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This letter deal with nominations process. The following is the report of the nominating committee that met last evening.

REPORT OF THE MSSNY NOMINATING COMMITTEE
Joseph Maldonado, MD, Chair

To the House of Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen: 

The Nominating Committee held a meeting on Wednesday, March 7, 2024. After careful consideration of the recommendations submitted by the district branches, county medical societies, the medical student, resident & fellow and young physicians’ sections, your Committee respectfully submits the following candidates for election.

Officers (Each for term of 2024-2025)

President
President-Elect
Vice-President
Secretary
Assistant Secretary
Treasurer
Assistant Treasurer
Speaker
Vice-Speaker

Jerome C. Cohen, MD, Broome
David Jakubowicz, MD, Bronx
Mark J. Adams, MD, Monroe
Howard H. Huang, MD, Jefferson
Bernadette Riley, DO Nassau
Gregory Pinto, MD, Saratoga
Frank Dowling, MD, Suffolk
L. Carlos Zapata, MD, Queens
Jane Simpson, DO, Jefferson

Councilors (Four for term 2024-2027)

Second District
Fourth District
Sixth District
Eighth District

David Podwall, MD, Nassau
Natalie Adler, MD, Saratoga
Celeste Johns, MD, Otsego
Mark Jajkowski, MD Erie

Young Physicians’ Councilor – Jocelyn Young, DO, Broome
Resident and Fellow Section Councilor (One year term 2024-2025) – Anna Heffron, MD, Queens
Medical Student Section Councilor (One year term 2024-2025) – TBD

Trustees (One Five Year Term 2024-2029) –

Robert Frankel, MD, Kings
Parag Mehta, MD, Kings

Delegates to AMA (American Medical Association) – Term of Office January 1, 2025, through December 31, 2026

Louis Auguste, MD, Queens
Maria Basile, MD, Suffolk
Sana Bloch, MD, Bronx
Michael Brisman, MD, Nassau
Joseph DiPoala, MD, Monroe
Janine Fogarty, MD, Monroe
Robert Goldberg, DO, New York
Kent Hall, MD, Oneida
Mark Jajkowski, MD, Erie
Bonnie Litvack, MD, Westchester
Charles Lopresto, DO, Queens

Parag Mehta, MD, King
Brian Murray, MD, Albany
Malcolm Reid, MD, New York
Myrna Sanchez, MD Franklin
Joseph Sellers, FAAP, FACP, MD, Schoharie
Suresh Sharma, MD, Herkimer
Penny Stern, MD, Queens
Corliss Varnum, MD Oswego
Daniel Young, MD, Broome
Jocelyn Young, DO, Broome
Michael Ziegelbaum, MD, Nassau

The medical student member, Rohini Guin, Suffolk County, as full delegate, and the resident physician member, XXX, XXXX County, as an alternate delegate, will serve on the New York Delegation for one year only (2024).

At this time the prefatory nominations process may begin and will conclude on Monday, March 25th at 9pm. No nominations will be accepted officers,  councilors, trustees, or for the AMA Delegation after that deadline for the MSSNY 2024 House of Delegates elections.

All nominees including those put forward by the nominating committee must complete the following forms. Click each of the links to complete online.

Conflict Of Interest Policy Form
Employment Disclosure Form
Candidate Statement and CV upload

 Prefatory nominees must also have ten delegate signatures supporting their candidacy and a CV supporting their professional status.

Candidate Endorsement Form

Shortly after the deadline, the rules committee will review all nominations and be certain that the above criteria have been met.

All the best,

William R. Latreille, MD, FACP
Speaker, MSSNY HOD

L. Carlos Zapata, MD
Vice Speaker, MSSNY HOD