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Born in Jamaica, West Indies, Dr. Kavanaugh Chandler immigrated to New York as a young child and as a preteen moved to the small rural community of Statesboro, Georgia. Over the years, he pursued his lifelong dream of becoming a healthcare leader by pursuing his medical and business degrees. This path enabled Dr. Chandler to develop a healthy balance of understanding the amount of compassion that’s needed in the field of medicine, while balancing the business aspects that are necessary to support the mission of medicine – specifically, rural medicine.

Since 2018, Dr. Chandler has been passionately working with FQHC’s (Federally Qualified Health Centers) and providing quality affordable healthcare to thousands of individuals. He now serves as the CEO of Coastal Community Health, an FQHC in Coastal Georgia with clinics currently in McIntosh County (Eulonia & Shellman Bluff), Glynn County (Brunswick), and Camden County (St. Marys) offering a multitude of services ranging from dental, pharmacy, behavioral health, and primary care.

Betsy Collins, MD, MPH, completed her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at University of Texas at Austin and then went on to complete a combined degree at The Ohio State University in Medicine and a Masters of Public Health with a focus on Policy and Management.

During her residency, Dr. Collins focused on care for the underserved as well as very high acuity patients from around the state of Georgia. She then stayed on as an Assistant Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics with the Generalist Division at Emory University Hospital Midtown (EUHM) where she still continues to take care of patients as well as teach both medical students and residents.  Dr. Collins currently has a part-time clinical practice in OB/GYN at EUHM.  Her clinical interests are preventative medicine, healthy living through life changes, family planning and reproductive justice/ advocacy, decreasing birther morbidity and mortality, breast/chestfeeding and post-partum care. She is an advocate for the LGBTQIA patient population and provides full scope Obstetrics and Gynecologic care including delivering babies, preventative health services, gynecologic care, and surgery.

In addition to her teaching and clinical practice, Dr. Collins is a very active public health advocate. She is a steering committee member at the Georgia Clinicians for Gun Safety (GC4GC), a newly formed group of concerned healthcare providers to reduce firearm injury and death in our state. She also is very active in reproductive justice advocacy, especially supporting Georgia citizens in the right to make decisions for their own bodies and to live safe and healthy lives-whatever is best for themselves and their families. Finally, she is a staunch advocate for access to affordable, high-quality health care for every person.

Dr. Collins and her wife live in Atlanta and have two children who attend Atlanta Public Schools.

Chris Hatcher is the CEO of the Commodore Conyers College and Career Academy, an innovative charter high school focused on cultivating talent in K through 12 education.  He also serves as President of the 4C Foundation, whose singular mission is to support the efforts of the Academy.  Prior to his current position, Mr. Hatcher has been involved in healthcare and technology start-ups, was a senior healthcare consultant with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and was an executive at Phoebe Putney Health System, with a focus on strategy and managed care.  Throughout his career, Mr. Hatcher has enjoyed cultivating the partnerships required to develop solutions in complex healthcare delivery systems. 

Mr. Hatcher is from Albany, Georgia and remains active in the Albany Community, as well as other community efforts across the state.  He serves as the Chair of the Albany-Dougherty Economic Development Commission, Chair of the Georgia College and Career Academy Network, is a member of the Hospital Authority of Dougherty County and is a member of the Albany Rotary Club.  He has served on the Board and the Executive Committee of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and the Board of the Boys and Girls Club.  He is a founding Board member of The Launch Room, an entrepreneurial incubator in Albany, and is a founding Board member of The Jack O’Kelley Foundation which is focused on raising awareness around the dangers of fentanyl.   

Mr. Hatcher attended the University of Georgia and Georgia State University.  He and his wife Margaret reside in Albany and have 3 sons, Lane, John and Ben. 

Helen Kim Hendrix is an attorney and former nonprofit executive. Helen is the Founding Partner of HKH Law LLC, where she counsels clients—including a number of non-profit entities—on corporate, employment and civil rights matters.  Prior to launching her law practice in 2017, she dedicated a decade of her career as a nonprofit lawyer and executive, culminating in founding the first Asian American civil rights nonprofit in the Southeast, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta (formerly AALAC). Helen began her legal career with a leading Wall Street law firm.

Helen was four years old when her family immigrated to the U.S., and she grew up in Columbia, South Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia. She is familiar with the challenges of accessing quality healthcare, government benefits and other institutional services for immigrants in the Southeast and has dedicated much of her 25-year legal career to serving as an advocate, lobbyist, and activist for immigrants and refugees. Most recently, Helen was tapped to serve as a community liaison and facilitator for Gwinnett County’s 2022-2023 Comprehensive Human Service Needs Assessment and Strategic Plan, an assessment that had last been completed about 30 years ago, prior to the mass influx of Asian and Latino immigrants to the county.

Helen has been and remains active in the community by serving on boards of organizations she feels passionate about. Helen has served as the Vice Chair of Immigrant Hope – Atlanta, a board member of Mosaic (Gwinnett County’s sexual assault center), a member of the Emory University Board of Visitors, an Advisory Board member for the Alliance Theatre, the Program Co-Chair for the Georgia Association of Women Lawyers, an Editorial Advisory Board member for Atlanta Magazine, Program Chair for the Gwinnett County Democratic Party, and Founding Board member of the Korean American Bar Association of Georgia, among others.

Helen lives in Atlanta with her husband, Glenn Hendrix, and daughter, Vega. Helen is also the proud stepparent of five adult children and seven grandchildren, all of whom reside in Atlanta.  When not engaging in family activities, Helen and Glenn love to travel, hike, and play pickleball in their free time.

