Robert J. Carr, MD, FAAFP is an AAFP appointee to the COLA Board of Directors. Dr. Carr is a family physician and geriatric medicine specialist in Southbury, Connecticut and is the Medical Director of Primary Care of Southbury. He began his medical career as a U.S. Army physician, and then spent 11 years as director of the Family Medicine residency program at Georgetown University and Providence Hospital in Washington, DC.

Dr. Carr received his undergraduate degree in Biology and Philosophy from the University of Scranton, and then his MD degree from Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. He completed a Family Medicine residency at Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center and a visiting fellowship in Geriatrics at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.

Dr. Carr is a fellow of the AAFP and served as Chair of the Academy’s Commission on Practice Enhancement as well as a delegate to the AAFP’s Congress of Delegates. He is Past-President of the District of Columbia Academy of Family Physicians and current Treasurer of the Connecticut Academy of Family Physicians. He is a member of the American Medical Association, and currently serves as the AAFP’s CPT Advisor to the AMA’s CPT Panel.

Dr. Carr and his wife, Linda, have two children.

Bradley J. Fedderly, MD, FAAFP is an AAFP appointee to the COLA Board of Directors. Dr. Fedderly is a family physician at Wheaton Franciscan Medical Group--a full service primary care large group practice in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has served on the Covenant Medical Group Board in various positions, including Chair and Vice Chair.

Dr. Fedderly received his undergraduate degree in molecular biology and his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Wisconsin. He served his residency in family practice at the Hahnemann Family Health Center, in Worcester, Massachusetts. He has also practiced in the medical specialty of Gerontology, and was an attending physician in the emergency room of Worcester Hahnemann Hospital and Holden Hospital in Massachusetts.

Dr. Fedderly is a Fellow of the AAFP and has served on a number of its committees. In addition, he has served on the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Task Force For the Development Of Guidelines In The Treatment Of Valvular Heart Disease, and is Past President of the Wisconsin Academy of Family Physicians.

From 1991 to present, Dr. Fedderly has conducted in-office teaching of medical students and residents from the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Dr. Fedderly is married to his wife, Sharon, and has two children.

Ardis D. Hoven, MD is an AMA appointee and serves as Finance Committee Chair on the COLA Board of Directors. Dr. Hoven is an internal medicine and infectious disease specialist in Lexington, Kentucky, and was elected to the American Medical Association (AMA) Board of Trustees (BOT) in June 2005. At the state level, Dr. Hoven has served as a delegate to the AMA from Kentucky for the past 16 years, and was president of the Kentucky Medical Association from 1993 to 1994.

Dr. Hoven received her undergraduate degree in microbiology and then her MD degree from the University of Kentucky. She completed her internal medicine and infectious disease training at the University of North Carolina. Since then, she has been in active practice and currently is the medical director of the Bluegrass Care Clinic, an infectious disease and HIV/AIDS practice affiliated with the University of Kentucky College of Medicine.

Board-certified in internal medicine and infectious disease, Dr. Hoven is a member of the American College of Physicians, and the Infectious Disease Society of America. She has been the recipient of many awards including the University of Kentucky College of Medicine Distinguished Alumnus Award and the Kentucky Medical Association Distinguished Service Award.

Dr. Hoven is married to Ron Sanders, PhD, an economist and college professor. They share a mutual enjoyment of two grandchildren, sports, travel, and philanthropic activities.

Verlin K. Janzen, MD, FAAFP is an AAFP appointee and serves as Chair on the COLA Board of Directors. Dr. Janzen is on Active Medical Staff at the Hutchinson Clinic and Hutchinson Hospital in the Department of Family Medicine in Hutchinson, Kansas, and is currently the Medical Director of Mennonite Friendship Manor. He was a member of the CLIAC committee at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 1994-2000, and currently serves as a consultant to the American Academy of Family Physicians Proficiency Testing Program. He was President of the Kansas Academy of Family Physicians in 2004-05.

