Policy Advisory Council 07-08
Kenneth S. Taymor, Esq. (Chair)
Kenneth Taymor is the executive director of the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy at Boalt Hall. Prior to joining Boalt, Taymor practiced law for over 20 years as an attorney with MBV LAW in San Francisco, where he specialized in real estate, land use and corporate law. His clients included commercial development firms, nonprofit and for-profit homebuilders, local governments and community development corporations.
Taymor graduated from Yale Law School in 1982, where he was article and book review editor of the Yale Law Journal and cofounder of the Initiative for Public Interest Law at Yale. He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1974. From 1982 to 1988, Taymor was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and from 1988 to 1993, he was special assistant (business and finance) to the San Francisco city attorney, serving as the city's chief legal advisor in real estate and development matters. From 1993 to 1997, he practiced at Cassidy & Verges.
Taymor also teaches and has created courses on community development, small business, and regional economics growth at the Stanford Law School and Stanford Business School. Taymor has also been a visiting professor of law at UCLA.
Raymond J. Baxter, Ph.D.
Raymond Baxter is a member of the National Leadership Team of Kaiser Permanente. He is the senior vice president, Community Benefit, for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals at the national level. Baxter leads the activities of KFHP/H to fulfill its social mission, including charitable care and coverage, community health initiatives, philanthropy, and support for community-based organizations. He is also chief executive officer of KP Cal, LLC, a company which supports Kaiser Permanente's Medicaid programs in California.
Before he joined Kaiser Permanente, Baxter led The Lewin Group, a health research, policy and management consulting firm headquartered in Washington, D.C., where he directed a national initiative for the United Auto Workers and the auto industry, assessing local health system performance and organizing planning among purchasers, providers and consumers to improve quality of care.
Baxter has earned a national reputation for his work in community health, health systems reform, policy development, organizational change, and strategy. He has worked as an executive, consultant, and researcher with government and the private sector at the state, local, and national level. He has 30 years of experience managing public health, hospital, long-term care, and mental health programs, including heading the San Francisco Department of Public Health and the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. He has written and spoken extensively on the critical issues of health and health care.
Baxter holds a doctorate from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. The UC Berkeley School of Public Health honored Baxter as a Public Health Hero for his service in the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco. The CDC Foundation conferred on him its Hero Award for addressing the health consequences of Hurricane Katrina and for his lifetime commitment to improving the health of communities.
Teresa S. Carlson, M.P.H. '84 Terri Carlson earned her M.P.H. from Berkeley in 1984 and her bachelor's degree in nursing from the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center in 1978. She is married to John R. Carlson, M.D., a gastroenterologist and Berkeley alumnus. Their two sons both attended UC Berkeley.
The Carlsons enjoy participating in the advisory board for the Cal Parents Fund, which provides the chancellor with flexible funding to invest in student programs and resources to support students. Terri's work on behalf of Cal has included coordination of a "Discover Cal" event and a Cal Aquatics event, both in Southern California. She also has contributed her time and expertise as a volunteer for many other on-profit fundraising projects in northern and southern California, including educational and health care institutions.
Before raising her family, she worked in critical care nursing at UCLA and Cedars Sinai Medical Centers in Los Angeles, and also in London among the National Heart Hospitals, particularly Brompton Hospital. She also worked as an independent management consultant on various West Coast hospital strategic planning projects, as well as serving as a functional and space programming consultant to Anshen + Allen Architects on a variety of hospital projects.
Peter F. Carpenter, M.B.A.
Peter Carpenter has had a nontraditional career in the federal government, academia, and the private sector and is founder of the Mission and Values Institute. He currently serves on the boards of a number of nonprofit organizations, including Annual Reviews, the Village Enterprise Fund, InSTEDD (Innovative Supportto Emergencies, Disasters and Diseases), Project Baobab (Kenya), the Bahati Education Foundation (Tanzania) and is an elected Director of the Menlo Park Fire Protection District—devoting the majority of his time to helping these organizations focus on long term issues.
Carpenter was a senior executive with the ALZA Corporation. Prior to joining ALZA, he was Executive Director of the Stanford University Medical Center, and before coming to Stanford, he was Deputy Executive Director of the U.S. Price Commission during the wage and price controls of the early 1970s. He has been a visiting scholar at the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Stanford and an adjunct professor in the Department of Epidemiology at McGill University in Montreal.
