Statutory Composition & Current Membership

Acupuncture

• Article 160, §8213
• Minimum Total Membership: 11
• Minimum Public Members: 3
• Specific Requirements:
  • 4 licensed acupuncturists
  • 4 licensed physicians certified to use acupuncture

Member - Expiration of Term

• Marion E. Bergen - 01/31/18
• Peizhu Cheng - 01/31/18
• Charles Kim - 02/28/17
• Kamau Kokayi - 02/28/17
• Marietta Lehmann, Public Member - 01/31/18
• Scott Roberts - 02/10/19
• Florence Patricia Roth - 03/31/15
• Steven Schram - 03/31/15

Architecture

• Article 147, §7303
• Minimum Total Membership: 8
• Minimum Public Members: 1
• Specific Requirements:
  • 7 licensed architects

Member - Expiration of Term

• Daniel V. Garbowit - 12/31/18
• Lisa Gould - 01/31/18
• Susan B. McClymonds - 11/30/15
• George H. Miller - 06/30/17
• John R. Sorrenti - 11/30/15
• John P. Sullivan - 01/31/2016
• Kyu-Jung Whang - 03/31/17

Athletic Trainers, Committee for (to assist Medical Board)

• Article 162, §8354
• Minimum Total Membership: 5
• Minimum Public Members: n/a
• Specific Requirements:
  • 5 certified athletic trainers

Member - Expiration of Term

• Karen P. Balter - 06/30/14
• Thomas F. Fashouer - 02/28/17
• Kathryn A. Koshansky - 02/28/17
• Timothy L. Neal - 03/31/17
• Frederick Zappala - 02/28/17

Certified Shorthand Reporting

• Article 151, §7503
• Minimum Total Membership: 6
• Minimum Public Members: 1
• Specific Requirements:
  • 5 licensed certified shorthand reporters

Member - Expiration of Term

• Francesca Cioffi - 06/30/16
• Linda Fisher - 06/30/17
• Anthony D. Frisolone - 04/30/18
• Lori A. Henderson - 06/30/18
• Joseph O. Inquagiato - 06/30/17
• Patricia A. Nelk - 06/30/18
• Anita T. Shemin - 03/31/16
• George Trovato - 06/30/16

Chiropractic

• Article 132, §6553
• Minimum Total Membership: 8
• Minimum Public Members: 1
• Specific Requirements:
  • 4 licensed chiropractors
  • 1 licensed physician who holds M.D.
  • 1 licensed physician who holds D.O.
  • 1 educator who holds a doctorate or equivalent degree in either anatomy, physiology, pathology, chemistry, or microbiology

Member - Expiration of Term

• Ellen M. Coyne - 03/31/16
• Sherry A. Downie, Educator - 11/30/17
• Stephen T. Eble - 03/31/14
• James Hyland - 12/31/16
• Scott E. Kilmer - 10/31/16
• Michelle J. Lester - 03/31/15
• Sonali Lal - 06/30/18
• Lee T. Masterson - 11/30/14
• Jay A. Okin - 03/31/14
• Todd R. Olson - 03/31/14
• Anne B. D. Reid, Public Member - 09/30/14

Clinical Laboratory Technology

• Article 165, §8604
• Minimum Total Membership: 11
• Minimum Public Members: 2
• Specific Requirements:
  • 4 licensed clinical laboratory technologists
  • 2 licensed cytotechnologists
  • 1 certified clinical laboratory technician
  • 1 representative of the diagnostic/manufacturing industry
  • 1 director of a clinical laboratory who shall be a physician

Member - Expiration of Term

• Deborah K. Cornell - 11/14/14
• Paul A. Elgert - 11/14/15
• Martin R. Evans - 11/14/14
• Carolyn DeMarinis - 03/31/15
• Debora L. Hunte - 11/14/15
• Mary Anne Kowalski, Public Member - 11/14/14
• Bernard T. Ng - 06/30/16
• Julia E. Peacock - 11/14/15
• Michael Reiner, Public Member - 01/14/18
• Angela Tomei - 12/14/15

