Donald Nease, MD, is a professor of family medicine at the University of Colorado – Anschutz Medical Campus, where he serves as the director of community engagement for the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. He completed his undergraduate studies and medical school at the University of Kansas, residency at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, and a faculty development fellowship at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. His passion is to improve health in partnership with communities, patients, clinicians and health care. He works in this territory from the level of individual interactions to community- and population-based interventions.