Education + Health Care
TODD MURCH
President and CEO Eskaton
DAVID LUBARSKY
CEO/Vice Chancellor of Human Health Sciences UC Davis Health
DUSTIN CORCORAN
CEO California Medical Association
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A leader in the aging-services industry for nearly four decades, Todd Murch started working at Eskaton in 1981 and was named CEO in 2005. The Carmichael-based nonprofit operates 23 residential facilities and memory-care sites, serving nearly 12,000 senior citizens in the Greater Sacramento area. Eskaton was named a 2019 Top 50 “Best Workplaces for Aging Services” by Great Place to Work and Fortune Magazine. EDUCATION: Sacramento State University, Stanford University’s Executive Program LEADERSHIP: Past chair, LeadingAge California; past president/ board chair, The Institute for Senior Living EXPERIENCE: At Eskaton, served as accounting manager, divisional controller for skilled nursing, corporate controller, executive director of operational support services, chief financial officer and chief operating officer
Dr. David Lubarsky oversees UC Davis Health’s academic, research and clinical programs, including the School of Medicine, the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, the 1,000-member physician practice group and UC Davis Medical Center. UC Davis Health has roughly 10,000 employees, 800 students and an operating budget of $1.9 billion, and it handles 1 million outpatient visits per year. He joined UC Davis Health in 2018. HOMETOWN: Bronx, N.Y. WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK: I became a doctor because my best friend’s grandfather made house calls. He made me feel so much better by giving me warm Coke when I had the flu. He was such an amazing role model, I decided I wanted to be a doctor when I was 12. FAVORITE TV SHOW: Game of Thrones
In 1998, Dustin Corcoran started working at the California Medical Association, a nonprofit organization of more than 44,000 physicians, as the membership coordinator for the political action committee. He then became a staff lobbyist. He has been the CEO since 2010. For the past 10 years, Corcoran has been listed as one of Capitol Weekly’s top 100 power brokers in the state.
HOMETOWN: Los Alamitos, Calif. EDUCATION: American University, University of Southern California FAVORITE HOBBY: Snowboarding FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION: Wherever the best European football match is FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO VISIT: Taylor’s Market WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB: Run Kirkwood ski resort
ELIZABETH CULP
Regional Development Director St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
KIM MENZEL
Senior Vice President/ Area Manager Kaiser Permanente Roseville
SARAH KREVANS
President/CEO Sutter Health
Elizabeth Culp is responsible for expanding several St. Jude efforts in the region, including the St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway. She previously served as the development director for the Crocker Art Museum and for the Society for the Blind, where she helped expand the organization’s services and teaching facility. Early in her career, Culp launched an award-winning marketing and communications agency serving credit unions. TOUGHEST CHALLENGE: After recently enduring a bilateral renal infarction, I learned I have a rare condition called fibromuscular dysplasia, which has changed my life forever. It has taught me the depth of my resilience and the prominence of my family as a compass of strength. FEW PEOPLE KNOW: I was a coxswain for the rowing team in college and a practice cox for the women’s quad team that represented the U.S. in the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Kim Menzel has worked in all aspects of Kaiser Permanente’s operations, including leading Roseville Medical Center’s COVID-19 response. She began her nursing career in 1990, later earning a master’s in health care administration. Menzel has brought innovation and creativity to several high-priority projects for Kaiser, including Care Without Delay, which ensures patients get the care they need when they need it.
FIRST JOB: At 14, I worked with my dad, who was a chef at Milk Farm Restaurant. MOST INSPIRING PERSON: Corwin Harper, senior vice president and area manager for Kaiser Permanente in the Central Valley. His skill of connecting with people is something I admire and have tried to emulate. FAVORITE BOOK: Dare to Lead by Brené Brown FEW PEOPLE KNOW: I am very connected to my Spanish heritage. Also, I am an awesome cook. I make a really yummy paella.
As president and CEO of Sutter Health, a not-forprofit health system that cares for 3 million patients, Krevans oversees 24 hospitals, 53,000 employees and 14,000 clinicians, as well as outpatient services, research facilities and home health and hospice care. Previously, Krevans was Sutter Health’s chief operating officer and held executive positions at Kaiser Permanente and Maine’s Bureau of Medical Services. Modern Healthcare named her one of the Top 25 Women Leaders. FIRST JOB: See’s Candies in Berkeley FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION: Family home in Maine WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK: At school, I took small jobs at hospitals and was disenchanted with the health care system, particularly the way it treated the elderly and mentally ill. This inspired me to change my plan of becoming a doctor and instead pursue a career in health policy and administration to help fix the system.
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