Board of Directors
Paul Gross | President/Treasurer
Paul Gross is an assistant professor in the Department of Family and Social Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center. His stories about medical practice and family life have appeared in American Family Physician, Journal of Family Practice, Hippocrates, The Sun, Diversions and Town & Country, and he has conducted award-winning writing workshops for medical professionals, college students, patients and community members. His band, Avalanche at Dawn, is soon to release its third album of original music.
Diane Guernsey | Vice President/Secretary
Diane Guernsey, formerly a senior editor at Town & Country Magazine, writes on health, medicine and other subjects for Town & Country, Consumer Reports on Health, and other publications. Her career embraces other fields as well: a classical pianist, she performs frequently and is on the Manhattanville College music faculty as a vocal coach/accompanist; she is also a licensed psychoanalyst with a small practice in Manhattan.
Larry Bauer
Laurence Mahoney Bauer is founding chief executive officer of the Family Medicine Education Consortium, an organization that seeks to improve community health by promoting family medicine, primary care and medical education. A clinical associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Wright State University School of Medicine, he also serves as director of network development for the Center for Innovation in Family and Community Health in Dayton, OH.
Alice Fornari
Alice Fornari is associate dean for education skills development at Hofstra School of Medicine and the director of faculty development at North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System in New York. She obtained her doctoral degree in higher education, college teaching and academic leadership from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her professional interest is bringing professionalism, communication skills and ethics to the education and practice of health professionals.
Susan T. Kaye
Susie Kaye is a family physician and medical educator. She has been a residency program director, department chair and medical director of Academic Affairs at Atlantic Health System/Overlook Medical Center while maintaining a family medicine practice in Summit, New Jersey for over forty years. Susie also directs the Benjamin H. Josephson Fund, which provides financial support for medical volunteers in underserved communities, and she is on the board of Shoulder to Shoulder, which delivers health, education and nutrition services in rural Honduras.