President
Kathleen M. Raviele, MD
Tucker, GA

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Dr. Kathleen Raviele is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist in the private practice of gynecology in the Atlanta area. She graduated with a BS degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y. and attained her doctor of medicine degree from Albany Medical College of Union University in 1974 in a combined six-year biomedical program. She completed a rotating internship and four-year residency in obstetrics and gynecology in 1979 from Case Western Reserve University Hospitals of Cleveland. She and her family moved to Atlanta where she was on the clinical faculty at Emory University in obstetrics for five years and where she completed a fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Grady Memorial Hospital. She has been in private practice since 1985 in the Atlanta area. Her husband, Anthony, is a pediatric cardiologist on the faculty at Emory and does interventional catheterizations as well as intensive care. They have been married for 32 years and have two adult children.

Dr. Raviele “reverted” to the Catholic faith as a result of Our Lady and for the past 15 years has had an NFP-only practice. She promotes and teaches natural family planning in her practice and gives marriage prep and diocesan programs on NFP. She assisted the Institute of Natural Family Planning in the College of Nursing at Marquette University in developing the Marquette Method of NFP as well as developing a marriage prep talk on NFP, available through the Institute. She does a monthly radio show on EWTN with Johnnette Benkovic and Living His Life Abundantly and is a regular columnist for Canticle magazine. She is on the board of Georgia Right to Life and assists in the passage of pro-life legislation in Georgia. She joined the Catholic Medical Association in 1996.

President-elect
Louis C. Breschi, MD
Towson, MD

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Vice President
Leonard P. Rybak, MD, PhD
Springfield, IL

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Treasurer
Jan R. Hemstad, MD
Yakima, WA

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Dr. Jan R. Hemstad currently practices medicine as a cardiovascular anesthesiologist at Yakima Regional Hospital and Cardiac Center in Washington State.  He is a diplomat of the American Board of Anesthesiology and the National Board of Echocardiography.

He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in biochemistry from Bowdoin College and earned a Doctor of Medicine at the University of Washington where he completed his residency in anesthesiology and fellowship training in cardiovascular anesthesia.  He practiced medicine at Providence Medical Center in Seattle, Washington for eleven years until moving to Yakima in 2002.

Dr. Hemstad and his wife, Darcy, have been married 18 years.  They have five children educated through Mother of Divine Grace Home Study. He and his wife are board directors and certified instructors of the Billings Ovulation Method Association - USA.  Dr. Hemstad converted to Catholicism in 1988.

Secretary
Maricela P. Moffitt, MD, MPH
Phoenix, AZ

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