NACHC Leadership – Staff Leadership

Dr. Kyu (“Q”) Rhee is a mission-driven physician leader, educator, scientist, and innovator who has led and developed transdisciplinary teams across and within the nonprofit, public, and private sectors to make the health system better, especially for underserved populations.

Recognized as one of Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare 2025, Dr. Rhee serves as the President and CEO of the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC). Since the nation’s first community health centers (CHCs) opened in 1965, CHCs have become the best part of our health system, delivering high quality, affordable, patient-governed primary care for communities across our nation. With over 310K employed serving over 32.5 million people in over 16K locations, CHCs provide values-based care to patients, regardless of ability to pay in every state, U.S. territory, and the District of Columbia.

Prior to joining NACHC, Dr. Rhee held the position of Senior Vice President & Aetna Chief Medical Officer at CVS Health, where he led a team of over 1,500 doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other health professionals in the integration and delivery of clinical and population health solutions to improve health for up to 65M people. Before CVS Health, Dr. Rhee was the Chief Health Officer of IBM for a decade, where he had global responsibilities for IBM’s efforts to transform health through the use of data, analytics, artificial intelligence, services, and research for providers, health plans, employers, governments, and life science companies across the world.

During the exciting time of the Affordable Care and Recovery Acts, Dr. Rhee served in the public sector at HHS as Chief Public Health Officer of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), which is the primary federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured or medically vulnerable, and the Director of the Office of Innovation and Program Coordination at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is the primary federal agency for research.

Before his public service, Dr. Rhee worked in the nonprofit sector as a National Health Service Corps physician and Chief Medical Officer for CHCs in the Washington, DC/Baltimore area. He served as Chief Resident and did his medical residency training in internal medicine & pediatrics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with dual-board certification. He earned his MD from USC, a Master in Health Policy from Harvard, and a Bachelor in Science in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale, where he also served as President of the student body.

For the past decade Ms. Erani worked for the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, a Primary Care Association and Health Center Controlled Network representing 52 health centers and serving 1 in 7 patients across the Bay State. Ms. Erani served Mass League in multiple capacities, most recently as COO and head of health informatics, where she established strategies to optimize the use of electronic health records among health centers to drive quality improvement and clinical performance. During her tenure at Mass League, Ms. Erani launched an online collaborative user community for health center staff, created diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging programming and protocols, and implemented a $310 million dollar student loan repayment program administered by Mass League, to include resource onboarding. Ms. Erani started her work in the community health center movement at a federally qualified health center, Healthcare for the Homeless–Houston. There she served as COO, where she overhauled operations to ensure integrated comprehensive care for the unhoused and led the development and implementation of the health center’s strategic plan and electronic medical record system.

Prior to being named NACHC’s Executive Vice President & Chief Growth and Financial Officer, Sean Roddy was most recently the CFO for the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) and worked with the CEO to grow SHRM’s global footprint, both organically and through M&A. Just prior to SHRM, he was the CFO for the largest social services charity in the country, Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA). CCUSA and its member organizations operate in all 50 states and U.S. territories with over 50,000 employees, 200,000 volunteers at 2,300 locations.

As the CFO for Pace Global Energy, an affiliate of the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA) he assisted the company with opening offices in six countries managing contracts in over 36 countries, along with raising $250 million through Private Placement Memorandums. Upon leaving Pace Global, he became the CFO for Sceptor Industries. His responsibilities included, drafting the S1 registration statement for the IPO, audit the three prior years financial statements, amend the prior years’ tax returns, become Sarbanes-Oxley compliant, develop the strategic plan and work with the primary underwriters, Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan.

Upon the sale of Sceptor Industries he became the COO for Watkins Meegan, one of the top 60 largest CPA firms. As the COO, he assisted the Managing Partner with running the firm and managed my own book of business consulting with Firm clients.

During his career he was an adjunct professor of finance at Johns Hopkins University, where he taught graduate courses in two colleges. He taught mergers and acquisitions in the MBA program for the Carey School of Business, and Finance for the Master of Biotechnology in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.

Sean has served on numerous boards of directors in a leadership capacity, most recently as the Audit Committee Chair for the American Kidney Fund (AKF), prior to that he was the Audit Committee Chair for the Maryland Association of CPA’s (MACPA), he was the Treasurer for Jr. Achievement of Greater Washington and an executive committee member of the Maryland Technology Council.

Angelique A. Wilkins, MPS, has nearly 30 years of executive-level experience managing domestic and international communications, marketing, and training events for nonprofit organizations.

Prior to joining NACHC, Angelique served as the vice president of communications and meetings for Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA), a global nonprofit substance use and misuse prevention trade association. She was responsible for managing the planning and execution of CADCA’s strategic communications, branding, marketing and public relations, and national meetings and special events. Previous positions included serving as director of meetings and facilities at the Mathematical Association of America, a nonprofit trade association of practitioners of mathematics, and the vice president of conferences and meetings at the Futures Industry Association in Washington, an international futures and securities trade association. She earned a BA from Georgetown University and also holds a master’s degree from Georgetown in public relations and corporate communications and is a regularly invited speaker at industry forums on marketing, communications, and events.

Gina Capra leads a talented team responsible for the development, implementation, and evaluation of education, training, and technical assistance services for 1,400 Community Health Centers across the country. Gina coordinates training and technical assistance across NACHC and with state/regional Primary Care Associations, Health Center Controlled Networks, and other national organizations who advance access to care through their technical assistance to community health centers. Training domains include financial management, practice operations, performance improvement, strategic planning, and leadership development. Prior to joining NACHC, Gina completed 20 years of federal service with the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and Veterans Administration implementing health care access programs.

A two-time graduate of the George Washington University, Joe Dunn has spent the last 20 years in Washington, D.C., on Capitol Hill and in a variety of government relations roles. Joe joined NACHC in January 2021 as Senior Vice President for Public Policy and Research from Cigna. Prior to this he was in senior positions with two offices in the federal delegation representing Connecticut . Joe began his work on behalf of the people of Connecticut in 2010 when he joined then Representative Chris Murphy in 2010 as his Legislative Director. In 2012, when Congressman Murphy was elected to the Senate, Joe transitioned to being his Senior Policy Advisor. In that role, Joe oversaw all aspects of health policy and was the point person for Sen. Murphy’s Mental Health Reform Act, which was signed into law by President Obama in December 2016.

Ms. McWilliams serves as NACHC’s first Chief Legal Officer. She is also the Chief Executive Officer of Maplewood Advisors, PLLC, Board Secretary of the Community Foundation of Northern Virginia (CFNOVA), and a member of the Board of Directors of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (LCCRUL).  

Ms. McWilliams has extensive experience as a strategic legal advisor in the information services and technology, financial services, and government contracting sectors. Most recently, she served as General Counsel for PDV Spectrum Holding Company, LLC, a subsidiary of Anterix (ATEX). She previously served as Deputy General Counsel at Scientific Applications International Corporation (SAIC), and Global Head of Employment Law for E*TRADE Financial (ETFC), a Morgan Stanley company (MS). Earlier in her career, she was a partner at DLA Piper US LLP. She also served as a substitute judge for the Virginia 19th Judicial Circuit District Court and as an adjunct professor of law at her alma mater. 

Ms. McWilliams is a four-time legal award recipient, including recognition as a “Super Lawyer” in Virginia and Washington, D.C. by the publishers of Law & Politics magazine. In 2021, she was named one of WashingtonExec’s “Top 15 General Counsels to Watch.” 

Ms. McWilliams earned her Juris Doctor from George Mason University School of Law, where she served as Notes and Comments Editor of the Law Review. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood Education from the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development. She resides in Fairfax County, Virginia with her Weimaraner, Rafiki. 

Peter Shin, PhD, MPH comes to NACHC after recent being an Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management and Research Director of the Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health and GG/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at the George Washington University Milken Institute SPH. Dr. Shin is author of over 100 health policy reports and articles on access to care, the health care safety net, community health centers, population health and social determinants. Dr. Shin teaches courses in health policy analysis, qualitative and quantitative methods, and public health leadership and is an expert in the management and analysis of data and evaluation of regulatory and policy impacts. Dr. Shin has presented at national and international conferences and provided technical assistance to federal and state agencies.