George Rust, MD, MPH, FAAFP, FACPM is a Professor at the FSU College of Medicine in Tallahassee, FL, where he also co-directs the Center for Medicine and Public Health Policy and Practice. He also serves as Medical Director for the Leon County Health Department and for Florida’s Dept of Health in five surrounding rural counties. He is board-certified in both Family Practice and Preventive Medicine. He completed residency training at Cook County Hospital in Chicago and then began his career serving six years as Medical Director for the West Orange Farmworkers Health Association in Central Florida. He then taught for 24 years on faculty at the Morehouse School of Medicine, where he was founding director of the National Center for Primary Care. In 2015, he was senior scientific advisor to the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). As a population health outcomes and health equity researcher, Rust has authored over 120 peer-reviewed publications, and has received numerous local, state, and national awards for teaching and service. His career as a family physician and scholar has consistently focused on primary health care and community health for those in greatest need, and on charting a path to health equity. In November, look for his upcoming book, titled Healing in a Changing America: Doctoring in a Nation of Needless Suffering.