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      Board of Directors

      AMGA's Board of Directors is composed of six officers and eleven at-large directors, who serve three-year terms. The association's Chief Executive Officer serves on the Board in a non-voting capacity. The Executive Committee is composed of the six officers elected from among the Board of Directors to provide leadership and direction.

      Larry Tatum, MD

      Chair

      Market President
      Privia Medical Group North Texas

      Dr. Larry Tatum serves as the market president of Privia Medical Group - North Texas, a 400+ provider multispecialty group governed and led by physicians throughout the North Texas area. The group is committed to improving the health care of their patients while working to reward physicians for the value they create.

      Beth Averbeck, MD

      Chair Elect

      Senior Medical Director, Primary Care
      HealthPartners

      Dr. Averbeck is HealthPartners Care Group’s senior medical director, primary care. She has extensive experience in organizational culture, clinical operations, governance, quality improvement, measure development, and physician resilience.

      Mary Jo Williamson

      Treasurer

      Vice Chair, Administration and Chief Administrative Officer
      Mayo Clinic

      Mary Jo Williamson is chief administrative officer of Mayo Collaborative Services, which includes Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Mayo Clinic Cardiovascular Services, and Mayo Clinic BioPharma Diagnostics. These diagnostic companies help health care and industry professionals worldwide advance patient care, strengthen their practice, and broaden access to the Mayo Clinic expertise, including specialized testing.

      Philip M. Oravetz, MD, MPH, MBA

      Secretary

      Chief Population Health Officer
      Ochsner Health

      Dr. Oravetz joined Ochsner Health System eight years ago with over 20 years of innovative healthcare leadership experience in both administration and medicine. As Chief Population Health Officer at Ochsner Health System in New Orleans, Louisiana, Dr. Oravetz provides physician leadership to the system’s Accountable Care Network, which is the largest integrated delivery system in southeast Louisiana.

      Katherine Flynn Henry, JD

      At Large Member

      Chief Administrative Officer
      Austin Regional Clinic

      Katherine “Katie” Henry has been the chief administrative officer of Austin Regional Clinic (ARC) since June 2019. ARC is a dynamic, 350 provider multispecialty group that is physician owned and governed and provides health care to over 500,000 individuals in the Greater Austin metropolitan area.

      J. Stephen Jones, MD, FACS

      Immediate Past Chair

      President and Chief Executive Officer
      Inova Health System

      J. Stephen Jones, MD, FACS, is president and CEO of Inova Health System, Northern Virginia’s nonprofit healthcare system and Greater Washington DC’s largest private employer. A board-certified practicing urological surgeon, he is also a Professor of Surgery at the University of Virginia. Inova has received “Straight A” ratings by Leapfrog since 2018, and in 2020 became the first and still only large health system in America to have every hospital rated five stars by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

      Jerry Penso, MD, MBA

      President and Chief Executive Officer

      AMGA

      Dr. Penso became President and Chief Executive Officer at AMGA on Oct. 16, 2017.

      Previously, he served as Chief Medical and Quality Officer for AMGA and President of AMGA Foundation, and led Best Practices Learning Collaboratives, Chronic Care Initiatives, Acclaim Award, and research and benchmarking programs for AMGA’s member groups.

      Scott D. Barlow, MBA

      Director

      Chief Executive Officer
      Revere Health

      Mr. Barlow serves as the CEO of Revere Health, the largest independent physician group in the State of Utah. Revere Health employs over 400 providers practicing at over 100 urban and rural clinic locations and hospitals throughout the State of Utah, Nevada, and Arizona. Revere Health has received numerous national and local awards for their use of technology to provide and measure high-quality, cost-effective care to more than 600,000 individuals with over 1,600,000 patient visits annually.

      John Barrett, MD

      John Barrett, MD

      Director

      Executive Medical Director, University of Utah Health
      Community Physician Group

      Dr. Barrett, a family medicine physician and executive medical director, has been serving as the interim chair of the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of Utah since January of 2024.

      Alka Atal-Barrio, MD, FAAP, MMM

      Director

      Chief Medical Officer
      Optum WA

      Dr. Atal-Barrio serves as the market chief medical officer for Optum WA. She oversees The Everett Clinic (TEC), The Polyclinic (TPC), and Optum Care Network (OCN). Dr. Atal-Barrio is helping bring TEC and TPC together with OCN, a value-based care network system that has a suite of capabilities to support providers and patients across Washington State in value-based care.

