Leadership
Gregory V. Nelson, Chair
John F. Bookout, Chair Emeritus
Ewing Werlein, Jr., Senior Chair
Marc L. Boom, MD, President and CEO
Carlton E. Baucum, Vice Chair
Mary A. Daffin, Vice Chair
Elizabeth Blanton Wareing, Secretary
David M. Underwood, Jr. Asst. Secretary
Joseph C. “Rusty” Walter III, Treasurer
Joe Bob Perkins, Asst. Treasurer
Emily A. Crosswell
Martha Smith DeBusk
Gary W. Edwards
Juliet S. Ellis
Bishop Cynthia Fierro Harvey
Mark A. Houser
Rev. Kenneth R. Levingston
Vidal G. Martinez
Constance M. Mobley, MD, PhD
W. Benjamin Moreland
Peter T. Nguyen, MD, President of the Medical Staff
Thomas J. Pace III, DMin
Edmund W. Robb III, DMin
Douglas E. Swanson, Jr.
Spencer A. Tillman
Rev. Kip R. Gilts,
Karla M. Kurrelmeyer, MD, President-Elect of the Medical Staff
Ernest H. Cockrell
James C. Dishman
Connie M. Dyer
Isaac H. Kempner III
Robert K. Moses, Jr.
Sandra Gayle Wright, RN, EdD
Martha Smith DeBusk, Chair
W. Benjamin Moreland, Vice Chair
Evan H. Katz, Secretary
Marc L. Boom, MD, President and CEO, Houston Methodist
Edward A. Jones, President and CEO, Houston Methodist Research Institute
H. Dirk Sostman, MD, President, Houston Methodist Academic Institute
Edward R. Allen III, PhD
Steven Birdwell
P. Embry Canterbury
David Chao
Ernest D. Cockrell II
Martin Craighead
W. Leslie Doggett
Antonio M. Gotto, Jr., MD, DPhil
Sippi K. Khurana, MD
Edwin H. “Ed” Knight
Francis S.Y. Lee, MD, PhD
Steven S. Looke
Ransom C. Lummis
David A. Modesett
Gregory V. Nelson
Joe Bob Perkins
Mary Eliza Shaper
Ward Sheffield
Suzanne H. Smith
Douglas E. Swanson, Jr.
David M. Underwood, Jr.
Amy L. Waer, MD
Martha S. Walton
Judge Ewing Werlein, Jr.
John W. Johnson, Chair
John F. Bookout, Chair Emeritus
Ewing Werlein, Jr., Senior Chair
Elizabeth Blanton Wareing, Vice Chair
Emily A. Crosswell, Secretary
Dorothy M. Ables
Marc L. Boom, MD
Susan H. Coulter, JD, President and CEO, Houston Methodist Hospital Foundation
Vidal G. Martinez
Gregory V. Nelson
Gerald B. Smith
David M. Underwood, Jr.
Joseph C. “Rusty” Walter III
James V. Walzel
Marc A. Watts
Randa Weiner
Gilbert Santana, Chair
Pete Alfaro, Vice Chair
David P. Bernard, Secretary
Wayne Baldwin
Marc L. Boom, MD
R.D. Burnside
Tommy Clements
Shawn Kuntz
Walter O’Hara, MD, President of the Medical Staff
Rick Peebles
Gary T. Schmidt
Chris Siebenaler
Lynda Villanueva, PhD
Marc L. Boom, MD, Chair
Chris Siebenaler, Vice Chair
Levi Benton
John D. Kennedy
LaRon Mason, MD, President-Elect of the Medical Staff
Dr. Jerry Neff
Charles Pulliam
Elaine Renola
Mark Savrick, MD, President of the Medical Staff
Judge Holly T. Williamson
Noel Rainey, Chair
Debra F. Sukin, PhD, Vice Chair
Gary Kempf, President and CEO
Marc L. Boom, MD
Kevin Burns
Ramon M. Cantu
Dick Cheney
Connie M. Dyer
Robert K. Moses, Jr.
