The School of Public Health Board of Visitors improves the quality of the school by providing candid, comprehensive and informed reaction to Pitt Public Health educational objectives and programs and by providing advice in Pitt Public Health's strategic planning efforts. Its meetings provide a forum for the school to demonstrate its accountability to external constituencies. The board of visitors may have significant influence on institutional advancement, not only for direct assistance in fund-raising, but also by providing an opportunity to communicate a broader audience, and therefore, to create a base of support for the school's and the University's public relations efforts.
Members of the Pitt Public Health Board of Visitors are appointed by the Chancellor, in consultation with the senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and the Pitt Public Health dean. The board is drawn from top experts in public health, corporate and civic leaders, and alumni, with diversity of membership a priority. All University boards include members of the University of Pittsburgh Board of Trustees and are chaired by a trustee.
Current Board
Kevin Altomari
Owner/President, The Redan Group
Edward J. Benz
President and CEO emeritus, Dana Farber Cancer Center
Eva Blum
Chairwoman and president, The PNC Foundation
Former senior vice president and director of community affairs, PNC Bank
Trustee, University of Pittsburgh
Debra Cen
Founder and former president, LEAP Biosciences
Karen Feinstein
President, Jewish Healthcare Foundation of Pittsburgh
William Green
Professor emeritus, Orthopedic Surgery
Diane P. Holder
EVP and president, UPMC Insurance Services Division
Trustee, University of Pittsburgh
Robert G. Lovett
Founding Partner, Lovett, Bookman, Harmon, Marks, LLP
Trustee, University of Pittsburgh
Patricia Maryland
Former president of healthcare operations and COO, Ascension Health
Patricia Matthews-Juarez
Senior vice president, Office of Strategic Initiatives and Innovation, Office of the President
Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Director of research training, Health Disparities Research Center of Excellence, Meharry Medical College
Diane Peterson
Founder, D. Peterson and Associates Health Care Consulting Firm
Alumna, Pitt Public Health
Thomas M. Priselac
President and CEO, Cedars-Sinai Health System
David Savitz
Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Director, Center for Epidemiology and Environmental Health
Professor, Departments of Epidemiology, Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pediatrics, Brown University
Janet Stout
Executive vice president and founder of Special Pathogens Laboratory
Research associate professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering
Past BOV Members
The University thanks the following former Board of Visitors members for their service to Pitt Public Health:
- David Acosta
- Debra Bogen
- Wen-Ta Chiu
- Thomas Detre
- Bruce Dixon
- Michele Fabrizi
- Lee Foster II
- Joanna Haas
- Karen A. Hacker
- David Hunter
- William Kassling
- Adel Mahmoud
- Eric Mann
- Sean McDonald
- Jeff Morby
- Shelly Onorato
- Ian Rawson
- James Roddey
- Elizabeth Surma
- William Trueheart
- Mary Jo White
- Michael Yonas