Deputy Medical Director - Northwell Health - GoHealth Urgent Care

Dr Kevin Reiter is currently the Deputy Medical Director of Northwell Health GoHealth Urgent Care. He helps to oversee clinical operations on Long Island. While holding the title of Assistant Professor of Family Medicine through the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell he remains active and involved with training both residents as well as advanced practitioners in the field of Urgent Care.

Dr Reiter has been very involved with starting an Urgent Care training track within the Department of Family Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell in collaboration with GoHealth which he currently oversees. His goal is to expose medical trainees to the growing field of Urgent Care and provide a focused training track for career preparedness. He continues to remain active working as both a hospitalist as well as precepting Family Medicine residents in the same Northwell Family Medicine programs at Glen Cove and Huntington Hospital, where he served as chief resident. Prior to returning to medical school at Saba University School of Medicine, Kevin worked as a Physician Assistant in various fields over a ten year career including Orthopedics, Primary Care, Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care. He is excited to share his knowledge and experience of Asthma and Allergic Rhinitis in the Urgent Care.

Former Chief Medical Officer - AFC Urgent Care

Dr. Harnett is the Chief Medical Officer at Blockit, a market leader in referral management solutions, supporting the product design and engineering teams with the critical perspective of a physician to ensure focus on improved clinical outcomes and workflow processes that are necessary to the success of all Blockit endeavors. Dr. Harnett is passionate and committed to the design and adoption of cutting-edge technology that supports his vision of delivering true interoperability in healthcare that will ultimately provide quality improvement, enhance the patient care experience, and ease administrative burdens on providers and staff.

He is a leading physician technology innovator that has spent nearly 20 years working with health systems and urgent care operators across the US to design and develop improved clinical and operational performance strategies. His medical expertise and technological sophistication led him to be a much sought after consultant in the pharmaceutical, medical device, and health software sectors to develop educational and marketing strategies for the Urgent Care and Emergency Department markets. He is professionally active in pharmaceutical research grants, clinical research, and publication, and is a frequent guest speaker at urgent care venues. He holds current medical licensure with the States of Maine and Alabama.

Prior to joining Blockit, Dr. Harnett was a principal partner at No Resistance Consulting Group, LLC where he provided executive-level guidance for clinical management, workflow design, and productivityprocess engineering that positively impacted millions of patients nationally. He developed documentation best practices, benchmark coding strategies, and physician executive development pathways that are a recognized best practice case study among the urgent care community. His passion for healthcare improvement through technology advancement leads him to routinely consult on clinical technology selection and design/implementation and optimization for electronic health record systems, and clinical team adoption through quality assurance development.

Before starting his successful consulting business, Dr. Harnett served as the Chief Medical Officer for American Family Care where he was a key executive responsible for it's growth from 24 to 170+ clinics during a 5-year span, leading AFC to become the second largest private urgent care operator in the US. While at AFC, Dr. Harnett also provided oversight for Joint Venture designs, Laboratory operations, Risk Management, Quality Assurance, Physician Scheduling, Physician Recruitment, Physician Liaison, Patient Advocate, Nursing, and Credentialing Departments.

Prior to his work at AFC, Dr. Harnett was the Emergency Department Medical Director for Coastal Carolina Medical Center in Bluffton, SC (whose emergency department received a Tenet 5-star patient satisfaction rating under his leadership) and Meadows Regional Medical Center in Vidalia, GA. Dr. Harnett earned a BA in Psychology at the University of New Hampshire and his MD at the Medical College of Georgia. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Emory University and was Chief Resident at Grady Hospital in Atlanta, GA. He is a trustee of the Urgent Care Association of America's (UCAOA) Foundation and has also served as the Urgent Care Advisor to George Washington University's Antibiotic Resistance Action Center. Dr. Harnett's many awards and recognition include Most Outstanding Resident 2004 Emory University Department of Emergency Medicine. He was named the Emory Physician Assistant Resident Teacher of the Year was chosen as the Physician of the Year by his peers and hospital staff at Coastal Carolina Medical Center.

He is happily married to his wife Casey, is the proud father of 13-year-old twins, and a new baby boy born in June 2019. In his spare time, he enjoys building scale wooden model boats, skiing, soccer, vegetable gardening, and is rarely found without a good book at his side.

Former Chief Medical Officer - CityMD Urgent Care

Dr. Frank Illuzzi is a practicing board-certified Physician in Emergency Medicine, and is currently the Chief Medical Officer at CityMD, a regional urgent care group with 120 locations throughout the New York City metro area.

Prior to joining CityMD, Dr. Illuzzi was the Chairman of Emergency Medicine at St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, CT, and held an academic appointment as Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Frank Netter School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University. During his tenure in hospital based care he served in numerous clinical, academic, and leadership roles.

Dr. Illuzzi has published articles and textbook chapters in his various areas of academic interest, with his current focus on population health issues, specifically Public Health Screenings such as Tobacco cessation intervention, Hypertension awareness, Pediatric asthma, and Diabetes screening in alternative settings like the ER and the Urgent Care clinic.