Dentistry

• Article 133, §6603
• Minimum Total Membership: 18
• Minimum Public Members: 1
• Specific Requirements:
  • 13 licensed dentists
  • 3 licensed dental hygienists
  • 1 licensed certified dental assistant

Member - Expiration of Term

• Alban C. Burke - 07/31/14
• Steven H. Cho - 10/31/17
• Peter H. Collins - 07/31/14
• Karen Comisi - 02/29/16
• James R. Coney, Public Member - 09/30/17
• Marlene De Feo - 06/30/16
• Ralph H. Epstein - 07/31/14
• Luis J. Fujimoto - 07/31/14
• Jean G. Furuyama - 07/31/14
• Audra E. Haynes - 06/30/16
• Lois A. Jackson - 02/29/16
• Wayne Kye - 12/31/18
• Christine M. Matis - 07/31/14
• Ronnie Myers - 07/31/14
• Eugene A. Pantera, Jr. - 07/31/14
• Salim Rayman - 12/31/18
• Richard Reisman - 10/31/16
• Ernest A. Robertson - 12/31/18
• Julie Ann Ruggiero - 09/30/17
• Bruce Seidberg - 12/31/17
• John K. Sementilli - 02/28/19
• Joseph J. Speicher, Jr. - 12/31/18

Dietetics and Nutrition

• Article 157, §8003
• Minimum Total Membership: 13
• Minimum Public Members: 3
• Specific Requirements:
  • 10 certified dietitians/nutritionists

Member - Expiration of Term

• Peter Horvath - 03/31/17
• Erika Laurion - 06/30/18
• Beverly Pauline Lyons - 12/31/16
• Candi Possinger - 04/30/17
• Dana Reed - 02/28/17
• Carmen Rodrigues, Public Member - 04/30/17
• Edward H. Weiss - 03/31/17
• Sally Wong - 10/31/16

Engineering and Land Surveying

• Article 145, §7205
• Minimum Total Membership: 10
• Minimum Public Members: 1
• Specific Requirements:
  • 7 licensed professional engineers
  • 2 licensed land surveyors

Member - Expiration of Term

• Joseph P. Berger - 01/31/15
• Leonard J. Campolieta - 11/15/15
• Robert K. Goldman - 04/22/18
• Roman H. Figler, III - 05/21/17
• Keith E. Giles - 05/31/16
• Edwin G. Haas - 02/29/16
• Alfonso R. Lopez - 12/13/17
• Dennis L. Mowers - 12/13/17
• Harvey J. Palmer - 12/31/16
• Ennala Ramabhushanam - 11/16/14

Interior Design

• Article 161, §8304
• Minimum Total Membership: 9
• Minimum Public Members: 1
• Specific Requirements:
  • 4 certified interior designers
  • 2 licensed architects who practice primarily interior design
  • 1 licensed professional engineer with expertise in interior design
  • 1 full-time interior design educator

Member - Expiration of Term

• Scott M. Ageloff - 01/31/17
• Dorian DeHaan Rossi - 01/31/16
• James D. Lothrop, Jr. - 04/04/16
• Laura Marcus - 09/13/15
• Staci Romano - 9/30/16
• Andrew L. Seifer - 09/10/17
• Francine Smith - 06/17/18
• Robert P. Stelianou - 02/29/16

Landscape Architecture

• Article 148, §7323
• Minimum Total Membership: 8
• Minimum Public Members: 1
• Specific Requirements:
  • 7 licensed landscape architects

Member - Expiration of Term

• Nancy O. Alexander - 11/30/15
• Richard Alomar - 11/30/14
• Vella Chan - 05/31/15
• Pamela A. Holzapfel - 11/30/18
• Mark R. Johns - 09/30/17
• J. Scott Lewendon - 01/31/16
• Robert J. Southerland - 10/31/18
• Peter J. Trowbridge - 11/30/15

Massage Therapy

• Article 155, §7803
• Minimum Total Membership: 8
• Minimum Public Members: 1
• Specific Requirements:
  • 4 persons who have been engaged in the teaching, research, or practice of massage therapy for at least three years
  • 3 licensed physicians

