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Volunteers In
Medicine Berkshires (VIM)
Board of Trustees
Jeffrey Blake, MD, FACC:
Certified, American Board of
Internal Medicine and the American Board
of Cardiovascular Disease; fellow, American College
of Cardiology; former Director,
Nuclear
Cardiology
Westchester
Medical
Center,
Valhalla, NY,
former Associate Professor of Clinical
Medicine, New York Medical
College. BA and MD,
Columbia University.
Richard Evans, MD:
Presently in private practice in
Tarrytown
NY focusing on adult, child,
family and marital therapy. Internship
and psychiatric residency at
Jacobi Hospital and Einstein College of
Medicine; 1969 through 1986, academic
positions at Einstein College of
Medicine and Columbia-Presbyterian
Department of Child Psychiatry. Numerous
presentations to professional societies
and published more than half a dozen
papers in his field. He and his wife
live in Great Barrington. Dr. Evans is a
jazz pianist and is forming a jazz group
in the Berkshires. BS,
Columbia University; MD, Cornell Medical
College.
John Herman,OD
has been spearheading VIM’s optometry
effort since early 2005.
Until the recently completed
expansion of the Clinic’s facility to
accommodate space for optometry, Dr.
Herman and his colleagues have been
seeing patients in their Pittsfield offices.
Dr. Herman has been in practice
for more than 30 years and is the author
of many articles, abstracts and ocular
photographs.
While practicing in
Pittsfield
he has served on the boards of numerous
community organizations.
He is a graduate of the New
England College of Optometry and a
fellow of the American Academy
of Optometry.
David K. Kanter, DDS:
A Pittsfield
native, Dr. Kanter was in private dental
practice in Teaneck, NJ
from 1965-2003. He taught dental
prosthetics at Fairleigh Dickenson, Teaneck, NJ, from
1971-1973 and was a PTA President in Teaneck. He also worked with the State
of
New Jersey
performing pro bono dental services for
the indigent population. He retired in
2003 and enjoys gardening, stone
sculpture, antique collecting, and
restoring his 18th century home. BA, University of Vermont;
DDS, University of
Pennsylvania
Dental
School.
Roberto Laurens:
A native of
Colombia,
Mr. Laurens has been with the Helm
Corporation as a general manager since
1984. In 2002 he became manager of the
High Lawn Farm (a division of the Helm
Corporation) in
Lee,
MA. He received his degree
as an Agronomist Engineer from the
National University of Colombia and his
MBA in 1988 from
LaSalle University in Colombia.
Amy Loveless:
A Stockbridge native, Amy owned Suchele
Bakers in Lenox, one of the earliest
artisan style bakeries in the
Berkshires, for ten years and then
founded her highly regarded catering
business in 1992. She has been able to
afford health insurance for only about 6
of the last 31 years as a self-employed
person.
Matt Mandel, MD:
Practice in anesthesiology, Chairman,
Department of Anesthesia, Chair,
Intensive Care Unit,
Providence Hospital,
Holyoke,
MA. President, Providence
Anesthesia Associates, Inc., retired,
1996. Board experience: Design Industry
Foundation Fighting AIDS; IS 183, Art School
of the Berkshires; Community Access to
the Arts; Beachwood-Lenstock
Association. Executive Committee, Hamden
District Medical Society as delegate to
the Massachusetts Medical Society.
Member, Berkshire
Medical Society. BS,
Western Reserve
University.
Attended Faculte de Medecine de
Tours, France.
MD,
Hahnemann
University School of Medicine.
Arthur M. Peisner (Treasurer): Vice President,
International for Ideal Toy Corporation
(1969-1979); Vice President, General
Mills and President of Fundimensions
Division (1980-1986). President and CEO,
Lionel Trains, Inc. (1986-1990). Since
1990, an executive coach and consultant
working with owners, CEOs, and senior
executives of small and mid-sized firms.
Served as Director and Chairman, Toy
Manufacturer’s of America
and Director and Vice-Chairman, Central
Macomb Chamber of Commerce. He currently
serves as the Chairman of the Board of
Trustees of the To-Ho-Ne Shores
Homeowners’ Association. BS,
Syracuse
University; MBA, Harvard Graduate School
of Business Administration.
Steven Picheny (Chair):
Former President of Stepic
Medical, a high tech medical sales,
marketing and distribution firm.