Robert A. (Bob) Mann, MT (ASCP) is a Board-elected member of COLA’s Board of Directors. Mr. Mann has been the Director of Laboratory Services for the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States Region since October 1998. He is located at the Kaiser Permanente Regional Office in Rockville, MD. Prior to joining Kaiser he completed a nearly 30 year career in the U.S. Navy. In his last position in the Navy he served as the Navy Director, Office of Clinical Laboratory Affairs, Department of Defense. This office was responsible for laboratory quality throughout the Armed Services and issued CLIA certificates for all laboratory facilities in the Army, Navy and Air Force.

He received his undergraduate degree in Medical Technology from Concord College, Athens, WV and his Masters in Public Administration from Troy State University, Troy, Alabama. Bob was a member of the Society of Armed Forces Medical Laboratory Scientists (SAFMLS) for several years and served as the Navy at-large member of the Board of Directors and was the SAFMLS president for 1997-1998. He is also a member of the Clinical Laboratory Management Association (CLMA), American Association of Clinical Chemists (AACC) and the American Society of Clinical Pathologists.

Mr. Mann and his wife Margaret reside in Germantown, Maryland. They have two grown children and one granddaughter.

Veronica C. Santilli, MD, MHA, CPE is an AMA appointee to the COLA Board of Directors. She is the President of the Brook-Island Pediatrics Group in Brooklyn, New York. She currently serves as Chair of the Medical Society State of New York Membership Committee, is a member of MSSNY Publications Committee, the MSSNY Health Care Delivery and Medicaid Committee and the MSSNY Delegation to the AMA House of Delegates. Dr. Santilli is a member of the Board of Trustees at Maimonides Medical Center, where she is also a senior attending physician in the Department of Pediatrics.

W. James Stackhouse, MD, MACP is an ACP appointee and serves as Vice Chair on the COLA Board of Directors. Dr. Stackhouse is certified in Internal Medicine, and is currently in private practice with Goldsboro Medical Specialists in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Dr. Stackhouse is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at UNC SOM, and serves on the NC Legislative Task Force on Stroke and Heart Attack Prevention. Dr. Stackhouse has served as a Regent for ACP and is currently serving as its Treasurer. He has also been a member of the AMA, NC Chapter of the ACP, NC Medical Society, and Wayne County Medical Society. Dr. Stackhouse also served as a member of the Board of Directors at Wayne Memorial Hospital, where he also held the position of President of the hospital medical staff, and various positions on hospital committees.

Donna E. Sweet, MD, MACP holds a director-at-large position on the COLA Board of Directors. Dr. Sweet is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. She is a Professor of Internal Medicine at University of Kansas School of Medicine in Wichita, Kansas and is Director of Internal Medicine Education at Via- Christi Regional Medical Center - St. Francis, as well as the director and principal investigator of the Kansas AIDS Education and Training Center. Dr. Sweet is accredited by the American Academy of HIV Medicine as an HIV Specialist and is a member of the national board of the American Academy of HIV Medicine and is a member of the CDC/HRSA AIDS Advisory Committee (CHAC). She is the immediate past Chair of the Board of Regents for the American College of Physicians and an ACP delegate to the AMA House of Delegates.

Dr. Sweet is best known for medical treatment and research on AIDS, and she has been recognized locally and nationally for her work with HIV and AIDS. She is the director of the Ryan White Title III Early Intervention Clinic in Kansas and works extensively with the Health Resource Service Administration on Ryan White issues in Kansas. She lectures in her home state of Kansas, Nationally, and Internationally to educate other health care providers regarding HIV.

Henry Travers, M.D., FACP, FCAP is a Board-elected member of COLA’s Board of Directors. A native of South Carolina, Dr. Henry (Pete) Travers is clinical professor of pathology at the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine and chairman of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He practices with 14 other pathologists at Physician’s Laboratory, Ltd. in Sioux Falls.

Dr. Travers received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, and then his MD degree from the Pennsylvania State University School of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania. He served a rotating internship followed by residency in pathology at the Naval Regional Medical Center in Portsmouth, Virginia, and was subsequently Chief of the Clinical Pathology Branch at the same facility.

Dr. Travers taught at the Eastern Virginia Medical School and the University of Kansas where he was professor and chairman of the Department of Pathology at the Wichita Campus. While in Kansas, he was president of the Kansas Society of Pathologists. His research interests have included placental disorders and human papillomavirus epidemiology in cervical cancer.

