Board of Trustees

KFF’s trustees have deep backgrounds in public service, academia, nonprofit organizations, health care, and the media. Trustees serve two, five-year terms. The KFF Board is currently chaired by former Senator, Olympia Snowe. Jim Canales, president and trustee of the Barr Foundation, serves as Vice Chair.

Drew Altman, PhD

President and Chief Executive Officer, KFF

James E. Canales (Vice-Chair)

President & Trustee, Barr Foundation

Frederick P. Cerise, MD, MPH

President and Chief Executive Officer, Parkland Health & Hospital System

Victoria DeFrancesco Soto

Dean of the Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas

Kevin Merida

Media Executive

Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS

Associate Dean for Health Equity Research, Yale School of Medicine

Soledad O’Brien

Founder, Soledad O’Brien Productions
Anchor & Producer, “Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien”

Kathleen Sebelius

CEO, Sebelius Resources LLC
Former United States Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services

Susan E. Siegel

Former Chief Innovation Officer of GE and CEO of GE Ventures

Olympia Snowe (Chair)

Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center
Former United States Senator, Maine

Frederick O. Terrell

Vice Chairman of Investment Banking for Wells Fargo & Company

Reed V. Tuckson, MD, FACP

Managing Partner, Tuckson Health Connections