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Ralph Fuccillo is the President of the Oral Health Foundation. Mr. Fuccillo brings more than 30 years of professional and volunteer experience in education, health and human services, and health philanthropy. He is the President of the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts and the Vice President of the MA Health Council, as well as a board member of The Boston Coalition, Community Health Charities, and the Boston Alcohol and Substance Abuse Program.
"I am honored to serve on the ASF Board of Directors because I see first hand how this community service experience becomes an imprint for a lifelong commitment to societal health by the Fellows, and how it gives hope to those community members with whom they work." |
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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. |
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Timothy Johnson, MD, is the 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. |
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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.
"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." |
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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. |
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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. |
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Bruce Auerbach, MD, FACEP, the president-elect of the Massachusetts MSociety, 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. In 2002, Dr. Auerbach bedirector on the board of directors for ProMutual Group, 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. Through its grants and fellowships 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." |
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Jennifer Daley, FACP, MD, joined Partners HealthCare System in Boston as the Chief Medical Officer of Partners Community Healthcare Inc, in 2007. Dr. Daley is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire. From 2002 to 2007, Dr. Daley was the Chief Medical Officer for Tenet Healthcare. She was responsible for the development and implementation of Tenet's Commitment to Quality (C2Q), an innovative program designed to enhance the overall quality, safety, and productivity of Tenet's care delivery processes. Prior to joining Tenet, she was the Director of the Center for Health Systems Design and Evaluation in the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital and Partners HealthCare System in Boston. She was also Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Daley has also been the Vice President and Medical Director of Health Care Quality at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the recipient of a Senior Career Development Award in Health Services Research and Development from the Department of Veterans Affairs, a clinician-teacher and practicing internist at the New England Medical Center, and on the General Medicine faculty at the Beth Israel Hospital. Dr. Daley is the author of over 140 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and clinical communications. |
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Terry Fulmer, RN, PhD, FAAN, has been dean of the College of Nursing at NYU since September 2005. Dr. Fulmer is the Erline Perkins McGriff Professor, the Co-Director for The John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing, and Director of the Consortium of New York Geriatric Education Centers. She is also the Principal Investigator for the Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training Project (GITT), which is funded by the The John A. Hartford Foundation, Inc. Dr. Fulmer received her bachelor's degree from Skidmore College, her master's and doctoral degrees from Boston College and her Geriatric Nurse Practitioner Post-Master's Certificate from NYU. Her publications include over 125 articles, 50 chapters and 16 books. |
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Thomas G. Irons, MD, is Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences at the Brody School of Medicine of East Carolina University. His work is focused on the health needs of the poor, and he has served on state and national commissions concerned with the viability of safety net health care programs. A co-founder of the North Carolina Schweitzer Fellow Program, he heads a regional health program for the uninsured in eastern North Carolina. |
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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 Hospital, 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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." |
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Paul F. Levy was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston in 2002. BIDMC is one of the nation’s pre-eminent academic health centers, providing state-of-the-art clinical care, research, and teaching in affiliation with Harvard Medical School. Licensed for over 600 beds, BIDMC annual revenues are over $1.2 billion. Previously, Mr. Levy was the Executive Dean for Administration at Harvard Medical School, where he was responsible for administrative, budgetary, and facility issues, as well as community and governmental relations. He was also involved in coordinating collaborative ventures between HMS and its affiliated hospitals. Before joining Harvard Medical School, Mr. Levy was Adjunct Professor of Environmental Policy at MIT, where he taught infrastructure planning and development and environmental policy for seven years. He also maintained an independent consulting practice, providing strategic, negotiation, and regulatory advice to firms in the energy, water, and telecommunications arenas. Mr. Levy has served as Executive Director of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, Chairman of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, and Director of the Arkansas Department of Energy. At the MWRA, he had primary responsibility for the “Boston Harbor Cleanup,” one of the largest pollution control projects in the world. Mr. Levy is the author of numerous articles in a variety of fields and co-author of Negotiating Environmental Agreements (Island Press, 1999). He is author of a blog entitled “Running a Hospital,” and in that regard is one of very few hospital CEOs to share thoughts publicly about hospitals, medicine, and health care issues. |
