Executive Leadership Team Members

• Thomas Wherry, MD

  • Chief Executive Officer/President

• Kimberly Blasius, MD

  • Chief Academic Officer

• Jenny Dhingra, MD

  • Integration Task Force Leader, Director of One Day Surgery

• Deepu Ushakumari, MD

  • Chief Medical Officer,
    Peri-operative Medical Director

• Bernie Velardo, MD

  • CMC Director of Operations

• William Wegh, DO

  • Regional Operations Director, Union West Medical Director

Senior Advisory Board

• Joseph Tobin, MD

  • Professor Emeritus and former Chairman,
    Department of Anesthesiology,
    Wake Forest School of Medicine

• Thomas Mann, MBBS MRCGP MBA

  • Managing Director, Direct Health First

• Robert N Sladen, MBChB, FCCM

  • Allen Hyman Professor Emeritus of Critical Care Anesthesiology at Columbia University Medical Center and College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University, New York

• William Greeley, MD, MBA

  • Professor Emeritus, Anesthesia/Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics,
    UPENN School of Medicine,
    Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics,
    Duke University School of Medicine

General Anesthesiologists

• Philippe Ball, MD

  • VICE CHIEF OF ANESTHESIA, CENTRAL DIVISION

• Bernie Velardo, MD

  • CMC Director of Operations

• Jeff Plotkin, MD

  • Director of Transplant,
    Hepatobiliary and Trauma Anesthesiology

• Jenny Dhingra, MD

  • Integration Task Force Leader, Director of One Day Surgery

• Michael Hrycelak, MD

  • Director of Neuroanesthesia

• Ian Cohen, MD

  • Director of Post Anesthesia Care Unit

• Kevin Powell, MD

  • Director of Endoscopy Services

• Joshua Marr, MD

  • Director of Information Technology

• Melody Herman, MD

  • Director of Acute Pain Service

• Satish Adawadkar, MD

• Patrick Brooks, MD

• Jace Carter, MD

• Naucika DeSouza, MD

• Omar Gafur, MD

• Imran Hamid, MD

• Lindsay Lewis, DO

• Areg Mekerian, DO

• Sandeep Narayan, MD

• Florin Orza, MD

• Brian Palank, MD

• Daniele Parise, MD

• David Rotberg, MD

• Loran Soliman, MD

• Ben Trapp, MD

Pediatric Anesthesiologists

• Janish Jay Patel, MD

  • CHIEF OF ANESTHESIA, CENTRAL DIVISION
    Pediatric Pre-operative Director

• Benjamin Pruden, MD

  • Director of Pediatric Anesthesiology

• Kimberly Blasius, MD

  • Chief Academic Officer

• Leo Gendzel, MD

• Brent Holway, MD

• Kumar Sathyamoorthy, MD

• Jeffrey Widelitz, MD

Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiologists

• Laura Hastings, MD

  • Director of Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia

• James Harrington, MD

• Leo Martinez, MD

• Norbert Rios, MD

Cardiac Anesthesiologists

• Amit Yajnik, MD

  • Director of Cardiac Anesthesia

• Deepu Ushakumari, MD

  • Chief Medical Officer,
    Peri-operative Medical Director

• Jeremy Bennett, MD

  • Director of Cardiac Transplant Anesthesia

• Sanjay Anand, MD

• Amany Gorgy, MD

• Randall Joe, MD

• Nishita Patel, MD

Obstetric Anesthesiologists

• Sonya Randazzo, MD

  • Director of OB Anesthesia

• Juanita Bess, MD

• Richard Geary, MD

• Agnes Lamon, MD

• Katy Nicholas, MD

• Michael Worth, MD

• Rob Worth, MD

Advanced Practice Providers

• Kim Churchill, PA

• Priscilla Haug, PA

• Shannon Lane, NP

• David McClellan, NP

• Andrew Patterson, PA

• Megan Wilson, NP

• Jon Epperson, MD

  • Mercy Medical Director

• Joel Beachkofsky, DO

• Bill Fortuner, MD

• Tim Malaney, MD

• Laura Moore, MD

• Daniel Sucherman, MD

• Brooks Weller, MD

• Steven Galyon, MD

  • Pineville Medical Director

• Srinivasan Adayapalam, MD

• Anthony Chillura, MD

• Mukesh Nigam, MD

• Rich Pagano, MD

• Scott Palmer, MD

• Mahesh Sardesai, MD

• Anirudha Kulkarni, DO

  • Union Medical Director

• Joshua Howell, MD

• Gwen Parker, MD

• Alison Powell, MD

• Jonathan Silva, MD

• Tony Wright, MD

• Alan Gwertzman, MD

  • Lincoln Medical Director

• Jonathan Weaver, MD

• Carrie Zhang, MD

• Randy Efird, MD

  • Stanly Medical Director

• Mehtab Bajwa, MD

• William Brown, MD

• James Masters, MD

  • Cleveland Medical Director

• Bruce Caldwell, DO

• Brett Cleveland, MD

• Cliff Franklin, MD

• Alex Hunter, MD

• Tyce Regan, MD

• Ken Sauve, MD

• William Wegh, DO

  • Regional Operations Director, Union West Medical Director

• Travis Ansley, MD

• Vincent Cordero, MD

• Anna Greta Taylor, MD

• Kristen Trulear-Jackson, MD