About Us

Robert G. Pugach, MD

Community Hospital of Long Beach
3801 Katella Avenue, Suite 110
Los Alamitos, CA 90720
Specialty: Urology

(P) (562) 594-0860
(F) (562) 594-9010
rpugach@pacificcoasturology.com

Current Leadership Positions
--Member, Board of Trustees of California Medical Association
--Caucus Chair, Organized Medical Staff Section, Western States
--President, Pacific Coast Urology Medical Center
--Clinical Instructor, Urologix

James A. Goodyear, MD, FACS

North Penn Surgical Associates
2100 North Broad Street, Suite 100
Lansdale, PA 19446
Specialty: General Surgery

(P) (215) 368-1122
(F) (215) 368-3569
JAGoody37@aol.com 

Current Leadership Positions
--Council on Government Affairs, Policy and Advocacy
--The Joint Commission, Task Force on MS.1.20: Standards Development and Implementation
--Chairman, Organized Medical Staff Bylaws Committee, Central Montgomery Medical Center
--Member, Credentials Committee, Central Montgomery Medical Center
--Fouder and Director, North Penn Hernia Institute
--Member, American Hernia Society
--V.P., Pennsylvania Medical Society
--Chairman, County Medical Society Board of Directors
--Delegate, AMA House of Delegates, Pennsylvania Medical Society
--Chair, Organized Medical Staff Section, Pennsylvania Medical Society
--Consultant and Lecturer, Ethicon (Johnson and Johnson) Worldwide, "Advances in Hernia Surgery"

Brian D. Johnston, MD

White Memorial Hospital
1700 E. Walnut Avenue, Suite 250
El Segundo, CA 90245
Specialty: Emergency Medicine

(P) (323) 969-5111
(F) (310) 306-5247
drbrianjohnston@earthlink.net

Current Leadership Positions
--Member, Joint Advisory Committee on Emergency Preparedness of the California Department of Public Health
--Member, Board of Trustees, California Medical Association
--Member, Board of Trustees, LA County Medical Association

Lewis D. Yecies, MD

North Country Allergy & Immunology Associates, P.C.
531 Washington Street, 4th Floor
Watertown, New York 13601
Specialty: Allergy and Clinical Immunology

(P) (315) 782-4365, ext. 228
(F) (315) 788-1932
lyecies@verizon.net

Current Leadership Positions
--Chair, Organized Medical Staff Section, Medical Society State of New York
--President, 5th District, Medical Society State of New York

Arthur D. Snow Jr., MD

Shawnee Mission Medical Center
PO Box 7004
Shawnee Mission, KS 66207
Specialty: Family Medicine/Geriatrics

(P) (913) 268-8519
(F) (913) 491-9285
adsnowjr@aol.com

Current Leadership Positions
--Alternate Delegate, AMA House of Delegates, Kansas Medical Society
--Chair, Organized Medical Staff Section, Kansas Medical Society
--President, Kansas Medical Directors Association
--Chairman, Board of Governors, Kansas Health Care Stabilization Fund
--Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Family Medicine/Department of Medicine, University of Kansas
--Deputy Coroner, Johnson County Kansas
--Appointed by the Secretary of HHS to the Practicing Physicians Advisory Committee to CME (PPAC)
--Past President, Kansas Medical Society
--Past President, Kansas Academy of Family Physicians
--Health Care Provider Representative appointed to the Kansas Insurance Department Advisory Committee on Utilization Review
--Family Medicine Representative to the Carrier Advisory Committee (CAC)
--Chairman, Physician Preceptor Program, Medical Society of Johnson and Wyandotte County
--Chairman, Family Medicine Department, Shawnee Mission Medical Center
--Representative to AMA-OMSS, Shawnee Mission Medical Center

Louito C. Edje, MD, FAAFP

St. Luke's Hospital
1399 Fort Street
Maumee, OH 43537-1875
Specialty: Family Practice

(P) (419) 290-1153
(F) (419) 897-7675
loukhanga@aol.com

Current Leadership Positions
--AMA-OMSS Advisor Ohio OMSS Steering Committee
--Ohio OMSS Secretary
--Ohio Liaison to the Women Physician’s Congress
--Alternate Delegate, Ohio State Medical Association
--Chief of Staff, St. Luke’s Hospital, Maumee
--Board of Directors, St. Luke’s Hospital
--Co-Managing Partner, 51 employee, 8-physician group, Fallen Timbers Family Physicians, Inc
--Graduate Medical Education Committee, St. Luke’s Family Medicine Residency program
--Lecturer, The Toledo Hospital Family Medicine Residency program
--Mentor, Academy of Medicine Mentorship Program
--Columnist “Healthy Living News” Academy Corner, 125,000 county-wide readership

Steven J. Stack, MD

St. Joseph Hospital East
515 N. State St.
Chicago, IL 60654
P: (312) 446-4068
F: (859) 523-8752
steven.stack@ama-assn.org

Current Leadership Positions
- American Medical Association (AMA) Board of Trustees (BOT).
- Chair and Medical Director of Emergency Medicine
- Chair of the AMA Health Information Technology Advisory Group
- Past Speaker of the Medical Student Section (MSS)
- Past Vice Chair of the Resident and Fellow Section (RFS)
- Past AMA-HOD Alternate Delegate for Young Physician Section (YPS)
- Past AMA-HOD Delegate representing Emergency Medicine
- Past Governing Board of Emergency Medicine Residents' Assocation
- Past Governing Board of National Emergency Medicine Political Action Committee
- Past Governing Board of Tennessee College of Emergency Physicians
- Past Governing Board of Ohio State Medical Association
- Past Chair of AMA-BOT Compensation Committee
- Past Chair of AMA-BOT Awards and Nominations Committee