Pedro W. Baron, MD, Director of Pediatric and Adult Liver Transplantation; Associate Professor of Surgery, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California
Web CV: http://fairfoundation.org/news_letter/2007/01march/Pedro_Baron-MD-CV.pdf

Phil Berry, M.D., Advisory Committee for Organ Transplantation (ACOT) appointed by Secretary Tommie Thompson, Health & Human Services, 2001-2004; Past President, Texas Medical Association; President, Texas Medical Assoc. Foundation; Past Member, Board of Directors and Finance Committee, UNOS; Co-founder of the Southwest Transplant Foundation.
Dallas, Texas An uplifting profile of Dr. Berry by the Dallas Morning News here; Web CV: http://www.thebonedocs.com/Doctor-Berry.htm

Waldo Concepcion, MD, FACS; Associate Professor of Surgery, Chief of Clinical Transplantation, Chief of Pediatric Kidney Transplantation, Stanford University School of Medicine. Past Director of Liver, Pancreas, and Kidney Transplantation; Director of the Medical Center Transplantation Institute Education and Research Fund; Associate Professor of Surgery, Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC)
Web CV: http://fairfoundation.org/Board/waldo_concepcion_cv.pdf

David Courtney, Patient Advocate & pre-lung transplant patient: Alpha-1-Antitrypsin lung/liver disease; Member, Public Policy Roundtable on Organ Donation Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO); President, Texas Panhandle Chapter, Transplant Recipients International Organization (TRIO); Vice President, Director of Public Relations, The Presumed Consent Foundation
Plainview, Texas Web CV: http://www.presumedconsent.org/

Art Curley, Attorney-at-Law; President, Bradley Curley Asiano Barrabee & Crawford, PC. As a trial attorney Mr. Curley has been defending physicians and dentists for almost 30 years. He has given risk management courses that include education on the special legal status that AIDS has been granted and its attendant obligations on professionals.
Larkspur, California Web CV
Audio by Mr. Curley on HIV/AIDS favoritism in the legal system

D. Leigh Aveling DMin., MFT, Chaplain and Associate Professor, School of Religion, Loma Linda University. Loma Linda, California

Richard Darling, DDS; Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board; Member, Board of Directors, United Organ Transplant Association; Founder, Coachella Valley Hepatitis C, Liver Disease & Transplant Support Group; author, Coma Life, National Public Citizen of the Year (NASW-03); Palm Desert, California. Web CV: http://www.fairfoundation.org/index.html (Ex-officio)

Kress Darling; Vice President & Treasurer; Patient Advocate, COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), Migraine Headache & Osteoporosis; Secretary, FAIR Foundation Palm Desert, California. (Ex-officio)

John J. Fung, M.D., Ph.D., FACS, Chairman, Department of General Surgery; Director, Transplant Center, Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Past Chief Operating Officer, Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Chief, Division of Transplantation Surgery and Director of Liver Services.
Cleveland, Ohio Web CV: http://fairfoundation.org/news_letter/2007/01march/john_fung_cv.htm

Robert Gish, MD, Medical Director of the Liver Disease Management and Transplant Program at California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC); Division Chief, Hepatology and Complex Gastroenterology at CPMC Physicians Foundation; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Nevada in Reno and at University of CA San Francisco; Member of the American Association for the Study of the Liver, the American Gastroenterological Association, the American Society of Transplant Physicians, and the International Liver Transplant Society.
San Francisco, CA Web CV

Charles J. Goodacre, DDS, MSD; Dean of the Loma Linda University School of Dentistry; President of the American College of Prosthodontists; Recipient of the William J. Gies Awards for Vision, Innovation, and Achievement, recognizing outstanding innovation by a dental educator. Past President of the American Board of Prosthodontics ; Executive Council Member of the Academy of Prosthodontics. Web CV: http://www.llu.edu/llu/faculty/cgoodacre/ Redlands, CA

