Advisory Board

Erin Worsham, MBAErin is the Executive Director of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) – an award winning research and education center based at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. She has experience in the nonpr…

Erin Worsham, MBA

Dr. Patrick O’Shea, MD, MBAPatrick, a MedServe co-founder, attended East Carolina studying Exercise Physiology and graduating Summa Cum Laude with Honors. After teaching 8th grade science for three years with Teach for America, Patrick worked for a year as a CNA before attending UNC School of Medicine, where he served as the Co-President of the Whitehead Medical Society, the SOM’s student government. In this role, he created a DEI cabinet position and instituted implicit bias training for all new matriculants to the UNC SOM. He also earned his MBA from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business during medical training. Currently, Patrick is completing his combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics (Med-Peds) residency at UNC Hospitals, and he intends to practice as a combined Med-Peds hospitalist physician. He lives in Chapel Hill with his wife and three children.

Dr. Patrick O’Shea, MD, MBA

Dr. Warren Newton, MD, MPHWarren Newton MD MPH serves as the President and CEO of the American Board of Family Medicine. A family physician and health service researcher, he served as Vice Dean and Director of North Carolina AHEC and supported the founding of MedServe. A former residency director, Chair of Family Medicine and Dean of Education at the UNC School of Medicine, he is deeply committed to transformation of practice and health education, and led regional and statewide initiatives to develop a CCNC network, provide access to primary care for uninsured, and transform primary care practice in over 1400 primary care practices across the state. In education, he has led rural training initiatives in medical school and residency, set up residencies in FQHCs as well as instituting major changes in the UNC medical school curriculum, including development of regional campuses, a new focus on improving population health, and a major increase in enrollment of underrepresented minorities.Dr. Anne Steptoe, MD, MBAAnne grew up in a small-town in West Virginia, where her primary care hero was her childhood pediatrician. She attended Harvard College and spent a summer implementing an Americorps program for the American Red Cross in rural Tennessee. After college, she spent 2 years doing healthcare services and delivery research at Massachusetts General Hospital, with a focus on physician workforce issues. She attended medical school at Brown University, where her research focused on how non-professional ancillary workers can add value to primary care clinics. Anne completed her MBA at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and has since transitioned to the Chief Medical Officer at Charlotte Community Health Clinic. She lives in Charlotte with her husband and two pups.

Dr. Warren Newton, MD, MPH

Jiyun Chang, MD/MBA candidate

Lisa M. Holmes, RN, FNP, BSN, MS 

Brittany Pierce, MSN, RN

Dr. Steven Manning, MD