2023-25 Leadership

Contact us at: appdwestern@gmail.com

Chair of Western Region:
Jerry Larrabee, MD, MEd (University of New Mexico)
Email: jlarrabee@salud.unm.edu

Past Chair:
Laura Kester Prakash, MD, MPH (University of California – Davis)
Email: lkester@ucdavis.edu

Vice-Chair of Research and Scholarship: 
Vasudha “Vasu” Bhavaraju, MD (Phoenix Children’s)
Email: vbhavaraju1@phoenixchildrens.com

Vice-Chair of Meetings:  
Savarra Mantzor, MD (Full Circle Health Idado)
Email: savarramantzor@fullcircleidaho.org

Vice-Chair of Communication: 
Janice Tsai, MD (Loma Linda University Children’s)
Email: jtsai@llu.edu

Vice-Chair of Program Coordinators and Elections (PC&E): 
Barbara Gohre, B.S.H.C.A., TAGME, CAPM (Phoenix Children’s)
Email: bgohre@phoenixchildrens.com