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People

Staff

Administration
  • Philip H. Cass, PhD | Email
    Chief Executive Officer
  • Kelly O'Brien | Email
    Executive Assistant
Finance
  • Julie E. Eikenberry, CPA, MBA | Email
    Chief Financial Officer
Information Systems
  • Brenda Barnett | Email
    Information Systems Manager
Marketing and Communications
  • Gary Stelluti
Member Relations Division
  • Diane May | Email
    Director of Member Relations & Services
  • Lisa Oyer | Email
    Member Relations Manager

Board of Directors

2011-2012 Officers
  • Mark Bechtel, MD
    President
  • William Cotton, MD
    President-Elect
  • David Colombo, MD
    Secretary-Treasurer
  • Jason Melillo, MD
    Secretary-Treasurer-Elect
  • M. Valeriana Moeller, PhD
    CMAF Board President
  • Jeffrey Bell, MD
    Immediate Past President
Board of Directors
  • G. Patrick Ecklar, MD
    Standing Membership Committee Chair
  • Mark Stechschulte, MD
    Standing Professional Relations Committee Chair
  • Douglas Finnie, MD
  • Shari Hicks-Graham, MD
  • Michael Murnane, MD
  • Kim Rothermel, MD
  • Adam Ueberroth, MD
  • Gary Katz, MD
    OSMA Tenth District Councilor, Ex-officio
  • Joy Myers
    CMA Alliance, Ex-officio
  • Lauren Hassen
    OSU AMA-MSS President, Ex-officio
Delegates
  • Craig Anderson, MD
  • David Colombo, MD
  • William Cotton, MD
  • G. Patrick Ecklar, MD
  • Douglas Finnie, MD
  • Douglas Fosselman, MD
  • Thomas Houston, MD
  • Karen King, MD
  • Carrie Lembach, DO
  • Teresa C. Long, MD
  • James McHale, MD
  • Richard Nelson, MD
  • Sugat Patel, MD
  • Peter Pema, MD
  • Alan Sacolick, MD
  • Mark Stechschulte, MD
  • Anne Taylor, MD
  • Andrew Thomas, MD
  • Bruce Vanderhoff, MD
  • Thomas Vogel, MD
  • Claire Wolfe, MD
Alternate Delegates
  • Amol Arora, MD
  • John Burkhart, MD
  • Louis Goorey, MD
  • Jason Griffin, DO
  • Ronald Harter, MD
  • Benjamin Martin, MD
  • Mark Moseley, MD
  • J. Garret Mouser, MD
  • Gerald Penn, MD, PhD
  • Anita Somani, MD
  • Sara Sukalich, MD
  • Mary Jo Welker, MD
  • Maury Witkoff, DO

Committees

Executive Committee
  • Mark Bechtel, MD
    Chair
  • Jeffrey Bell, MD
    Immediate Past President
  • David Colombo, MD
  • William Cotton, MD
  • Jason Melillo, MD
  • M. Valeriana Moeller, PhD
Joint Finance Committee
  • Ronald B. Berggren, MD
    CMAF Emeritus
  • Mark Bechtel, MD
    CMA President
  • David Colombo, MD
    CMA Secretary-Treasurer
  • Douglas Finnie, MD
  • Nedra P. Hadley
  • Karen King, MD
  • Jason Melillo, MD
    CMA Secretary-Treasurer-Elect
  • James Nichols
    CMAF Secretary-Treasurer
  • Marc Parnes, MD
    CMAF Vice-President
  • Joyce Penn
  • Susan A. Tilgner, MS, RD, LD, RS
    COTS Secretary-Treasurer
  • Warren W. Tyler
  • Manuel Tzagournis, MD
Membership
  • G. Patrick Ecklar, MD
    Chair
  • Amol Arora, MD
  • Jason Griffin, DO
  • Bradley Harrold, MD
  • Paul A. Kovach, MD
  • Adam Maier, Medical Student
  • Richard A. Roy, MD
  • Nicholas Zorko, Medical Student
  • Amber D'Souza, Medical Student
Sports Medicine Subcommittee
  • Randall Wroble, MD
    Chair
  • Michael Cannone, DO
  • Louis Goorey, MD
  • Nancy Goorey, DDS
  • Doug Jones, AT/AD
  • Christopher Kaeding, MD
  • Timothy McMullen, MD
  • Paul Miller, ATC
  • Thomas Pommering, MD
  • Jill Ponzi, ATC
  • Douglas Reader, MD
  • David Robie, MD
  • Michael Rotonda, CMAA
  • Robert Turner, MD
  • Kenneth Westerheide, MD
Professional Relations
  • Mark Stechschulte, MD
    Standing Committee Chair
  • Arthur G. H. Bing, MD
  • Douglas Fosselman, MD
  • Martin Gottesman, MD
  • Vincent Guinn, MD
  • Marc Parnes, MD
  • L. Robert Polster, MD
  • Nancy Vaughan, MD
  • Claire Wolfe, MD
    Emeritus
  • Kelley J. Zyniewicz, MD
Public Policy PAC Committee
  • Mark Bechtel, MD
    Chair, PAC
  • Craig Anderson, MD
  • Susan Benes, MD
  • Ronald Bloomfield, MD
  • David Colombo, MD
  • William Cotton, MD
    Chair, Public Policy Committee
  • Timothy Duffey, DO
  • G. Patrick Ecklar, MD
  • Douglas Finnie, MD
  • Charles Hickey, MD
  • Gary Katz, MD
  • Karen King, MD
  • Richard Nelson, MD
  • Bhagwan Satiani, MD
  • Dwight Scarborough, MD
  • Bipin Shah, MD
  • Anne Taylor, MD
  • Andrew Thomas, MD
  • Trent Tipple, MD
  • Manuel Tzagournis, MD

