Health System Advisory Group
The U-M Health System Advisory Group includes some of the world's most successful leaders in business and industry. The group meets periodically to offer insights into real and meaningful issues that face the Health System, and members provide an essential external view regarding the issues every academic health center faces.
Jon Aaron is a principal member of The Velvel Group, LLC, an entity created to provide trustee and family office services, and President of the William Davidson Foundation. He formerly served as the Assistant to the President of Guardian Industries Corporation. A native of the metropolitan Detroit area, Jon received a Bachelor of General Studies from the University of Michigan and a JD from Michigan State University College of Law.
Jon is currently a member of the Board of Directors for the Jewish Federation of Metro Detroit and its Investment Committee, and serves on the Governing Board of the University of Michigan Hillel. His Board memberships also include the Detroit Chapters of the American Society for Technion and the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science. An Associate ADL National Commissioner, he serves on the board of Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital and chairs its Quality Committee. He also sits on the boards of the Children’s Hospital of Michigan Foundation and Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield, Michigan. He is also a trustee of the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) and a member of the Advisory Board of the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education at JTS.
Terence E. “Terry” Adderley is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Kelly Services, Inc., a Fortune 500 company and global provider of staffing services, with world headquarters based in Troy, Michigan.
Mr. Adderley joined Kelly Services in 1958 as manager of the company’s Louisville, Kentucky, office. He was elected Vice President of the company in 1961 and joined the Board of Directors in 1962. Serving in a series of positions of increasing responsibility during his career, Mr. Adderley was elected Executive Vice President in 1965, President in 1967, Chief Executive Officer in 1987, and Chairman of the Board in 1998.
A native of Detroit, Michigan, Mr. Adderley earned bachelor of business administration and master of business administration degrees at the University of Michigan. Prior to joining Kelly Services, he worked in the Treasurer’s Department of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (now Exxon Mobil Corporation) in New York City.
Throughout Mr. Adderley’s distinguished career in leadership roles at Kelly Services, the company has received numerous awards for its strong commitment to providing workforce opportunities for women, minorities, the disabled, and older members of society.
Mr. Adderley serves on the boards of the Detroit Renaissance Foundation, Oakland County Business Roundtable, Detroit Country Day School, William Beaumont Hospital, Citizens Research Council of Michigan, and the Detroit Economic Club. He is a member of the University of Michigan Ross School of Business Visiting Committee and the University of Michigan Health System Advisory Group. Mr. Adderley also served on the Boards of Directors of DTE Energy Company (17 years) and First Chicago NBD Corporation (now JPMorgan Chase & Co.) (13 years).
In 2006, Mr. Adderley was awarded the Leadership Hall of Fame Award, the highest honor conferred by the American Staffing Association, which also recognized him as one of the most influential leaders in the staffing industry during the past 40 years.
David Brandon is the Chairman and CEO of Domino’s Pizza, Incorporated, and is recognized for both his business and community achievements. His leadership philosophy of setting a strong vision, and cultivating an atmosphere of open communication and inclusiveness, has proven out in both strong profits and “great workplace” recognition for the companies he has led. Dave’s many success stories as the CEO of Domino’s, his experience as the former CEO of Valassis (an international marketing services firm), combined with his sales leadership positions at Procter & Gamble, have made him a popular choice as a board member for several large corporations, including Burger King, Northwest Airlines, TJX (parent company to TJ Maxx, Marshalls and other major specialty stores), and Kaydon Corporation.
Dave is also an active member of the community. Some of his civic and charitable service include: Director and Chairman, Detroit Renaissance Board; National Advisory Board, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; Chairman, Board of Directors, The Purple Rose Theatre Company; Capital Campaign Co-Chair, Mott Children’s Hospital; Trustee, Gerald R. Ford Foundation; and Regent Emeritus, The University of Michigan.
William K. Brehm has been a Director of SRA International since 1978 and served as Chairman of the Board from 1980 to 2003. An employee since 1980, Mr. Brehm now serves SRA on a part-time basis.
