Bio: Brandon Hidaka completed the MD-PhD program at the University of Kansas, where his graduate training in nutrition and statistics focused on how diet influences breast cancer risk. After completing residency in Seattle at Kaiser Permanente Washington (formerly Group Health Cooperative), he joined the faculty of the Mayo Clinic Family Medicine Residency program in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He serves as a primary care physician for a panel of patients, precepts regularly, periodically supervises the inpatient team, and leads the program’s quality improvement and research efforts. His active research interests include primary care health services research, graduate medical education, and how to manage viral upper respiratory infections from an evolutionary perspective.