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Megan R Williams Khmelev, MD

Dr. Williams is on a mission to help people achieve happy and healthier lives. Board certified in Obesity and Family Medicine, she has over 10 years of experience treating patients of all ages from newborns to older adults. Her passion for treating obesity started while serving in the US Air Force as a family physician where she noted the huge impact being overweight had on chronic medical problems and overall quality of life of her patients.
A recipient of the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, she has been also been an expert contributor on the topic of obesity in magazines like Reader’s Digest and Healthzette.
A native Coloradan, she got to Texas as soon as she could and has lived in San Antonio for nearly 15 years. In her “spare” time Dr. Williams enjoys time with her husband and three young children. Swimming, spending time outdoors and answering the question “why” are some common activities. She also enjoys running, strength training and learning new languages. She is fluent in Spanish.

Tiffany Jones-Smith

Tiffany Jones-Smith is the CEO of the Texas Kidney Foundation. As a people connector, with over 20 years of experience working in the c-suite of businesses, she has a reputation for opening the lines of communication between clients, organizations and businesses. She leverages influence and experience to form strategic alliances.
Jones-Smith is the host of the popular 930 AM radio show and VLOG On the Record with Tiffany. She uses her platform to explore healthcare topics, social issues and community heroes.
Jones-Smith was recently appointed by Governor Greg Abbott to the Texas Chronic Kidney Disease Task Force. She also belongs to the We Work for Health Texas Coalition, Honor the Gift Campaign, SAAACAM, San Antonio Business Journal Leadership Trust, American Association of Kidney Patients, and the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
She holds a Public Leadership Credential from Harvard Business School Online along with a BA in Journalism and Foreign Service from Baylor University and a certificate in Italian studies from L’Universita per Stranieri, in Perugia, Italy. Tiffany attended high school at Mary Mount International School in Rome, Italy.
Tiffany is an entrepreneur, journalist, and healthcare advocate. According to Smith, “The United States has a broken healthcare system. We need a system with compensation models that are outcomes based.”
She strives to close the gap in healthcare disparities by addressing obesity, diabetes, hypertension and social determinants of health. She believes an ideal system would be data driven with emphasis on positive patient outcomes. She believes prevention and early disease detection are essential first steps to creating a healthy community. There are 140 million Americans living below the poverty line, addressing healthcare outcomes is her priority.
As a writer and advocate, Jones-Smith has a wealth of professional experience. She has been published in national, state and local journals. Her recent work is a research paper authored with 18 colleagues as a member of the APOL1 in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Delphi Consensus, a group of investigators dedicated to the study of APOL1, the first CKD genetic link to descendants of West Sub-Saharan Africa.
Delphi consensus and systematic review on diagnosis, education and care of patients with APOL1-associated nephropathy will be published in 2020.
Jones-Smith also serves as the President and Chief Exe

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Ananda Tomas joins me to discuss what the Fix SAPD movement is fighting for in San Antonio.

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William L. Henrich, M.D., MACP, a specialist in kidney diseases, has served as the president of UT Health San Antonio since 2009. UT Health San Antonio is one of six health institutions under the umbrella of The University of Texas System. UT Health is a dynamic and rapidly expanding health science center with five professional schools (medicine, nursing, dentistry, health professions and graduate school of biomedical sciences) with missions of education, clinical care, research and community service. With a budget of nearly one billion dollars, a work force of 7,100 and a research portfolio of approximately $300 million, UT Health is quickly rising in prominence among academic medical centers in the United States. Henrich received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University and his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine, and later completed a residency in Internal Medicine at The University of Oregon Medical School and a fellowship in Nephrology at The University of Colorado School of Medicine. During his career, Henrich has served as Professor of Medicine at The University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine, as Professor and Chair of Medicine at the Medical College of Ohio, and as the Theodore Woodward Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at The University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. He became the Dean of the School of Medicine and Vice President for Medical Affairs at UT Health San Antonio in 2006 prior to being selected as its President in 2009. He is the inaugural holder of the John P. Howe, III, M.D., Distinguished Chair in Health Policy. He is the author of over 300 original articles and chapters, and the founding editor of the popular dialysis textbook, “Henrich’s Principles and Practice of Dialysis”. His current areas of interest are in improving dialysis and vascular renal disease. An elected member of several prominent research societies, Henrich also served as President of the American Society of Nephrology. He is passionate about mentoring students, residents and young physicians and has received teaching accolades in every institution in which he has served.