Dr. Hernandez received her Master of Public Health from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology from Stony Brook University in New York. She earned her Ph.D. in public health and a graduate certificate in interdisciplinary women’s health from the University of South Florida. Dr. Hernandez was a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) maternal and child health leadership trainee and epidemiology trainee. She was also a Satcher Health Leadership Institute Health Policy Post-Doctoral Scholar at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM). She has more than 16 years of experience implementing population health that engages diverse stakeholder groups.

Dr. Hernandez is an NIH-funded researcher and founding Director of the MSM Center for Maternal Health Equity who has obtained diverse extramural funding to develop multiple lines of research to advance science toward eliminating women’s health inequities, specifically with Black and Latinx populations. She has laid the groundwork for research in maternal health by establishing partnerships with local and national organizations dedicated to maternal morbidity and mortality disparities, evaluating maternal health interventions and programs, and validating effective measures of maternal mental health and medical mistrust as psychosocial factors.

Dr. Hernandez currently sits on a variety of committees, including Georgia’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee, Georgia PRAMS Steering Committee, and more. She also sits on national organizations, including the American Public Health Association Committee on Health Equity, the Health Disparities Taskforce of the National Preeclampsia Foundation, and many others. Dr. Hernandez has presented her work at various international, national, state, and local conferences.

Dr. Kathryn Martin joined as a Board Member in January 2026.  

Kathryn has worked with the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) for nearly 20 years. Her primary focus throughout her tenure at MCG has been the development and management of MCG’s regional campuses in different areas across the state. Kathryn first joined MCG in 2008 to help establish its Southeast Georgia regional campus in Savannah. At present, she leads MCG’s regional campus development endeavors in Albany, Thomasville, Rome, Dalton, and Atlanta. Prior to joining MCG, Kathryn served as Administrator of the Chatham County Health Department. A self-proclaimed “late bloomer,” Kathryn began her college education at age 40 and has since received her bachelor’s degree in sociology, her master’s degree in public health, and her doctorate in health administration. 

As a community leader, Kathryn has held multiple community leadership roles at the local, state, and national levels. She has served on several local boards, including chairing the Chatham County (Savannah) Board of Health and serving on the Savannah Mayor’s Healthy Savannah initiative. She was elected President of the Georgia Public Health Association in 2013 and serves as part of the Executive Board for Resilient Georgia. At the national level, Kathryn is the Immediate Past President of the Group on Regional Campuses for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). 

Kathryn’s passion for public health is rooted in her early life, having been born in Allendale County, South Carolina, one of the sickest and poorest counties in the state. Recognizing that individuals are only as healthy as our environment allows, Kathryn works tirelessly to improve the health of her community by recruiting and educating future physicians for MCG, which is the fifth-largest medical school in the country. She often notes that her greatest education has come from learning alongside her students at MCG.  

Kathryn is married to Chip Hardin, a Superior Court Judge residing over for six rural counties in Georgia. Kathryn and Chip have one daughter, two sons, five grandchildren, and two great grandchildren—along with one precious furry dog-child named Little Kippa Hardin.  

Laura Register is a retired community activist from rural south Georgia known for her ability to bridge political and religious divides.  She was elected to and served on the Grady County Board of Education for 13 years. She has presented on multiple panels with the University of Georgia Archway Program and the Carter Center at the United Nations. She has been a rural advisor to multiple statewide campaigns. She is now raising grass fed beef and collecting goats.

Chris Reynolds has been an executive in the investment industry for more than 30 years. He is currently an Advisory Board Member with RiskBridge Advisors, LLC. He has held senior positions with Cornerstone Investment Partners, Rigel Capital, LLC, Atlanta Capital Management Company, LLC, and Barclays Global Investors. He is an active member of many industry associations such as the Georgia Association of Public Pension Trustees (GAPPTA), Association of Investment Management Sales Executives (AIMSE) and the Southern Employee Benefits Conference (SEBC). Chris earned both a Bachelor of General Studies and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Houston. He also holds the Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA), Certified Employee Benefits Specialist (CEBS), Certified Retirement Plan Fiduciary (CRPF), and the Chartered Pension Professional (CPP) designations. Chris has been active in his community having served on numerous non-profit boards such as Cool Girls, Inc., Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta, NFL/Youth Education Town, and The Children’s Museum of Atlanta to name a few. Through his extensive nonprofit experience, Chris is recognized as a leader in the areas of governance, fiduciary duty and board performance.

Lizann Roberts has over 35 years of experience in public health leadership and has focused her career on developing public-private endeavors to improve overall community well-being. She is a seasoned leader, facilitator, and coalition geek.

In 2007, Lizann worked with former Mayor Otis Johnson to launch Healthy Savannah and served as the Executive Director of the Coastal Georgia Indicators Coalition also based in Savannah. In 2021 she was named a Community STAR by the board of Savannah Technical College and received an inaugural Community Peace Builder award alongside Mayor Van Johnson in 2022.

Prior to serving non-profits, Lizann was a faculty member of two academic institutions, created employee development and health management programs for large multi-site organizations and designed comprehensive health improvement programs for two large health care systems.

She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in health education with leadership certifications from Georgetown University and The Center for Creative Leadership.

Lizann is a native of Pierce County Georgia. Today, she resides on Isle of Hope a neighborhood in Chatham County with her husband Joe and doodle Adeline where she sings in the choir and serves on the vestry of St. Thomas Episcopal Church, loves to fish, and garden in her spare time.  She is a step-friend to 5 adults and 7 grand kids who all call her Lizzy.