The COTH Administrative Board works with AAMC staff and the membership at large to develop and implement resources and programming that addresses critical issues for AAMC-member teaching hospitals/health systems and the executives who run them. The COTH Chair and Chair-Elect serve on the AAMC Board of Directors as representatives of hospital and health system members.
COTH Administrative Board Leadership
Chair
Michael Waldrum, MD*
ECU Health
Chair-elect
Dennis Murphy*
Indiana University Health
Immediate Past-Chair
Kate Walsh
Boston Medical Center
* Representative to AAMC Board of Directors
COTH Administrative Board Members
Kate Becker, UNM Hospitals
Marc L. Boom, MD, Houston Methodist
Carrie L. Byington, MD, University of California Health
Robert W. Cannon, BJC HealthCare
Kevin S. Cook, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System
Michael J. Dandorph, Tufts Medicine
Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Robert S.D. Higgins, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital
John Hunter, MD, OHSU Health System
Ed Jimenez, UF Health Shands (Past CEO)
Richard P. Lofgren, MD, OU Health
Dennis Murphy, Indiana University Health
Mark F. Newman, MD, UK Healthcare
Johnese Spisso, UCLA Health System
James Tsai, MD, New York Eye & Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai
Mark Wietecha, Children's Hospital Association
Ex-officio Representatives
Ashley Thompson, American Hospital Association Representative
Irene Thompson, Vizient Representative