UHA Better Health • Better Life

Our Leadership

Executive Staff

Max G. Botticelli, MD
Max G. Botticelli, MD
Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer

Howard K.F. Lee
Howard K.F. Lee
Chief Operating Officer, Vice President, and Treasurer

Charles Murray
Charles Murray
Chief Financial Officer

Chad Lee
Chad Lee
Chief Information Officer

Linda Kalihiki
Linda Kalahiki
Chief Marketing Officer, and
Association Secretary

Quality Improvement Executive Team

In addition to the Executive Staff above, the QIE team includes Michael Nagoshi, MD, representative from the Physician Advisory Panel.

Board of Directors

Our Board of Directors is made up of industry leaders in the community, all with different strengths and backgrounds. Together they bring their varied expertise to make UHA a well-rounded company.

Max G. Botticelli, MD
Chairman/Director

Max G. Botticelli, MD
President, CEO
UHA

Mark H. Yamakawa
Vice Chair/Director

Mark H. Yamakawa
Exec. Vice President, COO
Queens Health Systems

Howard K.F. Lee
Director

Howard K.F. Lee
Vice President, COO, Treasurer
UHA

Lena Young
Director

Lena Young
Vice President Human Resources
Hilo Hattie

Sherrel L. Hammar
Director

Sherrel L. Hammar, MD
Formerly Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, Interim Dean, University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine, and President Hawaii Medical Association

Michael H. Nagoshi, MD
Director

Michael H. Nagoshi, MD
Director, Center for Clinical Skills;
Assist. Professor of Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine;
Assistant Chief of Staff, Kuakini Medical Center

Howard S. Todo
Director

Howard S. Todo
Vice President for Budget and Finance
University of Hawaii


Director

Karen Chang
President, KC & Associates; Formerly President, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., Individual Investor Enterprise

Physician Advisory Panel (PAP)

The Physician Advisory Panel consists of physicians who are part of the UHA participating provider network, and who have demonstrated their expertise as physicians, medical scientists, and/or medical educators.

The panel members are nominated by UHA's CEO, and approved by the Board of Directors. Their main purpose is to serve as advisors. Some of their duties include developing and overseeing strategies to improve the quality of UHA's health care standards, and to review, measure and evaluate the effectiveness and performance of UHA's health care quality.

UHA
  • Max G. Botticelli, MD - President, Chief Executive Officer
  • Howard K.F. Lee - Chief Operating Officer
Participating Physicians
  • George O. McPheeters, MD - General Surgery
  • Sherrel L. Hammar, MD - Pediatrics
  • Gaylyn Li, MD - Obstetrics/Gynecology
  • Michael H. Nagoshi, MD - Internal Medicine
  • James Navin, MD - Pathology
  • Roy O. Kamada, MD - Cardiovascular Disease
  • Paul A. DeMare, MD - Radiation Oncology
  • Stephen Kemble, MD - Psychiatry
  • Gloria Carlile, MD - Pediatrics