Board of Directors
Tom Higgins
ChairmanMr. Higgins has had a distinguished career both in public affairs and the private sector, most recently as the founding Chief Executive and Director of Prosetta Corporation, a biotechnology company focused on novel drug discovery and development. As a state and federal official, he led various initiatives in public health and welfare. As a businessman and entrepreneur, he created several successful ventures and is a former President of Business for Social Responsibility.
Mr. Higgins has been a volunteer board member for many health, social service and arts agencies during his career. In recent years, he has served on the board of the California Coalition for Clean Air and the National Health Law Program. Currently, he is on the boards of the Third Street Clinic and Tutor Corps in San Francisco. He is also on the board of the Human Rights Watch Council for Northern California and St. Ambrose University. Mr. Higgins has been on the board of SCAN Health Plan for over a dozen years.
Bruce A. Chernof, MD
President & Chief Executive OfficerBruce Allen Chernof, MD, FACP, currently serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of The SCAN Foundation whose mission is to advance the development of a sustainable continuum of care for seniors. The SCAN Foundation is one of the largest foundations in the United States focused entirely on improving the quality of health and life for seniors.
Prior to heading The SCAN Foundation, Dr. Chernof served as the Director and Chief Medical Officer for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, after serving as the Department’s Senior Medical Director for Clinical Affairs and Affiliations since December 2004.
Earlier in his career, Dr. Chernof served as Regional Medical Director for California Health Programs at Health Net, California's largest network-model managed care plan where he managed the Healthy Families program statewide and the managed care Medicaid program in Los Angeles County. Previously, Dr. Chernof worked as an academic general internist in the VA system as well as at Olive View UCLA Medical Center, serving as a UCLA faculty member.
Dr. Chernof completed his residency and served as Chief Resident in Internal Medicine for the UCLA-San Fernando Valley Program. After residency, Dr. Chernof completed a Fellowship in Medical Education at the UCLA School of Medicine. He earned his medical degree from UCLA and completed his undergraduate work at Harvard University.
Currently, Dr. Chernof is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at UCLA. Dr Chernof served as the founding Director of UCLA’s five-year combined MD/MBA Program. In 2002, the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA recognized Dr. Chernof with the Award for Excellence in Education for these innovative programs. He has had work published in a variety of journals including Medical Care and the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Colleen Cain
Ms. Cain is a seasoned senior executive and entrepreneur with 25 years of experience in the business of healthcare, including healthcare finance and delivery. Her 25-year employment history includes positions such as Chief Executive Officer, President, Senior Vice President and Executive Vice President and spans both privately held and Fortune 500 companies. As an entrepreneur, Ms. Cain co-founded Benova Inc., a firm that administered managed care enrollment for the Medicaid and Medicare programs. As Chief Executive Officer, she led the company from a start-up to a national, multimillion-dollar business.
In addition to being a Director of Oregon-based Legacy Health System, she serves on the board of CareOregon, a non-profit managed care plan serving Medicaid members and advocating for patient-centered healthcare. She also is a Director of PSI, a private company that provides services to state health and welfare agencies. She served on the founding board of the Oregon Health Forum and on two Oregon Governor’s Commissions on Health Care. Ms. Cain has also served on advisory panels for Medicare HMOs and for Medicare Research and Demonstration Projects. She has spoken widely in the healthcare policy field on topics of marketing and enrollment of Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries, and on the competitive environment for managed care organizations contracting with government entities which serve these beneficiaries. She currently sits on the Governor’s Charitable Check-off Commission in Oregon.
Jennie Chin Hansen, RN, MS, FAAN
Jennie Chin Hansen currently serves as the President of AARP. She holds an appointment as Senior Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco's Center for the Health Professions, and is an elected Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. She transitioned to teaching in 2005 after nearly 25 years (for over 11 years as Executive Director) at On Lok, Inc., a nonprofit family of organizations providing integrated and comprehensive primary and long-term community-based care in San Francisco. On Lok was the prototype for PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly), which was signed into federal legislation in 1997, thereby allowing its expansion to all 50 states.
Ms. Hansen serves in various leadership roles that include Commissioner of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), and Board Member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and of the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program. Ms. Hansen also is a past President of the American Society on Aging and consults with various other foundations.
Ms. Hansen has received numerous awards, including the 2005 Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator's Achievement Award; the 2002 Gerontological Society of America's Maxwell Pollack Award for Productive Living; and the Women's Healthcare Executive Woman of the Year of Northern California in 2000. She has received several alumni awards from UC San Francisco and Boston College, including an honorary doctorate from Boston College in 2008.
Kim L. Hunter
Mr. Hunter is the founder and President/Chief Executive Officer of Lagrant Communications, a multimillion-dollar integrated marketing communications corporation. In addition to his professional accomplishments, Mr. Hunter has an extensive public service background. He was appointed by the Mayor of Los Angeles to both the Cultural Affairs and Animal Services Commissions for the City of Los Angeles, serving a total of seven years. He also serves on the Queens Care Clinics Charitable board and serves on the Education and Outreach Committee. As an advocate of education, Hunter spends time as the founder and chairman of The Lagrant Foundation (TLF), a nonprofit organization, which provides scholarships, career development workshops, internships, mentorship and educational enrichment programs to minority students pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees in advertising, marketing and public relations.