Alliance

2011-2012 Officers
  • Brenda Gerhardt
    Coordinator
  • Theresa Lembach
    Secretary
  • Heather Slattery
    Alliance Trustee (PFC Liaison)
  • Joy Myers
    Alliance Director (CMA Liaison) & Parliamentarian
  • Sue Nelson
    Alliance Trustee (CMA Physicians Free Clinic Liaison)
  • Joyce Penn
    Trustee (CMA Foundation Liaison)
  • Scott Vaughan
    Treasurer

Past Presidents

1892-1912
  • 1892: D.N. Kinsman
  • 1893: T.W. Rankin
  • 1894: H.P. Allen
  • 1895: A.D. Richardson
  • 1896: J. Edwin Brown
  • 1897: Dickson L. Moore
  • 1898: Frank Warner
  • 1899: Charles Hamilton
  • 1900: Andrew Timberman
  • 1901: J.C. Lawrence
  • 1902: J.C. Lawrence
  • 1903: F.W. Blake
  • 1904: G.M. Waters
  • 1905: F.F. Lawrence
  • 1906: J.U. Barnhill
  • 1907: William D. Deuschle
  • 1908: Wells Teachnor, Sr.
  • 1909: Charles J. Shepard
  • 1910: J.A. Van Fossen
  • 1911: Frank Winders
  • 1912: Yeatman Wardlow
1913-1933
  • 1913: Earl M. Gilliam
  • 1914: Fred Fletcher
  • 1915: John D. Dunham
  • 1916: H.M. Platter
  • 1917: Ernest Scott
  • 1918: J.L. Gordon
  • 1919: J.H. J. Upham
  • 1920: Charles W. McGavran
  • 1921: George C. Schaeffer
  • 1922: E.A. Hamilton
  • 1923: John Rauschkolb
  • 1924: F.O. Williams
  • 1925: E.J. Emerick
  • 1926: I.B. Harris
  • 1927: John B. Alcorn
  • 1928: S.J. Goodman
  • 1929: George T. Harding II
  • 1930: R.B. Drury
  • 1931: Joseph Price
  • 1933: Jonathan Forman
  • 1932: James H. Warren
1934-1953
  • 1934: Verne A. Dodd
  • 1935: E.G. Horton
  • 1936: J. Mitchell Dunn
  • 1937: E.F. McCampbell
  • 1937: L.N. Jentgen
    (unexpired term)
  • 1938: William B. Morrison
  • 1939: George I. Nelson
  • 1940: Russel G. Means
  • 1941: C.C. Sherburne
  • 1942: H.E. LeFever
  • 1943: George T. Harding III
  • 1944: William D. Inglis
  • 1945: George J. Heer
  • 1946: Horace B. Davidson
  • 1947: Charles W. Pavey
  • 1948: Harve M. Clodfelter
  • 1949: Gilman D. Kirk
  • 1950: Grant O. Graves
  • 1951: Edward T. Kirkendall
  • 1952: Warren G. Harding II
  • 1953: Robert C. Kirk
1954-1973
  • 1954: Judson D. Wilson
  • 1955: Earl H. Baxter
  • 1956: Edward W. Harris
  • 1957: Norman O. Rothermich
  • 1958: Robert M. Inglis
  • 1959: James L. Henry
  • 1960: Joseph H. Shepard
  • 1961: Donald J. Vincent
  • 1962: Richard L. Fulton
  • 1963: Thomas R. Curran
  • 1964: Homer A. Anderson
  • 1965: John R. Hutson
  • 1966: Joseph A. Bonta
  • 1967: Tom F. Lewis
  • 1968: H. William Porterfield
  • 1969: Ben E. Jacoby
  • 1970: Samuel A. Marable
  • 1970: Phillip H. Taylor
    (unexpired term)
  • 1971: John N. Meagher
  • 1972: Keith Devoe, Jr.
  • 1973: Ben Arnoff
1974-1995
  • 1974: William C. Earl
  • 1975: J. Hutchinson Williams
  • 1976: Jack E. Tetirick
  • 1977: James W. Kilman
  • 1978: James E. Matson
  • 1979: Paul S. Metzger
  • 1980: J. Richard Briggs
  • 1981-82: George W. Paulson
  • 1982-83: James E. Barnes
  • 1983-84: Ronald B. Berggren
  • 1984-85: William T. Paul
  • 1985-86: William Hamelberg
  • 1986-87: William A. Milhon
  • 1987-88: Claire V. Wolfe
  • 1988-89: James J. Powers
  • 1989-90: Owen E. Johnson
  • 1990-91: Ronald E. Kendrick
  • 1991-92: Louis J.R. Goorey
  • 1992-93: Charles J. Hickey
  • 1993-94: Victoria N. Ruff
  • 1994-95: Craig W. Anderson
1995-2011
  • 1995-96: Edward T. Bope
  • 1996-97: Teresa C. Long
  • 1997-98: Michael H. Mishkind
  • 1998-99: Richard N. Nelson
  • 1999-00: Steven L. Richardson
  • 2000-01: Gerald M. Penn
  • 2001-02: Dwight A. Scarborough
  • 2002-03: Timothy P. Duffey
  • 2003-04: G. Patrick Ecklar
  • 2004-05: Manuel Tzagournis
  • 2005-06: Marc L. Parnes
  • 2006-07: Deidre D. Redd
  • 2007-08: Andrew M. Thomas
  • 2008-09: Anne Taylor
  • 2009-11: Jeffrey Bell