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OMSS Leadership

Organized Medical Staff Section Governing Council 2008-2009
Current Leadership Positions

Chair	Jay A. Gregory, MD Muskogee Regional Medical Center 333 South 38th Street, Suite D Muskogee, OK 74401 dr.gregory@sbcglobal.net (P) (918) 687-5304 (F) (918) 687-0178 Specialty: General Surgery
Current Leadership Positions --Past President, Oklahoma State Medical Association --Governor, American College of Surgeons --Past President, American Society of General Surgeons --State Chair, OMSS Oklahoma --Chair ICU-CCU Committee, Muskogee Regional Medical Center --Delegate, AMA-HOD, Oklahoma State Medical Association --Chair, Surgical Caucus, AMA-HOD
Vice Chair	Robert G. Pugach, MD Community Hospital of Long Beach 3801 Katella Avenue, Suite 110 Los Alamitos, CA 90720 rpugach@pacificcoasturology.com (P) (562) 594-0860 (F) (562) 594-9010 Specialty: Urology
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
Secretary	James A. Goodyear, MD, FACS North Penn Surgical Associates 2100 North Broad Street, Suite 100 Lansdale, PA 19446 JAGoody37@aol.com (P) (215) 368-1122 (F) (215) 368-3569 Specialty: General Surgery
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"
Delegate	Brian D. Johnston, MD White Memorial Hospital 1700 E. Walnut Avenue Suite 250 El Segundo, CA 90245 drbrianjohnston@earthlink.net (P) (323) 969-5111 (F) (310) 306-5247 Specialty: Emergency Medicine
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
Alternate Delegate	Lewis Yecies, MD North Country Allergy & Immunology Associates, P.C. 531 Washington Street, 4th Floor Watertown, New York 13601 lyecies@verizon.net (P) (315) 782-4365, ext. 228 (F) (315) 788-1932 Specialty: Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Current Leadership Positions --Chair, Organized Medical Staff Section, Medical Society State of New York --President, 5th District, Medical Society State of New York
At-Large Member	Arthur Snow Jr., MD Shawnee Mission Medical Center PO Box 7004 Shawnee Mission, KS 66207 adsnowjr@aol.com (P) (913) 268-8519 (F) (913) 491-9285 Specialty: Family Medicine/Geriatrics
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
At-Large Member	Louito C. Edje, MD, FAAFP St. Luke's Hospital 1399 Fort Street Maumee, OH 43537-1875 loukhanga@aol.com (P) (419) 290-1153 (F) (419) 897-7675 Specialty: Family Practice
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
Past Chair	Stephen T. House, MD Kettering Medical Center 5501 Sagewood Drive Miamisburg, OH 45342 shouse.3@hotmail.com (P) (937) 353-3685 Specialty: Family Practice
Current Leadership Positions --Kettering Medical Center MEC --Montgomery County Medical Society Service Bureau Board --Delegate to OSMA HOD --Parliamentarian Ohio Academy Family Physicians HOD --TJC Hospital Advisory Council (HAC) --TJC Physician Engagement Advisory Group (PEAG) --TJC Standards Improvement Initiative (SII) --Ohio Hospital Association Research and Education Foundation Board --Ohio Hospital Association Hospital Acquired Infection Task Force (HAI)

OMSS Election Procedures

AMA-OMSS Election Procedures

OMSS/HMSS Chairs and State Staff Liaisons

AMA OMSS/HMSS State Chairs and State Staff Liaisons

Leadership opportunities and responsibilities

AMA OMSS Leadership opportunities and responsibilities

Last updated: Oct 16, 2008
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