Virginia-DC Leadership

OFFICERS

Karen Garner
President
Sr. Director of Reimbursement & Financial Analysis
Wellspan Health

Brian Shifflett
President-Elect and Sponsorship Chair
Director of Revenue Cycle Systems
UVA Health System

Elizabeth Byerly
Secretary
Director of Client Services
Medical Data Systems, Inc. (MDS)

Dinesh Pai
Treasurer
Chief Revenue Cycle Officer
Tidewater Physicians Multispecialty Group

Amber Wells
Assistant Treasurer
System Director, Revenue Integrity
Riverside Health System

Chris Branin
Immediate Past President
Director of Budgets
UVA Health System

COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Sheila L. Seal, MBA FHFMA CTBI CRCR
Education Chair & Founders Contact
Director of Decision Support
Mary Washington Healthcare

Kevin Fisher
Education Co-Chair
Regional Director
Waystar

Janelle Padgett
Certification Chair
Chief Financial Officer
Fauquier Health

Johnita Forbes
Membership co-chair and Mentorship Chair
Program Manager
Elevance Health

Cathy Price, CHFP, CRCR, CRCP
Membership Chair
SVP of Client Development
Knowtion Health

Rachel Carr, MHA
Communications Chair
Director of Finance, Ambulatory
Sentara Health

Joe Meador
CPE Committee Chair

SVP and Chief Financial Officer
Augusta Health

2023-2024 – Chris Branin
2022-2023 – Mary Prendergast
2021-2022 – Brett McMillan
2020-2021 – Jennie Bauer
2019-2020 – Shawn Nelson
2018-2019– Phillip Graybeal
2017-2018  David Karluk
2016-2017 – Jessica Poston
2015-2016 – Elizabeth Staas
2014-2015 – Lynne Wisehart
2013-2014 – Tom Henderson
2012-2013 – Steve Quiriconi
2011-2012 – Carl Johnson
2010-2011 – Donna Littlepage
2009-2010 – Elizabeth Gerding
2008-2009 – Heather Sibley
2007-2008 – Garry Bowman
2006-2007 – Rich Rollins
2005-2006 – Melinda Hancock
2004-2005 – Karen W. Tuttle
2003-2004 – David Richardson
2002-2003 – Beth R.Gentry
2001-2002 – Margaret M. Thompson
2000-2001 – W. Randall Dunning
1999-2000 – Brian M. Loftus
1998-1999 – Donald Coubaugh. Jr.
1997-1998 – Jody L. Elliott
1996-1997 – William lsemann
1995-1996 – Peter F. Gallagher
1994-1995 – Karl Vandegriff
1993-1994 – Dianne Tessenear
1992-1993 – Lewis Addison
1991-1992 – J. Michael Burris
1990-1991 – Joseph F. Becht, Jr.
1989-1990 – John K. Thompson
1988-1989 – Gilbert R. Collins
1987-1988 – Nelson L. Montgomery
1986-1987 – Herbert D. Harvey. Jr
1985-1986 – Michael L. Whorley
1984-1985 – Richard D. Schrock
1983-1984 – Curtis E. Mills, Jr.
1982-1983 – L. Darrell Powers
1981-1982 – Sharon T. Broughton
1980-1981 – E. Kent Williams
1979-1980 – Donald E. Lorton 
1978-1979 – Philip C. G. Farley
1977-1978 – Alan W. Adkins
1976-1977 – Jimmy D. Pearce 
1975-1976 – Rudy E. Herndon
1974-1975 – Thomas L. Robertson
1973-1974 – Bartholomew D. Myles
1972-1973 – Donald D. Sandridge
1971-1972 – Bernice W. Gianotti
1970-1971 – Darrel D. Whitt
1969-1970 – J. Harold Bennington
1968-1969 – James E. Wittsell
1967-1968 – James E. Wittsell
1966-1967 – Kenneth E. Beach
1965-1966 – Kenneth E. Beach
1964-1965 – Eugene J. Sharpe
 1963-1964 – Robert L. Neal. Jr.
1962-1963 – Eva S. Thompson
1961-1962 – Thema K. Erwin
1960-1961 – James R. Jordan
1959-1960 – Billy Bartly
1958-1959 – C. J. Pappandreaou
1957-1958 – George E. Hott
1956-1957 – Walter W. Booking
1955-1956 – Joseph James
1954-1955 – Robert E. Helsley

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