Mark Greenawald, MD is Professor and Interim Chair of Family and Community Medicine at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine (VTC) and Carilion Clinic. He previously served for 12 years 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 served as the conference Chair for the 2018-2024 American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Physician Health and Well-Being Conferences and is doing so again for 2025. In addition, he is 1 of 8 national faculty for the AAFP Leading Physician Well-being leadership development program, which is now in its 4th year. He also serves as the Director for the AAFP Chief Resident Leadership Development Program, for which he has served as faculty for 25 years. 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 Membership Experience process. Mark is a certified leadership and executive coach and serves on the 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 29 years and they hope for many more. They have 3 adult children and are proud to say they still come and visit because they want to. In his spare time you will find Mark stand-up paddleboarding year-round, writing poetry, and perpetually trying to learn how to say “no.”
