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Mr. Garza is the current Chair of the Sendero Board of Directors and has served on the Board of Directors since January 2014. He served as the Vice President of Finance and Development for Central Health and is currently serving as Director of Finance in which capacity he is leading the master planning project for the reuse/redevelopment of the Central Health Brackenridge Campus.
Mr. Garza was formerly the president of Advance Technology Initiatives for NRG Energy, where he supported NRG Energy’s Advanced and Alternative Power projects in Texas. Prior to this position, Mr. Garza was general manager of Pedernales Electric Cooperative, Inc., general manager of Austin Energy, and city manager for the City of Corpus Christi.
Additionally, Juan completed a tour of duty in Vietnam and has earned a B.S. in Mathematics and an MBA from Loyola University. Mr. Garza calls Cotulla, Texas his hometown, but was raised in several parts of the Midwest and the Southwest.
Jerold McDonald is the current Co-Chair of the Sendero Board of Directors.
Jerold is an executive with transformational leadership experience in many of America’s preeminent health systems, consulting & healthcare technology. His expertise spans operations, strategy, process improvement, product, change management, and scaling impact.
Jerold currently serves as the Co-Founder + CEO of Omaiven Health, an intelligent automation company that supports clinics overwhelmed by staffing, burnout, and access challenges.
His deep connection with Austin and passion for the community started 20 years ago, as a student at The University of Texas at Austin, where he earned bachelor’s degrees. He later received a master’s degree from Trinity University’s Health Care Administration program.
Jerold is an active speaker and community member serving as a Board Director for corporations & community organizations advancing maternal health and the pursuit of a world without HIV/AIDS, where he brings a passion and skill set focused on driving humanity and greater access for all.
Betty DeLargy is an attorney with the law firm Mitchell Williams, P.L.L.C. Her insurance experience includes commercial life and health insurance, including the Affordable Care Act and alternative products, Medicare and Medicaid and self-funded employee benefit plans of ERISA employers and political subdivisions.
She represents insurers and plans on a diversity of regulatory issues, including financial transactions and disciplinary issues. She was the general counsel of the Texas Health Insurance Pool, the Texas alternative coverage for medically uninsurable individuals, from the Pool’s beginning in 1998 until the Pool terminated in 2014.
Ms. DeLargy received her undergraduate and law degrees from Vanderbilt University.
McKenzie Frazier, M.H.S.A., M.L.S., CFE, CPCO is Central Health’s Vice President of Compliance & Compliance Officer.
Prior to joining Central Health, McKenzie served as the Director of Compliance & Privacy Officer for People’s Community Clinic, and prior to that, as the Vice President of Corporate Compliance and Quality & Privacy Officer for a national peer recovery support services provider. On prior, McKenzie served as the Director of Compliance for ValueOptions of California, the largest privately held behavioral health company, and as the Director of Compliance & Program Integrity and the National Director of Corporate Compliance for Beacon Health Options in which he oversaw the company’s Medicaid and Commercial programs’ compliance activities. McKenzie holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a specialization in Human Resources from the University of Southern Mississippi, a Master’s degree in Health Services Administration from Mississippi College, and a Master’s degree in Legal Studies in Healthcare Law from the University of Oklahoma’s College of Law.
Additionally, McKenzie is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) certified by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). Also, he is a Certified Professional Compliance Officer (CPCO) certified by the AAPC, and a member of the AAPC.
Molly Hahn is a Senior Project Manager with Public Consulting Group (PCG), where she works with Medicaid agencies and other public health care providers across the country on cost allocation and federal claiming efforts. In addition to earning a Six Sigma Green Belt in operations management, she is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). Prior to PCG, Molly managed corporate volunteer engagements at United Way for Greater Austin, including coordinating city-wide Days of Service for thousands of volunteers annually and leading service-learning programs for youth volunteers.
Ms. Hahn was a member of Central Health’s Community Health Champions Class of 2020 as well as Leadership Austin’s Emerge class of 2019. Ms. Hahn received her Bachelor of Science in Accounting from DePaul University and her Master of Public Affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at University of Texas at Austin. Molly is a former foster parent and long-time volunteer with the Girls Scouts Beyond Bars program who is passionate about improving the well-being of children in her community.
