Leadership Team

Dr. Popat joined Marin Community Clinics as Chief Medical Officer in November 2013. In February 2017 he became Associate Chief Executive Officer and in October 2017 Chief Executive Officer. In these positions he has overseen interdisciplinary and integrated clinical services; transformed the care we provide to be genuinely team-based and in line with patient-centered principles; built and supported Marin Community Clinics dynamic clinical leadership team; and facilitated contracts with medical groups and independent clinicians to provide a broad range of specialty services in-house.

Dr. Popat is a Board Certified Family Physician with a Doctor of Medicine and Masters in Public Health from Tufts University Medical School in Boston. He returned to his California roots to serve in the O’Connor Hospital/Stanford Family Medicine Residency Program in San Jose. Dr. Popat is currently completing a two-year Health Care Leadership fellowship with the California Health Care Foundation and UCSF.

In addition to his work at Marin Community Clinics, Dr. Popat is a Commissioner with Partnership Health Plan of California, which covers 550,000 people with MediCal coverage in 14 counties. It is his many experiences leading diverse teams that have prepared him for a leadership role in community healthcare, including stints in India and South Africa, working with local medical professionals to improve preventive care for diabetes patients and to describe the psychosocial factors surrounding HIV infection.

José A. Chibrás, MD has served as the Chief Medical Officer of Marin Community Clinics since November, 2017, after serving as the Associate Chief Medical Officer since 2016. He brings a broad range of experience, including more than two decades as a Chief Medical Officer of Federally Qualified Health Centers in Sonoma and Santa Cruz Counties.

Dr. Chibrás is an Internal Medicine physician who specializes in the care of adults. His focus is on primary care, which includes preventive care as well as chronic disease management. As Chief Medical Officer Dr. Chibrás, in addition to his role as a physician, oversees all clinical staff and specialists, as well as the Quality Improvement Department.

Dr. Chibrás has a degree in Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, a Doctorate in Medicine from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and completed his residency at the University of Iowa and Michigan State University. Dr. Chibrás also has experience as volunteer Clinical Faculty at several Universities in California and Michigan. Additionally, Dr. Chibrás recently completed a Fellowship at the University of California, Davis in Primary Care Psychiatry in 2016 and a Leadership Fellowship through the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) San Francisco, California in 2013. He resides with his family in Petaluma, California and enjoys hiking, fishing, cycling and photography.

Dr. Kadera joined MCC in 2008 and was instrumental in establishing the state-of-the-art dental clinic in San Rafael. She has continued to see patients and oversee dental operations ever since. While attending UCSF School of Dentistry, she initiated outreach programs for the underserved which have now been expanded nationally. She was a member of the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Diversity, and often contributed to free clinics for the homeless. She was a recipient of the UCSF Derzon-Butler scholarship (for community involvement) and the Western Region National Association of Medical Minority Educators scholarship.

Prior to moving to Marin County, she practiced at Mountain Valley Health Centers serving Siskiyou and neighboring counties in northern California. A native of Colombia and self-described coffee lover, Dr. Kadera is fluent in English and Spanish.

Dr. Horevitz has worked for MCC since 2014, starting as Director of Behavioral Health, where she oversaw the expansion of integrated behavioral health services. She was promoted to the position of Chief Behavioral Health Officer in 2019. Dr. Horevitz oversees the integration of behavioral health services across all MCC sites, including psychotherapy, psychiatry, complex care case management, and substance use/recovery services. Dr. Horevitz also maintains a patient panel, providing bilingual (Spanish/English) psychotherapy and behavioral health services to MCC patients. Working with patients, Lizzie takes a strengths-based & partnership approach to help them re-connect with their inherent strength and resilience. Lizzie brings a variety of intervention modalities to her practice, including: Problem-Solving Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and mindfulness-based approaches. As a health care leader, Dr. Horevitz is passionate about creating systems-level change to provide access to high quality, trauma informed, culturally competent and evidence-based care to all. She has dedicated her career to addressing health and mental health inequities in the safety net setting.

Originally from the Midwest, Lizzie has spent extensive time living and traveling in Latin America. She currently resides in San Rafael, with her husband and two young children. She loves living in Marin and taking advantage of all the outdoor activities this beautiful County has to offer. She enjoys doing yoga, hiking, reading, and playing the violin.

Lizzie earned her PhD and MSW from the University of California, Berkeley. She completed an NIMH-funded post-doctoral fellowship in Clinical Services Research at the University of California, San Francisco. She earned her BA from the University of Michigan, where she triple majored in Social Science, Spanish and Latin American Studies. Dr. Horevitz is a fellow in the California Health Care Foundation’s Health Care Leadership Fellowship (cohort 18).

David Klinetobe was appointed Chief Financial Officer in November, 2014, after serving as interim CFO for 2 months. He served on the Board of Directors as Treasurer and head of its finance committee from 2008 to September 2014. He has over 25 years of experience in finance, strategic planning and line management operations, serving most recently as the CFO of InfoCentricity, a software provider of predictive analytics solutions. His background includes ten years with Fair Isaac, where he held various executive positions, as well as risk management and consulting positions with Chase Manhattan Bank and KPMG Peat Marwick. He holds an MSIA (MBA) from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, an MS in Taxation from Golden Gate University, and a BA in Economics from the University of Washington. Dave is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) (inactive) in the state of California.

Originally hired in 2011 as the Director of Information Technology, Leah’s managerial and leadership skills led her to have several departments underneath her direct supervision; such as Health Information Management, Facilities, and the Call Center. Leah’s impressive ability to improve upon complex systems and see the big picture made her the perfect candidate for Chief Information Officer. Since she assumed her new role, Leah has continued to improve the departments she oversees as well as herself by continuing her education. Most recently she completed the Clinical Leadership Institute training through the UCSD Healthforce Center and annually she attends training’s for best practices with HIMSS and MGMA.

Leah was born and raised in Michigan, obtaining her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and her Masters in Information System Securities from Walsh College. After working in the healthcare field for several years before landing at Marin Community Clinics, Leah says that the most rewarding aspects of her current role is the palpable difference she makes in our patients lives, every day.

Leigha Andrews is our Senior Director of Medical Operations. She recently joined Marin Community Clinics in June 2020 after relocating to the Bay Area from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In Louisiana, Leigha served as the Director of Clinical Services at Open Health Care Clinic (OHCC), a Federally Qualified Health Center. Leigha obtained her Bachelor of Science in Microbiology at Southern University and A&M College in 1997 and her Master of Business Administration in 2004 at University of Phoenix both in Baton Rouge, LA. Leigha has extensive training in operations management, customer service, and project and relationship management. Prior to working at OHCC, Leigha was the Business Manager at a hospital-based HIV clinic in Baton Rouge, where she supported their Ryan White grants and services. Leigha has almost 20 years of combined operations management experience in healthcare, credit counseling as well as banking.

Leigha’s passion for community healthcare was ignited through serving the marginalized populations in south Louisiana, especially the LGBTQ community and people living with HIV at the clinics she managed and directed. Leigha has shared that working for a community health center and with a team of providers and staff who are passionate about serving our patients, makes her role here a perfect combination of her dream job and her life’s work. This quote by Owen Arthur has influenced her career in healthcare, “For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.”

Racquel Beltran joined Marin Community Clinics in August 2019 as Dental Operations Director. She brings Federally Qualified Health Center experience, having worked as a health center manager at Clinicas Del Camino Real in Ventura County and as a Director of Operations at OLE Health in Napa, California. Ms. Beltran also managed two locations of a not-for-profit hospital outpatient center. She has a BA degree in Psychology with a minor in Business Administration from the University of Oregon. She is fluent in both Spanish and English.

Prior to entering the field of healthcare in 2010, Ms. Beltran worked in the private sector where she received extensive customer service training. Her customer service background, experience in building strong teams, and training leaders to run efficient, productive departments led to improved efficiencies and creation of best practices in clinic operations. Ms. Beltran is passionate and dedicated to community health centers. She brings dedication and a commitment to streamlining processes and procedures designed to improve the experience of both patients and employees. We are excited that she has joined our team and will utilize her skills in operations and customer service, including empathy and attitude training, to improve dental operations efficiencies and enhance our staff training programs.

Isabela Mihai, CHC, CHPC has served as Compliance and Privacy Officer for Marin Community Clinics since January 2016. In this role, she is responsible for leading the internal processes for promoting and ensuring MCC’s compliance with laws, regulations, company policies and contracts, including its compliance risk management programs. She also leads the implementation of MCC’s compliance and privacy policies and procedures, including its Code of Conduct. In her compliance role Isabela is always thinking of new and improved processes to protect patient and staff safety, while mitigating organizational liability.

Prior to joining MCC, Isabela worked as Research Program Coordinator at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, in its Center of Excellence in Alzheimer’s Disease. While there she administered a budget of $20M in federal, foundation and industry research grants, while ensuring compliance with external funding agencies, as well as, internal regulatory requirements. Her early work was dedicated to implementing social programs as Senior Program Coordinator at George Soros Foundation in her native Romania.

Isabela is a Psychologist by education in Romania, with a master in Psychology of Mass Media and Group Communication. She has received her certification in healthcare compliance form the Healthcare Compliance Association Board in the US.

Teresa Lucas joined MCC in 2018, and was promoted to Director of Human Resources in June 2019. She oversees the full spectrum of strategic, consultative and transactional HR services to support Marin Community Clinics. This includes talent acquisition, onboarding, compensation, benefits, leave of absence administration, workers' compensation, employee relations, employment policy development, and human resource information systems (HRIS).

Prior to joining MCC, Teresa served as the Director of Human Resources for Veteran Resource Centers of America, a non-profit organization that provides housing and behavioral health services for homeless veterans. She worked as a Human Resource and Operations Manager for Kohl’s in various Northern CA locations. She owned and managed Honey Badger Coffee House in Rohnert Park, CA. She was a Teaching Assistant for the Strategic Management Course at Sonoma State University. The common thread in her work over the years: her commitment to creating opportunities that help people have better lives.

Teresa has the distinction of a Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) through the Society of Human Resource Management. In addition, she holds a Master of Business Administration Degree and Bachelor of Science Degree from the School of Business at Sonoma State University.

Since joining the staff in 2007, Judith Snead has served in several roles at Marin Community Clinics including Clinic Director and Director of Community Relations and Grants Management. In May 2017 she became Senior Director of Development. Judith has extensive experience in program management and community health education, working in environments that promote personal and community health, foster social justice, and seek to uplift the human experience. She obtained her Bachelor of Science in Health Science at San Francisco State University and Master of Public Health in Community Health Education at San Jose State University.
Prior to Judith’s tenure at Marin Community Clinics, she was an adjunct faculty member in San Jose State University’s Health Science Department, was a smoking cessation facilitator at San Francisco General Hospital, and designed an HIV-prevention intervention program for injection drug users. She served as Marin Center Director at YWCA of San Francisco & Marin overseeing youth mentorship and employment programs. Judith is dedicated to equal access to health care for all and appreciates that her job at Marin Community Clinics allows her to interact with community members and raise funds to support the meaningful health care programs that the Clinics offers.