Orange Regional Medical Center Board of Directors

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Rolland Peacock, III, Chairman		Patricia Claiborne, Vice Chair		Schuyler Newman, M.D., Treasurer		Sher Singh, Secretary
Gerard J. Galarneau, M.D.		Paul B. Halpern		Arthur D. Kowaloff		Lon J. Merin, MD
Howard Mills		Terrence L. Olivo		Jonathan Rouis

Rolland Peacock, III

Rolland B. Peacock, III serves as Chairman of Orange Regional Medical Center’s Board of Directors. Mr. Peacock joined Orange Regional's Board of Directors in October of 2011. Mr. Peacock served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Orange Regional Medical Center Foundation from 2009 – 2011 and served as Chairman of the Capital Campaign for the New Hospital that raised over $22 million. He joined the Foundation Board of Arden Hill Hospital and Arden Hill Life Care Center in 1992, serving as its Chairman from 1998 - 2001. Mr. Peacock was a member of the Foundation Merger Committee, joining the fundraising entities of Arden Hill Hospital and Horton Hospital when Orange Regional Medical Center was formed.

Mr. Peacock is the Vice President and Small Business Relationship Manager at TD Bank, N. A. covering the Lower Hudson Valley Region. Prior to this, he was Senior Vice President at The Berkshire Bank (formerly Goshen Savings Bank).

Mr. Peacock has been active within the community and civic organizations throughout his career having most recently served as director and Treasurer of the Orange County Partnership, a member and past president of the Rotary Club of Goshen, an executive board member of the Hudson Valley Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Prior community involvement included serving as a director of Leadership Orange, the former McQuade Family Services and President of the Orange County Bankers Association. He also was active as a Scout Leader and soccer and Little League as his children were growing up.

Mr. Peacock resides in Goshen with his wife Suzanne.

Patricia Claiborne

Patricia Claiborne currently serves as the Secretary for the Greater Hudson Valley Health SystemBoard of Directors.  She is also Vice Chair of the Orange Regional Medical Center Board of Directors. Ms. Claiborne joined both organizations in May of 2008. She is a member of Orange Regional’s Board of Director’s Executive Committee, Compensation Committee, Performance Improvement Committee and is Chair of its Governance Committee.

Ms. Claiborne is past Educator, Program Leader and Executive Director for Cornell Cooperative Extention, positions she held for 37 years before retiring in 2010. At Cornell Cooperative Extension, Ms. Claiborne managed all aspects of operations, providing leadership and opportunities for the youth and families of Orange County. She began her career as a Cooperative Extension Agent responsible for leading the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program. She then became a Home Economics Program leader and educator with a major focus in Financial Management and Housing Programs. Prior to her position as Home Economics Program Leader, she served as a Research Assistant in Human Services Studies and Extension Associate for the Division of Nutritional Science, Cornell University.

Ms. Claiborne holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Home Economics from Virginia State University and a Master’s degree in Human Service Studies from Cornell University.

Ms. Claiborne is an active community member. She serves on the Orange County Citizens Foundation Board of Directors and the Emergency Housing Board of Directors. She is a member of the Middletown Kiwanis and the Orange County Farm Bureau. Ms. Claiborne was the Honorary Chairwoman for the 2008 Tribute to Women of Achievement of Orange County. She has received many awards and recognitions for her dedication to the community and her work, some of which include the Human Rights Commission Award, National Association of Extension Home Economists Newsletter Award, National Association of Extension Home Economists Diversity Award and Leadership Orange Pinnacle Award.

Ms. Claiborne lives in Middletown, New York.

Schuyler Newman, M.D.

Schuyler Newman, MD is board-certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology and has been a member of the Greater Hudson Valley Health System Board of Directors and the Orange Regional Medical Center Board of Directors since 2002. Currently, he is Board Treasurer and Chairman of Orange Regional’s Finance Committee. Dr. Newman serves as a member of Orange Regional’s Executive, Finance and Strategic Planning Committees. He is affiliated with Orange Pathology Associates, PC in Middletown, New York and has been an active medical staff member with Orange Regional since 1992.

Through his affiliation with Orange Regional, Dr. Newman has been a member of the Medical Executive Committee and served as its first Chief of Staff. Dr. Newman is also past Chair of the Medical Staff of Horton Medical Center, a position he held prior to the merger with Arden Hill Hospital. Additionally, he is past Medical Director of Laboratory and past Department Chairman of Pathology. Dr. Newman was instrumental in the development of Orange Regional’s Cancer Center, having served as the first chairman of the Cancer Committee. Additionally, he was instrumental in helping to attain the Center’s first accreditation. He received the Physician Leadership Award from Orange Regional in 2005. Dr. Newman is the President and Medical Director of Histopathology Services, LLC which is a leading provider of pathology services in the New York metro area.

