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November/December 2024

Sierra Sacramento Valley Medicine

Your guide to

Editorial Committee
:

Sean Deane, MD; 
Mohammadomid Edrissian, MD;
 Caroline Giroux, MD
; Manoj Kesarwani, MD
; Robert LaPerriere, MD
; Teimour Nasirov, MD; 
Karen Poirier-Brode, MD
; Gerald Rogan, MD; 
Leslie Tamura, DO
; Glennah Trochet, MD; 
Lee Welter, MD; 
Eric Williams, MD
; Medical Student Representatives



 

Aileen E. Wetzel, Executive Director


Ken Smith, Managing Editor

Sierra Sacramento Valley Magazine

Volume 75/Number 6

Sierra Sacramento Valley Medicine, the official journal of the Sierra Sacramento Valley Medical Society, is a forum for discussion and debate of news, official policy and diverse opinions about professional practice issues and ideas, as well as information about members’ personal interests.

 

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2024 Officers & Board of Directors

President:

Vanessa Walker, DO

 

President-Elect:

Adam Dougherty, MD

 

Immediate Past President:

J. Bianca Roberts, MD

 

District 1

Lisa Guirguis, MD 


 

District 2

Sarah Barnhard, MD


Janine Bera, MD


Raminder Gill, MD


Eli Groppo, MD                      


 

District 3


Tom Valdez, MD


 

District 4


Shideh Chinichian, MD


 

District 5


Olana Aberra, MD


Christina Bilyeu, MD


John Coburn, MD


Roderick Vitangcol, MD


 

District 6

Karen Hopp, MD

 

2024 CMA Delegation
 Delegates


District 1


Reinhardt Hilzinger, MD


 

District 2


Lydia Wytrzes, MD


 

District 3


Tom Valdez, MD


 

District 4


Anand Mehta, MD


 

District 5


Sean Deane, MD


 

District 6


Karen Hopp, MD         

           

At-Large Delegates


Sharmila Amolik, MD; 
Barbara Arnold, MD
; Megan Babb, DO
; Janine Bera, MD
; Christina Bilyeu, MD; 
Christine Braid, DO
; Carol Burch, MD
; Amber Chatwin, MD
; Angelina Crans Yoon, MD
; Mark Drabkin, MD
; Ann Gerhardt, MD; 
Douglas Gibson, MD; 
Raminder Gill, MD; 
Helena Hart-Rathbun
, MD; Brent Jackson, MD; 
Richard Jones, MD
; Steven Kmucha, MD
; Hao (Harry) Li, MD
; Vong Lee, MD; 
Charles McDonnell, MD
; Leena Mehta, MD; 
Sandra Mendez, MD
; Richard Pan, MD
; Siddharth Raghavan, MD
; Ernesto Rivera, MD; 
J. Bianca Roberts, MD; 
Ellen Shank, MD
; Ajay Singh, MD; 
Lee Snook, MD
; Roderick Vitangcol, MD
; Vanessa Walker, DO
; Anna Yap, MD           

 

Alternate Delegates


District 1


Dana Jacques, MD


 

District 2


Vacant


 

District 3


Vacant


 

District 4


Shideh Chinichian, MD


 

District 5


Dale Cotton, MD


 

District 6


Sarah Favila, MD

 

At-Large Alternate Delegates


Olana Aberra, MD
; Jonathan Aron, MD
; Alyssa Ashbaugh Ortega, MD; Daniel Bernet, DO; 
Leo Chen, MD 
Wendy Garabedian, MD; Eli Groppo, MD
; Arthur Jey, MD; 
Gregory Kann, MD
; Vimal Mishra, MD; 
Virginia Tsai, MD; 
M. Umer Waris, MD
; Asmaneh Yamagata, MD

 

CMA Trustees, District XI


Adam Dougherty, MD


Margaret Parsons, MD


Robert Oldham, MD                      

 

AMA Delegation, District XI


Barbara Arnold, MD


Debra Lupeika, MD