Member - Expiration of Term

• Gregory Almond - 12/14/15
• Paula J. Christ - 02/28/14
• Mary Elizabeth Clancy-Halayko - 03/31/15
• Mary C. Galipeau - 09/09/17
• Heidi S. Liberatore - 06/30/14
• Vincent Metzo - 12/31/16
• Jacqueline A. Mitchell - 07/31/17
• Paul A. Pipia - 12/10/17
• Laetitia Rhatigan - 04/22/18

Medicine

• Article 131, §6523
• Minimum Total Membership: 24
• Minimum Public Members: 2
• Specific Requirements:
  • 20 licensed physicians including:
    • 2 licensed physicians who hold D.O.
    • 2 licensed physician assistants

Member - Expiration of Term

• James B. Armstrong - 09/30/17
• Jerry Ray Balentine, DO - 10/31/17
• Dominique Delma - 11/30/15
• Constance Diamond, Public Member - 01/31/16
• Monica Dweck - 10/31/17
• Kristin E. Harkin - 04/30/18
• Jennifer Kelly, PA - 05/31/17
• Robert G. Lerner - 09/30/17
• Kathleen S. Lill, PA - 05/31/17
• Luis R. Marcos - 12/31/14
• David Mark Nierman - 12/31/18
• Margaret H. Ormanoski, DO - 12/31/17
• Roger M. Oskvig - 09/30/15
• Swaminathan Rajan - 09/30/17
• Barry M. Rosenthal - 09/30/15
• Balvinder S. Sareen - 09/30/17
• Myra B. Shayevitz - 07/31/14
• Mushtaq A. Sheikh - 08/31/16
• Ronald V. Uva - 10/31/17

Medical Physics, Committee for (to assist Medical Board)

• Article 166, §8704
• Minimum Total Membership: 8
• Minimum Public Members: 1
• Specific Requirements:
  • 4 licensed medical physicists represented by each of the following specialties:
    • diagnostic radiological physics,
    • therapeutic radiological or radiation oncology physics,
    • medical nuclear physics, and
    • medical health physics;
  • 3 licensed physicians represented by each of the following specialties:
    • diagnostic radiology,
    • radiation therapy or radiation oncology, and
    • nuclear medicine

Member - Expiration of Term

• Brian M. Methe - 06/30/14
• Yakov Pipman - 11/30/15
• Lawrence N. Rothenberg - 06/30/17

• Angela P. Sheehan, Public Member - 07/31/17

Mental Health Practitioners

• Article 163, §8406
• Minimum Total Membership: 16
• Minimum Public Members: 3
• Specific Requirements:
  • at least 3 licensed professionals representing each of the following professions:
    • mental health counselor,
    • marriage and family therapist,
    • creative arts therapist, and
    • psychoanalyst;
  • 1 licensed physician who shall be a psychiatrist

Member - Expiration of Term

• Faith Ball, Public Member - 12/31/16
• Edward P. Barra, Public Member - 03/31/15
• Robert P. Borsody, Public Member - 10/31/18
• Joan Cela - 06/30/16
• Jeness Clairmont - 09/30/17
• Raul Garcia - 06/30/18
• Elizabeth Gonzalez-Dolginko - 12/31/16
• Rossi A. Hassad - 06/30/18
• Sara Lin Friedman McMullian - 09/30/17
• Rodney Means - 06/30/16
• Paul Mosher - 06/30/14
• Sandra L. Ramos-Watt - 10/31/18
• Natalie Z. Riccio - 01/31/19
• Cari L. Sans - 12/31/16
• Jill R. Weldum - 01/31/19
• Susan Wheeler Weeks - 09/30/17

Midwifery

• Article 140, §6954
• Minimum Total Membership: 13
• Minimum Public Members: 1
• Specific Requirements:
  • 7 licensed midwives
  • 1 educator of midwifery
  • 2 licensed physicians who are also certified as obstetrician/gynecologist by a national certifying body
  • 1 licensed physician who practices family medicine including obstetrics
  • 1 licensed physician who practices pediatrics

Member - Expiration of Term

• William Bruce Clark - 10/31/15
• Elizabeth Cooper - 10/31/15
• Melissa Creighton, Public Member - 07/31/14
• Kathleen Dermady McMahon - 07/31/14
• Karen Johnson Feltham - 04/30/15
• Flannery Hysjulien, Public Member - 07/31/14
• Julia Lange Kessler - 07/31/16
• Donald S. Matheson - 07/31/14
• Christopher J. Murphy - 07/31/14
• Nicole Rouhana - 11/30/18
• Cecilia Stearns - 07/31/14

Nursing

• Article 139, §6904
• Minimum Total Membership: 17
• Minimum Public Members: 2
• Specific Requirements:
  • 11 licensed registered professional nurses
  • 4 licensed practical nurses

Member - Expiration of Term

• Valerie G. Aarne - 02/28/17
• Prissana Alston - 03/31/14
• Kenya Beard - 05/31/18
• Susan L. Bowar-Ferres - 03/31/15
• Margaret A. Chase - 06/30/15
• Anne L. Coonrad - 08/31/17
• Robert J. Gordon, Public Member - 01/30/16
• Liesl S. Hall - 10/31/15
• Margaret B. Leonard - 05/31/15
• Yolanda Liggons - 08/01/18
• Marie C. Ostoyich - 12/31/17
• Edmund J.Y. Pajarillo - 12/31/17
• George J. Pastor, Public Member - 10/31/15
• Anne Marie Puentespina - 08/01/18
• Victoria L. Record - 12/31/17
• Alexandra Schneider - 03/31/15
• Bridget L. Scott - 11/01/15
• Janice Smolowitz - 02/28/15
• Robert S. Warner - 02/28/15

Occupational Therapy

• Article 156, §7903
• Minimum Total Membership: 10
• Minimum Public Members: 2
• Specific Requirements:
  • 7 licensed occupational therapists
  • 1 licensed physician

Member - Expiration of Term

• Gary Cassidy - 11/30/14
• Donna Covello - 11/15/15
• George W. Delamar, Public Member - 03/31/18
• Mary V. Donohue - 03/31/18
• Florence Hannes - 10/31/17
• Karen M. Newman - 12/31/18
• Eva L. Rodriguez - 03/31/18
• Jeanine M. Stancanelli - 06/30/15

Ophthalmic Dispensing

• Article 144, §7123
• Minimum Total Membership: 8
• Minimum Public Members: 1
• Specific Requirements:
  • 7 licensed ophthalmic dispensers

Member - Expiration of Term

• Charles L. Brein - 06/30/17
• Marie R. Coluccio - 02/28/15
• Anthony Englezos - 06/30/18
• Phillip E. Jones - 09/30/15
• Michael P. Kather - 05/31/16
• Carol Draper Marx - 12/31/16
• Michael A. Nasca - 05/31/16
• Rhody L. Spooner - 09/30/16

Optometry

• Article 143, §7103
• Minimum Total Membership: 8
• Minimum Public Members: 1
• Specific Requirements:
  • 7 licensed optometrists

Member - Expiration of Term

• Margaret Adubor - 07/31/16
• Harriette Canellos - 05/31/17
• Wayne Gabel - 03/31/16
• Thomas Kaminska - 03/31/16
• Gabriele K. Libbey, Public Member - 03/31/16
• Eugene J. McDonough - 05/31/17
• Frank J. Pirozzolo - 09/30/17
• Andrew J. Sacco - 06/30/17

Pharmacy

• Article 137, §6804
• Minimum Total Membership: 11
• Minimum Public Members: 2
• Specific Requirements:
  • 9 licensed pharmacists

Member - Expiration of Term

• Claudia Alexander, Public Member - 03/31/17
• Leigh Briscoe-Dwyer - 07/31/18
• John L. Croce - 01/31/17
• Michael D. Duteau - 10/31/15
• Fernando A. Gonzalez - 01/31/17
• Heather King - 10/31/17
• Maria Marzella Mantione - 05/31/15
• Daniel Molino - 10/31/15
• Frank P. Sosnowski - 05/31/15
• John Westerman, Jr. - 06/30/16
• Kimberly Zammit - 09/30/16

