Our Board of Trustees
Sutter Medical Center Sacramento
Beyond the daily operations of the medical center lie the long-range issues governing patient care, finances, and planning. The all-volunteer board of trustees works closely with the medical center's administrative and medical staff to ensure Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento continues to provide the highest level of care available in the region. The board is comprised of community leaders with expertise in the fields of medicine, finance, law, development, technology, and others.
Please visit our SMCS Community Benefit Committee page.
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Mary Antoine Attorney  Mary Powers Antoine, a registered nurse/attorney, is presently a partner in the Sacramento office of Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott, LLP, a state-wide law firm.Over the past 22 years of practice as an attorney, she has developed extensive expertise in many aspects of health care law, with a current focus on managed care law. |
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William Au, M.D. Physician Board Vice Chair  Dr. William Au, a neurologist, has been in private practice with Neurological Consultants Medical Group, Inc. since 1979. His special interests include Alzheimer’s disease and multiple sclerosis and he has lectured extensively and participated in clinical research in these two areas. Dr. Au holds an appointment as Associate Clinical Professor of Neurology at UC Davis and teaches UCD neurology residents and Sutter family practice residents. Having obtained his B.A. at UC Berkeley, M.D. at UC Irvine, and Neurology residency at UC Davis, his past positions include those of Chief of Staff at Sutter Medical Center, Medical Director-Sutter Neuroscience Institute, and Board member of Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region. Dr. Au currently serves on the Medical Advisory Board of the local MS society and Alzheimer�s association and the Board of the Sacramento Jazz Society Foundation. His hobbies include playing the trombone, the Carmichael Kiwanis Big Band, and the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society Sunday jazz sessions. Dr. Au formerly also played with the Sacramento Pops. He and his wife, Yvonne, have three sons, Gordon, Brandon and Justin.
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John Barnsdale, M.D. Physician  Dr. Barnsdale has been an ex officio member of the Sacramento Sierra Board of Sutter Health since 2002. He was subsequently elected to a full board position in 2003. He was previously a member of the board of Auburn Faith Community Hospital.Dr. Barnsdale is a board certified anesthesiologist who has practiced at Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital for over two decades. Dr. Barnsdale has served as Chief of Staff of Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital several times. Dr. Barnsdale has also served on the boards of both C.A.S.E. Medical Group and Auburn Surgery and Diagnostic. Dr. Barnsdale received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He graduated from medical school at the University of California, Los Angeles. His internship and residency were completed at the Harbor – UCLA Medical Center, Torrance. Raised abroad, Dr. Barnsdale is a California native and resides with his family in Auburn. |
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Ed Bonner Law Enforcement Board Chair  Ed Bonner began his law enforcement career at the Placer County Sheriff's Office in 1974 and was promoted through the ranks to Undersheriff. He was elected Sheriff in 1994 and to office in January 1995. Ed also instructs a class in ethics in law enforcement at Sierra College and teaches at the California Peace Officers' Standards and Training (POST) Command College. Additional educational achievements include the FBI National Academy in 1984; POST Command College in 1990 (class speaker and most inspirational student); Cal-Poly Pomona MA in Management Sciences (with honors) in 1992; National Sheriffs' Institute in 1996; FBI Law Enforcement Executive Development in 1998; POST Executive Development 1999, and Transition Management (POST Command College). |
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Mike Dourgarian Business Executive Board Secretary  Mike is the Franchise President and General Manager for Manpower of Sacramento. Manpower provides recruiting and staffing services for administrative, technical, professional job classifications. He has held management positions with Manpower for the past 24 years. Dourgarian serves on the Board of Directors of Sutter Health - Sacramento Sierra Region; TechSkills of Sacramento, an IT training company; and AMIC, LTD., an insurance company. Prior to joining Manpower he was an Account Manager for the NCR Corp. Mike graduated from California State University - Sacramento with a BS in Business Administration. Dourgarian is an active volunteer in community service. He is involved in workforce development issues and currently serves as Board Chair for Sacramento Works, Inc. the Workforce Investment Board for Sacramento County. He also serves on the Salvation Army Advisory Board and Comstock's Business Magazine Editorial Advisory Board. In 2002, Dourgarian completed 12 years of service on the Board of the Sutter Medical Center Foundation. He was Board Chair of the Foundation in 1998 and 1999. In 2000, he served as President of the Sutter Club of Sacramento. He is an active member of the Rotary Club of Sacramento and the Association of Manpower Franchise Owners and is a Past Active Member of the Active 20-30 #1 Club of Sacramento. Dourgarian has been married to Denise Ashcraft Dourgarian for more than 23 years. They make their home in Elk Grove. |
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Patrick Fry President & CEO Sutter Health  Mr. Fry received his Bachelor's Degree in Administration in Public Health from the University of California at Davis, and his Master's Degree in Health Services Administration from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Mr. Fry serves on numerous boards throughout Northern California. He has chaired both the Health Community Forum and Managed Care Systems; he has served on the boards of Northern California Positron Emission Tomography Imaging Center and the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. He has also served on the boards of Make-A-Wish Foundation and People Reaching Out. Mr. Fry's professional affiliations include membership in the American College of Healthcare Executives and Medical Group Management Association. A native of South Lake Tahoe, California, Pat and his wife, Renate, have four active sons. The family enjoys a variety of outdoor sports, including snow skiing, golf, and hiking in the Sierras.
