Niharika is Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine (UMSOM) and a member of the Tumor Immunology Program at the Greenebaum Cancer Center. Dr Khanna is the Director of the Maryland Learning Collaborative for the Garden Practice Transformation Network, funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative, and previously director of the Maryland Health Care Commission's Multi-Payer Program for Patient Centered Medical Homes (MMPP) to provide clinical implementation of health care reform policies and primary care workforce training in the advanced payment models. Funded by the Maryland Department of Health Center for Tobacco Prevention and Control, Dr Khanna has developed an Electronic Health Record solution in EPIC to electronically connect the Maryland Tobacco Quit Line to reach 123 practices in the University of Maryland Medical System to serve 3,912,403 Marylanders. Dr. Khanna is a recent NICHD “Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH)” scholar. Dr. Khanna is the past Director of Somatic Services for the Walter P. Carter Center until 2009, and was clinical principal investigator for a NIDA/BSAS grant to explore primary care office methadone prescribing and community pharmacy dispensing of methadone. Dr. Khanna was the PI for a CDC 1305 grant to the state of Maryland provide dissemination of quality improvement strategies for chronic disease from 2014-2016. Dr. Khanna’s interests are in clinical translational research to translate research into community programs and specifically in the systems change in primary care. Dr. Khanna is a breast cancer survivor diagnosed in 2009.