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Sarah G. Candler, MD, MPH, FACP

A National Voice for Sustainable Primary Care

Dr. Sarah Candler is an Internal Medicine Physician, specializing in primary care for high-risk, older adults. She has dedicated both her practice and policy work to improving access to high quality, sustainable primary care. Her professional goal is to recenter the American healthcare system on the patient-physician relationship through payment reforms, public transparency, and team-based care.

In addition to her work as a primary care physician and strategic planning consultant, Dr. Candler has represented the voice of primary care and internal medicine physicians in lectures and panels on valuation of primary care, including comments before the National Academies of Science and Medicine’s Standing Committee on Primary Care. She has also served in multiple national leadership roles at the American College of Physicians (ACP), most recently on their Medical Practice and Quality Committee, and as Delegate from ACP to the AMA. At the AMA, Dr. Candler is a member of the AMA’s Governing Council of the Specialty and Service Society Caucus, assisting with consensus-building between specialties during their policymaking processes. She has contributed to ACP policy papers on team-based care, payment reform and value-based care, and was a primary author on their paper and toolkit "Beyond the Referral: Principles of Effective, Ongoing Primary and Specialty Care Collaboration."

Dr. Candler graduated from Emory College of Medicine where she also attended Rollins School of Public Health, receiving a Masters in Public Health focused in health policy and management. After completing Internal Medicine residency at Tulane University in their Primary Care Track, Dr. Candler became Assistant Professor for Baylor College of Medicine at the Debakey VA’s Center of Excellence in Primary Care in Houston, Texas. She then served as a Medical Director for Iora Health, opening and growing their Houston market before becoming acquired by One Medical, and later Amazon.

Dr. Candler is currently a private strategic planning consultant for organizations in crisis and subject matter expert in delivery and payment redesign to support team-based primary care. She sees patients in Northeast Washington, D.C.

Matthew Lecuyer, M.D., M.P.H., grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts, completed an undergraduate degree at Georgetown University and medical school at the University of Massachusetts. He completed a residency in general pediatrics at Northwestern/Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and fellowship at Brown University in Providence, RI. Dr. Lecuyer's interests include health policy, medical education and child advocacy. In his free time, he enjoys running, Disney and travel.

Dr. Klint Peebles is a board-certified dermatologist, having completed residency at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a medical internship and medical school at Vanderbilt University, and undergraduate studies concentrating in neuroscience at Vanderbilt. Dr. Peebles was born and raised in Philadelphia, Mississippi with parents in the healthcare system (a nurse and pharmacist) working in the Indian Health Service. Dr. Peebles is actively engaged with advocacy efforts and organized medicine with involvement in the American Medical Association and numerous leadership roles in the American Academy of Dermatology. Dr. Peebles has particular expertise and research experience in sexual and gender diverse health and a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Dr. Peebles has a calico cat, Neo, and a yorkie-shih tzu mix, Mochi.