Current Advisors:

  • Karl Peace, PhD
  • Tim Sanders, Legal Counsel to the Coalition

Retired Board Members

  • Sammie Dixon, MD
    Former Vice-President, Medical Affairs,
    Tift Regional Medical Center
    Tifton, GA
  • Wayne Martin
    CEO, Crisp Regional Medical Center
    Cordele, GA
  • J. Paul Newell, MD
    Former District Health Director,
    GA Public Health District 8-2
    Cartersville, GA
  • Kay Read
    President and CEO
    Cartersville-Bartow County Chamber of Commerce
    Cartersville, GA 

Research/Academic

  • Karen Glanz, PhD, MPH
    Director
    Emory Prevention Research Center [bio]
  • Theresa Wicklin Gillespie, PhD, RN
    Associate Director and Assistant Professor
    Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
    School of Medicine
  • Joseph Lipscomb, PhD
    Professor of Public Health
    Rollins School of Public Health at
    Emory University [bio]