The
Board of Directors of the Medical Society of the County of
Monroe includes the officers of the Medical Society of the County of
Monroe and the hospital
representatives, board of censors and delegates to MSSNY.
OFFICERS (through April 2010)
Stephanie Siegrist, MD
President
 Dr. Siegrist is a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, and is active with and has chaired several committees for the Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society. She is a member of the Medical Society of the State of New York and has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Monroe County Medical Society since 2004. She served on the Rochester Independent Practice Association Orthopaedic Advisory Subcommittee. Dr. Siegrist is a member of the Rochester Women’s Network, and in 2005 received their Up and Coming Businesswoman Award.
A frequent public speaker and enthusiastic patient advocate, Dr. Siegrist needed an accurate tool to help her patients manage their arthritis pain that was to-the-point, appealing, and in their best interest. So, she created one by publishing the book, Know Your Bones: Making Sense of Arthritis Medicine. She has educated patients and been a frequent media contact on behalf of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the U.S. Bone and Joint Decade.
Dr. Siegrist lives in Brighton with her husband, Peter, an architect and Rochester City Planner, and daughters, Claire and Helen.
Jerry J. Svoboda, MD
President-Elect
 Dr. Svoboda is a Board Certified vascular surgeon. He practices with Rochester Vascular Associates. Dr. Svoboda is a graduate of St. Louis University and Hahnemann Medical School. He completed his residency at Mercy Medical Center in Denver, his surgical residency at the Guthrie Clinic, in Sayre, PA and his Vascular Surgery Fellowship at Englewood Hospital in Englewood, NJ.
Dr. Svoboda began in practice in Rochester in 1984. That same year, he joined the Monroe County Medical Society, and has since held several leadership positions. Dr. Svoboda is also a member of the American Medical Association and the Medical Society of the State of New York. His other professional society memberships include the Eastern Vascular Society, American College of Surgeons and the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery. He is a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army Reserves and has served in Iraq.
Dr. Svoboda has been married for 32 years to his wife, Adelaide, who teaches biology at Nazareth College. The couple has two adult children: Mark, lives in Richmond, Virginia; and Elizabeth, who is a science writer living in San Jose, California.
James E. Szalados, MD, MBA, Esq.
Vice President
 Dr.
Szalados recieved his Medical Doctorate
in 1986, Diplomate, American Board ofAnesthesiology
in 1992, Sub-specialty Certification in Critical
Care Medicine in 1993, Master of Business and
Master of Health Administration in 1998, and Juris
Doctor 2005. He has Medical licenses in NY, NC,
FL, and PA.
He
practices anesthesiology and critical care medicine
in Rochester, NY. Dr. Szalados has attained Fellowship
status in the American College of Critical Care
Medicine, the American College of Chest Physicians,
and the American College of Legal Medicine. His
Professional Society Memberships include: Monroe
County Medical Society, Medical Society of the
State of New York, New York State Society of Anesthesiologists;
American Society of Anesthesiologists, New York
state Society of Anesthesiologists, Society of
Critical Care Medicine, American College of Chest
Physicians, New York State Bar Association, American
Bar Association (Health Law section), American
College of Legal Medicine. He is also admitted to the New York State Bar.
He
has 20 years of clinical experience in medicine
including surgery, anesthesiology, and critical
care, and hospitalist medicine - in both academia
and private practice. His past experience in health
care leadership include Director, Critical Care
Division and Critical Care Educational Program,
Director of Clinical Services, Executive Vice-Chair,
University Anesthesiology Department, Medical
Director of Operating Rooms, Medical Director
of Respiratory Care, Vice-President of Medical
Affairs/Chief Medical Officer, Leadership positions
in local, state and national medical societies.
He has co-authored and edited two textbooks in
the field of critical care medicine and has been
the author of more than two dozen peer-reviewed
manuscripts, and over a dozen chapters in medical
and legal textbooks. He has presented more than
one hundred presentations at regional, national,
and international medical symposia.
Christine Stewart, MD
Secretary
Christine Stewart is an internist who has been in both hospital-based and private practicesituations. She was born and raised in Rochester. She went to Swarthmore College, University of California, and University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. After finishing the Associated Hospitals Program, she joined Genesee Health Service, where she worked for four years. She is now in private practice in Penfield.
Robert Kerper, MD
Treasurer
(bio and photo coming soon)
Wallace Johnson, MD
Assistant Treasurer
Wallace E. Johnson, MD, is the Director of the University of Rochester Center for Primary Care (CPC). A practicing primary care general internist with URMC-Eastside Internal Medicine in Fairport, Johnson is also associate chair for Primary Care in the Department of Medicine at the University of Rochester.
A graduate of Yale University who received his medical degree summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Buffalo, Johnson served his residency in Internal Medicine at Strong Memorial Hospital. He currently chairs the Council of the Medical Staff at Strong, and is a member of the boards of directors of the Genesee Valley Medical Foundation and the Visiting Nurse Service.
Hospital Representatives
Highland
Hospital ... Alexander L. Strasser, MD
Lakeside Memorial Hospital ... James F. Gaden, MD
Rochester General Hospital ... Jacques M. Lipson, MD
Strong Memorial Hospital ... Robert M. Kerper, MD
Unity Health System ... James Haley, MD
Board of Censors
Terms Expire May 2010
Joseph A. Rube, MD
Coral L. Surgeon, MD
Terms
Expire May 2011
Louis J. Papa Jr., MD
Linda M. Rice, MD
Terms
Expire May 2012
Dennis Asselin, MD
Michael Schneider, MD
Delegates to MSSNY
By Virtue of Office
Mark J. Adams, MD
Stephanie E. Siegrist, MD
Jerry Svoboda, MD
Terms Expire May, 2010
Louis
V. Antignano,
MD
John S. McIntyre, MD
Terms Expire May, 2011
Raymond Lanzafame,
MD
Jacques Lipson, MD
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