HANYS announces 2026 board officers and members

The Healthcare Association of New York State today announced its 2026 board of trustees officers, executive committee and members.

HANYS’ 2026 board officers and executive committee members are:

• Chair: Patrick O’Shaughnessy, DO, MBA, MS-POPH, FACEP, president and CEO, Catholic Health (Long Island)
• Chair-elect: Steven Kelley, MBA, FACHE, president and CEO, Ellenville Regional Hospital
• Secretary: Susan Browning, western regional president, Nuvance Health, and president, Vassar Brothers Medical Center
• Treasurer: Sean Fadale, FACHE, president and CEO, Nathan Littauer Hospital and Nursing Home
• Immediate Past Chair: Kenneth Gibbs, CEO, Maimonides Health
• John Carrigg, president and CEO, United Health Services
• Mark Geller, MD, president and CEO, Montefiore Nyack Hospital
• Carol Gomes, CEO and chief operating officer, Stony Brook University Hospital
• Bea Grause, RN, JD, president, HANYS
• Muhammed Javed, MD, board chair, Olean General Hospital, and trustee, Kaleida Health
• Svetlana Lipyanskaya, CEO, NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health
• David Perlstein, MD, MBA, FAAP, president and CEO, SBH Health System
• Michael Stapleton Jr., FACHE, president and CEO, Thompson Health

Our officers and executive committee members are joined by the following returning and new HANYS board members:

• Jose Acevedo, MD, MBA, president and CEO, Finger Lakes Health
• Derek Anderson, MPH, FACHE, president, Northern Westchester Hospital (new board member)
• Shelly Anderson, MPM, hospital president, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (new board member)
• Michael Backus, president and CEO, Oswego Health
• Kevin Beiner, executive vice president and chief operating officer, Northwell Health
• Scott Berlucchi, FACHE, president and CEO, Auburn Community Hospital
• Donald Boyd, president and CEO, Kaleida Health 
• Thomas Carman, president and CEO, Samaritan Medical Center 
• Brendan Carr, MD, MA, MS, CEO, Mount Sinai Health System (new board member)
• Gerald Cayer, MPH, CEO, Lewis County General Hospital
• John D’Angelo, MD, FACEP, president and CEO, Northwell Health
• Andrew Davis, president and chief operating officer, Erie County Medical Center (new board member)
• Richard “Chip” Davis, PhD, EdM, CEO, Rochester Regional Health
• Brian Donley, MD, executive vice president and chief operating officer, NewYork-Presbyterian
• Richard Duvall, president and CEO, North Star Health Alliance, Carthage Area Hospital and Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center
• Jennifer Eslinger, MBA, FACHE, president of health care operations and system chief operating officer, Rochester Regional Health
• Bruce Flanz, president and CEO, MediSys Health Network
• Susan Fox, president and CEO, White Plains Hospital
• Steven Goldstein, president of system integration strategy, UR Medicine
• Steven Hanks, MD, MMM, FACP, FFSMB, president and CEO, St. Joseph's Health and St. Peter's Health Partners
• Sharon Hanson, secretary and past chair, board of trustees, Erie County Medical Center
• Cameron Hernandez, MD, president and chief operating officer, Mount Sinai Queens
• Susan Holliday, trustee, UR Medicine
• Bryan Kelly, MD, MBA, president and CEO, Hospital for Special Surgery (new board member)
• Aaron Kramer, FACHE, CHCIO, president and CEO, Adirondack Health 
• Seth Kronenberg, MD, president and CEO, Crouse Health
• Michelle LeBeau, president and chief operating officer, University of Vermont Health - Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital and president, UVM Health - Alice Hyde Medical Center
• David Lubarsky, MD, MBA, FASA, president and CEO, WMCHealth
• Joyce Markiewicz, RN, BSN, MBA, CHCE, president and CEO, Catholic Health System (Buffalo)
• Daniel Messina, PhD, FACHE, president and CEO, Richmond University Medical Center
• Kathleen Parrinello, RN, PhD, FACHE, president and CEO, Strong Memorial Hospital and Highland Hospital (new board member)
• Jeff Perry, DHA, MSN, FACHE, CEO, Wyoming County Community Health System (new board member)
• Thomas Quatroche Jr., PhD, CEO, Erie County Medical Center
• Jonathan Schiller, president and CEO, Garnet Health
• Paul Scimeca, president and CEO, Glens Falls Hospital
• Sandra Scott, MD, CEO, One Brooklyn Health
• Laurence Smith, trustee, Montefiore Health System, and past chair, White Plains Hospital
• Michael Spicer, FACHE, president and CEO, Saint Joseph’s Medical Center
• Gary Terrinoni, president and CEO, The Brooklyn Hospital Center 
• Kimberly Townsend, MBA, MPA, JD, EdD, CPA, GPHR, president and CEO, Loretto
• Stephen Turkovich, MD, president, Golisano Children’s Hospital of Buffalo

New board members’ terms began Jan. 1, 2026. HANYS board members serve three-year terms unless completing a former trustee’s term.

We thank these healthcare leaders for their continued dedication to strengthening and improving healthcare in New York state.