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Andrea T. Manyon, M.D., FAAFP

Chair, Board of Governors and Chair, Executive Committee

Clinical Professor; Chair/President and CEO Family Medicine, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences University at Buffalo
Clinical Chief of Family Medicine, Erie County Medical Center Clinical Chief of Family Medicine, Kaleida Health System

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Kevin J. Gibbons, M.D., FACS, FAANS

Vice Chair

Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, The University at Buffalo.
Executive Director, UBMD Physicians Group.
Medical Director, Operational Performance and Physician Director of Surgical Services, Buffalo General Medical Center and The Gates Vascular Institute.
Chief of Neurosurgery, Kaleida Health.

Robert McCormack, M.D., MBA, FACEP

Treasurer and Finance Committee Chair

Currently, Robert McCormack MD holds the position of Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine for the University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. He is President of UBMD Emergency Medicine, a non-profit faculty practice plan, responsible for staffing the emergency departments of the Buffalo General Medical Center, Erie County Medical Center, the VA Medical Center, Millard Suburban Hospital, DeGraff Memorial Hospital, Brooks Memorial Hospital, Wyoming County Hospital and Eastern Niagara Hospital. UBMD Emergency Medicine has >250,000 annual patient encounters with a staff of over 80 Faculty Physicians and 80 Advanced Practice Providers.

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Audrée A. Bendo, M.D., M.S., FASA

Distinguished Service Professor & Chair, Governance Committee

Department of Anesthesiology, State University of New York at Downstate Health Sciences University

Lawrence DiGiulio, Esq.

Chair, Claims Committee

Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer UBMD / UB Associates, Inc.

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Lisa Dresner, M.D., FACS

Associate Professor of Surgery and Program Director

Chief of Breast Surgery, State University of New York at Downstate

Brian McGrath, M.D.

CEO/CMO Allied Joint Reconstruction Management LLC

Hip Arthroscopy & Lower Extremity Reconstruction
Professor of Orthopaedics, UBMD Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine

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Steven Schwaitzberg, M.D., FACS

Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery

Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

David Wlody, M.D., FASA

Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine

Dr. David Wlody is a graduate of the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine. He completed his Anesthesiology training at St. Louis University, and a fellowship in Obstetric Anesthesia at Washington University-Barnes Hospital. Dr. Wlody is Past President of the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology. He has served as General Chair of the PostGraduate Assembly of the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists. Dr. Wlody is Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at the SUNY-Downstate College of Medicine.