Kate Hilton, JD, MTS, is Leadership Faculty at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity program at The George Washington University. For over a decade, Kate has taught and coached people around the globe to build individual and organizational capacity to address the adaptive, human-side of change to achieve health equity, quality improvement, patient safety, population health and joy in work. 

Kate is Faculty and Lead Coach of the IHI Joy in Work Results-Oriented Learning Network, supporting health care organizations to boost joy in work, increase staff engagement and productivity, and improve overall quality of care and experience for staff and patients. She serves as Lead Faculty in an IHI collaboration to improve staff wellbeing and leadership with Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in England and supports Safer Care Victoria’s joy in work learning network in Australia. 

Kate also coaches health care teams in the Workplace Change Collaborative, a HRSA-funded center that supports the Health and Public Safety Workforce Resiliency Training Program and Promoting Resilience and Mental Health among the Health Professional Workforce grantees on their efforts to promote wellness and reduce burnout among health and public safety workers and trainees and create better working and learning environments.

Kate is also Faculty at the American Health Care Association, where she leads the development of a trust-building course funded by the Centers for Disease Control. Kate also contributes to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists' Wellbeing Ambassadors program and the Rockefeller Leadership Fellows and Management and Leadership Development Programs at Dartmouth College. 

Yaroslav Gofnung, MD, is an endocrinologist based out of UCLA's Calabasas office.  He attended medical school at the University of Soutern California.  Both his internal medicine residency and endocrinology subspecialty training were completed at USC as well at the Los Angeles County Hospital.  He is a coach within the Peer Coaching program and member of DOM Quality. 

Nathan Samras, MD, MPH, is a primary care physician at UCLA's Beverly Hills location where he practices Internal Medicine and Pediatrics.  He attended medical school at Rutgers in NJ and residency at Georgetown in Washington DC.  He is the Director of Peer Coaching, and a member of DOM Quality.  

Vladimir Manuel, MD, is a board-certified family medicine physician. He provides preventive and acute healthcare services for family members of all ages. Dr. Manuel received his medical degree from University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and completed his residency at Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center.

Kate Hilton, JD, MTS, is Leadership Faculty at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity program at The George Washington University. For over a decade, Kate has taught and coached people around the globe to build individual and organizational capacity to address the adaptive, human-side of change to achieve health equity, quality improvement, patient safety, population health and joy in work. 

Kate is Faculty and Lead Coach of the IHI Joy in Work Results-Oriented Learning Network, supporting health care organizations to boost joy in work, increase staff engagement and productivity, and improve overall quality of care and experience for staff and patients. She serves as Lead Faculty in an IHI collaboration to improve staff wellbeing and leadership with Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in England and supports Safer Care Victoria’s joy in work learning network in Australia. 

Kate also coaches health care teams in the Workplace Change Collaborative, a HRSA-funded center that supports the Health and Public Safety Workforce Resiliency Training Program and Promoting Resilience and Mental Health among the Health Professional Workforce grantees on their efforts to promote wellness and reduce burnout among health and public safety workers and trainees and create better working and learning environments.

Kate is also Faculty at the American Health Care Association, where she leads the development of a trust-building course funded by the Centers for Disease Control. Kate also contributes to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists' Wellbeing Ambassadors program and the Rockefeller Leadership Fellows and Management and Leadership Development Programs at Dartmouth College. 

Joshua Pierce, MD, PhD, was born in Lubbock, Texas where he attended Texas Tech University and received a bachelor’s degree in Cell and Molecular Biology. He then joined the UT Southwestern graduate school of biomedical sciences and obtained a PhD in cancer biology. He subsequently began medical school at UT Southwestern medical center, graduating in 2021. Now, he is a second year Anatomical and Clinical Pathology resident at UCLA with interests in Dermatopathology and Bone and Soft tissue pathology.

Precious Ann Fortes, MD, is a third-year resident in the Department of Pathology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She received her MD from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Her interests in pathology include health disparities focused work, cytopathology, transfusion medicine, hematopathology, informatics and placenta research. Outside of medicine she enjoys spending time with her partner and their three children.  

Jamar Uzzell, MD, is a Dermatopathology fellow in the Department of Pathology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He received his Doctorate from Ross University School of Medicine and a masters degree from Virginia Commonwealth University. His academic interests are Dermatopathology, Hematopathology and Informatics. Outside of work he enjoys community outreach, mentoring, binge watching shows and gaming.

Dr. Trang Lollie graduated magna cum laude at University of California Irvine, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Developmental and Cell Biology and a minor in Management. She attended medical school at Tulane University School of Medicine. She went on to complete residency training in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology and fellowship training in Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology from University of California in Los Angeles. She served as chief resident during the first year of the COVID19 pandemic, where she spearheaded UCLA’s first conference curriculum and developed a database platform for recorded lectures. Prior to her medical training, she worked as a senior biologist at Eli Lilly in San Diego and lab manager/research technician at UCI.

Dr. Lollie is dedicated to quality and education, having initiated various quality improvement projects such as optimizing workflows and authoring subspecialty service guides and manuals. She has presented at various presentations and conferences, including United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, College of American Pathologists, and UCLA. She has co-authored articles in Journal of Clinical Pathology, Modern Pathology, Laboratory Medicine, Digestive Medicine Research, and Acta Cytologica. Dr. Lollie has received numerous honors including Louisiana Pathology Society Award, Alpha Omega Alpha, and was a finalist at UCLA’s resident informaticist symposium.