Dr. Ronald Dieckmann, Denis McGuirk, Dr. Michelle Lin, Dr. Stevan Cavalier, Fran Shreiberg
at the 2011 Annual Board Retreat in Oakland, California.
Ronald Dieckmann, MD MPH
Executive Director
Dr. Dieckmann was educated at Harvard, Stanford Medical School, and the Berkeley School of Public Health. He is a Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics and Medicine at University of California, San Francisco and was the Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital for 25 years. Triple board certified in pediatrics, pediatric emergency medicine, and general emergency medicine, Dr. Dieckmann has edited eight medical textbooks, is a frequent speaker at national and international medical conferences, and has received national awards for service to American medical education and training. In 2003, he co-founded "PEMSoft-The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Software", a decision-support software. His international family travels led him to found KidsCareEverywhere, and to donate the software to impoverished health systems in the developing world.
Stevan Cavalier, MD
Vice Chairmain of the Board
Stevan received his BA from Amherst College in Massachusetts, MD University of Minnesota, completed a pediatric Internship and residency at Stanford University Hospital. He has worked for the Permanente Medical Group since 1980, formerly serving as Chief of Pediatrics in Walnut Creek and Director of Inpatient Pediatric Care for the Diablo Service Area. He helped supervise the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and is currently the Regional Director for Inpatient Pediatrics for Northern California. Stevan is Board Certified by American Academy of Pediatrics, a member of the California Medical Association, the Alameda-Contra Costa Medical Association, the California Perinatal Association, and the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He is a certified instructor in Pediatric Advanced Life Support and author of several publications on drowning prevention in medical literature. Personal interests include classical chamber music performance and writing, and he has had the honor of performing at Davis Symphony Hall. He is the founder, director, and principal pianist of the Sierra Chamber Society, a professional musician group from the San Francisco Symphony and Opera Orchestras now in its 21st concert season.
Denis McGuirk
Treasurer of the Board
Denis McGuirk is a retired CPA who served 32 years as a financial and accounting leader at various financial institutions, including Citibank and American Express. Denis' career spanned many areas of finance, including analysis of financial data relative to merger candidates, new product introductions, profitability studies, as well as traditional cost and staffing issues, and budgeting. Most recently, he worked as Vice President of Finance at Charles Schwab. He also served as Treasurer for the Friends of the Oakland Fox Theater, a nonprofit organization that raised millions to revitalize a beautiful, historic Art Deco building. He has both CPA and CMA credentials and obtained his BS from Manhattan College in NY. An avid traveler, skier and boater, tennis player and photographer, Denis spends time pursuing these with his wife and four children.
Robert Maddox, MD
Secretary
Dr. Maddox has been a practicing pediatrician for over 30 years, both in private practice and for the past 22 years with Northern California Kaiser Permanente. He considers being a pediatrician more of a calling than a profession and has served in many major leadership roles for the Kaiser system. Dr. Maddox was the Chief of Pediatrics at both Kaiser Santa Clara and Kaiser Vallejo, and was also the Clinical Director of the Kaiser Call and Appointment Center. He was recognized by Consumers Checkbook as one of the top physicians in the South Bay for four consecutive years. He is a vigorous advocate of culturally sensitive medical care, speaks both Spanish and Italian and was recently recognized by Kaiser for excellence in the care of and advocacy for Hispanic patients. Having attended Jesuit universities (Seattle University and Creighton), Dr. Maddox has an intense belief in social justice and a special passion about child advocacy. He considers affordable health care to be a birthright of all patients. Having an Italian heritage and soul, his favorite activity is traveling in Tuscany; and he also enjoys downhill skiing, fly-fishing, opera and writing.
Sylvain Lapointe
Member of the Board
Sylvain Lapointe, a ten-year veteran in the financial services industry, is an independent financial practitioner based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His primary career interests have been estate and investment planning. Sylvain relocated to the Bay Area from his native French-speaking Montreal in 1981 to pursue a profession in ballet! After a 12 year career performing throughout the United States with his wife Karen, Sylvain entered the world of business. His emphasis was initially on sales and marketing, which evolved to financial planning and corporate relations. Both Sylvain and Karen are still very passionate about dance and actively support ballet companies in their community. Karen is extremely well connected to the Bay Area and the national medical world--her father, Dr. Peer Portner, was a venerated cardiovascular and cardiothoracic scientist at Stanford who pioneered the first successful Left Ventricular Assist Device.
Michelle Lin, MD
Member of the Board
Dr. Lin graduated from Stanford Medical School and was residency-trained at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in emergency medicine. She has been a full-time Emergency Medicine faculty member at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) since 2001. With a keen interest in technologies and their application in the areas of medical education and patient care, she has created multimedia modules to enhance procedural teaching and to help physicians provide informed consent using standardized videos. She helped found the new UCSF-SFGH emergency medicine residency program, is a founding Board Member of the Clerkship Directors in Emergency Medicine (CDEM), recipient of the UCSF Graduating Class of 2010 Teaching Award, and recipient of the 2010 California/American College of Emergency Physicians "Educator of the Year" Award.
Fran Schreiberg
Member of the Board
Fran is a Bay Area attorney specializing in occupational safety and health. She received her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and her law degree from New York University School of Law. Fran’s prodigious career has spanned many areas of law practice, and her professional life has centered on public regulatory agencies, nonprofit organizations for the underserved and working class, and law school education. Her jobs have ranged from the Agricultural Labor Relations Board, Cal/OSHA, a professorship at the University of San Francisco School of Law, stints as a public defender in several jurisdictions, and legal counsel for the State Building & Construction Trades Council of California -- the umbrella organization for building trades unions in California. Fran founded Worksafe, a visionary and influential California-based nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating workplace hazards. Her current work focuses on legislative, regulatory and policy matters as well as impact litigation. She is admitted to the State Bars of New York and California.