Tom McDaniel
Mr. McDaniel retired from Edison International (EIX), one of the largest integrated electric utilities in the US with assets of nearly $38 billion, on July 31, 2008. EIX is the parent company of Southern California Edison, a regulated electric utility, and Edison Mission Group, a competitive power generation business. He served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of EIX. Mr. McDaniel is also a Director of Edison Mission Group, Edison Mission Energy and Edison Capital.
Prior to January 1, 2005, Mr. McDaniel was Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Edison Mission Energy, a global power generation business, specializing in the development, acquisition, construction, management, and operation of power production facilities. He became CEO and President on August 1, 2002 and was elected Chairman on January 1, 2003. From 1987 to 2002, Mr. McDaniel was Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Edison Capital, a leading provider of capital and financial services supporting the growth of energy and infrastructure projects, products, and services both domestically and internationally. During his 37-year career with EIX, Mr. McDaniel also held leadership positions in engineering, finance and operations in each of its operating companies.
Mr. McDaniel has been a Director of SCAN Health Plan since September, 2000. He is also active in a variety of charitable activities in the community including the Boys and Girls Club of Huntington Beach, Adult Day Care and the Free Wheelchair Mission. He and his family have distributed more than 1,500 wheelchairs to the disabled in Chile, Vietnam and Cambodia.
Dave Schmidt
Mr. Schmidt serves as Chief Executive Officer of SCAN Health Plan, a not-for-profit healthcare organization based in Long Beach, California. In this role, he is responsible to a board of directors and provides leadership to an executive team that is comprised of specialists who have particular expertise in addressing the needs of the more frail aging population over the age of 65. During his 25-year career in senior management, Mr. Schmidt has held executive positions in operations, business development, and sales and marketing in healthcare and other industries. He has a strong background in finance and has been instrumental in developing successful customer-focused programs and has provided strategic leadership that resulted in significant growth for other organizations.
Mr. Schmidt has been involved in fundraising and other volunteer work for local public schools, serves as Treasurer for the UCLA Sigma Nu Alumni Advisory Board and serves on the CSULB Health Administration Advisory Board and the Long Beach Meals on Wheels Advisory Board.
Patrick Seaver
Mr. Seaver was, until recently, a senior partner at Latham & Watkins, an international law firm. His practice concentrated on counseling public companies in mergers and acquisitions, financings and governance issues. He was the primary outside counsel to several New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Global Stock Markets. Mr. Seaver and his wife helped found the Westerly School of Long Beach, the first independent, non-sectarian K-8 school in Long Beach, California; he was a board member for nine years and head of the finance committee for five years; his wife was the founding board President serving in that position for seven years. Mr. Seaver also serves on the Executive Committee of Opera Pacific, the twelfth largest opera company in the United States, producing operas on the Orange County Performing Arts Center stage; he served as chairman of the company for eight years.
Linda E. Strike, PhD
Dr. Strike is an independent consultant who has worked extensively in the healthcare field, with clients that include hospitals, physicians and physician groups, academic medical centers and managed care companies. She also holds a doctorate in immunology. Dr. Strike has served as an Officer and Director of several non-profit organizations in the areas of health (including Alzheimer’s), library management and other social-services areas. She has also volunteered with local education foundations and library districts and serves as the corresponding secretary for the Long Beach Kennel Club.
Paul Torrens, MD, MPH
Paul Torrens is Professor of Health Services at the UCLA School of Public Health. A physician by initial training (Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.) with additional training in internal medicine (Bellevue Hospital, New York City) and in public health (Harvard School of Public Health), he has had a long career in the dual areas of health care management and policy. As a health care manager, Dr. Torrens has had many years of direct management experience in hospitals in New York City and Hong Kong, as well as many years of service as a member of governing boards of multi-hospital systems and health insurance plans in California and elsewhere. As a health policy expert, Dr. Torrens has served in a wide variety of advisory and consulting capacities to governmental and non-governmental organizations in all parts of the United States and in eighteen foreign countries. At the present time, he is a member of the California Technology Assessment Forum, as well as the Board of Directors of St. Johns Hospital in Santa Monica and the Partners-in-Care Foundation in Los Angeles. His textbook, Introduction to Health Services, has been a standard text in graduate programs in health services management throughout the country for almost thirty years and is currently in its eighth edition.
Ryan M. Trimble, DDS
Dr. Trimble brings nearly 30 years of experience in healthcare services, most recently having served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a Board Member of P5, Inc., dba ProviderPay, a healthcare technology and services company, focused on integrated healthcare claims and banking services. Mr. Trimble served in the past as a Board Member of the Arizona Affordable HealthCare Foundation, a non-profit coalition of business, government, hospitals, insurers, labor, physicians and community leaders planning for accessible, affordable, quality healthcare; the Crisis Nursery of Phoenix, an organization dedicated to breaking the cycle of child abuse and neglect by providing protection, support and opportunities to troubled families and their children, and the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra.