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rd of Directors and Leadership
Medical School. As Dr. Perkins after residency to serve as fourth- Health. Taylor is recognized as that the Resident members have
an educator and mentor. He has representation at the majority of
has a passion for underserved year chief resident and junior won numerous teaching awards Board meetings. The Resident
for his work with undergraduates, representatives will be appointed
communities, she competed faculty member. She is a Fellow medical students and residents. He by the Board and are yet to be
lectures internationally on topics determined for 2019.
her residency at Bellevue/NYU of the American Academy of related to women’s health and the
treatment of pelvic floor disorders. Also serving on the Board
Langone Medical Center, where Pediatrics. Schmelzer has been His dedication to caring for women as Ex-Officio Members
in need of surgery has led to his
she realized her joy in caring for with Charlotte Pediatric Clinic involvement in global missions Tracei Ball, MD
and treating women suffering President, Charlotte Medical
this special patient population. since 2006. from birth trauma and fistula on Dental and Pharmaceutical
the west coast of Africa. Taylor’s Society
She worked two years in academic Andrew I. Sumich, MD special interests include gender Sandi D. Buchanan
health and healthcare policy, genital Executive Director,
medicine in Bronx, N.Y., prior Dr. Sumich was born in Metairie, reconstructive surgery, pelvic Mecklenburg County
La. He completed his undergraduate organ prolapse, urinary and bowel Medical Society
to moving to Charlotte in 2016. incontinence, bladder and bowel Darlyne Menscer, MD
studies at Texas fistula, and advanced laparoscopy NCMS Delegate to the AMA
She is currently on faculty Christian University, and robotic surgery. and Chair of the NCMS
followed by medical Committee on Medical
at Carolinas Medical Center school at Louisiana State Physician Assistant Education
University School of Representative Meg Sullivan, MD
Internal Medicine Department, Medicine. He moved to Medical Director,
Charlotte in 2002 for his Raymond E. Brown, PA Mecklenburg County Health
teaching residents and medical residency in physical medicine Department
and rehabilitation at Carolinas As the first PA Board member, Douglas R. Swanson, MD,
students from the UNC School of Medical Center. Following a Brown brings a wealth of experience FACEP
fellowship in interventional spine Medical Director,
Medicine. Her passions include and musculoskeletal medicine to the Board. He joined Mecklenburg EMS Agency
in Winston-Salem, he returned Charlotte Eye Ear Nose and member of the North
medical education, mentoring and to Charlotte. He has worked at & Throat Associates in Carolina EMS Advisory
Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine 1993, after practicing Council
community health. Associates since 2006. general medicine for
nine years. Brown has specialized in Mecklenburg County
Patricia K. Roddey, MD G. BernardTaylor, MD otolaryngology for the past 13 years. Medical Society
He is a member of the N.C. Medical Executive Staff
Dr. Roddey grew up in Burlington, Dr. Taylor received his medical Society, president of Metrolina
N.C., the youngest of five children Association of Physician Assistants, Sandi D. Buchanan
degree from the University of North vice-president of the N.C. Academy Executive Director
with two physician Carolina-Chapel Hill. of Physician Assistants and a Stephanie D. Smith
parents. She earned He then completed his trustee for the N.C. Association of Finance and Membership
her undergraduate Physician Assistants Endowment. Director
degree in English at residency in obstetrics Jenny H. Otto
Wake Forest University Resident Meetings and Special Events
and her medical degree at the and gynecology at Representatives Coordinator
University of North Carolina-
Chapel Hill. Roddey completed her Carolinas Medical There will be one Resident position
dermatology residency at Baylor on the Board from each hospital
College of Medicine in Houston Center. After spending five system with one vote on issues
and a fellowship in dermatology that come before the Board. They
at Boston University Medical years as a general obstetrician will have full voting rights but
Center. Roddey is board-certified in cannot serve as an officer of the
dermatology and is the dermatology and gynecologist, he completed Society. This position shall have
director at Tryon Medical Partners. a Board member and an alternate
She is married to Gardiner Roddey, a fellowship in urogynecology Board member. This is to ensure
MD, who is a partner at Charlotte
Gastroenterology and Hepatology. and advanced gynecologic
AnnaT. Schmelzer, MD pelvic reconstructive surgery at
Dr. Schmelzer is a native of Northside Hospital/Southeastern
North Carolina and earned her Gynecologic Oncology in Atlanta.
undergraduate degree He currently serves as clinical
in history at the assistant professor of obstetrics
University of North and gynecology in the Department
Carolina-Chapel Hill.
She received her of Obstetrics and Gynecology at
medical degree from Wake Forest the University of North Carolina
University School of Medicine School of Medicine and is the
and completed her pediatric assistant fellowship program
residency at Carolinas Medical director for the Female Pelvic
Center. She remained at CMC Medicine and Reconstructive
Pelvic Surgery program at Atrium
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