Our Board of Directors

GlobeMed's Board of Directors are stewards of the organization, working develop long-term strategic plans and perform governance. They are made of long-time supporters not just of GlobeMed but of health, social justice, and leadership development.

• Paurvi Bhatt -  Paurvi Bhatt, Senior Director, HIV/AIDS Prevention, Treatment, and Care at Levi Strauss and Company, leads the company’s global Employee HIV/AIDS Program and advises on HIV/AIDS activities for the company.  She has more than 15 years of experience in both the public and private sector. Specifically, she has worked on designing, managing and advising initiatives on HIV/AIDS, corporate social responsibility, and international health. She has led strategic public-private partnerships and HIV/AIDS planning initiatives, and has implemented successful start-up HIV/AIDS programs around the world for organizations including USAID, US GAO, CARE, and Abbott Laboratories.  She serves as a technical advisor on several international health and HIV/AIDS working groups and committees, and serves on the Global Health Benefits Institute Board. She holds a BA from Northwestern University and an MPH from Yale University, and carried out post-graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University. 

• David W. Cromer, MD - Dr. Cromer retired as Chairman of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare in 2000. Although retired from medical practice, Dr. Cromer serves on several boards, including Illiniois State Medical Insurance Exchange, Ministry Mentors, and Friends of Battered Women & Their Children. He was a team leader for the Health Ministry of the Lutheran Church of the Ascension, a Rotary Club of Evanston Lighthouse member, and a volunteer for the Community Health Clinic of Chicago. Dr. Cromer has made several international trips to provide medical care in resource-limited settings. He graduated from Northwestern University Medical School. Currently, he lives in Wisconsin and spends much of his winter in Florida.

• Lee Greenhouse- Lee Greenhouse is President of Greenhouse Associates, Inc., a strategy consulting firm that advises publishers as well as information, service, and software companies.  Since 1992, the firm has helped clients grapple with issues involving their products and services, marketing strategies, competitive positioning, business development activities, and production processes.  The firm's work spans a variety of consumer, business, professional, academic, industrial, scientific, medical, and non-profit sectors. Lee has over 25 years of experience building, managing, and consulting to information and service businesses.  Prior to founding Greenhouse Associates, Lee developed and managed businesses for several major corporations, including E.F.Hutton & Company, IMNET (a joint venture of IBM and Merrill Lynch), and Citicorp.  Previously, Lee served as Director of New Electronic Media for Link Resources, where he led a worldwide consulting program covering business and consumer applications of new information technologies. He also served for four years as a venture partner at Flatiron Partners, a venture capital firm investing in Internet companies. He has served on the boards of several companies as well as on advisory boards for non-profit organizations, including the Chicago Mentoring Institute and ACCION Chicago.  Lee holds a B.A. from Harvard University. 

• Brian T. Hanson- Hanson is the Associate Director of the Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies at Northwestern University.  Prior to his work at Northwestern, Hanson served as the foreign policy advisor to a US Senator, a government affair representative for John Deere & Company, and a research analyst for the US Information Agency.  He teaches courses on international political economy, globalization, and international trade. He is part of MIT research efforts on globalization, specifically interested in the politics of trade liberalization. Outside of academia, Hanson is a Director and Vice Chair for Programming of the Stanley Foundation, a consultant to the Holthues Trust, a Director of the TNH foundation, and Program Chair for the Chicago Global Donors Network. He graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa and did his doctoral work in political science at MIT.

• Erin Linville (Chair) - Erin Linville is a consultant at Bain & Co, a management consulting firm.  Prior to Bain, Erin worked in communications for the Mitch Daniels for Governor Campaign in Indiana. After a successful campaign, she joined his Administration, serving as a policy and project director for the health and human service agency.  She also led an on-site HIV/AIDS market research project in Namibia and Botswana through the Global Health Initiative, a Gates Foundation grantee. Erin earned her MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, where she was inducted into the Beta Gamma honor society, and her B.A. in Economics, Magna Cum Laude, from the University of Notre Dame. She has served on Board committees for the Kohl Children's Museum of Greater Chicago and the Notre Dame Alumni Club of Indianapolis.

• Jenny Merdinger - With more than 20 years of leadership, fundraising and consulting work in the nonprofit arena, Jenny Merdinger sees nothing but opportunity for GlobeMed.  She has directed development programs for The National Easter Seal Society and Young Chicago Authors.  Jenny was a founding member of The Dawn R. Schuman Institute for Jewish Learning, creating innovative approaches to lifelong learning and spiritual growth. In her current role as Vice President for The Cradle Foundation, Jenny works to support the women, children and families receiving adoption and human services through The Cradle in Evanston IL.  She lives in Evanston with her husband, who shares her pride in their son, serving in The Marines, and daughter, a freshman at Illinois State University.

• Cheryl Middaugh  - Middaugh is as a nonprofit consultant with a focus on development and fundraising.  She is also the co-founder of a fair trade fundraising company, the Mora and Mahogany Corporation, which specializes in providing high-quality, fair trade products for large institutional and school-based fundraising initiatives. Cheryl first became involved with GlobeMed during her undergraduate career at Northwestern University.  She graduated in June of 2004 with a degree in American Studies. Cheryl currently lives in Chicago and has maintained an informal advisory relationship with GlobeMed during her years after graduation.

• Ashley Pasen - Ashley became involved in GlobeMed as a freshman at Northwestern University and eventually served as the first National Public Relations Chair when the organization received 501(c)3 status in 2003. She later served as President of the organization for two years, during which time she had the honor of traveling to Ho, Ghana for the unveiling of the H.O.P.E. Center (GlobeMed at Northwestern University's partner organization) in April, 2006. After graduating from Northwestern University in June of 2006 with a degree in Spanish and International Studies, Ashley remained in Chicago where she currently serves on the boards of two nonprofit organizations, both of which focus on health care.

• Victor Roy - Between 2006 and 2009, Victor Roy served as GlobeMed's Executive Director. During this time with GlobeMed, the organization re-shaped its mission and programs, expanded to 19 university chapters and over 400 students, and raised over $250,000 in seed funding to build a strong National Office with full-time staff. Victor graduated from Northwestern University in 2007 with a bachelor's degree in Political Science, after which he worked for GlobeMed full-time. He was awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to pursue graduate studies in sociology at Cambridge University starting in the fall of 2009. In the future, Victor hopes to combine the skills of a clinician with those of a social scientist to help shape and advocate for policies aimed at global health equity. 

• Keith Sarpolis, MD - Dr. Sarpolis has been a practicing physician of general internal medicine since 1987 and maintains his office in Evanston, Illinois, where he is on the staff of Evanston Hospital and holds a faculty appointment at Northwestern Medical School.  His interests lie in the areas of chemical dependence treatment and public health policy. Dr. Sarpolis attended undergraduate and medical school at the University of Michigan, and came to Chicago, where he did his residency training at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center.  He resides in Evanston, Illinois with his wife and two children.