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Board of Directors
Pedro W. Baron, MD, Director of Pediatric and Adult Liver
Transplantation; Associate Professor of Surgery, Loma Linda University
Medical Center, Loma Linda, California
Web CV
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 Phil Berry, M.D., Advisory Committee for Organ Transplantation (ACOT)
appointed by Secretary Tommie Thompson, Health & Human Services,
2001-2004; Past President, Texas Medical Association; President, Texas
Medical Assoc. Foundation; Past Member, Board of Directors and Finance
Committee, UNOS; Co-founder of the
Southwest Transplant Foundation.
Dallas, Texas
An uplifting profile of Dr. Berry by the Dallas Morning News
here;
Web CV |
 Waldo Concepcion, MD, FACS; Associate Professor of
Surgery, Chief of Clinical Transplantation, Chief of Pediatric Kidney
Transplantation, Stanford
University School of Medicine. Past
Director of Liver, Pancreas, and Kidney Transplantation; Director of the
Medical Center Transplantation Institute Education and Research Fund;
Loma Linda University Medical Center
(LLUMC)
Web CV |
 David
Courtney, Patient Advocate & post-double-lung transplant & pre-liver transplant patient: Alpha-1-Antitrypsin lung/liver disease;
Member, Public Policy Roundtable on Organ Donation
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO);
Past President, Texas Panhandle Chapter, Transplant Recipients International
Organization (TRIO); Vice
President, Director of Public Relations, The Presumed Consent
Foundation
Plainview, Texas Web
CV |
 Art
Curley, Attorney-at-Law; President, Bradley Curley Asiano Barrabee &
Crawford, PC. As a trial attorney Mr. Curley has been defending
physicians and dentists for almost 30 years. He has given risk
management courses that include education on the special legal
status that AIDS has been granted and its attendant obligations on
professionals.
Larkspur, California Web
CV
Audio by Mr. Curley on HIV/AIDS favoritism in the legal system |
D.
Leigh Aveling DMin., MFT, Chaplain and Associate
Professor, School of Religion, Loma Linda University.
Loma Linda, California |
 Richard
Darling, DDS; Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
of the Board; Founder, FAIR Foundation Hepatitis C, Liver Disease &
Transplant Support Group; author, Coma Life,
National Public Citizen of the Year (National Association of Social
Workers); Palm Desert,
California.
Web CV (Ex-officio) |
Kress
Darling; Vice President & Treasurer; Patient Advocate, COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), Migraine Headache & Osteoporosis; Secretary,
FAIR Foundation
Palm Desert, California.
(Ex-officio) |
Michael E. De Vera, MD, FACS, Director and Chief of Transplant
Surgery, Loma Linda University Medical Center Transplant Institute,
Loma Linda, CA. Previously
Co-Director of
Liver Transplantation, Director of the Transplant Fellowship Program
and Associate Professor of Surgery at the Thomas E. Starzl
Transplantation Institute, Pittsburgh, PA.
Web CV |
John J. Fung, M.D., Ph.D., FACS, Chairman, Department of General
Surgery; Director, Transplant Center, Cleveland Clinic
Foundation. Past Chief
Operating Officer, Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Chief, Division of Transplantation
Surgery and Director of Liver Services.
Cleveland, Ohio
Web CV |
Robert Gish, MD,
Co-Director Center for Hepatobiliary Disease and Abdominal
Transplantation (CHAT), University of California, San Diego School
of Medicine; Past Medical Director of the Liver Disease Management
and Transplant Program at California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC);
Division Chief, Hepatology and Complex Gastroenterology at CPMC
Physicians Foundation; Member of the American Association for the
Study of the Liver, the American Society of Transplant Physicians,
and the International Liver Transplant Society. San Diego, CA
Web CV |
Charles J. Goodacre, DDS, MSD;
Dean of the Loma Linda University School of Dentistry; President of
the
American College of Prosthodontists; Recipient of the William J.
Gies Awards for Vision, Innovation, and Achievement, recognizing
outstanding innovation by a dental educator. Past President of the
American Board of Prosthodontics ; Executive Council Member of the
Academy of Prosthodontics. Redlands, CA
Web CV
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 Ray
Hill, Patient Advocate: HIV/AIDS & HCV; AIDS activist labeled
"Citizen Provocateur" by United States Supreme Court Justice William
Brennan (U.S. Supreme Court—Houston v. Hill, 482 U.S. 451); American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Lifetime Achievement Award for
advancing the rights of gay, lesbian and transgender citizens, voted
"gay hero" seven years in a row by the gay community of Houston,
Texas. Houston
Chronicle Article Ray
Hill's -
The Prison Show has been
broadcast on Houston's Pacifica radio station KPFT 90.1 FM weekly
since March, 1980.