He is also a sought after lecturer for national medical conferences on topics that include: Quality and Patient Safety, Antibiotic Stewardship, Physician Leadership, Patient Throughput and Workflow, and Delivering on the Patient Experience.

Dr. Illuzzi was born in Brooklyn, NY. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame and his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine. He completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at Long Island Jewish/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he received the honor of Chief Resident. He completed a fellowship with AHA/NPSF in Patient Safety Leadership in 2009.

Dr. Illuzzi currently resides in Fairfield, CT, with his lovely wife, Laura, and two beautiful daughters, Julia and Cecilia. His interests include jazz music, gardening, fishing, and glass-blowing.

Interventional Cardiology - Johns Hopkins Hospital

Dr. Daniel Ambinder (@Dr_DanMD) is an interventional cardiologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He received his medical degree from University of Maryland School of Medicine and completed internal medicine residency at the Osler Program at The Johns Hopkins Hospital cardiology fellowship at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is a co-founder of Cardionerds, a Cardiology Podcast and is passionate about medical education within many domains and platforms.

Medical Director, Cohere Health; Faculty, Wright State University Family Medicine Residency

Dr. Krebs serves as Associate Medical Director at Cohere Health. She earned her medical degree from the Ohio State University College of Medicine in Columbus and completed a family medicine residency at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio. She also teaches residents and medical students at a family medicine residency program. Previously, Dr. Krebs was in solo practice at a rural federally qualified health center and co-ran Family Practice Associates, an independent rural practice.

Department of Family Medicine, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Dr. Victor Catania is a primary care doctor and family physician. With years of experience to his credit, he serves the communities of East Stroudsburg, PA, and works with the clinics of LVHN-Primary Care. He ensures his patients receive the care they deserve.

As a part of his higher education, Dr. Catania graduated with a bachelor's degree from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He then obtained his medical degree from the Medical University of the Americas and completed his family medicine residency at Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital. Additionally, he is certified by the American Board of Family Medicine.

Dr. Catania conducts sessions for movement disorders, immunization, anger management, heart health consultations, and transgender hormone therapy. He also treats patients with genital herpes, hand skin problems, skin infections, pediatric rashes, pneumonia, and urinary tract infections.

Harvard Medical Physician - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Dr. Zachary Gross is an internal medicine specialist in Duxbury, Massachusetts and has over 6 years of experience in the medical field. He graduated from Ross University of Medicine in 2016. He is affiliated with medical facilities Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Plymouth and Falmouth Hospital. Dr. Gross is excited to share his knowledge and experience of multiple heart and pulmonary conditions.

Assistant Professor in Family Medicine at Columbia University / New York-Presbyterian Hospital (CU/NYP)

Dr. Krishna Desai is a family physician in New York, NY and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including New York-Presbyterian Hospital and New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She received her medical degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and has been in practice for over 16 years. She is one of 181 doctors at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and one of 116 doctors at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center who specialize in Family Medicine.

Associate Professor in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Family Medicine at WVU Medicine

Dr. Benjamin Silverberg is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Family Medicine at WVU Medicine in Morgantown, West Virginia. He is also the Medical Director of the Division of Physician Assistant Studies within the Department of Human Performance at West Virginia University, where he currently teaches graduate-level courses on community medicine and behavioral health. His clinical work includes college health, urgent care, and travel medicine; his areas of academic focus include sexual and mental health, and health disparities.

Dr. Silverberg has lectured nationally for the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), American College Health Association (ACHA), and Urgent Care Association (UCA). He has also published multiple articles on topics ranging from infectious diseases to bedside procedures. Dr. Silverberg graduated from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and completed his residency at the University of Virginia and fellowship at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center.

Medical Director - Planned Parenthood

Dr. Simmons is a family doctor who practices reproductive health including abortion and prenatal care as Medical Director of Planned Parenthood of Delaware. She earned her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. She completed her family medicine residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and a reproductive health and advocacy fellowship at the Reproductive Health Access Project and The Institute for Family Health in New York, New York. Dr. Simmons holds a leadership position with the AAFP’s Reproductive Health Care Member Interest Group and is an active advocate for women’s health and reproductive health issues.

Clinical Educator - Mt.Sinai & Columbia University

Dr. Amy Mednick is a psychiatrist who works in private practice in New York City and is a clinical educator at Mount Sinai Beth Israel and the Columbia School of Social Work. She received a BS in Brain and Cognitive Science from MIT, an MD with Distinction in Research from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and completed psychiatric residency and chief residency at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. She has worked at the Family Center for Bipolar Disorder at Beth Israel and now specializes in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for the care of treatment-resistant depression.

Clinician Educator - NYC Department of Health

Dr. Anna Huang is a Clinician Educator and Physician-in-Charge with the New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene's Bureau of STD Control. She cares for patients in the sexual health clinics and engages in research and protocol development within the Bureau. She trains health department clinicians and rotating infectious disease and preventive medicine fellows. Dr. Huang is also a frequent grand round presenter to clinicians and medical residents in NYC. She received her medical degree from Cornell and trained in family medicine at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She has worked in primary care, urgent care, addiction medicine, and reproductive health settings.