With a clinical background in adult critical care nursing, Ms. Davila specializes in infection prevention, patient safety and healthcare quality improvement. She currently sits on the National Steering Committee for Patient Safety. She has authored a book and published several articles that focus on the importance of infection prevention and patient safety. In 2016, Ms. Davila was honored with the APIC Heroes of Infection Prevention Award.

Ms. Davila has served in the United States Air Force and is appointed to sit on the New Jersey Commission for Women Veterans. She is certified in just culture, patient safety, infection control, healthcare quality, and as a TeamSTEPPS Master Trainer and High Reliability coach. She received her BSN from the University of Southern Maine, her MSN from Walden University, and in 2020 was designated by APIC as a fellow in infection prevention (FAPIC).

Dr. Lucile Burgo-Black is a general internist and has devoted her career to providing primary healthcare to Veterans and training residents and medical students to do the same as an assistant clinical professor at Yale University School of Medicine. She is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Lausanne Medical School. For 38 years she has provided primary care at the West Haven, Connecticut VA medical center to all cohorts of Veterans She has served in local and regional primary care leadership positions and now spends 70% of her time on national VA pain, opioid safety and primary care initiatives as the Co-Director of the Post Deployment Integrated Care Initiative. She is involved in training both VA and community providers on the unique concerns of Veterans. Her interests are the integration of mental health services into primary care, integrative medicine, collaborative care models for patients with complex chronic comorbidities as well as improving our healthcare care systems for Veterans through outreach and by leveraging virtual care and social media.

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Dr. Hunt is an expert in the health effects of military service, deployment, and military environmental exposures. He is the Physician Lead for the PACT Act Screening Initiatives (Sections 603 and 405) as well VA National Director of the Post Deployment Integrated Care Initiative. He is the Director of the Environmental Contaminants Clinic at VA Puget Sound and a Clinical Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of Washington. 

In addition to caring for Veterans and educating health care providers (both VA and non-VA) and trainees, Dr. Hunt has been involved throughout his career in clinical research and policy development in support of Veterans with deployment-related health concerns including chronic pain, TBI, MH conditions and military environmental exposures. He has published numerous peer-reviewed scientific articles and is a lead author on the Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine Chapter on Health Care for Military Veterans.

Shaun enlisted the United States Army in 2001. After completing his active-duty commitment, he joined the Army Reserve, where he served three years as a Drill Sergeant. During this time, Shaun attended Auburn University, earning a Bachelor’s Degree of Science in International Business |cum laude|. Upon graduation he commissioned as an Army Engineer Officer and has since completed deployments in Iraq and Kuwait, as well as stateside disaster response missions. After returning from combat in Iraq, Shaun spent two years as a teacher in Atlanta Public Schools through the Teach for America program. Shaun subsequently attended Georgia State University College of Law under the Atlanta Law School Fellows and Just the Beginning Foundation scholarships. For the past decade, Shaun has performed various roles in the Veterans Service field from employment coaching and recruiting, to peer support and mental health advocacy. Shaun volunteers as a Program Coordinator for Canine Cellmates.

Dr. Norman is a clinical psychologist and a researcher in moral injury, the treatment of PTSD and addictions, applications of Prolonged Exposure therapy, implementation of evidence based treatments for PTSD, novel treatments to address the kinds of problems recently deployed Veterans report, and mental health effects of trauma-related guilt and shame. She is based at the VA San Diego Healthcare System where she previously directed the PTSD treatment program for Veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and served as a consultant for the VA Prolonged Exposure therapy rollout. She served as a member of the VA/DoD PTSD Clinical Practice Guideline workgroup in 2017 and 2023. Dr. Norman has over 200 publications related to PTSD and associated problems. She received her PhD from Stanford University.

Dr. Smith is the inaugural Michael Garron Chair in Patient-Oriented Research at the Michael Garron Hospital and Associate Professor and Co-Lead for Outcomes & Evaluation in the Institute of Health Policy, Management, & Evaluation at the University of Toronto. Dr. Smith’s research focuses on coproducing practical solutions to challenges of healthcare delivery with a focus on patient safety and quality improvement. She is a leading investigator in patient-oriented research, forging partnerships with patients to codesign research and innovations to improve the quality and safety of healthcare delivery. Dr. Smith has led several large-scale implementation and evaluation projects for clinics, hospitals, health centers, and health systems across the United States that aim to improve patient safety by engaging patients and their families in care, including the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Toolkit for Engaging Patients To Improve Diagnostic Safety.

Dr. Ann Treadaway was appointed Director of Veteran and Military Programs and Services at Rutgers University in 2015. In this position, Dr. Treadaway serves as the principal advocate for military affiliated students across Rutgers, ensures high quality of policies, programs, activities and services, and serves as the university’s liaison with outside agencies and offices whose work affects the lives of the military affiliated population.

Prior to joining Rutgers, Dr. Treadaway served as Director of Veterans Support Services at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York where she developed innovative programming and enhanced support services to assist military affiliated students in their transition to on-campus learning.

From 2001 to 2006, Dr. Treadaway served in the United States Army. In 2003, she was assigned to the 94th Engineer Combat Battalion (Heavy) in the 130th Engineer Brigade with whom she deployed twice in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom to Baghdad in 2003 and Mosul in 2005.

Dr. Treadaway holds a B.A. in History and Political Science with a focus on the Middle East from the State University of New York, Purchase College and an M.A. in Early American History from the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. Dr. Treadaway earned a Doctorate in Education at Northeastern University where her research focused on Military Cultural Competency and ways to bridge the military civilian knowledge gap. Dr. Treadaway has conducted over a hundred Military Cultural Competency Education sessions in her career.