MEETING LOCATION –
CLC at St Luke’s UMC
Robert F. Anda, MD, MS
ACE Interface, LLC– Co-Founder
ACE Study—Co-Founder and Co-Principal Investigator
Rob Anda lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dr. Anda graduated from Rush Medical College in 1979 and received his Board Certification in Internal Medicine in 1982. During 1982-1984 he completed a Fellowship in Preventive Medicine at the University of Wisconsin where he also received a Masters Degree (MS) in Epidemiology.
He spent 20 years conducting research as a medical officer in the U.S. Public Health Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. His research involved a variety of areas including disease surveillance, behavioral health, mental health and disease, cardiovascular disease, and childhood determinants of health.
He played the principal role in the design of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study and serves as its Co-Principal Investigator. Findings from the ACE Study have been presented at Congressional Briefings and numerous conferences around the world. The ACE Study is being replicated in numerous countries by the World Health Organization (WHO) and is now being used to assess the childhood origins of health and social problems in more than 30 U.S. states.
He has more than 200 peer-reviewed and government publications such as the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) and book chapters. In addition, he has received numerous awards and recognition for scientific achievements. He and his work are highlighted in the documentary “Resilience” by Jamie Redford that was accepted to the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and is now being shown across the nation.
Dr. Anda now works in his role as Co-Founder of ACE Interface to deliver training materials at the state and community level about neurobiology, epigenetics, ACEs, resilience, and community capacity development. His dream is to help create a trauma informed Nation.
Pat Potts, MBA co-founded the Community Resource Development Foundation and serves as the Immediate Past President of its successor, the Potts Family Foundation (PFF). She also founded the Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits and served as president and CEO for over 20 years. Pat was a founder of the Oklahoma Women’s Coalition. Pat has also served as President of the Oklahoma City School Board, Oklahoma City Beautiful, the Zoo Trust, and the Society of Fund Raising Executives. Pat was honored as “Woman of the Year” by The Journal Record in 2012, with the Pioneer Woman Award by the Oklahoma Women’s Coalition in 2013, as a “Door-Opener” by ASTEC Charter Schools in 2015 and as a Festival of Hope Honoree in 2016 by HeartLine . More recently she and her husband received the 2017 Oklahoma Commerce & Industry Hall of Honor Lifetime Achievement Award from the OCU Meinders School of Business. She believes in leveraging resources “to address root causes and build the human potential of the people of our state.”