Cory Meadows is the Deputy Executive Vice President and Director of Advocacy at the Kentucky Medical Association. Meadows joined KMA in 2011 and since that time has been responsible for managing the Association’s legislative advocacy efforts and legal activities. He also speaks on a number of topics related to physician practice management, medical/legal issues, access to care, compliance, and the current state of the health care industry. Additionally, Meadows serves as a member of the American Medical Association’s Litigation Center Executive Committee and is past Board Chair of the Partnership for Commonsense Justice, a consortium of business and healthcare organizations devoted to tort reform in Kentucky. Prior to joining KMA, Meadows practiced law in both the public and private sectors and served in several key positions within Governor Ernie Fletcher’s administration. Meadows earned an undergraduate political science degree from the University of Kentucky and a law degree from the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville.

Dr. Evelyn Jones is a board-certified dermatologist who has been in practice in her hometown of Paducah, Kentucky, for over 30 years. She founded WellSprings Institute, which includes her surgical, medical and cosmetic dermatology practice and skincare products.

Currently President-Elect of the Kentucky Medical Association, her goals include working on decreasing the cost and number of medications, while focusing on educating colleagues and patients in the state to make lifestyle choices to improve their health and their patient’s health and prevent chronic disease.

She has been involved in KMA for years serving on the Long Range Planning Commission, The Board of Trustees, Executive Committee and the Quick Action Legislative Committee.

Dr. Jones is passionate about empowering everyone to improve their total health and speaks nationally on multiple facets of dermatology, as well as spiritual and physical wellness. She is working with local and state leaders to make her hometown of Paducah, the first Blue Zones Community in Kentucky.

Most recently, Dr. Jones is publishing a book encouraged by her passion, Authentic Beauty: Reclaiming Health While Reflecting the Image of God, which will be available soon on Amazon. It is a mix of practical and spiritual encouragement encouraging readers to reclaim their health and confidence and break free from the comparison cycle in order to experience an abundant life of freedom.

Dr. Jones is married to Dr. Shawn Jones, a practicing Otolaryngologist, with three adult children, a daughter-in-love, son-in-love and three precious grandchildren.

Avery LaChance, MD, MPH is a dermatologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital where she serves as the dermatology department’s Director of Health Policy and Advocacy and Director of the Connective Tissue Disease Clinic. She graduated from Middlebury College with a BA in Japanese Studies and received her MD, MPH from University of Connecticut School of Medicine. During her MPH year, she drafted legislation to ban tanning for minors in CT and then served as a key advocate for the bill which passed and was signed into law that year. Dr. LaChance completed an internship in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. During this year she also completed a six-week internship at the Office of the Surgeon General where she worked on federal skin cancer prevention initiatives in the wake of the Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent Skin Cancer. Subsequently, she trained in dermatology at Harvard Medical School, and in her final year she served as the chief resident. Dr. LaChance is on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Academy of Dermatology and New England Dermatological Society. She is a member of committees of the American Academy of Dermatology as well as the Massachusetts Medical Society. Dr. LaChance is an Assistant Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School where she teaches medical students, residents, and fellows and conducts research on connective tissue disease and health policy.

Dr. Kuduk grew up in New Jersey, but please don’t hold that against him. He did undergraduate in Baltimore followed by medical school in beautiful downtown Newark New Jersey at the college of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, now Rutgers. He did his pediatric residency in Houston at Texas Children’s Hospital, and spent six years in practice there. In 1998 he moved to central Kentucky to set up a solo pediatric practice in Winchester, which he owned and ran for 19 years. In 2017 he closed his practice and joined the faculty at UK as a pediatric hospitalist, where he splits his time equally between clinical practice and instruction. Dr. Kuduk has been involved in organized medicine since moving to Kentucky and currently serves as KMA’s president. He spends a significant amount of time advocating for his patients and his profession, in Washington, Frankfort, or the hospital.

Dr. Andrea Waldman, a specialist in pediatric and medical dermatology, officially began her practice at UK HealthCare in October 2023. Dr. Waldman, a fellowship trained triple board-certified pediatric dermatologist, is the first new provider in a strategy to re-introduce Dermatology services to UK patients and learners.

A 2013 graduate of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and a Transylvania University alum, Dr. Waldman returns to Kentucky with impressive professional and academic credentials.

Prior to her move to Lexington, she served as assistant professor and director of adolescent and pediatric dermatology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. She completed a pediatric dermatology fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, and a residency in the field from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center.

In addition to that preparation, Dr. Waldman spent a year as a clinical research fellow in pediatric and adolescent dermatology at UC San Diego, Rady Children’s Hospital.