Those programs include seniors health programs, tobacco cessation campaigns and programs designed to benefit children and the disabled. Maureen Brower, Director of Advocacy and Communications for the American Heart Association and a former Nevada Assemblywoman. Dr. Elizabeth Fildes, a consultant for the Family Medicine Faculty Development Project and certified Addiction Counselor. Governor Guinn s appointees will join six legislative appointees. Those task force members are Senator Randolph Townsend, Assemblywoman Barbara Buckley, Assemblywoman Vivian Freeman, Bill Welch of the Nevada Association of Hospitals and Health Systems, Ron Mestre of the Nevada Lung Association, and Ed Fend of the American Association of Retired Persons.
All appointments are effective immediately.
I think it s certainly important that a significant portion of tobacco settlement funds be used to address health care concerns in Nevada.