Policy Advisory Council 2011-2012
The Policy Advisory Council was established in 1993 for the purpose of advising the dean and supporting the School in its efforts to attain the highest level of quality in professional education, research, and service in all aspects of public health.
Kenneth S. Taymor, J.D. (Chair)
Kenneth Taymor is the executive director of the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy at UC Berkeley School of Law. Prior to joining Berkeley Law, 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 is Kaiser Permanente's senior vice president for community benefit, research, and health policy. As a member of Kaiser's national leadership team, Baxter leads the organization's activities to fulfill its social mission, including care and coverage for low income people, community health initiatives, environmental stewardship, and support for community-based organizations, as well as research and the Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy.
He also serves as president of KP International, and in 2004 he served as interim president for Kaiser Permanente's Southern California Region, serving more than 3 million members.
Baxter has more than 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. Baxter also led The Lewin Group, a noted health policy firm. Baxter holds a doctorate from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. He serves on the board of directors of Grantmakers in Health, the technical board of the Milbank Memorial Fund, National Public Health and Hospital Institute, and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences expert panel.
In 2001 the UC Berkeley School of Public Health honored him as a Public Health Hero for his service in the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco. In September 2006 he received the CDC Foundation Hero Award for addressing the health consequences of Hurricane Katrina by supporting public health teams in the Gulf Coast, and for his longstanding commitment to improving the health of communities.
Lucinda Brannon Bazile M.P.H. '94
Lucinda Brannon Bazile is director, policy and special projects, with LifeLong Medical Care, a federally qualified health center serving underserved and uninsured communities. She has more than 20 years' experience in operational and financial management, health policy and planning, and community organizing. She is vice chair for Contra Costa County Managed Care Commission and an active member with Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She serves as a mentor with Youthbridge and Health Career Connection. Bazile is an alumna of Blue Shield's Clinic Leadership Institute.
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.
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.
Deborah A. Freund is an internationally known health economist, recognized particularly in the areas of Medicaid, health care outcomes, and pharmoeconomics, a field she is credited with founding.
She was appointed president of Claremont Graduate University (CGU) in November 2010. Prior to moving to CGU she was a Distinguished Professor of Public Administration and Economics at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and an adjunct professor of orthopedics and pediatrics at Upstate Medical University. She served as vice chancellor and provost at Syracuse University (1999-2006), and vice chancellor for academic affairs and cean of the faculties at Indiana University-Bloomington (IU) (from 1994-99), where she was also a professor of public affairs, economics and family medicine. She was also assistant and associate professor of health economics at the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received an A.B. in Classics from Washington University in St. Louis (1973), an M.P.H. in Medical Care Administration (1975), a M.A. in Applied Economics (1975), and a Ph.D. in Economics (1980) from the University of Michigan.
John D. Golenski, Ed.D.
John Golenski is the cofounder and chief executive officer of My Dutch Uncle, a company that provides business services and strategic planning to nonprofits. He has served as an executive for several major nonprofits and has a diverse background in pediatric psychology, clinical services, health policy consulting, and pastoral care. He is also president of the Health Priorities Group, an interdisciplinary health policy consulting group. Golenski founded the Health Priorities Group in 1989, and in that role he has advised a wide range of hospitals and medical centers, as well as health insurers, large employers, and governments in the areas of health care delivery and health policy.
Anthony B. Iton, M.D., J.D., M.P.H. '97
Anthony B. Iton is senior vice president of healthy communities for The California Endowment's 10-year Building Healthy Communities: California Living 2.0 Initiative. He was appointed to the role in August 2009.
Prior to his appointment at The Endowment, Iton served since 2003 as both the director and county health officer for the Alameda County Public Health Department. In that role, he oversaw the creation of an innovative public health practice designed to eliminate health disparities by tackling the root causes of poor health that limit quality of life and lifespan in many of California's low-income communities.
Iton also served for three years as director of Health and Human Services and school medical adviser for the City of Stamford, Connecticut. Concurrent to that, he also served as a physician in internal medicine for Stamford Hospital's HIV Clinic. In addition, Iton served for five years as a primary care physician for the San Francisco Department of Public Health.
Iton's varied career also includes past service as a staff attorney and Health Policy analyst for the West Coast regional office of Consumer's Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine.
Iton, who has been published in numerous public health and medical publications, is a regular public health lecturer and keynote speaker at conferences across the nation. He earned his B.S. in Neurophysiology, with honors, from McGill University, in Montreal, Quebec, his J.D. at the University of California, Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and his M.P.H. from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health.
Kenneth W. Kizer, M.D., M.P.H.
Ken Kizer is a popular speaker and consultant who has been selected as one of the "100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare" by Modern Healthcare magazine on multiple occasions. From 2005 until 2007, he served as president, CEO, and chairman of Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading commercial provider of open source information technology for the health care industry. He continues as chairman of the board, a position he has held since Medsphere was founded in 2002. He is director of the new Institute for Population Health Improvement at UC Davis Health System and a Target of Excellence professor at the UC Davis School of Medicine and Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing.