Carpenter received an A.B. in chemistry from Harvard University, an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, and spent two years as a doctoral student in organizational behavior at Stanford Business School.
Margaret Cary, M.D., M.B.A., M.P.H.
Margaret (Maggi) Cary started her career as a family doctor in Santa Rosa, California. She currently develops national policies and programs in the Medical-Surgical Services office of the Veterans Health Administration in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, she was senior vice president and medical director of Vox Medica, a communications and marketing organization dedicated to the creation, analysis, and delivery of information relevant to pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, health care, and wellness management.
In 2000, she was vice president of Acueity, Inc., a healthcare management company in Larkspur, California, which develops and markets breakthrough technology for the diagnosis, treatment and cure of common diseases.
From 1993-2000 as a member of President Clinton's Administration she oversaw policy development and implementation and operations in a six-state region of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under Secretary Donna Shalala.
Cary directs the Washington, D.C., office of the Institute for Medical Leadership. She is an internationally recognized telehealth/telemedicine expert, and an author, speaker, editor, and radio and television presenter. She coauthored Telemedicine and Telehealth: Principles, Policies, Performance and Pitfalls. She serves on the board of American Humane and is a regular writer for www.thedoctorweighsin.com and www.lifecalculator.net.
Linda Hawes Clever, M.D., M.A.C.P.
Linda Hawes Clever is founder and president of RENEW, a non-for-profit aimed at helping doctors, nurses and others maintain or regain their enthusiasm, effectiveness, and purpose. She is also the Chief of Occupational Health at the California Pacific Medical Center and a clinical professor of medicine at UCSF.
She received her undergraduate and medical degrees from Stanford University. After interning at Stanford, she had several years of medical residency and fellowships at Stanford and UCSF. She is board certified in internal medicine and occupational medicine. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor of the Western Journal of Medicine. She is past president of the Western Association of Physicians and serves on the boards of the Buck Institute for Research in Aging and the Northern California Presbyterian Homes and Services.
Abla A. Creasey, Ph.D. '78
Abla Creasey is the director of research and development for the Center for Biomaterials & Advanced Technologies, Medical Devices Group, a division of Ethicon, a Johnson & Johnson Company. Previously, she was the vice president for biological sciences at ALZA Corporation in Mountain View, California. She has also served as vice president for product discovery and development at pioneering biotechnology company Chiron Corporation, where, starting in 1991, she led research teams seeking to identify new product opportunities related to cancer, cardiovascular disease, and infectious diseases.
Creasey is a School of Public Health alumna and earned her doctorate in microbiology at Berkeley in 1978. She has been granted several patents for her work and publishes widely in professional journals. She is an executive member of the Coalition for Critical Care Excellence, a national committee providing global strategic and policy leadership in critical care, and served on the board of trustees for Mills College in Oakland, California, from 1992 to 1998.
Lauren LeRoy, Ph.D.
Lauren LeRoy is president and CEO of Grantmakers in Health (GIH), a nonprofit educational organization serving trustees and staff of foundations and corporate giving programs working in the health field. Its programs focus on increasing the effectiveness of grantmakers and fostering communication and collaboration among grantmakers, policymakers, and the public.
Before joining GIH, LeRoy was executive director of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), a nonpartisan congressional advisory body charged with providing policy advice and technical assistance on Medicare and broader health system issues. Prior to MedPAC, LeRoy served as executive director of the Physician Payment Review Commission (PPRC), one of two congressional advisory commissions merged to create MedPAC in October 1997. LeRoy came to PPRC from The Commonwealth Fund Commission on Elderly People Living Alone, where she served as associate director. She spent more than a decade at the Institute for Health Policy Studies, UCSF, where she was assistant director and directed the Institute's Washington office. She also served as an analyst working on health issues in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
LeRoy is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, a fellow of AcademyHealth, and a national associate of the National Academies. She has chaired two study panels for the Institute of Medicine, one on Medicare payment methodology for clinical laboratory services and the other on public financing and delivery of HIV/AIDS Care. LeRoy is a fellow of the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research Senior Fellows Program and is a member of the national board of advisors of the Iris Alliance Fund; the national advisory council of the California Health Benefits Review Program; Independent Sector's Building Value Together steering committee; and Howard University's national public health advisory committee. She received a doctorate in social policy planning from UC Berkeley.
