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Class of: 1984
Departments: Health Policy and Management
Lester Breslow Lifetime Achievement Award
As executive vice president of health plan operations for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Southam has national…
Class of: 1981
Departments: Community Health Sciences
Inductee
Vichit-Vadakan is the founding dean of the Faculty of Public Health at Thammasat University in Thailand, where she has been instrumental in developing the school’s educational…
Class of: 1995
Departments: Epidemiology
Inductee
A medical epidemiologist trained in veterinary medicine and public health, Angulo has served in a variety of scientific and leadership positions related to food safety, anti-microbial…
Class of: 1973
Departments: Community Health Sciences
Inductee
Brindis is director of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and a professor of pediatrics and health policy at UC San Francisco, where she is also director of…
Class of: 1975 and 1981
Departments: Epidemiology
Inductee
In a career spanning three decades at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Dr. Marc Strassburg has held positions including Director of Web Informatics, Chief…
Class of: 1981
Departments: Health Policy and Management
Inductee
Dr. Lisa Rubenstein is a professor of medicine and public health at VA Greater Los Angeles and UCLA, and a senior natural scientist at RAND. She directs the VA Center for…
Class of: 1976
Departments: Health Policy and Management
Inductee
Anthony Rodgers has over 30 years of healthcare executive management experience in public and private health plans, hospital systems, and State and Federal Government. He is…
Class of: 1992
Departments: Community Health Sciences
Inductee
Kristin Kalla is the Senior Program Officer at the Trust Fund for Victims, which supports the International Criminal Court in The Hague to restore dignity for survivors of genocide, war…
Class of: 1990
Departments: Epidemiology
Inductee
Emmett Chase and Eva Smith have worked together throughout their careers to serve the Indian community. Eva Smith is the Medical Director for the K'ima:w Medical Center. She began her work as Medical…
Class of: 1990
Departments: Community Health Sciences
Inductee
Emmett Chase and Eva Smith have worked together throughout their careers to serve the Indian community. Dr. Chase was the founding CEO for the Tribal Health Program and Medical Director…
Class of: 1984
Departments: Health Policy and Management
Inductee
Dr. Mario Ricardo Calderon is a physician executive and educator with over 25 years experience in public health, workforce/leadership development, and international…
Class of: 1972 and 1976
Departments: Health Policy and Management
Inductee
Dr. Fred Wasserman formed a group practice of community physicians in Hawthorne, California, in 1973 and developed one of the early Federally Qualified HMOs. The HMO…
Class of: 1968
Departments: Community Health Sciences
Inductee
Dr. Doris Browne is the President and CEO of Browne and Associates, Inc., a self-owned business that addresses health disparities through education and training. In 2000, she…
Class of: 1972
Departments: Community Health Sciences
Inductee
Dr. Ralph Brindis, Chief Medical Officer of the American College of Cardiology's National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Philip…
Class of: 1997
Departments: Health Policy and Management
Inductee
Dr. Neal Lonky, an entrepreneur-inventor who has developed several surgical tools and devices, is a Clinical Professor of OB/GYN at the University of California, Irvine…
Class of: 1981
Departments: Epidemiology
Inductee
Ms. Billie Weiss, Executive Director Emeritus and Founder of the Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles and Co-chair of Urban Networks to Increase Thriving Youth (UNITY), has…
Class of: 2013
Departments: Health Policy and Management
Inductee
Rachel Hornstein, who has devoted her career to public service, is currently a Health Policy Analyst in the National Center for Health Statistics CDC, where her research…
Class of: 1996
Departments: Epidemiology
Inductee
A lifelong Bruin, Dr. Elizabeth Yano is the Director of the VA Health Services Research & Development Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Policy, and…
Class of: 1990
Departments: Health Policy and Management
Inductee
Elaine Batchlor is CEO of the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, a state-of-the-art, private nonprofit safety net hospital which opened in 2015. She previously served…
Class of: 2003
Departments: Epidemiology
Inductee Dr. Vonthanak Saphonn is the Rector of the University of Health Sciences (UHS) in Cambodia where he is helping to educate the next generation of Cambodian health professionals. He is also an…