AMERICAN OSTEOPATHIC ASSOCIATION - Key Persons


Alyssa Cole

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Cancer Rehabilitation / Charlottesville, Virginia

Andrew Albano

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Chief Medical Officer / Greenville, South Carolina

Brian Le

Job Titles:
  • Family Medicine Resident

Bruce Wolf

Job Titles:
  • Trustee

Caelin Smith

Job Titles:
  • Student Member
Caelin Smith, OMS III, currently serves as the student member representative on the AOA Board of Trustees. She is a third-year osteopathic medical student attending Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Virginia. Student Doctor Smith represents the voice of the osteopathic medical student community and serves as the student representative on the AOA's Public Relations Committee.

Daniel J. Waters

Job Titles:
  • Author and Retired Surgeon / Mason City, Iowa

David Garza

Job Titles:
  • Trustee

David O. Shumway

Job Titles:
  • Internal Medicine

Deanah Jibril

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Clinical Professor, OB - GYN / University of California

Devanshi Patel

Job Titles:
  • Student Advisor

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Duane Koehler

Job Titles:
  • Second Vice President

Emily Hurst

Job Titles:
  • Trustee

Ernest Gelb

Job Titles:
  • Immediate past President

Frank Tursi

Job Titles:
  • Trustee

Gene Tekmyster

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Orthopedic Surgery

Geraldine O'Shea

Job Titles:
  • Trustee

Ira Monka - President

Job Titles:
  • President

James Lally

Job Titles:
  • Trustee

Jane Dalisay

Job Titles:
  • Neurology

Jeanne Sandella

Job Titles:
  • VP for Professional Development Initiatives and Communications at the NBOME / Conshohocken, Pennsylvania

Jeffrey Davis

Job Titles:
  • Trustee

Jennifer Kendall

Job Titles:
  • Trustee

Jerry Balentine

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Executive VP, COO / New York Institute of Technology

Jesse Shaw

Job Titles:
  • Director of Clinical Research at Sparta Science and Associate Professor of Sports Medicine and Performance / University of Western States

Joan Naidorf

Job Titles:
  • Emergency Physician, Author, Speaker / Alexandria, Virginia

Joel A. Kase

Job Titles:
  • Third Vice President

John Kylan Lynch

Job Titles:
  • Neurologist / Bethesda, Maryland

Julieanne Sees

Job Titles:
  • Trustee

Kate de Klerk

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Family Medicine / Brown University

Kathleen S. Creason - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CEO

Kevin V. de Regnier

Job Titles:
  • Trustee
Dr. de Regnier is an AOA board-certified osteopathic family physician who currently serves as the Chair of the AOA Membership department, which oversees the Bureau of Emerging Leaders. He is in private practice with Madison County Medical Associates of Winterset, Iowa, and is a distinguished fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians.

Kevin Volkema

Job Titles:
  • Family Medicine Physician / Sentara Healthcare

Mahi Basra

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board

Maria D. Jones

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Trainee Member
Maria Jones, DO, currently serves as the Postdoctoral Trainee member of the AOA Board of Trustees. She is a current PGY-2 in combined Emergency Medicine/Internal Medicine residency at ChristianaCare in Newark, Delaware. She graduated from the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine in May 2021.

Mauricio W. Jones

Job Titles:
  • First - Year Resident, Internal Medicine

Michael Olek

Job Titles:
  • Attending Physician, AD of Neurology / Touro University

Michelle Mudge-Riley

Job Titles:
  • Senior Global Medical Science Liaison in Medical Affairs / U.S. and International

Miko Rose

Job Titles:
  • Psychiatrist and Assistant Dean of Clinical Education / Pacific Northwest University

Patrick Leary

Job Titles:
  • Director, Sports Medicine / Lake Erie College

Richard Thacker

Job Titles:
  • Trustee

Robert Hostoffer

Job Titles:
  • Trustee

Robert Piccinini

Job Titles:
  • Trustee

Sara A. Lohbauer

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Trainee Advisor

Sarah J. Wolff

Job Titles:
  • New Physician in Practice Member
Sarah J. Wolff, DO, currently serves as the AOA's New Physician in Practice member. She is the current chair of the AOA Bureau of Emerging Leaders and serves as the Director of Clinical Curriculum and Assistant Faculty in the Department of Family Medicine at Western University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific-Northwest in Lebanon, Oregon.

Shannon Scott

Job Titles:
  • Trustee

Shawn Hamm

Job Titles:
  • New Physician in Practice Advisor

Sonia Rivera-Martinez

Job Titles:
  • Trustee

Steven Gunderson

Job Titles:
  • Anesthesiologist / Rockford, Illinois

Sydney LeFay

Job Titles:
  • Psychiatrist / Corvallis, Oregon

Teresa A. Hubka

Job Titles:
  • President - Elect
AOA President-elect Teresa A. Hubka, DO, FACOOG (D), will appoint volunteer leaders to serve on important governance bodies that help shape AOA programs and policies.

Timothy Kowalski

Job Titles:
  • Trustee

Undine Vallejos

Job Titles:
  • Internist / Aunt Martha 's Health and Wellness - Carpentersville Community Center

W. Ashley Hood - VP

Job Titles:
  • First Vice President