New SPA Leadership Announcement

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 21, 2022, in New Orleans.

And congratulations to our three member voters whose names were drawn to receive free SPA-AAP Pediatric Anesthesiology meeting registration (or the cash equivalent): Wenyu Bai, MD (University of Michigan), Brandon Kibby, DO, MBA, FASA (Dayton Children’s Hospital), and Michelle Rovner, MD (Medical University of South Carolina).

Incoming Officers
Congratulations to our incoming President!
Jim Fehr, MD

Congratulations to our incoming Secretary-Treasurer!
John Fiadjoe, MD

New Directors-At-Large

Aditee Ambardekar, MD

Jamie McElrath Schwartz, MD

Jina Sinskey, MD

Emmett E. Whitaker, MD

Thank you for your service as SPA President!

Nina Deutsch, MD

Outgoing Directors-At-Large
Thank you for your service.

Tarun Bhalla, MD, MBA

Faye Evans, MD

Toyin Olutoye, MD, M.SC

Lawrence I. Schwartz, MD

The following will continue on the SPA Board of Directors:

Peggy P. McNaull, MD
Vice President/President-Elect

Sean Barnes, MD
Director

Melissa L. Brooks Peterson, MD
Director

Christina D. Diaz, MD, FASA, FAAP
Director

Vidya T. Raman, MD
Director

Mark D. Twite, MD, BCh
CCAS President

Robert T. Wilder, MD, PhD
SPPM President

Thomas J. Long, MD, FAAP
PALC President

Concetta Lupa, MD
PAPDA President

Ex-Officio Members

Mary F. Landrigan-Ossar, MD, PhD
Chair, AAP Section on Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Sulpicio G. Soriano III, MD
Chair, ASA Committee on Pediatric Anesthesia (COPA)

Travis L. Reece-Nguyen, MD
Chair, SPA Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

David W. Buck, MD
President, Wake Up Safe

Lynn A. Correll, MD, PhD, FASA, FAAP, ABOIM
Representative, Women’s Empowerment and Leadership Initiative (WELI)