The Central Coast Medical Association has named Dr. Kevin Casey as president of its 2020 Board of Directors. Dr. Casey has been a member of the Central Coast Medical Association since 2016.
He has been active with CCMA’s state affiliate, the California Medical Association, where he has worked on policies and legislation that affects physicians and patients.
Dr. Casey received his bachelor of science from Loyola University New Orleans, where he graduated magna cum laude. He went on to Loyola University Chicago for his doctor of medicine. He completed his general surgery residency at Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans and his vascular surgery fellowship at Stanford University Medical Center.
In 1999, Dr. Casey was awarded a United States Navy’s Health Professions Scholarship.
While with the Navy, he served as the ship surgeon on the USS Ronald Reagan, general surgery department head in Afghanistan, where he played a key role in the facility’s 89 percent survival rate; as a surgeon with Advance Echelon on the USNS Mercy on a humanitarian mission in Southeast Asia and Micronesia; and in multiple roles at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego.
During his military service, Dr. Casey received numerous honors and awards including four Navy and Marine Corps commendation medals.
Dr. Casey moved to Santa Barbara in 2016. He is a vascular surgeon with Santa Barbara Vascular Specialists. He also is a teaching professor with the general surgery residency program at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, and was awarded the General Surgery Teacher of the Year Award in 2018.
Dr. Casey lives in Santa Barbara with his husband John.
Other members of the Central Coast Medical Association’s 2020 Board of Directors are: Drs. Priti Gagneja, president-elect: Samira Kayumi-Rashti, treasurer; Julie Fallon, secretary; Jennifer Hone, immediate past president.
Directors are Drs. Eric Amador, Daniel Berger, Jeffrey Gauvin, Thomas Hale, Bindu Kamal, Rachel May, Rahim Raoufi and Joseph Schwartz.
The Central Coast Medical Association is a 600-physician member organization that includes physicians of all specialties throughout San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties. For more information, visit www.CCMAHealth.org.