Lynn Schroth, DrPH
William F. Schwer, Chair
Suehing W. Y. Chiang, Vice Chair
Chris Siebenaler, Secretary
Marc L. Boom, MD
Elizabeth Butler
Anthony Francis
Gene Huebner, MD
Jeffrey Jackson, MD
Lonnie Meadows
Rev. Martin Nicholas
Scott Rivenes, MD
Sutapa Sur
Ann Snyder, PhD, Chair
Ramon M. Cantu, Vice Chair
Debra F. Sukin, PhD, Secretary
Ralph Alexander
Marc L. Boom, MD
Paul Cunningham, MD, Vice President of the Medical Staff
Susan Dio
Bishop Robert "Bob" Hayes
Marc Labbé, MD, President of the Medical Staff
Sallie Rainer
Laura Sugg
Vidal Ramirez, Chair
Ramon M. Cantu, Vice Chair
Wayne Voss, Secretary
Marc L. Boom, MD
Sandra P. Bretting
William A. Callegari
Amito Chandiwal, MD, Vice President of the Medical Staff
Donald Chaney
Irfan Iftikhar, MD, President of the Medical Staff
Neice Lang
Stuart I. Levin
Rahul B. Mehta
Brad Morgan, DMin
Reginald Lillie, Chair
Ken Werlein, Vice Chair
Keith D. Barber, Secretary
Marc L. Boom, MD
J. David Cabello
Muhammad Hanif, MD, President-Elect of the Medical Staff
Linda J. Humphries
Griff E. Jones
Sippi K. Khurana, MD
Stacy Norton, MD, President of the Medical Staff
Jennifer Pittman
Lee Robison
Barbara Schlattman
Debra F. Sukin, PhD
Steven D. Stephens, Chair
Robert J. Allison, Jr.
Eva C. Bisso
Kelli L. Blanton
Marc L. Boom, MD
Michael Casey
Art Chavez
David A. Cockrell
Clayton Erikson
Daniel M. Gilbane
Michael J. Graff
Janet Gurwitch
George Kelly
David D. Kinder
John P. Kotts
William Gentry Lee, Jr.
Aylwin Lewis
Steve Lindley
Michael C. Linn
Rahul B. Mehta
Cynthia Pickett-Stevenson
Veronica Selinko-Curran, MD
Douglas E. Swanson, Jr.
David M. Underwood, Jr.
Robert L. Zorich
Arch H. Aplin III
Bruce R. Bilger
Isabel G. David
Jack Dinerstein
Carolyn W. Dorros
Celia J. Dupré
Jenny Elkins
W. Lawrence Elliott
Thomas L. Elsenbrook
Jeffrey H. Foutch
Linda C. Gill
Steven J. Kean
Michael J. Plank
Cullen R. Spitzer
Alan L. Stein
Scott Wegmann
Paul Yetter
George M. Masterson, Chair
Gina B. Andrews
Jonathan Baksht
Eddy S. Blanton
Kelli L. Blanton
Muffin Clark
David A. Cockrell
Claudia Contreras
David R. Dominy
Janet Luby
Jeffrey E. Margolis
David R. McKeithan, Jr.
Mary Ann McKeithan
Denise D. Monteleone
Joel L. Moore
Cabrina F. Owsley
Rick Perez
Suzanne H. Smith
Franco Valobra
Karen D. Walker
Dancie Perugini Ware
Kelley Young
Ward Sheffield, Chair
Matthew K. Baird
Bruce Bilger, Jr.
George M. Britton, Jr.
R.D. Burnside
Gerardo A. Chapa
Muffin Clark
M. Scott Cone
Denis A. DeBakey
William J. Doré, Jr.
Ann H. Elvin
Marc P. Gordon
Vicki A. Hollub
David D. Kinder
Laura Laux
Jeffrey E. Margolis
Dale L. Martin
Grant Martinez
Andrew D. McCullough, Jr.
Rahul B. Mehta
Frank D. Perez
Melanie C. Rothwell
Scott E. Schwinger
Veronica Selinko-Curran, MD
David M. Underwood, Jr.
