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; Preny Karamian, MS; Kayla Umemoto, MS.
Aileen E. Wetzel, Executive Director
Ken Smith, Managing Editor
Sierra Sacramento Valley Medicine
Volume 76/Number 3
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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 Delegation 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
