Board of Directors
The Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley
is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, charitable organization and is governed
by a board of directors. Directors are members of the Native American
community and hold various roles in their everyday lives from
homemakers, business owners, lawyers and physicians amongst other trhings.
Take a moment to meet our directors below...
Luan Wilfong (Choctaw-Chickasaw)
President
Luan Wilfong has served as a board member since 2001 and currently serves as the Board President. Luan has a BA in Economics from Santa Clara University and a Masters in Business Administration. She has spent most of her professional career working in the financial services, high technology and biotechnology industries. Luan currently owns and operates her own executive coaching & consulting firm. While her firm has worked largely with technology related companies, her focus has become working with American Indian community groups such as the National Native American AIDS Prevention Center, North American Health Center, and the Friendship House in San Francisco. Luan has been married to her husband, Brian, for 14 years and they have a two year old son named Ben. Luan was born and raised in Watsonville. Her American Indian heritage comes from her father who is from Oklahoma and immigrated to California as a young man.
Lisa Lee Pate (Choctaw-Miami)
Vice President
Lisa was born in Newport Beach in southern California. Lisa holds a law degree from Bolt College at UC Berkeley where she graduated in 1989. She practiced commercial law for 11 years (real estate, employment, securities, and labor law) before going to medical school. Lisa recently graduated from Standford University's medical program and is now a licensed Physician as well . Lisa found the IHC in 1997 because she had moved to the neighborhood and was planning on becoming a doctor, and was happy to find an Indian clinic in the area. She did a project in the summer of 1997 with Dr. Verstraete and then joined the Board in March 1998. Both of Lisa’s grandparents were Indian; her grandmother taught her how to do beading and her grandfather taught her how to grow traditional foods. Lisa would like to use her doctoring skills to work in the American Indian community.
 Pablo Diego Viramontes (Nha Nhu-Otomi)
Treasurer
Pablo Viramontes has served on the IHC Board of Directors since 2005. Pablo is a teacher at the Foundry School in San Jose and has been teaching for 31 years. As a life long educator, Pablo has a bachelor of arts degree, teaching credential and a master’s degree from San Jose State University. Pablo is a father of three and lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains. He is very active in the American Indian community and as an avid runner, Pablo participates in the 500-mile American Indian Spiritual Marathon and the Sacred Run.
Cheryl Marsden (Tlingit-Haida-Tsimpsian)
Secretary
Cheryl has been on the Board since April 2006. She is a member of the IHC’s Diabetes Community Advisory Committee (DCAC) and has been involved with the Committee’s efforts to reach out and educate the community about diabetes. She is also a Patient Advocate in the Community Health Partnership’s Patient Advocacy Program which trains clients how to speak to legislators and other officials about the need for health care services. Cheryl has volunteered at many IHC events over the last two years. Cheryl has been the Recording Secretary and Vice President of the Tlingit/Haida San Francisco Central Council.
 John Ammon
Member
John Ammon is from Northern California and attended school on the Hoopa Reservation where he was active in sports and student government and was elected student body President his senior year of high school. John has been actively involved in the Native American community since his arrival in California and started the nonprofit "Native Doors Networking Senter" to serve Native American students and elders.
Updated 05-23-2008 - Paul Komárek
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