Duncan K. Underwood
Judge Holly T. Williamson
Richard Harper, MD, Chair
H. Dirk Sostman, MD, Co-chair
Jett Brady, MD
Ron Gentry, MD
Robert E. Jackson, MD
Gerald Lawrie, MD
Brian Miles, MD
Todd Trask, MD
Emily Crosswell, Chair
Judy Ley Allen
Linda Clarke Anderson
Ginger Blanton
Leslie D. Blanton
Muffin Clark
Cathy Fitzpatrick Cleary
Allyson Priest Cook
Carla Dawson
Marcy Duncan
Lauren Weil Friedman
Jan Griesenbeck
Jes Hagale
Deborah M. Harper
Sonny Messiah Jiles
Catherine S. Jodeit
Judi Johnson
Kistal Key
Lucy C. Kormier, MD
Elyse B. Lanier
Judy Levin
Julie Stone Payne
Sissy Roberts
Melissa B. Schnitzer
Tommye S. Torian
Lynda K. Underwood
Dr. Katherine E. Walsh
Mary E. Webber
Carolyn Josey Young
Robert E. Jackson, MD, Chair
C. Richard Stasney, MD, Founder
E. William Barnett
Ginger Blanton
Anthony K. Brandt, PhD
Sharon Bryan
Albert Y. Chao
James W. Crownover
Rod K. Cutsinger
Sue Nan Cutsinger
Françoise A. Djerejian
Victor Fainstein, MD
Jeremy Finkelstein, MD
J. Todd Frazier
Elizabeth L. Ghrist
Suzanne M. Glasscock
Carole J. Hackett, BSN, EdM, RN
Richard L. Harper, MD
Christof Karmonik, PhD
Thomas A. Krouskop, PhD, PE
Michael W. Lieberman, MD, PhD
Sharon Ley Lietzow
Judy E. Margolis
Gabby Martinez
Vidal G. Martinez
Hoyt T. “Toby” Mattox
Edwards U. McReynolds, MD
Rev. Charles R. Millikan, DMin
James M. Musser, MD, PhD
Judy Nyquist
Nicholas A. Phillips
Patricia Rauch
L. E. Simmons
Jerome B. Simon
Nancy C. Smith
Lois F. Stark
Apurva A. Thekdi, MD
Laura Jennings Turner
Kevin E. Varner, MD
Margaret Alkek Williams
Stephen T. Wong, PhD, PE
Robert A. Yekovich, DMA
Robyn Canterbury, Chair
Robert J. Allison, Jr.
Seth M. Barrett
J. Denny Bartell
Kristen Berger
Marc L. Boom, MD
Kenneth E. Breaux
John R. Butler, Jr.
P. Embry Canterbury
Carl M. Carter III
Gerardo A. Chapa
Mary A. Daffin
Denis A. DeBakey
Joann P. DiGennaro
Brad Dinerstein
William J. Doré, Jr.
William J. Doré, Sr.
Nan Duhon
Jean Durdin
Connie M. Dyer, Co-chair Emeritus
Danielle Ellis
Eva K. Farha
William E. Gipson
Marc P. Gordon
David B. Greenberg
Matthew Harris
Miguel A. Hernandez
Wendy Hines
Alard Kaplan
Fadila B. Kibsgaard
William E. King
William E. Kline, PhD
Cynthia G. Kostas
Carole W. Looke
John M. McCormack
David R. McKeithan, Jr.
Mary Ann McKeithan
Mason L. Mote
Lance Murphy
Taylor Norris
Frank D. Perez
Cynthia Pickett-Stevenson, Co-chair Emeritus
Douglas R. Quinn
Elizabeth C. Walter
Lloyd “Lucky” Burke, Co-chair
James G. Frankel, Co-chair
Laura T. Baird
Sandy L. Burke
Louis B. Cushman
Stevan L. Dinerstein, MD
Annie Criner Eifler
Carol Frankel
Jennie Getten
Michael J. Graff
Rhonda Graff
Christy Jennings
Sippi K. Khurana, MD
Carolyn C. Light
David W. Light III
Moez Mangalji
Sultana Mangalji
Jeffrey E. Margolis
Aimee B. McCrory
Donald Poarch
Angela E. “Nikki” Richnow
Mary Eliza Shaper
Ann G. Trammell
David M. Underwood, Jr.
Dorothy M. Ables, Chair
Jud Bailey
Carin M. Barth
Daphne Bernicker
Eric H. Bernicker, MD
E. Brian Butler, MD
Jenny Chang, MD
Scott A. Davis
Rev. Noel Denison
Ann H. Elvin
Nestor Esnaola, MD
Heather Firestone
Carol Herder
Charles Herder II
Alan L. Kaplan, MD
Rita J. Leader
John W. Lodge III
Christine Lukens
Dale L. Martin
Peggy D. Martin
Maryanne W. McCormack
David A. Modesett
Diane Modesett
Vivian O’Leary
John Orton
Katharine Orton
Jackie Phillips
Anne Rappold
Cissie Rauch-Kaplan
Julie Robertson
Melanie Rothwell
Betsy R. Siff
Glenn R. Smith
Betty A. Sommer
Bin S. Teh, MD
Christine L. Underwood
Kent Walters
W. Temple Webber III
Linda Webster
Stephen T. Wong, PhD, PE
Qing Yi, MD, PhD
Gary W. Edwards, Chair
William E. Chiles, Co-chair
James P. Bailey, Jr.
