AMGA announces new board of director members for 2025

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Four physicians and a health care executive have joined the leadership team for the American Medical Group Association (AMGA).

Terms began this month for the new members. Based in Alexandria, Virginia, AMGA represents medical groups and health systems with more than 175,000 physicians.

The new board members are:

• John Barrett, MD, executive medical director, University of Utah Health, Community Physician Group.

A family medicine physician and executive medical director, Barrett has been serving as the interim chair of the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of Utah since January of 2024. He has worked extensively with rural populations throughout the course of his career, receiving multiple awards such as the U.S. Public Health Service Achievement Medal. His work has helped grow the physician group to provide care for 500,000 patients annually, as well as opening urgent care centers across nine community clinics.

Barrett graduated medical school from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and completed residency training at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado. His current areas of focus include health equity and the transition to value-based care.

• Charlotte Flood, MHA, chief executive officer, Northwest Primary Care.

As the chief executive officer of Northwest Primary Care in the Portland, Oregon, metro area, Flood has 40 years of experience in health care and more than 25 years of experience as an executive in the health care industry. She has been engaged in all aspects of integrated delivery systems, most recently working primarily with independent medical groups. Flood has served on the local Healthcare Initiative Committee for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion board to meet the needs of the underserved. In her work, she understands independent medical groups are small businesses working hard to survive post-COVID-19 staffing shortages, rising interest rates, and rising taxes.

Flood holds a bachelor of liberal studies from the University of Oklahoma and a master of healthcare administration from Oklahoma State University.

• Anil N. Keswani, MD, corporate executive vice president, chief medical officer and operations officer – Ambulatory, Scripps Health

Keswani is a distinguished health care executive, national speaker, and physician leader at Scripps Health, a leading non-profit integrated health system in La Jolla, California. He is the chief executive of the Scripps Medical Foundation, providing support to more than 1,300 clinicians. Keswani provides strategic leadership across several domains, including value-based care, health equity, systemwide clinical service lines, and post-acute network.

Keswani is a graduate of Boston University Medical School, where he completed an accelerated six-year medical program. His deep commitment to his family guides his mission to make a lasting impact on health care and enhance the well-being of the communities he serves.

• Narayana S. Murali, MD, DNB, FACP, AMP, system chief medical officer, medicine services, Geisinger Health System

Serving as system chief medical officer, Geisinger Health System; professor of medicine, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine; and a practicing nephrologist and clinician investigator, Murali is heavily involved in care delivery, research, education, and governance. He has served on various expert panels on healthcare delivery, accountable care organizations, value-based care, and innovative models of care, as well as testimonies at the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance and Wisconsin Senate Committees on telehealth, hospital at home, and emergency waivers for Medicare and Medicaid patients.

Murali earned his medical degree at the University of Madras in India, completed his internship at Abington Memorial Hospital in Abington, Pennsylvania, and his internal medicine residency and Nephrology fellowship at the Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education in Rochester, Minnesota. He has practiced clinical medicine in three countries—the United States, Australia, and India—for 34 years.

• Stephen Parodi, MD, executive vice president, The Permanente Medical Group, The Permanente Federation

As executive vice president and associate executive director for The Permanente Medical Group, Parodi is responsible for external affairs, corporate development, patient safety, risk management, and employer and group customer relations. Parodi is also executive vice president of external affairs, communications and brand at The Permanente Federation, the national leadership and consulting group to eight Permanente Medical Groups. Parodi currently practices as an infectious disease physician in the Napa Solano service area in California. He also serves on the board of directors for the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group, America’s Physician Groups, the Alliance of Community Health Plans, and Medically Home. Parodi is vice chair of the AMA’s Integrated Physician Practice Section (IPPS) governing council.

Parodi received his medical degree from Georgetown University, completed his internal medicine residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and his infectious disease fellowship at the University of California Los Aangeles Affiliated Program in Infectious Disease. He actively collaborates with state and federal partners on public health matters.

The AMGA Board of Directors represents healthcare’s leaders dedicated to creating a thriving health care system that delivers the best care. The five newest members join the 2025 AMGA Board of Directors with:

• Chair: Larry Tatum, MD, market president, Privia Medical Group North Texas
• Chair Elect: Beth Averbeck, MD, senior medical director, primary care, HealthPartners
• Treasurer: Mary Jo Williamson, vice chair, administration, and chief administrative officer, Mayo Clinic
• Secretary: Philip M. Oravetz, MD, MPH, MBA, chief population health officer, Ochsner Health
• At Large Member: Katherine Flynn Henry, JD, chief administrative officer, Austin Regional Clinic
• Immediate Past Chair: J. Stephen Jones, MD, MBA, FACS, chief executive officer, Inova Health System
• President and CEO: Jerry Penso, MD, MBA, AMGA
• Scott Barlow, MBA, chief executive officer, Revere Health
• Alka Atal-Barrio, MD, FAAP, MMM, chief medical officer, Optum WA
• Jacob J. Bast, MHA, FACMPE, FACHE, senior vice president and chief operating officer, St. Elizabeth Physicians
• Ed Curtis, CMPE, chief executive officer, Summit Medical Group
• Marijka Grey, MD, MBA, FACP, system vice president, Ambulatory Transformation and Innovation, CommonSpirit Health
• Brian Harte, MD, MHM, president, Cleveland Clinic Akron General & South Submarket
• LeTesha Montgomery, RN, MHA, FACHE, senior vice president, Houston Methodist
• Todd Christopher Smith, MD, senior vice president, chief physician executive, Sutter Health
• Elisabeth M. Stambaugh, MD, MMM, chief medical pfficer, Wake Forest Health Network