Dr. Travers served in the Middle East as Laboratory Director for Fleet Hospital Six during the Desert Storm conflict. He has been a governor of the College of American Pathologists and served on numerous committees for the College. He chaired committees on Medical Practice and Education for the South Dakota State Medical Association. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a fellow of the College of American Pathologists, President of the South Dakota Society of Pathologists, a member of the American Medical Association, and immediate past president of the World Association of Societies of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.

Dr. Travers is single and has five grown sons and three grandchildren.

Kathleen M. Weaver, MD, MACP is an ACP appointee to the COLA Board of Directors. Dr. Weaver has been Medical Director for the Center for Weight Management, Southwest Washington Medical Center, Vancouver, since May 2007. From 2003 - 2007, she was Director of the Health Resources Commission, Salem, Ore., and was Medical Director of the Office for Oregon Health Policy and Research from 1997 to 2003. Previously, she was in the private practice of internal medicine for 18 years.

Dr. Weaver is a medical graduate of Oregon Health & Science University, where she also completed residency training in internal medicine. She is certified in internal medicine.

Dr. Weaver served as 1994-1995 President of the American Society of Internal Medicine, which merged with ACP in 1998. Dr. Weaver was elected a Fellow of ACP (FACP) in 1996 and was named a Master of ACP (MACP) in 2004 for her achievements toward quality medical care for all of Oregon's citizens, and for her "key role in making the American Society of Internal Medicine achieve excellence in its advocacy efforts." Dr. Weaver is a member of the ACP Bylaws Committee and the Health and Public Policy Committee. She has been a member of the ACP Third Party Relations, Coding and Payment Committee and has twice served on the ACP Nominations Committee.

Dr. Weaver was an Oregon delegate to the AMA from 1998 to 2005. She served on the AMA Women in Medicine Advisory Panel, and as an alternate delegate, from 1994 to 1998. She is a now a member of the AMA Medical Service reference committee. She also served as American Society of Internal Medicine Secretary-Treasurer from 1991 to 1993, and Trustee from 1986 to 1991.

Richard A. Wherry, MD is an AAFP appointee to the COLA Board of Directors. Dr. Wherry is in private practice in a multi-specialty medical group in rural Georgia. He is also assistant professor at Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, Georgia, and the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta. In addition, he serves as a preceptor at Emory University School of Medicine and Morehouse School of Medicine, both in Atlanta.

A board-certified family physician, Wherry received his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, in 1974. He completed a three-year family practice residency program at Medical Center of Central Georgia, Macon.

Dr. Wherry served as a member of the Board of Directors of the AAFP from 2000-2003. A member of the Academy since 1977, Wherry has also served on numerous Academy commissions and committees addressing such issues as insurance and financial services, drugs and devices, health care services and the task force on foundation network governance. The AAFP has awarded him the degree of Fellow for distinguished service and continuing medical education.

Dr. Wherry is married to Alice Moore; they have two daughters and five grandchildren.

Cecil B. Wilson, MD is an AMA appointee to the COLA Board of Directors. Dr. Wilson, an internist, has been in private practice in Central Florida for 30 years. He received his BA and MD degrees from Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. He interned at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Virginia, and completed his residency in internal medicine at the US. Naval Hospital, San Diego, California. He served as a navy flight surgeon, rising to the rank of commander. He is board certified in internal medicine and a Master of the American College of Physicians (ACP).

Dr. Wilson was elected to the AMA Board of Trustees in 2002 and is currently serving as Board Chair. He has been a member of the AMA House of Delegates since 1992 and previously was elected to two terms as a member of the Council on Constitution and Bylaws where he served as vice chair.

Dr. Wilson has served as Chair of the Board of Regents of ACP. He has also been president of the Florida Medical Association, Orange County Medical Society, and medical staffs of the Winter Park Memorial Hospital and Florida Hospital Medical Center, Orlando, Florida.

He and his wife, Betty Jane, past-president of the FMA Alliance, have three children--Randall, Brian, and Krista.