Physical Therapy

• Article 136, §6733
• Minimum Total Membership: 9
• Minimum Public Members: 1
• Specific Requirements:
  • 8 licensed physical therapists

Member - Expiration of Term

• Aimee Alexander - 03/31/18
• Jill W. Bloss - 10/31/13
• Clarke D. Brown - 05/31/14
• Margaret Carney - 01/31/17
• Diana Dymond-Burns - 09/30/13
• John W. Krupa III - 01/31/17
• Gina N. Lawney - 09/30/15
• Stella Enjema Matike - 09/30/13
• Susan D. Miller - 06/30/17
• Susan A. Naso - 09/30/15
• Ann Parillo, Public Member - 06/30/16

Podiatry

• Article 141, §7003
• Minimum Total Membership: 8
• Minimum Public Members: 1
• Specific Requirements:
  • 7 licensed podiatrists

Member - Expiration of Term

• Victor Chen - 12/31/14
• Robert Eckles - 12/31/16
• Donald Feldman - 11/30/15
• Joan Gavrilik, Public Member - 02/29/16
• Michael Giordano - 07/31/15
• Loretta Logan - 10/31/16

• Stacey Sarmiento - 10/31/16
• Scott M. Schonfeld - 05/31/14

Polysomnographic Technology

Professional Assistance, Committee for

• Article 130, §6510-b
• Minimum Total Membership: varies
• All Committee members serve as public representatives
• Specific Requirements:
  • Most Committee members have expertise in problems of drug and/or alcohol abuse

Member - Expiration of Term

• Maureen Amberger - 10/31/16
• K. Balasubramanian - 03/22/14
• Silvia Y. Beaupre - 12/31/14
• Janet Deixler - 06/30/16
• George W. Delamar - 10/31/17
• Edward A. Epstein - 05/17/14
• Thomas Fashouer - 02/28/15
• Bonnie L. Furlong - 08/31/16
• Richard F. Goliber - 11/30/14
• Edmund M. Hayes - 12/31/14
• Judith Johnson - 07/21/14
• Wayne Lee - 07/21/14
• Carmen R. Maldonado - 12/31/14
• Sandra Marnell - 05/17/14
• Katherine Moss - 09/13/16
• John Mullen - 10/31/17
• Kathleen A. Nye - 04/30/16
• Julianne F. Rey - 01/31/17
• Suzanne Rinere - 12/31/14
• Carmen Rodrigues - 10/31/16
• Nancy Rogers - 9/30/18
• Rita E. Shawn - 10/31/16
• Burton Thelander - 9/30/18
• Carole E. Torok - 12/31/14
• Margaret B. Walker - 12/31/14
• Richard T. Young - 03/22/14

Psychology

• Article 153, §7602
• Minimum Total Membership: 12
• Minimum Public Members: 1
• Specific Requirements:
  • 11 licensed psychologists

Member - Expiration of Term

• Amanda L. Baden - 03/20/17
• Angelo R. Canedo - 12/10/17
• Kathryn Castle - 11/18/18
• Thelma Dye-Holmes - 12/10/17
• Rebecca Gellman - 11/18/18
• William A. Haas - 03/20/17
• Marilyn A. Lambe, Public Member - 09/09/17
• Rachel Mann-Rosan - 11/30/15
• John McGinley - 03/20/17
• Paul M. Ramirez - 11/30/15
• Gloria S. Rothenberg - 04/30/16
• Sondra M. Tuckfelt - 12/14/15

Public Accountancy

• Article 149, §7403
• Minimum Total Membership: 22
• Minimum Public Members: 2
• Specific Requirements:
  • 20 licensed accountants, a minimum of 15 must be licensed certified public accountants

