Committees

Purpose: To develop strategic plans for the recruitment and retention of all members, including resident and student members on an ongoing basis; to review all applications for new membership, status change requests, waiver dues and transfers, and to report recommendations to the Council; To review physicians who have resigned or forfeited their membership and wish to be reinstated. To support any measures that will encourage the complete integration of IMGs into American medical practice; to represent the views and issues of concern to IMGs to the Medical Society and the IMG community.

Members:

• Michael A Hanak  MD (Chair)
• Dimitri T Azar  MD
• Christine P Bishof  MD
• Clarence W Brown Jr. MD
• W Paul Dmowski PHD MD
• Amber C May  MD
• Vemuri S Murthy  MD
• Rana Z Tariq  MD

Purpose: To represent and protect the rights, responsibilities, and interests of physicians in all modes of medical practice including those physicians in solo practice and group practice, employed physicians, academicians, hospital medical staffs, etc. This will include physician self-governance, the credentialing process, and significant involvement in medical policy development, to include, but not be limited to, Patient advocacy, quality of care, and the peer review process. To receive, review and attempt to resolve complaints, disputes or conflicts involving any physician member of a medical staff, and any structured medical entity.

Members:

• Smitha Arekapudi  MD (Chair)
• Sondra L Summers  MD (Chair)
• Dimitri T Azar  MD
• Christine P Bishof  MD
• Clarence W Brown Jr. MD
• Jay R Chittoor
• Jacquelynne P Corey  MD
• Dennis L Galinsky  MD
• Linda F Gruenberg  DO\
• Michael A Hanak  MD
• Amy F Ho  MD
• Abhijay Jalota  MD
• Elena M Kamel  MD
• Mahir Khan
• Matthew J Koscica  MD
• Raj B Lal  MD
• Mary I Lang Carney  MD
• Scott M Leikin  DO
• Jerrold B Leikin  MD
• Vemuri S Murthy  MD
• Allen M Putterman  MD
• Margaret Russell  MD
• Marc A Silver  MD
• Eric P Sullivan]
• Maria M Tsoukas  MD

Purpose: To review and respond to any request for advice, opinion or for program approval directed to the Society by any health department, municipal health committee, or public health body in Cook County, and, when directed by the President, Executive Committee, or the Council, to initiate contact with such groups on matters of concern to organized medicine.

Members:

• Kenneth L Soyemi  MD (Chair)
• Chrisantha E Anandappa  MD
• Dimitri T Azar  MD
• Nahiris M Bahamon  MD
• Christine P Bishof  MD
• Clarence W Brown Jr. MD
• Peter E Doris  MD
• Megan M Finneran
• Linda F Gruenberg  DO
• Suneela Harsoor MD
• Amy F Ho  MD
• Susan B Kern  MD
• Raj B Lal  MD
• Anne M Langguth  MD
• Joseph B Lee
• Scott M Leikin  DO
• Shubha Mathur
• Nathaniel G Meadow
• Vemuri S Murthy  MD
• Neha A Rao

Purpose: To receive all resolutions from the Council so referred, to hold hearings regarding those resolutions and to report to the Council with recommendations.

Members:

• Susan B Kern  MD (Chair)
• Scott M Leikin  DO (Chair)
• Christine P Bishof  MD
• Dennis L Galinsky  MD
• Linda F Gruenberg  DO
• Bryan Ho
• Raj B Lal  MD
• Vemuri S Murthy  MD
• Peter Orris  MD

Purpose: Provides a vehicle for CMS senior physicians to support CMS through outreach, education and mentoring.

Members:

• Raj B Lal  MD (Chair)
• Dimitri T Azar  MD
• Christine P Bishof  MD
• Clarence W Brown Jr. MD
• Parakrama DeSilva  MD
• W Paul Dmowski PHD MD
• Peter E Doris  MD
• Dennis L Galinsky  MD
• Joseph L Murphy  MD
• Vemuri S Murthy  MD
• J Regan Thomas  MD
• Edward A Wojcik  MD
• Cheryl E Woodson  MD

Purpose: To help plan continuing medical education activities and provide detailed review of all applications received from related organizations for joint providership; to advise the full CME Committee on trends, concerns and requirements; and to assure that CMS activities and joint providership programs are in full compliance with the Essentials and Standards for Commercial Support of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education.

Members:

• Raj B Lal  MD (Chair)
• Dimitri T Azar  MD
• Jacob M Begres
• Christine P Bishof  MD
• Clarence W Brown Jr. MD
• Vemuri S Murthy  MD
• Maria M Tsoukas  MD

Purpose: CMS has created a Women Physicians Forum to address the unique needs and interests of women physicians in Cook County.  As the local counterpart of the Illinois State Medical Society’s (ISMS) Women Physicians Forum, the group has been structured so that it can focus on three important areas:

1. Representing and advocating for the needs of women physicians;
2. Networking and
3. Offering services specific to women physicians.  

The Women Physicians Forums of both CMS and ISMS provide the opportunity to speak with a strong voice that is representative of the growing number of women in the medical profession.

Members:

• Jamey Eklund  MD  (Chair)
• Carissa J Tyo  MD (Chair)
• Nahiris M Bahamon  MD
• Christine P Bishof  MD
• Madhumita Chatterjee MD
• Jacquelynne P Corey  MD
• Megan M Finneran
• Linda F Gruenberg  DO
• Sandra W Horowitz  MD
• Barbara G Jericho  MD
• Elena M Kamel  MD
• Mary I Lang Carney  MD
• Anne M Langguth  MD
• Karen O'Mara  DO
• Sondra L Summers  MD
• Maria M Tsoukas  MD
• Cheryl E Woodson  MD

CMS has established the Young Physicians Group to assist new physicians in their transition from training to their professional careers.  A young physician is defined as a physician who is less than 40 years of age or within the first eight (8) years of professional practice after residency and fellowship training.  The Group is a resource to help facilitate the transition process and provide networking, educational and mentoring opportunities.

Members:

• Smitha Arekapudi  MD (Chair)
• Scott M Leikin  DO  (Chair)
• Dimitri T Azar  MD
• Nahiris M Bahamon  MD
• Christine P Bishof  MD
• Clarence W Brown Jr. MD
• David S Chiang  MD
• Joseph B Lee
• Amber C May  MD
• Vemuri S Murthy  MD
• Anish V Patel  MD
• Kortnee Y Roberson  MD
• Jehu E Strange  MD
• Rana Z Tariq  MD
• Melinda J Weiss  DO
• Cheryl E Woodson  MD
• Daniel Wozniczka  MD