Ronald Dieckmann, MD MPH
Executive Director
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Dr. Dieckmann was educated at Harvard, Stanford Medical School, and the Berkeley School of Public Health. He is a Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics and Medicine at University of California, San Francisco and was the Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital for 25 years. Triple board certified in pediatrics, pediatric emergency medicine, and general emergency medicine, Dr. Dieckmann has edited eight medical textbooks, is a frequent speaker at national and international medical conferences, and has received national awards for service to American medical education and training. In 2003, he co-founded "PEMSoft-The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Software", a decision-support software. His international family travels led him to found KidsCareEverywhere, and to donate the software to impoverished health systems in the developing world. |
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Vice Chairmain of the Board
Stevan received his BA from Amherst College in Massachusetts, MD University of Minnesota, completed a pediatric Internship and residency at Stanford University Hospital. He has worked for the Permanente Medical Group since 1980, formerly serving as Chief of Pediatrics in Walnut Creek and Director of Inpatient Pediatric Care for the Diablo Service Area. He helped supervise the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and is currently the Regional Director for Inpatient Pediatrics for Northern California. Stevan is Board Certified by American Academy of Pediatrics, a member of the California Medical Association, the Alameda-Contra Costa Medical Association, the California Perinatal Association, and the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He is a certified instructor in Pediatric Advanced Life Support and author of several publications on drowning prevention in medical literature. Personal interests include classical chamber music performance and writing, and he has had the honor of performing at Davis Symphony Hall. He is the founder, director, and principal pianist of the Sierra Chamber Society, a professional musician group from the San Francisco Symphony and Opera Orchestras now in its 21st concert season.
Denis McGuirk
Treasurer of the Board
Denis McGuirk is a retired CPA who served 32 years as a financial and accounting leader at various financial institutions, including Citibank and American Express. Denis' career spanned many areas of finance, including analysis of financial data relative to merger candidates, new product introductions, profitability studies, as well as traditional cost and staffing issues, and budgeting. Most recently, he worked as Vice President of Finance at Charles Schwab. He also served as Treasurer for the Friends of the Oakland Fox Theater, a nonprofit organization that raised millions to revitalize a beautiful, historic Art Deco building. He has both CPA and CMA credentials and obtained his BS from Manhattan College in NY. An avid traveler, skier and boater, tennis player and photographer, Denis spends time pursuing these with his wife and four children.
Robert Maddox, MD
Secretary
Dr. Maddox has been a practicing pediatrician for over 30 years, both in private practice and for the past 22 years with Northern California Kaiser Permanente. He considers being a pediatrician more of a calling than a profession and has served in many major leadership roles for the Kaiser system. Dr. Maddox was the Chief of Pediatrics at both Kaiser Santa Clara and Kaiser Vallejo, and was also the Clinical Director of the Kaiser Call and Appointment Center. He was recognized by Consumers Checkbook as one of the top physicians in the South Bay for four consecutive years. He is a vigorous advocate of culturally sensitive medical care, speaks both Spanish and Italian and was recently recognized by Kaiser for excellence in the care of and advocacy for Hispanic patients. Having attended Jesuit universities (Seattle University and Creighton), Dr. Maddox has an intense belief in social justice and a special passion about child advocacy. He considers affordable health care to be a birthright of all patients. Having an Italian heritage and soul, his favorite activity is traveling in Tuscany; and he also enjoys downhill skiing, fly-fishing, opera and writing.
Member of the Board
Sylvain Lapointe, a ten-year veteran in the financial services industry, is an independent financial practitioner based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His primary career interests have been estate and investment planning. Sylvain relocated to the Bay Area from his native French-speaking Montreal in 1981 to pursue a profession in ballet! After a 12 year career performing throughout the United States with his wife Karen, Sylvain entered the world of business. His emphasis was initially on sales and marketing, which evolved to financial planning and corporate relations. Both Sylvain and Karen are still very passionate about dance and actively support ballet companies in their community. Karen is extremely well connected to the Bay Area and the national medical world--her father, Dr. Peer Portner, was a venerated cardiovascular and cardiothoracic scientist at Stanford who pioneered the first successful Left Ventricular Assist Device.
Michelle Lin, MD
Member of the Board
Dr. Lin graduated from Stanford Medical School and was residency-trained at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in emergency medicine. She has been a full-time Emergency Medicine faculty member at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) since 2001. With a keen interest in technologies and their application in the areas of medical education and patient care, she has created multimedia modules to enhance procedural teaching and to help physicians provide informed consent using standardized videos. She helped found the new UCSF-SFGH emergency medicine residency program, is a founding Board Member of the Clerkship Directors in Emergency Medicine (CDEM), recipient of the UCSF Graduating Class of 2010 Teaching Award, and recipient of the 2010 California/American College of Emergency Physicians "Educator of the Year" Award.
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Fran Schreiberg
Member of the Board
Fran is a Bay Area attorney specializing in occupational safety and health. She received her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and her law degree from New York University School of Law. Fran’s prodigious career has spanned many areas of law practice, and her professional life has centered on public regulatory agencies, nonprofit organizations for the underserved and working class, and law school education. Her jobs have ranged from the Agricultural Labor Relations Board, Cal/OSHA, a professorship at the University of San Francisco School of Law, stints as a public defender in several jurisdictions, and legal counsel for the State Building & Construction Trades Council of California -- the umbrella organization for building trades unions in California. Fran founded Worksafe, a visionary and influential California-based nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating workplace hazards. Her current work focuses on legislative, regulatory and policy matters as well as impact litigation. She is admitted to the State Bars of New York and California.