Professor Emerita, Emergency Medicine; Faculty, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, Anschutz Medical Campus
Jean is a Professor Emerita in Emergency Medicine and has been at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Anschutz Medical Center as an EM Attending for 34 years. She retired several years ago from clinical work in the Emergency Department. For 15 years, she was the lead for the ethics consultation service at University of Colorado Hospital, is nationally certified in hospital ethics consultation and a remains a member of the UCH Ethics Committee. Now she is working primarily at the Center for Bioethics and with Palliative Care colleagues as part of a 2-year on-line Master in Palliative Care degree program at CU!

Jean graduated from Bryn Mawr College, University of Pennsylvania SOM. She has a Masters in Humanities from the CU Denver campus, and now is on the faculty at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities on the Anschutz campus.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, she has been part of content expert panels to advise the Governor’s Expert Emergency Epidemic Response Committee (GEEERC). She has helped craft guidelines for critical care triage for the Crisis Standards of Care, crisis concerns in Palliative Care and Hospice, as well as potential medication and vaccine shortages.

Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine; University of Colorado School of Medicine
Rita Lee is a Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She completed medical school at the University of California, Los Angeles, and residency training at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Dr. Lee has spent much of her career teaching leadership, advocacy, and health equity. She is the Director of Health Systems Science and Health Equity for the School of Medicine and the Director of Health Equity Education and Training for the Anschutz Medical Campus. Her primary advocacy work has been around LGBT health and she is one of the founding members of the UCHealth Integrated Transgender Program.

Assistant Professor
Director Orthopedic Infectious Diseases
University of Colorado
Laura was born and raised in Atlanta, Ga and went to Mercer University School of Medicine for medical school. She then moved to New Orleans for her residency in internal medicine and fellowship in infectious diseases. After completing training, she and her husband moved to Colorado to be closer to his family. She has been at the University of Colorado for 3.5 years and primary treats orthopedic infections such as osteomyelitis, prosthetic joint infections, and septic arthritis. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her husband, 3 cats, and 2 dogs. When COVID is over she hopes to spend time with friends and family once again and enjoys hosting cookouts at her home.

Instructor/Fellow, University of Colorado Department of Emergency Medicine
Fellow in Climate Change and Health Science Policy

Hanna Linstadt, MD is the Fellow in Climate Change and Health Science Policy at the University of Colorado Department of Emergency Medicine. She is interested in the connection between climate change and human health as well as how the health care system contributes to our changing climate.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
ID Fellowship Program Director, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Center
Carlos Franco-Paredes, M.D., directs the Infectious Diseases Fellowship at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where he also is an associate professor. He has been a medical expert in several Covid-19-related lawsuits to improve conditions in jails, prisons, and immigration detention centers in the U.S., including ones brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center, ACLU, Civil Rights Corp; and inspected correctional facilities across the United States in collaboration with civil rights and immigration attorneys and advocacy groups. As an activist working with Colorado re-entry organizations, he promotes health care and health-care equity for formerly incarcerated individuals. A former consultant to the World Health Organization, Franco-Paredes helped develop influenza pandemic preparedness guidelines from 2006 to 2010. The most recent of his 225 published, research articles on infectious diseases, pandemics have been on the impact of Covid-19 on minorities, persons in correctional facilities and persons in immigration detention centers. Franco-Paredes has been providing direct care to patients with Covid-19 in the medical wards and intensive care units at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Center. He earned a Master of Public Health degree in global health from the Rollins School of Public Health and completed his internal medicine residency and infectious diseases fellowship at Emory University in Atlanta, GA

Assistant Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine and Oncology
University of Colorado School of Medicine

Kasey Bowden MSN, FNP, AGACNP is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine and Oncology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She has dedicated her career to the development and implementation of collaborative, multi-disciplinary care models to meet the continuously evolving landscape of hospital medicine. She currently acts as the Medical Director in the Clinical Assessment and Rapid Evaluation (CARE) Clinic, which provides intensives symptom management and urgent care services to oncology patients. In addition, she is the Associate Clinical Director in the Division of Hospital Medicine, which consists of approximately 100 physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants and performs over 13,000 patient visits per year, and also acts as the Senior Clinical Lead for the University of Colorado Office of Advanced Practice. She has spoken at many regional and national conferences on topics including Advanced Practice Provider (APP) professional development, APP-physician best practices, and collaborative models of care.