School of Medicine Alumni Association
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2024-2025 UMKC Members
President
Ralph Wuebker, M.D., MBA (B.A. ‘93/M.D. ’94)
Chief Medical Officer at United Health Group/Optum
St. Louis, Missouri
Immediate Past President
Tracy L. Stevens, M.D. ‘90
Professor of Medicine at UMKC School of Medicine
Medical Director for the Saint Luke’s Muriel I. Kauffman Women’s Heart Center
Kansas City, Missouri
Board Members
Diana Dark, M.D. (B.A. ‘78/M.D. ’80)
Retired - Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean of St. Luke’s Hospital Programs
Kansas City, Missouri
DeeAnna Glaser, M.D. (B.A./M.D. ’87)
Professor and Vice Chair of Dermatology at Saint Louis University
St. Louis, MO
Dawn Heizman (BLA ‘08/M.D. ’09)
OB/GYN at North Kansas City Hospital
Kansas City, Missouri
Anant Kharod (BLA ‘11/M.D. ’12)
Cardiologist and Assistant Professor at USF Health
Tampa, Florida
Derik King (B.A. ‘92/M.D. ’93)
Chief Science Officer & Co-Founder Alpaca Fiber Analytics; President Derik K. King, MD, PC
St. Louis, Missouri
Tim Lee (B.A. ‘93/M.D. ’94)
National Medical Director, Crossover Health
Los Altos, California
Gene LeSage, M.D. (B.A./M.D. ’77)
Professor and Chair of Internal Medicine at Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University
Johnson City, Tennessee
Mangesh Oza, M.D. (B.A. ‘95/M.D. ’96)
Surgeon at Meritas Health North Kansas City Hospital
Chief Medical Officer at SpectroFlow, Corp
Aakash Shah (BLA ‘03/M.D. ’04)
Orthopaedic Surgeon at Menorah Medical Center, Kansas City Joint Replacement and Sports Medicine Center
Kansas City, Missouri
Shilpa Thornton, M.D. (B.A. ‘92/M.D. ’94)
Ophthalmologist
Retired at St. Louis, Missouri
Chris Wester (BLA ‘17/M.D. ’18)
Orthopedic Surgeon at Cox Health
Springfield, Missouri
Ex-Officio Members
Elle Jorgensen
Assistant – Office of the Dean
UMKC School of Medicine
Alexander Norbash (B.A. ‘85/M.D. ’86)
Dean, UMKC School of Medicine
Samuel Kim, MS-5
UMKC School of Medicine