Our Members

Advisory Board Member

JayVon Muhammad

A San Francisco native, JayVon is an equity-centered professional with more than 20 years of healthcare and community leadership experience in the Bay Area and Louisiana.

Prior to RAMS, she served as Chief Executive Officer of SWLA Center for Health Services in Lake Charles, Louisiana. There she led the organizational vision and strategy, directed clinical programs and managed the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) scope for a five-site Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). In October 2020, Ms. Muhammad was one of five global health leaders to receive the Bob and Leila Macauley Humanitarian Spirit Award from Americares. Ms. Muhammad also led Marin City Health and Wellness Center, another FQHC focused on African American health equity. There, Ms. Muhammad developed a number of innovative programs, including Marin County’s first alternative, state-licensed and nationally accredited birth center; a maternal health program for underserved women in one of the poorest communities in the county; a Medication-Assisted Treatment Program for opioid/alcohol addiction; and an alternative high school focused on African American culture, leadership and role models.

Ms. Muhammad’s leadership and program design expertise are grounded in her clinical background as a midwife and her highly developed awareness and analysis around racial equity, cultural competence and diversity.

Advisory Board Member

Eric S. Tait, M.D.

Eric S. Tait M.D., MBA understands the modern world of healthcare and the role that physicians will play in the future.

Using the “5 Paths Model” of the Physician’s Road as a guide to personal and professional fulfillment, Eric helps organizations and their individual physicians construct meaningful lives in medicine that support their mind, body, and spirit.

Eric is a contributing author to the book, The One Thing That Changed Everything. In it, he chronicles his realization that life as a physician is experienced differently for every physician, and that there is no one “right way” to be a doctor.

Eric is the founder of Vernonville Asset Management, a private investment firm helping individuals invest directly, consciously, and intentionally outside of the Wall Street dominated stock and bond markets.

Eric remains a practicing internist and is a staff member and investor in one of the largest physician partnered hospitals in the country. He is also President of Pinnacle Physician Management Organization, an Independent Practice Association (IPA) working in conjunction with a large Medicare insurer as a full risk partner.

These experiences give Eric unparalleled insight into the healthcare industry as not only a clinician, but also as an insurer and hospital owner.

Advisory Board Member

Dr. Isaac Freeborn

Dr. Freeborn is from Cincinnati OH and attended The Ohio State University for undergraduate school and Medical College of Ohio for Medical School leaving Ohio to attend University of Texas Medical Branch for dual residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics were he found in true passion treating patients in the Emergency Room. After leaving residency Dr. Freeborn practiced primary care medicine in a small community in Louisiana while fulfilling a National Health Service Corp commitment which led to an experiences with correctional medicine, hospice medicine and addiction medicine. During this time Dr. Freeborn worked part time in a variety of hospital emergency rooms as an ER physician and realized his real passion was emergency medicine and began to work exclusively as an ER physician in 2011.
Dr Freeborn participated in the MMEP (SMDEP) program in 1998 at Case Western Reserve and returned to work as a student advisor while in medical school in 2000, and is currently serving as an SMDEP Alumni Board Member.
Dr Freeborn is board certified in Internal Medicine and is practicing emergency medicine with Neighbors Emergency Center as the Medical Director of the Lakeline facility in Austin TX.

Advisory Board Member

Rod Celestaine

COMMAND SERGEANT MAJOR (Retired) ROD D. CELESTAINE

Command Sergeant Major (CSM) (R) Rod Celestaine retired from active duty in the U.S. Army after serving 31 years.  He is a native of Lake Charles, Louisiana, and volunteered for military service during his senior year at Saint Louis Catholic High School. He is an Airborne Ranger and a Master Parachutist.  His last assignment before retirement was as the Garrison/Installation Command Sergeant Major of Fort Jackson, South Carolina, the Army’s largest initial entry training base.  In this capacity, he served in executive leadership of a 52,000-acre municipality with an annual budget of approximately $140 million and a population around 40,000 (soldiers, family members, and civilian teammates).  He oversaw and insured statutory compliance of the installation’s core functions of Force Protection, Engineering, Law Enforcement, Emergency Services, Community Housing, Logistics, Fire Protection, Family Support, Recreation, Safety, Equal Opportunity, Civilian Personnel Management, and 965 municipal facilities valued at $2.4 billion.  Some of his previous assignments included Special Operations, Disaster Relief, Counterterrorism, Foreign Defense Sector Program Management and Compliance Investigations.  He earned numerous awards and decorations throughout his military career with the Ranger Tab and Legion of Merit being among them.

Upon military retirement, CSM (R) Celestaine was recruited to serve as the Chief Operating Officer for a nonprofit organization focused on aiding individuals with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities.  Some of the organization’s focuses were quality of life, independent living assistance, employment training and staffing, employment enterprises and Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Programs.

In addition to extensive professional military leadership courses and education, his civilian education includes a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Maryland – University College.