In 1968, after serving four years on the staff of the Secretary of Defense, Mr. Brehm was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs and served until December 1970. He then left government and assumed the post of Vice President for Corporate Development at Dart Industries, a consumer products firm, where his responsibilities included mergers and acquisitions and corporate research and development. In 1973, he returned to the Defense Department as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Reserve Affairs under James Schlesinger and later for Legislative Affairs under Donald Rumsfeld. He served through the end of the Ford Administration.
Mr. Brehm is a retired director of Herman Miller, Incorporated, where he was a member of the Executive Committee. He is now Chairman of the Board of The CNA Corporation and is also a Trustee of Guideposts and a director of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. He is past Chairman of the Board of Fuller Theological Seminary and continues there as Trustee and a member of the Executive Committee. He holds a bachelors and a masters degree in mathematics and physics from the University of Michigan.
Robert M. Brown is CEO and founder of Monroe Management Company in 1969, now known as Treystar. Since 1982, the company has concentrated on real estate development and management. Mr. Brown is a graduate of the University of Michigan with a Bachelors Degree in Industrial Engineering and received his Master's Degree in Finance from Harvard University.
Mr. Brown is President of Arcadia Capital, LLC, and has incorporated or assisted entrepreneurs in more than 40 companies in southwestern Michigan. He has provided high-risk venture capital to nurture new ideas and assist the existing Monroe-Brown Foundation, a charitable organization dedicated to furthering higher education. He is a board member for Southwest Michigan First and Fabri-Kal Corporation.
Mr. Brown is an adventure traveler, enjoying the outdoors and athletic activities including downhill skiing, tennis, basketball, white water rafting, trekking, and bird hunting.
Hamilton Chang worked for Oppenheimer and Company from 2007 through 2009 as Managing Director and National Manager of the Structured Products Group. He has had many years of experience in the field of finance, ranging from managing tax-exempt fixed-income and swap practices for top ten type financial services firms to running derivative or structured finance advisory practices nationally and abroad for a large financial institution and several boutique investment banks. With over 15 years of experience in trading, structuring, and advising on financial products, he has structured, advised or acted as agent on over 400 interest rate management tools/financings for tax-exempt issuers. He has also transacted and risk-managed billions of dollars worth of structures on behalf of large financial institutions.
Before joining Oppenheimer and Company, Mr. Chang was Managing Director and National Head of Structured Products and Co-Manager of the Municipal Finance Group at Ryan Beck and Company, where he managed the firm's tax-exempt bond sales and trading desks. He built the infrastructure for the institutional tax-exempt sales and trading platforms, hired the majority of the institutional professionals and also built the Structured Products' practice.
Mr. Chang has managed the national Derivatives or Structured Products practices at Legg Mason and Ziegler Companies, where he led the respective divisions specializing in the structuring of sophisticated capital access tools for tax-exempt issuers. On both of these platforms he advised as an outside third party providing independent advisory services for complex financings.
At Bank of America, Mr. Chang was in charge of the Municipal Derivatives practice in the West Coast and Midwest regions, where he worked with municipalities, colleges and universities, health systems, water districts, school districts, ports and various other tax-exempt issuers. Additionally, Mr. Chang worked for First Chicago NBD/BankOne, where he led the Risk Management and Advisory practice in Asia and Australia again working as an independent advisor on complicated risk management or financing projects. Prior to leading the Asian advisory practice he was responsible for the marketing, structuring and risk management of Municipal Derivatives and Reinvestment Products.
Mr. Chang has served as a member of the management committees and/or capital commitments committees at Ziegler, Legg Mason and Ryan Beck, and was recently invited to join the commitments committee at Oppenheimer and Company.
Mr. Chang holds a University of Chicago M.B.A. with concentrations in Finance and Organizational Behavior, as well as a B.G.S. from the University of Michigan. He is a frequent featured speaker on the topics of derivatives, balance sheet management, FAS 133 (GASB), and risk management at numerous national and regional conferences.
Robert J. Cody, M.D., M.B.A., is the Global Director for Scientific Affairs for the cardiovascular therapeutic area of Merck Research Laboratories (MRL), Merck & Company. Prior to joining MRL and while on leave of absence from the University of Michigan, he was Vice-President for Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer of CVRx, Incorporated, a medical device company in Minneapolis, Minnesota. While at the University of Michigan Health System, Dr. Cody served as Associate Chief in the Division of Cardiology, and Director of the Heart Failure & Transplant Management Program. He was actively involved in strategic planning and operations management of the cardiovascular service line and was a member of numerous health system committees. Prior to the University of Michigan, Dr Cody held faculty positions at the Ohio State University Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical School, New York-Presbyterian Hospitals.
