Board of Directors

The Clinic is managed by a board of directors. At its monthly meetings, the board oversees and guides the Clinic's services, finances and policies, and also assists in obtaining funding from outside sources.

Kent Williams, Board President, has lived on the San Juan Ridge since 1998. Prior to moving here, he worked for 20 years in the business side of healthcare as a sales manager for a major medical diagnostics company. He currently lives at Ananda Village where he works as Director of IT Services and serves on the Board of Directors of the Janaka Foundation.

Peter Van Houten, the Clinic's medical director, attends all meetings of the board of directors and serves the board as a non-voting advisor. He founded the Clinic in 1982 and was its first practitioner. Dr. Van Houten was instrumental in guiding the Clinic toward its non-profit status in 1994 and was the first president of its board of directors. He and his wife, Catherine, have lived at Ananda Village on the San Juan Ridge since 1978.

Secretary Dianna Malley is the outreach worker for the North San Juan Family Resource Center. She taught at Camptonville School for 20 years before retiring and tutoring for the Sylvan Learning Center in Grass Valley and then working for the Family Resource Center. She and her husband, Keith, raised three children – one birth daughter and two boys who came to them via Sierra Adoption Services. Diana enjoys crocheting, sewing, gardening, and family activities. They are the happy grandparents of two little girls.

Treasurer Bill Neff has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2002. Bill is a retired Associate Vice-Chancellor for Administration at the University of California with 37 years experience in human resources, health care, legal affairs, risk management, facility construction and maintenance, budgets, audits, security, housing, and auxiliary services. Bill sees his Board responsibilities as helping to ensure that SFMC is run efficiently and effectively so that the clinic’s providers and support staff can best serve our patients. He and his wife, Helen, live in Nevada City and enjoy hiking, camping, backpacking, boating, and traveling throughout the West.

Michael Heggarty, MFT, is Nevada County's Behavioral Health Director. He has been in community mental health work for over 30 years. He moved to Nevada City from Santa Cruz in 2006 where he was the Chief of Adult Services. He also worked in a rural Tennessee mental health clinic for 8 years. He enjoys fly fishing, hiking, camping, and a very good game of chess. Michael and his wife, Karen, have a daughter Stephanie 27, and a son Joshua 32.

Naidhruva Rush has served on the Board of Directors for 4 years. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 1964 and then worked in the civil rights movement as a staff attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. She later served as Director of Community Law Offices in New York City. She enjoys her current position as Editor of Clarity Magazine, an Ananda Church publication. Naidhruva has a son, Joseph, who practices law in New York City.