Planning Committee

Chair
Jennifer Chevinsky MD, MPH, FACPM

Dr. Jennifer R. Chevinsky, MD, MPH, FACPM, is board-certified in Preventive Medicine, Lifestyle Medicine, and Health Care Administration, Leadership and Management (HALM). She serves as the Public Health Officer for Riverside County, leading the department of over 600 staff who provide programs and services for approximately 2.5 million people. She is also an Assistant Professor for Loma Linda’s Department of Preventive Medicine and School of Public Health and an Assistant Clinical Professor for UC Riverside School of Medicine. Prior, she served as the county’s Deputy Public Health Officer, overseeing the Division of Infectious Disease, Community Health Planning, and Equity and as Medical Advisor for the COVID-19, Mpox, and H5N1 emergency response activities, as TB controller, treating underserved patients with tuberculosis throughout the county, as a Lean Process Improvement sponsor, leading improvement activities in the areas of health equity, improved outbreak response time, and workforce engagement and retention, and as Co-Chair of the Inland Empire HIV Planning Council. She also led the undergraduate and graduate medical student training for the department.

Dr. Chevinsky earned her medical degree at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, completed her residency specialization and MPH at Loma Linda University, and gained postdoctoral epidemiology training as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer for CDC within the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Dr. Chevinsky serves on a number of national, state, and local public health committees, such as on the AJPM-Focus Journal’s Editorial Board, as a member for the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Disease Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics Community of Practice, Co-Chair of the California Conference of Local Health Officers (CCLHO) Health Equity Committee, member of the Health Officers Association of California (HOAC) Legislative Committee, a member of the Riverside University Health System Institutional Review Board and Bioethics Committee and a member of the Riverside County Anti-Terrorism Approval Authority. She is currently serving as the Chair of ACPM’s 2026 Annual Conference and as a member of the Strategy Committee.

Vice Chair
Chelsea Isom, MD, MPH

Dr. Chelsea Isom, MD, MPH, is a board certified in Preventive Medicine and currently is an associate physician at the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health at the University of California San Diego. Her current role is as a Principal Investigator with the Transportation Research and Education for Driving Safety group.

Dr. Isom obtained her medical degree from the University of Nevada in 2013 and then went on to be a general surgery resident at Vanderbilt Medical Center (2013-2021). She obtained her master’s in public health from Vanderbilt University (2016-2018), with an emphasis in Epidemiology. After this she transitioned to a preventive medicine residency at the University of California San Diego (2021-2023). Her research currently focusses on transportation safety and human factors. Working with the railroad to decrease fatigue in their worker and to decrease the number of injuries and death around the railroad. She is also working to design a front-line screening tool for law enforcement to increase identification of human trafficking victims. Dr. Isom has been a part of the ACPM since 2021 and it the current Vice-Chair for the ACPM’s 2026 Annual Conference.

Chair
Marissa Khajavi, MD, MPH

Vice Chair
Melissa Reyes, MD, MPH, FAAD

Chair
Rachel Annam, MD, MPH, FACPM

Vice Chair
Case Keltner, MD, MPH, MS

Chair
Major Terra Forward, DO, MBA, MPH, FACPM

Vice Chair
Aristotle Sun, MD, MPH, FACPM

Chair
Namita Akolkar, MD, MPH

Vice Chair
Michael Jan, MD, MPH, FACPM

Co-Chair
Kim McDonald, MD, MPH

Co-Chair
Daniel Carnegie, MD, MPH, MBA

Elizabeth Tong, MD, MPH

Sumana Kondle, MD, MSPH, MSHPL

Malika Garg, MD, MS