Judson Brewer, MD, PhD (“Dr. Jud”), is a New York Times best-selling author and a leading authority on habit change and the science of self-mastery. He serves as the Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center and as a professor at Brown University. An internationally recognized psychiatrist specializing in mindfulness for addiction, Dr. Jud has developed innovative mindfulness programs—both in-person and app-based—for smoking cessation, emotional eating, and anxiety. He has investigated the neural mechanisms of mindfulness using standard and real-time fMRI and EEG neurofeedback. He has trained U.S. Olympic athletes, coaches, and foreign government ministers. His work has been featured on “60 Minutes,” TED (one of the most-viewed talks of 2016 with over 20 million views), The New York Times, Time magazine, Forbes, BBC, NPR, Al Jazeera, Businessweek, and more. Dr. Jud founded MindSciences—now part of Sharecare Inc.—to bring his discoveries directly to consumers. He also co-founded Mindshift Recovery, a nonprofit aiding those suffering from addiction and more recently, co-created Going Beyond Anxiety, a next-generation program to help anyone with anxiety (www.goingbeyondanxity.com). He is the author of The Craving Mind (Yale University Press, 2017), the New York Times bestseller Unwinding Anxiety (Avery/Penguin Random House, 2021), and The Hunger Habit (Avery/Penguin Random House, 2024).

Dr. Rhee is a mission‑driven physician leader, educator, scientist, and innovator who currently serves as President and CEO of the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) and was named one of Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare in 2025. In this role, he leads the national voice for community health centers, which provide high‑quality, affordable, patient‑governed primary care to more than 52 million people across over 17,000 locations nationwide, regardless of ability to pay. Prior to NACHC, Dr. Rhee served as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at Aetna (CVS Health), leading a multidisciplinary team of more than 1,500 clinicians to deliver population health solutions at scale, and previously spent a decade as IBM’s Chief Health Officer with global responsibility for transforming health through data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and research. His public service includes senior leadership roles at HHS as Chief Public Health Officer of HRSA and Director of the Office of Innovation and Program Coordination at NIH during the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Earlier in his career, he served as a National Health Service Corps physician and Chief Medical Officer for community health centers in the Washington, DC/Baltimore region. Dr. Rhee completed his residency and chief residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at Cedars‑Sinai Medical Center, earned his MD from USC, a Master in Public Policy from Harvard, and a BS in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale, where he also served as student body president.