Meet our Board of Directors
July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027
Officers
Natasha N. Bray, DO, MSEd
Board Chair
Campus Dean at Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine – Cherokee Nation Campus; Associate Dean Accreditation, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences; Associate Program Director for the rural-based Tahlequah Medical Group Internal Medicine Residency Program; Clinical Associate Professor of Rural Medicine
Michael G. Kavan, PhD
Chair Designate
Associate Dean, Professor of Family and Community Medicine, and Professor of Psychiatry; Creighton University School of Medicine
Jennifer LaFemina, MD, FACS
Secretary/Treasurer
General Surgery Program Director and Associate Professor of Surgery; University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Donna L. Lamb, DHSc, MBA, BSN
President and Chief Executive Officer
National Resident Matching Program
Directors
Cary B. Aarons, MD, MSEd, FACS, FASCRS
Program Director, General Surgery Residency and Vice Chair of Education, Department of Surgery
Columbia University
Glenn T. Ault, MD, MSEd
Senior Associate Dean, Graduate Medical Education and DIO
University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine
Peter Carek, MD, MS
Chair
Department of Family Medicine, Prisma Health
Deborah Clements, MD
Chair, Family and Community Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Emily M. Hawes, PharmD, BCPS, CPP
Professor
University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine
Maria E. Padilla, MD, FAAP, MSc, MEdL
Executive Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs
NOVA Southeastern University Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine
Robert L. Phillips Jr., MD, MSPH
Executive Director
The Center for Professionalism & Value in Health Care
Steven D. Pletcher, MD
Program Director, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Residency and Vice Chair for Education
University of California, San Francisco
Colin P. West, MD, PhD
Medical Director for Employee Well-Being
Mayo Clinic
Marcy L. Verduin, MD
Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education and Professor of Psychiatry
University of Central Florida College of Medicine
Resident Physician Directors
Alizeh Abbas, MD
General Surgery Resident
University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB)
Omari Baines-Waiz, DO, MBA
Psychiatry Resident
Atrium Health
Nicholas Leighton, MD
General Surgery Resident
University of Southern California
Student Directors
Humza Ahmed, DO Candidate
Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine
Jason Collins, MD Candidate
Northeast Ohio Medical University
Mytien Nguyen, MD/PhD Candidate
Yale School of Medicine