Charlotte AHEC

Rhett L.R. Brown, MD

Rhett Brown, MD graduated from Davidson College with a degree in economics, and after graduating from the Medical University of South Carolina, completed his residency in family medicine at Carolinas Medical Center. After opening his own practice with a partner in 1992 and later merging with a multi-specialty clinic, he joined the faculty as medical director in 2002 after 10 years of private practice experience. He has interests in practice management, chronic disease management with emphasis on diabetes, heart failure, asthma and HIV. Rhett Brown, MD is active on several community service boards and enjoys bicycling, reading and tennis.

Vicki Derderian, BA

Vicki Derderian is an Education Specialist at Charlotte AHEC where she teaches several courses including Health Literacy, Grant Writing, Business Writing, and Starting a Nonprofit Organization. A graduate of Oberlin College, she has training as a Certified Grant Specialist as well twenty-five years of experience writing and administering grants in nonprofit settings in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and North Carolina. She is currently working with Heart To Heart, a program that focuses on performance improvement in physician practices to reduce cardiovascular risk.

Harry Gallis, MD

Harry A. Gallis is a native of Athens, Georgia, and a graduate of Princeton University and Duke University School of Medicine, with clinical training in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. During 21 years on the faculty at Duke University he was involved in clinical practice and clinical research in infectious diseases, gradually focusing more on continuing education for health care professionals. At Duke he served as CME Director for 3 years, directed CME in Internal Medicine for 13 years and lead Duke's AHEC activities. At Carolinas HealthCare System, he was Director of Charlotte AHEC from 1995-2007. He is currently consultant on CME and quality to the director of the Charlotte AHEC at Carolinas HealthCare System in Charlotte, NC. He has been active on the Conjoint Committee for CME, and spent eight years on the board of the Alliance for CME, most recently having served two years as President.

He is also a Fellow of the ACP, the Alliance for CME and the Infectious Diseases Society of America and chairs the Education Committees of IDSA and the NC Medical Society, being heavily involved with state accredited providers. He is also a past president of the Mecklenburg County Medical Society.

Laura Noonan, MD

Laura Noonan, MD is a member of the Pediatric Faculty at Carolinas Medical Center and serves as Director for the Medical Student education, acute care, continuity clinic, and practice-based learning and improvement. Dr. Noonan is also the clinical coordinator for the Charlotte Office of Regional Primary Care Education at Charlotte AHEC. Dr. Noonan has extensive experience in quality improvement in the primary care environment as well as participation in numerous learning collaboratives, including the 2003 NC Open Access Collaborative.