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
Vacant
* Representative to AAMC Board of Directors
COTH Administrative Board Members
Kate Becker, UNM Hospitals
Marc L. Boom, MD, Houston Methodist
Dawn Bulgarella, UAB Health System
Kirk A. Calhoun, MD, The University of Texas at Tyler
Robert W. Cannon, BJC HealthCare
Kevin S. Cook, Sutter Health
Michael J. Dandorph, Tufts Medicine
Sarah Frost, Banner University Medical Center Tucson and Banner University Medical Center South
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, University Hospital
Richard P. Lofgren, MD, OU Health
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