James R. Bath
Everett E. Bernal
Randee K. Bernal
Eddy S. Blanton
Ginger Blanton
John F. Bookout
Allen Brivic
J. David Cabello
Mary Kay Cimo
Kathleen Crist
Elizabeth Dice
Kevin Dice
Kate Fowler
Frank Gay
Paula Gay
Kate H. Gibson
Robert H. Graham
Sue Harris
Sylvia Harris
Titus H. Harris III
Billy Harrison
Gregory Hintz
Suzanne Hixson
Mary F. Johnston
Elise Joseph
Thomas C. Knudson
Gregory A. Kozmetsky
Carol Linn
Jack B. Moore
Meg Murray
James W. Oden
Cabrina F. Owsley
Karen P. Payne
Leon M. Payne, Member in Memoriam
Arthur A. Seeligson III
Donna S. Stahlhut
Roxane R. Strickling
Henry J.N. “Kitch” Taub II
Anne G. Thobae
Andrew C. von Eschenbach, MD
Dancie Perugini Ware
Elizabeth Blanton Wareing
Lisa Wendell
Shawn Wendell
Steven B. Wyatt
Rob Fondren, Co-chair
Duncan K. Underwood, Co-chair
James J. Braniff III
Hether Benjamin Brown
Pedro Durán Gomez
Jay Golding
Lucie Harte
James C. Pappas
A. Carl Schmulen
Mark Schmulen
C. Loren Vandiver
Elizabeth Blanton Wareing
Marie Wise
William Wise
Michael Zilkha
Nina Zilkha
David B. Lumpkins, Chair
Frank Amsler
Eliza Duncan
Kelly Hackett
Gayle G. Kennedy
Joseph S. Looke
Kristi P. Lumpkins
Caroline Negley
Robert L. Zorich
Eddy S. Blanton, Chair
Hilary A. Beaver, MD
Jack S. Blanton, Jr.
Leslie D. Blanton
Allen Brivic
David M. Brown, MD
Petros Carvounis, MD
Jorie Jackson
Frances M. Jones, DDS
Andrew G. Lee, MD
Herbert Lyman
Jean Lyman
Kevin Merkley, MD
Aaron Miller, MD
Lisa O’Leary
Cabrina F. Owsley
Rick Raanes
Sandy Rosenberg
Florence Rutherford
Michael G. Rutherford
C. Richard Stasney, MD
Ellen Wagnon
Dancie Perugini Ware
Charles Wykoff, MD
Jon D. Deutser, Co-chair
Cynthia R. Levin Moulton, Co-chair
J. D. Bucky Allshouse
Lauren G. Anderson
Eric Brueggeman
Clint Cannon
Jennifer Davenport
Jace Duke
Heather Firestone
John Granato
Debbie Hance
Joshua D. Harris, MD
Vijay Jotwani, MD
Terry Lohrenz
Mark Loveland
Larry Margolis
Patrick McCulloch, MD
Hannah McNair
J. Mace Meeks
Keith Morris
Randy Nelson, Member in Memoriam
Kenneth Podell, PhD
Jeffrey Raizner
Margaret D. Reppert
James C. Rootes, Member in Memoriam
Todd Siff, MD
Alan L. Smith
S. Shawn Stephens
Donald Trull
Kevin E. Varner, MD
Daryl W. Wade
Barry D. Warner
Paula D. Criel, Chair
Deborah Keener Brown
Alan Conover, Member in Memoriam
Sherrie Conover
Kandice Fogle
David Garten
Kathy Ghobrial
Elizabeth A. Hoff
Tami Houston
Edward A. Jones
George P. Joseph
Burt H. Keenan, Member in Memoriam
Lawrence W. Kellner
W. Gregory Looser
Linda G. Lykos
Barbara Manousso, PhD
Patricia Maxin
Walter McFadden
Eugene A. O’Donnell
Reena Patel
Elizabeth Rotan
Mary Seefluth
Patricia Sloan
Samuel Sloan
Cynthia Urquhart
Edward Urquhart, Member in Memoriam
Faisal Masud, MD
Carolyn Meyer
Steve Pate
Rabbi Adrienne Scott
Rev. John Stephens
Jim Walzel
Judge Holly T. Williamson
Nihala Zakaria
Anita Zapata
Sue Zinni
Marcos J. Basso
Clio Crespy
Michael Ellington
Douglas V. Getten
Ryan Martin
Dana L. Myers, MD
Jon Phillip Spiers, MD, JD
Jamie Taussig
Randa Weiner
John B. Young Jr.
Anat K. Zeidman
W. Gregory Looser, Chair
Wayne Baldwin
Vicki L. Baucum
Cole Dawson
John Dawson, Jr.
Martha Smith DeBusk
Jan Follansbee
Kenneth G. Follansbee, Sr.