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Megan R Williams Khmelev, MD

Dr. Williams is on a mission to help people achieve happy and healthier lives. Board certified in Obesity and Family Medicine, she has over 10 years of experience treating patients of all ages from newborns to older adults. Her passion for treating obesity started while serving in the US Air Force as a family physician where she noted the huge impact being overweight had on chronic medical problems and overall quality of life of her patients.
A recipient of the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, she has been also been an expert contributor on the topic of obesity in magazines like Reader’s Digest and Healthzette.
A native Coloradan, she got to Texas as soon as she could and has lived in San Antonio for nearly 15 years. In her “spare” time Dr. Williams enjoys time with her husband and three young children. Swimming, spending time outdoors and answering the question “why” are some common activities. She also enjoys running, strength training and learning new languages. She is fluent in Spanish.

Tiffany Jones-Smith

Tiffany Jones-Smith is the CEO of the Texas Kidney Foundation. As a people connector, with over 20 years of experience working in the c-suite of businesses, she has a reputation for opening the lines of communication between clients, organizations and businesses. She leverages influence and experience to form strategic alliances.
Jones-Smith is the host of the popular 930 AM radio show and VLOG On the Record with Tiffany. She uses her platform to explore healthcare topics, social issues and community heroes.
Jones-Smith was recently appointed by Governor Greg Abbott to the Texas Chronic Kidney Disease Task Force. She also belongs to the We Work for Health Texas Coalition, Honor the Gift Campaign, SAAACAM, San Antonio Business Journal Leadership Trust, American Association of Kidney Patients, and the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
She holds a Public Leadership Credential from Harvard Business School Online along with a BA in Journalism and Foreign Service from Baylor University and a certificate in Italian studies from L’Universita per Stranieri, in Perugia, Italy. Tiffany attended high school at Mary Mount International School in Rome, Italy.
Tiffany is an entrepreneur, journalist, and healthcare advocate. According to Smith, “The United States has a broken healthcare system. We need a system with compensation models that are outcomes based.”
She strives to close the gap in healthcare disparities by addressing obesity, diabetes, hypertension and social determinants of health. She believes an ideal system would be data driven with emphasis on positive patient outcomes. She believes prevention and early disease detection are essential first steps to creating a healthy community. There are 140 million Americans living below the poverty line, addressing healthcare outcomes is her priority.
As a writer and advocate, Jones-Smith has a wealth of professional experience. She has been published in national, state and local journals. Her recent work is a research paper authored with 18 colleagues as a member of the APOL1 in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Delphi Consensus, a group of investigators dedicated to the study of APOL1, the first CKD genetic link to descendants of West Sub-Saharan Africa.
Delphi consensus and systematic review on diagnosis, education and care of patients with APOL1-associated nephropathy will be published in 2020.
Jones-Smith also serves as the President and Chief Exe

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Anil T. Mangla, MPH., Ph.D., of San Antonio is a former associate professor and director of public health for the University of the Incarnate Word, School of Osteopathic Medicine. Mangla served as the former deputy director for the San Antonio Department of Health and a former state epidemiologist for Georgia.

He was appointed by Texas Governor Abbott to the Chronic Kidney Disease Task Force as one of the 17 experts in Texas on Diabetes related amputations and kidney failure. He is a member of the Texas Public Health Association, American Physician Association, and the Royal Institute of Public Health. Dr. Mangla completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Natal, Nelson Mandela, School of Medicine. He immigrated to the US and completed his graduate studies at University of Texas at El Paso, Texas Tech University, an infectious disease fellowship at the University of Minnesota and is a Bush Leadership Fellow.

He currently serves as the epidemiology program management lead for DC- Department of Health. In this role he provides guidance and expertise in infectious disease / epidemiology to the Department of Corrections, OSSE, DCPS, and AISGW. Dr Mangla’s interest are policy development, Social Determinants of Health and vaccine delivery. His South African roots and his Indian heritage motivates his passion in identifying pathways for immigrants to overcome barriers in health and higher education.

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