Meet our Board of Directors

July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026

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

E. Sander Connolly, Jr., MD

Chair
Department of Neurological Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Emily M. Hawes, PharmD, BCPS, CPP

Professor
University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine

Cathy Lazarus, MD

Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Records
LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans

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

Colin P. West, MD, PhD

Medical Director for Employee Well-Being
Mayo Clinic

Resident Physician Directors

Alizeh Abbas, MD

General Surgery Resident
University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB)

Omari Baines-Waiz, DO, MBA

Psychiatry Resident
Atrium Health

Acacia Williams, MD, MBA

Internal Medicine Resident
Case Western Reserve University

Student Directors

Dakota J. Marshall, DO Candidate

Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine

Mytien Nguyen, MD/PhD Candidate

Yale School of Medicine

Sujay Ratna, MD Candidate

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai