Fall 2024 Alumni Meeting Speakers

Amira Barger is an award-winning Executive Vice President and Head of DEI Advisory, providing senior reputation management and communications counsel to clients across the globe. 

She has experience in pharma/healthcare communications, corporate branding, web and social media, M&A experience, media relations, team management, sustainability/social impact, reputation management and DEI. 

At California State University East Bay, she serves as a professor in marketing, communications and change management joining the faculty in 2019. She also lectures at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the new Public Health for Business Leaders program. 

She actively participates in organizations aligned to her passion for community service and efforts to empower historically underserved communities.

Joseph R. Betancourt, MD, MPH, is the president of the Commonwealth Fund. One of the nation’s preeminent leaders in health care policy, equity, quality, and community health, Betancourt formerly served as the senior vice president for Equity and Community Health at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and as founding director of the Disparities Solutions Center. He has devoted his career to improving the quality and value of health care for diverse populations.

Betancourt is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a board-certified internist, providing primary care to a large Spanish-speaking and minority patient panel. 

Noemi "Mimi" Doohan, MD, PhD, MPH is a board certified Family Physician and Public Health Professional.

Her Cohort 18 fellowship CHIP, The Safe Haven Clinic Institute, became a non-profit that is now producing a documentary film about encampment resolution in Santa Barbara, CA (The Hill). Mimi has been a founder of 3 Street Medicine programs in California (Santa Barbara 2005, Coachella Valley 2014 and Mendocino County 2016) as well as a founder of two California family medicine residency programs (Eisenhower Medical Center and Adventist Health Ukiah Valley). Her career is now focusing on hospitalist medicine and Public Health. As a public health professional she has served as Public Health Officer of rural Mendocino and Lake Counties, as a medical officer for the California Department of Public Health and as a Chief Medical Officer for Santa Barbara County Public Health. Mimi views climate justice through all of these lenses: especially governmental public health, rural and encampment spaces. 

Marc Futernick, MD, is an Emergency Physician and climate advocate. He serves as National Director of Sustainability for U.S. Acute Care Solutions, a multi-specialty physician services company, focused primarily on Emergency Medicine. Dr. Futernick was an original founder of the Environmental Action Committee at Dignity Health California Hospital Medical Center (CHMC).  CHMC’s environmental efforts have been recognized by Practice Greenhealth each year since 2013.

Dr. Futernick is the founding Managing Editor for the open access Journal of Climate Change and Health. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Climate Resolve, a non-profit whose mission is to champion equitable climate solutions.

Dr. Futernick joined the Steering Committee of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health in 2019 as a representative for the California state chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).  He currently also represents ACEP and serves as the Chairman of the Executive Committee.

Dr. Glaseroff, a member of the Innovation Brain Trust for the UniteHERE Health, also currently serves as faculty for the Institute of Healthcare Improvement’s “Better Care, Lower Cost” 3-year collaborative and served as a Clinical Advisor to the PBGH “Intensive Outpatient Care Program” CMMI Innovation Grant that ended in June 2015. He served on the NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home Advisory Committee 2009-2010, and the “Let’s Get Healthy California” expert task force in 2012. Dr. Glaseroff was named the California Family Physician of the Year for 2009.

Dr. Glaseroff’s interests focus on redesigning services at the intersection of patient-centered team care, patient activation, and investing effort to promote patient self-management within the context of chronic conditions.

Alfred L. Glover, DPM, FACFAS, Board-Certified Podiatrist in Foot and Ankle Surgery for 30 years. At this juncture in his career, Dr. Glover has embraced a new professional challenge as Executive Coach at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, earning certification in Career Development with an emphasis on diversity and equity training. Dr. Glover was instrumental in developing the Podiatric Surgical Residency program and completed the prestigious California Health Care Foundation/UCSF Leadership Fellowship in 2010, where he returned as Pod advisor for the 2018 and 2019 cohorts. 

Dr. Iton served as the Senior Vice President for Healthy Communities at The California Endowment where he oversaw the organization’s multimillion-dollar statewide commitment to advance policies and forge partnerships to build healthy communities and a healthy California. Iton serves on the board of directors of the Public Health Institute, the Public Health Trust, the Prevention Institute and Jobs for The Future.

In the past, he has served as both the director and County Health Officer for the Alameda County Public Health Department. In that role, he oversaw the creation of an innovative public health practice designed to eliminate health disparities by tackling the root causes of poor health that limit the quality of life and lifespan in many of California’s low‐income communities. He has worked as an HIV disability rights attorney at the Berkeley Community Law Center, a health care policy analyst with Consumers Union West Coast Regional Office, and as a physician and advocate for the homeless at the San Francisco Public Health Department.

Jay W. Lee, MD, MPH, FAAFP, is Medical Director at Integrated Health Partners of Southern California, a clinical integrated network serving nearly 400,000 patients whose medical home is at one of nine community health centers in three counties. He sees patients at a local community health center and is an associate clinical professor of family medicine at the University of California, Irvine. Lee has served in various physician executive roles during his career: leading practice transformation at a vertically integrated health system, innovating primary care model at a national value-based care organization, and overseeing day-to-day operations at nationally recognized community health centers in Los Angeles and Orange counties.

Lee has served the California Academy of Family Physicians in a variety of leadership roles, including speaker, president, and chair of the Family Physicians Political Action Committee. Lee is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine, is a Diplomate of the American Board of Family Medicine, and has the AAFP Degree of Fellow, an earned degree awarded to family physicians for distinguished service and continuing medical education.

Dr. Megan Mahoney is the Hellman Endowed Professor and Chair in the UCSF Department of Family & Community Medicine - a department with a recognized legacy of defining the role of academic family medicine in the social justice movement.  Throughout her career, Dr. Mahoney has built and led sustainable initiatives in health technology integration, quality improvement, and DEI for health care organizations. Her research has focused on the impact of primary care team cohesion on burnout, and the influence of diversity and inclusion on individual and team wellbeing. 

Dr. Pooja Mittal is the Chief Health Equity Officer (CHEO) for Health Net. She leads the company in developing, implementing, facilitating, and embedding health equity strategic initiatives into Health Net’s programs, services, actions, and outcomes. In addition to her role as CHEO, Dr. Mittal practices primary care at a Federally Qualified Health Center in San Mateo County. As a family physician, teacher and recognized national expert on Perinatal HIV care, she has a unique perspective to design strategic initiatives that improve health outcomes for California’s most vulnerable populations. Dr. Mittal has an expertise in Digital Health and is part of Health Net’s Digital Health Transformation Committee which ensures that the technology used by the company for Medicaid members is equitable. She is also part of the UCSF S.O.L.V.E. Health Tech advisory board which focuses on bridging health equity and innovation to create and adapt products that reach marginalized populations.

Dr. Mittal also dedicates her time to improving health outcomes through teaching the next generation of healthcare workers (Stanford Internal Medicine Residents). She is an Adjunct Associate Professor at UCSF and Stanford University School of Medicine. In addition to her clinical work, she has been published in the areas of well-childcare, group visits, preconception care, health equity and perinatal HIV.

Curtis Toma has served as the Hawaii Medicaid Medical Director since 2011. Hawaii Medicaid oversees $2.6 B annually in Medicaid contracts to health plans. Dr. Toma assists with the clinical oversight of the program, and as a liaison to providers in the community. In addition, Dr. Toma had the privilege of working with the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency during the COVID-19 response and Maui Fires recovery. Served on the steering committee for the national Medicaid Medical Directors Network (MMDN) comprised of fellow state Medicaid medical directors.

Formerly Executive Vice Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, Ton-Quinlivan has been quoted as an expert on higher education in the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Insider Higher Education, Stanford Social Innovation Review, U.S. News & World Report and other publications. 

Currently, Ton-Quinlivan is the CEO of Futuro Health, whose nonprofit mission is to improve the health and wealth of communities by growing the largest network of allied healthcare workers in the nation. She is an appointee of Governor Newsom to the Health Workforce Education and Training Council responsible for coordinating California’s health workforce education and training to meet the state’s needs.

Mariana Torres, MSW,  is a senior program officer with CHCF’s People-Centered Care team, which works to ensure that Californians — particularly those enrolled in Medi-Cal — receive responsive, comprehensive, and coordinated care that supports their health and well-being. Her work focuses on optimizing the behavioral health delivery system.

Prior to joining CHCF, Mariana focused on primary care and specialty mental health care delivery. Mariana has 20 years of experience providing services to Alameda and Contra Costa County’s most vulnerable populations.