Dr. David Garr is the Associate Dean for Community Medicine and Professor of Family Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina as well as the Executive Director of the South Carolina Area Health Education Consortium (AHEC). Dr. Garr was a rural family physician for several years and since 1981 has been a faculty member of Departments of Family Medicine first in Denver and now in Charleston, SC. Dr. Garr’s areas of educational and research focus have been prevention, population health, and interprofessional education and practice. He has served as the co-chair of the Healthy People Curriculum Task Force since 2002 which, among other contributions, developed the Clinical Prevention and Population Health Curriculum Framework for health professions education. In 2013 he completed a three year term as a member of the HRSA Advisory Committee on Interdisciplinary, Community-based Linkages which, during his tenure, published reports on health behavior change, professional development and lifelong learning, interprofessional education and practice, and population health. Dr. Garr was a member of the Board of Directors and served as the President of the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) and was the recipient of the 2008 APTR F. Marian Bishop Outstanding Educator Award and the 2015 APTR Duncan Clark Award for distinguished achievement in the fields of public health and prevention.