Advisory Council
The ITUP Advisory Council (Council) provides ITUP leadership and staff with ongoing feedback and strategic input to inform ITUP policy research, workgroups and conference programs. The Council helps to gauge the relevance and value of ITUP work products and activities, serving as ITUP’s direct connection to the health care sector. The Advisory Council includes statewide and regional leaders representing diverse sectors including clinics, hospitals, physicians, health plans, advocacy, labor, employers and government.
Joan Allen, SEIU-UHW Healthcare Workers West
Mayra Alvarez, The Children’s Partnership
John Baackes, L.A. Care Health Plan
Charles Bacchi, California Association of Health Plans
Bill Barcellona, America’s Physician Groups
Isabel Becerra, Coalition of Orange County Community Health Centers
Michelle Cabrera, County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California
Carmela Castellano-Garcia, Esq., California Primary Care Association
Shana Charles, California State University, Fullerton College of Health & Human Development
Colleen Chawla, Alameda County Health Care Services Agency
Lisa Chan-Sawin, Transform Health
Gary Cohen, Blue Shield of California
Michael Cousineau, USC Keck School of Medicine; Price School of Public Policy
Joel Diringer, J.D., Diringer & Associates
Anastasia Dodson, California Department of Health Care Services
Adam Dougherty, M.D., M.P.H., Sutter Medical Center Sacramento
Hector Flores, M.D., Family Practice Department, White Memorial Medical Center/Family Care Specialists Medical Group
Veronica Flores, M.A., Community Health Councils
Alvaro Fuentes, Community Clinic Consortium, Contra Costa County
James S. Gross, Nielsen, Merksamer, Parrinello, Gross & Leoni, LLP
Kelly Green, Covered California
Mark Herbert, Small Business Majority
Lisa Hershey, Housing California
Percy Howard, III, LCSW, California Institute for Behavioral Health Solutions
Kerry Hydash, Family HealthCare Network
Maria Lemus, Vision y Compromiso
Brianna Lierman, Local Health Plans of California
Louise McCarthy, Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County
Anne McLeod, Private Essential Access Community Hospitals
Erica Murray, California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems
Mike Odeh, Children Now
Jeffrey Oxendine, UC Berkeley School of Public Health/Center for Public Health Practice & Leadership
David Panush, California Health Policy Strategies
Ninez Ponce, MPP, PhD, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research / UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy Management
Gary Rotto, Borrego Health
Peter Shih, San Mateo County Health
Julie Stoss, Kaiser Permanente
Wendi West, Partnership HealthPlan of California
Micah Weinberg, California Fwd
DJ Wilson, State of Reform
Ryan Witz, California Hospital Association