Board Members

Currently, Dr. Otters serves as Secretary on the Council for the Wisconsin Chapter of the American College of Physicians, the Medical Society of Milwaukee County's Board of Directors and Executive Committee as the president-elect and acting secretary/treasurer, and on the Wisconsin Medical Society's Board of Directors. He is also on Medical Society's Council on HealthCare Access, and MilwaukeeCares Board of Directors.

As program director of the Obstetrics and Gynecology department at Aurora Sinai Medical Center, Dr. Mason brings a wealth of experience and research to the Milwaukee area. With more than 20 years of caring for women and their families, Dr. Mason is passionate about treating all women with respect and honor. She is a proponent of providing opportunity for community wellness and education to improve individual, family and community health.

Dr. Mason has taught in three medical schools, chaired two OB/GYN departments in New York City, and has served as associate commissioner for New York City's Department of Health. In addition to her current duties as program director, Dr. Mason serves as director of medical operations for Aurora UW Medical Group and as a physician lead for Aurora's Greater Milwaukee service area. She is widely known and respected for her work and research and is a popular lecturer on topics concerning women's health, pediatric gynecology, and public health epidemiology.

Dr. Schuller joined the Sixteenth Street Community Health Center in 1995 and has been there ever since. Dr. Schuller is currently the Executive Vice President and Vice President of Clinical Affairs. She continues to see patients, as well as being intimately involved in the management of the 16th Street Clinic, an integral member of the Executive Team, and supervisor to over 150 medical providers and adjunct staff. Her supervisory responsibilities also include oversight of all clinical areas, operations, and health education programs; including diabetes, asthma, HIV, and obesity prevention.

Dr. Schuller currently plays a leadership role in several national and local organizations including the Clinical Committees of the National Association of Community Health Centers, the Milwaukee Health Care Partnership, the Wisconsin Medical Society Council on Access, the Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Primary Health Care Association, and the Medical Society of Milwaukee County.

Clarence Chou, MD, is a staff psychiatrist at the Behavioral Health Division, Milwaukee County . He is board certified by the ABPN in general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry. He is an associate clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW).

He has been a Board Examiner for his specialty since 1994. He has been on the Wisconsin AMA delegation since 1999, as a regular delegate since 2004. He has been a delegate to the Wisconsin Medical Society (WMS) House of Delegates since 1993, and served on several reference committees. He has been on multiple WMS councils and is currently on Legislation and Health Care Access and Financing. He was on the WMS Board of Directors from 1994-2005 and was the vice-chair and chair from 2001-2005 and previously served as President of WMS.

He practiced and taught in San Diego and Kearney, NE before moving to Milwaukee in 1997. Dr. Berlin is currently the Medical Director of the Crisis Service Center of Milwaukee County and Associate Clinical Professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Psychiatry & Emergency Medicine. He also works part-time in private practice seeing adults and adolescents and consulting with healthcare organizations.

Mary Jo Capodice, DO, MPH, serves on the Board of Directors of the Medical Society of Milwaukee County. She is an Aurora Medical Group physician specializing in Occupational Medicine. She is the Medical Director of Occupational Medicine, Total Health and Employee Health and Wellness. She serves on the Health Care Provider Advisory Committee to the Wisconsin Worker’s Compensation Advisory Council and has participated in the Wisconsin 60 Summits project. She is the President of Central States Occupational and Environmental Medicine Association. She is also on the Board of Public Health for Manitowoc County. Dr. Capodice has a master's degree in Public Health from the Medical College of Wisconsin and is board certified in Family Practice and Occupational Medicine. She received her Doctor of Osteopathy from the University of Health Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri. She has practiced occupational medicine for 20 years, joining Aurora Health Care in 1993. She lives with her husband, Dr. Dennis Phillips and two teenage sons in Sheboygan.

If elected to the MSMC Board of Directors she will be an active and engaged member that will represent pediatric providers, physician scientists, and physicians entering their mid-career. She is a critical thinker and team player that brings enthusiasm to the work she is passionate about. Dr. Drendel believes in the Medical Society of Milwaukee County's mission to improve the overall health status of the community and champion quality health care for all. It is a noble aspiration that she is committed to carrying out.

Scott M. Dresden, MD, MPH is currently a Medical Director for Aurora Occupational Health and Wellness in Milwaukee, WI. Dr. Dresden received his MD from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and is Board Certified in Family Medicine. He earned his Master of Public Health at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He recently returned to Wisconsin after serving as Medical Director at Goldman Sachs in New York City. Dr. Dresden strives to make himself, his family, and those around him the healthiest, happiest, and fittest they can be.

