Dr. David Buck has been appointed to the 15-member Advisory Board of the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) Program. The board, newly created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will make recommendations to the Department of Health and Human Services on grants and loans to establish nonprofit, member-run health insurers serving the individual and small-group markets.. (read GAO Press Release)
Frances Isbell, Executive Director, presented Integrated Care, Goal-Negotiated Care and Jail Inreach at the annual conference of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, meeting June 2-5 in San Francisco.
VIVA Volunteers
The Volunteer Appreciation Picnic was held Saturday, May 8 from 12-2 at Christ Church Cathedral.
Examples of courageous people who are taking steps out of homelessness.
Board of Directors 2009
| Ann Al-Bahish, Chair | Jackson, Gilmour & Dobbs, PC |
| Joseph Benson |
CHANGE Committee Representative |
| William J. Boyce, Vice-Chair | Fourteenth Court of Appeals, State of Texas |
| Scott Davidson | Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell |
| John Dickerson | CPA |
| David Finn, Secretary | Symantec Corporation |
| Kimberly Fontenot | Morgan Stanley Smith Barney |
| Anthony Greisinger, Ph.D., Honorary Chair | Kelsey Research Foundation |
| Davis Hull, Treasuer | Chase Bank |
| Thomas C. Lin, M.D. | Aetna |
| Erin Meade | The Methodist Hospital Foundation |
| Gabriela Guzman Meade | The Methodist Hospital |
| Tom Mitchell | U.S. Vets (HHH Advisory Council Representative) |
| Maureen O'Connell, O.P. | Angela House (HHH Advisory Council Representative) |
| Hector Pineda | Shell Oil Company-Legal Services U.S. |
| Paul Sarahan | Fulbright & Jaworski |
| Azeemeh Zaheer | British Consulate-General, Houston |
Associate Board
| Jim Austin | Encore |
| Kay Carr, Chair Emerita | Consultant |
| David Kaplan | Houston Chronicle |
| Marc H. Levinson | Neighborhood Centers, Inc. |
| Donald McCullough | Community Representative |
| Dana Sellers, Chair Emerita | Encore |
| Carlos Vallbona, M.D. | Baylor College of Medicine |
Advisory Board
| Lary Barton | CompuCom Systems |
| James Calaway | Calaway Interests, LLC |
| Jack Dulworth | Dulworth & Compan, Inc. |
| George Sayre, D.D.S. | Retired Dentists |