Board of Directors

Mark Piehl, MD, MPH, Founder and Chairman of the Board

Medical Director, WakeMed Children's Hospital, Raleigh, NC
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UNC School of Medicine

Dr. Mark Piehl has served as the Medical Director at WakeMed Children's Hospital since 2009.  He earned his MD and MPH from the University of North Carolina, where he completed his internal medicine and pediatrics residency as well as a fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care. Dr. Piehl is a Fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics, a recipient of the AHEC Faculty Teaching Award, and the founder and chairman of the Board for Samaritan Health Center.  He and his wife Meggan live in Chapel Hill and are the parents of three children.

Rachel Steinwender Betts, JD

Counsel, Bayer CropScience

Rachel Betts is an attorney for Bayer CropScience LP in Research Triangle Park.  Her prior experience includes five years as an associate with the Raleigh law firm Smith Anderson.  Rachel holds a J.D. and B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  She lives in South Durham and attends the Church of the Good Shepherd with her husband, Doug, and their two delightful toddlers.  She is a native of Florida, but loves her adopted state of North Carolina (especially the City of Durham, the Tar Heels, Eastern NC barbecue, and the Durham Bulls).

Richard P. Hobbs, MD 

Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, University of North Carolina

Rick Hobbs is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at UNC, where he is employed as a hospitalist and is active in resident and medical student education.  He has been involved with Samaritan Health Center since before the clinic opened its doors in 2009.  Nearly fluent in Spanish, he has a particular interest in Latino and international health.  Rick and his wife Juli live in Durham.  They have two beautiful children and attend Grace Community Church in Carrboro. 

Leland Little

Owner, LL Auctions, Hillsborough, NC

Leland Little is the President of LL Auction and Estate Sales in Hillsborough.  LLAES, Ltd. specializes in consigning and auctioning estates and collections including furniture, fine art, Asian antiques, Southern antiques, pottery, and porcelain.  Leland and his wife Beth have one daughter and attend the Church of the Good Shepherd in Durham.

 

Rev. Ernie Mills

Founder and Executive Director, Durham Rescue Mission, Durham, NC 

The Rev. Ernie Mills founded the Durham Rescue Mission with his wife Gail in 1974.  After graduating Bible college, Rev. Mills worked at the Winston-Salem Rescue Mission for five years before coming to Durham.  Today the Rescue Mission is the oldest and largest homeless shelter in Durham.  The Millses have two children who are actively involved with the Rescue Mission. 

 

Gail Mills

CFO, Durham Rescue Mission, Durham, NC

 

 

Todd Rust

Vice President / Investments, Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC 

Todd Rust has been with Wells Fargo Advisors since 2006.  He has also worked with BB&T, Bank One Securities, and Hilliard Lyons.  Todd earned degrees from Illinois Wesleyan University and La Salle University.  He is a member of the Rotary Club of Research Triangle Park.  He and his family are active at the Church of the Good Shepherd, and his two children attend Durham Public Schools. 

 

Rick Stouffer, MD

Chief of Clinical Cardiology, UNC.

George A. Stouffer, MD is the Henry A. Foscue Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Director of Interventional Cardiology, Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories and Chief of Clinical Cardiology at the University of North Carolina. He graduated from Bucknell University and the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency, cardiology fellowship, and interventional cardiology fellowship at the University of Virginia. Dr. Stouffer's main focus is interventional cardiology, but he is also actively involved in clinical and basic science research. He is the author of three textbooks and more than 100 scientific publications and has been elected to Fellowship in the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Physicians, the American Heart Association and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions.

 

Nancy Sung, Ph.D.

Senior Program Officer, Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Nancy Sung, Ph.D. is a Senior Program Officer of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF), an independent foundation which supports biomedical research. She is founding board chair of the Health Research Alliance, a national consortium of 50 private foundations and voluntary health agencies. She serves on advisory boards at the University of North Carolina and University of Pittsburgh, and has served on several Institute of Medicine panels. Dr. Sung conducted postdoctoral research in tumor virology at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at UNC-CH and was a visiting fellow at the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine’s Institute of Virology in Beijing. In addition to her Board membership at Samaritan Health Center, she sits on the Board of Justice Ventures International.  Locally, Dr. Sung has served as a PTA president and a member of Site-Based Decisionmaking Committees within the Durham Public schools, where her two children attend. She and her husband Grant are active members of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Durham, NC.

 

Ray Toher, MD

Internist, Durham Medical Center, Durham, NC

Dr. Ray Toher has practiced medicine in Durham since 1975.  He is a graduate of Duke University and Duke Medical School and completed his internal medicine residency at Duke Medical Center.  Ray and his wife Tricia are the parents of three daughters and attend the Church of the Good Shepherd in Durham.

 

 

 

Jeffrey C. West, DMD

General Dentist, Chapel Hill, NC

Dr. Jeffrey West is a solo practicing general dentist in Chapel Hill.  He earned a BA in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before attending Tufts University, School of Dental Medicine in Boston, MA.  He has volunteered at Samaritan Health Center in the dental clinic and looks forward to helping grow this aspect of SHC.  He and his wife, Crystal live with their son in Carrboro and are members of Christ Community Church in Chapel Hill. 

 

Chen-Sen (Samson) Wu, JD, MD 

Chen-Sen (Samson) Wu is Senior Counsel at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).  He advises senior management, represents GSK at industry meetings, and serves as primary counsel for sales and marketing teams in 13 states, focusing on health care law, government investigations, and FDA regulations.  Prior to GSK, Samson was an attorney at the law firm of Williams & Connolly in Washington, DC, representing Pfizer, Merck, and Wyeth in federal and state courts nationwide.  Samson graduated from Yale Law School, where he was Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics, and Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal.  He earned his M.D. from Duke, where he was selected for the National Institutes of Health Clinical Research Training Program.  Samson received his A.B. from Stanford, where he was Co-Managing Editor of the Stanford Daily and played rugby.  A first-generation immigrant from Taiwan, he speaks Mandarin and Taiwanese fluently.  He attends Church of the Good Shepherd with his wife, Ryanne, and two young sons.