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BCMS BOARD
OF DIRECTORS

ELECTED OFFICERS
Ezequiel “Zeke” Silva, III, MD, President
Lyssa Ochoa, MD, Vice President
John Shepherd, MD, President-elect
Jennifer R. Rushton, MD, Treasurer
Lubna Naeem, MD, Secretary
John Joseph Nava, MD, Immediate Past President
DIRECTORS
Woodson “Scott” Jones, MD, Member
Sumeru “Sam” G. Mehta, MD, Member
M. “Hamed” Reza Mizani, MD, Member
Priti Mody-Bailey, MD, Member
Dan Powell, MD, Member
Ana Rodriguez, MD, Member
Raul Santoscoy, DO, Member
Lauren Tarbox, MD, Member
Nancy Vacca, MD, Member
Col. Elisa D. O’Hern, MD, MC, FS, Military Representative
Jayesh Shah, MD, TMA Board of Trustees Representative
John Pham, DO, UIW Medical School Representative
Robert Leverence, MD, UT Health Medical School
Representative
Cynthia Cantu, DO, Medical School Representative
Lori Kels, MD, Medical School Representative
Ronald Rodriguez, MD, Medical School Representative
Victoria Kohler-Webb, BCMS Alliance Representative
Carolina Arias, MD, Board of Ethics Representative
Melody Newsom, BCMS CEO/Executive Director
George F. “Rick” Evans, Jr., General Counsel
BCMS SENIOR STAFF
Melody Newsom, CEO/Executive Director
Monica Jones, Chief Operating Officer
Yvonne Nino, Controller
Al Ortiz, Chief Information Officer
Brissa Vela, Director of Membership & Corporate Partnerships
Phil Hornbeak, Auto Program Director
Betty Fernandez, BCVI Director
PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE
Monica Jacqueline Salas, MD, Co-chair
Jennifer C. Seger, MD, Co-chair
Lokesh Bathla, MD, Member
Elizabeth Clanton, MD, Member
Erika Gabriela Gonzalez-Reyes, MD, Member
Timothy C. Hlavinka, MD, Member
John Robert Holcomb, MD, Member
Soma S. S. K. Jyothula, MD, Member
Kristy Yvonne Kosub, MD, Member
Jaime Pankowsky, MD, Member
George-Thomas Martin Pugh, MD, Member
Rajam S. Ramamurthy, MD, Member
Adam V. Ratner, MD, Member
John Joseph Seidenfeld, MD, Member
Boulos Toursarkissian, MD, Member
Francis Vu Tran, MD, Member
Faraz Yousefian, DO, Member
Louis Doucette, Consultant
Brissa Vela, Consultant
Monica Jones, Staff Liaison
Trisha Doucette, Editor
Deepthi S. Akella, Student
Moses Alfaro, Student
Victoria Ayodele, Student
Tue Felix Nguyen, Student
Andrew Ta, Student
Alixandria Fiore Pfeiffer, DO, Resident
Elizabeth Allen, Volunteer
Adelita G. Cantu, PhD, Volunteer
Rita Espinoza, DrPH, Volunteer
Natalie Reyna Nyren, PA-C, Volunteer
David Schulz, Volunteer
Ramaswamy Sharma, MS, PhD, Volunteer

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