Dr. Newman graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors, from LaSalle University and is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Jefferson Medical College where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He was in the Army Medical Corps for 13 years including his internship and residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He served in a number of leadership positions including Chief, Department of Pathology at Keller Army Hospital at West Point. Dr. Newman is a fellow of the College of American Pathologists and the American Society for Clinical Pathology.

Dr. Newman lives in Goshen, New York.

Sher Singh

Sher Singh is the Community Liaison for Rehabilitation Support Services, Inc. for the Orange County System of Care Initiative.

Ms. Singh has worked and lived in OrangeCounty for more than 26 years where she has supported education through her affiliations with the PineBushSchool District, School to Work Consortium, The New York State Parent Teacher Association and The National Association of Fundraising Professionals. In addition, Ms. Singh has served as a board member for many organizations including the Mental Health Association, Safe Homes ofOrangeCounty, the Middletown Business & Professional Women's Club and as a diversity committee member of the National Association of Fundraising Professionals.

Ms. Singh earned her B.A. in Mass Communications at the University of theWest Indies. She also received certified licensed credits in Special Education from SUNY New Paltz and a certificate in English from the University of London.

In 1998, Ms. Singh was awarded the Orange County Tribute to Women of Achievement Education and Volunteerism Award. She was also the recipient of the 2007 Human Rights Commission Award and the 2010 Orange County Chamber of Commerce's Volunteer of the Year Award.

Ms. Singh resides in the Town of Bloomingburgand is the mother of three grown children.

Gerard Galarneau, M.D.

Dr. Gerard Galarneau, Board-certified in Urology, practices at Middletown Urologic Associates. Dr. Galarneau has been an active Orange Regional medical staff member since March of 2000.

Dr. Galarneau has served in leadership positions at Orange Regional Medical Center since 2002. He was the Vice-Chair of the Department of Urology from 2002- 2004 and Chairman from 2005-2006. He was the Chairman of Staff from 2007-2008 and has held the position of Chief of Staff since January of 2009.

Dr. Galarneau graduated with a B.S. in Biology from SUNY Binghamton, received his medical degree from New York Medical College and held residencies in General Surgery and Urology at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York.

Dr. Galarneau is an active member of the American Urological Association and the Medical Society of Orange County.

Paul B. Halpern

Paul B. Halpern joined the Greater Hudson Valley Health System Board of Directors and Orange Regional Medical Center Board of Directors in October of 2008. He currently serves as a member of Orange Regional’s Finance Committee and Audit/Compliance Committee. He is also Chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee at the board level and is a past Chairman of the New Hospital Committee. Mr. Halpern also holds the position of Chair of the Orange Regional Medical Center Foundation Board of Trustees and has been a member of its board since 2004. During his tenure as a trustee, Mr. Halpern has served as Chair of the Community Phase of the $21 million Capital Campaign, the Co-Chair of the Century Club Campaign and is a past member of the Golf Classic Committee.

As an active member of the local community, Mr. Halpern is Immediate Past President of the Rotary Club of Middletown as well as a board member of the Rotary International Medical Relief Foundation; an honorary board member of the Boys and Girls Club of Wallkill and Pine Bush; a member of the steering committee and advisory board leadership council of the National Academy Foundation; former Chair of the Advisory Board of the Middletown High School Academies of Finance and Information Technology and past president of Temple Sinai in Middletown.

Mr. Halpern lives in Middletown, New York.

Arthur Kowaloff

Arthur Kowaloff joined the Greater Hudson Valley Health System Board of Directors and Orange Regional Medical Center Board of Directors in 2006. Currently, Mr. Kowaloff serves as the Chairman of Orange Regional’s Audit and Compliance Committee as well as its Compensation Committee. He is also a member of the Executive, Strategic Planning and Finance Committees.

Mr. Kowaloff is the president of Kowaloff & Co. LLC, a firm offering capital markets advice and investment banking services for entrepreneurs and the companies they create.

A graduate of Carleton College and Yale University Law School, Mr. Kowaloff spent five years as a managing director of BNY Capital Markets, Inc., a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. Prior to that, he held the position of COO/senior managing director at Patricof & Co. Capital Corporation and was a senior partner at the firm of Willkie Farr & Gallagher. He is a member of the New York State Bar.

Mr. Kowaloff is the Lead Director of Metropolitan Health Networks, Inc. and is also a member of the Sirona Dental Systems, Inc. Board of Directors. Additionally, Mr. Kowaloff is a Trustee of Carleton College and the president and a director of The PBP Foundation of New York.

Mr. Kowaloff lives in Central Valley, New York.

Lon J. Merin, MD

Dr. Lon Merin, Board-certified in Anesthesia, has been practicing with Orange Anesthesia Service, PC since 1990. He has been an active medical staff member of Horton Medical Center, Arden Hill Hospital and currently Orange Regional Medical Center.

Dr. Merin has served in several leadership positions at Orange Regional Medical Center and is presently serving as Chairman of the Department of Anesthesia.

Dr. Merin graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Zoology from The George Washingto n University, and received his medical degree from The George Washington University Medical School, located in Washington, D.C. He completed his residency in Anesthesio logy at New York University Medical Center and is an active member of the American Society of Anesthesiology.

Dr. Merin has been an active member of the community for the past twenty years. He raised his daughters in Goshen where he resides with his wife.

Howard Mills

Howard Mills joined the Greater Hudson Valley Health System Board of Directors and the Orange Regional Medical Center Board of Directors in 2008. Mr. Mills is a director and chief advisor of the Insurance Industry Group of Deloitte LLP. In his current role, Mr. Mills works with Deloitte’s clients in areas ranging from growth and globalization to managing the complexities of regulatory compliance. An experienced and prominent leader in the insurance industry, Mr. Mills joined Deloitte after serving as Superintendent of the New York State Insurance Department.

A former New York State Assemblyman, he served as the Deputy Minority Leader and a member of the Banking, Housing, Insurance and Ways and Means Committees. He was also a member of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, the Presidential Financial and Banking Information Infrastructure Committee and has served as commissioner of the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims.

Mr. Mills currently serves as a board member of the Griffith Foundation, has been an adjunct instructor of geography and politics at Mount Saint Mary College and Orange County Community College, is a former Town of Wallkill Supervisor and is a member of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors.

Mr. Mills lives in the Town of Hamptonburgh, New York.

Terrence L. Olivo

Mr. Olivo has been a public school educator for 44 years and for more than thirty-five of these years, he has been employed as a Central Office Administrator. Mr. Olivo began his career in the Highland Central School District, in Ulster County, as a history teacher. He left Highland, in January 1979, to become the Assistant Superintendent for Personnel in the Monroe-Woodbury Central School District. Ten years later, he became the district's Superintendent of Schools and held the position until his retirement in August 2004. In July 2007, he accepted an invitation to serve Orange-Ulster BOCES as Chief Operating Officer during the agency's search for a new District Superintendent. He continues in that position today.

As a Member of Orange Regional Medical Center'sBoard of Directors, Mr. Olivo sits on both the Institutional Review Board and the Bio-Ethics Committee. In addition, he serves the Mid-Hudson School Study Council as Director of Research and is also a Member of the Coordinating Council for the Orange County System of Care.

Mr. Olivo graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Social Studies/Education from Marist College and a Master's degree in Educational Administration and a Certificate in Advanced Studies in School District Administration from SUNY New Paltz.

Mr. Olivo was named by the Times Herald-Record as among the Thirty Most Influential People in the Mid-Hudson area in both 2003 and 2004 and in 2010, received the Mid-Hudson Schools Study Council and SUNY New Paltz Educational Leadership Award, recognizing his outstanding contribution to public education. Mr. Olivo is called upon as a frequent speaker and panel member in a variety of workshop s and conferences for administrators, teachers and school board members throughout the Mid-Hudson region.

He resides in Central Valley with his wife, Elizabeth, a music teacher in the Goshen Central School District, and is the father of two grown children.

Jonathan Rouis

Jonathan Rouis is the Managing Partner at Rouis & Company CPAs, LLP in Wurtsboro, New York where he focuses on corporate accounts across the region. He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Administration from St. Bonaventure University.

Mr. Rouis served on the Sullivan County Legislature for nine years, four as Vice-Chairman of the Legislature and four as Chairman of the Legislature. His background in accounting and finance has provided him unique perspective in the current economic crisis, which he has used to lead the County in financial restructu ring designed to provide greater transparency and accountability.

Mr. Rouis is a Past President of the Mamakating Rotary; a past member of the Hudson Valley Advisory Board of TD Bank North; a past member of the Advisory Board of The Community Bank of Sullivan County; a member of Sons of the American Legion; a member of the New York State Association of Certified Public Accountants and currently serves as the Vice-Chairman of the Orange Regional Medical Center Foundation Board of Trustees. He resides with his family in Burlingham, New York.