President: Ronald P. Hattis, MD, MPH (California)
Vice-Pres: Monica M. Sweeney, MD, MPH (New York)
Secretary: Deanna C. Stover, PhD, FNP (California)
Treasurer: Dennis Thompson, MD (California)
Past-Pres.: Cary Savitch, MD (California)
Directors: Adriana Andaluz, MPH (New York)*
Franklyn N. Judson, MD (Colorado)
Elizabeth Kidder, MD, MPH (Washington, DC)
Yvonne W. Pover, RDH (Virginia) Passed away 4/14, replaced 9/14 by Jeffrey D. Klausner, MD, MPH (California)
The Advisory Council will consist of:
Denise Bleak, MSN, PHN (California)
I. Jean Davis, PA, DC (California)
Paul Galatowitsch, PhD* (New York)
Peter Kerndt, MD, MPH (California)
Jeffrey D. Klausner, MD, MPH* (California) Moved to Board 9/14
Evette Oszyk, BA (Florida)
Gary A. Richwald, MD, MPH (California)
The subsidiary Beyond AIDS Foundation, a 501(c)3 charitable corporation, will be governed by the following Board (appointed by the Board of Beyond AIDS):
President: Deanna C. Stover, PhD, FNP (California)
Vice-Pres.: Cary Savitch, MD (California)
Secretary: Ronald P. Hattis, MD, MPH (California)
Treasurer: Dennis P. Thompson, MD (California)
Directors: Adriana Andaluz, MPH* (New York)
Franklyn N. Judson, MD (Colorado)
Elizabeth Kidder, MD, MPH (Washington, DC)
Jeffrey Klausner, MD, MPH (California) replacing Yvonne W. Pover, RDH
Monica M. Sweeney, MD, MPH (New York)
The Foundation's Scientific Committee is co-chaired by Drs. Franklyn Judson and Monica Sweeney.
*new appointments
BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF BOARD
MEMBERS OF BEYOND AIDS, 2014/2015
RONALD P. HATTIS, MD,
MPH, President
Ron Hattis has served as President of Beyond AIDS for the past six
years. When the organization was
founded, he was the first Vice-President, and later served as Secretary, as
well as President of our subsidiary tax-deductible Foundation. He has been
active in contacts with federal leaders, and in Beyond AIDS' legislative
efforts in California, and has represented our organization in consultations
with the California Office of AIDS. He developed the original Bylaws for both
the membership organization and the foundation, and has mentored many of our
past interns.
He is a physician, certified as a practicing HIV/AIDS specialist (AAHIVMS) and board-certified in Public Health/Preventive Medicine,
living in Redlands, California. He was
formerly the chief physician at a large state hospital, where he was in charge
of HIV testing and training HIV educators for 20 years, and he treated HIV/AIDS
patients at the infectious disease clinic. Since retiring from that position, he has worked
part-time in clinical medicine including HIV care, and is on the clinical
faculty of Loma Linda University School of Medicine, where he has lectured on
HIV as a representative of our Foundation.
He is also active with a disaster medical assistance team, and helped
out at the World Trade Center, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Ike, and the
Northridge earthquake.
Other past positions in reverse order have included teacher of
family medicine, county health officer, country family physician (on Kauai in
Hawaii), and Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer for the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (assigned through field services to the Hawaii
Department of Health).
His goals for Beyond AIDS over the next two years include developing
proposals for the 2015 update of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy; and continuing
to be involved with legislation in California and important states, as well as
at the federal level. In particular, he plans to continue to work to promote
the HIV care continuum; to utilize HIV reporting to trigger outreach for referral
of patients to treatment, partner services, and other services to prevent
transmission; and to enhance HIV prevention science.
MONICA SWEENEY, MD,
MPH, Vice-President
Monica
Sweeney recently retired from her position as the Assistant Commissioner of
Health for New York City after over 6 years in charge of the Bureau of HIV/AIDS
Prevention and Control. Her
responsibilities there included oversight of programs and budgets for
prevention; care and treatment (Ryan White); Housing Opportunities for People
With AIDS (HOPWA); and the epidemiology/Field Services Unit. She immediately took a position at the Mailman
School of Public Health, Columbia University also accepted a position with a
Foundation Board. Additionally, she is
now the chair of the SUNY Downstate Medical Center's Association of Council
Members and College Trustees.
Prior to her
present position, she was the medical director and vice president for medical
affairs in a Federally Qualified Health Center in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
NY. The community served was medically and
economically deprived and HIV/AIDS was one of many challenges she addressed
daily during her 17 years in Bedford Stuyvesant. During her tenure there, in addition to direct
patient care, she became involved in policy and advocacy and had the
opportunity to work with Assemblywoman Nettie Mayersohn to get her historic
legislation (the Baby AIDS Bill, and Named-based Reporting) passed -- over
almost insurmountable opposition.
Dr.
Sweeney is a board-certified internist and geriatrician with a masters degree
in public health. She has always
combined individual and public health in her practice, by working with the
Medical Society for the State of New York (MSSNY), the National Association of
Community Health Centers (NACHC), and the American College of Physicians (ACP)
and by serving on the President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA). Prior to election to the position of
Vice-President, she was a Director on the Beyond AIDS Board, and before that she
served on the Advisory Council. Her goals as Vice-President include working
diligently to broaden the reach of the only AIDS organization that has always used
sound public health policy to fight the epidemic.
DEANNA
STOVER, PHD, RN-BC, FNP-BC, CNS, COHN-S, Secretary
Deanna
Stover is the Executive Director, Community Based (Outreach) Programs and
Services, at Redlands Community Hospital, with responsibility for the provision
of healthcare to the community with a focus on low-income and underserved
populations. She began her nursing career in 1979 while serving in the United
States Air Force in Europe, and she earned her PhD in Nursing, Health Policy from
Loma Linda University in 2011. She holds board-certification as a family
practice nurse practitioner, medical-surgical nurse, and occupational health
nurse specialist.
Prior
positions include Director, Medical Services, City of Los Angeles, and Chief of
Clinical Operations, Center for Employee Health and Wellness, County of San
Bernardino. She has actively worked in the medical arena for over 30 years with
training and expertise in community-based healthcare, health policy, HIV/AIDS
health care, occupational medicine, and advance practice nursing as a family
nurse practitioner and clinical nurse specialist.
She
holds a certificate as an Advanced HIV Nurse Clinician from USC Medical Center,
AIDS education training center (1995) and has provided HIV/AIDS training for
healthcare providers.
She
has served on organizational boards at the state and local level and is a
current board member for a local non-profit community service organization,
Building A Generation, located in Redlands California, in addition to being the
current Secretary, Beyond Aids, Inc, and the President of the organization’s Foundation.
DENNIS P.
THOMPSON, MD, Treasurer
Dennis
Thompson recently retired as a plastic surgeon in solo practice in Santa
Monica, California. For approximately
the last 13 years, he has been an active participant in Beyond AIDS. He has also been active in Physicians for HIV
Control, and was elected its President In
October 2007. He has promoted the positions on HIV/AIDS of both
organizations as a frequent delegate to the California Medical Association
House of Delegates.
In
the past, he served as President of the Los Angeles Society of Plastic
Surgeons, California Society of Plastic Surgeons, UCLA Plastic Surgery Society,
and International Society of Clinical Plastic Surgeons. Other organizational affiliations include
membership in the Los Angeles County Medical Association, California Medical
Association, American Medical Association (Life Member), American Society for
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. In
addition, Dr. Thompson is a Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery at UCLA. His goals in his new role of Treasurer, and as
a continued member of the Board of Directors. include lending his
organizational experience, and his medical and academic background, to help
advance the goals of Beyond AIDS.
ADRIANA
ANDALUZ, MPH, Director (New Addition to the Board)
Adriana Andaluz originally hails from Los Angeles, CA, where she
studied Microbiology along with a minor in Spanish Literature at the University
of California, Los Angeles. She began her path in public health as an undergrad
while working with Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias at the Pacific Institute for
Women’s Health, an incubator for programs designed to further women’s health in
the US, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia.
