Mark Greenawald, MD

Mark Greenawald, MD is Professor and Vice Chair of Family Medicine and Community Medicine at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine (VTC) and presently serves as the Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, Well-being and Professional Development and as residency program faculty for the Carilion Clinic Department of Family and Community Medicine. He also serves as the Medical Director for the Carilion Clinic Institute for Leadership Effectiveness (ILE). He is a former President of the Virginia Academy of Family Physicians and in 2016 was named the Virginia Family Physician of the Year.

Mark has devoted much of his career to advancing clinician leadership development as well as to clinician and care-team well-being. He has served as the conference Chair for the 2018-2023 American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Physician Health and Well-Being Conference and will do so again for 2024. In addition, he is 1 of 9 national faculty for the AAFP Leading Physician Well-being leadership development program, which is now entering its fourth year. He also serves as the Director and for the last 25 years as faculty for the AAFP Chief Resident Leadership Development Program. More recently, Mark is serving as the Co-chair for both the newly formed Virginia Academy of Family Physicians Well-being Committee, the newly formed Virginia Task Force on Primary Care Clinician Retention and Well-being Sub-Committee and as an advisor for the AMA Practice Transformation process. Mark did his coach training with Corporate Coach University in 2002 and since 2014 has served as faculty for the Healthcare Coaching Institute, a coach training program that focuses on preparing professional coaches to work in healthcare.

In 2019, Mark launched the nationally acclaimed PeerRxMed program (www.PeerRxMed.org) which is intended to help healthcare professionals provide proactive support for each other on their professional journey away from distress and toward thriving.

Mark and his wife Joanne, who is trained as an Adult and Child Psychiatrist, reside in Roanoke, VA, which has been home for 28 years and they hope for many more. They have 3 adult children who still come and visit because they want to (and because they have a lake house!). In his spare time you will find Mark stand-up paddleboarding year round, writing poetry, blogging, singing, and perpetually trying to learn how to say “no, thank you.”