2024 Conference Speakers
Mycah Lee Arellano
For more than 25 years, Mycah Lee Arellano has been a dedicated community leader and advocate for adequate healthcare and education to support those who don't have a voice due to fear, brief system, or religion constraints that have hindered them to engage in the health well-being. He has served with numerous local and internally nonprofits to enhance stakeholders and community leaders in the value of diversity and breaking stigma in mental health, active older adults aging, and HIV/AIDS awareness.
In the Fall of 2020, he was exposed and diagnosed with HIV during a medical procedure in a third world country. Despite this adversity, he continues to advocate for educating the local and international government to assure all universal measures are provided to health departments regulations. Mycah says “we all have the duty of the VOICE to act as leaders to assure our community has adequate healthcare and education and have dialogue of breaking stigma barriers.”
Mycah’s leadership and dedication highlight the importance of using our voices to enact positive change, breaking down barriers, and fostering inclusive communities. “By working together, we can create a world where everyone has equal access to quality healthcare and education.”
Dr. Jacqueline M. Champlain, MD - WellMed
Jacqueline Champlain, MD, is a family medicine physician. She pursued a career in family medicine because it was the best combination of her top interests: people, teaching and biological sciences. Born in California and raised in Illinois, Dr. Champlain earned her medical degree from Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine with Honors in research and continued on to complete her residency in the AMITA Health Adventist Medical Center Hinsdale Family Medicine Residency Program. She has been board-certified as a diplomate of the American Board of Family Medicine since 2014.
Dr. Champlain recognizes that patient collaboration often leads to the best outcomes. Listening to patients and fostering mutual respect is key to unparalleled patient care, and she genuinely treasures the one-on-one time she spends with patients. Preventive care, women’s health, thyroid disorders, diabetes, and geriatrics are her top clinical passions and interests.
Dr. Champlain currently lives in Georgetown, Texas, with her family. When she is not at the clinic, she can be found cheering for her children at the gymnastics studio, various hockey rinks, and baseball diamonds around town.
Dr. Jewel Mullen, MD, MPH, MPA
Jewel Mullen, MD, MPH, MPA is Associate Dean for Health Equity and Associate Professor of Population Health and Internal Medicine at the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School. She also serves as Director of Health Equity at Ascension Seton and Director of Health Equity and Quality at Central Health, the Travis County, Texas Health District. She has applied her expertise in clinical care, research, education, public health, and administration to advance policies to improve the health of all people, especially the underserved.
Prior to joining Dell Med, Mullen served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) and Director of the Bureau of Community Health and Prevention at the Massachusetts DPH. A former president of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, she used her platform to launch Living Longer Better, an initiative that advanced policies and programs to support healthy aging nationally. She is recognized nationally and internationally as a leader in building effective community-based chronic disease prevention programs and for her commitment to improving individual and population health by strengthening coordination between community, public health, and health care systems.
Dr. Mullen often remarks that 1981, the year the first cases of illness that were eventually attributed to HIV, was also the year she graduated from medical school. Accordingly, she has engaged in developing policies and programs related to HIV prevention and treatment, and equity for people who are at risk and infected, throughout her career. That has included highlighting the particular needs of older adults.
Ivry Newsome
Ivry Newsome has been a healthcare thought leader and community advocate in Central Texas for more than 30 years. Locally, he has worked with Interfaith Care Alliance and The Care Communities, and was the Behavioral Intervention Specialist for The Wright House Wellness Center, where he conduct targeted CDC prevention-based intervention for community members living with HIV/AIDS. He also served as the Assistant Transportation Coordinator for Connections Transportation, where he coordinated more than 3,000 rides per month to medical and/or mental health appointments – as well as return home trip from food banks – for vulnerable residents in Central Texas, while also providing outreach in the community.
Ivry is also the Vice President of the Board of Directors and Dance Company Member for Pointe West Performances/Pointillism Jazz Consort. He ensures the vision and mission of organization is preserved and advanced, in addition to performing in each production.
He has as Bachelor's of Arts in Fine Arts with a focus on dance from the University of Texas at Austin and an Associates of Arts in Software Engineering from Lon Morris College. Ivry will complete his Master’s of Public Administration in May 2025.