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Wilfred Fon Mbacham, DSc, a 1994-1995 Boston Schweitzer Fellow, is the Founder and President of the Fobang Foundation in Cameroon, Africa. He is Assistant Professor in the Biochemistry Department and Researcher at the Biotechnology Center of the University of Yaoundé, Cameroon. He earned a Bachelors in Zoology and continued with graduate studies in Biochemistry leading to a Doctorat de Specialite, in 1989, from the University of Yaoundé, Cameroon. He also holds a Doctor of Science in Tropical Public Health (1997) from Harvard University. |
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H. King McGlaughon, Jr., MDiv, JD, is Senior Vice President and Managing Executive of Wachovia Trust Company's Nonprofit and Philanthropic Services, which provides consulting, administration and investment management services to Wachovia's public charity, private foundation and individual philanthropist clients. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina, where he was a Morehead Scholar, and a law degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the North Carolina Law Review. He is an ordained priest of the Episcopal Church. Mr. McGlaughon is a member of various nonprofit boards and philanthropy advisory panels and a regular speaker at national, regional and local conferences and events on topics in: domestic and international philanthropy; foundation and nonprofit management; leadership in the nonprofit and financial services enterprise; wealth, financial and estate planning; and related topics. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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Mitchell T. Rabkin, MD, Educated at Harvard College and Medical School and trained in medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the National Institutes of Health, 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 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." |
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Ian G. Rawson, PhD, is currently President of the Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania, and served as Treasurer of Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti for many years. He helps to direct the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship program in Pittsburgh, and serves on the teaching faculties of Carnegie-Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh's Schools of Public Health and Medicine. Each of his roles has been influenced by the thoughts and actions of Albert Schweitzer. |
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John Rowe, MD, is currently a Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. From 2000 until his retirement in late 2006, Dr. Rowe served as Chairman and CEO of Aetna, Inc., where he was cited by Business Week as one of the five top managers worldwide. Before his tenure at Aetna, Dr. Rowe served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Mount Sinai NYU Health, and prior to the Mount Sinai-NYU Health merger, he was President of the Mount Sinai Medical Center. At Mount Sinai Dr Rowe was responsible for the Mount Sinai Hospital, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Mount Sinai Faculty Practice Associates. Before joining Mount Sinai, Dr. Rowe was a Professor of Medicine and the founding Director of the Division on Aging at the Harvard Medical School, as well as Chief of Gerontology at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital. He has authored over 200 scientific publications, mostly on the physiology of the aging process, including a leading textbook of geriatric medicine, in addition to more recent publications on health care policy. In addition, Dr. Rowe is Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the University of Connecticut and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and a Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation and Lincoln Center Theater. |
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Eric E. Van Loon is a national mediator and arbitrator with the dispute resolution firm JAMS. A former state environmental and economics official and litigator, he is a graduate of the Harvard Law School, LSE, and UNC-CH. Eric has served on the ASF board for more than 20 years, visited the Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, and helped launch the North Carolina, Boston, and Lambaréné Fellows Programs.
"The Fellowship addresses healthcare disparities two ways; first by providing thousands of hours of free direct care to needy patients, and longer-term, by providing life-long career support for health professionals committed to underserved populations." |
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David Wang has been the Senior Vice President, Director of Retail Banking, and Director of Business Banking for United Commercial Bank (UCB), since 2006. He is responsible for providing leadership to retail branches in sales and marketing, deposit generation, small business banking, merchant bankcard service, credit and debit card programs, financial and investment services, retaining and growing profitable customer relationships and expanding the market share. Mr. Wang’s career spans more than 10 years at United Commercial Bank, where he held positions of progressively greater responsibility from loan department manager, to group head, to his current position of Senior Vice President and Director of Retail Banking and Director of Business Banking. His areas of responsibility have included branch development and management, marketing, customer service, retail sales training, and retail sales strategy and development. |
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Mary Wissemann is the Director of the Boston Office for Wellspring Consulting. Ms. Wissemann brings more than a decade of management consulting experience. She graduated from the Yale School of Management in 1988 and received a BA in history from Wesleyan University in 1982. In addition to economic development and healthcare, Mary has a strong interest in education and the environment. After graduating from Wesleyan University, she taught high school math for two years, and she has continued in teaching as a volunteer with various literacy, ESL, and GED programs. She also supports numerous environmental causes and was employed as Associate Director of the Alliance for Environmental Innovation, a program of Environment Defense, after leaving BCG in 1998.
| 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.
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