Board of Trustees

Chair – Arthur J. Ochoa, JD Senior Vice President of Advancement and Chief Advancement Officer for Cedars-Sinai Health System
Vice Chair - John M. Yamamoto Vice President and Southern California Regional Counsel for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
Executive Committee Member - James Rosser, PhD President Emeritus, California State University, Los Angeles
Mohsen Bazargan (Faculty Trustee) Professor and Director of Research, Public Health Program and Department of Family Medicine, CDU
Candace Bond McKeever, MBA President, CEO Strategic Solutions Group, Inc
David M. Carlisle, MD, PhD (Ex-Officio) President and CEO, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
Linda Griego Chair , Martin Luther King Health and Wellness Community Development Corporation
Howard A. Kahn (Retired) Chief Executive Officer, LA Care Health Plan
Vidya Kaushik, MD Emeritus Professor of Medicine
B. Kathlyn Mead, MBA
Marvin O'Quinn, MPH Senior Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer, Dignity Health
Clarence L. Shields, Jr., MD Partner, Kerlan-Jobe,
Harding Young, MD Private Practice

Trustees Emeriti

Cornelius L. Hopper, MD Vice President for Health Affairs, Emeritus, University of California System
Robert Tranquada, MD Emeritus Professor, University of Southern California

2019 Board of Trustees Meeting Schedule
Meetings are held 8:00 am – 11:30 am unless otherwise stated

Tuesday, February 12
Tuesday, April 9
Tuesday, June 4
Tuesday, October 8
Tuesday, December 10

Board Committees:

Academic Affairs Committee
Chair: James Rosser, PhD
Mohsen Bazargan, PhD (Faculty Trustee)
David M. Carlisle, MD, PhD (Ex-Officio)
Marvin O'Quinn, MPH, Chair (Ex-Officio)
CDU Staff
Steve O. Michael, PhD
John W. Patton, Jr., Esq.
Deborah Prothrow-Stith, MD
Hector Balcazar, PhD, MS
Diane Breckenridge, PhD, MSN, RN, ANEF
Syreeta Greene, EdD
Lola Ogunyemi, PhD
Jay Vadgama, PhD
William Shay, PhD

Audit and Compliance Committee
Chair: Howard A. Kahn, MA
Vidya Kaushik, MD
B. Kathlyn Mead, MBA
Arthur J. Ochoa, Esq., Chair (Ex-Officio)
CDU Staff
David M. Carlisle, MD, PhD (Ex-Officio)
Karen Carr, JD
Carl McLaney, MPA
John W. Patton, Jr., Esq.

Development Committee
Chair: Harding Young, MD
Vidya Kaushik, MD
Candace Bond McKeever, MBA
B. Kathlyn Mead
Clarence Shields, MD
David M. Carlisle, MD, PhD (Ex-Officio)
Arthur J. Ochoa, Esq., (Chair, Ex-Officio)
CDU Staff
Jasmine Hill
Angela Minniefield, MPA
John W. Patton, Jr., Esq.

Executive Committee
Chair: Arthur J. Ochoa, Esq.
Vice Chair: John M. Yamamoto, Esq
David M. Carlisle, MD, PhD (Ex-Officio)
CDU Staff
John W. Patton, Jr., Esq.

Finance Committee
Chair: TBA
Thomas Priselac, MPH
David M. Carlisle, MD, PhD
Vidya Kaushik, MD
David M. Carlisle, MD, PhD (Ex-Officio)
Arthur J. Ochoa, Esq., (Chair, Ex-Officio)
CDU Staff
Carl McLaney, MPA
John W. Patton, Jr., Esq.
Bruce Johnson
Elizabeth Baskerville, CPA, MBA, JD

Governance and Nominating Committee
Chair: John M. Yamamoto, Esq.
Howard Kahn, MA
James Rosser, PhD
David M. Carlisle, MD, PhD (Ex-Officio)
Arthur J. Ochoa, Esq., (Chair, Ex-Officio)
CDU Staff
John W. Patton, Jr., Esq.

Board Report