The AOA is led by:
Leading the Leaders
President
Ann E. Van Heest, MD, FAOA
University of Minnesota
First President-Elect
Alexander J. Ghanayem, MD, FAOA
Loyola University Medical Center
Second President-Elect
Kyle J. Jeray, MD, FAOA
Prisma Health – Upstate
Treasurer
April D. Armstrong, MD, FRCSC, FAOA
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Secretary
Rex C. Haydon, MD, PhD, FAOA
University of Chicago Medical Center
Secretary-Elect
Keith Kenter, MD, FAOA
Western Michigan University Homer Stryker School of Medicine
First Past President
Wayne J. Sebastianelli, MD, FAOA
Penn State University
Second Past President
Serena S. Hu, MD, FAOA
Stanford University School of Medicine
Historian
Michael A. Simon, MD, FAOA
University of Chicago Medical Center
Executive Director
Kristin Olds Glavin, Esq.
American Orthopaedic Association
Council of Orthopaedic Residency Directors/Academics Committee Chair
Tessa Balach, MD, FAOA
The University of Chicago Department of Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation Medicine
Critical Issues/Educational Programming Committee Chair
Joshua C. Patt, MD, MPH, FAOA
Carolinas Medical Center – Atrium Health
Development/Donor Support Committee Chair
Vincent D. Pellegrini, Jr., MD, FAOA
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Leadership/Fellowships Committee Chair
Jonathan P. Braman, MD, MHA, FAOA
Henry Ford Health
Membership Committee Chair
Gregory J. Della Rocca, MD, PhD, FACS, FAOA
University of Missouri-Columbia
Own the Bone Committee Chair
Kevin L. Kirk, DO, FAOA
Baptist Health – Mission Trail
Program Chair
Lisa Lattanza, MD, FAOA
Yale – New Haven Medical Center
Delegates-At-Large
Christopher J. Dy, MD, FAOA, FACS, MPH
Washington University School of Medicine
Hassan Mir, MD, FAOA, FACS, MPH
University of South Florida Morsani, Florida Orthopaedic Institute
Emerging Leader Delegate
Aaron Brandt, MD
Johns Hopkins University Department of Orthopaedics
Lay Delegate
Mark Peterson
P&G Alumni, Consultant