      Jacob J. Bast

      Director

      Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
      St. Elizabeth Physicians

      Jacob Bast is the Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for St. Elizabeth Physicians. St. Elizabeth Physicians and its nearly 900 physicians and advanced practice providers care for patients throughout fourteen counties in Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. In 2020, the American Medical Group Association presented St. Elizabeth Physicians the Acclaim Award and again named SEP an Acclaim Award Honoree in 2024.

      Ed Curtis, CMPE

      Director

      Chief Executive Officer
      Summit Medical Group

      As Chief Executive Officer for Summit Medical Group, Ed Curtis is responsible for all operational aspects, including practice acquisitions and integration, finance, human resources, value-based care, legal, information technology, and many more services.

      Charlotte Flood, CMPE, MHA

      Charlotte Flood, CMPE, MHA

      Director

      Chief Executive Officer
      Northwest Primary Care

      As the chief executive officer of Northwest Primary Care in the Portland, OR, metro area, Charlotte Flood has 40 years of experience in healthcare and over 25 years of experience as an executive in the healthcare industry. She has been engaged in all aspects of integrated delivery systems, most recently working primarily with independent medical groups.

      Marijka Grey, MD, MBA, FACP

      Director

      System VP, Ambulatory Transformation and Innovation
      CommonSpirit Health

      As CommonSpirit Health’s System VP for Ambulatory Transformation and Innovation, Dr. Marijka Grey is an avid pursuer of healthcare’s quintuple aim: better care, better outcomes, lower cost, health equity, and a purposeful, joyful workplace.

      Brian Harte, MD, MHM

      Director

      President
      Cleveland Clinic Akron General & South Submarket

      Dr. Harte is president of Cleveland Clinic Akron General, and Cleveland Clinic’s Southern Submarket, both of which are integrated multispecialty health systems in northeast Ohio.

      Anil N. Keswani, MD

      Anil N. Keswani, MD

      Director

      Corporate Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer and Operations Officer Ambulatory
      Scripps Health

      Dr. Anil Keswani is a distinguished healthcare executive, national speaker, and physician leader at Scripps Health, a leading non-profit integrated health system in La Jolla, CA. He is the chief executive of the Scripps Medical Foundation, providing support to more than 1,300 clinicians.

      LeTesha Montgomery, RN, MHA, FACHE

      Director

      Senior Vice President
      Houston Methodist

      Tesha serves as senior vice president at Houston Methodist, responsible for patient access across the system’s 300 different hospital and clinic locations throughout the greater Houston area. With 1,800 employed physicians and advanced practice providers across the system, Tesha leverages digital technology, innovation and a broad understanding of core operations to promote a seamless experience for patients and consumers accessing care.

      Narayana S. Murali, MD, DNB, FACP, AMP

      Narayana S. Murali, MD, DNB, FACP, AMP

      Director

      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, Dr. Narayana Murali is heavily involved in care delivery, research, education, and governance. 

      Stephen Parodi, MD

      Stephen Parodi, MD

      Director

      Executive Vice President, The Permanente Medical Group
      The Permanente Federation

      As executive vice president and associate executive director for The Permanente Medical Group, Dr. Stephen Parodi is responsible for external affairs, corporate development, patient safety, risk management, and employer and group customer relations. 

      Todd Smith, MD

      Director

      Senior Vice President, Chief Physician Executive
      Sutter Health

      As Sutter Health’s Chief Physician Executive, Dr. Smith plays a crucial role in leading the system’s clinical transformation in providing consumer-centric, seamless, and integrated care by settling clinical standards and building strong partnerships with physicians. Dr. Smith has served on several boards at Sutter’s foundation, hospital, regional, and system levels.

      Elisabeth M. Stambaugh, MD, MMM

      Director

      Chief Medical Officer
      Wake Forest Health Network
      Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

      Elisabeth started down her journey as a medical group leader because she wanted to be a part of the change that would transform the U.S. from the best place to receive advanced medical care to the best place to experience healthcare.

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