Proposed Slate of 2023–2025 AAN Board of Directors

Post began her position as CEO of the AAN in April 2020. She is the fourth CEO since the AAN was established in 1948. Post was selected for the role based on her extensive experience leading a major nonprofit medical specialty organization as well as her broad prior experience at the AAN, where she served for 16 years in many leadership roles, including as deputy executive director.

Post is a Certified Association Executive (CAE), the highest credential in the association management industry. She also holds a Post-Master’s Certificate in organizational leadership, a Master of Business Administration Degree in human resources, and a Bachelor of Science Degree in business administration. She has over 25 years of experience in the nonprofit medical specialty industry.

Post has led meaningful, sustainable, programmatic, operational, and financial growth within organizations while increasing value for stakeholders and creating an awardwinning, resilient culture.

In Post’s most recent position as the executive director for the continued from page 17

American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA), she established a strong and collaborative partnership with its board of directors and 700 volunteer physicians to innovate and transform the organization’s programs.

Under Post’s leadership, the ABA became the first US medical specialty certifying board to successfully implement an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) into the ABA’s initial certification program. In 2014, the ABA also reimagined its Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology Program (MOCA) and incorporated learning and assessment of knowledge into its physicians’ daily practice through MOCA Minute®

Post also led collaboration with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the CME community to link the ABA’s assessment with relevant CME programs. This collaboration positioned the ABA as a nationally recognized leader and demonstrated the benefits of partnering with other organizations to provide value to physicians.

2023–2025 AAN Institute Board of Directors

The AAN Institute Board of Directors will include the following additional members.

Secretary-Treasurer

Brett M. Kissela, MD, MS, FAHA, FAAN, is professor and chair of the Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine and senior associate dean for clinical research at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Chief of Research Services for UC Health. Since 2008, he has been co-director of the Stroke Recovery Center at Drake and a member of the University of Cincinnati Stroke team since 2000. He is fellowship-trained in vascular neurology and has extensive clinical trial experience in acute stroke treatment, prevention, and recovery trials.

He is an internationally recognized expert on causes, outcomes, and recovery of stroke, with a special interest in the impact of diabetes on stroke and factors that influence stroke outcomes. He also participates in a variety of stroke recovery projects that look to improve recovery with the use of innovative techniques and devices. Honors and awards include the Cincinnati Business Courier's Forty Under 40 Award, Michael S. Pessin Stroke Leadership Prize from the American Academy of Neurology, Alpha Omega Alpha membership, National Medical Honor Society, Phi Beta Kappa, UC Faculty Senate Award, American Heart Association 2018-2019 Gold Standard Board Award (highest since the program’s inception), and has continuously been named as one of the Best Doctors in America (national surveys from Woodward-White and Best Doctors, Inc.).

Ex Officio (voting)

Paul M. George, MD, PhD, FAAN, serves on the faculty at Stanford University as a vascular neurologist in the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences. He is a physician-scientist focused on caring for neurology patients and improving neural recovery therapies. As faculty, he helped create a multi-disciplinary stroke recovery clinic at Stanford.

George received his undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University. He then pursued his graduate studies earning a Master from Johns Hopkins University and a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He attended medical school at Harvard University before completing his residency and fellowship at Stanford University, where he served as chief resident. He has spoken nationally and internationally on stroke and neural recovery―a topic for which he has received national research funding and written numerous articles and reviews. George is also involved in Stanford’s neuroscience graduate program, serving on the admission and DEIB committees, and teaching the first-year Responsible Conduct of Research course.

His lab applies bioengineering tools to better understand the brain’s recovery after stroke. His research group develops novel bioactive materials to interact with the nervous system. By modulating the recovering brain with these tools via electrical stimulation and stem cell therapies, his lab can decipher pathways of neural recovery. His lab then works to create translational therapeutics from these discoveries. With the AAN, he was selected as a member of the inaugural class of the Emerging Leaders Forum. He has also served as a member and vice chair of the Science Committee and chair of the Research Program Subcommittee. He is proud to continue his AAN involvement as the current chair of the Science Committee.

Lyell K. Jones, Jr., MD, FAAN, is a consultant, professor, and vice chair (education) of neurology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Jones received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Wake Forest University before completing his neurology residency and neurophysiology fellowship at the Mayo Clinic, where he has been a member of the consulting staff since 2009. Jones’s clinical and research focus is in neuromuscular medicine, particularly neurodegenerative, infectious, and autoimmune neuromuscular disorders.

Health care quality and value have been the central focus of Jones’s health system leadership roles. He currently serves as Mayo Clinic’s enterprise medical director of contracting and payer relations, overseeing Mayo Clinic’s commercial contract portfolio as well as its Strategic Contracting team. In his role as chair of Government Program Strategy at Mayo Clinic, he has led systemwide implementation of novel care models such as the Mayo Clinic Accountable Care Organization, an MSSP covering more than 60,000 lives. He is a former medical director for the Mayo Clinic Office of Patient Experience and chair of Payment Model Operations. Jones has served on numerous national committees, and as the chair of the American Academy of Neurology Quality Committee he oversees development of neurology practice guidelines, quality measures, and implementation of the Axon Registry ®. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the AAN Institute and the Mayo Clinic ACO.

Prior to joining the staff at the Mayo Clinic, Jones served in the Unites States Air Force at Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio, TX. In his education leadership capacity at Mayo Clinic, Jones developed a Neurology Residency Health Disparities Initiative (NeuroHDI) and created an award-winning Neurology Residency Wellness Program. He is the current editor-in-chief of Continuum: Lifelong Learning in Neurology ®. He has been recognized with the AAN Program Director Award, the ACGME

Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award, and has been inducted into the Mayo Clinic Teacher of the Year Hall of Fame.

Joseph I. Sirven, MD, FAAN, is professor of neurology and chair emeritus of the Department of Neurology at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona and currently practicing at Mayo Clinic in Florida. He is editor-in-chief of Brain & Life® en Español and on the editorial board of the English language Brain & Life®. He is currently chair of the AAN Education Committee. Previously, he served as director of education for Mayo Clinic Arizona with oversight over all educational activities at the Mayo Clinic Arizona campus, including medical student rotations, residencies, fellowships, PhD candidates, nursing, allied health, and continuing medical education programs.

In addition to being a neurologist, Sirven is a certified aviation medical examiner and a consultant to the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) on pilot and passenger health. Sirven is a professor of practice in the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University, where he teaches science of health care delivery to both undergraduate and graduate students. He previously served as chair of the AAN Education Conference Subcommittee and served on the Board of Directors for the American Brain Foundation. He was the previous vice chair of the Epilepsy Section of the American Academy of Neurology, chair of the Communication Council for the American Epilepsy Society, and former chair of the Professional Advisory Board for the Epilepsy Foundation.

Sirven is a bilingual Cuban American and served as chief medical contributor for NBC Latino, the English language website for Latinos by NBC News. He is currently host of “What’s Health Got to Do with It?” on WJCT-NPR North Florida. Previously, he served as the medical commentator for KJZZ radio in Phoenix, the NPR affiliate for Phoenix and Tucson Arizona, in addition to KTBS TV 3.

Sirven has published extensively on epilepsy and its treatment. He is editor of nine textbooks including Clinical Neurology of the Older Adult, the American Epilepsy Society’s Introduction to Epilepsy, Clinical Epilepsy, An Atlas of Video EEG Monitoring, Case Studies in Epilepsy, The Social Determinants of Health in Epilepsy and Epilepsy. He is currently a Neurology Core Clerkship director for Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Dartmouth Medical School. 