The AOA is led by:
Leading the Leaders
President
Alexander J. Ghanayem, MD, FAOA
Loyola University Medical Center
First President-Elect
Kyle J. Jeray, MD, FAOA
Prisma Health – Upstate
Second President-Elect
Stephen Kates, MD, FAOA
VCU
Treasurer
April D. Armstrong, MD, FRCSC, FAOA
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Secretary
Keith Kenter, MD, FAOA
Missouri Orthopaedic Institute, University of Missouri
Secretary-Elect
First Past President
Ann E. Van Heest, MD, FAOA
University of Minnesota
Second Past President
Wayne J. Sebastianelli, MD, FAOA
Penn State University
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
S. Trent Guthrie, MD, FAOA
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
Matthew R. Schmitz, MD, FAOA
Membership Committee Chair
Lee R. Leddy, MD, FAOA
Own the Bone Committee Chair
Kevin L. Kirk, DO, FAOA
Baptist Health – Mission Trail
Program Chair
Dane Salazar, MD, FAOA
Delegates-At-Large
Tessa Balach, MD, FAOA
The University of Chicago Department of Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation Medicine
Hassan Mir, MD, FAOA, FACS, MPH
University of South Florida Morsani, Florida Orthopaedic Institute
Emerging Leader Delegate
Jeffrey Stepan, MD
Lay Delegate
Mark Peterson
P&G Alumni, Consultant