MMA Leadership Election Results are In

September 22, 2022

Laurel Ries, MD, a family physician in St. Paul, has been elected as the MMA’s president-elect. She will assume the role October 1. MMA members voted for officials in August.  

Ries will join the other 2023 officers on the board: Will Nicholson, MD, a family physician and hospitalist in Maplewood, will serve as president (watch Nicholson's inauguration video here); Randy Rice, MD, a family physician in Moose Lake, assumes the role of immediate past president. Kim Tjaden, MD, a family physician in St. Cloud, continues as secretary-treasurer. Edwin Bogonko, MD, a hospitalist in Shakopee, continues to serve as board chair. 

Other election results include: 

• Melissa Edgar, was elected as the medical student trustee 

• Dionne Hart, MD, was re-elected as an MMA trustee 

• Rebecca Thomas, MD, was re-elected as an MMA trustee 

• Tjaden was re-elected as an MMA trustee 

• Gaurav Mehta, MBBS, was elected as an MMA trustee 

• Dennis O’Hare, MD, was elected as an AMA Delegate 

• David Thorson, MD, was re-elected as an AMA Delegate  

• George Morris, MD, was elected as an AMA Alternate Delegate  

• Ashok Patel, MD, was re-elected as an AMA Alternate Delegate 

AMA delegates and alternate delegates take office beginning January 1, 2023.