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Donald Hillebrand, MD, Hepatologist; Medical Director, Liver
Transplantation, Scripps Green Hospital, La Jolla, California.
Previously Medical Director, Liver Transplantation, Loma Linda
University Medical Center Transplant Institute, Loma Linda, CA.
Web CV |
Norman
Kay, Patient Advocate: Prostate Disease
Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii |
 Jacqueline
Marcell, B.S., Advocate for Alzheimer’s, Eldercare Awareness and
Reform. Jacqueline is a former television executive who barely
survived caring for her once-adoring challenging elderly father and
sweet ailing mother, both with undiagnosed Alzheimer’s. Compelled to
save others from committing elder
abuse resulted in her bestselling book
ELDER RAGE, launching
COPING WITH CAREGIVING radio show and becoming an
INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER (CEU/CMEs). Jacqueline’s mission is to
impart knowledge on issues that unnecessarily cost a year of her
life, her parents’ life savings and much of her own, and then nearly
her life when diagnosed with breast cancer. |
 Leonard
J. Morse, MD; Commissioner of Public Health, Worcester, Massachusetts;
Member, Board of Directors: Worcester AIDS Project Workshop; Professor of Clinical Medicine and Family Medicine and Community Health,
University of Massachusetts Medical School; Chair Emeritus, American
Medical Association’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs;
Past-President of the
Massachusetts Medical Society; Recipient:
AMA's "Pride in the Profession" award for exemplary work in underserved
areas and exceptional volunteerism.
Worcester, MA |
Okechukwu
N.
Ojogho, MD, MMM, FACS, Surgical & Program Director, Kidney Transplant
Program, Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's
Hospital, Spokane, Washington.
Past Director,
Transplantation Institute, Loma Linda University Medical Center,
Loma Linda, California |
Thomas G. Peters, MD, FACS, FASN,
Director, Shands Jacksonville Transplant Center;
Chief, Transplant Service Shands Jacksonville Medical Center,
(formerly Methodist Medical Center);
Professor of Surgery, University of Florida College
of Medicine, Heath Sciences Center
Jacksonville.
Web CV
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Bill
Remak, B.Sc.MT, BA PHA; FAIR Foundation Secretary;
Chairman, California Hepatitis C Task Force; Steering &
Communications Committee Member, California Chronic Care Coalition;
Chair, National Association of Hepatitis Task Forces;
Patient
Advocate: Liver Disease & Stem Cell Research. Petaluma, CA Web CV (Ex-officio) |
Sandy
Rogers, Patient Advocate: Parkinson’s Disease & Stroke
Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii |
 Lorenzo Rossaro, M.D., FACP; Professor and Chief, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology;
past-Director, Liver Transplant program,
University of California, Davis Medical Center
Sacramento, California.
Web CV |
Philip Rugo, Patient Advocate: Alcoholic Liver Disease (ALD) and
as a representative
of the gay community in its battles against hepatitis C; Past Director,
Harrison House Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Center
Northampton, Massachusetts |
 Deborah
Sutton is the Chief Executive Officer for the Riverside chapter of CASA
(Court Appointed Special Advocates). CASA is a national 501(c)(3)
non-profit whose volunteers are appointed by judges to watch over and
advocate for abused and neglected children to insure these children
don’t get lost in the overburdened legal and social service system or
languish in inappropriate group or foster homes. Last year, more than 70,900 CASA and guardian ad litem
(GAL) volunteers helped 237,000 abused and neglected children find safe,
permanent homes. CASA volunteers are everyday citizens who have
undergone screening/ training with their local CASA/GAL program.
Riverside, CA |
 Cathy Teal is the FAIR
Foundation's
Director of
Communications and Public Outreach. She
has over twenty-five years of experience in advertising and marketing
communications. In 1986, Cathy founded her own creative services firm. As a busy
entrepreneur serving private and public sectors, Cathy always found time
to help non-profit organizations. In recognition of these efforts, the
National Association of Women Business Owners awarded her Special
Recognition. Teal holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Middle Tennessee State
University.
Web CV |
James M. Ward Captain, SC, USNR (Ret.), Patient Advocate:
Cardiovascular
Disease (heart, stroke & hypertension)
San Diego, California |
Jill Weissman, PharmD, Transplant Pharmacist; Assistant Professor,
Department of Pharmacy Practice, Loma Linda University School of
Pharmacy, Loma Linda, California. |
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If you are a patient who would like a referral to one of
our physicians, please phone
Dr.
Darling at 760-200-2766 and he will facilitate the referral and provide contact information.
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