Board of Advisors

Advisors Who Address Issues Across the Disciplines

	Robert E. Tranquada, M.D. — Chair Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Public Policy at the University of Southern California; former Chancellor and Dean, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, and former Dean, USC School of Medicine.
	John W. Farquhar, M.D. Professor of Medicine and Health Research and Policy, Founder of the Stanford Prevention Research Center (SPRC) and the first holder of the C. F. Rehnborg Professorship in Disease Prevention in the Stanford University School of Medicine.
	Jonathan Fielding, M.D., M.P.H., M.A., M.B.A. Director, Los Angeles Department of Public Health, Professor of Health Services and Pediatrics, and Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities, and former Director, Massachusetts Department of Health.
	Stephen P. Fortmann, M.D. Assistant Program Director, Science Programs Department Senior Investigator, at the Center for Health Research, Northwest Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. Former Professor and Director, Stanford Prevention Research Center.
	Jessie Gruman, Ph.D. Founder and president of the Center for Advancing Health, an independent, nonpartisan, Washington-based policy institute funded by the Annenberg Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and other foundations.
	David Heymann, M.D. Chairman of the Board of the UK Health Protection Agency, Assistant Director-General - Health Security and Environment Representative of the Director-General for Polio Eradication; former Director of the Communicable Diseases Program, World Health Organization.
	Howard Kahn, M.P.A CEO of L.A. Care Health Plan; Was Founding CEO of California Wellness Foundation and Health Plan of San Mateo.
	Alexandra Levine, M.D. Chief Medical Officer, City of Hope; Recent Distinguished Professor of Medicine, chair of the Division of Hematology, Keck School of Medicine, USC; former medical director of USC/Norris Cancer Hospital.
	Liming Lee, M.D., M.P.H. Vice President of Peking Union Medical College: Former founding Director of the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
	Russell Luepker, M.D., M.S. Mayo Professor of Public Health and former Chair of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota.
	J. Mario Molina, M.D. President and Chief Executive Officer of Molina Healthcare, Inc.
	Pekka Puska, M.D., Ph.D., M.Pol.Sc. Director General of the National Institute for Health and Welfare in Finland (THL): former Director of Non-communicable Diseases Program, World Health Organization.
	Walter B. Rose, M.B.A. Former member of the CGU Board of Trustees and former Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
	Bill Ruh Vice President and Corporate Officer of GE Software Center of Excellence and former Vice President World Wide Technology Practices Solutions and Services Cisco Systems, Inc
	Paul Torrens, M.D. Professor Emeritus of Health Services at UCLA.
	Arthur Lawrence Ulene, M.D. Former board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist whose interest in the educational needs of patients led him to the use of mass media for the delivery of health-related information.