Task Force Biographies:
Health Members

Eloisa Gonzalez, M.D., M.P.H., completed her residency in Preventive Medicine and Public Heath. She serves as Deputy Director for the Division of Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at Los Angeles County's Department of Health Services. As such, she supervises the County's Physical activity and Nutrition Programs, creating, implementing, and evaluating programs targeting Latino and African-American children and adults in Los Angeles County.

Francine Rainer Kaufman, M.D. is the Head of the Center for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism at Childrens Hospital in Los Angeles. She is the study chair for NIH trials attempting to prevent and investigate ways to treat type 2 diabetes in children and youth. She is the President of the National American Diabetes Association and has been a US representative to the World Health Organization Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. She is the author of numerous peer-review articles and book chapters and holds a patent and trademark on diabetes associated products. 

E. Suzanne Flint, MA, is a child life specialist and health educator with a Masters Degree in Health Arts and Sciences.  She has over 20 years of clinical experience working with children and their families to help them manage a full array of healthcare and lifestyle issues. 

She was instrumental in creating programs, resources and standards for health education materials and services at Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford from 1985-2003. Her efforts there included creating and managing one of the country's first Family Health Resource Centers, a workshop series teaching children cognitive/behavioral strategies for coping with stress, and a statewide pediatric early literacy program called Reach Out and Read. After moving to Sacramento, she served as the Executive Director of two nonprofits, California Reach Out and Read as well as the Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness.  She currently works as a Library Programs Consultant for the California State Library on issues related to health and information access.