Dr. Evan Ashkin is a professor of Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He founded the underserved residency track within the department of Family Medicine to address shortages of primary care providers in underserved areas of North Carolina. Dr. Ashkin is also the founding director of the North Carolina Formerly Incarcerated Transition Program (NC FIT), established to help address the absence of linkages to care for people released from incarceration with chronic disease, mental illness and/or substance use disorder. Dr Ashkin also directs the North Carolina Technical Assistance Center, supporting programs for people at risk of incarceration and overdose. He does clinical teaching with UNC medical students and family medicine residents, and sees patients at the Piedmont Health Services, Chapel Hill Community Health Center.