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Brave Enough CME Conference 2025
Reignite: Light the Fire Within
FACULTY
Meet our BE25 Faculty
Dr. Sasha Shillcutt
Dr. Sasha is a tenured and endowed Professor and the Vice Chair of Strategy in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). She is the CEO and Founder of Brave Enough, a well-published researcher in cardiac anesthesiology and gender equity, an author, and an international speaker.
Aimee L. Lowe
Aimee is the founder of Lowe Legal Group, PC LLO, a boutique law firm that provides legal services for executives and physicians, businesses, and entrepreneurs. She has worked with businesses, professionals, and physicians for over 17 years as executive advisor, general counsel, defender, litigator, negotiator, and strategist. She has negotiated hundreds of physician contracts and has helped countless open new and side businesses.
Dr. Alexia Gillen
Dr. Alexia is the founder of Mosaic Medicine and RISE Coaching for Women in Medicine, where she integrates her nearly 20 years of experience in clinical practice and leadership roles within family medicine, urgent care and integrative and functional medicine. Having navigated burnout multiple times, Dr. Gillen is passionate about coaching women in medicine through RISE Coaching. She is dedicated to supporting them in living the life they desire while continuing to care for others.
Barbara Edelheit, MD
Dr. Barbara is an accomplished pediatric rheumatologist, educator, and passionate advocate for gender equity in medicine. She serves as an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, where she has made significant contributions to both clinical care and academic leadership. At Connecticut Children’s in Hartford, CT, Dr. Edelheit holds several key leadership roles, including Division Head of Rheumatology, past Board Chair of the Connecticut Children’s Specialty Group, and Vice President of the Medical Staff.
Dr. Brittney Terry
Dr. Brittney is a board certified pediatrician who received her medical degree from Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine after receiving her undergraduate degree from East Tennessee State University. She completed her residency at James H. Quillen College of Medicine. She has special interest in wellness promotion, including obesity prevention, promoting and supporting breast feeding and child abuse prevention.
Dr. D’Anna Mullins
Dr. D’Anna is a hematologist/medical oncologist practicing in the Columbus, Ohio area. She obtained her MD and PhD in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Toledo, with a dissertation on lung cancer genetics. She went on to complete an Internal Medicine residency at The Ohio State University Medical Center, followed by a Hematology and Medical Oncology fellowship at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute. Upon graduating in 2014, she joined the Hematology and Oncology department of Licking Memorial Health Systems in Newark, Ohio.
Dr. Leigh Johnson
Dr. Leigh grew up in Bristol, VA and then ventured north to New Hampshire, where she graduated from Dartmouth College. She returned to Appalachia for medical school at ETSU’s Quillen College of Medicine, and completed residency at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, WA. She deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn, and then moved to Fort Campbell, KY to continue to care for our nation’s troops and their families. She completed her Army service in 2013 and worked as faculty in the ETSU Family Medicine Residency for 8 years.
Jennifer M. Hall, DO
Jennifer is the Owner/CEO of Blooming Wisdom Psychiatry, PLLC in Vermont. She is dual board certified in adult and geriatric psychiatry with more than 15 years of experience helping older adults achieve optimal mental health and wellness through holistic, person-centered care, by focusing on medication optimization, psychotherapy, and lifestyle interventions.