Largely inspired by Dr. Rodriguez-Trias’ dedication to health
policy and increasing access to care, Ms. Andaluz’s first post-collegiate job
was in the Public Affairs department at Planned Parenthood Los Angeles. During
her tenure, she was able to work on many politically charged state and federal
campaigns, including California’s historic Reproductive Privacy Act.
Ms. Andaluz later moved to New York to pursue a master in public
health and work at the New York City Department of Health, where she has been
since 2007. She currently serves as the Director of External Affairs for the
Bureau of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control where she oversees the development of
priority policy initiatives, is responsible for the Bureau’s interactions with
the Mayor’s Office, other inter- and intra-governmental agencies and
key-stakeholders including the agency’s press office, and also oversees the
Bureau’s social marketing and social media activities.
FRANKLYN
N. JUDSON, MD, MPH, Director
Frank
Judson received his BA from Wesleyan University in 1964, his MD from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1968, and his house staff training from the
University of Wisconsin Hospitals (internal medicine) and the University of
Colorado (infectious diseases). He was
an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer with the Centers for Disease Control
assigned to the Colorado Department of Public Health (1970-72), and Scientific Liaison, Global
Program on AIDS, Geneva (1990 -91). He
is board-certified in internal medicine, infectious diseases and preventive
medicine.
For
over 41 years, his research interests have concentrated on the epidemiology and
control of sexually transmitted infections including hepatitis B and HIV. His public health policy interests have run
the gamut from childhood and adolescent vaccine programs, to urban air
pollution, bioterrorism preparedness, and tobacco, tuberculosis, influenza, and
HIV prevention and control. He has
authored or co-authored more than 270 scientific publications.
Dr.
Judson has served as President of the American STD Association (ASTDA),
President of the International Society for STD Research (ISSTDR), President of
the International Union Against the Sexually Transmitted Infections (IUSTI),
Chairman of the Board of the American Social Health Association (ASHA), Chief
of Infectious Diseases for the Denver Health Medical Center (1983-2002), and Director
of the Denver Public Health Department (1986-2004). He has been a member of the
Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA), the CDC/HHS Advisory
Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the Board of Regents of the
American College of Preventive Medicine, and the Colorado State Board of Health.
Currently, he is a member of the Colorado Governor’s Expert Emergency Epidemic
Response Committee (GEEERC) and Professor, Department of Medicine (Infectious
Diseases) and the Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado,
Denver.
ELIZABETH (BETSY) KIDDER, MD, MPH, Director
Elizabeth (Betsy) Kidder
is a medical doctor with a background in public health. Her career focus is on
access to quality health care by underserved communities and populations, with
a particular interest in innovation in preventive health care services and
policy change processes that improve access to such services.Betsy joined Beyond AIDS in 2001 as an intern, and has served as a Board member since 2003. She received her Master's in Public Health in 2004 and her Medical Degree in 2011, both from the George Washington University. She is currently finishing her doctoral dissertation in health policy, and will begin medical residency in 2014.
As a public health professional, she has worked in Rome, Italy with the United Nations on the development team for the "Initiative to End Child Hunger" - a collaboration between the World Bank, the United Nations Children's Fund, and the World Food Program. Previous to that, she worked with the Global Health Council in Washington, DC on issues related to HIV/AIDS and child health, as a part of a national PBS media and outreach campaign in global health. She has also worked at the Department of Defense's HIV/AIDS Prevention Program as well as the Futures Group, where she assisted with the research and writing of a "What Works" program guide for developing country policymakers on evidence-based practices in HIV/AIDS/STI prevention.
Her interest in issues related to HIV was initially sparked by the case of Nushawn Williams, a young man who knowingly spread HIV in her small hometown community and high school. After that incident, she traveled to South Africa, where she studied the epidemic in the Eastern Cape, taught an HIV/AIDS education class, and volunteered in a pediatric HIV clinic, all of which deepened her commitment to staying involved with HIV advocacy through her career.
JEFFREY D. KLAUSNER, MD, MPH (appointed 9/14)
Jeffrey D. Klausner is a UCLA
Professor of Medicine and Public Health. He served as a CDC Epidemic
Intelligence Service Officer 1995-1997, Deputy Health Officer and Director of
STD Prevention and Control Services, San Francisco Department of Public Health,
1998-2009, and Branch Chief for HIV and TB, CDC South Africa, 2009-2011.
Dr. Klausner has been a leader in implementing the
public health approach to HIV prevention and control through policy and
programmatic activites resulting in the streamlining and evaluation of routine
HIV testing, early HIV case detection with HIV RNA screening, linkage-to-care
and contact tracing and partner notification services. In addition Dr.
Klausner through his epidemiologic research, identified the role that bacterial
STDs, the Internet, sex clubs, methamphetamine and Viagra played in augmenting
the risk of HIV tranmission and implemented successful population-based
programs to mitigate those risk factors. In collaboration with community
leaders and organizations, he inititated sexual health campaigns and peer-led
sexual health services for sex workers and gay men in San Francisco which have
been replicated globally.
Dr. Klausner has been conducting research in
laboratory-based diagnostics for HIV infection and other STDs since the early
1990s and is considered an expert in infectious disease detection and
management. He is currently board certified in Internal Medicine and
Infectious Diseases. He has a busy clinical HIV/AIDS practice in Los
Angeles and regularly attends on the infectious diseases consultation service
at UCLA Ronald Reagan Hospital. Dr. Klausner brings nearly two decades
of public health, clinical and research experience to the Board, much of it
specific to HIV prevention.
YVONNE
POVER, RDH, Director (until passing 4/14)
Yvonne Pover is one of the original founders of Beyond AIDS, and served
as the Treasurer for the organization’s first 15 years. The East Coast
headquarters of Beyond AIDS is housed rent-free in her office. She worked with
the attorneys to incorporate both Beyond AIDS Inc. and Beyond AIDS Foundation. She
designed and formerly produced the organization’s awards and certificates, and previously
issued the newsletter and maintained our donor database. She has provided
advice and guidance on our web site. As she lives close to the Capitol in
suburban Virginia, she has represented Beyond AIDS at Congressional hearings on
the Hill. She has been involved in our
strategy, public relations, and fundraising from the beginning.
Before she became a designer and art director, she spent years as
a registered dental hygienist, a profession she subsequently continued to
practice part-time. In that profession, she became acquainted with HIV/AIDS
issues “up close and personal -- at a blood level,” as she says. Since 1981,.she has
seen the havoc this disease has wrought, and began wondering early on why we
did not deal with the virus in the same way we dealt with some other
STD's--with sound public health policy. She is a graduate of Marquette
University (dental hygiene), Institut Minerva in Zürich (German languages), and
NVCC (Ad Design) in Virginia, and is fluent in German, Swiss-German, and
Spanish.
CARY
SAVITCH, MD, Immediate Past-President
Cary Savitch was one of the Founding Members of Beyond AIDS,
organized its founding meetings, and was elected its first President. He has
served on the Board of Directors since the founding of the organization. He recruited many of the early members of the
organization by speaking to friends, colleagues, and patients about the need
for HIV reform, writing a book about the subject, and giving talks on HIV,
especially in Ventura County and the surrounding area where the founding
meetings were held.
He is an infectious disease physician, and has taken care of AIDS
patients for the past 33 years (starting even before the disease had a name). In
1997, he published a book, “The Nutcracker is Already Dancing,” which
highlighted the lack of application to HIV of sound public health practices
that had been successfully utilized for diseases such as syphilis and tuberculosis.
He believes strongly that the mission of Beyond AIDS, to stop the transmission
of HIV, is the direction we must take in order to save lives in this epidemic.
He expresses pride in the time he has already spent with Beyond
AIDS, which he believes is the only organization willing to stand up and
support the necessary public health policies needed to contain HIV. His goals
are to continue these efforts in every and any capacity needed, and to
encourage others to join our battle for HIV/AIDS prevention.
