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Board President: Sylvestre Quevedo, MD, MPH
Medical Director, Clinical Programs, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, UCSF
Sylvestre Quevedo, MD, MPH, is the Medical Director of Clinical Programs at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. A board-certified specialist in internal medicine with a subspecialty in nephrology, Dr. Quevedo also provides integrative medicine consultations to patients at the Osher Center's clinical practice. His interests include quality of life in chronic illness, the interface between spirituality and medicine and the comparative study of healing traditions. Dr. Quevedo earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School and a Masters degree in public health at Harvard's School of Public Health. His postdoctoral training included family and community medicine, internal medicine, studies in law and public policy at Stanford Law School, and a fellowship in nephrology and medicine at Stanford University Medical Center, where he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar. As a member of the Stanford Medical School faculty, he served as Associate Chief of Nephrology and Medical Director of the Artificial Kidney Center at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. He was also founding director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the O'Connor Hospital in San Jose. Dr. Quevedo has served on national boards and committees of the American Kidney Fund, the National Academy of Sciences and the American College of Physicians.
Board Secretary: Hermes Aleman
First Republic Bank
Hermes J. Aleman immigrated to the United States in 1983 from Nicaragua. Mr. Aleman is a private banker for First Republic Bank in San Francisco advising clients about their personal and business accounts, and providing lending, trust, and investment services. Before joining First Republic Bank he worked for U.S.Bank as a Branch Manager and for Wells Fargo as Banking Center Manager. Mr. Aleman earned an MBA with a dual emphasis in Finance and Marketing at Notre Dame de Namur University, in Belmont, California. He also holds a B.A in History from Cal State Hayward. Mr. Aleman currently serves in two boards: Círculo de Vida, and The National Society of Hispanics MBA (NSHMBA).
Board Treasurer: Reynaldo A. Cano-Boza
Budget Analyst, S. F. School District
Reynaldo A. Cano-Boza is a Management Assistant for one of California's largest urban school districts. His work involves budgeting for district wide programs, projects and other issues. Mr. Cano-Boza earned an MBA in Finance and Information Technology at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, CA. He holds two Bachelor of Art degrees from San Francisco State University; one in International Relations and History, and a minor in Latin American Studies. Mr. Cano-Boza is the NSHMBA 2005 chapter president. He has been involved with NSHMBA since 1999, serving on the Board in 2003 as Treasurer, and one year term as Executive Vice President in 2004. His interests include traveling, movies, and following the latest technological trends.
Judith Luce, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Director of Oncology Services, San Francisco General Hospital
Judith Luce, M.D. is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and Director of Oncology Services at San Francisco General Hospital. She is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of California, San Francisco. She is trained and board certified in Internal Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology. Dr. Luce has long held an interest in community-based cancer control, and this has resulted in research on ways to increase breast and cervical cancer screening and follow-up in low income and ethnic minority women. This effort resulted in the formation of the Breast and Cervical Cancer Initiative in the San Francisco Department of Public Health, of which she is now the Medical Director. Dr. Luce has served as the Principal Investigator for the Breast Cancer Prevention Trial and the STAR study, two community-based nationwide research studies for breast cancer chemoprevention. She is also a collaborator on a multi-institution research grant for assessing the impact of breast cancer on women under the age of 50 in the Bay Area. She is a volunteer for the American Cancer Society and has chaired the California Division Breast Health Task Force and the Research Committee. She has served on the California Breast Cancer Research Council and on the Medical Payments Review Committee for the Breast Cancer Treatment Fund. She is the mother of two teenagers and serves as a volunteer on school and community agency boards.
Deborah Wald, Esq.
Attorney at Law
Deborah Wald, Esquire is a San Francisco-based attorney with expertise in the areas of criminal defense, family law and immigration law (www.waldlaw.net). She is a co-founder of Women Defenders, an organization for women in criminal defense; is Chair of the Family Law Advisory Council of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and is on the adjunct faculty at Golden Gate University School of Law. Ms. Wald works closely with the Judicial Council of California's Center for Families, Children and the Courts, providing trainings on contemporary family issues. Her writings have been published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, Contra Costa Lawyer, Gene Watch, Northeastern Law Magazine, and California Lawyer.
Ana M. Padula, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Ana Padula is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of California in San Francisco. Dr. Padula earned her medical degree at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She completed her internal medicine training at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, as well as a Clinical Research fellowship in Infectious Diseases at San Francisco General Hospital. She worked in private practice for several years before going back to work at UCSF. She is active in the community as a member of a religious based group working on Social Justice issues, and is one of the founding members of a non-profit organization providing relief to impoverished areas in Argentina. She is married and mother to two small children.
Sandra Thomas-Esquivel
News Director, Univision-KDTV 14
Sandra Thomas Esquivel is news director for KDTV Univision 14 in San Francisco, and has spent more than 20 years in journalism and television dedicated to serving the Latino community. She is responsible for the station's award-winning daily newscasts, "Noticias Univision" at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. and other local news programming initiatives. Ms. Esquivel holds a BA in journalism and radio from the Instituto Latinoamericano de Comunicación Educativa (ILCE-UNESCO), a BA in television and film from the University of Maryland, and is a Carnegie Fellow at the University of Southern California, where she obtained a master's degree in international journalism.
Founder/Executive Director
Carmen Ortiz, Ph.D.
Carmen Ortiz, Ph.D, an experienced psychologist and breast cancer survivor, has served as Director of the Círculo de Vida support program in San Francisco since 1995. Dr. Ortiz specializes in Spanish-language support group development and community outreach planning. She developed and implemented a hospital based support program for newly diagnosed Latinas at San Francisco General. Dr. Ortiz also developed and implemented an in-home support program for Latinas in the terminal phase of their illness. Dr. Ortiz has spoken at various conferences throughout the years, including Mayor Willie Brown's 1996 Breast Cancer Summit.
Email: carmen@circulodevida.org |
