Lone Star Association of Charitable Clinics

Board of Directors

• President - Katherine Peake, Board Member, Good Samaritan Center, Fredericksburg
  Katherine Peake is a board member of the Good Samaritan Center (formerly the Fredericksburg Free Clinic) where she has worked as a volunteer since 2000.  She has been the Fredericksburg Municipal Judge since 1984 and holds a B.A. from The University of New Mexico and a J.D. from the University of Denver.  She has been in private law practice and has served as the Assistant District Attorney for the 216^th Judicial District.  She has served as chairman of the board of The Hill Country Memorial Hospital and the Fredericksburg Independent School Board.  She and her husband, David, have four sons and one daughter.
   
• Vice President - J. Scott Golding, Exec. Dir., Medical Care Mission, Abilene
  J. Scott (Scott) Golding has been executive director of Medical Care Mission in Abilene since 1998.  He works on many task forces related to health and human service issues and does consulting work for non-profit entities in west Texas.  He has a master’s degree in social service administration.  He is past president of the Abilene chapter of National Society of Fundraising Professionals.
   
• Immediate Past President - Marlene DiLillo
  Exec. Dir., Greater Killeen Free Clinic, Killeen
  Marlene DiLillo has been executive director of Greater Killeen Free Clinic since 1996.  She has been active in many coalitions related to health care for the underserved and has mentored several newly forming charitable clinics.  Marlene has a master’s degree in human resource management, with certificates in volunteer management and non-profit management, and is a graduate of the Kellogg Foundation’s Engaged Communities program.  She has served on several regional boards including Campfire and Susan G. Komen Foundation.
   
• Secretary - Linda Bryant
  Linda Bryant has been Administrative Director of Grayson Volunteer Health Clinic in Denison, Texas since 2004.  She was one of the founders of Grayson Volunteer Health Clinic in 2002 and served as a board member and officer until January 2004.  Previously, Linda worked for United Way of Grayson County as the Vice-President of Community Impact.  Currently, she serves on the advisory board for the Texoma Regional Advisory Council on Aging and the Texoma Area Information & Access Center.  Linda is also a board member of The Texoma Health Coalition and a participating member of the Grayson County Social Services Association.

  
   

• Treasurer - Clark Moore, Exec. Dir., Ubi Caritas Clinic, Beaumont

  Clark Moore.  Corky is Executive Director of Ubi Caritas Clinic and Health Center in Beaumont.  He is a member of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Beaumont, and has served as Vestry and Senior Warden.  He currently serves as chairman of the Episcopal Community Outreach Ministries for the Diocese of Texas. He is a founding board member of Episcopal Health Charities and currently chairs the Grant Evaluation Committee. He serves on the Executive Committee with Three Rivers Council - Boy Scouts of America, and Chair of the Southeast Texas Health & Human Services Network. He is a founding board member for LSACC and currently serves as Treasurer. He is a 25 year veteran in the field of Non Profit Management and Fund Raising and often acts as a consultant and writer.  

   

  
  Board Members
   

• Stacie Cokinos has served as Executive Director of San Jose Clinic in Houston, Texas since 2001. San Jose Clinic was founded in 1922 by the Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston and is the oldest charity health clinic in the United States. Stacie has worked in the healthcare-related non-profit arena since 1993 in fundraising and administration.  She holds a B.A. from Texas A&M, and is a certified fundraising executive (CFRE) by the Association of Fundraising Professionals.  Currently, she serves on the Board of the PFLAG/HATCH Youth Scholarship Fund and the Catholic Charities Advocacy Committee. Her prior board service includes appointment to the Ryan White Planning Council, and Council Leader of the Bering Memorial United Methodist Church Council.
  
   

• Doris Scales has been Clinical Director of Christian Community Action since April 2006.   She has been a nurse for 25 years and has a master’s degree in nursing and is a certified Clinical Nurse Specialist   Doris has been actively involved in various community activities over the past 25 years.  She is a retired Captain of the U.S. Army Reserves after 24 years of active & reserve status.  Doris and her husband, Willie have two children.  She is a native of North Carolina and currently resides in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas in Flower Mound.

   

• Pat Frosch Program Director, GRACE community clinic, Grapevine.
  Pat Frosch serves as Director of Programs at GRACE (Grapevine Relief And Community Exchange) in Grapevine, TX. Pat served as the point person in the establishment of the GRACE Community Clinic (opened Sept 2003). Pat formerly served as Executive Director of Mend-a-Child, a nonprofit agency that provided medical and dental assistance for low income children in Abilene, TX. Other past work experience includes District Field Representative for the American Cancer Society and Director of Admissions and PR Coordinator for the West Texas Rehabilitation Center, both in Abilene.  Pat graduated from McMurry College, Abilene, TX, in 1976 with a BA in Social Work. She currently serves as President of the Greater Dallas/Fort Worth Charitable Clinic Association and as the Chairperson of the Tarrant County Indigent Clinic Forum. She also serves on the Grapevine Senior Advisory Board and the JPS Northeast Advisory Board. Previous board experience includes service on the Leadership Abilene and Young Leadership Abilene boards, Friends of the Library Board (Abilene), and Society of Fund Raising Executives (Abilene).

   

• Dr. Jim Walton, Sr. Vice Pres., HealthTexas Provider Network
  Baylor Health, Dallas
  Director Emeritus
  Jim Walton DO, is Vice President and Chief Health Equity Officer, Baylor Health Care System, Office of Health Equity, Dallas, Texas.  He is Medical Director, Office of Community Health Improvement, HealthTexas Provider Network; and Medical Director, Project Access Dallas, Dallas County Medical Society.  He serves as Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Department of Family & Community Medicine; and Adjunct Professor, University of North Texas Health Sciences Center, School of Public Health.
   

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• Adam Chabira, Community Health Services, Baylor Healthcare System, Dallas

  Adam Chabira currently serves as a Program Manager in the Office of Heath Equity at Baylor Health Care System in Dallas, TX.  In his current position he assists with the development and administration of numerous community health initiatives designed to reduce health disparities.  Adam has been instrumental in the creation of meaningful outcomes reporting and return-on-investment analyses that demonstrate the impact of disparities reduction efforts on patients, providers, and health care systems.  Adam also provides strategic and operational consulting to local charity clinics throughout the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.