RENEW Players

RENEW Players

Profile of a Medical Pioneer:

Linda Hawes Clever, MD, MACP, President of RENEW, founding Chair of the Department of Occupational Health at California Pacific Medical Center and former Editor of the Western Journal of Medicine, received undergraduate and medical degrees from Stanford University. After interning at Stanford, she had several years of medical residency and fellowships at Stanford and the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Clever is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Occupational Medicine.

In 1970, Dr. Clever became the first Medical Director of the teaching clinic at St. Mary's Hospital in San Francisco where she started patient education and nurse practitioner training and research programs. In 1977, she started the Department of Occupational Health at the then-Pacific Medical Center and began her activities in the American College of Physicians in which she served as Governor, Chair of the Board of Governors, and Regent. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the Western Association of Physicians, and is Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF. She has chaired the Boards of KQED and University High School and has served on numerous other boards including the Stanford University Board of Trustees. She is president of the Western Association of Physicians and serves on the Boards of the Buck Institute for Research in Aging and the Northern California Presbyterian Homes and Services. She has written numerous papers, chapters, articles, and editorials.

Dr. Clever's areas of special interest include personal and organizational renewal; current issues in health care, including managed care and ethics; the interactions of life, work and health; the occupational health of women and health care workers; leadership; and ways to build community. Her husband is also an internist; their daughter is faculty member in Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr Clever is a dedicated walker and enjoys good company and good conversation.

Keven Chriss, Program Coordinator, brings seven years of executive administrative experience to the management of the hive of activity surrounding RENEW. She has a degree in Mass Communications, and was Seminar Coordinator for the Mill Valley Film Festival and Media Director for a start-up internet company. She serves as liaison and resource to the Board of Directors and various ongoing RENEW Conversation Groups©. During the brief moments when she is not in front of her computer planning events, preparing financial reports, answering emails, and arranging meetings, you can find Keven hiking the trails with her maniac puppy, reading pulp fiction, planning her next exotic trip, or micro-managing the lives of her two grown children.

Kathleen Clark Program Director, was instrumental in the creation of the curriculum and teaching of the Conveners Development Program. Kathleen brings rich experience as an educator to her work with RENEW. During her years as an elementary and middle school teacher and leader in New Jersey, Colorado and California, fellow teachers and parents looked to her for advice and wisdom. Before coming to RENEW, Kathleen spearheaded the creation of a resource center on breast cancer at Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, California. She is immediate past president of the board of the Marin Breast Cancer Council, an all-volunteer organization that raises funds for Bay Area breast cancer organizations.

Kathleen is a vocalist with the Baytones, an amateur a capella jazz group she founded with her husband, Patrick, and also an avid hiker and student of yoga. Her proudest achievement, though, is raising two sons and a daughter and helping them launch their careers

Shirley Kelley, RENEW's Director of Development, has tried retirement several times but gets bored quickly. This time around she lucked into working with RENEW, and later Tapestry Arts in San Jose and MayView Community Health Center in Palo Alto and Mountain View. Shirley's other interests include walking her dog Rudy, working out at the gym, and cheering on her grandchildren at their volleyball, soccer, Little League, and basketball games. She enjoys hanging out with her husband, Ryland, and good friends, and also has a passion for vacations and travel.

RENEW's Board of Directors

Robert N. Beck, MS - Dean, Graduate School of Business & Public Policy, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA
Eliza Lo Chin, MD, MPH - Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Linda Hawes Clever, MD, MACP; - Founding Chair, Department of Occupational Health, California Pacific Medical Center; Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Linda deMello, - Executive Director, ALS Association Bay Area Chapter
Lloyd William Eichhorn, M.Div. - Minister, United Church of Christ
Kathryn E. Johnson, - Health Care Consultant; Retired CEO, Health Forum
Michael A. Roosevelt, Esq. - Director, Sutter Health; Shareholder, Friedman, McCubben, Spalding, Bilter, Roosevelt & Montgomery
Amanda Spivey, Attorney; Former Federal Executive

Director Emeritus

Philip R. Lee, MD, MACP - Sr. Advisor, Institute for Health Policy Studies; Prof. Emeritus, Former Chancellor, UCSF; Consulting Professor of Human Biology, Stanford Univ.

RENEW's Panel of Advisors

Janet Bickel, MA - Career Development Coach and Faculty Career and Diversity Consultant; Janet Bickel & Associates
Patricia A. Buffler, PhD, MPH - Dean Emerita, Professor of Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health
Roger Bulger, MD - Senior Advisor, National Center on Minority Health & Health Disparities, NIH
Kathleen H. Cardinal - Non-profit Organizational Consultant
Harvey Cohen, MD, PhD - Chair, Dept. of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine; Chief of Staff, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
E. Gretchen deBaubigny - Communication Consultant; Community Activist in Education & Health
Ann Eichhorn, M Div., RN - Minister, United Church of Christ
William Foege, MD - Gates Fellow, Gates Foundation
Patricia Hellman Gibbs, MD - Medical Director, San Francisco Free Clinic
Laurance R. Hoagland, MBA - Chief Investment Officer, Hewlett Foundation
Ellen Hughes, MD, PhD - Clinical Professor of Medicine; Director of Education, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, UCSF
Eric Larson, MD, MPH - Director, Group Health Center for Health Studies, Seattle WA
Iris Litt, MD - National Director, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program
Bruce E. Spivey, MD - Former Hospital Executive; President-Elect, International Council of Ophthalmology
Marshall C. Turner, MS, MBA - Technology Investor and Consultant, Turner Venture Associates
Mary Woolley - President and CEO, Research! America

Juggler's Tales

Inspiration

John W. Gardner, PhD - Former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; founder of Common Cause, RENEW Panel of Advisors 2000-2002.