Member - Expiration of Term

• Catherine R. Allen - 05/31/16
• Suzette B. Baker - 03/31/14
• Kevin D. Bandoian - 10/31/14
• Peter R. Byron - 05/31/18
• Michelle A. Cohen - 12/31/17
• Patricia A. Crecco - 06/30/14
• David J. deSilva - 11/30/16
• Katharine K. Doran - 07/31/17
• William Dresnack - 02/28/16
• Mark A. Ferm - 08/31/18
• Robert L. Goldfarb - 10/31/16
• William M. Kahn - 08/31/18
• Robert Kawa - 07/31/15
• John J. Kearney - 10/31/16
• Milton L. Lawney, Public Member - 12/31/14
• Donald Edward Martin - 03/31/16
• Ernest Smith - 09/30/16
• Grace Sucaldito - 10/31/18
• Priscilla Z. Wightman - 10/31/14

Respiratory Therapy

• Article 164, §8503
• Minimum Total Membership: 11
• Minimum Public Members: 1
• Specific Requirements:
  • 5 licensed respiratory therapists
  • 2 licensed respiratory therapy technicians
  • 1 licensed physician

Member - Expiration of Term

• Kevin Brinson - 10/30/18
• John Brittelli - 12/31/17
• Barbara DeLuca - 10/31/17
• Paul L. Goldiner, Physician - 03/31/14
• Cynthia J. Gottlieb - 09/30/18
• Stanley John - 04/32/17
• Kathleen M. Marsch, Public Member - 12/31/17
• Peter J. Papadakos - 12/31/18

Social Work

• Article 154, §7703
• Minimum Total Membership: 12
• Minimum Public Members: 2
• Specific Requirements:
  • 5 licensed master social workers
  • 5 licensed clinical social workers

Member - Expiration of Term

• Donald F. Arnold, Sr., Public Member - 03/31/16
• Wendy Renee Bensen - 07/31/18
• Patricia W. Blau - 10/31/18
• Michele Catone-Maitino - 07/31/14
• Marlienne Carrie Christian - 07/31/18
• Carmen Collado - 07/31/15
• Virginia V. David - 06/30/17
• Kathleen Ferdinand - 07/31/18
• Lola H. Greene - 01/31/19
• Janice Houston-Little - 07/31/14
• Patrick McShane, Public Member - 11/30/15
• Donna M. Murray, Public Member - 03/31/17
• Whitney S. Parish - 03/31/16
• Pamela A. Viggiani - 07/31/14
• Virginia Lee Whitford - 10/31/18

Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology

• Article 159, §8205
• Minimum Total Membership: 8
• Minimum Public Members: 1
• Specific Requirements:
  • 3 licensed audiologists
  • 4 licensed speech-language pathologists

Member - Expiration of Term

• Karen Bailey-Jones - 07/31/17
• K. Balasubraminian, Public Member - 01/31/18
• Dawn Cotter-Jenkins - 03/31/18
• Stefan Fosco - 08/31/18
• Kathleen A. Grosvenor - 09/10/17
• Matthew S. MacDonald - 05/15/16
• Mark Stephen Orlando - 01/31/18
• Keturah Perkins-Trembley - 06/30/16
• Luis F. Riquelme - 04/14/18
• Susan Roberts - 08/31/18
• Jason A. Rosas - 01/31/18

Veterinary Medicine

• Article 135, §6703
• Minimum Total Membership: 10
• Minimum Public Members: 1
• Specific Requirements:
  • 7 licensed veterinarians
  • 2 licensed veterinary technicians

Member - Expiration of Term

• Kimberly Baldwin, LVT - 05/31/14
• Amy Denise Charpentier - 06/30/17
• James C. Franzek - 02/28/14
• Diane M. Levitan - 04/30/18
• Barry A. Lissman - 05/31/16
• Brian P. McKenna, LVT - 05/31/16
• Pamela A. Mobius-Armstrong, Public Member - 05/31/16
• Joseph E. Savarese - 11/30/15

Executive Secretary Email: vetmedbd@mail.nysed.gov, Phone: 518-474-3817, ext. 210, Fax: 518-486-4846