Who We Are

Editorial Committee



Sean Deane, MD; Caroline Giroux, MD; David Hsu, MD; Manoj Kesarwani, MD; Bob LaPerriere, MD; Teimour Nasirov, MD; Karen Poirier-Brode, MD; Gerald Rogan, MD; Katherine Stewart, MD: Glennah Trochet, MD; Leslie Tamura, DO; Kevin Walsh, MD; Lee Welter, MD; Eric Williams, MD.

Medical Students:

Natasha Arief, MS; Cortney Connor, MS; Katrina Harler, MS; Kayla Umemoto, MS.

Aileen E. Wetzel, Executive Director


Sara Appel, Managing Editor

2025 Officers & Board of Directors

President

Adam Dougherty, MD, MPH

President-Elect

Roderick Vitangcol, MD

Immediate Past President

Vanessa Walker, DO

District 1

Lisa Guirguis, MD 


District 2

Sarah Barnhard, MD

Janine Bera, MD


Raminder Gill, MD

Eli Groppo, MD 


District 3


Tom Valdez, MD


District 4


Shideh Chinichian, MD


District 5


Olana Aberra, MD

Christina Bilyeu, MD


Richard Campbell, MD

John Coburn, MD

District 6

Angela Crans Yoon, MD

2025 CMA Delegates


District 1


Reinhardt Hilzinger, MD


District 2


Lydia Wytrzes, MD


District 3


Tom Valdez, MD


District 4


Anand Mehta, MD


District 5


Sean Deane, MD


District 6


Karen Hopp, MD

At-Large Delegates


Barbara Arnold, MD
; Jonathan Aron, MD; Janine Bera, MD
; Christina Bilyeu, MD; 
Christine Braid, DO
; Carol Burch, MD
; Amber Chatwin, MD
; Leo Chen, MD; Angelina Crans Yoon, MD
; Mark Drabkin, MD
; Ann Gerhardt, MD; 
Douglas Gibson, MD; 
Raminder Gill, MD; 
Helena Hart-Rathbun
, MD; Dana Jacques, MD; Richard Jones, MD
; Steven Kmucha, MD
; Hao (Harry) Li, MD
; Vong Lee, MD; 
Matthew Luk, MD; Patrick McCabe, MD; Charles McDonnell, MD
; Leena Mehta, MD; 
Sandra Mendez, MD; Alyssa Ashbaugh Ortega, MD; Richard Pan, MD
; Ernesto Rivera, MD; 
J. Bianca Roberts, MD; 
Ellen Shank, MD
; Ajay Singh, MD; 
Lee Snook, MD
; Cecille Taylor, MD; Roderick Vitangcol, MD
; Anna Yap, MD

Alternate Delegates


District 1


Vacant

District 2


Maryam Ghiassi, MD


District 3


Vacant


District 4


Shideh Chinichian, MD


District 5


Dale Cotton, MD


District 6


Sarah Favila, MD

At-Large Alternate Delegates


Olana Aberra, MD
; 
Wendy Garabedian, MD; Nathaniel Hoboda, MD; Gregory Kann, MD
; Robert Kucejko, MD; Eric Lee, MD; Mithu Molla, MD; Rogelio Pinon-Gutierrez, MD; 
Adrian Racela, MD; Joey Shemuel, MD; Nirmal Singh, MD; Sara Teasdale, MD; Melody Tran-Reina, MD; 
M. Umer Waris, MD
; Huixia Wei, MD; Asmaneh Yamagata, MD

CMA Trustees, District XI


Adam Dougherty, MD

Robert Oldham, MD

Vanessa Walker, DO

AMA Delegation, District XI


Barbara Arnold, MD


Debra Lupeika, MD