Rochet named 2010 medical staff president

Andrew Rochet, MD, emergency medicine, has been elected Medical Staff president for 2010 at Baptist Hospital Northeast.

Dr. Rochet is a 1998 graduate of Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. He completed his residency in emergency medicine at University of Louisville Hospital in 2001.

Other medical staff officers for 2010 are:

• Amy Richardson, MD, obstetrics/gynecology – president-elect
• Madonna Ringwald, MD, internal medicine – secretary/treasurer
• Ashok Alur, MD, internal medicine, and Rebecca McFarland, MD, cardiology – members-at-large
• Keerthi Kemparajurs, MD, family practice, and R.T. Ellis, MD, internal medicine – Medicine Department chair and vice-chair
• Gregory Robson, MD, and Timothy Spaulding, MD, obstetrics/gynecology – Perinatal Department chair and vice-chair

Bryan Matthew Blair, MD, ophthalmology, and Thomas Hart, MD, general surgery – Surgery Department chair and vice-chair.