JACK HIGGINS, MD

President and Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Higgins has served on the Board of Directors of RotaCare Bay Area since 2000 and is currently Vice-President. RotaCare is a nonprofit organization that operates 10 free clinics in the San Francisco Bay Area, where volunteer physicians and nurses provide free medical care for people who have no insurance and cannot afford to pay for health care services. ... more

HELEN TROP-ZELL, MD, MS

Secretary

Dr. Trop-Zell demonstrated her commitment to improving the medical condition of others during her 30 years of private practice in Scottsdale, AZ. During much of that time, she also participated in and sometimes ran volunteer medical missions in places like Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, and Guyana. ... more

ROBERT MORGAN

Treasurer

Bob had over thirty years of progressively responsible experience in corporate financial management. The majority of that time was with Hughes Aircraft Company, with time spent as CFO of four divisions with revenue ranging from $200M to $2B. During the Reagan years when defense spending was launching its meteoric ascent ... more

ALLART LIGTENBERG, MS

Allart Ligtenberg was born in 1941 in Indonesia, then a Dutch colony. Six months later the Japanese invaded, and he and his parents were interred in Japanese concentration camps, where they managed to survive for the duration of WWII. When finally freed, the family returned to The Netherlands, where Allart earned Bachelors and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering ... more

SALMAAN HAMEED, MS, MBA

Salmaan Hameed is Chief Technical Officer for Avantis Medical Systems, a medical device company based in San Jose, California. He also serves as a member of the company’s Board of Directors. Salmaan has over 20 years of experience as a serial entrepreneur, business developer, and innovator. He has held several ... more

JAMES V. LEE

James Lee has an extensive track record as a leader in both the nonprofit and business communities. He has led innovative education-focused organizations, built multiple private sector businesses and served as senior executive, board member and consultant, helping to transform organizations from good to great. ... more

GURPREET K. PADAM, MD, FAAFP

In 2009, Dr. Padam co-founded a free clinic for the uninsured, which is now the Guru Nanak Free Medical Clinic in San Jose, California. While seeing patients in the clinic, she and her colleagues identified a number of unaddressed issues, including domestic violence, lack of resources and lack of social support. ... more

STEVEN R. POLCYN

Steve is a senior investor relations and corporate communications executive with significant international broad-based health care and high technology industry experience developing, implementing and managing strategic investor relations and IPOs, corporate communications, media relations, employee communications, corporate image, and branding programs. ... more

GREG RANDOLPH, MD, MPH

Dr. Randolph is the Executive Director of Population Health Improvement Partners and is a Professor of Pediatrics and Adjunct Professor of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has 20 years of experience in quality improvement (QI) leadership, implementation ... more

RICHARD ALLEN WILLIAMS, MD, FACC,
FAHA, FACP

Dr. Williams is Past-President of the National Medical Association and Founder of the Association of Black Cardiologists. A cum laude honors graduate of Harvard University, he earned his MD degree at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center and performed a Cardiology fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School ... more

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