Hospital announces Medical Staff officers

Dr. Andrew Rochet, MD, emergency medicine, has been elected medical staff president for 2010 at Baptist Hospital Northeast.

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 include:

Dr. Amy Richardson, MD, obstetrics/gynecology – president-elect; Dr. Madonna Ringwald, MD, internal medicine – secretary/treasurer; Dr. Ashok Alur, MD, internal medicine, and Dr. Rebecca McFarland, MD, cardiology – members-at-large; Dr. Keerthi Kemparajurs, MD, family practice, and Dr. R.T. Ellis, MD, internal medicine – medicine department chair and vice-chair; Dr. Gregory Robson, MD, and Dr. Timothy Spaulding, MD, obstetrics/gynecology – perinatal department chair and vice-chair;  Dr. Bryan Matthew Blair, MD, ophthalmology; and Dr. Thomas Hart, MD, general surgery – surgery department chair and vice-chair.