Jeff Knodel originally came to Central Health as the Regional Healthcare Partnership Director, directing Central Health’s role as the anchor entity for Regional Health Partnership 7 of the 1115 Medicaid Waiver in Texas.
Previously, Mr. Knodel was Deputy Chief Financial Officer for the City of Austin, where he held various positions over 25 years, including serving as the Deputy Controller and Controller for the City. Among other projects, he headed the wind-down of operations at the then city-owned and operated Brackenridge Hospital, prior to its transition to Central Health in 2004.
Jeff graduated from Southwest Texas State with a Bachelor’s Degree in Management and has been a Certified Public Accountant for more than 22 years.
Amit Motwani’s executive leadership spans the arenas of strategy, operations, technology, and analytics. He came to Austin 25 years ago to attend The University of Texas at Austin and later joined the software startup team of CTK (now Social Solutions Global), where he served as chief technology officer. Motwani led the launch of CTK’s United Kingdom branch in London and later returned to Austin, where he began his journey in nonprofit direct services with an early focus on adult literacy. In Austin, he launched a 15-year professional trajectory bridging a hands-on understanding of human service programming with a commercially data-driven executive mindset.
Amit currently serves as chief executive officer for the Rupani Foundation, an organization improving children’s school readiness and empowering marginalized communities in South Asia, Central Asia, and the United States. Prior to this role, Amit was the chief operating officer at El Buen Samaritano, an outreach ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas. Earlier in his career, he was the chief information officer at United Way for Greater Austin, where he helped transform the organization’s approach to data and analytics. There, he also led the creation of Austin’s “2-Gen” Coalition, uniting public and private funders and service providers around the same table to improve economic and social mobility. Motwani served as lead adviser to the United Way and Dr. Chris King’s Policy Research Project cohort on related anti-poverty strategies at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.
Motwani is passionate about civil rights and universal, equitable access to basic needs for all, and his commitment is reflected in his extensive service on nonprofit, commercial, and municipal boards and commissions.
Dr. Patrick Lee was selected to serve as Central Health’s President & CEO by the Board of Managers in December, 2023. Most recently, Dr. Lee served as the inaugural System Chairman of Medicine for One Brooklyn Health (OBH), a safety-net health system in central Brooklyn serving over one million New York City residents, leading 11 clinical divisions with more than 500 practitioners, working at three hospitals and 27 ambulatory care sites. Dr. Lee was the key leader uniting medical staff at the three formerly independent hospitals, and recruiting additional providers in multiple specialties, into an efficient and comprehensive provider group serving a community with the highest level of health disparities in New York.
Prior to OBH, Dr. Lee was Chairman of Medicine at Mass General Brigham Salem Hospital north of Boston, which during his tenure responded to the highest COVID-19 patient volume among community hospitals in Massachusetts, saving the lives of more than 1,200 patients during the early months of the pandemic. Before that, Dr. Lee developed the Global Primary Care Residency Program at Massachusetts General and a global health course at Harvard Medical School, both informed by his early career work with Dr. Paul Farmer in Rwanda and as Medical Director of Last Mile Health in Liberia, a nonprofit partner of the nation’s Ministry of Health.
Dr. Lee is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and received further training at both Massachusetts General and Harvard Medical School. He has written on improving primary care health systems, quality improvement, and medical education for publications including The Lancet, BMJ Quality, the Journal of General Internal Medicine, and the Journal of Graduate Medical Education.
Ann Kitchen, an attorney and healthcare consultant, was appointed by the Travis County Commissioners Court to replace outgoing Central Health Board Manager and Past Chairperson Sherri Greenberg.
Kitchen has served on the Austin City Council since 2015 and will step down on Jan 5. She currently chairs the Mobility Committee and serves on the Austin Energy Committee, Public Utilities Committee, and vice chairs the Housing & Community Development Committee.
Kitchen also serves on several intergovernmental committees including the Regional Affordability Committee, the Psychiatric Services Stakeholder Committee, the Capital Metro Policy Board, and Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO), the regional transportation planning body for Central Texas. She is a former assistant attorney general in the consumer protection division and a former Texas state representative.
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