AMGA Foundation Board

The Guthrie Clinic is a rural integrated health system in the northern tier of
central Pennsylvania and the southern tier of upstate New York. The Guthrie
Clinic includes four hospitals in the region and the 470 provider Guthrie
Medical Group. Dr. Bloom served as the president of the medical group and
currently is a practicing family medicine physician. He joined Guthrie in 2014
from Geisinger Health System where he worked for 28 years in increasing roles
of physician leadership. Dr. Bloom graduated from Hahnemann Medical
College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and subsequently did his Family
Medicine Residency at Saint Vincent Health Care Center in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Bloom also earned his Master of Medical Management at Tulane
University in New Orleans, LA. Dr. Bloom is a frequent national speaker and
author of numerous peer review articles on high value health care. He serves
on the CAPG Board, AMGA Foundation Board, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Recognition Review Oversight Committee and was the former chairperson of the American Medical Group Association Quality Council.

Dr. Parodi is also executive vice president of external affairs, communications
and brand at The Permanente Federation, the national leadership and
consulting group to 8 Permanente Medical Groups. Dr. 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. Dr. Parodi is vice chair of the AMA’s Integrated Physician Practice Section (IPPS) governing council.

Dr. 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 UCLA Affiliated Program in Infectious Disease. He actively collaborates with state and federal partners on public health matters.

She creates standardized performace dashboards and designs key performance indicators for ambulatory quality.  Dr. Beran established an Ambulatory Quality Improvement Collaborative (AQIC) designed to create a system-standardized approach to improve population health on key disease processes and key performance indicators.  She is focused on identifying at risk populations, creating programs to help address inequities and barriers to care, and building programs to improve access and escalation.

Previously Dr. Beran served as chief medical officer of Westchester Health Medical. She has presented on women leadership in practice management and on collaborative care strategies to support behavioral health in ambulatory care. Dr. Beran received a grant from the Katz Institute for Women’s Health for Healthy Mom-Happy Child: Screening and Treatment of Depression during the Child Rearing Years.

She is affiliated with the following professional organizations: American Association for Physician Leadership, AMGA and AMGA’s CMO council, American College of Physicians-Fellow, Westchester County Medical Association, Medical Society of the State of New York, and Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Dr. Beran completed her residency in internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern at Dallas and served as chief resident in primary care at Dallas Veterans Medical Center.  She earned her medical degree from Thomas Jefferson Medical College

He previously worked as the chief quality officer and associate chief medical officer at Southwestern Health Resources in Dallas, TX. Dr. Clark completed his medical degree and a PhD of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Miami. He is board-certified in internal medicine and clinical informatics and also certified in obesity medicine. In his clinical practice, he has worked as a primary care physician and as a specialist in non-surgical weight management. 

The medical group spans Marion and Polk counties. The group employs over 400 providers across multiple specialties and supports a critical access hospital, rural health clinic, several outpatient primary and specialty clinics in addition to hospital-based programs in Salem and Dallas. With 644 licensed beds, Salem Health is the largest hospital in Oregon and the largest employer in Salem, with over 6,000 employees.

She is past chair of the American Medical Group Association COO Council. She
sits on the Board of Directors and Finance Committee for Marion Polk Food
Share. Marion Polk Food Share is a nonprofit organization based in Salem,
Oregon, dedicated to ending hunger and addressing its root causes in Marion
and Polk counties. Their Meals on Wheels program delivers an average of 870 nutritious meals every day to homebound seniors and disabled adults in Salem and Keizer. Katie is an active member of the Advisory Commission for Salem’s Center 50+ which advises the Salem City Council on policies, programs, and services for older adults. This year, she is leading the Center 50+ strategic planning committee.

Her interest in healthcare started over 27 years ago with the birth of her
son, and the story of a mother’s loss of a child who was not immunized.
This story ignited her to help promote health and wellness to prevent
others from experiencing similar tragedies.

Courtney’s desire to promote health and wellness, along with her quest for
better health outcomes for patients, blossomed into a career of helping educate providers about the importance of their trusted voices in patients’ lives. In addition to her professional career, she has served as past Board of Trustees Member at the American Academy of Physician Associates, a current Board Member of Greenville Women Giving, a Women’s Philanthropy Giving Circle in Greenville, SC, and
a proud member of AMGA Foundation’s Resource Committee.

Courtney received her Bachelor of Science majoring in Physics and Mathematics from the State University of New York, College of Oswego, and a master’s degree in Business Administration from Clemson University, and is a registered e-RYT 500 Yoga Instructor. She is a proud mother of two amazing sons and currently resides in Greenville, SC.

David remained at WellSpan York Hospital after his residency, serving in leadership roles in the residency program, and later as medical director and department chair of
the emergency department in York. he served as vice president of medical affairs with WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital for nearly two years prior to moving into his role as senior vice president and chief medical officer with WellSpan Medical Group, the WellSpan’s employed practice division. 

He obtained an MBA from the University of Massachusetts and completed the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Improvement Scholars Program as part of the inaugural class in that program. He is also a graduate of the WellSpan Physician Leadership Academy.

David has served on a number of boards for nonprofit organizations, including the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and the York County Medical Society, for which he also served a term as president. He has an extensive bibliography of scholarly activity, including numerous publications and presentations at regional and national levels.

She is a clinical professor at Michigan State University and an active physician investigator with funded research studies focused on assessing social determinants of health in patient care; reducing hypertension in African American men; optimizing diabetes care pathways; and improving the delivery of virtual care for older adults. She is currently a member of the Henry Ford Medical Group Board of Governors, the Board of Directors for the Southeast Michigan Center for Medical Education, and the Board of Directors for Brilliant Detroit. White Perkins welcomes opportunities to lead with humility as she leverages her experience in health care equity, medical education, and clinical family medicine to build mutually beneficial partnerships across academic, community, and health system sectors for the advancement of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in health care.