Richard M. Levy, Ph.D.
Richard Levy is chairman of the board of directors of Varian Medical Systems, a company adapting high technology to the treatment of cancer. He was CEO of the company from 1999 to 2006. Levy served as senior vice president of Varian from 1989 to 1992, overseeing business areas including semiconductor equipment and vacuum products. He became executive vice president of the corporation in 1992 and oversaw the medical businesses and the Ginzton Technology Center, the company's research and development center. Prior to assuming general management and CEO duties, he oversaw sales, marketing, service, R&D, and various corporate functions, as well as managing the corporate quality program.
Levy holds a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and a doctorate in nuclear chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley. He began his business career at the Monsanto Company, where he served as a research specialist and project manager in both basic and applied research.
Levy is vice chairman of the board of trustees of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation and co-chairman of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network's Smart Health Initiative. He is a board member of Sutter Health, Pharmacyclics, and chairman-elect of the board of United Way of Silicon Valley. He is the co-chair of the working group advising the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth, a 30-year program studying the variability and overuse of medical procedures across the United States. He is also a past chairman of the board of directors of the American Electronics Association, America's largest high-technology trade organization.
Leslie Louie, Ph.D. '90, M.P.H. '85
Leslie Louie has held senior positions at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute and Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland, California. She is currently president of the Public Health Alumni Association.
For 13 years after graduation, her research interests focused on genetic risk factors for infectious diseases, particularly tuberculosis and HIV. She pursued this work at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health and then with Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute. In 1993, she had the opportunity to switch careers into health care administration at Children’s Hospital & Research Center at Oakland. She has served as director of service grants and contracts, director, school-based health clinics and practice administrator, adolescent medicine.
Dean Ornish, M.D.
Dean Ornish, M.D., is the founder and president of the non-profit Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California, where he holds the Safeway Chair. He is a clinical professor of medicine at UCSF. For the past 30 years, Dr. Ornish has directed clinical research demonstrating that comprehensive lifestyle changes may begin to reverse even severe coronary heart disease, without drugs or surgery. His current research is focusing on whether comprehensive lifestyle changes may affect gene expression.
Ornish received his medical training in internal medicine from the Baylor College of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the Massachusetts General Hospital. He received a B.A. in humanities summa cum laude from the University of Texas in Austin.
He is the author of five best-selling books, including Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease, Eat More, Weigh Less, and Love & Survival. He writes a monthly column for both Newsweek and Reader's Digest magazines.
Ornish is a member of the boards of directors of the U.S. United Nations High Commission on Refugees, the Quincy Jones Foundation, and the San Francisco Food Bank. He was appointed to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy and elected to the California Academy of Medicine. He is Chair of the Google Health Advisory Council, the PepsiCo Blue Ribbon Advisory Board, and the Safeway Advisory Council on Health and Nutrition.
He has received many awards, including the 1994 Outstanding Young Alumnus Award from the University of Texas, Austin; a Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association; and the National Public Health Hero award from the UC Berkeley's School of Public Health.
Martin A. Paley, M.P.H. '58
Martin Paley received his M.P.H. in health education from UC Berkeley. He subsequently was active in planning for health services and hospitals in San Francisco and throughout the Bay Area. He was president and CEO of an international consulting organization, which, at the time, was a wholly owned subsidiary of Arthur D. Little, and led the firm in a variety of program- and facility-planning projects largely involving medical schools.
In 1974, he became director of The San Francisco Foundation with a wide and diversified grant-making program involving five Bay Area counties. When Paley left the foundation, its assets were in excess of $600 million with interests in the arts, education, health, urban affairs, and the environment. Its annual awards approached $40 million.
In the early 1990s, Paley went on to manage the capital campaign to furnish the new San Francisco Main Library, raising $30 million in three years. He has served as an adviser on organization and management issues to KQED, Kaiser Permanente, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, and other nonprofit and governmental agencies. He has consulted with foundations and arts organizations nationally, including the National Humanities and Arts Endowments.
Paley has served on the boards of the Independent Sector, the Council on Foundations, the Graduate Theological Union, the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, the University of California Press, and the Berkeley Community Fund.