Dr. Cody received his bachelors degree from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, his MD degree from Penn State University, and his MBA from the University of Michigan Business School. Dr. Cody completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio, and his cardiovascular training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
For over twenty-five years, Dr. Cody’s research has focused on neurohormonal control factors in heart failure and hypertension, as well as the pathophysiology of heart failure. This included translational research in the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, autonomic control of the circulation, natriuretic peptides, and endothelin. He has led the design and monitoring of numerous international clinical trials in heart failure. He has authored or co-authored over 250 original research reports, review articles and book chapters and is currently an editorial board member of the American Journal of Cardiology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and the American College of Physician Executives.
David S. Evans is the Chairman of Glencoe Limited, LLC, a Chicago-based merchant bank. Since its founding in 1993, the firm has completed investments in over seventy companies and committed private equity capital to these businesses.
Prior to co-founding Glencoe, David was a merchant banking and mergers and acquisitions specialist at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette from 1985-1993. He also served as Associate Director of the University of Michigan’s Growth Capital Foundation.
David is the Chairman of Glencoe’s Investment Committee and currently serves as Chairman of the Boards of Specialty Food Income Trust (TSX: HAM) and Böwe Bell & Howell Company and a director of First Mercury Financial Corporation. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Gastro-Intestinal Research Foundation at the University of Chicago, the Dean’s Advisory Council of the University of Michigan, and the University of Michigan Alumni Association. David has a BGS from the University of Michigan in History and Economics and an M.B.A. with Honors from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
Janette Ferrantino is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Detroit Salt Company, LLC. She graduated from Henry Ford Community College with a degree in nursing and is a longtime supporter of pediatrics at the University of Michigan Health System.
Stanley Frankel heads Frankel Associates, a privately held commercial real estate development and management company founded by his father. One of his interests at the University of Michigan is to provide experiences to business students to further their understanding of entrepreneurship, and in particular international entrepreneurship.
In 2000, Mr. Frankel was awarded the University of Michigan Business School's Distinguished Alumni Award for exemplary business practices and longstanding community service as well as his support of the International Multidisciplinary Action Projects and Global Project courses within the school.
Mr. Frankel received an A.B. in economics from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan Business School. He has served on the Business School's Development Advisory Board and its National Campaign Committee and is a member of its Visiting Committee.
Jan Garfinkle founded Arboretum Ventures in 2002 with over 19 years of senior management experience at two very successful start-up medical device companies, Advanced Cardiovascular Systems (ACS) and Devices for Vascular Intervention (DVI), both of which were acquired by Eli Lilly and spun into Guidant Corporation. She joined each company early in their development and held key management roles in marketing, clinical research and sales at these companies.
Prior to founding Arboretum Ventures, Ms. Garfinkle was President of Strategic Marketing Consultants(SMC). SMC provided extensive market analysis, regulatory and reimbursement review, business plan development, and due diligence to life science start-ups, venture funds, and universities. She holds a BS in Bioengineering from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Arboretum Ventures is an early-stage life science venture fund, headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Arboretum’s primary focus is medical devices, diagnostics, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and health care services. Arboretum is an investor in Asterand, CardioMEMS, HandyLab and NeoGuide Systems.
A native of Detroit, Ruth Roby Glancy has strong ties to Ann Arbor, where she spent her junior high and senior high school years and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan in 1962. Chairman of the Detroit Zoological Society for the past 15 years, Mrs. Glancy was recently named Chief Executive Officer and has been a mayoral appointee to the Detroit Zoological Commission for the past nine years. She is Vice Chairman of the McGregor Fund and has been a Trustee of the Respiratory Foundation of Southeast Michigan for the past decade.
In 1997, Mrs. Glancy was called one of Detroit’s “most influential women” by Crain’s Detroit Business. In recent years, she has been honored for her service by the University Liggett School, the National Society of Fundraising Executives, the Greater Detroit Interfaith Roundtable of The National Council of Christians and Jews, and the Detroit Receiving Hospital and University Health Center.
