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