A coalition of stakeholders, including California Medical Association (CMA), California Society of Addiction Medicine (CSAM), California Psychiatric Association (CPA), California Society of Anesthesiologists (CSA), The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG), California Hospital Association (CHA), The Doctors Company, and other appropriate groups that yet may be identified, meeting regularly to discuss and coordinate strategies as the development of CPPPH evolves.
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- James Hay, MD, Chair (CMA)
A family physician in fulltime private practice in Encinitas, CA in the North Coast Family Medical Group; a member of the California Medical Association (CMA) Board of Trustees since 1994 and 2011-12 President of the Association.
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- Hal Dasinger (The Doctors Company)
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- Marvin Firestone, MD (CPA)
Twenty years in private practice of neuropsychiatry, forensic psychiatry and legal medicine/medical law; Chairman, Ethics Committee, Northern California Psychiatric Society, and member of the boards of trustees of the Psychiatric Foundation of Northern California and American Board of Legal Medicine.
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- Lisa Folberg (CMA)
Vice President for Medical and Regulatory Policy at the California Medical Association (CMA) with lead responsibility for health system reform and financing; former CMA Associate Director of Government Relations and senior staff In the California Legislative Analyst’s Office.
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- Gail Jara (CSAM)
Founding Executive Director of the California Society of Addiction Medicine where she helped with the design of the original Medical Board of California’s Diversion program, staffed the CSAM Committee on Well-being of Physicians and the Liaison Committee to Diversion.
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- Steve Klompus, PA (MBC Physician Assistant Committee)
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- David Pating, MD (CSAM)
Chief, Addiction Medicine and Chair, Physician Wellbeing Committee, Kaiser Medical Center-San Francisco; Assistant Clinical Professor, University of California, San Francisco; Governor’s Appointee to the California Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission (Prop 63); past president of the California Society of Addiction Medicine
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- Robert Reisfeld, MD (TPMG)
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- Stephanie Shaner, MD (CSAM)
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- Lee T. Snook, Jr., MD (CMA)
President and Founder of Metropolitan Pain Management Consultants, a Medical Group, Inc. in Sacramento; board certified in internal medicine, in anesthesiology with added qualifications in pain management, pain medicine, and addiction medicine. a member of the California Medical Association (CMA) Board of Trustees
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- Thomas C. Specht, MD (CSA)
is a member of the Physician Well Being Committee of Tahoe Forest Hospital, Truckee and a member of the California Society of Anesthesiologists’ Physician Health and Well-Being Committee. He serves on the CMA/CDA Physicians’ and Dentists’ Confidential Line. He is currently the public member of the California Dental Board’s Southern Diversion Evaluation Committee.
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- Caroline Stewart, LCSW
Current president of the board of A New PATH (Parents for Addiction Treatment & Healing); Clinical Supervisor of the Department of Psychiatry at University of California San Diego (UCSD) and private practicing psychotherapist
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- Daniel Lang, MD
is an author and lecturer on medical staff-hospital relations. He is consultant to Hospital Association of Southern California committees and the Center for Hospital Medical Executives. He was the Medical Director of HASC from 1986 to 2009.
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- Luis T. Sanchez, MD
is the Director of Physician Health Services, the physician health program for the state of Massachusetts. He was the president of the Federation of State Physician Health Programs from 2005 to 2009.
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- Janis Thibault, MFT
was the founding director of the State Bar of California Lawyer Assistance Program and the former director of the Medical Board of California Physician Diversion Program. She has a private consulting business focusing on mental health programs and professional assistance programs. She is the Program Consultant for CPPPH.
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