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John J. Wernert, MD, MHA, a psychiatrist, was the 132nd President of the Indianapolis Medical Society for 2005-2006, was elected vice speaker of the House of Delegates of the Indiana State Medical Association (ISMA) during the organization's 2008 Annual Convention, September 19-21 in Indianapolis. The 270-member House of Delegates serves as a policy-making body for the statewide physician organization.
Since 1995, Dr. Wernert has been a member of the ISMA House of Delegates and has served as an alternate trustee on the ISMA's Board of Trustees since 2006. A past president of the Indianapolis Medical Society (IMS), he continues to serve on the IMS Board of Directors.
Dr. Wernert is the Chief Medical Officer and vice president of medical affairs for MDwise, Inc., a Medicaid managed care plan for Indiana. A geriatric psychiatrist, he cares for adult and geriatric patients primarily at St. Francis Hospital in Indianapolis and is a consultant to numerous nursing facilities and group homes in central Indiana. Dr. Wernert is also a consultant for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and actively teaches residents in the Department of Psychiatry of Indiana University School of Medicine.
Board certified in adult and geriatric psychiatry and a Distinguished Fellow in the American Psychiatric Association, Dr. Wernert earned postgraduate degrees in public management and health administration from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IUPUI. He became a Diplomate of the American College of Physician Executives in 1998. A graduate of Bellarmine College in Louisville and the University of Louisville School of Medicine, Dr. Wernert is now a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Indiana University School of Medicine.
John enjoys black powder shooting and Civil War reenactments. John and his family are members of the 4th Indiana Light Artillery Group, a Union outfit that participates in Civil War events throughout the Midwest.
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Paula A. Hall, MD
Paula A. Hall, MD, a Family Practice physician, was the 127th President of the Indianapolis Medical Society, serving in that capacity in 2000. Dr. Hall is engaged in the full-time practice of medicine and divides her time between offices in Indianapolis, Franklin, and Greenfield. She has limited her practice to proctology and lower endoscopy. Remembering the tenant of teaching your fellow physicians, she has preceptored three other family physicians and they now have privledges and are performing colonoscopies at their own hospitals.
She has been very active throughout her career by holding offices in, not only the IMS, the IMS Foundation but also the Indiana State Medical Association. In the past, she also served an Alternate Delegate to the American Medical Association.
She received her medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine in 1984 and completed her Residency at Methodist Hospital in 1987. Dr. Hall resides in Indianapolis with her husband, Michael Raymond, and their two children, Mike and Jennifer.