Officers

Myrtis Sullivan,
MD, MPH, FAAP

Board Chair
Assistant Professor & Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Roseland Franklin University of Medicine and Science

Juan Carlos Avila

Vice Chair
Managing Partner, Toroso Investments

Phil Cali

Treasurer

Icy Cade-Bell, MD

Secretary
Pediatrician, University of Chicago
Mobile Medical Unit
Director Comer’s Children’s Hospital

Directors

Regina Crider

Executive Director, Youth and Family Peer Support Alliance; Senior Pastor, Crossroad of Life Community Church

Peter F. Flynn, PhD

Retired Superintendent of Schools Freeport School District 245

Veronica Guadalupe Fonseca

Chief Operating Officer, Greater Family Health

Marcio da Fonseca, DDS, MPH

University of Illinois Chicago
College of Dentistry

Kay Giles

Retired Superintendent of Schools

Terry F. Hatch, M.D.

Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine; Emeritus Associate Professor, University of Illinois College of Medicine

Ruby Mendenhall, PhD

Retired, Executive Director Dean, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Vice President, Financial Steps Network, University of Illinois, Board of Trustees, Staff

David Ernesto Munar

President & CEO
Howard Brown Health Center

Nicholas Panomitros, DDS, MA, JD, LLM

Dentist, Private Practice, Assistant Professor, Restorative Dentistry, University of Illinois, Chicago

Michael L. Parker

Retired Senior Vice President, Liberty Mutual Markets

Ruth Rosenthal, M.D.

Retired Psychiatrist, Private Practice

Rudy Valdez, DM

Engineering Manager, Kaney Aerospace

Director Emeritus

Jim Ryan

Posthumous Director Emeritus
Distinguished Fellow, Benedictine University, Former Attorney General, State of Illinois
Elmhurst, IL

Peter E. Doris, M.D.

Retired Clinical Professor
of Radiology and Medicine,
University of Chicago
Downers Grove, IL

C. William Pollard

Chairman Emeritus
The ServiceMaster Company
Chairman, FairWyn Investment
Company Wheaton, IL

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