Peter Forman MD
Albany Medical College
Department of Family & Community Medicine Education
47 New Scotland Ave/MC46
Albany, NY 12208
formanp@mail.amc.edu

Peter Forman, MD, completed his Family Medicine resident training at Albany Medical Center in 2003. While completing a Master's Educator Faculty Development Fellowship in Albany, he took over the directorship of the Family Medicine Predoctoral Program in the Department of Family & Community Medicine Education. Under his leadership, Family Medicine education in the medical school setting has flourished. Dr. Forman oversees all of the Family Medicine teaching that occurs here at AMC. He is responsible for the required third-year six-week Family Medicine Rotation, in which he teaches on average two of the sessions. He serves as one of the preceptors in our private practice office, teaching students assigned to the Albany Family Practice Group.

As a community outreach advocate, he oversees a very active elective program called Care From the Start that places first and second year students in a variety of community sites serving the underserved. He also serves as an active mentor for individual students and student-run clubs and organizations serving the community. The Family Practice Club, which he advises, is a locally and nationally recognized program, and the most active club on the medical college campus. Finally, as an integral member of the college curriculum development activities, Dr. Forman was asked to coordinate and direct, in collaboration with the Vice-Dean and other clerkship directors, the mandatory Orientation Clerkship for all incoming third-year medical students.

Dr. Forman's commitment to education is not only visible locally, but regionally and nationally. He currently serves on the Planning Committee for the NorthEast Regional STFM Conference, as well as the Planning Committee for the New York State Academy's Scientific Assembly. He is also the Vice President of the Tri-County Chapter of the New York State Academy of Family Physicians. He has presented seminars, papers, posters, and workshops in a variety of STFM venues.

Dr. Forman continues to improve his teaching abilities and has just recently completed his Master's of Science in Curriculum Development and Instructional Technology.


Tamara Gutierrez, MD
Ohio State University
School of Medicine
Associate Program Director
Patient Centered Medicine
3075 Midgard Road
Columbus, OH 43202
Tamara.Gutierrez@osumc.edu

Dr. Gutierrez completed her undergraduate training in Cultural and Cognitive studies at Cornell University. She then received her Medical Degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. She completed her Family Medicine residency training at Stanislaus Family Practice in sunny Modesto, California. After finishing residency, Dr. Gutierrez returned to her native Ohio and joined Ohio State University's Family Practice Residency as faculty with special interests in Obstetrics, women's and children's health, as well as providing care to the growing Hispanic community.

In addition to her work with the residents, Dr. Gutierrez is the Associate Program Director of Patient Centered Medicine at the OSU School of Medicine, a curriculum that teaches the humanistic side of medicine to the Ohio State students in years one and two.

When not working, Dr. Gutierrez also enjoys exploring the personal side of her OB and pediatric interests at home, with her new daughter, Lia, and husband, Steven.


Barsam Kasravi, M.D., M.P.H. is a family physician at the Martha Eliot Health Center, Associate Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and a full time Associate Medical Director of Medical Standards of Care at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. He has recently completed a fellowship on Quality and Cost at Blue Cross and had previously completed The California Endowment Scholars in Health Policy at Harvard University where he received a Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health and focused on minority health policy and management. He has conducted research on New England Philanthropy and how they address racial and ethnic disparities in their grantmaking. He has also worked with the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation in their recent grant initiative to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities in Massachusetts and cultural competence.

He graduated from the UCLA School of Medicine, where he was chief of the Los Angeles/Salvation Army Homeless Clinic. He completed his residency as Chief Resident at the UCLA/Kaiser Woodland Hills Family Medicine Program. He has also volunteered nationally and internationally in South Africa, South America, and recently in Louisiana with the disaster of Katrina, in providing medical care to underserved populations. He has worked with the Massachusetts Commission to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Health Care Disparities in drafting their final recommendations and specifically with the Health Care Service Delivery sub-committee. He also continues to give lectures on physician leadership and health care disparities as a Clinical Instructor at the Harvard Medical School.

Barsam recently received the AMA Foundation Leadership Award and continues to work with various state and national organizations in addressing issues of minority health.