Arnold X. C. Perkins
Arnold Perkins recently retired as director of the Alameda County Public Health Department in Oakland, a position he held since 1994. As director of the Alameda County Health Department, which has a budget of $105 million and more than 600 employees, Perkins provided leadership and management of the department's administrative, program, and policy activities. Perkins led the development of 10 community health teams throughout Alameda County. Through these teams, community health nurses, health educators, nutritionists, and other health professionals work in the community, offering individual and population service delivery as well as community capacity building.
His background includes such varied positions as high school teacher, counselor, and principal; nonprofit organization executive director; family counselor and advocate; foundation program officer; college teacher and administrator; and restaurant owner and operator. He is an experienced speaker and facilitator, especially in the areas of organizational change, team building, creative leadership, community development, and group dynamics.
He has received many awards and recognitions for his community work from groups including the United Way of the Bay Area, the Center for Independent Living, and The San Francisco Foundation. The Alameda County Health Department, under Perkins' leadership, was honored at the School of Public Health's 8th Annual Public Health Heroes Gala in 2004.
Lisa Stone Pritzker
Lisa Stone Pritzker is an advocate and activist for child, adolescent and women's health in the San Francisco Bay Area and nationally. Her commitment grew out of personal involvement as a volunteer; she realized the acute need of young people who suffer from emotional health issues.
Since 2000, Lisa's interests and energies in child, adolescent and women's health have converged. She served as a volunteer for UCSF Child and Adolescent Services at San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center, conducting research on barriers to Victim of Crime Funding, which led to beneficial new legislation. Lisa serves on the Policy Advisory Council of UC Berkeley's School of Public Health, the Board of Visitors of Columbia University, and the board of LINC (Living in a Non-Violent Community). Other organizations with which she is involved include NARAL, National Center for Youth Law and Global Fund for Women.
Locally, Lisa supports the Center for Health and Community and the National Center of Excellence in Women's Health, both located at UCSF. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom appointed her to the strategic planning committee of the First Five Commission and the local Proposition 63 Task Force dealing with community mental health services, especially for the chronically homeless.
As a leader in the Jewish community, Lisa has served on numerous boards and committees, currently including the endowment committee of the Jewish Community Federation.
Lisa's commitment to community service began after completing a bachelor's degree in dance therapy at the University of Wisconsin. She became active in her native Chicago, participating on the junior board of Michael Reese Hospital, the board of Hubbard Street Dance Company, and currently serves on the board of the Emergency Fund.
Lisa lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband John Pritzker and their three children.
J. Leighton Read, M.D.
J. Leighton Read, former chair of the Advisory Council, is a general partner with Alloy Ventures, investors in the information technology and health care industries. He joined Alloy Ventures as a general partner in October 2001, after 14 years as a biotechnology entrepreneur and investor.
In 1987 he co-founded Affymax NV, under the direction of Dr. Alejandro Zaffaroni, serving initially as its executive vice president and COO and later as president of the Pharma Division and as a managing director of the parent company. He founded Aviron, a biopharmaceutical company focused on vaccines for infectious disease, in 1992, serving as chairman and CEO until 1999 and director until its acquisition by MedImmune in 2002. Aviron developed FluMisttm, the first intranasal influenza vaccine.
Read received a B.S. from Rice University in psychology and biology in 1973, an M.D. from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in1976, and completed internal medicine training at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, where he held appointments at the Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health and conducted research in the fields of medical decision-making and cost-effectiveness analysis.
He is a director of Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Cambrios Technologies and Seriosity, Inc. and has served as director for a number of other biotechnology companies and on the executive committee of the Biotechnology Industry Association. He is currently serves as a board member or trustee of BioVentures for Global Health, The Santa Fe Institute, BeneTech, and the UC Berkeley Foundation.
As co-inventor of the Affymax technology combining photolithography and combinatorial chemistry, he received the Newcomb Cleveland Prize for the best paper of the year in science and the Distinguished Inventor Award of the Intellectual Property Association. In 1998 he was named the Northern California Life Sciences Entrepreneur of the Year.
Theodore J. "Ted" Saenger
Theodore J. "Ted" Saenger is the retired president and CEO of Pacific Bell. During his 36 years in corporate leadership, Mr. Saenger gained significant governance experience serving on and leading many corporate governing boards. He is currently serving on the Sutter Health board of directors.