Mrs. Glancy is married to Alfred R. Glancy III, a Detroit civic leader who was Chairman of MCN Corporation, the parent company of Michigan Consolidated Gas Company, from 1988 to 2001. Mrs. Glancy is the mother of a daughter and three sons, with several Michigan MBA’s among them.
James A. Hiller is a native of Detroit. He attended school in the city and graduated with Honors from the University of Detroit Law School in 1973. Jim is President and CEO of Hiller’s Market, a chain of grocery stores.
In addition to his business efforts, Jim formed and endowed the PFUND (Program for Understanding Neurological Diseases) at the University of Michigan School of Medicine. PFUND seeks treatments and cures for neurological diseases such as ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. In 2004, Jim was honored to received the Jane L. Cobb Promise Award from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the Friend of Israel Award from Yeshiva Akiva, and the Tree of Life Award from the Jewish National Fund.
Jim’s other accomplishments include Past Commodore of the Great Lakes Yacht Club; Outstanding Young CEO Award from the National Retail Association; Special Investigator for the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission; Member of the Prismatic Club; Member of the Scientific Review Board for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation; Fellow in the Royal Institute of Navigation; Member of the Board of Trustees of Beaumont Hospital; and Adjunct Professor of Law at University of Detroit Mercy School of Law.
Al Kessel is the founder of Kessel Food Markets and Kessel Enterprises, LLC. Kessel Enterprises was one of the first operators of a Pet Supplies Plus store. They currently operate Pet Supplies Plus stores in central Michigan and Wisconsin. He is also a partner, along with four others, of the Pet Supplies Plus USA the Franchisor, which franchises over 200 stores in 28 states. Kessel Enterprises also operates 15 Save-A-Lot food stores in Michigan and Wisconsin. The Kessel Real Estate operations have developed, built, and owned numerous shopping centers through Michigan and Wisconsin.
Susan Meister’s professional work focuses on child health policy, with an emphasis on the contributions of clinical research to policy analyses and decisions. For more than 20 years, she has served as a member of the Harvard’s Working Group on Early Life and Adolescent Health Policy. As Director of Health Services Research at Children’s Hospital and Health Center in San Diego, she led the California Association of Children’s Hospitals projects to expand the costed clinical databases used for hospital payment with valid and reliable clinical classification and service data for five children’s hospitals. She also served as the principal investigator of a Robert Wood Johnson-funded project to design and evaluate an innovation in care for children with serious chronic illnesses in two children’s hospitals in two states. She coauthored an interdisciplinary study of the contributions of cost-effectiveness analysis, decision analysis and technology assessment to policy analysis at Harvard, as well as a monograph to evaluate the first fifteen years of the Harvard Working Group. Professional positions have also included past President of two health-related foundations in New Hampshire; consultant to an evaluation of a state-wide initiative in health care organization by the Vermont Hospital Association; HCFA grant review panels (hospital financing), meetings of the Planning Committee for the National Quality Forum, advisor for the HCFA’s Quality of Medicaid study; journal editorial boards; Visiting Distinguished Centennial Professor in Health Policy at Columbia; Distinguished Soule Professor, Soule Summer Institute at the University of Washington; Visiting Scholar at New York University; Research Associate in Health Policy at Harvard Medical School; member of the Visiting Committee of the University of Michigan Medical Center Alumni Society. She is also interested in science policy and served on the Genetics Advisory Council at Harvard Medical School.
Susan Meister is the founding Chair of the Board of Advisors for the Child Health and Evaluation Research (CHEAR) unit at the University of Michigan Medical School and Chair of the Duke University School of Nursing Board of Advisors. She is working with Dr. Julius Richmond to further develop child health policy efforts at Harvard. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau, a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, and a Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice. She received her BSN and PhD from the University of Michigan and her MSN from Loyola University of Chicago.
After earning a Master’s in Business Administration degree from Stanford University, Donald E. Petersen began a lifelong career with Ford Motor Company in 1949. There he was offered ever-increasing levels of responsibility in recognition of his high standards of performance. In 1977, he was made a director, and in 1980 he accepted the dual position of President and Chief Operation Officer. Five years later, Mr. Petersen was designated Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. He remained at the helm until his retirement in 1990.
