D.O.s Serving on the State and Federal Levels-Part II

 The following list is from AOA source.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

§  National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research and Quality–  Silvia M. Ferretti, DO (March 25, 2010- November 30, 2012)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

§  Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices – Stanley E. Grogg, DO (September 2006- indefinite term) Dr. Grogg represents the AOA as a Liaison Representative to this advisory panel.   

§  Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee – Dale W. Bratzler, DO (January 7, 2010 – June 30, 2013)

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

§  Practicing Physicians Advisory Council – Joseph A. Giaimo, DO (February 28, 2008-February 28, 2012) *Disbanded*

Department of Defense (DOD)

§  Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences – Ronald R. Blanck, DO (Chair)

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

§  National Vaccine Advisory Committee – Christine Nevin-Woods, DO, MPH (October 1, 2007-October 1, 2011)

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

§  Anesthesiology and Respiratory Therapy Devices Panel – George Mychaskiw II, DO (July 8, 2007 – July 7, 2011) Dr. Mychaskiw is a consultant to this advisory panel.

§  Anesthesiology and Respiratory Therapy Devices Panel – Kenneth J. Steier, DO (July 8, 2007 – July 7, 2011) Dr. Steier is a consultant to this advisory panel.

§  Anesthesiology and Respiratory Therapy Devices Panel – Sandra Willsie, DO

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

§  National Practitioners Data Bank (NPDB), Executive Committee – Edward Loniewski, DO (December 1, 1999 – indefinite term)

§  Primary Care Residency Grant Peer Review Committee – Kenneth J. Steier, DO (April 1998 – indefinite term)

§  Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry – Eugene Mochan, DO, PhD (indefinite term)

§  Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry –  Stephen C. Shannon, DO, MPH (indefinite term)

§  Council on Graduate Medical Education – Kendall Reed, DO (term ending September 30, 2010)

§  National Advisory Council on the National Health Service Corps  –  John Everett, DO (December 31, 2008- December 31, 2011)

§  Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry – Anne Jones, DO (term ending 2013)

§  Advisory Committee on Interdisciplinary Community Based Linkages -   Jay H. Shubrook, DO  (term ending 2013)

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

§  National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Advisory Council – Boyd W. Bowden II, DO (term ending 2010)

§  National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Education and Training Review Committee – Murray Goldstein, DO, MPH (2007-2011)

AOA PARTNERSHIPS WITH FEDERAL AGENCIES

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

§  U.S. Preventive Service Task Force – Robert S. Juhasz, DO - represents the AOA as an AHRQ Primary Care Partner.  Partners are outside experts who provide peer review of draft reports, contribute expertise to the evaluation process, and help disseminate the work of the task force to their members.

DOs SERVING ON STATE GOVERMENT ADVISORY PANELS,

COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES

Alaska

• Health Care Strategies Planning Council – Derek Hagen, DO
• Council of Alaska Emergency Medical Services – Donald Hudson, DO

Arizona

• Board of Osteopathic Examiners in Medicine and Surgery – Arlene England, DO, Mary Ann Picardo, DO, Scott A. Steingard, DO, David M. Steinway, DO, F.P. Wedel, DO
• Regulatory Board of Physician Assistants – Kelli M. Ward, DO
• Board of Medical Student Loans – Thomas McWilliams, DO
• Emergency Medical Services Council – Michael P. Ward, DO
• Governor’s Task Force on Emergency Departments Crisis – Charles Finch, DO
• Homeopathic Medical Examiners Board – Charles D. Schwengel, DO
• Carrier Advisory Committee – William H. Devine, DO
• State Medical and Osteopathic Licensing Board – Douglas Cunningham, DO, Arlene England, DO, Mary Ann Picardo, DO, Scott Steingard, DO, Michael Ward, DO

Arkansas

• Foundation for Medical Care- Rolland Bailey, DO, Randall Guntharp, DO
• State Board of Health - Robert Sanders, DO
• State Medical Board – Patty Pettway, DO
• Medicaid Medical Care Advisory Committee – Esther Tompkins, DO
• Pain Management Review Committee – James Rogers, DO

California

• Osteopathic Medical Board – Susan Melvin, DO, Geraldine O’Shea, DO, Joseph Provenzano, DO, Veronica Vuksich, DO, MA, Paul Wakim, DO

Colorado

• Board of Medical Examiners – Lisa Butler, DO, J. Dale Utt, DO
• Medical Assistance and Services Advisory Council – Douglas Hill, DO

Connecticut

• Medical Examining Board – Howard Sadinsky, DO

Delaware

• Healthy Mother Infant Consortium – Robert Locke, DO
• Task Force on Infant Mortality – Robert Locke, DO, Anthony Brazen III, DO, Julia Pillsbury, DO
• Board of Medical Practice – Nasreen Kahn, DO, Vincent Lobo, DO

