Effective leaders never say 'I.' They think 'we'; they think 'team.' They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility, but 'we' get the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.


-- Peter Drucker (1909-2005), Management Consultant

WISE & Healthy Aging


Board of Directors

The following individuals generously provide their leadership, vision, professionalism and knowledge to WISE & Healthy Aging to assist in serving seniors and those who care for them.

WISE & Healthy Aging

Board Officers

Co-Chairs
Don Cohen

Jean McNeil Wyner
Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center
& Orthopaedic Hospital

President & CEO
Grace Cheng Braun

First Vice Chair
Linda Procci, PhD, RN
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Second Vice Chair
Nathaniel Trives

Treasurer
Kathy Fergen
EastWest Bank

Secretary
Iao Katagiri
The RAND Corporation

Board of Directors

Maria O. Arechaederra

Gloria C. Blackburn, RN, CPHQ
Kaiser Permanente
West Los Angeles Medical Center

Julianne Cruz
First Federal Bank of California

Renee White Fraser, PhD
Fraser Communications

Scott A. Freeman, CPA
Levy, Sapin, Ko, Moss & Freeman

Virginia Galan-Burns, RN, GPN
Santa Monica Bay Physicians
Health Services

Thomas M. Goff

Joy Goldschmidt

Geoff Johnstone
Preferred Bank

Catherine B. Klapper
Blue Shield of California

Robert O. Klein
Saint John’s Health Center

Tom Loo, JD
Greenberg Traurig

David Mauss
California Hospital Medical Center

Steven Milovich, Jr.
The Walt Disney Company

Karmel Mizrahi
U.S. Bank

John S. Nagy, JD
Fulwider Patton

Maynard Ostrow

Michael D. Rich, JD
The RAND Corporation

Lynne Rosenberg
Innovative Solutions Insurance Services

Jeanne Segal

Robert J. Sullivan
Stonefield Josephson

Paul C. Sung, CPA
PricewaterhouseCoopers

Gwen Uman, PhD, RN
Vital Research

Allen H. Weiss, MD