Foundation leadership
Klint Peebles, MD
Chair, Board of Trustees
Dr. Klint Peebles is a board-certified dermatologist with Kaiser Permanente, Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group in Washington, DC and suburban Maryland. Born and raised in rural Mississippi, Dr. Peebles received a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience and a minor in Mandarin Chinese from Vanderbilt University, subsequently completing a medical degree and an internal medicine internship at Vanderbilt followed by dermatology residency at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, Wisconsin.
Dr. Peebles primarily focuses on complex medical dermatology as well as gender-affirming dermatology. Dr. Peebles is past chair of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) Expert Resource Group on LGBTQ/SGM Health, member of the governing council of the LGBTQ+ Section of the American Medical Association (AMA), and member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.
Dr. Peebles is extensively published in major medical journals, serves on several editorial boards, and lectures nationally and internationally on topics of health equity, advocacy, and clinical dermatology. Dr. Peebles serves on the board of directors of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, chair of the society’s advocacy committee, chair of the AAD Access to Dermatologic Care Committee, and is vice-chair of the dermatology section council of the AMA.
The President-Elect of the Medical Society serves as Chair of the Foundation Board during their term.
Kirstiaan Nevin, MD
Vice Chair, Board of Trustees
Dr. Kirstiaan Nevin is the Director of General Obstetrics and Gynecology at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital. She is also the Director of the Division of Hereditary Cancer and Screening at Georgetown and Assistant Professor at the Georgetown School of Medicine. She is responsible for direct patient care, departmental functional and academic responsibilities and the education and training of medical students and resident physicians. Dr. Nevin is board-certified with the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and is an active member of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Society for Academic Specialists in General Obstetrics and Gynecology.
She is a native Washingtonian, who received her undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins University, her medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine and completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Virginia. She served four years as an active-duty physician in the US Navy, stationed at Portsmouth Naval Hospital, and then twenty years in private practice before joining Georgetown in 2020. She lives in Foggy Bottom with her husband of more than thirty years and her two dogs.
The MSDC Board of Directors elects a Vice Chair of the Foundation Board of Trustees.
Susanne Bathgate, MD
Secretary/Treasurer
The MSDC Treasurer also serves as the Foundation's Treasurer.
Vacant
Board of Trustee member and Chair, Wellbeing Committee
Charles Samenow, MD
Board of Trustee member and Chair, Physician Health Committee
Charles Samenow, MD, MPH is board-certified in Psychiatry. He is an associate professor and the Assistant Director for Medical Student Education at The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences. Dr. Samenow attended medical school at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He completed his internship at Rhode Island Hospital/Brown University School of Medicine and both his residency and fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He has specialized interests in professional health and wellness, addictions, and psychosomatic medicine.
He serves on the Board of Directors for the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health (SASH) and as the editor of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention. Dr. Samenow also serves as the course director for The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences courses in Psychopathology and Conceptual Models and Human Sexuality. Dr. Samenow has presented both nationally and internationally on physician and attorney health issues and has published peer reviewed articles on disruptive physician behaviors. He has received multiple honors and awards including election to Phi Beta Kappa, receipt of the American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation's Leadership Development Award, and the 1999 Exemplary Substance Abuse Prevention Program Award presented on Capitol Hill by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The MSDC Board of Directors appoints the Chair of the Physician Health Committee, who is automatically a Board of Trustee member for the Foundation.