Prior to joining Medsphere, Kizer served for six years as the founding president and CEO of the National Quality Forum in Washington, D.C. From 1994 through 1999, he served as the undersecretary for health in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). In this role, he was the highest ranking physician in the federal government and CEO of the veterans health care system, the largest health care system in the nation. From 1985 to 1991, Kizer was director of the California Department of Health Services. Prior to that, he was chief of public health for California and, before that, director of the Emergency Medical Services Authority for the state.
An honors graduate of Stanford University and UCLA, Kizer is board certified in six medical specialties and/or subspecialties, and has authored more than 400 original articles, book chapters, and other reports. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Public Administration, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, and the Delta Omega Honorary Public Health Society. He is a certified health care executive and a distinguished fellow of the American College of Physician Executives, as well as a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American College of Preventive Medicine, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the American College of Medical Toxicology, the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology, the American Academy of Medical Administrators, the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, the Royal Society of Medicine, and the international Explorers Club.
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 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.
Bill Moeller retired in 2008 as UnitedHealth Group senior vice president, relationship and business development. He joined the firm in 2001 as president and chief executive officer of UnitedHealthcare in Illinois.
His career began at Citicorp, followed by more than six years at First Chicago, where he was executive vice president of the North American Banking Group. Subsequently, he served as executive vice president and president and chief executive officer of other financial service companies.
Moeller has a strong relationship management background and has credentials in the areas of change and crisis management, risk assessment and management, and process improvement as well as the private equity business. He has been a business and civic leader in Chicago for more than 25 years. He is a director of the National Center for Healthcare Leadership, the National Center for Food Safety and Technology, the Chicago Horticultural Society, Jupiter Industries, Amsted Industries, and a portfolio company of the Chicago-based private equity firm Linden LLC, ,a healthcare and life science private equity firm where he is an operating partner.
He earned an M.B.A. in finance and accounting from the Tuck School at Dartmouth in 1966 and a B.A. in economics from Yale University in 1964.
Dennis J. Patterson, Ed.D.
Dennis Patterson is the founder and chairman of the Collaborative for Leadership Excellence, a firm that coaches senior executive teams in creating high-performing hospitals. He has nearly four decades of executive hospital and turnaround management experience in the United States, Canada, and Europe. He has been instrumental in devising and implementing programs that dramatically improved performance in some of the nation's top hospitals and health systems. Patterson also serves as a trusted advisor to senior executives, trustees, and government officials in hundreds of hospitals worldwide.
Mary Pittman is president and chief executive officer of the Public Health Institute (PHI), an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting health, well-being and quality of life for people throughout California, across the nation and around the world.
Before joining Public Health Institute, she was president of the Chicago-based Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET), an affiliate of the American Hospital Association. As such, she led the growth and development of HRET, synchronized the efforts of board members and research and educational professionals, and served on the executive staff of the American Hospital Association.
Before taking leadership of HRET, she was president and chief executive officer of the California Association of Public Hospitals. From 1984 until 1990, she served as director of planning and evaluation for the San Francisco Department of Public Health. From 1996 until 2007, she also served on PHI's board of directors.
Over the course of her 25-year public health career, she has been recognized as a strong leader and advocate for public health. She has authored several books and numerous peer-reviewed scientific journal articles, and developed public policy and legislative proposals to reduce health disparities and expand access and quality of health care to underserved populations. She received her master's and doctoral degrees in public health from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and also received a master's degree in city planning from the Department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley.
Mary Jo Potter is currently a senior advisor at BDC Advisors. She was previously CEO and managing partner of Highperlink, an international consulting firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she was responsible for the health care practice. Prior to Highperlink, she was with three other consulting firms working across industries in the organizational development and change practices. She built and sold a consulting/software firm to McGraw-Hill, and was part of another firm that grew, went public, and subsequently was sold to a larger firm.
She has more than 60 person-years of board experience, with significant time spent in the health care sector. She has spent 11 years on the board at Catholic Healthcare West, the last two as chair. She is currently on the board at Catholic Health Initiatives and chairs the Strategic Planning Committee. She is vice chair of the board at CHRISTUS, and is chair of their HR Committee. In addition, she is on the boards of Compli, the National Association of Corporate Directors-Bay Area Chapter, and Hope Unlimited, and she chairs the board at Hanna Center. She is also on the boards of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and Siena Heights University in Michigan.
She received her master's degree from Northwestern University, and her bachelor's from Siena Heights in Michigan. She has also attended the Stanford Executive Program in India.
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, 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.
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.
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.
Arnold M. Zeiderman, M.D., M.P.H. '75
Arnold Zeiderman has been a practicing OB/GYN since 1972. Although he has primarily been in solo rural practice in Arcata and Amador County, Calif., he has also engaged in a spectrum of administrative, educational, academic, clinical training , and community activities. Zeiderman received his M.P.H. at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health as an NIH-granted fellow in maternal and child health, following two years of practicing and serving the Armed Forces and civilian dependents in Heidelberg, Germany, as a U.S. Army major, Medical Corps. He is a graduate of Columbia College (University), the University Of Louisville School of Medicine, and the Stanford University Medical Center OB/GYN program. Currently, he continues his community-based women's health practice in Jackson, Calif., including hospital and ambulatory gynecologic surgery, while consulting on standard of care determinations and medical liability issues. He has a special interest in the facilitating the initiation and development of models for distance education in rural communities.