Bone Health ECHO

Lewiecki is the director of New Mexico Clinical Research and Osteoporosis Center. He is also the director of the Bone Health ECHO program at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. 

He is a consultant and educator in osteoporosis and metabolic bone diseases. Lewiecki has served as principal investigator for many osteoporosis clinical trials and is the author of more than 300 publications in peer-reviewed medical journals, serving as review editor for "Osteoporosis International"

Bouchonville is an associate professor at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in the division of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism. He serves as the medical director of the UNM Diabetes Comprehensive Care Center and UNM Center for Diabetes and Nutrition Education. 

He is an associate director of Project ECHO and medical director of New Mexico ECHO programs. 

In 2014, he launched the Endo ECHO program to support implementation of best practices around complex diabetes management among health care professionals in medically underserved regions of New Mexico.       

Chafey is an orthopedist in Albuquerque, New Mexico and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including the University of New Mexico Hospitals and UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center. He received his medical degree from Ponce Health Sciences University.

Tanner received his medical degree with honors from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He completed his residency in internal medicine and fellowships in rheumatology and allergy and immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he founded the Vanderbilt Osteoporosis Clinic. He is a certified clinical densitometrist and past-president of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry. He continues to update and teach the ISCD Osteoporosis Essentials course.

Gordon is a pediatric endocrinologist with clinical expertise in pediatric bone health. She performs clinical and translational research, focusing on pediatric and adolescent bone health, focusing on how chronic diseases can adversely affect attaining peak bone mass. She is an endocrine attending physician and director of the DXA Center at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Erb developed her passion for bone care as an orthopedic nurse at UNM Hospital. After several years, she left the bedside and became an outpatient charge nurse at Carrie Tingley Orthopedic clinic. Erb went back to school and graduated as a family nurse practitioner. While learning about the diverse issues of bone disease, she found that she could combine both passions as an ortho. trauma NP at UNM Hospital.

Garcia is a program manager for the ECHO Institute, who specializes in process improvement and program implantation.

Growing up in rural New Mexico, Garcia saw firsthand how a lack of access to resources challenged many people in her community. These experiences led her to obtain a masters in Health Administration from the University of New Mexico.

Since 2019, Rebecca has dedicated herself to expanding health and community services for underserved populations through the ECHO model.

Pérez-Chávez is a program specialist at Project ECHO. She is a certified professional in training management,  in charge of ECHO programs' logistics.

Her more than 18 years of experience in adult learning, training management, learning and development, guided her to obtain a master’s degree in Organizational, Information and Learning Sciences, where she found her new passion of learning through communities of practice using the ECHO model.