District of Columbia

·         Board of Medicine – Shivani Kamdar, DO

Florida

• Board of Osteopathic Medicine – Joel Rose, DO, Anna Hayden, DO, Ronald Burns, DO, Allan Escher, DO, James St. Louis, DO
• Cancer Control Research Advisory Council  – Joanne Bujnoski, DO
• Carrier Advisory Committee – Ronald Burns, DO, William Silverman, DO
• Correctional Medical Authority – John Bailey, DO
• Diabetes Advisory Council – Kenneth Johnson, DO
• Drug Utilization Review Committee: Anna Hayden, DO, Larry Mattingly, DO
• Family Practice Physicians Recruitment and Retention Advisory Committee – Gregory James, DO
• Flu and Pneumonia Coalition –Gregory James, DO
• Health Practitioner Workforce Ad Hoc Advisory Committee – Anthony Silvagni, DO
• Patient Safety Steering Committee – William Silverman, DO
• Stop Tobacco Task Force – Dennis Penzell, DO
• Drug Utilization Review Committee – Anna Hayden, DO, Larry Mattingly, DO
• Medical and Consumer Health Information Network – Lee Shettle, DO
• Patient Safety Corporation – Joel Rose, DO
• Medicaid Prescribing Pattern Review Panel –Joshua Lenchus, DO, Dennis Penzell, DO
• Medical Care Advisory Committee – Richard Thacker, DO
• Pharmacist Prescribing Committee – Joel Rose, DO, Joshua Lenchus, DO
• Public Health and Medical Preparedness Strategic Plan Team – John C. Pellosie,Jr., DO
• Electronic Prescribing Advisory Panel – Lee Shettle, DO     
• Pharmaceutical and Therapeutics Committee – Richard Thacker, DO
• State Electronic Prescribing Advisory Panel – Lee Shettle, DO

Georgia

• Composite State Board of Medical Examiners – Charles White, DO

Hawaii

• Board of Medical Examiners – Ronald Kienitz, DO, Maria Patten, DO

Idaho

• State Board of Medicine – Ralph Sutherlin, DO

Illinois

• Department of Professional Regulation Licensing Board – Dennis Palmer, DO, Rodey Wassef, DO
• Medical Disciplinary Board – Douglas Webster, DO
• Medical Advisory Board Poison Center – John Graneto, DO
• Health Information Technology Development Task Force – Karen J. Nichols, DO
• PCCM/DM Steering Committee - John Graneto, DO
• Federal CMS Region Five – Anthony DeLorenzo, DO, Rodey Wassef, DO
• Federal CAC – Rodney Wassef, DO

Indiana

• Medicare Carrier Advisory Committee – Luke Nelligan, DO
• Medical Licensing Board – Thomas Akre, DO
• Health Policy Advisory Committee – James Sackett, DO

Iowa

• Board of Medicine – Janice Galli, DO, Analisa Haberman, DO
• Board of Public Health – Gregory Garvin, DO
• Medicaid Drug Utilization Review Commission – Laura Griffith, DO
• Medicaid Pharmaceutical and Therapeutic Committee – Carole Frier, DO
• Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council – Amy Kumagai, DO
• Trauma System Advisory Council - Amy Kumagai, DO
• Carrier Advisory Council – Sandi Birchem, DO
• Blood Center of Central Iowa – Thomas Buroker, DO
• Maternal Health and Child Health Advisory Committee – Greg Cohen, DO
• Health Information Technology Steering Committee – Greg Cohen, DO
• Healthy Children Task Force – Eric Dodson, DO
• Wellmark Physician Advisory Committee – Roberta Wattleworth, DO  

Kansas

• State Board of Healing Arts – Carolina M. Soria, DO, Ronald N. Whitmer, DO, M. Myron Leinwetter, DO
• State Board of Healing Arts – Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery Review Committee  Robin D. Durrett, DO, Thomas J. Hamilton, DO, James V. Rider, DO
• State Board of Healing Arts – Examining Committee for Physical Therapy – Stephen Rosenberg, DO
• Health Care Stabilization Fund Board of Governors – Deborah M. Burns, DO, Elaine L. Ferguson, DO
• Medicaid Drug Utilization Review Board – Roger D. Unruh, DO

Kentucky

• Board of Medical Licensure – Randel C. Gibson, DO, Boyd R. Buser, DO

Maine

• Board of Osteopathic Licensure – Joseph R. D. deKay, DO, John F. Gaddis, DO, David Rydell, DO, Lonnie C. Lauer, DO, Gary E. Palman, DO, Scott A. Thomas, DO
• Quality Forum Advisory Panel – Jeffrey Holmstrom, DO
• Asthma Health Advisory Committee – Christopher Pezzulo, DO
• Rural Health Working Group – Kathryn Brandt, DO
• Southern Maine Head Start Health Advisory Committee – Rachel Garrett, DO
• Finance Authority of Maine Medical Education Advisory Board – Bruce Bates, DO
• Governor’s Council on Physical Activity – Erik Steele, DO  

