Executive Leadership Team Members

• Thomas Wherry, MD

  • Chief Executive Officer

• Chuck Court, MD

  • Chief of Strategy and Operations

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

Education

• Kim Blasius, MD

  • Director of Education

General Anesthesiologists

• Jeff Plotkin, MD

  • Director of Transplant,
    Hepatobiliary and Trauma Anesthesiology

• Jenny Dhingra, MD

  • Director of One Day Surgery

• Matt Draughon, MD

  • Acute Care Anesthesia and Trauma Director

• Ian Cohen, MD

  • Director of Post Anesthesia Care Unit

• Joshua Marr, MD

  • Director of Information Technology

• Philippe Ball, MD

• James Boswell, MD

• Patrick Brooks, MD

• Jace Carter, MD

• Omar Gafur, MD

• Melody Herman, MD

• Lindsay Lewis, DO

• Areg Mekerian, MD

• Sandeep Narayan, MD

• Florin Orza, MD

• Daniele Parise, MD

• Kevin Powell, MD

• Waleed Sayedahmad, MD

• Brent Toland, MD

• Ben Trapp, MD

Pediatric Anesthesiologists

• Leo Gendzel, MD

  • Director of Pediatric Anesthesia

• Janish Jay Patel, MD

  • Vice Chief of Anesthesia, Central Division
    Pediatric Pre-operative Director

• Kim Blasius, MD

  • Director of Education

• Scott Hines, MD

• Benjamin Pruden, MD

• Ravi Sanghani, 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 of Anesthesia, Central Division,
    Peri-operative Medical Director

• Jeremy Bennett, MD

  • Director of Cardiac Transplant Anesthesia

• Kyle Campbell, MD

• Randall Joe, MD

Obstetric Anesthesiologists

• Michael Worth, MD

  • Director of OB Anesthesia

• Chad Rosen, MD

  • Associate Director of OB Anesthesia

• Richard Geary, MD

• Katy Nicholas, MD

• Alison Powell, MD

• Rob Worth, MD

Preoperative Clinic

• Andrew Patterson, PA

• Megan Wilson, NP

• Tim Malaney, MD

  • Mercy Medical Director

• Joel Beachkofsky, DO

• Bill Fortuner, MD

• John Hamel, MD

• Laura Moore, MD

• Daniel Sucherman, MD

• Jeremie Walker, MD

General Anesthesiologists

• Steven Galyon, MD

  • Pineville Medical Director

• Srinivasan Adayapalam, MD

• Anthony Chillura, MD

• Mukesh Nigam, MD

• Rich Pagano, MD

• Scott Palmer, MD

Cardiac Anesthesiologists

• Sanjay Anand, MD

• Mahesh Sardesai, MD

• Gary Dove, MD

  • Union Medical Director

• James Crowgey, MD

• Joshua Howell, MD

• Anirudha Kulkarni, DO

• Gwen Parker, MD

• Tony Wright, MD

• Alan Gwertzman, MD

  • Lincoln Medical Director

• Timothy Burke, MD

• Megan Lofton, MD

• Carrie Zhang, MD

• William Brown, MD

  • Stanly Medical Director

• Vimal Choudhari, MD

• Randy Efird, MD

• James Masters, MD

  • Cleveland Medical Director

• Bruce Caldwell, DO

• David Easley, MD

• Jill Kaufman, MD

• Tonya Powers, MD

• Tyce Regan, MD

• Brett Cleveland, MD