Meet Our Board

The AMP Honors Program is governed by a group of experienced professionals and educators. Each member of our Board generously offer their invaluable skills, experience, and time to make AMP-HP the best it can be for our students, sponsors, learning partners, and communities.

Bill Buctha
Bill Buctha
Dr. Buchta is a board-certified physician in occupational and environmental medicine (OEM). Most of his career has been clinical, treating work-related injury and illness, but he was also the medical director of the Mayo Clinic Occupational Employee Health Program in Rochester, MN, until he “retired” in 2016 as an emeritus assistant professor to become chief medical officer of Logistics Health, Inc., in La Crosse, WI, for the next 3 years. During that time, he was president of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM). He currently consults for large corporations, such as Norfolk Southern Railroad, US Postal Service, BlackRock, and others, having guided them through the COVID pandemic. He and his wife, a dermatologist, live in Onalaska, WI, when not visiting their 3 grandchildren in Iowa and Maryland. He enjoys windsurfing, skiing, golf, sailing, travel, Bible study, Netflix and gardening.
Andy Klein, MD
Andy Klein, MDAMP Honors Co-Founder
Dr. Klein is a board-certified associate professor of radiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Section Chief of neuroradiology. His clinical and research interests include functional brain mapping, traumatic brain injury, cognitive neuroimaging, and 7 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging. He has received federal, industry, and institutional grant funding for his research projects and was co-principal investigator for a study funded by GE Healthcare and the NFL investigating advanced magnetic resonance imaging applications for mild traumatic brain injury. He has authored over 100 articles, book chapters, poster presentations, and educational products. In addition to high quality patient care and research, Dr. Klein is passionate about training the next generation of healthcare professionals. He enjoys mentoring and working fellows, residents, medical students, undergraduate students, and high school students. When he is not working, Dr. Klein enjoys running, fantasy football, movies, and spending time with his family.
Paul Blake O’Brien
Paul Blake O’Brien
Blake OBrien is a board-certified physician in emergency medicine who is currently the chairman of emergency medicine at AdventHealth in Orlando. His main passion is acute care integration and the entanglement of population health and emergency medicine through complex multi-specialty care algorithms on which he has published on these topics in The Lancet. Blake is also involved in the advancement of Emergency Critical care eCPR and emergency deployment of ECMO. He has also developed a physician and nurse education lecture series. Dr OBrien believes the future of healthcare is reliant upon dynamic young leaders guided by talented mentors. In his spare time he enjoys traveling with his wife and two children and hiking trails throughout the world.
Darren O’Neill
Darren O’Neill
Dr. O’Neill is a board-certified associate professor of radiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin and currently serves as the Vice-Chair of Clinical Operations for Diagnostic Imaging Services. Heralding from small town Mayville, WI, Dr. O’Neill graduated summa cum laude from the University of Notre Dame with a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering. Subsequently, he worked at ZS Associates in Evanston, IL as a technical operations research consultant before completing medical school at the Medical College of Wisconsin; transitional year-internship at Gundersen Lutheran in Lacrosse, WI; and radiology residency with Neuroradiology fellowship at Indiana University in Indianapolis, IN. Dr. O’Neill is passionate about building innovative teams centered around delivering top-quality clinical service and patient care, as well as participating in creative educational initiatives. Outside interests include tennis; landscaping; hiking; and traveling with family.
Laura Ulmer, MD
Laura Ulmer, MD
Dr. Laura Ulmer was born in Huntington, West Virginia and grew up not far away in a small town of two thousand people in Milton, West Virginia. She graduated with honors from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College with a Bachelor of chemistry, with a minor in biology. Dr. Ulmer graduated from West Virginia School of Medicine followed by a residency in internal medicine at Wake Forest Baptist Hospital (formerly Bowman Gray). She later completed her residency in radiation oncology at Wake Forest Baptist Hospital. Dr. Ulmer has been in private practice with Radiation Oncology Associates since 1995 as a Board-Certified Radiation Oncologist, providing staffing and clinical expertise in managing hospital cancer programs.
Jeff Veenhuis
Jeff Veenhuis
Jeffry brings more than three decades of sales, marketing, strategic business development and leadership experience to the technology, health and life science industries. Jeffry is currently President and CEO of Surfacide Manufacturing Inc., a manufacturer and global provider of leading UV-C disinfection systems, that he formed in 2013. He previously owned and led Team Spine Wisconsin Inc. and also founded and fostered Insight Neural Monitoring Inc.. He has served in a variety of charitable interests including the Community Health Initiative and has a deep-rooted commitment to the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin Foundation. Jeffry lives primarily in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin with two children, but enjoys visiting his home in Boca Raton, Florida, where his partner, Jennifer, and her two children primarily live. Jeffry enjoys frequent international travels, loves to play in the outdoors and regularly attends church.