
Mukta Panda, MD, MACP, FRCP
Professor Department of Medicine and Medical Education
Assistant Dean for Well-Being and Medical Student Education
University of Tennessee College of Medicine Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN
Specialty: Internal Medicine
pandamukta@gmail.com
Elisabeth Poorman, MD
Addiction Medicine Fellow
Seattle, WA
Specialties: Internal Medicine, Other
elisabeth.poorman@gmail.com
Jonathan Ripp, MD, MPH
Chief Wellness Officer
Sr. Associate Dean for Well-Being and Resilience
Mount Sinai New York, NY
Specialty: Internal Medicine
jonathan.ripp@mountsinai.org
Jennifer M. Sweeney, MA
Health Care Consumer Advocate, Innovator and Entrepreneur
X4 Health
Arlington, VA
Specialty: Other
jsweeney@x4health.com
Miriam Zylberglait Lisigurski, MD, FACP
Medicine Clerkship Director / Leadership Thread Co-Director Nova Southeastern University,
Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine Associate Program Director Internal Medicine Residency Training Program Aventura Hospital and Medical Center Aventura, FL
Specialty: Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, and Obesity Medicine
miriamlisigurski@gmail.com
Connor Devoe, MS (CSM)
Medical Student
University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine
Biddeford, ME
cdevoe1@une.edu
Adam Bumgardner, MD (CRFM)
National Capital Consortium
Bethesda, MD
Specialties: Internal Medicine, Psychiatry
Adam.L.Bumgardner.mil@mail.mil
Allison Ruff, MD, FACP (CECP)
Ann Arbor, MI
Specialty: Internal Medicine
alliruff@med.umich.edu
Staff Liaison: Daisy Smith, DSmith@acponline.org
Crissy Walter, cwalter@acponline.org