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Robert McCormack, M.D., MBA, FACEP

Chair, Board of Governors and Chair, Executive Committee


Currently, Robert McCormack MD holds the position of Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine for the University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. He is President of UBMD Emergency Medicine, a non-profit faculty practice plan, responsible for staffing the emergency departments of the Buffalo General Medical Center, Erie County Medical Center, the VA Medical Center, Millard Suburban Hospital, DeGraff Memorial Hospital, Brooks Memorial Hospital, Wyoming County Hospital and Eastern Niagara Hospital. UBMD Emergency Medicine has >250,000 annual patient encounters with a staff of over 80 Faculty Physicians and 80 Advanced Practice Providers.

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Kevin J. Gibbons, M.D., FACS, FAANS  

Vice Chair, Board of Governors and Treasurer and Finance Committee Chair


  • ​Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, The University at Buffalo.
  • Executive Director, UBMD Physicians Group.
  • Medical Director, Operational Performance and Physician Director of Surgical Services, Buffalo General Medical Center and The Gates Vascular Institute.​
  • Chief of Neurosurgery, Kaleida Health.
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Andrea T. Manyon, M.D., FAAFP

Professor and Chair, Department of Family Medicine


  • Clinical Professor; Chair/President and CEO Family Medicine, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences University at Buffalo
  • Clinical Chief of Family Medicine, Erie County Medical Center Clinical Chief of Family Medicine, Kaleida Health System
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Steven Schwaitzberg, M.D., FACS

Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery


  • Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York




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Lawrence DiGiulio, Esq. 

Chair, Claims Committee


  • ​​Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer UBMD / UB Associates, Inc.
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Lisa Dresner, M.D., FACS 

Associate Professor of Surgery and Program Director


  • ​​Chief of Breast Surgery, State University of New York at Downstate
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Brian McGrath, M.D. 

CEO/CMO Allied Joint Reconstruction Management LLC


  • ​​Hip Arthroscopy & Lower Extremity Reconstruction 
  • Professor of Orthopaedics, UBMD Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine
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John Nosovitch Jr., M.D.

Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology


  • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • SUNY Upstate Medical University
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David Wlody, M.D., FASA

Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine


  • Dr. David Wlody is a graduate of the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine. He completed his Anesthesiology training at St. Louis University, and a fellowship in Obstetric Anesthesia at Washington University-Barnes Hospital. Dr. Wlody is Past President of the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology. He has served as General Chair of the PostGraduate Assembly of the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists. Dr. Wlody is Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at the SUNY-Downstate College of Medicine.
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Panos Kougias, MD MSc FACS

Clarence and Mary Dennis Professor of Surgery

Chair, Department of Surgery SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University