Anthony Ortiz-Luis currently serves as the Executive Director of Valley Care Community Consortium, a nonprofit organization advocating for effective programs and policies to improve the health of San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valley residents. Founded in 1995, Valley Care Community Consortium (VCCC) collaborates with more than 200 community partners consisting of community-based organizations, community clinics, […]
Sonia Pinal has worked for the American Cancer Society in California since 2004. She works as a Health Systems Manager, State & Primary Care Systems working closely with Federally Qualified Health Centers in Los Angeles County and most recently also working with Health Plans and Quality Improvement Organizations. Her expertise includes providing guidance to health […]
Mike Ballue serves as the Chief Strategy Officer of Behavioral Health Services, Inc. Mr. Ballue has been an Executive Director of The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence of the South Bay (NCADD/South Bay) since May 2008. Leading up to his current role with BHS, Mr. Ballue worked as a community group facilitator, Lead […]
Angela Coron brings more than 20 years of health and human services management and consulting experience to her role as Managing Director of Community Benefit, with responsibility for 40 community benefit programs, community initiatives, and grant funding in the Southern California Region. Before joining KP, she served as Associate Director for Healthy Families and Medi-Cal […]
Building on his former work as an arts critic and AIDS activist, David Gere teaches courses in the areas of performance theory, queer theory, and AIDS cultural analysis for graduates and undergraduates. His newest course is called MAKE ART/STOP AIDS, referring to an international coalition of interdisciplinary artists using cultural production as a means to […]
Patti Harvey is Senior Vice President, Medicare Clinical Operations and Population Care, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Health Plan, Inc. She is an executive director for Kaiser Permanente’s Care Management Institute and will continue to co-chair the National Quality Committee. In close partnership with The Permanente Federation, The Permanente Medical Groups and the Kaiser Permanente regions, […]
Tony Kuo, M.D., M.S.H.S. directs the Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention in the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. He also serves as the Director of the Office of Senior Health for the County of Los Angeles. Dr. Kuo has more than 15 years of clinical practice experience in continuity, urgent/emergency and […]
Aliza Lifshitz is well-known in the Spanish-speaking community in her role as Medical Editor of “Primer Impacto” (highest-rated news magazine), as host of a weekly national radio show “El Consultario de la Doctora Aliza” and as a health reporter for Univision TV network. Her website, VidaySalud.com, is a Spanish-language hub for information on health and […]
Chon Noriega is Professor in the UCLA Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media and Director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. He is author of Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema (Minnesota, 2000) and and co-author of Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement (LACMA/California, 2008) and […]
