CHAIR
	Bruce Auerbach, MD, FACEP, previous president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, is also the vice president and chief of emergency and ambulatory services at Sturdy Memorial Hospital in Attleboro, Massachusetts. While Dr. Auerbach spent most of his career at Sturdy Memorial Hospital, he also practiced at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts. He is an instructor at the Harvard School of Public Health, an assistant clinical professor of community medicine Tufts University School of Medicine, and an instructor in emergency medicine at University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is also a consultant for the Annals of Emergency Medicine and sits on the Physician’s News Digest editorial board. He has served as a member of the board of directors for ProMutual Group (now Coverys), the largest medical liability insurance company in Massachusetts. He is also vice chair of the state Department of Public Health’s emergency medical care advisory board. "I pursued medicine as a career because of a deep-seated commitment to our society's health and well being. In my chosen specialty of emergency medicine, I have witnessed our society's failures -- drug and alcohol abuse, HIV/AIDS, violence, limited health care access, and the problems of the uninsured -- so many of which end up in our nation's emergency departments. As a department chief and hospital administrator, I have had the opportunity to work with broad coalitions to help implement improvements that have favorably impacted these underserved and needy populations. I have been repeatedly impressed by the commitment of the dedicated healthcare and social service professionals with whom I have worked, and so personally enriched by the experiences that my own professional path has embraced public health policy, administration, and system change. The Schweitzer Fellowship Program, about which I became aware through its Board Treasurer, Harvey Bines, Esquire, epitomizes the development of the next generation of healthcare professionals who will perpetuate these pursuits. It fosters innovative programming, elimination of healthcare disparities, improved access, and triumph over barriers to care. Knowing this, it became a personal mandate to become affiliated with this noble endeavor."
VICE CHAIRS
	Sally Harris presently serves on the New York Advisory Board for the Salvation Army and has been deeply involved in the work of The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship both on the National Board and, as well, previously at the Albert Schweitzer Friendship House in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
	Timothy Johnson, MD, is the former medical editor for ABC News. He has provided medical commentary for Good Morning America since the program's debut in November, 1975. In addition, he provides on-air analysis of medical news for World News Tonight, Nightline and 20/20. Dr. Johnson holds joint positions in medicine at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
TREASURER
	Harvey E. Bines is a partner at Sullivan & Worcester, LLP in Boston, Massachusetts. He practices primarily in the areas of corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, investment management law, securities law (including the Investment Company Act and Investment Advisers Act), and corporation, limited liability company and partnership law. He was formerly an associate professor of law at The University of Virginia School of Law (investment law, torts) and an adjunct professor at Boston College Law School (corporate finance). Mr. Bines has advised and lectured in Israel, Ireland, and Central and Eastern Europe. He has served as a board member of an NYSE-listed company and of an NASD company.
	Robert J. Abernethy is president of the American Standard Development Company. From 2000 to 2004, Mr. Abernethy served on the California State Board of Education and is currently a trustee of the University and serves on the advisory councils for the School of Advanced International Studies, the Peabody Institute and the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. He is a trustee of Loyola Marymount University and Davidson College and a member of the University of California, Los Angeles Chancellor’s Cabinet and the University of California, Los Angeles Arts Board of Visitors.
	Jimmy H. Hara, MD, FAAFP helped to found the Los Angeles Schweitzer Fellows Program. He was recently named the Physician Humanitarian of the Year by the Medical Board of California. He is the Family Medicine Residency Director Emeritus at the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center and Lead Physician for Community Benefit for Kaiser Permanente Southern California. He is Chair of the Healthcare Workforce Policy Commission for the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development; this commission determines health professional shortage areas for the State of California. He serves as Clinical Professor of Family Medicine for the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.  He has been a volunteer physician at Venice Family Clinic for over three decades and currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors. He has also volunteered regularly at the Los Angeles Free Clinic and the Asian Pacific Health Care Venture and the Salvation Army Homeless Shelters. He has been active with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) and Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), which carries on Dr. Schweitzer's important work to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Roderick K. King, MD, MPH is the president of Next Generation Consulting Group. King is Senior Faculty at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Disparities Solutions Center and an Instructor in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). He served as the Director for the Health Resources and Services Administration, Boston Regional Division and as a Commander in the US Public Health Service, US Department of Health and Human Services.
	Stefan Kertesz, MD, MSc, served at the original Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon (West Africa) in 1992, and the experience spurred him to dedicate his career to understanding and improving the care of patients who encounter the healthcare system across boundaries of culture, language or socioeconomic disadvantage. After completing residency in internal medicine at Harvard Medical School's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, he worked with the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program for six years. He also pursued research training in public health. He is now Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he conducts research on health and addiction care for the homeless, teaches about the care of underserved populations, and continues to provide direct care to homeless and historically disadvantaged persons in Birmingham, Alabama.
