Medical Staff Officers

President	J.J. Sverha, MD
Vice-President	Renuka Sothinathan, MD
Secretary	Benjamin Galper, MD
Member-at-Large	Claude Raphael, MD
Member-at-Large	Richard Murray, MD
Member-at-Large	Jennifer Primeggia, MD
Member-at-Large	Daniel Casey, MD
Member-at-Large	Gao Linda Chen, MD
Member-at-Large	Ji Eun Paik, MD

Department Chief/Directors/Division Chiefs

Anesthesia

Chief*	Jonathon Gibbons, MD
Vice-Chief	Xueyuan "Shelly" Wang, MD
Medical Director	Michael Tran, DO

Cardiac, Thoracic & Vascular Surgery

Chief	John Garrett, MD
Vice-Chief	John Rhee, MD

Emergency Medicine

Chief	Michael Silverman, MD
Vice-Chief	J. J. Sverha, MD

Medicine

Chair*	Jane Lee, MD
Vice-Chair	Kathryn Dreger, MD
Secretary	Renuka Sothinathan, MD
Adult Inpatient Medicine	Peter Karacki, MD / Jane Lee, MD
Cardiology	R. Preston Perrin, MD
Cath Lab	Benjamin Galper, MD Edward Howard, MD
Cardiac Rehabilitation	Eric Thorn, MD
Heart Station	Hassan Tabandeh, MD
IMCCU	Brian Glick, MD
Endocrinology	Caroline Huang, MD
Electrophysiology Lab	TBD
Infectious Disease	Jennifer Primeggia, MD
Neurology	Eric Czander, MD
Stroke Center	Zurab Nadareishvili, MD
GI	Diego Kuperschmit, MD
Nephrology	Caroline Kwon, MD
Oncology	TBD
Pain Medicine	Mehul Desai, MD
Palliative Care	Carol Chang, MD
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation	Daniel Davis, MD
Primary Care / Family Practice	John Charalambopolous, MD
Pulmonary	Christopher Wyckoff, MD
Medical Education	Peter Ouellette, MD
MICU	Daniel Casey, MD

Neonatology

Chief

Joshua Attridge, MD

Neurosurgery

Chief	Nikhil Nayak, MD
Vice Chief	Richard Murray, MD

Ob/Gyn

Chief*	Anna Childson, MD
Vice-Chief	Amanda Rohn, MD
Secretary/Treasurer	TBD
Medical Education	Miguel Fernandez, MD

Orthopedic Surgery

Chief*	Kevin Sumida, MD
Vice-Chief	Leah Schulte, MD
Podiatry	Arash Changizi, MD

Otolaryngology

Chief	Nancy Judd, MD
Vice-Chief	Tawfiq Khoury, MD

Pathology

Chief*	Cary Poropatich, MD
Vice-Chief	Stephanie Soofer, MD

Pediatrics

Chief*	Anjoli Modi, MD
Vice-Chief	Zev Waldman, MD
Nurseries	TBD
Medical Education	Zev Waldman, MD / Anuradha Dayal, MD

Plastic Surgery

Chief	Earl Johnson, MD
Vice-Chief	TBD

Psychiatry-Behavioral Health

Chief*	Linda Lang, MD
Vice-Chief	TBD
Medical Director	TBD
Recovery & Wellness	TBD

Radiation Oncology

Chief	Robert Hong, MD
Vice-Chief	Nadim Nasr, MD

Radiology

Chief*	Russell McWey, MD
Vice-Chief	TBD

Surgery

Chief*	Irfan Rizvi, MD
Vice-Chief	C. Steeve David, MD
General Surgery*	Irfan Rizvi, MD
Ophthalmology	William Deegan, MD
Oral Surgery	Hisham Merdad, DDS
Medical Education	J. R. Salameh, MD / C. Steeve David, MD
Trauma Surgery	Dennis Wang, MD

Urology

Chief	Timothy Kim, MD
Vice-Chief	Andrew Joel, MD

Committee Chairpersons

Bylaws Committee	J. J. Sverha, MD
Cancer Committee	Nadim Nasr, MD
Clinical Performance Committee	Kristin Knight, MD
Credentials Committee	Peter Ouellette, MD
Citizenship Committee	Sarah Hesselmann, MD
Graduate Medical Education Committee	Peter Ouellette, MD
Infection Control Committee	Rohit Modak, MD
Physician Informatics Steering Committee	Usman Akhtar, MD
Joint Conference Committee	J.J. Sverha, MD / Russell McWey, MD
Medical Executive Committee	J.J. Sverha, MD
Medical Staff Fund Committee	Robert Mordkin, MD
Device & Therapeutics Committee	Gregory Bernstein, MD

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Emergency Medicine

Medicine

Neonatology

Neurosurgery

Ob/Gyn

Orthopedic Surgery

Otolaryngology

Pathology

Pediatrics

Plastic Surgery

Psychiatry-Behavioral Health

Radiation Oncology

Radiology

Surgery

Urology

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