Our Board of Trustees provides strategic leadership to help ensure our mission of continuing the teaching and healing ministry of Jesus Christ.

Chair: Thomas Lemon, MDiv, General Vice President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Silver Spring, Maryland

Vice chair: G. Alexander Bryant, DMin, President, North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists, Columbia, Maryland

Lisa Beardsley-Hardy, PhD, Director, Department of Education, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Silver Spring, Maryland

Francis Chan, MD, Chair, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California

Zeno Charles-Marcel, MD, Director, Department of Health Ministries, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Silver Spring, Maryland

Wilfredo Colón, PhD, Professor and Head, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York

Daniel Dawes, JD, Sr. Vice President, & Executive Director of the Institute of Global Health Equity, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee

Paul H. Douglas, PhD, Treasurer, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Silver Spring, Maryland.

Wayne B. Harris, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia

Richard H. Hart, MD, DrPH, President & Chief Executive Officer, Loma Linda University Health and President, Loma Linda University and President, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California

Paul Herrmann, MD, PhD, Provost of Loma Linda University and LLUH Executive Vice President for University Affairs and Chair, Department of Pathology and Human Anatomy, School of Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California

Anthony Hilliard, MD, Loma Linda University Health President-elect,  Chief Executive Officer for LLUH Hospitals and LLUH Executive Vice President for Hospital Affairs

Erton Köhler, MTh, President, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Silver Spring, Maryland

Angela M. Lalas, MBA, CPA, Chief Financial Officer, LLUH Hospitals and Executive Vice President for Finance, Loma Linda University Health, Loma Linda, California

Robert E. Lemon, MBA, Special Assistant to the Treasurer of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Silver Spring, Maryland

José Loredo, MD, MPH, Professor of Clinical Medicine Emeritus, UC San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, California

Robert Martin, MD, LLUH Senior Vice President for Finance, Clinical Faculty and CFO of LLU Faculty Medical Group

Richard McEdward, DMiss, Secretary, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Silver Spring, Maryland

Barbara McKinney, MD, MPH, Physician Surveyor, The Joint Commission Accreditation & Certifications Operations, Jacksonville, Florida

Sheryl D. Moorhead, MS, BSN, RN, Retired nursing and human resources administrator, Mount Dora,  Florida

Richard Osborn, PhD, retired educational administrator, Moreno Valley, California

Ricardo Peverini, MD, Senior Vice President for Clinical Faculty, Loma Linda University Health and President/CEO, Loma Linda University Faculty Medical Group, Loma Linda, California

E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, Dean Emeritus and Former Executive Vice President, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

Sandra Roberts, DMin, Executive Secretary, Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Westlake Village, California

Herbert Ruckle, MD, Chair, Department of Urology, School of Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California

Jennifer Sacro, Esq., Business attorney, Glendale, California

Zareh Sarrafian, MBA, CEO of Riverside University Health System, Moreno Valley, California

Randall Schell, MD, MACM, Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

Eunmee Shim, MSN, RN, CEO, UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Bolingbrook, Bolingbrook, Illinois

Ella Simmons, EdD, Retired educator & administrator, Louisville, Kentucky

Laren Tan, MD, LLUH Senior Vice President for Clinical Faculty Operations and COO of LLU Faculty Medical Group

Tamara Thomas, MD, LLUH Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs and Dean, School of Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California

Gary Thurber, PhD, President, Mid-America Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Lincoln, Nebraska

Curtis Vixie, DDS, Dentist, Susanville, California

Rodney Wehtje, MBA, CPA, Finance executive/consultant, Meadow Vista, California

Jennifer Wenzel, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

April Wilson, MD, Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California

Advisors

Carlton Byrd, DMin, President, Southwest Region Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Cedar Hill, Texas

Ruth Horton, EdD, Vice President, Education, North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists, Columbia, Maryland

Paul Llewellyn, BS, President, Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

Paulo Lopes, President, ADRA, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Silver Spring, Maryland

Elden Ramirez, MAPM, President, Lake Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Berrien Spring, Michigan

Artur Stele, PhD, General Vice President, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Silver Spring, Maryland

Ray Wahlen, MBA, CPA, Under-treasurer, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Silver Spring, Maryland

Revised 04/15/26