The Board of Governors (BOG) is the College's grassroots forum. Governors are the only elected leaders in the College, and they represent their members in Canada, Mexico, the United States and Puerto Rico. Governors also serve as chapter presidents in their states and regions where chapters exist.

Board of Governors Leadership

  • Chair: Renuka Jain, MD, FACC
  • Chair-Elect: Dinesh Kalra, MD, MBA, FACC
  • Immediate Past Chair: David Winchester, MD, MS, FACC

Board of Governors

  • Alabama: Fadi Hage, MD, FACC
  • Alaska: Jacob Kelly, MD, FACC
  • Arizona: Mathew Hutchinson, MD, FACC
  • Arkansas: Devi G. Nair, MD, FACC
  • California - Northern: Teresa Daniele, MD, FACC
  • California - Southern: Janet Wei, MD, FACC
  • Colorado: Lavanya Kondapalli, MD, FACC
  • Connecticut: Sara Tabtabai, MD, FACC
  • DC: Gurusher Panjrath, MBBS, FACC
  • Delaware: Kevin Copeland, DO, FACC
  • Florida: David Kenigsberg, MD, FACC
  • Georgia: Pascha Schafer, MD, FACC
  • Great Plains - North Dakota: Mevan N. Wijetunga, MD, FACC
  • Great Plains - South Dakota: Sherrie M. Brooks, DO, FACC
  • Hawaii: Omar Abdul Ghani, MBBS, FACC
  • Idaho: Robert Duerr, MD, FACC
  • Illinois: Benjamin H. Freed, MD, FACC
  • Indiana: Parin Patel, MD, FACC
  • Iowa: Daniel M. Shivapour, MD, FACC
  • Kansas: Rakesh Gopinathannair, MD, MA, MBA, FACC
  • Kentucky: Dinesh Kalra, MD, MBA, FACC
  • Louisiana: Paul LeLorier, MD, FACC
  • Maryland: Sammy Zakaria, MD, FACC
  • Massachusetts: Michelle Hadley, DO, FACC
  • Michigan: Nagib Chalfoun, MD, FACC
  • Minnesota: Amin Rahmatullah, MBBS, FACC
  • Mississippi: Dharmesh Patel, MBBS, FACC
  • Missouri: Toniya Singh, MBBS, FACC
  • Montana: Preston M. Schneider, MD, FACC
  • Nebraska: Selma Mohammed, MD, PhD, FACC
  • Nevada: Alfred Danielian, MD, FACC
  • New Jersey: Renee P. Bullock-Palmer, MD, FACC
  • New Mexico: Carolina Ponce Orellana, MD, FACC
  • New York - Metro: Dmitriy Feldman, MD, FACC
  • New York - Upstate: Vijay Iyer, MBBS, PhD, FACC
  • North Carolina: John Rommel, MD, FACC
  • Northern New England - Maine: Sanjeev Francis, MD, FACC
  • Northern New England - New Hampshire: Vikas Veeranna, MD, FACC
  • Northern New England - Vermont: Tracy Hagerty, MD, FACC
  • Ohio: Ellen Mayer Sabik, MD, FACC
  • Oklahoma: Zain UL Abideen Asad, MD, MS, FACC
  • Oregon: Craig Broberg, MD, MCR, FACC
  • Pennsylvania - Eastern: Marietta Ambrose, MD, MPH, FACC
  • Pennsylvania - Western: Timothy Wong, MD, FACC
  • Puerto Rico: Hilton Franqui-Rivera, MD, FACC
  • Rhode Island: Nishant R. Shah, MD, MPH, FACC
  • South Carolina: Daniel Steinberg, MD, FACC
  • Tennessee: Furrukh S. Malik, MD, FACC
  • Texas: Kamala Tamirisa, MD, FACC
  • Utah: Kirk Knowlton, MD, FACC
  • Virginia: Victor Soukoulis, MD, PhD, FACC
  • Washington: Deirdre M. Mooney, MD, MPH, FACC
  • West Virginia: George Sokos, DO, FACC
  • Wisconsin: Anne M. O'Connor, MD, FACC
  • Wyoming: Gary Idelchik, MD, FACC
  • Canada - Atlantic Provinces: Brent McGrath, MD, PhD, FACC
  • Canada - British Columbia: Frank Halperin, MD, FACC
  • Canada - Ontario: Milan Gupta, MD, FACC
  • Canada - Prairie Provinces: Shelley Zieroth, MD, FACC
  • Canada - Quebec: Anique Ducharme, MD, MSc, FACC
  • Mexico: Abel Alberto Pavía, MD, FACC