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Dick Kramer Consultant 
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Sarah Krevans CEO Sutter Health Sacramento-Sierra Region  As the Chief Executive Officer of Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region, Ms. Sarah Krevans is responsible for setting the overall strategic direction of Sutter Health in Sacramento, Yolo, Solano, Placer, Nevada, and El Dorado counties. She works closely with aligned physicians in the region to grow Sutter’s integrated health care delivery system.Ms. Krevans is active on many boards. She currently serves as chair of the Make-A-Wish Foundation Board of Northern California and the Healthy Community Forum. She serves on the boards of SACTO, Mayor’s Commission on Children’s Health and LEED. In addition, she serves as a board member for Sutter Amador Hospital, Modesto Memorial Hospital, Memorial Hospitals Association, Sutter North Medical Foundation, Sutter Gould Medical Foundation, Central Valley Service Area Governance Council, Kahi Mohala Psychiatric Facility, and Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region. Ms. Krevans earned master’s degrees in Public Health and Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley. She is married with three children and lives in Sacramento. |
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David Lucchetti Business Executive 
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Pam Marrone Business Executive  Pam Marrone is President & CEO of AgraQuest, Inc. in Davis, CA. She started the company in 1995, which discovers, develops, and markets environmentally friendly natural products for farm, home and public health pest management. She has raised $49 million in venture capital for the company, which has leading agribusinesses, growers, and institutional venture capital companies as investors.Before AgraQuest, she was President of Entotech, Inc., a biopesticide subsidiary of Novo Nordisk in Denmark. Before Entotech she was Sr. Group Leader for Monsanto's Insect Biotechnology group. Pam has a BS from Cornell University and a Ph.D. from North Carolina State University. Active in the community, she serves on the Board of the Sacramento Entrepreneurship Academy, Sutter Davis Hospital Foundation Board, and also Sutter Health (Sacramento-Sierra Region). She is a co-founder of the Davis Area Technology Association (D.A.T.A.) and UC Davis CONNECT. She is Chair of the Board of the National Foundation for IPM Education. She is the founder and chair of the Biopesticide Industry Alliance, a trade organization of 30 biopesticide companies. |
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Mike Newell Business Executive  Mike is President of Crystal Cream & Butter Company and a long time resident of the Sacramento area.Mr. Newell also sits on the Board of Directors of the Dairy Council of California, SACTO, and River City Bank. Mike is honored to be on the regional Board of Sutter Health and is looking forward to contributing to such meaningful organization. He currently resides in Davis with his wife and three daughters. |
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Felicenne Ramey Educator  Felicenne H. Ramey is Professor and Dean Emeritus, College of Business Administration, California State University, Sacramento (CSUS). She has served in the CBA as Dean, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Research, as Chair, Department of Organizational Behavior and Environment, and as Special Assistant to the President. During the 1992-93 academic year, she served as an American Council on Education Fellow (ACE) at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), later serving as Assistant Chancellor at UCSC. She has published in the areas of consumer bankruptcy, minority affairs, business law, affirmative action, biological sciences and women in management. Her latest research publications have been on women as administrators in higher education, with a particular emphasis on African American women. Lately, she had expanded her research to International issues. She has received many awards, including the Sacramento Business Journal’s "Women Who Mean Business" Award, Distinguished Faculty Award and Order of the Hornet Award from California State University, Sacramento, Alumni Association. Ms. Ramey serves on many boards and recently opened a business, EbonArt, that specializes in art from the African Diaspora.
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Pat Samuelson, M.D. Physician 
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Joan Smith-Maclean, M.D. Physician  Joan Smith-Maclean, M.D., is a family practice physician in Davis, CA. She is also the Davis Site Director of the Sutter Health Family Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Smith-Maclean grew up in Davis and attended U.C. Davis, where she received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in exercise physiology and played water polo. She received her medical degree from the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University in 1987, where she was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha, and completed her residency training in Family Medicine at U.C. Davis in 1990, where she served as chief resident. Dr. Smith-Maclean is a former president of the Yolo County Medical Society and Chief of Staff at Sutter Davis Hospital. She is currently a Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at U.C. Davis. In her free time, Dr. Smith-Maclean enjoys swimming, running, hiking and camping with her husband and daughter.
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Scott C. Syphax Business Executive  Scott Syphax is the President and CEO of Nehemiah Corporation of America, a Sacramento based non-profit founded in 1997. NCC is one of the largest non-profit community development corporations in the country with over $187 million in annual revenues. Previously, Mr. Syphax was Manager of Public Affairs for Eli Lilly & Company.Mr. Syphax earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Business with an emphasis on Real Estate Development and Land Use Planning from the California State University, Sacramento. He was a National Fellow with the Coro National Board of Governors Association in Washington D.C., and an Executive Fellow of the Coro Foundation in San Francisco. Mr. Syphax is currently the Chairman of the Financial Solvency Standards Board of California for State Department of Managed Health Care and a Commissioner for the Sacramento County Civil Service Commission. He serves as the Vice Chairman of the Corporate Fund Board for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., and is a Director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, and a Trustee of Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region. |