Jennifer Bacani McKenney, MD, FAAFP, is a family physician in her hometown of Fredonia, Kansas, a community of approximately 2,500 people. She has owned and managed her practice alongside her father for the last 12 years. McKenney was named the 2021 Rural Health Practitioner of the Year by the National Rural Health Association.

She earned her medical degree at the University of Kansas Medical Center and KU School of Medicine-Wichita and completed her residency at Via Christi Family Medicine Residency in Wichita. She serves as the Wilson County health officer as well as the Fredonia city health officer. She is a member of the USD 484 school board and served as the president for two years.

She is the Associate Dean of the Office of Rural Medical Education at the University of Kansas Medical Center. She is the President of the Kansas Academy of Family Physicians and serves on the board of directors for the Kansas Health Foundation and Kansas Medical Society. She is a member of the Kansas Patients and Providers Engaged in Prevention Research (KPPEPR) board and was the co-chair of the Governor’s Safer Classrooms Workgroup. Previously, she served on the national Board of Directors of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.

Ryan is the CEO and Executive Vice President at the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians. He joined the CAFP staff in July 2015 and assumed this position in October 2020. Ryan holds a Dual Master of Public Health and Public Administration through the University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz. He received his B.A. in Political Science and English from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is a Certified Association Executive (CAE) through the American Society of Association Executives. Prior to joining CAFP, Ryan worked as the Policy and Legislative Associate for a Colorado consumer advocacy organization to advance equitable access to health care. In previous roles, he served in U.S. Senator Mark Udall’s Washington, D.C. office where he worked in constituent correspondence and communications on issues including health care and education. Ryan grew up on the Western Slope of Colorado and enjoys road cycling, skiing and golf. He currently lives in Denver with his daughter, Laila, and partner Stephanie, who is a family physician practicing in Aurora.

Stacy Dashiell, MD FAAFP practices full-scope rural family medicine in central Kansas. She is a graduate of the University of Kansas School of Medicine and the Research Family Medicine Residency Program where she served as Chief Resident. In 2020, Dr. Dashiell was named the KAFP Family Physician of the Year. In 2018, she was the Community Volunteer Faculty of the Year for the Department of Family Medicine, KU School of Medicine, Wichita. She is currently an AAFP Leading Physician Well-being 2022 Scholar. Dr. Dashiell founded and leads the Employee Wellness Committee at Rice Community Healthcare and is passionate about improving healthcare workers’ well-being through individual education and organizational change. Her other loves include her husband, Christian, their four children (ages 5-16), and the family rescue dog, Chloe.

Bethany Enoch graduated from the University of Kansas School of Medicine and completed Family Medicine Residency at the KU Family Medicine Residency. She then moved to the Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas, an FQHC, with plans to ultimately begin a residency in Pittsburg, KS. Through several years, this process unfolded, and CHCSEK received a 3 year rural residency planning grant from HRSA  in 2019 which culminated with the matriculation of the inaugural class in July 2022. Dr. Enoch also works as the medical director for the Pittsburg Extended Rural Clerkship Option for third and fourth year medical students at KUSOM, and the director of student medical education for the Pittsburg site of ATSU Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine as well as the director of the southeastern Kansas rural medical education network. She continues to practice Family Medicine including inpatient, outpatient and obstetrical care.

Jennifer Findley serves as the vice president of education and special projects for the Kansas Hospital Association. Her primary responsibilities at KHA include development, management and oversight of education programs and services. She provides leadership to the KHA Annual Convention and leadership development programming and. She is also the executive director of Healthworks, KHA”s foundation. In her role with Healthworks, she provides leadership to grant projects many with a focus on rural and Critical Access Hospitals. Jennifer serves as a liaison to the Kansas Healthcare Engineers Association and Kansas Healthcare Environmental Services Association. She serves on a number of committees dedicated to education, technology, and advocacy and is a former board member of the Kansas Society of Association Executives. Jennifer has a bachelor’s degree in political science and speech communication from Wichita State University and a training and development certificate from Southwest Missouri State University College of Business Administration.

Aline Hansen-Guzman was born and raised in Colorado and served in the Peace Corps in El Salvador prior to obtaining her MD at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She completed her residency training in the Family Medicine/Obstetrics program at the University of California at Davis in Sacramento and then returned to Colorado. Dr. Hansen-Guzman has practiced family medicine with obstetrics at an FQHC in rural northeast Colorado for 13 years. She helped to create the University of Colorado Morgan County Rural Training Track and is currently the Site Director and a Senior Clinical Instructor. In 2021, she was chosen to represent the AAFP in the Women’s Equity and Leadership Project that aims to create more equitable work experiences and leadership opportunities for women physician. In addition, Dr. Hansen-Guzman has helped provide antiracist trainings through the University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine.

Dr. Beth Oller is physician co-owner of Solomon Valley Family Medicine in the rural community of Stockton, KS where she practices with her husband. She graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in Nursing in 2002, and with a degree in Medicine in 2008. Dr. Oller completed her residency training at Wesley Family Medicine Residency in Wichita, KS in 2011. After being exposed to rural Family Medicine in medical school she decided this was the population she wanted to serve and found a community in need in which to open a practice. She practices full scope Family Medicine including clinic, inpatient, emergency room, nursing home and obstetric care including surgical obstetrics. Her areas of interest are women’s health, pediatrics and maternal healthcare, and gender affirming care. Dr. Oller is actively involved in the Kansas Academy of Family Physicians, chairing the Professional Development Committee. She has been involved in national leadership as well, serving in various capacities including the student member on the AAFP Board of Directors and the resident AAFP representative to the AMA. Dr. Oller is very involved in teaching, serving as a preceptor for pre-medical students, medical students and residents and is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine for the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita. Outside of medicine Dr. Oller enjoys spending time with her husband, their 9-year-old daughter Lyla, 5-year-old twins Maya and Merrick, 3-year-old Noble, and their German Shepard, cats, goats, rabbits and chickens. She enjoys reading and singing, and she and her husband are very active in their local community.

Jeremy Presley, MD FAAFP graduated from Baker University in 2000 and then KU School of Medicine in 2007. He completed Family Medicine residency at Via Christi Family Medicine Residency in Wichita, KS in 2010. He has been practicing full spectrum family medicine in his home town of Dodge City, KS since 2010 at Family Practice Associates of Western Kansas. He is co-owner of this practice along with Dr R.C. Trotter and has 2 APP Staff and just recently joined by 2 new physician graduates.

Currently Jeremy practices full spectrum endoscopy, pre/post natal care after delivering babies for the first 9 years of practice and daily “cradle to grave” clinical practice. FPA joined an ACO in 2016 and Jeremy has been the practice champion for this since that time. He has enjoyed learning and growing the value based care strategy greatly throughout that time and now also works as a local medical director for that ACO.

Dr. Presley’s experiences growing up in rural western Kansas ranged from working at the local pharmacy throughout high school, working on the farm, and even still running the combine for wheat harvest every year as his “vacation” from his practice. His experiences have helped him support and understand his patient base and the lifestyle they live everyday as well as giving him the credentials to be trusted by his peers and patients alike.

Dr. Presley has also served as President of the KAFP in 2018-19 and is currently an alternate delegate to the AAFP COD. Years of working with family physicians and now getting to help guide practices through the value based care strategies has given him great insight into the trials and tribulations of making such a significant practice mentality change. The days of the physician being the only person to deliver medical care are long gone but the physician leading a team of skilled staff now makes the increasing demand more successful for our patients and more satisfying for us as physicians.