Board of Directors:

	Nancy Lapolla, MPH
	President
	Nancy Lapolla has over 20 years of experience in public health. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Community Health and a Masters degree in Public Health. Ms. Lapolla has been with the Santa Barbara County EMS Agency since 1994, and served as the EMS Agency Director since May 1998. As a Director, Ms. Lapolla has overall responsibility for emergency medical services system; providing leadership for the EMS staff and the broader EMS system. As President of the Board of Directors of DWW-SBSM Ms. Lapolla provides oversight and guidance to the direction and programs of this organization.

	Father Jon Stephen Hedges, EMT-B, BCCC, CTR
	Vice President
	Fr. Jon is is a founding Board Member of Doctors Without Walls/ Santa Barbara Street Medicine. An Orthodox priest, he serves as volunteer Chaplain with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department, the Isla Vista Foot Patrol and several other agencies. Fr. Jon is a Board Certified Crisis Chaplain with the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress and Certified Trauma Responder (CTR) with the Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists, he also trained as an Emergency Medical Technician (NREMT-B). Fr. Jon serves in many other capacities as an emergency responder including Chaplain and EMT with the Santa Barbara County MRC. He has also collaborated and consulted with several Santa Barbara County agencies on crisis and disaster mental health issues and is a trained member of the national Red Cross Spiritual Response Team (SRT). Fr. Jon was deployed by Red Cross to Louisiana early in September of 2005 after Hurricane Katrina as a Disaster Mental Health worker and was requested for detached service by the Louisiana State Sheriff's Association to work on the streets with the New Orleans Police and other responders before Red Cross was cleared to enter the city. He has been called on in many occasions to work side-by-side with first responders in many crisis situations.

	Marguerite Sanchez
	Secretary/Treasurer
	Marguerite, Financial Analyst, is Secretary/Treasurer of DWW-SBSM. She is responsible for the implementation of new legislation and subsequent collection of fees and fines for Santa Barbara County Superior Court. Ms. Sanchez began her career as a staff accountant with Bartlett, Pringle and Wolf. She was the Accounting Manager for Minicars, Inc. the developer of the automotive airbag and passive restraint seat belts, a Controller for a publicly traded automotive design studio, working with such companies as Ford, Chrysler, Jeep and McLaren Racing and lastly was Controller for a publicly traded Internet company (NASDAQ). Ms. Sanchez resides in Santa Barbara, California.

	Jason Prystowski, MD, MPH
	Board Member
	Jason Prystowsky attended University of California at Santa Barbara where he studied both philosophy and biology. He then went on to get a medical degree and public health degree at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL. Jason trained in emergency medicine at Emory University and Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, GA, where he served as chief resident and a faculty member while doing an ethics fellowship. Jason spent 2 years as the medical director of the medical student run Open Door Community's Harriet Tubmen Free Clinic. After leaving Emory University, he worked on both the Navajo Indian reservation in Arizona, and on the Rosebud Indian reservation in South Dakota. In the global arena, Jason has worked in Uganda, Haiti, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Antarctica, and most recently worked for Medicins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders in Sudan doing nutrition, vaccination campaigns, obstetrics, TB, kala-azar, tropical medicine, and surgical trauma. Jason embraces the Doctors Without Borders tradition of temoignage and speaks out about what he and other MSF volunteers have seen as doctors. He shares the stories of triumph and challenge about the clinical and public health impact of social injustice, poverty, and social inequalities. Jason is currently clinical faculty in emergency medicine at both Loma Linda University and at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center, and continues to work part time at Cottage hospital in the emergency department.

	Rabbi Stephen Cohen
	Board Member
	Rabbi Stephen Cohen came to serve as the rabbi of Congregation B'nai B'rith in 2004, after nineteen years as the rabbi and Executive Director of the Hillel Foundation at UC Santa Barbara. A native of Rochester, New York, Rabbi Cohen was born in 1957, received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1979 and Rabbinical ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1985. He and his wife Marian have been married since 1986 and have two grown children.

	Larry Crandell
	Board Member
	For more than 40 years, Larry Crandell has used laughter to loosen purse strings, getting the rich and powerful to part with their money for charity. He's helped hundreds of nonprofits as a volunteer and as an emcee/ auctioneer and became one of the area's best known community leaders. No wonder people call him Mr. Santa Barbara. Larry was a bombardier in the 15th Air Force in World War II, seeing action in Italy on 35 combat missions. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Purple Heart. He came to Syracuse as a 21 year old freshman in 1945, played varsity basketball and graduated in just three years. Larry's son, Steven Crandell wrote a book about Larry entitled Silver Tongue: Secrets of Mr. Santa Barbara

Staff:

	Noemi (Mimi) Doohan, MD, PhD
	Medical Director
	Dr. Doohan is a Board Certified Family Physician, with a private practice in Santa Barbara, California. Dr. Doohan received a BA in Biochemistry from Mills College in Oakland, California, a PhD in Molecular Biology/Biochemistry from UC Santa Barbara, and then her MD from Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Doohan completed her specialty training in Family Medicine in the renowned Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2005 Dr. Doohan founded Doctors Without Walls - Santa Barbara Street Medicine, to provide free, volunteer medical care for the most vulnerable of Santa Barbara County, when and where they are in need, including in times of disaster.

