Gretchen Irwin, MD, MBA currently serves as the Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education and ACGME Designated Institutional Official (DIO) for the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita and is an Associate Professor with Tenure in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Dr. Irwin graduated with honors from Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, PA, majoring in Biology and minoring in Political Science. She attended the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine completing her medical degree and an area of concentration in Women’s Health in 2005. Following medical school, she completed her residency at the University of Missouri Kansas City Family Medicine Residency where she concomitantly earned a Master’s in Business Administration from Rockhurst University. Dr. Irwin served as Chief Resident in 2008 and completed an Operative Obstetrics fellowship at the University of Missouri Kansas City in 2009. She also completed a Faculty Development Fellowship at University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill in 2009. Dr. Irwin joined the faculty at the University of Kansas School of Medicine- Wichita in 2010 and has served in multiple educational roles including as the clerkship director for the required, third-year, family medicine clerkship, as program director for the University of Kansas School of Medicine- Wichita Family Medicine Residency at Wesley Medical Center and in her current role as Associate Dean and DIO. In 2023, she was the recipient of both the Kansas Academy of Family Physicians Exemplary Teacher Award and the American Academy of Family Physicians 2023 Exemplary Teaching Award for Full-time Faculty.

Jennifer Bacani McKenney, MD, FAAFP, is a family physician in her hometown of Fredonia, Kansas, a community of approximately 2,200 people. She has owned and managed her practice Fredonia Family Care alongside her father and other great colleagues since 2009. McKenney was named the 2021 Rural Health Practitioner of the Year by the National Rural Health Association and received the “Early Career Achievement Award” by the University of Kansas School of Medicine in 2021. She earned her medical degree at the KU School of Medicine in Kansas City and Wichita and completed her residency at Via Christi Family Medicine Residency in Wichita. McKenney is currently the Associate Dean for Rural Medical Education for the KU School of Medicine. She serves as the Wilson County health officer and is co-chair of the statewide Health Officers of Kansas group. McKenney was a member of the USD 484 school board, serving as the president for two years. She is a past President of the Kansas Academy of Family Physicians and was the resident member of the AAFP Board of Directors. She serves on the board of directors for the Kansas Health Foundation and is on the medical staff at Fredonia Regional Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital. She has made numerous appearances on national and local news covering COVID-19 and rural health.

Mary Stolz, MSW, is the Executive Director of the Wichita Area Sexual Assault Center. She holds a dual bachelors degree from Kansas State University in mass communications and women’s studies and earned a masters degree in social work from Wichita State University in 2013. Mary’s graduate school research on Creative Interventions with Sexual Violence Survivors was published in the British Journal of Social Work. Mary has been working in the anti-violence field and with survivors of sexual violence for the past 18 years. She has served as an advocate, the Director of Advocacy, and Executive Director at Wichita Area Sexual Assault Center. She also served as a Program Manager for the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center providing training and technical assistance to Kansas Law Enforcement on issues related to Sexual and Domestic Violence and Stalking.

Dr. Isha Chaudhary grew up in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada where she completed her Bachelor of Sciences at the University of Toronto-Mississauga. She then went on to obtain her medical degree at Saba University School of Medicine. She is a current PGY2 Family Medicine resident at the University of Kansas Medical School (KUMC) and Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas (CHCSEK). She hopes to have a combined practice of inpatient and outpatient medicine after completing residency.

Riley Gray is a second-year family medicine resident at the University of Kansas Medical Center. She grew up in Columbia, Missouri, and is the first in her family to go to medical school. Her undergraduate degree is from Missouri Western State University, and she completed medical school at A.T. Still University, Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine. She has always been interested in caring for the whole person and is passionate about full-scope family medicine. As part of her passion, she hopes to instill healthy habits to all of her pediatric patients to set them up for success later in life.

Dr. Candice Metzinger is a current PGY-1 at the Wesley Family Medicine Residency. She is a Wichita native and obtained her first degree at The University of Kansas in Finance in 2011. After working several years, she returned to school to pursue medicine. She graduated from Wichita State University in 2017 with a bachelor’s in Biomedical Biology. She attended medical school at The University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita and graduated May 2023.

Dr. Luke Smith grew up in Topeka, KS. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from Newman University in Wichita, KS and went to Iowa for his degree in osteopathic medicine at Des Moines University. Luke was able to come back to Kansas for his Family Medicine training in Wichita with the University of Kansas at Wesley Medical Center. He has a passion for cerebral palsy and hospital medicine.