California Healthcare Workforce Policy Commission (CHWPC)

The Health Care Workforce Training Act originally called for the appointment of a ten-member California Healthcare Workforce Policy Commission. Recent amendments to increase the nurse workforce has increased the membership to fifteen. The Commission is composed of the following members:

Governor's Appointments

• Rosslynn Byous, DPA, PA-C
  Representing trainees of a Primary Care Physician Assistant Program
  Appointment Date: 12/31/2010
• Elizabeth Dolezal, Chair
  Representing the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development
  Appointment Date: 1/17/2007
• William Henning, D.O.
  Representing Private Medical Schools
  Appointment Date: 12/31/2010
• Cathryn L. Nation, M.D.
  Representing University of California Medical Schools
  Appointment Date: 3/14/2008
• Tracey Norton, D.O.
  Representing practicing Osteopathic Physicians
  Appointment Date: 12/31/2010
• Andrea Renwanz-Boyle, RN, NP, DNSc
  Representing practicing Registered Nurses
  Appointment Date: 12/31/2010
• Deborah Rice, MN, RN-C, FNP, CCRN
  Representing practicing Family Nurse Practitioners
  Appointment Date: 5/14/1998
• Mario San Bartolome', Jr. M.D., MBA
  Representing practicing Family Physicians
  Appointment Date: 12/31/2010
• Ashby Wolfe, M.D., MPP, MPH
  Representing residents in Family Practice Training Programs
  Appointment Date: 12/31/2010

Assembly Speaker Appointments

• Angelica Millan, MSN, RNP
  Representing practicing Registered Nurses
  Appointment Date: 5/15/2006
• Laura Lopez
  Representing Consumers
  Appointment Date: 8/15/2012
• Kathyann Marsh, MSN
  Representing Nursing Students
  Appointment Date: 2/15/2012

Senate Rules Committee Appointments

• Lauri A. Hoagland, FNP
  Representing practicing Registered Nurses
  Appointment Date: 2/11/2010
• V. Katherine Townsend, Ed.D., MSN
  Representing Nursing Students
  Appointment Date: 8/17/2006
• Bonnie Wheatley, Ed.D., MPH, MA
  Representing Consumers
  Appointment Date: 8/17/2006