Maria D. Saldiva, DNP, APRN, FNP-C - University Health San Antonio, School of Nursing
With a profession in nursing spanning more than 20 years, Maria D. Saldiva focuses on the health needs of underserved populations in domestic and global settings. She works in community health, providing care to vulnerable populations – including HIV/AIDS care and refugee/immigrant care, working with patients experiencing homelessness, in leadership and in academia, and in advanced practice nursing positions.
As a Clinical Assistant Professor, she teaches in the graduate nursing program and as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) at Wellness 360, the practice arm of the School of Nursing at UT Health San Antonio. Addressing health disparities and making health care culturally, geographically, and financially accessible to under-represented populations of Texas, she serves as lead provider at Wellness 360 at San Antonio College – a collaboration between Alamo Colleges and the School of Nursing – and as a provider at the Housing First clinic for adults aging out of the Texas foster care system to aid in community-based strategies that prove the delivery of high-quality health care in a health setting.
She has served on the boards of the Medical Assistant program at San Antonio College, the American College Health Association, Broken Warriors Angels, UTHSA Infectious Disease Committee, UTHSA Committee on International Programs, UTHSA Presidential Excellence Award Committee, UTHSA Community Engagement Subcommittee of the SON Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council, the Texas DNP Conference 2024 Planning Committee, and the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium. Currently, she is a member of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, the Texas Nurse Practitioner, the National Nurses United, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and Sigma Theta Tau.
She has completed several mission trips including medical experiences to Haiti, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, Thailand, and Africa. Last year, she traveled to Zambia, Africa, top help launch a pilot program to aid Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) students in becoming comfortable within the community health context of a developing country with limited resources and access to medical care. She serves as chair of the UTHSA School of Nursing Committee on International Programs.
Maria holds a BSN from the University of Texas at El Paso, an MSN program in Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) at UTMB Galveston in 2012, a Post-master’s in emergency and Trauma Nurse Practitioner (ENP) at UT Houston in 2016, and a Doctor of Nurse Practice (DNP) program at UT Austin in 2018. Her doctoral project delivered a 2-week public health immersion program for graduate students in Costa Rica, which continues today.
Dr. Michael Williams, MD - Austin Black Men’s Health Clinic
Michael Crumrine is a Sergeant with the Austin Police Department with more than 36 years of law enforcement experience. He is currently a sergeant in the Child Abuse Unit and supervises investigations involving the physical and sexual abuse of children. Sergeant Crumrine began his investigative career in the adult Sex Crimes Unit, investig
ating felony and misdemeanor sexually related offenses against adult victims. He was also a detective in the Homicide Unit and the Sex Offender Apprehension and Registration Unit (SOAR).
Sergeant Crumrine is a founding member and current President of the Lesbian and Gay Peace Officers Association - Austin's first and only LGBTQI+ Peace Officers Association. Sergeant Crumrine has written and trained nationally and internationally on the subject of intimate partner and sexual violence in the LGBTQI+ community as well as how to improve the relationship between the community and the criminal justice system.
Sergeant Crumrine has trained for many organizations, including the Federal Bureau of Investigations (F.B.I.), the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the United States Department of Defense, the United States Department of Justice, the Office of Violence Against Women, the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault, Texas Department of Public Safety and the United States Office for Victims of Crime. Sergeant Crumrine is a member of the End Violence Against Women International Cadre of experts and continues to consult nationally and internationally in the above-mentioned fields.
Dr. David Wright, MD - Dell Seton Medical Center
Dr. David Philip Wright is a Family Medicine Specialist in Austin, Texas. He graduated with honors from University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in 1980. Having more than 40 years of diverse experiences, especially in Family Medicine, Dr. Wright affiliates with Dell Seton Medical School UT, cooperates with many other doctors and specialists in medical groups, and with Moody Medical Clinic operated by Vivent Health – Austin. Dr. Wright has been a family medicine physician in Austin for more than 40 years, and is involved in graduate medical education during this time. Dr. Wright has won numerous teaching awards, and was honored as Texas Family Physician of the Year by the Texas Academy of Family Physicians.