Co-chair, capital campaign for Hevreh of
Southern Berkshire, and President, 2000
- 2002. Board Member,
Berkshire
Country
Day School
for 6 years, Co-Chair of committee that
created and implemented its new
Secondary School, chair, Marketing
Committee as well as many other
fundraising activities. Member, National
Board of Trustees
Union for Reform Judaism,
Engineering Entrepreneur in Residence,
Northeastern University. Steve is on the
board of numerous companies and not for
profit organizations both locally and
nationally. BS in Mechanical
Engineering, Northeastern University.
Jane L. Salamon:
Vice President of Policy and Procedure
for Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International
Realty in
Long Island,
NY, involved in training and
compliance. She has served on a broad
range of Committees since joining the
Long Island Board of Realtors in 1984
and became President of the Multiple
Listing Service of Long Island in 2004.
She currently sits on the New
York State Association of Realtors
Professional Standards Committee, the
Multiple Listing Committee and the
Committee for Fair Housing and Cultural
Diversity. She is a trained Real Estate
Mediator and also frequently chairs
hearings on Professional Standards and
Arbitration.
Jane has always been active in a
wide variety of community organizations
including the Board of Camp Sussex, a
camp for underprivileged children,
Hadassah, the Board of Trustees of
Temple Sinai of Roslyn, Gould Farm in Monterey and Hevreh of South Berkshire..
Carol Sanderson:
For the last 15 plus years she has been
affiliated with Berkshire Health Systems
as Executive Director of Hillcrest
Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center and prior to that was the
Executive Director of the Kimball Farms
retirement community. She provides
social work services and support to
families and terminally ill patients at
Hospice Care in the Berkshires. She has
substantial other experience working
with the aging and the retirement
community and has also served as a
consultant and lecturer to a variety of
groups such as human services and
nursing students, managers, retirees and
practitioners in the field of aging. She
is a director or member of a number of
other community organizations; is a
graduate of Drew University
and has her MSW from the Syracuse
University School of Social Work.
Leonard Simon:
Retired Vice-Chairman, Charter One
Financial, Inc. President, Board
Effectiveness Institute. Faculty,
National Association of Corporate
Directors. Trustee and Chairman of the
Investment Committee Teachers Insurance
Annuity Association. Chairman, Community
Preservation Corporation. Director,
Integrated Nano-Technologies. Director,
Landmark Technology Partners, Inc.
Previously, Professor, William E. Simon
Graduate School of Business
Administration, University of Rochester,
Rochester, NY. Member,
Berkshire United Way
Investment Committee. Director Berkshire
National Fish Hatchery Foundation. B.S.,
MIT; MS and Ph.D., Columbia University.
Marion A. Simon:
Consultant in development and
philanthropy; professional development
officer for various not-for-profit
organizations. Adjunct Professor, Manhattanville College; presenter of seminars on
development and fundraising for
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation
among others. Recent nonprofit
activities: Chair, Dean’s Advisory
Board, Margaret A. Warner Graduate
School of Education and Human
Development, University of Rochester;
Board of Directors, Berkshire United Way
and Barrington Stage Company; President,
Elephant Rock Foundation, Monterey, MA.
BA, College
of Arts and Sciences,
Boston
University; MA, Columbia University;
Ed.D.,
University
of Rochester.
Paul Smilow, MD:
Public Health Service Fellow in
Pathology, University of Rochester. Mixed pediatric-medical
internship, Strong Memorial Hospital of
University of Rochester. Public Health Service Officer
followed by Residency in Pathology,
New England
Deaconess
Hospital and Harvard Medical
School. Co-Director
of Laboratories and Professor of
Clinical Pathology, Robert Wood
Johnson
Medical
School and University Hospital, New
Brunswick, NJ.
Retired to the Berkshires 2001. B.A.,
Washington & Jefferson
College; M.D., University of Rochester
School of Medicine
Susan Thompson,MD who is in
private practice in Great Barrington has
had broad experience in the medical
field.
A California native, she began her career
as a nurse specializing in trauma and
then went on to become a physician
focusing principally on family care and
internal medicine.
Dr. Thompson moved to Massachusetts in 1984.
She has worked in such areas as
urgent care, pediatric emergency
services and children’s health.
She has both her medical and
undergraduate degrees from the
University
of California
at San Diego. Dr.
Thompson is a member of the American
Association of Family Practitioners, Phi
Beta Kappa and the Society of Teachers
in Family Medicine.
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