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Boards of Trustees

Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center (LLUAHSC) Board of Trustees & Advisors

Chair: Lowell C. Cooper, MDiv, MPH, General Vice President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Takoma Park, Maryland
Lowell C. Cooper, MDiv, MPH, named Boards of Trustees chair

Vice chair: Don C. Schneider, MA, President, North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists, Silver Spring, Maryland

Carol Allen, PhD, RN, Chair, Department of Nursing, Oakwood College, Huntsville, Alabama

Donald R. Ammon, MBA, President & Chief Executive Officer, Adventist Health, Roseville, California

Lorne Babiuk, PhD, Director, Vaccine Infectious Disease Organization, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Matthew Bediako, MA, MSPH, Secretary, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Silver Spring, Maryland

B. Lyn Behrens, MBBS, President & Chief Executive Officer, Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center; President, Loma Linda University; President, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California

Robert G. Carmen, OTR, MPA, Executive Vice President, Adventist Health, Roseville, California

Jere E. Chrispens, MA, Retired medical informatics executive, Yucaipa, CA

Garland Dulan, PhD, Director, Department of Education, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Silver Spring, Maryland

Cari M. Dominguez, MA, Immediate past chair, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Gaithersburg, MD

Allan R. Handysides, MBChB, Director, Department of Health Ministries, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Silver Spring, Maryland

David B. Hinshaw, Jr., MD, Chair, Department of Radiology, LLUMC, Loma Linda, California

Daniel R. Jackson, MA, President, Seventh-day Adventist Church in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

Donald G. King, DrPH, President, Atlantic Union Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, South Lancaster, Massachusetts

Robert E. Lemon, MBA, Treasurer, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Silver Spring, Maryland

Carlton Lofgren, DDS, business executive, Riverside, California

Thomas J. Mostert Jr., MA, President, Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Westlake Village, California

Jan Paulsen, DTh, BD, President, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Silver Spring, Maryland

Monica Reed, MD, CEO, Celebration Health, Celebration, FL

Gordon Retzer, MDiv, President, Southern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Decatur, Georgia

Claudette J. Shephard, MD, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center. Memphis, TN

Max A. Trevino, President, Southwestern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Burleson, Texas

Douglas Welebir, JD, attorney-at-law, Redlands, California

Thomas L. Werner, MBA, Immediate past President/CEO, Adventist Health System, Orlando, FL

Patrick Y. Wong, MBBS, physician, San Francisco, California

Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center advisors

Dennis N. Carlson, DMin, MDiv, President, Mid-America Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Lincoln, Nebraska

Charles Cheatham, President, Allegheny East Conference of SDA, Pine Forge, PA

Ruthita J. Fike, MA, Chief Executive Officer, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California

H. Roger Hadley, MD, Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs, LLUAHSC; President, Loma Linda University Health Care; Dean, School of Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California

Richard H. Hart, MD, DrPH, Chancellor & Chief Executive Officer, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California

Gerald Karst, General Vice President, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Silver Spring, Maryland

Gerald N. Kovalski, MA, Vice President of Education, North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists, Silver Spring, Maryland

Kevin J. Lang, MBA, Executive Vice President, Finance & Administration/Chief Financial Officer, LLUAHSC

Jere D. Patzer, DMin, MBA, President, North Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Portland, Oregon

Steven G. Rose, CPA, Undertreasurer, Seventh-day Adventist Church, Silver Spring, Maryland

Charles C. Sandefur Jr., MDiv, Executive Director, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), Silver Spring, Maryland

Ella Simmons, EdD, Vice President, Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Silver Spring, Maryland

Dave Weigley, MBA, President, Columbia Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Columbia, MD

Walter L. Wright, President, Lake Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Berrien Springs, Michigan

Emeritus Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center board members

Gwen W. Foster, MPH, Health & Fitness Czar, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

David B. Hinshaw Sr., MD, Past President, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California

Leroy A. Reese, MD, Associate Dean, Loma Linda University School of Medicine (Los Angeles campus), Los Angeles, California

Calvin B. Rock, DMin, PhD, Chair, Board of Trustees, Oakwood College, Huntsville, Alabama; Past General Vice President, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Silver Spring, Maryland; Past Chair, Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center Board of Trustees, Las Vegas, Nevada

Neal C. Wilson, Past President, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Silver Spring, Maryland

Tom Zapara, business executive, Laguna Beach, California

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