Mr. Petersen’s record of achievements and service extends beyond the corporate world. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps in both World War II and the Korean War, and subsequently was honored with the ‘Semper Fidelis’ Award from the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation. In 1981, he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Washington, where he completed his undergraduate work. His alma mater, Stanford University, presented him with the Business School Alumni Association’s Arbuckle Award in 1985, in recognition of his outstanding achievements in business management.
Along with other prestigious awards from academia and industry groups, Mr. Petersen was presented the American Achievement Award in 1986 by Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina, for “significant contributions to the United States through achievement in the areas of industry, business, science, and the arts.” He was also bestowed with honorary doctorate degrees in Science (University of Detroit), in Human Letters (Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California), in Engineering (Michigan Technological University), in Law (Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi), and in Business Administration (Providence College).
Mr. Petersen’s leadership and expertise has enhanced the stature of several corporate and advisory boards, including the advisory boards of the Juran Center for Leadership in Quality at the University of Minnesota and the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington.
Richard H. Rogel of Avon, Colorado, is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Preferred Provider Organization of Michigan. Born in Essex, New Jersey, Mr. Rogel earned a Bachelors in Business Administration from the University of Michigan. He was Valedictorian of the 1970 Business School class, and he is a former president of the University of Michigan’s Alumni Association.
Mr. Rogel is currently serving as Chair of the University of Michigan’s fundraising campaign, The Michigan Difference. The Michigan Difference Campaign, a university-wide endeavor, seeks to raise funds for scholarships, faculty support, facilities, programs and research, and discretionary needs. As a senior leader, Mr. Rogel will promote the campaign and serve as an ambassador for the University, among other duties.
At the University of Michigan, Mr. Rogel is also a member of President Mary Sue Coleman’s Advisory Group, the University Musical Society Senate, the Social Work Development Committee Campaign Taskforce, the Advisory Board of the Samuel Zell and Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, the Greater Detroit Leadership Gift Committee, the Director’s Cabinet in the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, the Health System Task Force, and the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association. With his wife, Susan, Mr. Rogel has made a campaign gift to establish the Rogel Scholars Program, the largest contribution ever made to the University for financial aid, which provides support to out-of-state students.
Mr. Rogel is a member of the American Association of Preferred Provider Organization, the American Preferred Health Networks, the American Hospital Association, and the Greater Detroit Health Council. He is non-operating chairman of CoolSavings.com and Director of Quelsys, Incorporated. Mr. Rogel serves as a director of the Michigan Cancer Foundation.
Elizabeth Schmidt emigrated with her parents from Austria to Detroit in 1952, where she met and married her husband, Markus Schmidt. Together they founded Atlas Tool, Incorporated, a supplier of tools, dies, and prototype parts, mostly for the automotive industry. Atlas Tool has been honored by many organizations, especially NASA for several contributions to engineering that have benefited the space program.
Elizabeth Schmidt was recognized in 2008 by the National Association of Women Business Owners, Greater Detroit Chapter, with the Pinnacle Award, as one of the Top 10 Michigan Business Women. Her philanthropic interests include education, engineering, and medical research, providing endowed scholarships to schools from the primary to post-graduate levels.
Edward R. Schulak is an architect, entrepreneur, national real estate developer, inventor and international business leader in both foreign trade and commodities.
Mr. Schulak graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with degrees in both Fine Arts and Architecture. He also attended St. Johns College of Classical Studies and the Rackham College of Graduate Studies at The University of Michigan. He was certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards and licensed as an Architect in fourteen states. He has numerous patents in energy conservation and refrigeration and is published and has presented papers for the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers.
Mr. Schulak is co-founder and Vice Chairman of Metro International Trade Services LLC. This firm is one of the largest operators of foreign trade zones in North America, is also an Agent of the London Metal Exchange, and is one of the largest logistics and warehouse providers for metal in the world. He also co-founded LiteLaser LLC a company that developed a new generation of CO2 lasers. He founded International Airport Centers which pioneered and developed air cargo parks throughout the United States.
Mr. Schulak has served on the Boards of Kensington Academy, Cranbrook Schools, University Musical Society, The Life Sciences Institute, and Azimuth Advisory.