Since his retirement from Pacific Bell, Saenger has been active in civic activities, serving on boards of a number of organizations including the San Francisco Symphony, United Way of the Greater Bay Area, California Economic Development Corporation, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the YMCA.
He currently serves on board of trustees for the University of California Berkeley Foundation. He was a member of the board of the San Francisco Foundation from 1991 to 2001 and is the past chairman of the board of John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, California. He was also a trustee for The California State University until 1997.
Saenger holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
Steven A. Schroeder, M.D.
Steven A. Schroeder, M.D., is the Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care in the Department of Medicine at the UCSF, where he also directs the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center. From 1990 to 2002, he was president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a national health care philanthropy. Under his leadership, the foundation took a bold step, broadening its grantmaking focus to address a number of influences on health traditionally considered outside medical care. Most notable are the foundation-sponsored policy initiatives and research programs during the 1990s, which vaulted tobacco control onto the national agenda and supported substance abuse prevention and treatment through the Center for Tobacco Free Kids, the SmokeLess States policy initiative, and the Substance Abuse Policy Research Program.
Schroeder graduated from Stanford University and Harvard Medical School, and trained in internal medicine at the Harvard Medical Service of Boston City Hospital and in epidemiology as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer of the CDC. As founding medical director of university-sponsored HMOs at both George Washington and UCSF, he laid the groundwork for the newly emerging field of population health-oriented general medicine. At UCSF he also established a pioneering general internal medicine division that has become a leader in the area of prevention.
He currently serves as chairman of the International Review Committee of the Ben Gurion School of Medicine; is a member of the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine; a director of the James Irvine Foundation, the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, and the Robina Foundation; and is former president of the Harvard Medical Alumni Association. He was formerly chairman of the American Legacy Foundation and a member of the Council of the Institute of Medicine and the Harvard Overseers. He has six honorary doctoral degrees and numerous awards, including the UC Berkeley Public Health Hero Award, which he received in 2004.
James Strand has been with Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) since 1986, where he has invested in the life sciences sector first as a venture partner and then as general partner. He now serves as managing director. Prior to joining IVP full time, Strand was president of Advanced Marketing Decisions, a biomedical marketing and product development consulting company. Previously, he was vice president of medical affairs and director of marketing planning at Syntex Laboratories, medical director and chairman of the Product Assessment Committee at Alza, and CEO and director of both DDI Pharmaceuticals and Laserscope.
Strand is founder and advisory board member of MVLA Scholars, a college scholarship and mentoring program for disadvantaged youth in the Mountain View-Los Altos area. He serves on the HIV/AIDS Leadership Council for Save the Children, and has worked on global health projects for UCSF.
Strand is board-certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians. He was assistant professor of medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas and has been in the private medical practice. He attended UC Berkeley, received B.S., M.A., and M.D. degrees from UCSF, and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University.
Barbara Sandoval Terrazas, M.P.H. '76
Barbara Terrazas is the director of planning, development and policy at Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center, one of the leaders in delivering multiculturally and linguistically appropriate health care services in Southern Alameda County. She was the CEO of Catholic Charities of Alameda/Contra Costa—the largest social service provider in the East Bay—for more than 10 years. Previously she was vice president of regional operations at "Just Say No" International, director of affiliate relations and planning for the American Lung Association of California (ALAC), and executive director for La Clinica de la Raza.
Terrazas has more than 30 years of experience in organizational development, strategic planning, governmental relations, grants/ contract administration, resource development, and community affairs. Prior to joining "Just Say No" International in 1990, she was director of affiliate relations and planning for the ALAC, where she held oversight responsibility for 21 local affiliate organizations and developed the association's first strategic plan. She was a founding member of the Multicultural Institute of the Franciscan School of Theology and an active advocate for youth violence prevention and breast cancer research. Her passion for the preservation of accessible quality health care for the under and uninsured has advanced the national, state, and regional public health agenda.
She has a B.A. in sociology from Mills College and earned her M.P.H. from UC Berkeley in 1976. She sits on the board of trustees for Mills College, the board of directors for CompassPoint, and the New American Community Foundation board. Her community leadership honors include: the Marcus Foster Alumni Award, Oakland Public Schools, in 1983 and the Public Affairs Award, Latina Foundation of Northern California, in 1988.
