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Board of Directors
COLA's Board of
Directors is comprised of practicing physicians
appointed to the COLA Board from a number of leading healthcare
organizations. Biographical information about each Board
member is presented below.
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.
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