Meet our Board of Directors
July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025
Officers
Deborah S. Clements, M.D.
Board Chair
Chair, Family and Community Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Natasha N. Bray, D.O., M.S.Ed.
Chair-Designate
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
Cathy Lazarus, M.D.
Secretary/Treasurer
Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Records; Professor of Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans
Donna L. Lamb, D.H.Sc., M.B.A., B.S.N.
President and Chief Executive Officer
National Resident Matching Program
Directors
Keith B. Armitage, M.D.
Vice Chair for Education
Department of Medicine, University Hospitals Case Medical Center
Peter Carek, M.D., M.S.
Dean
Medical University of South Carolina/AnMed Health Clinical Campus; Professor of Family Medicine
E. Sander Connolly, Jr., M.D.
Vice Chair
Department of Neurological Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Donna D. Elliott, M.D., Ed.D.
Vice Dean for Medical Education
University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine
Emily M. Hawes, PharmD, BCPS, CPP
Professor
University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine
Michael G. Kavan, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Student Affairs
Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry; Creighton University School of Medicine
Jennifer LaFemina, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Program Director
General Surgery, University of Massachusetts
Maria E. Padilla, M.D., F.A.A.P.
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
Colin P. West, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine, Medical Education, and Biostatistics
Mayo Clinic
Resident Physician Directors
Melissa Garrett Mariano, D.O.
Internal Medicine Resident
Mount Auburn Hospital
Claudia Mosquera Vasquez, M.D.
Pediatric Nephrology Fellow
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Acacia Williams, M.D., M.B.A.
Internal Medicine Resident
Case Western Reserve University
Student Directors
Bolatito Adeyeri, M.D. candidate
Baylor College of Medicine
Dakota J. Marshall, D.O. candidate
Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine
Sujay Ratna, M.D. candidate
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai