Shady Grove Medical Center Leadership

Meet the professionals who direct Shady Grove Medical Center to provide high-quality, whole-person and community-focused services.

Executive Leadership

  • Daniel Cochran
    Daniel Cochran
    President
  • Neil Roy, MD
    Neil Roy, MD
    Chief Medical Officer
  • Joan Vincent, RN
    Joan Vincent, RN
    Vice President of Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer
  • Blain Gentry
    Blain Gentry
    Chief Operating Officer
  • Martha Velez
    Martha Velez
    Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
  • Kandy McFarland
    Kandy McFarland
    Vice President of Behavioral Health Services
  • Kesso Diallo
    Kesso Diallo
    Vice President of Special Education and Early Childhood Programs
  • Amy Persanti
    Associate Vice President and Senior Human Resources Business Partner

Governing Board

Officers

Chair
John Sackett
President & CEO
Adventist HealthCare
Secretary
Daniel Cochran
President
Shady Grove Medical Center

Members

Celeste Ryan Blyden
Executive Secretary
Columbia Union Conference
Seventh-day Adventist Church

Jason Brodsky, MD
Physician
Inpatient Surgical Consultants

   
Safy John, MD
Physician
US Acute Care Services
Patsy McNeil, MD
Executive Vice President & Chief Medical Officer
Adventist HealthCare
   
Laurence Bensignor
Community Member
Robert Buchanan
Community Member
   

Perry Smith, MD
Physician
Neurology / Mid-Atlantic Epilepsy & Sleep Center

James Frangenberg
Community Member
Founder & Wealth Advisor, Velaris Wealth Partner

   
Rick Remmers
Community Member
North American Division
Seventh-day Adventist Church

Helen Smits, MD
Community Member

   
Howard Vogel
Principal
The Walker Group

Michelle Taylor
Community Member
CEO & President of BETAH

   

Milton Mesa
Associate Director of Adventist Health Ministries
General Conference of the SDA Church in Maryland

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