Ray Hill, Patient Advocate: HIV/AIDS & HCV; AIDS activist labeled "Citizen Provocateur" by United States Supreme Court Justice William Brennan (U.S. Supreme Court—Houston v. Hill, 482 U.S. 451); American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Lifetime Achievement Award for advancing the rights of gay, lesbian and transgender citizens, voted "gay hero" seven years in a row by the gay community of Houston, Texas
Web CV: http://rayhill.info/AboutRayHill.html
Houston Chronicle: http://www.fairfoundation.org/Board/ray_hill.htm
Two-part video: http://www.logoonline.com/shows/dyn/advocate_newsmagazine_4/videos.jhtml

Donald Hillebrand, MD, Hepatologist; Medical Director, Liver Transplantation, Scripps Green Hospital, La Jolla, California
Web CV: http://www.scripps.org/Doctors.aspx?ID=8418

Norman Kay, Patient Advocate: Prostate Disease
Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii

Jacqueline Marcell, Advocate: Alzheimer’s, Caregiving, Eldercare Awareness and Reform; Author Elder Rage; Radio Host Coping with Caregiving; Blogs on Caregiving ThirdAge and Alzheimer’s HealthCentral; Q&A Column AgingCare.

Melba R. Moore, MS, Commissioner of Health, St. Louis City Department of Health, St. Louis, Missouri; Member, Webster University’s Arts and Sciences Advisory Board, St. Louis Connect Care, and the Regional Health Commission; John F. Kennedy School of Government for State and Local Executives; 20 years experience in the public sector, management and executive leadership.

Leonard J. Morse, MD; Commissioner of Public Health, Worcester, Massachusetts; Member, Board of Directors: Worcester AIDS Project Workshop; Professor of Clinical Medicine and Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Chair Emeritus, American Medical Association’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs; Past-President of the Massachusetts Medical Society; Recipient: AMA's "Pride in the Profession" award for exemplary work in underserved areas and exceptional volunteerism.
Worcester, MA

Okechukwu N. Ojogho, MD, FACS, Past Director, Transplantation Institute; Associate Professor of Surgery, Loma Linda University Medical Center
Loma Linda, California Web CV: http://www.llu.edu/llumc/transplant/f_ojo.htm

Thomas G. Peters, MD, FACS, FASN, Director, Shands Jacksonville Transplant Center; Chief, Transplant Service Shands Jacksonville Medical Center, (formerly Methodist Medical Center); Professor of Surgery, University of Florida College of Medicine, Heath Sciences Center Jacksonville.
Web CV: http://jax.shands.org/hs/transplantation/bio.asp?id=1137

Bill Remak, B.Sc.MT, BA PHA; Chairman, California Hepatitis C Task Force; Secretary, National Association of Hepatitis Task Forces. Patient Advocate: Liver Disease & Stem Cell Research. Petaluma, CA Web CV: http://www.californiahcvtaskforce.org

Sandy Rogers, Patient Advocate: Parkinson’s Disease & Stroke
Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii

Lorenzo Rossaro, M.D., FACP; Professor and Chief, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology; past-Director, Liver Transplant program, University of California, Davis Medical Center
Sacramento, California.
Web CV

Philip Rugo, Patient Advocate: Alcoholic Liver Disease (ALD); Past Director, Harrison House Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Center
Northampton, Massachusetts

Cathy Teal is the FAIR Foundation's Director of Communications and Public Outreach. She has over twenty-five years of experience in advertising and marketing communications. In 1986, Cathy founded her own creative services firm. As a busy entrepreneur serving private and public sectors, Cathy always found time to help non-profit organizations. In recognition of these efforts, the National Association of Women Business Owners awarded her Special Recognition. Teal holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Middle Tennessee State University.
CV: http://www.fairfoundation.org/Board/Cathy_Teal_Firebrand.pdf

Richard Swabb, M.D., Board Certified in Nephrology and Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center
Loma Linda, California Web: http://www.llu.edu/lluhc/transplant_specialty.htm

James M. Ward Captain, SC, USNR (Ret.), Patient Advocate: Cardiovascular Disease (heart, stroke & hypertension)
San Diego, California

Jill Weissman, PharmD, Transplant Pharmacist; Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Loma Linda University School of Pharmacy, Loma Linda, California. Web CV: http://www.llu.edu/news/today/may0400/mc.htm

If you are a patient who would like a referral to one of our physicians, please phone Dr.
Darling at 760-200-2766 and he will facilitate the referral and provide contact information.