Maryland

• Carrier Advisory Committee – Randy Braman, DO, Ross Van Antwerp, DO, Yoon Cho, DO
• Board of Physicians – Kevin B. Gerold, DO, JD

Michigan

• Cancer Consortium Group – Margaret Aguwa, DO, Robert Boorstein, DO, Allan Coates, DO, Peter Gulick, DO, Thomas Petroff, DO, R. Taylor Scott, DO
• Certificate of Need Commission – Peter Ajluni, DO, Michael Young, DO
• Worker’s Compensation Health Advisory Committee - John Anderson, DO
• Health and Safety Coalition – John Bodell, DO
• Center for Rural Health – Lawrence Brown, DO, Thomas Fasbender, DO, William Strampel, DO    
• Health Council – Dorothy E. Carnegie, DO
• Osteopathic Medicine Advisory Board – Dorothy E. Carnegie, DO, Max T. McKinney, DO
• Medical Nutrition Education Consortium – John Floreno, DO
• Health Professional Recovery Program – Bobbe Kelley, DO
• Carrier Advisory Committee – Harold Friedman, DO
• Pediatric Asthma Committee – Pamela Georgeson, DO
• Medicaid Drug Utilization Review Commission – Gerard Breitzer, DO
• Board of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery –   Steven A. Acker, DO, William C. Cunningham, DO, Dennis W. Dobritt, DO, Vincent J. Granowicz, DO, Charles E. Kelly, DO, Sylvia G. Mustonen, DO, Douglas P. Vanator, DO  
• Department of Community Health – Monroe Adams, DO,  Dennis Dobritt DO, Edward Haughn, DO, Steven Klein, DO, Craig Magnatta, DO, Richard Nowak, DO, Lisa Oliveri, DO, Lawrence Prokop, DO, Susan Sevensma, DO, Michael Weiss, DO
• Medicare Carrier Advisory Committee – Gerald Robbins, DO, Arno Schury, DO
• Steps Up Primary Care Initiative Committee – Myral Robbins, DO
• E-Health Care Work Group – George T. Sawabini, DO
• Osteopathic Medicine Advisory Board –  Peter Ajluni, DO Susan Sevensma, DO, William Strampel, DO, Lewin Wyatt Jr., DO, Claud Young, DO
• Health Information Technology Commission – .R. Taylor Scott, DO
• Board of Athletic Trainers – Lawrence Nasser, DO
• Strategic Opportunity for Rural Health – Kurt Anderson, DO
• Fall Prevention Partnership – Frank Komera, DO

Minnesota

• Board of Medical Practice – Jim Mona, DO

Mississippi

• State Board of Medical Licensure – William Mayo, DO

Missouri

• State Advisory Council on Emergency Medical Services – Jim W. Pyron, DO
• Department of Health and Human Services Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Committee – L. David Lisenbardt, DO
• Medicaid Prior Authorization Committee – Joseph M. Yasso, DO
• Medicaid Drug Utilization Review Committee – Henry D. Petry, DO
• State Advisory Board for Senior Services – Jeffrey A. Kerr, DO,
• QIO Board – Joseph M. Yasso, DO, Brenda L. Woods, DO, James D. Smith, DO, Kenneth E. Ross, DO, Robert E. King, DO
• Board of Registration for the Healing Arts – Curtis Mather, DO
• Board of Registration for the Healing Arts – James A. DiRenna, DO
• Carrier Physician Advisory Committee – Kenneth E. Ross, DO,  Bruce R. Williams, DO,
• Drug Utilization Review Committee – Joseph M. Yasso, DO
• Prior Authorization Committee – Henry D. Petry, DO, Conrad S. Balcer, DO
• Long Term Care Best Practices Committee – Carl Bynum, DO, Jeffrey A. Kerr, DO

Montana

• Board of Medical Examiners – Arthur K. Fink, DO

Nebraska

• Board of Medicine and Surgery – Judith Scott, DO

Nevada

• Panel on Human Dissection – Mitchell Forman, DO, Jeff Wachs, DO
• Medicare Carrier Advisory Committee – Robert Kessler, DO
• State Board of Osteopathic Medicine – James Anthony, DO, Daniel Curtis, DO, Paul Kelekas, DO, Scott Manthei, DO, C. Dean Milne, DO
• Homeopathic Medical Examiners – Dan Royal, DO, Bruce Fong, DO
• Commission on Medical Education, Research and Training – Dan Royal, DO
• Institutional Review Board – Dan Royal, DO
• Oriental Medicine Board – Victor Klausner, DO