Maria Ansari, MD
Chief and Chief of Staff of Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco Medical Center and former Chief of Cardiology
Maria Ansari is the physician in chief and chief of staff for Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco Medical Center, where she oversees the outpatient and inpatient care delivery in an integrated health care model for a population of over 240,000. She is a cardiologist who specializes in heart failure. She serves on the board for The Permanente Medical Group, the largest physician led medical group in the country. Her focus has been on medical education and equitable health care. She has fostered partnerships with the SF department of public health and was the medical director of the Moscone Mass Vaccine Hub, which was the largest COVID vaccine distribution center in California in 2021. Maria completed her cardiology fellowship at UCSF where she remains an assistant clinical professor of medicine. Prior to that, she received her training at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor for Biology, Medicine, and Internal Medicine. She lives in San Francisco with her family where she raised her 2 children and enjoys running in the Presidio.
Our Team
Board of Directors

Janis MacKenzie
Board Chair

Charles Charnas
Board Secretary

Melissa Chadwick-Dunn
Board Treasurer

Pamela Baer
Lifetime Director

George H. Clyde
Lifetime Director

Judy Guggenhime
Lifetime Director

Deborah Anderson Bialis

Maria Ansari, MD

Simone Balch

John H. Bell

Howard Chi

Andrew Clark

Susan P. Ehrlich, MD, MPP

Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, MPH

Hemal Kanzaria, MD MSc

Suzanne Giraudo, PhD

Kimberley Goode

Schuyler Hudak

Matthew Kinsella

Jenna Lim

Neda Ratanawongsa MD, MPH

Michael Macbryde

James D. Marks, MD, PhD

Andrew McCollum

Theodore Miclau, III, MD
Lifetime Director

Elizabeth Minick

Indu Navar

Ellen Magnin Newman

Candace Sue

Bob Tandler
Foundation Staff

Kim Meredith
Chief Executive Officer

Gerry Chow
Chief Financial Officer

Rebecca Schuett
Chief Development Officer

Paul Rose
Chief External Relations and Communications Officer

Saeed Mirfattah
Chief of Staff

Alice He
Assistant Controller

David Yu
Senior Accountant

Allison Arden
Director of Development, Major and Individual Gifts

Melissa Moore
Director of Development, Institutional & Corporate Giving

Damian Bass
Director of Events

Jenna Casey
Associate Director of Communications

Quinn King
Associate Director, Donor Relations

Tiffany Liu
Associate Director, Grants and Program

Joey Castaneda
Corporate Partnership Manager

Jessie Lee
Development Manager, Grants and Administration

Beth Ferreira
Gift Compliance Manager

Marissa Filice
Database and Donor Information Manager

Aileen Flores
Development Associate

Kaeya Patel
Marketing and Communications Associate

Alyssa Angeles
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