Thank you to our Spring 2003 Conference Speakers!

Tim Aust, Graduating MBA Student, Sonoma State University

Glenn Brassington Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology, Sonoma State University

Jack Burrows, Director of Consulting, Association of California Healthcare Districts, Sacramento

Liz Close PhD, RN, Chair and Professor, Department of Nursing, Sonoma State University

Dr. Steven Cuellar, Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Sonoma State University

Bob Dozor M.D., Integrative Medicine Clinic of Santa Rosa

Carroll Estes PhD, University of California San Francisco

George Flores, MD, MPH, Public Health Advisor to the California Endowment; former Director of Public Health in San Diego County and Sonoma County

Dale Iversen, CEO, North Sonoma County Hospital District

Esbon Jen, Dean, Health Sciences, Santa Rosa Junior College

Jani Krambs, Asst. Vice President Human Resources, Korbel Champagne Cellars

Jim Leddy, District Coordinator for State Senator Wes Chesboro

Bruce Lee, Emergency services and health care resource

Shawndra Nimtz, CEO of Palm Drive Hospital / Palm Drive Healthcare District

Tom Moore, health policy and program consultant to organized labor, San Francisco

Gil Ojeda MPH, Director, California Program on Access to Care, University of California Office of the President

Vincent Richman, MBA, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Accounting, School of Business and Economics, Sonoma State University

Skip Robinson Ph.D., Lecturer in Psychology, Sonoma State University; facilitator of the Health Care Crisis in Sonoma County Initiative at SSU for the 2002-2003 academic year

Bleys Rose, senior health care reporter for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Beez Schell Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, Sonoma State University

Bob Schultz, M.D., Physician in Chief of Kaiser Permanente, Santa Rosa

Ellen Shaffer, Ph.D., M.P.H., Center for Policy Analysis, San Francisco

Bob Shirrell, senior health care consultant, Santa Rosa

Mike Smith, Santa Rosa Jr. College Trustee; Sonoma Valley Health Care District Board; consultant, SEIU Local 707; director, September 2002 SRJC conference on health crisis, Executive Board of North Bay Labor Council

Judy Spelman R.N., nurse, health care consultant, and chief spokesperson for State Senator Sheila Kuehl’s proposed health plan introduced in the California legislature January 2003

Megan Sweeney, Senior Advocacy Coordinator, Americans for Health Care Campaign, SEIU International, Washington D.C.

John Walton, Project Director, Sonoma County Health Care Work Force Development Roundtable

Art Warmoth Ph.D., Professor and Chair of the Psychology Department, Sonoma State University and President, Council for Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology

Lynn Woolsey, Congresswoman for Sonoma County

Shirlee Zane, Executive Director of the Area Council on Aging