Paul E. Hankwitz, M.D., CMD, FACP, Clinical Professor of Medicine/Geriatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin, currently serves as a Compensation & Pension examiner at the Zablocki VA Medical Center in Milwaukee. He previously was Associate Professor of Medicine at the Medical College, where he was Medical Director of the Senior Health Program Clinic. He has also served as Corporate Medical Director for Milwaukee's Village at Manor Park, Trinity Village and the Olsen Medical Clinics where he actively practiced geriatric medicine. The Village at Manor Park health system is one of the largest non-for-profit senior healthcare providers in the state of Wisconsin. Previously, Dr. Hankwitz was a consultant to the National Patient Safety Foundation and provided content for web-based educational modules targeted for medical professionals. Prior to that, he was Medical Director of Clinical Affairs for Columbia-St. Mary's, Inc. a four-campus health system with 22 clinics in the greater Milwaukee, Wisconsin area, primarily overseeing quality and utilization management areas, three medical staff offices and medical libraries, as well as a physician house call program.

In 2000 he was Senior Research Associate and Clinical Professor of Medicine & Geriatrics with the Center on Aging at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas. From 1995 to 2000 he served as Vice President and Chief Medical Director of Transamerica Life Companies based in Kansas City, Missouri. From 1988 to 1995, he worked his way up to the position of Medical Director at Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Before joining NML, he served for 10 years in private practice as a general internist, geriatrician and home care physician in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was Medical Director of the Visiting Nurse Association of Milwaukee from 1980-1988 as well as Medical Director of the Milwaukee Catholic Home. Dr. Hankwitz is a Past-President of the Milwaukee Academy of Medicine and served for six years as a Commissioner with the Milwaukee County Commission on Aging. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and an Emeritus Member of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Home Care Physicians (AAHCP), an organization that he helped found in 1987. He was named national "Physician of the Year" by the AAHCP in 1991. He has served on two American Medical Association Home Care Advisory Panels and is Past-Chair of the State Medical Society of Wisconsin's Commission on Geriatric Health.

Dr. Hankwitz received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin where he also completed his internship, residency and chief medical residency.

Marlene Melzer-Lange is a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and Professor of Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine) at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Her clinical and research interests are the care of violently-injured youth and youth violence prevention. She is medical director of Project Ujima, a community-based program to support victims of violence.

A graduate from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in 2000, Dr. Murphy completed his residency in Family Medicine at Harbor-UCLA. Subsequently, he completed a faculty development fellowship where he focused on quality improvement projects for the Los Angeles County health system. From 2004 - 2008 he served as medical director to the UMMA Community Clinic, a faith based clinic serving South Los Angeles (www.ummaclinic.org). Dr. Murphy returned to Wisconsin in 2009 and works at the Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers.

Kambiz Pahlavan, MD, DLFAPA, FAACAP is a double boarded Psychiatrist. He is currently the Director of Rogers Center for Research and Training and Medical Director of Rogers Memorial Hospital – Milwaukee. Dr. Pahlavan is interested in teaching, research, and clinical work. He has been involved in approximately 100 research protocols in clinical trials for medications in Psychiatry. His focus has been suicide, differential diagnosis, and other aspects of Psychiatry, particularly Child Psychiatry.

Dr. Pahlavan is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at MCW and 4 other inland and offshore medical schools. He serves as Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the International American University College of Medicine. He is a graduate of the National University of Iran School of Medicine, where he completed General Psychology. He has completed training at TUFTS-NEMC and Child Psychiatry At McLean Hospital – Harvard Medical School. Dr. Pahlavan has twice been the honored recipient of the APA’s Nancy C.A. Roeske Certificate of Excellence in Medical School Teaching.

Dr. Ray Zastrow, chief medical officer at QuadMed, received his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1983. After completing his family practice residency at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in 1986, he returned to Milwaukee where he worked in private practice for various divisions of Advanced Healthcare until joining QuadMed in 2006.

QuadMed provides on-site, employer-directed primary care and wellness to over 24,000 Quad/Graphics’ employees and other large employers. Dr Zastrow is responsible for clinical quality oversight, clinical process re-design including deployment of GE Centricity electronic medical records and assists with healthcare benefit design for Quad/Graphics.

Dr. Dua is a general surgery resident at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Recognizing the role of advocacy early in her medical career, she joined the MSMC to improve the overall health status of the community by giving a voice to the residents and taking back ideas to the them. Dr. Dua intends to pursue a career in surgery with a focus on international medicine and has had the opportunity to travel to a variety of underserved countries to provide medical care. She is also an active member of the Wisconsin AMA Resident Fellows Section (AMA-RFS).