The Wisconsin Medical Society’s House of Delegates Nominating Committee met on October 13, 2007 and selected nominees for the following positions. The Board of Directors, as directed by the Society’s Constitution, selected the candidate for Treasurer at its meeting on February 2, 2008. The slate of candidates will be presented April 11, 2008, at the Annual Meeting in Madison.

Candidate for President-Elect 2008-2009
Robert J. Jaeger, MD

Doctor Jaeger served on the Society’s Board of Directors from 1988 to 1997 and was a member of the Society’s Maternal and Child Health Commission and the Maternal Mortality Study Committee. He served on the Society’s Nominating Committee from 1995 to 1999 and was chair of the District IV Caucus from 1995 to 1997. Doctor Jaeger was elected as an AMA delegate in 2002, and served as an AMA Alternate Delegate from 1995 to 2002. A specialist in obstetrics and gynecology, he is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Medical School and served an internship and residency at Milwaukee County General Hospital. Doctor Jaeger is an assistant clinical professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He has served as a member on the Board of Directors of the Family Planning Health Services, Inc. He was also Director of the Rice Clinic Board of Directors from 1985 to 1989. He is active in numerous professional societies, including the AMA, the Wisconsin Society of Obstetrics and Gynecologists and Portage County Medical Society. He has served in various leadership roles at St. Michael’s Hospital.

Candidate for Treasurer 2008-2009
John Hartman, MD

Doctor Hartman is a board certified nephrologist with an extensive background in technology. He is the Chief Executive Officer of Visionex, LLC, headquartered in Green Bay. He is the former medical director of the Bay Area Medical Center Dialysis Clinic. Doctor Hartman received his bachelors degree from Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan, graduating Summa Cum Laude in 1991. He received his medical degree from the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, graduating Cum Laude in 1995. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1998 and completed a fellowship in nephrology there in 2000. Doctor Hartman has been a member of the Wisconsin Medical Society Board of Directors and its Finance Committee since 2004. He is actively involved in health care reform, participating on the Wisconsin Medical Society task force on Health System Reform and the Governor’s HMO Advisory Council. In addition, he served two terms as the president for the Brown County Medical Society, and sits on the DOQ-IT advisory board and the Safe Care Wisconsin Board of Directors.

Candidate for Vice Speaker of the House of Delegates 2009 and 2010
Charles J. Rainey, MD, JD

Doctor Rainey is a forensic psychiatrist and an assistant professor with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is a 1994 graduate of Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine. Doctor Rainey was a member of the Medical Society of Milwaukee County Board of Directors from 2002 to present, and served on its Membership Committee from 2002 to 2003. He was also a member of the Wisconsin Medical Society Board of Directors from 1998 to 2000 and was Chair of the Young Physicians Section and Resident and Fellows Section. He has been a member of the American Medical Association since 1990 and served as Chair of its Resident and Fellow Section from 1998 to 2000. Doctor Rainey has been a member of the WISMedPAC Board of Directors since 1997, and has served as an AMA Alternate Delegate since 2005.

Candidates for AMA Delegates 2009 and 2010
Clarence P. Chou, MD

Board certified in general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry, Doctor Chou is a full-time staff psychiatrist in the crisis service of the Behavioral Health Division, Milwaukee County. Previously, he was medical director of the Child Adolescent Treatment Center/Inpatient Service and Wraparound Milwaukee, was the staff psychiatrist for Marquette University, and was in private practice. Doctor Chou received his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin and completed his residency in general psychiatry and his fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals. He is an associate clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry (MCW) and is an examiner for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in General and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Doctor Chou is a member of the AMA Foundation Board of Directors, and since 1999, he has been a member of the Wisconsin Medical Society AMA delegation. He serves on the boards of WISMedPAC and the Wisconsin Medical Society Foundation, and he is also a member of the Legislation and Health Care Access and Financing Councils and the Policy Panel. Doctor Chou served on the Society’s Board of Directors from 1994 to 2005, acted as vice-chair and chair from 2001 to 2005, and was a member of the Finance Committee. He was elected as President elect of the Society in 2006 and is currently serving as President.

Kevin T. Flaherty, MD

Doctor Flaherty received his medical degree from Loyola University in Chicago. He served an internship at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Wash, and residency at Loyola University in ophthalmology. He took post-residency training in corneal transplant surgery at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Ky, and in ophthalmic plastic and reconstruction surgery at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston, Mass. He has been in practice in Wausau for 18 years, and is a past president of his group at the Eye Clinic of Wisconsin. He is past president of the Wisconsin Academy of Ophthalmology and serves on its executive committee. He is also a past president of Marathon County Medical Society. He has chaired reference committees at the Young Physicians Section of the AMA and the Wisconsin Medical Society. In 1995, Dr. Flaherty was elected as an alternate delegate to the Wisconsin delegation of the AMA and was elected delegate in 1998. He now serves as the delegation’s chair.

Candidate for AMA Alternate Delegate 2009 and 2010
Mahendr S. Kochar, MD

Doctor Kochar is a board certified internist specializing in nephrology and hypertension; he is chief of hypertension and associate chief of staff for education at the VA Medical Center-Milwaukee and a consultant to Froedert Hospital. He has been an Alternate Delegate to the American Medical Association since 2000. Doctor Kochar is senior associate dean for graduate medical education and professor of medicine and pharmacology/toxicology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He has served as Governor for the Wisconsin Chapter of the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine (ACP-ASIM) for four years, as chair of the Board of Governors of ACP-ASIM, and a member of its Board of Regents and a member of its Executive Committee of the Board of Regents