Team

Bay Area Consortium Director -- Gwen Rowe-Lee Sykes

Gwen Rowe-Lee Sykes is a longtime advocate in community health care. She is executive director of the Bay Area Consortium for Quality Health Care, an Oakland nonprofit that provides HIV/AIDS counseling, primary and mental health care and youth programs to underserved populations. Dr. Sykes has served as a lecturer at California State University, Hayward in research methodology and human behavior, and was a presiding member of the Alameda County Medical Center Board of Trustees, which oversees three hospitals and three freestanding clinics in the county. She has served on many community boards. From 1999 to 2003, she chaired the Alameda/Contra Costa County HIV/AIDS Planning Council and was board member of the Berkeley Women's Health Center from 1988 to 1999. Dr. Sykes holds a doctorate in public health and a master's degree in social work from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Anthony Jones

Dr. Anthony Jones joined the AIDS Minority Health Initiative (AMHI) at the same time as he joined the Sutter Medical Network as a partner of Dr. Robert Scott. He is broadly skilled in community and hospital-based medicine and traverses both worlds easily, ensuring that patients have the best resources and are well-linked and integrated into the best medical heath care continuum possible. Dr. Jones leads the medical case management team of nurse case managers, social work case managers, health educators and adolescent peer counselors committed to the care of HIV positive patients, their families and significant others.

Fred Stickney, President FES Group, Advisor

Fred Stickney, Advisor to the Bay Area Consortium for Quality Healthcare, has over thirty year of business experience in the Bay Area. Fourteen of those years he spent as the President and Chief Executive Officer of two major urban YMCA's. During that time he successfully raised money for the YMCA and other non-profit organizaiton. Mr. Stickney has a reputation for being fiscally conservative with exception skills for assessing community needs.