Board Members
Gregory L. Hall, M.D.
Gregory L. Hall, M.D. serves as President of the Cuyahoga County Board of Health and has been a member since 2010, when he became the first African American appointed to the Board in its history. He is the Medical Director of the University Hospitals Cutler Center for Men and holds the Edgar B. Jackson, Jr., MD Endowed Chair for Diversity and Clinical Excellence at University Hospitals.
Dr. Hall is an Associate Clinical Professor at Case Western Reserve University and Northeast Ohio Medical University. His work focuses on health equity and African American health outcomes, and he is the founder of the National Institute for African American Health. He has been featured in The HistoryMakers, a national archive documenting notable African American leaders.
Sonja Rajki, JD
Sonja Rajki is the Senior Vice-President, General Counsel for the MetroHealth system, an academic medical center and public safety net hospital system where she has worked for 13 years. Her past experience includes representing real estate owners, businesses, health care entities and non-profit organizations as well as developing policies, training programs and addressing regulatory and compliance matters. Prior to her law career, Ms. Rajki worked as a community health specialist for the Hennepin County Health Department in Minnesota.
Ms. Rajki received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Religious Studies from Lawrence University and her Juris Doctor degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
Daniel Richards, JD
Daniel Richards is a practicing attorney and Managing Partner at Weston Hurd LLP, a full-service law firm with offices in Cleveland and Columbus. He has more than 30 years of first chair trial and appellate court experience representing hospitals, healthcare professionals, construction companies, manufacturers, retailers and the insurance industry in Ohio’s state courts and federal courts throughout the United States.
Mr. Richards received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business from Miami University and his Juris Doctor degree from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.
His professional associations include serving as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys, and acting as a founding member of the Ohio State Bar Association’s Appellate Practice Section.
Doug Wang
Doug Wang is a retired Senior Vice-President of The Northern Trust Bank and also served as portfolio manager for the Shaker Schools Foundation from 1999 to 2011. Mr. Wang received his Bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Kenyon College and a Master of Science in Management with a focus on finance, from the Sloan School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Wang has held top finance positions with Stein Roe & Farnham, American Asset Management, and The First Boston Corporation. He is an officer of Cleveland Social Venture Partners and a member of the Rainey Institute and Judson boards.
The current chair of the St. Luke’s Foundation board, Mr. Wang started his tenure on the foundation board in June 2013. He is a trustee at the Shaker Schools Foundation and a member of the Hawken School Investment Committee.
Sherrie Dixon Williams, M.D.
Dr. Williams is a Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Medicine Service at the VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare system. She completed her undergraduate and graduate education at Johns Hopkins University and earned her MD from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She completed internal medicine residency, chief residency, and fellowship in pulmonary/critical care at Wayne State University/ Detroit Medical Center (DMC). After spending several years in private practice and 21 years at The MetroHealth System in Cleveland, she joined the VA in June 2022. She is a respected clinician educator and medical leader with expertise in smoking cessation, sarcoidosis and critical care. Dr. Williams is a strong advocate for health equity. In her spare time, she enjoys family, cooking and traveling.
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