Central City Community Health Center
Dr. Reyes joined CCCHC in 2014, as Lead Physician. In 2016, Dr. Reyes was promoted to Chief Medical Officer, serving as Chief Executive Officer since 2021. Relocating from Berwyn, Illinois, where she completed residency in family medicine at MacNeal Hospital, serving as its Chief Resident. Dr. Reyes received her medical degree from the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine of Midwestern University. Board-certified in family medicine, Dr. Reyes has also served on the staff of the Aurora Medical Center in Aurora, Illinois, and has done work in addiction medicine as part of the American Psychiatry Medical program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, California. Under the leadership of Dr. Reyes, CCCHC has expanded from 17-service delivery sites to 27- sites. Dr. Reyes is also credited with integration of both telehealth and teledentistry methods of care. Dr. Reyes is bilingual in both English and Spanish.
Eisner Health
Monica Gutierrez-McCarthy, was elected to the role of Eisner Health’s interim CEO and COO in March 2024, where her overall focus is on improving the physical, social, and emotional well-being of Eisner Health patients and the communities, we serve. Monica joined Eisner Health in February 2021 as Chief Operating Officer, and since 2009, Monica has worked in the community health sector with an unwavering vision to create notable change as a service-center leader and strategist. Previous to joining Eisner Health, Monica was the Director of Operations Enhancement at OCHIN, a non-profit organization designed to leverage information technology and data to enhance and support community health operations and clinic outcomes to promote community health. Monica also served as Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at SAC Health Systems in San Bernardino. CA. Cultivating over 20 years of experience, Monica has consistently harnessed the power of technology and unparalleled foresight to lead teams into the future. A native of California Monica received her Bachelor of Science degree from UCLA and Master of Science degree from Loma Linda University School of Medicine.
South Central Family Health Center
Ms. Filmardirossian has over 25 years of experience working with community health centers as a CEO, COO, and Clinic Administrator. Her diverse skills and background are a true asset for accomplishing goals/objectives of expanding programs and services to meet community health needs.
St. John’s Well Child and Family Center
Jim Mangia is the President and CEO of St. John’s Well Child and Family Center, a network of nonprofit federally qualified health centers and school-based clinics providing free medical, dental and mental health services to over 82,000 patients in South Los Angeles. Passionate about community health, prevention, and social justice, Mangia built the Well Child and Family Centers from a small single-site clinic serving 1200 patients a year to one of Los Angeles County’s largest nonprofit health care providers with more than a dozen clinic sites. Mangia is a leader in building a health and human rights movement in the United States and has built myriad innovative and collaborative services and relationships. He has built strong and sustainable partnerships with school districts, government agencies, community-based organizations, schools, educators, and health care providers. This is to increase access to health care services and strengthen the health care safety net for impoverished and economically disadvantaged children and their families.
To Help Everyone Health and Wellness Centers
Mr. Shiepe is a broad based, seasoned healthcare executive with senior level management experience with hospitals, medical group clinics, health systems, and managed care companies. He has provided four decades of transformational leadership for improving Americas healthcare system. He began his career as an assistant administrator at Massachusetts General Hospital, a 1200 bed tertiary teaching hospital in Boston. After ten years, he was offered a position as Senior Vice President with the Lutheran Hospital Society in Los Angeles. This organization had a ten-member hospital system, and he was responsible for centralized consulting services. Within ten years, he founded a multi-specialty healthcare consulting company, Bedford International. This company had major consulting engagements with Stanford University Hospital, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Huntington Hospital, USC University Hospital, Catholic Healthcare West, and St. Joseph Health System. He then went on to become the Chief Executive Officer at Victorville Community Hospital and Tri-City Medical Center. Mr. Shiepe graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a B.S. in Engineering Management and from Northeastern University with an M.B.A.
UMMA Community Clinic
Mr. Syed joined UMMA in 2013 and served as Chief Operations Officer for UMMA prior to accepting his current role as President and CEO. Mr. Syed holds a master’s degree in Public Policy and Administration from Northwestern University, and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science with an emphasis in Public Service from the University of California, Davis. Mr. Syed has also completed notable fellowships including the Blue Shield of California Foundation Clinic Leadership Institute Emerging Leaders Program, the New Leaders Council Institute, Los Angeles (2011) – a non-partisan organization that engages a diverse, national network of political entrepreneurs – and the Rockwood Leadership Institute Fellowship (2013). He is also the co-founder and President of New Leaders Council, Orange County.
Venice Family Clinic
Dr. Mitesh Popat became chief executive officer of Venice Family Clinic on December 12, 2022. He comes to us from Marin Community Clinics in Marin County, CA, where he was CEO for five years. Dr. Popat has extensive experience as a community health executive, board-certified family physician, public health expert and health care technology advisor.
Dr. Popat has been a practicing physician and senior leader at community health centers throughout his career. Before leading Marin Community Clinics as CEO, he served as its chief medical officer. Prior to his tenure at Marin Community Clinics, Dr. Popat served as associate medical director of La Clínica de la Raza in Vallejo, CA.
With a passion for how technology can help break down barriers to care and reach people in novel ways, Dr. Popat has served as an advisor to several health tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. He also has been a commissioner with Partnership HealthPlan of California, a managed Medi-Cal plan that covers 550,000 people in 14 Northern California counties. Dr. Popat’s experience in community health extends globally and includes stints in India, Honduras and South Africa, where he worked with local medical professionals to improve preventive care using a group visit model, increase access to care, and describe the psychosocial factors surrounding HIV infection, respectively.
Dr. Popat holds a Doctor of Medicine and Master of Public Health from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, and a Bachelor of Arts in economics and Bachelor of Science in biological sciences from the University of California, Irvine. He served in the Stanford-O’Connor Family Medicine Residency Program in San Jose, and completed a two-year Health Care Leadership fellowship with the California Health Care Foundation and University of California, San Francisco.
Watts Healthcare
Dr. Barrett Hatches is an accomplished senior executive with over 35 years of experience in management, including extensive work in both the healthcare and energy sectors. Dr. Hatches served as President and Chief Executive Officer for the Chicago Family Health Center (CFHC). In this position, he led one of Chicago’s leading federally qualified health centers that provides care annually to over 30,000 uninsured and underinsured patients across the South Side of Chicago through its network of six primary care health centers., dental offices, and behavioral health services. In 2023, he was elected as Chair of the Board of Directors for Trinity Health, which is one of the largest not-for-profit Catholic health care systems in the nation. It is a family of 123,000 colleagues and nearly 27,000 physicians and clinicians caring for a diverse community across 26 states including 88 hospitals and 135 continuing care locations, with the second largest PACE program in the country. Its annual operating revenue is $21.5 billion. Dr. Hatches is a 1977 graduate of Jackson State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science, a 1995 graduate of Webster University with a Master of Arts in Management, and a 2009 graduate of Jackson State University with a Ph.D. in Urban Leadership and Higher Education.
