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Leaders in Serious Illness Care

C-TAC Board of Directors

Bill Novelli
Co-Founder of C-TAC, Professor, McDonough School of Business Emeritus, Georgetown University
Tom Koutsoumpas
Co-Founder of C-TAC, Founder and President, Healthsperien
Alexandra Drane
Co-founder and CEO, ARCHANGELS
Charlotte Yeh, MD
Chief Medical Officer, AARP
David A. Jones, Jr
Founder, Chrysalis Ventures
Dominic Moore, MD, FAAP
Division Chief for Pediatric Palliative Care, Intermountain and Associate Professor, University of Utah School of Medicine
Edith Clifton
Chair of the SEMATAC Steering Committee
Hoangmai (Mai) Pham, MD, MPH
President, Institute for Exceptional Care
Lois Quam
President and CEO, Pathfinder International
Mark Schoeberl
Executive Vice President of Advocacy, American Heart Association
Mark Sterling
Chief Innovations Officer, C-TAC
Patrick T. Courneya, MD
Former Chief Health Plan Medical Officer, HealthPartners
Ravi Parikh, MD, MPP
Assistant Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy and Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Immediate Past C-TAC Board Members

  • Ann Monroe, President Emeritus, Health Foundation for W&CNY (2012-2018)
  • BJ Miller, MD, President & Counselor, Mettle Health (2018-2022)
  • Brad Stuart, MD, Chief Medical Officer, C-TAC (2012-2014)
  • Bud Hammes, PhD, Executive Director Emeritus, Respecting Choices (2012-2016)
  • Charlie Sabatino, JD, Director, ABA Commission on Law and Aging (2012-2015)
  • Cynda Hylton Rushton, PhD, RN, Anne and George L. Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics in the Berman Institute of Bioethics and the School of Nursing at Johns Hopkins University, with a joint appointment in the School of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics (2012-2014)
  • David Longnecker, MD, Chief Clinical Innovations Officer Emeritus, C-TAC (2012-2019)
  • Don Schumacher, Psy.D, President, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (2012-2015)
  • Jeff Weiss, MD, Founder and Managing Director, CCI, Inc. (2012-2019)
  • Leonard Schaeffer, Advisory Board Chair, USC Schaeffer Center, Judge Robert Maclay Widney Chair, University of Southern California, Founding Chair and CEO, WellPoint (now Anthem) (2012-2017)
  • Lucy Kalanithi, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine (2018-2022)
  • Meena Seshamani, VP, Clinical Care Transformation, MedStar Health (2021)
  • Myra Christopher, Consultant & Author, Kathleen M. Foley Chair in Pain and Palliative Care, Center for Practical Bioethics (2012-2014)
  • Nancy Brown, Chief Executive Officer, American Heart Association  (2013-2023)
  • Randy Krakauer, MD, National Medical Director Emeritus, Aetna (2012-2019)
  • Rev. Dr. Tyrone Pitts, Senior Faith Advisor, C-TAC, General Secretary Emeritus for the Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc. (2012-2014)
  • Rev. Major Lewis Jemison, D. Min., Senior Pastor, St. John Missionary Baptist Church (2015-2016)
  • Richard Umbdenstock, President Emeritus, American Hospital Association (AHA) (2016-2021)
  • Shirley Roberson, Patient Advocate and Originator of the “Blue Chair” story (2020-2022)
  • Tom Higgins, Founding Chief Executive and Director at Prosetta Biosciences, Inc.
  • Rev. Dr. Yvonne V. Delk, Minister, United Church of Christ (2016-2023)
  • Jeffrey Burnich, MD, Former Chief Physician Enterprise Executive, Canopy Health (2016-2023)
  • Mark Ganz, President and CEO, Cambia Health Services (2016-2023)