Board of Governors
2022-2023
July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023
OFFICERS
Raul Garza, MBA President, Billings Fellow
President & CEO, Aunt Martha’s Health & Wellness
Lorenzo Pence, DO President-Elect, Billings Fellow
SVP, Osteopathic Accreditation, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Janice Odiaga, DNP Vice President, Billings Fellow
Associate Professor, Rush University College of Nursing
Neli Vazquez Rowland Secretary, Billings Fellow
President Emeritus & Co-Founder, The Safehaven Foundation
Clark Stanford, PhD, DDS, MHA Treasurer, Billings Fellow
Professor and Dean, Edwin B. Green Chair, College of Dentistry and Dental Clinics at the University of Iowa
Cheryl Rucker-Whitaker, MD, MPH, FACP Immediate Past-President, Billings Fellow
Chief Executive Officer, Complete Care Management Partners, LLC
DIRECTORS
Tom Allen, MD FellowExecutive Medical Director, Health Service Corporation, and Chief Psychiatrist, BCBS Medicaid- Illinois
Courtney Avery, MPH Billings Fellow
Public Affairs, Culloton + Bauer Luce
Archana Chatterjee, MD Fellow
Dean, Chicago Medical School & Vice President for Medical Affairs, Rosalind Franklin University, Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
Lisa Green, DO Fellow
CEO & Physician, Family Christian Health Center
Maurice Lemon, MD, MPH Billings Fellow
Institute of Medicine of Chicago
Pat Merryweather-Arges, MA Billings Fellow
Executive Director, Project Patient Care
Doriane Miller, MD, MPH Fellow
Professor of Medicine, Director, Center for Community Health and Vitality, University of ChicagoExecutive Director, Washington Square Health Foundation
Peter Orris, MD, MPH Fellow
Professor and Chief of Service, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, UI HealthGeorge H. Gardner Professor of Clinical Gynecology, Northwestern University Health System
Anita Stewart, MD, MPH, JD Billings Fellow
Medical Director Government Programs, BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois