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Larry A. Bedard
43946 votes
29.53%
- Occupation: Emergency Physician
  
 
Jennifer Rienks
 
39517 votes
26.56%
- Occupation: Incumbent
 - Health Policy Analyst & Researcher, UCSF
 - BA, University of Connecticut
 - MS, University of California, Santa Cruz
 - PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz
  
Priorities:
- Ensure that Marin General Hospital is operated with transparency, accountability, and for the benefit of Marin residents
 - Rebuilding Marin General into a seismically safer, state-of-the-art "green" hospital
 - Attracting new physicians to Marin to improve access to care and replace retiring physicians
  
 
James A. Clever
 
34463 votes
23.16%
- Occupation: Incumbent
 - Stanford U. AB '58, MD '62
 - Private practice of Internal Medicine, SF 1970-2005
 - Chief of Staff, Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center,1984-7
 - Member many not for profit boards in Marin & San Francisco
 - Vice President, Marin Healthcare District Board
 - Dipsea Race, 31 consecutive years, "in the shirts" 7 times.
  
Priorities:
- Plan, finance and build new MGH wing to meet seismic code
 - Provide highest quality hospital care for all residents of Marin
 - Promote healthy lifestyles and behaviors.
  
Lori Wood
 
16462 votes
11.06%
- Occupation: Executive Administrator
 - Bachelor's Degree in Anthropology, U.C. Berkeley
 - Community Volunteer
 - Notary Public
  
Priorities:
- Restore open meetings and ensure hospital board follows California's open government laws
 - Rewrite bylaws to prevent self dealing and financial & other conflicts of interest on hospital board; promote openness & honesty; reward/respect staff
 - Realistically address ability to recoup hospital profits taken by Sutter, plan for an earthquake, review $57M IT contract, reduce CEO's $800K/yr pay.
  
Joseph "Joe"  Salama
 
13899 votes
9.34%
- Occupation: Mediator/Attorney
 - Certified and court appointed mediator
 - Lived in Marin almost continuously since 1973
 - Law Degree
 - Economics degreee
  
Priorities:
- Changing bylaws for board to no longer allow conflicts of interest among board members
 - Changing bylaws for board to no longer allow secret meetings
 - Changing bylaws for board to permit transparency and public accountatability
  
  
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