	Jennifer Eskridge, MPH
	Program Administrator & MRC Coordinator
	Ms. Eskridge has a background in global health, international relief, and local emergency preparedness and response. After receiving her Bachelor's degree from Westmont College, Jennifer worked for the Public Health Preparedness program as an Emergency Planner making contributions to public health preparedness plans, hosting exercises and trainings, and conducting POD/ medically fragile shelter assessments. Ms. Eskridge then completed her Master of Public Health at UCLA, specializing in global health, health promotion & disease prevention, and disaster preparedness & response. Ms. Eskridge has personal and professional interests in international health and spent extended periods in East Africa, most recently working with a relief agency in Northern Uganda's internally displaced persons camps conducting HIV/AIDS prevention education and program development. Jennifer coordinates the Medical Reserve Corps and supports the other DWW-SBSM programs through grant management, volunteer coordination, and other administrative duties.

	Erica Olson
	Administrative Assistant

	Scotti Warren
	AmeriCorps Volunteer: WFHC & Street Medicine
	Scotti Warren received her BA in Feminist Studies with a minor in LGBTQ Studies in June of 2009. While attending UCSB, she went on two medical mission trips to Honduras with Global Medical Brigades, which helps bring health care to rural communities. She also worked as a medical assistant at Isla Vista Neighborhood Clinic for two years. Scotti began volunteering with Doctors Without Walls and UCSB's Street Health Outreach after taking Dr. Mimi Doohan's Underserved Medicine course in early 2008. She has been the student member of DWW's medical street team for a year, carrying the hospitality pack on street rounds every Wednesday night. She is currently a support and outreach worker for Noah's Anchorage, a youth crisis shelter in Santa Barbara, and is serving a year in Americorps. As an Americorps Member for Doctors Without Walls, Scotti is the director of the Women's Free Homeless Clinic and the liaison between DWW and Street Health Outreach, motivating and mobilizing students to become involved in street medicine and to work with the homeless of Santa Barbara County. Scotti plans to obtain her Master's Degree in Social Work and continue her work for social justice.

	Sharon Haber
	AmeriCorps Volunteer: Medical Reserve Corps
	Sharon is an AmeriCorp volunteer with a background in volunteerism and advocate for global change. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with a minor in History and intentions to continue with law school in the future. Sharon is currently working for the Santa Barbara County Medical Reserve Corps assisting with recruitment and database upkeep. With this, she is helping to expand the membership of and keep completed records for the MRC within Santa Barbara County to better serve the community. Other community work she has participated in Santa Barbara includes anti-DUI campaigns through UCSB and the CHP. She has also spent time in Washington, D.C. interning for a non-profit group focused on positive global change.

	Cameron Gray
	Americorps Volunteer: MRC, Street Medicine & WFHC
	Cameron recently graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a degree in Philosophy and Psychology. He worked in the Peer Student Health internship and collaborated with several professors in the Psychology Department on research investigating visual perception, stress, and brain activity. Upon graduating from UCSB, it became clear to Cameron that he did not want to pursue an academic career in psychological research. Late in the Summer of 2009, he joined Americorps. He now works with the Medical Reserve Corps and Doctors Without Walls / Santa Barbara Street Medicine through the Americorp program. Cameron has had a longstanding interest in working for such organizations as Medecins San Frontiers / Docotors Without Borders. He hopes to develop skill sets that will allow him engage in further work with populations that lack fundamental medical care. In his off time, Cameron avidly rock climbs and enjoys a deep connection with nature.

Volunteer Teams:

 

	Women's Homless Health Clinic Volunteers
	Women's Homeless Health Clinic volunteers pose outside Transition House.

	Isla Vista Halloween Team
	Volunteers treat a patient at the Isla Vista Recovery Zone.

	Austere Medicine MRC Leaders Course
	Dr. Mark Stinson Memorial Austere Medicine MRC Leaders Course planning commitee at El Capitan Canyon Resort, site of the 3-day annual event.

	Street Team Volunteers
	Members of the 2009 Street Team at Pershing Park pose before starting weekly street rounds for local homeless.

	Medical Reserve Corps Volunteers
	Medical Reserve Corps Volunteers pose in front of a rescue helicopter at the Off-Shore Rescue drill at Goleta Beach, April 2009.

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