Russell Kohl, MD, FAAFP, is a family physician living in Stilwell, Kansas. He is Chief Medical Officer and Chief Operating Officer of TMF Health Quality Institute, a Medicare quality improvement organization supporting assorted CMMI programs and directly supporting the quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries in Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. He cares for patients with the non-profit Care Beyond the Boulevard as a street medicine physician, providing direct medical care to those living in homeless encampments throughout the Kansas City metro area. He is also a Colonel, Chief Flight Surgeon, and State Air Surgeon within the Missouri Air National Guard, and is the current Speaker of the Congress of Delegates for the American Academy of Family Physicians.