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Anthony Martinez, MD, AAHIVS, FAASLD is an associate professor of medicine at the University at Buffalo and medical director of hepatology at Erie County Medical Center. His clinic, “La Bodega,” has been recognized nationally and internationally as a novel co-localized model for managing viral hepatitis and addiction disorders. Dr. Martinez has lectured worldwide on Hepatitis C management among people with substance use disorders, and his team’s work has been presented at the annual liver meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver, the annual conference of the International Network On Viral Hepatitis in Substance Users and at the International Liver Congress. He has been a primary and co-investigator on numerous clinical trials related to hepatitis C and fatty liver disease. He is board-certified by the ABIM and the American Academy of HIV Medicine. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease, ambassador and co-chair of the Chronic Liver Disease Foundation HCV Committee, and an inductee in the Gold Humanism Honor Society.

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Antonio E. Urbina, MD is the Medical Director for the Mt. Sinai Institute for Advanced Medicine Downtown clinic in New York City. Dr. Urbina serves as a Medical Director for the Clinical Education Initiative of the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute as well as Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Since completing his residency in Internal Medicine at Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Center-Manhattan in 1995, Dr. Urbina has pioneered innovative educational programming for community-based clinics, hospitals, and public health departments. He has directed more than 10 HIV clinical trials research protocols. From 2007 to 2009, Dr. Urbina served on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) as well as Governor Cuomo’s Task Force to end the AIDS epidemic in New York State.

Annette Gaudino, consultant and former US and Global Health Policy Co-Director at Treatment Action Group (TAG), played a leading role in the initial drafting of HCV elimination recommendations, which helped catalyze the Governor’s Statewide HCV Elimination Task Force, where she served on the Data and Metrics working group. Annette served on the AIDS Institute Substance User Health Clinical Guidelines Committee, co-founded the Viral Hepatitis Diagnostics Working Group and is a member of the Hepatitis Appropriations Partnership. 

Justine Waldman, MD s Board Certified in Addiction Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and is the CEO and CMO of Reach (Respectful, Equitable Access to Compassionate Health) Medical in Ithaca, NY which opened in 2018. REACH houses a medical practice offering integrated primary care and low threshold harm reduction services for people who tend to face stigma in the current medical system. Reach Medical offers primary care, MAT, viral screening, vaccination and treatment and on demand behavioral health care. Since the Spring of 2020, REACH has been growing a robust outreach program staffed by individuals with lived experience who offer viral screening, vaccination and treatment, acute primary care and MAT visits via telehealth. In addition, REACH is the administrative home for case management for the Ithaca Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion Program (LEAD). REACH has an established Peer Advisory Board in which peers are provided stipends through a local foundation grant to advise REACH on various aspects of our organization, e.g., service delivery, and research.