Advisory Board

HCC National Advisory Board of accomplished experts, health employers, health professions schools, and pipeline program leaders provides insight, innovative advice, and dynamic perspectives.

The Advisory Board is representative of HCC’s multiple regions, health sectors, and major partners. The Advisory Board informs HCC’s Programs, organizational development and provides support to HCC interns and alumni. Many also host HCC interns and lead HCC workshops.

Northern California

• Adimika Arthur, MPH, Executive Director, HealthTech for Medicaid (HT4M), Oakland, CA
• Kevin Barnett, Dr. PH, MCRP, Senior Investigator, Public Health Institute
• Ignatius Bau, Consultant, San Francisco, CA
• Melissa Scohen, Melissa Scohen Consulting
• Ronald Garcia, Ph.D., Retired Assistant Dean, Minority Affairs, Stanford School of Medicine
• Jocelyn Garrick, MD, Executive Director, Alameda County Health Pipeline Partnership; Director, Alameda County EMS Agency; President, Mentoring in Medicine & Science, Oakland, CA
• Kathy Kwan, MBA, MPH, President, Eustace-Kwan Family Foundation
• Kathy Lancaster, Executive Vice President, and Chief Financial Officer, Kaiser Foundation Hospital and Health Plan
• Tomas Maga, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor & Medical Director, Samuel Merritt University; Lead Physician La Cla­nica de La Raza, Inc.; Francisco Founding Director, FACES for the Future Coalition
• Bob Montoya, Consultant
• Arnab Mukherjea, Dr.P.H., MPH, Associate Professor of Health Sciences and Chair of Health Sciences Program, California State University East Bay
• Barry Rothman, Ph. D, Emeritus Professor, Former Director, Post Baccalaureate Program, San Francisco State University

Southern California

• Charles Alexander, Ph.D., Associate Vice Provost, University of California, Los Angeles
• Cheri Fidler, Retired Director, Center for Healthier Communities, Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego, CA
• Angela Minniefield, MPA, Senior Vice President of Advancement, Strategic Development & External Affairs, Office of Strategic Advancement, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
• Ike Mmeje, Chief Operating Officer at MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center and Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach, Long Beach CA
• Gail Orum, PharmD., Associate Dean, Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont, CA
• John Yuasa, J.D., Health Consultant

Coachella Valley

• Raul Ruiz, MD, Director of Coachella Valley Health Care Initiative, Coachella, CA, Congressman to CA 36^th District
• Sheila Thornton, President/CEO, OneFuture Coachella Valley

New England

• Michael Byrd, MD, MPH Health Policy Researcher, and Instructor, Harvard School of Public Health
• Linda A. Clayton, MD, MPH Health Policy Researcher and Instructor, Harvard School of Public Health
• Matthew Fishman, Vice President for Community Health, Mass. General Brigham
• Paul Hattis, MD, JD, MPH, Retired Senior Associate Director, MPH Program, and Associate Professor, Tufts University Medical School
• Wanda McClain, MPP, Former Vice President, Center for Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Nancy Turnbull, MBA, Senior Associate Dean for Professional Education at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
• Catherine West, MPA, Consultant

New York/New Jersey

• Marlyn Delva, Associate Dean of Education and Student Affairs and Dean of Students, Columbia University School of General Studies| Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences
• Esther Dyer, D.L.S., Principal, ExecHQ
• Lynne Holden, MD, President, Mentoring in Medicine, NY
• Linda Lombardi, Ph.D., Retired Senior Vice President of Operations, Bellevue Hospital, NY
• Paul Meissner, MSPH, Director, Research Program Development, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
• Hal Strelnick, MD, Associate Dean for Community Engagement, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
• Kathleen Whyte, Senior Director, New York City Health & Hospital Corporation

Washington DC

• David Acosta, MD, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington DC
• Norma Poll-Hunter, Ph.D., Senior Director, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington DC
• Elena Rios, MD, MSPH, FACP, President & CEO at National Hispanic Medical Association, Washington DC

North Carolina

• Cherry Beasley, Ph.D., MS, FNP, RN, CNE, Chair and Anne R. Belk Endowed Professor, Lumberton, NC
• Ronny Bell, Ph.D., Director of the Office of Cancer Health Equity, Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Amy Locklear Hertel, JD, MSW Chief of Staff to Chancellor Falt, University of North Carolina
• Jeffery Simms, MSPH, MDiv, Director of Professional Development at UNC-Chapel Hill School of Public Health, NC

National

• Michael Bird, Consultant, Albuquerque, NM
• Margaret Lapiz, MBA, MPH CEO & Co-Founder, Under One Roof
• Francis X Garcia, Co-Founder, San Jose California
• Edgar Quiroz, MPH, Vice President, Marketing & Community Relations at Horizon Home Health Care and Ace Hospice