Anita W. Garten
David B. Garten
Vicki H. Hitzhusen
Elizabeth Hoff
George P. Joseph
Alard Kaplan
Gayle G. Kennedy
Colter Lewis
Steven S. Looke
Vicki L. Massad
Michael M. Metz
Valerie Naifeh
Reena Patel
Deborah Phillips
Ahmed A. Rabie, PhD
Kathryn Rabinow
Edmund W. Robb
Nora Smati
Terrell Eastman Sprague
Helen Streaker
Ellis L. Tudzin
Christine L. Underwood
Martha S. Walton
Hilary S. Ware
John Bonner
Cathy Derrick
Robert Derrick
Karen Feld
Larry Feld
W. Benjamin Moreland
Wendy Moreland
Carolyn Putterman
Leland Putterman
Steve Selsberg
Tricia Selsberg
Elizabeth A. Smith
Marcy Margolis, Co-chair
Leslie Margolis, Co-chair
Elisabeth Bickham
Kelli L. Blanton
Lori Cohen
Nancy Dinerstein
Shari Fish
Fredda Friedlander
Melanie Margolis
Melanie Morgan
Cabrina F. Owsley
Barbara Ross
Elisha Selzer
Betsy R. Siff
Nina Zilkha
Cherie Melendez, Co-chair
Mary Hartman Brown Cody, Co-chair
Patti K. Albright
Laura Alvarado
Lanette Armstrong
Sarah J. Baldwin
Helen Barrott-Tims
Leila Bates
Margaret K. Boyd
Ginger Burnside
Sonya Cather
Sue Chatham
Kathy Clausen
Gabrielle G. Cockrell
Sheila Crawford
Heather Dickens
Lynne B. Foley
Suzanne Heinrich
Debbie C. Holmelin
Susan Hotchkiss
Teresa B. Hotchkiss
Gena Hutto
Connie E. Jennings
LaToya Johnson
Gretchen Knowles
Linda Krisher
Connie Litteer
Ginger McKay
LaNelle L. McKay
Susan G. Moore-Fontenot
Susan Passmore
Carolyn Polumbo
Tracey Prothro
Melinda Reichert
Sharon L. Rogers
Sherrill A. Santana
Lu Ann H. Schmidt
Macie L. Schubert
Carol Skewes
Charlotte A. Stephenson
Karen L. Stewardson
Susan Stewart
Sheron K. Stickler
Dana Taylor
Connie Tilton
Janet G. Wahrlich
Georgina E. Walker
Jennifer N. Walsh
Judy Wheat
Tracey Wheeler
Kathy Winn
Diantha K. Woodcox
Lena R. Yepez
Elaine Renola, Chair
Susan Bailey
Trisha A. Barita
Kathleen M. Bastedo
Janis Benton
Jeanine Berwanger
Pamela Britton
Kippy Caraway
Ashley Cargle
Ashley N. Carner
Mary Alys Cherry
Peggy Clause
Joan P. Culpepper Cronk
Barbara Cutsinger
Rebecca Day
Linda S. DeMasie
Renee E. Ditta
Kaye Fama
Priscilla Fletcher
Sheree H. Frede
Janet Greenwood
Laurie Hall
Lela A. Hammond
Brenda Kennedy
Jeri Knapp
Kim Krist
Jordin N. Kruse
Cindy Lewis
Debra D. Mansfield
Cheryl Maultsby
Joan McKinney
Monica Millican
Sandra Mossman
Sandra R. Noey
Diane J. Overman
Cindi Priebe
Becky Reitz
Betsy Salbilla
Kay Schmedding
Mary Ann Shallberg
Elizabeth A. Smith
Cathy Supak
Jane Sweeney
Terryl Troyer
Vicki L. Upchurch
Dianne T. Vega-Flecklin
Diane Vest
Judge Holly T. Williamson
Dr. Patricia P. Wilson
Gaynell N. Wylie
Rosanne L. Zarcaro
Elizabeth P. Butler, Chair
Iman Ali
Waynette Brunkhorst
Yolanda Celestine
Charlotte Davis
Nasheel Dodhiya
Mary Favre
Star S. Edwards Hand
Lynn C. Hewitt
Rajni Jain
Kavita Self
Patricia Somers
Nisha Vanodia
Sandra O. Varghese
Dr. Katherine E. Walsh
Jessica Williams
Neice Lang, Chair
Joni E. Baird
Sandra P. Bretting
Victoria A. Brownewell
Caroline Champion
Laura A. Espinosa
Tamara Fugate
Sandra Hernandez
Cheryl Hollabaugh
Linda Jenkins
Margaret Laney
Jeanette Lazarofsky
Carol R. Levin
Kay W. Mitchel
Janet Theis
Melinda S. Vanzant
May Wang
Portia S. Willis