Announcing Newly Elected Members of the WesternU Board of Trustees
Board of Trustees
October 23, 2023
Dear WesternU Community:
The WesternU Board of Trustees is pleased to announce the election of two new members, Marcia Augsburger, Esq and Maria Pallavicini, PhD, to join the now 18-member board.
Marcia Augsburger brings a wealth of experience as an accomplished healthcare legal attorney. She has decades of experience at King & Spalding, DLA Piper, and McDonough Holland & Allen law firms. She most recently served as the Senior Counsel of Data Governance and Regulatory at Change Healthcare and currently is an arbitrator and mediator at M. Augsburger Law. She is certified in healthcare compliance and privacy and has served as a court-appointed expert in HIPAA. She holds a bachelor’s degree in education from Eastern Mennonite University and a J.D. from the University of California-Davis.
Dr. Maria Pallavicini is a biomedical scientist with a long history in academic affairs and administration. She recently retired after spending 12 years as the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of the Pacific. During her tenure, she also served as the University’s Interim President from 2019-2020. Prior to joining Pacific, she was the Founding Dean of the School of Natural Sciences at the University of California-Merced. In her early career, Dr. Pallavicini was a professor and scientist at the University of California- San Francisco and Lawrence Livermore/Berkeley Biology National Laboratories. She received a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from the University of California-Berkeley, earned a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Utah, and completed postdoctoral training at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto, Canada.
Over the past few years, the WesternU Board of Trustees has grown from nine trustees in 2021 to now eighteen. As the board has grown, it has increased in diversity of experience and expertise. The addition of these two new trustees adds additional depth of capability and strength of leadership. For more information about our WesternU Board of Trustees, please visit: https://www.westernu.edu/university/governance/board-of-trustees/.
Please join us in welcoming Marcia Augsburger and Dr. Maria Pallavicini to the WesternU family.
Sincerely,
The Honorable Consuelo M. Callahan, LLM, JD, LHD (Hon.)
Chair,
Western University of Health Sciences
Board of Trustees