Faculty
Clinical Director, Division of Infectious Diseases
Sherrilyn and Ken Fisher Professor of Medicine
Fisher Center for Environmental Infectious Diseases
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Paul G. Auwaerter is the Sherrilyn and Ken Fisher Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine serving as the Clinical Director for the Division of Infectious Diseases and Director of the Sherrilyn and Ken Fisher Center for Environmental Infectious Diseases.
He serves as the Executive Director of the Johns Hopkins Point of Care-Information Technology (POC-IT) Center producing the Johns Hopkins ABX (Antibiotic), JH HIV, JH Osler, JH Psychiatry and JH Diabetes Guides. As managing editor for the ABX Guide for over 14 years, this guide has grown to be a standard reference for ID-related clinical decision support and rationale antimicrobial management. Dr. Auwaerter’s research and clinical interests include improving the diagnosis and care for patients with Lyme disease as well as interests in surgical infections, Epstein-Barr virus, and antibiotic resistance. This year he is serving as Immediate Past-President of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the largest professional society worldwide related to infectious diseases.
Chief Medical Officer
Heart to Heart International
Lenexa, KS
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Dr. Boehringer is a doctorally-educated PA and has been practicing clinically in the field of Emergency and Urgent Care Medicine since 2004. Dr. Boehringer attended the University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine in her native country of Argentina and subsequently earned a Master of Science in PA Studies at Northeastern University in Boston, as well as a Doctor of Medical Science in Global Health and Disaster Medicine from the University of Lynchburg in Virginia. While serving as the Associate Medical Director of a chain of Urgent Care centers in the Greater Boston area, Dr. Boehringer noticed a gap in care for patients seeking HIV prevention, and in response to this she launched one of the first Urgent Care-based PrEP programs in the country, which she ran for several years. Since then, she has turned this program over to other colleagues as she pursued a professional opportunity as Chief Medical Officer of a global humanitarian organization, the position she holds today. This position had her move to the Kansas City area, where she currently resides. Dr. Boehringer is married and has two adult sons, one of whom is pursuing a finance degree and one of whom serves in active duty service with the United States Navy. She and her husband enjoy traveling and are avid scuba divers. They also have more rescue dogs than most people would consider normal.
Clinical Professor, Family Medicine
School of Medicine
Director, UC Irvine Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community (PRIME-LC), Family Medicine
School of Medicine
Associate Dean
School of Medicine
University of California, Irvine
Chuck grew up in Northern California and completed his undergraduate degree at Harvard University. He attended medical school at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and completed residency training in Family Medicine at UC Irvine. He stayed on as faculty in the Department of Family Medicine at UCI and now holds the title of Health Sciences Clinical Professor. He is the Executive Director of UCI’s Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community and won a Macy Faculty Scholarship to improve patient-centered health education at UCI. He currently serves as Assistant Dean for Culture and Community Education in the UC Irvine School of Medicine.
Dr. Vega has seen patients and taught medical students and residents at UC Irvine’s Family Health Center – Santa Ana for the past 20 years. This clinic is a federally-qualified health center and the largest safety-net clinic for Orange County. Dr. Vega’s academic interests are focused on access to quality, compassionate medical care for underserved populations, and the development of training programs to promote this vision of healthcare.
Chief Medical Officer, Kroger Health
The Kroger Co.
Dr. Watkins joined Kroger in 2015 as vice president and medical director of The Little Clinic. In August 2018, he was promoted to chief medical officer of Kroger Health. Prior to joining Kroger, he spent six years with Concentra Health Services in various physician leadership roles, providing strategic, operational and clinical program development to major employers across the country.
Dr. Watkins is a fellow of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. For five years, he served in the U.S. Navy as senior medical officer and twice received the Navy Commendation Medal.
Dr. Watkins graduated with a Bachelor or Arts in philosophy from Holy Cross and received his M.D. and Master of Science in public health from Meharry Medical College, a historically black medical school.
He splits his time between Nashville and Cincinnati and lives with his wife and two cats. He enjoys spending time with his six nephews, playing golf and traveling.