Patrick K. Griffith MD FACS MBA

• Executive Medical Director - Adventist Health, Heart & Vascular Institute
• Over 30 years of experience as a Heart and Lung Surgeon
• Engaged in several successful startups over the past decade
• Board Director - Leonhardt Ventures
• Board Member - Second Heart Assist
• Advisory Board Member - Imago Systems, Inc.
• UCI Dean’s Advisory Board Member
• Board member Beall Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
• MD - Washington University in St. Louis
• MBA - University of California, Irvine
• Academic/Clinical Research - National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
• Cardiovascular & Thoracic training - UNC Chapel Hill
• General Surgery training - Georgetown University
• BA - Northwestern University

Dr. Blair Bittner Toohey, CSO

Graduate of University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, one of the most prestigious dental schools in the world. (She is the ­fifth member of her family to graduate from there.) Graduate of LVI, the top CE based dental system in the US. Studied full mouth reconstruction, neuro-muscular, myofunctional and aesthetic dentistry. This extensive and ongoing training and post dental degree allowed her to study under and maintain relationships with some of the most elite minds in dentistry. Founder Exceptional Professionals First dentist to work for Align Technology, Invisalign Innovator Award recipient, Launched certification program to the general dentist population and supported product “roll out.” Developed the healthcare vertical of Drop Thought, an instantaneous patient feedback system, developed by a Stanford think tank. One of 10 doctors/dentists worldwide chosen to be a part of the San Diego based ResMed clinical team, as a specialist in sleep. Fotona Laser Company speaker and consultant. Clinical Advisor and inventor for Cal-X-Stars Dental Division Co-founder of The Children’s Dental Healthcare League. (Kids in the Klinic) American College of integrative Medicine and Dentistry, Naturopathic Doctorate Continuum Co-founder Stimcore

Susan Bittner

Susan attended UOP Dental School, one of the most prestigious dental schools in America. Their ortho department is the best in the world.

Susan practiced for 30 years with her husband Gerald. Together they built one of the most successful dental practices in Northern California.

They gave back to their school and to their community. Susan created a mobile dental opportunity that served the unfortunate in Northern California at their expense.

Susan started Kids in the Klinic to raise funds for those children in the San Franciso area that could not afford dentistry. She raised over $2million for an endowment fund to make sure the program survived. Today Kids in The Klinic is serving children where it counts the most. Giving back is one of Susan's greatest gifts.

Susan and Gerald have 4 children that are now adults. 3 of their kids attended UOP. A son in law and two grandkids followed in their footsteps. 9 family members that have aspired to do great things in dentistry.

Many awards and many firsts in both Susan and Geralds life but they are most proud of their children and the difference they are making in the health field today.

30 years of dentistry and 30 plus years on the UOP Endowment Board. These two numbers speak volumes.

A daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. Family is number one for this remarkable woman. Her commitment to her family and UOP and going the extra mile are wonderful examples for all of us to follow.

Susan enjoys riding her ebike and playing tennis. She is slowly picking up pickleball. Don't bet against her in Bridge if you know what I mean

Susan has opened the doors to UOP know known as the Dugoni school of dentistry to Stimcore. Having a major dental school behind our device suite is priceless for us moving forward.

Joel P. Michel

Joel P. Michel is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gladding & Michel, Inc., a Board Member of the World Association of Detectives, and a Director of Liberty Bank. Mr. Michel specializes in the investigation of complex cases involving automotive, aviation and consumer products liability, insurance fraud, patent and trademark infringement, anti-trust litigation, construction defect litigation, premises liability, and employment litigation involving sexual harassment, discrimination, and wrongful termination. Under his management, Gladding & Michel has provided a wide range of services to the insurance industry, and corporate community. Mr. Michel has investigated hundreds of high profile products liability cases for a variety of automotive product manufacturers. Prior to founding the firm in 1968, Mr. Michel worked as a special investigator and later as a multi-line adjuster for insurance companies. Through his involvement with the World Association of Detectives, Mr. Michel has engaged the firm in a number of international investigations in Latin America, the Pacific Rim, Europe, and the Middle East. He also serves as a Board Member of Liberty Bank.

John Evey

May 2022

In recent years, John Evey provided strategic assistance to the executive and board leaders of ~two dozen companies (multiple sectors) with the potential to create substantial financial benefit for shareholders while also creating a more positive future for people globally. He is also a co-manager of several entities that facilitate mutually-beneficial relationships between companies in North America with partners that can help open major global markets globally. His day to day focus since 2017 has been managing an impact venture fund investing in companies that can do well financially while advancing transformational technologies to enhance a healthier future for people everywhere. That fund, Growing Impact Ventures, LP, closed to investment in 2021.

For the 36 years prior to June 2012, Evey led development and advancement programs for notable charitable organizations and educational institutions. The most recent of those was Nature and Culture International, a conservation organization that has directly catalyzed the preservation of more than 25 million acres of tropical forests, primarily in the Andes and Amazon of Ecuador and Peru. Directly prior to that, Evey served for four years as Vice President for Development at the J. Craig Venter Institute (“JCVI”), for which pioneering genomic research entity he was responsible for generating collaborative partnerships and funding from all sources except federal agencies.

From 1985 to 2007, Evey held major roles with three universities, most recently as Assistant Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Executive Director of Development for the Marine Sciences at University of California, San Diego (“UCSD”), which is a global research powerhouse. Before joining Scripps/UCSD, Evey was Vice President for Institutional Advancement at University of the Pacific. He served, prior to that, for more than a decade as Director of Development at Oregon State University. At Pacific, Evey was responsible for all external relations programs for that three-campus university (Stockton, Sacramento, and San Francisco). At Oregon State, he led the university’s entire charitable giving program for that Carnegie Tier I research institution, including those within its service mission of extending research for application as a land-, sea-, space- and now sun-grant university.

His earlier experience includes roles as founding director of the Office for Resource Development at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and as the initial association executive for Oregon Advocates for the Arts (OAA). As a volunteer, his catalytic efforts led to the creation of the Southern Oregon Land Conservancy, an entity now active for more than 40 years. As an officer of the Travel Industry Council of Oregon while with OAA, Evey and two colleagues successfully advocated the creation and funding of a Tourism Division in the Oregon Department of Economic Development.

Evey has chaired the boards of one public and a few private companies, and currently serves as an outside director of four private companies and an observer with others. As a volunteer, he has been supportive of the Kyoto Prize Symposium in San Diego, which hosts presentations by the Kyoto Prize laureates each spring. In addition, Evey is an active member of the board of Nature and Culture International. He is also an Eagle Scout.