	Matt Klein is the Executive Director and first staff person of Blue Ridge Foundation New York, a private foundation associated with the investment firm Blue Ridge Capital. Blue Ridge Foundation New York helps to develop effective strategies for connecting people living in high poverty communities to the opportunities, resources, and support that they need to fulfill their full potential. Matt also serves as an adjunct professor of entrepreneurial studies at NYU Stern School of Business, where he teaches a practicum on social venture investing. Matt attended the Boston Public Schools, Yale College and Yale Law School.
SECRETARY
	Arthur F. Kohrman, MD, is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, where he teaches medical and public health students. He was President of La Rabida Children's Hospital (a hospital for chronically ill and disabled children) and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Chicago from 1981 to 1996, during which time he was active in Medicaid and Title V (Maternal & Child Health) policy issues at both State and Federal levels. As a member of the Board of the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group, the sponsoring organization of the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship in Chicago, he became involved with the ASF Fellows interviewing candidates. He is presently the Faculty Advisor for the Chicago ASF Fellows, and serves as liaison between the Fellowship program and the many health-profession schools in Chicago. He also assists Fellows in their choice and completion of projects, and in their development of careers in public service.
	Robert Lawrence, MD, is the Edyth Schoenrich Professor of Preventive Medicine, Associate Dean for Professional Practice at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and Director of the Center for a Livable Future. He divides his time among teaching, academic administration, and policy studies related to food security. He also directs the Health and Human Rights program at the school. "Albert Schweitzer, through his life and his writings, was a motivating role model for me when I started medical school in 1960. My friendship with Lachlan Forrow, M.D., led to my current involvement."
	James J. O'Connell, MD, serves as President of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program as well as Street Team Physician and Director of Research. Dr. O’Connell joined the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP) as a founding physician in 1985, after completing his residency in Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He went on to serve the program as Medical Director and Executive Director before assuming his current position of President in 1996. He was the National Program Director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Homeless Families Program from 1989-1995, and was responsible for a $7 million, 5-year, 9-city, national demonstration program. He is a widely recognized authority in the management of patients with substance abuse, and lectures to medical students and house staff at local hospitals.
	Joseph O'Donnell, MD, is Senior Advising Dean and Director of Community Programs at Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) and Chief of Oncology at the VA Medical Center in White River Junction, VT. With the DMS Community Service Committee firmly in place, and more than 80% of DMS students involved in some form of community service, Joe met with Judge Mark Wolf and Lachlan Forrow, M.D., to discuss the prospect of founding an ASF program in New Hampshire and Vermont. The first NH/VT Schweitzer Fellows were selected in March, 1996, and over 200 Fellows have since made important contributions in a wide range of fields such as domestic violence, environmental education, palliative care, immigrant and refugee health, and wilderness medicine.
	Phillip E. Pulaski, MD, joined The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship as a 1990 Lambaréné Schweitzer Fellow. Dr. Pulaski serves as the Medical Director for Boston Health Care for the Homeless.
	Mitchell T. Rabkin, M.D. was CEO of Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital (1966-1996) and, following its merger with Deaconess Hospital, CEO of its parent, CareGroup (1996-1998). He was educated at Harvard College and Medical School and trained in medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the National Institutes of Health. He is Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Institute Scholar, the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Past chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Dr. Rabkin is a member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  "I have seen the impact on social good that can be made by committed young people, and the impact that such efforts can have on their own lives as well. While the ASF has been a presence at Beth Israel, and now Beth Israel Deaconess, for many years, I became more deeply caught up through friendship with Board Chair Judge Mark Wolf, whose commitment exemplifies the reverence for life that forms the basis of The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, a philosophy that parallels my own commitment to society as a physician."

The Honorable Mark L. Wolf served as the long-time Chairman of The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship and was a co-founder of the Boston Schweitzer Fellows Program, which began in 1991. He currently serves as Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts; he also serves as a Chairman of the John William Ward Public Service Fellowship for Boston Latin School students and of the Judge David S. Nelson Fellowship for Boston high school students.

PRESIDENT EMERITUS
	Lachlan Forrow, MD, is Director of Ethics Programs and Director of Palliative Care Programs at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where he also serves as Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. For over 20 years he has been actively involved with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and its U.S. affiliate Physicians for Social Responsibility, which carry on Dr. Schweitzer's work for the abolition of nuclear weapons and, for PSR, protection of the environment. He was selected as a 1982 Lambaréné Schweitzer Fellow and has been actively involved with ASF ever since. In addition to serving as ASF's president, Forrow is president of the Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné. "My three months as a Schweitzer Fellow in Lambaréné included some of the most difficult times of my life, but also some of the most meaningful. While sometimes world events can be depressing, meeting new groups of Schweitzer Fellows every year gives me great hope for the future."