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Michael Adelman |
David Broder |
James Cole |
Bruce Dubin |
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Howard Feinberg |
Kenneth Freiberg |
Ronnie Martin |
Tom McWilliams |
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Martha Simpson |
Mary Theodoras |
Amelia Tunanidas |
Larry Wickless |
Michael Adelman
David Broder, D.O. is the Associate Dean for Postdoctoral Education at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine. He also serves as an assistant professor of medicine and as President of their GME Consortium, NYCOMEC.
Dr. Broder graduated
from the University of Rochester in 1982 and then received his D.O. degree
from NYCOM, later serving as president of their alumni association. After
graduating, he completed his osteopathic rotating internship and internal
medicine residency at Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, New York.
He is a General Internist, and he is a diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine and a Fellow of both the American College of Physicians and the American College of Osteopathic Internists. Dr. Broder is President of the New York State Osteopathic Medical Society and is a delegate to the American Osteopathic Association's House of Delegates. He is a graduate of the Inaugural Class of the AOA's Health Policy Fellowship and now serves on the Board of Directors of the Institute for National Health Policy Research. Dr. Broder has written positional papers on legislation regarding advance directives and graduate medical education financing.
Dr. Cole is the Dean of Midwestern University's Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine, Glendale, Arizona. He received his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from the University Health Science College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kansas City, Missouri. He interned at Tucson General Hospital and entered General Practice for seven-years in Tucson, Arizona. Dr. Cole then entered a four-year residency in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Cherry Hill Medical Center, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, with a portion of his training at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He also participated in a one-year fellowship in the AOA Certificate Program in Health Policy.
Dr. Cole practiced Pathology at Cranston General Hospital in Cranston, Rhode Island for twelve years. During that time, he was also on the faculty of the New England College of Osteopathic Medicine as an Associate Clinical Professor. He assumed the role of Director of Medical Education and Medical Director at Cranston General Hospital and maintained that position for seven years prior to moving to Grand Rapids, Michigan.
During the five years that he was in Grand Rapids, he was the Vice-President for Medical Affairs and responsible for medical staff activities as well as the Medical Education Program. Dr. Cole is an active member in the following associations: American Osteopathic Association, Arizona Osteopathic Medical Association, American College of Physician Executives, Arizona Council for Graduate Medical Education, and the Council of Deans of the AACOM.
Dr. Cole lectures to second-year medical students at the Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine and is an active member of the faculty in the Division of Pathology. He has also published an article on the value of "A Centralized Verification System", in the Journal of Medical Management of the American College of Physician Executives.
Dr. Cole has also been actively involved in both hospital accreditation and intern training accreditation.
Bruce Dubin
Dr. McWilliams is the Associate Dean at Midwestern University - College of Osteopathic Medicine in Glendale, Arizona. Dr. McWilliams is a third generation D.O. who received his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Missouri. He completed a general rotating internship at Tucson General Hospital in Arizona prior to entering the Indian Health Service as one of the first Public Health Service scholarship recipients. He is a diplomate of the American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians and the American Board of Emergency Medicine.
Dr. McWilliams has completed a mini-fellowship in Rural Medicine at the James H. Quillen College of Medicine in Johnson City, Tennessee. His special project involved the creation of the Missouri Rural Region for KCOM. He also completed a fellowship and is a charter member of the Institute for National Health Policy and Research with a paper on MD/DO collaborative training for family medicine. Dr. McWilliams has served as an Associate Clinical Professor for the University of WashingtonÕs WAMI program for seven years. He held a variety of faculty and administrative positions while teaching at the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine for eight years and is currently a clinical professor of emergency medicine/family practice at AZCOM. Dr. McWilliams is an active member in the following associations: AOA, AOMA, ACOFP, The Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, The Institute for National Health Policy and Research, the National Rural Health Association, and the Arizona Rural Health Association.
Dr. McWilliams has served as the Project Director for numerous national and local grants. He is a District 1 delegate to the AOMA and sits on the Professional Education Committee. He is the current (2000-2001) President of the Arizona Rural Health Association and also served as the President of the Missouri Rural Health Association. Dr. McWilliams provides representation on the Education, Medical Services, and Telemedicine Technology Committees of the Arizona Telemedicine Council. He is also on the HRSA Momentum Advisory Panel, and assists with the Arizona Medical Student Loan Program. From 1994-1996 he was on the HRSA Predoctoral Training Review Committee.
His special interests outside of medical education include rural health policy, rural primary care, rural emergency medical services, practical applications for computers in medicine, wilderness and environmental medicine, emporiatrics (travel medicine), preventive medicine/public health, and dermatology.
Dr. Tunanidas is the First Vice-president of the American Osteopathic Association. In this capacity, she serves on the Executive Committee of the AOA and on its Board of Trustees. Prior to July of 2000, Dr. Tunanidas served as Second Vice-president of the AOA for one year and as Chair of the AOA Council of Continuing Medical Education for three years. She was a member of the Council on CME for nine years.
Dr. Tunanidas is the Vice Chair of the AOA Strategic Planning Committee and a member of the Committee on Basic Documents/Operations of Affiliated Organizations, Committee on Awards, and Committee on AOA Organizational Structure. She has served on the Board of Trustees of the Ohio Osteopathic Association and has held all offices, including President in 1997-98. She served as Chief of Staff of Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1990-91 and on its Board of Trustees from 1988-92.
Dr. Tunanidas is board certified in Family Practice by the American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians and is employed by Firestone Healthcare, Inc., a primary care group practice in East Palestine, Ohio, since 1998. Prior to engaging in practice with this group, Dr. Tunanidas served as Vice-president of Medical Affairs for Anesthesiologists, DO, Inc., an anesthesiology/pain management group practice in Youngstown, Ohio, from 1996-98, and was in solo family practice in Lake Milton, Ohio, from 1983-96. She is a Fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians and is Clinical Professor of Family Medicine for the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine Northeast Regional CORE. A graduate of the AOA/OUCOM/Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine Health Policy Fellowship Program in 1995-96, she serves as a member of the Ohio Osteopathic AssociationÕs council on Government Affairs and as a health policy advocate for her patients and the osteopathic profession.
Dr. Tunanidas received her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine and her Bachelor of Science in Biology and Chemistry from Youngstown State University. She is the first OUCOM alumnus to receive the prestigious Medal of Merit for Exemplary Achievement in Medical Practice and Administration from the Ohio University Alumni Association. Working with the American Cancer Society Mahoning County Unit, she initiated a breast cancer/self-awareness program/workshop administered in all high schools in Mahoning county, Ohio, for teenage women.
Dr. Tunanidas resides in Portland, Ohio, with her husband, Tracy L. Neuendorf, DO, their son, George Christopher, and daughters, Stephanie Nicole and Cynthia Lauren.
