Following the SPA Board of Directors election, we are honored to provide the list of incoming Officers and Directors, recognize the continuing Officers, Directors, and Section Presidents, and thank the outgoing Officers and Directors.
The official change in leadership will occur at the SPA Annual Meeting on Friday, October 16, 2026, in San Diego.
And congratulations to our three member voters whose names were randomly drawn to receive free SPA-AAP Pediatric Anesthesiology meeting registration (or the cash equivalent): Kristin Chenault, MD (Nationwide Children’s Hospital), Rita Saynhalath, MD (Children’s Health/UT Southwestern), and Irim Salik, MD (Weill Cornell Medicine).
Incoming Officers
Congratulations to our incoming President!
John Fiadjoe, MD, MBA
Congratulations to our incoming Vice President!
Toyin Olutoye, MD, M.SC
Congratulations to our incoming Vice President!
Emmett E. Whitaker, MD
New Directors-At-Large
Phillip Carullo, MD
Lynnie R. Correll MD, PhD
Travis L. Reece-Nguyen, MD, MPH, FASA, FAAP
Kim Strupp, MD, FAAP
Thank you for your service to SPA!
Jim Fehr, MD
Past President
Outgoing Directors-At-Large
Thank you for your service.
Aditee Ambardekar, MD
Jamie McElrath Schwartz, MD
Jina Sinskey, MD
The following will continue on the SPA Board of Directors:
Peggy P. McNaull, MD
Immediate Past President
Maria Concetta Lupa, MD
Director
Paul A. Stricker, MD
Director
Jonathan M. Tan, MD, MPH, MBI, FASA
Director
Amy E. Vinson, MD
Director
Viviane G. Nasr, MD
CCAS President
Stephen R. Hays, MS, MD, FAAP
SPPM President
Joseph P. Cravero, MD, FAAP
PALC President
Marco Corridore, MD
PAPDA President
Ex-Officio Members
Christina D. Diaz, MD, FASA, FAA
Chair, AAP Section on Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Debnath Chatterjee, MD, FAAP
Chair, ASA Committee on Pediatric Anesthesia (COPA)
Odinakachukwu Ehie, MD
Chair, SPA Community, Opportunity, Recruitment, and Engagement (CORE) Committee
Robert M. Brustowicz, MD, FAAP, FACMO
President, Wake Up Safe
James DiNardo, MD
A&A Section Editor – Pediatric Anesthesiolgy