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2010 Annual Report

Leadership

Board Of Trustees

Whittaker Mack, III, Chairperson
Horace L. Morancie, Vice Chairperson
Vivian Bright, Treasure
Rev. Leonard Jarvis, Secretary
Brigitte McCray, Trustee
Carmen Smith, Trustee
John L. Burnett, Trustee
Leonard Ferguson, Trustee
Althea Vyfhuis, Trustee
Lisa A. Ross MD, Trustee
Charles Gergel, Esq Counsel To The Board

LAWRENCE S. BROWN, JR., MD, MPH
Interim President

EDDIE LIGHTSEY, MBA
Senior Vice President
Division of Finance

ROBERT E. SAGE, PhD
Senior Vice President
Division of Human Services

DEBORAH A. WRIGHT, M.ED
Senior Vice President
Division of Resource and Corporate Administration

Reginald Fluellen
Senior Vice President
Division of Forensic Health Services

ARTC founder Dr. Beny J. Primm served until 2011 as its Executive Director for more than 30 years, and as President of URI since its creation in 1980. An expert in the field of substance abuse treatment, Dr. Primm received his medical degree from the University of Geneva in Switzerland and has been widely published in numerous medical journals and textbooks.

Selected by four U.S. presidents to serve as consultant on a variety of substance abuse and public health issues, he was appointed to the Commission on AIDS by President Ronald Regan, selected as the first director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment of the US Department of health and Human Services by President George Bush, and named U.S. representative on issues of drug addiction and AIDS to the World Health Organization in Geneva.