As chairman of the Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees, Glenn Pumpelly presides over a group of community leaders in finance, media, public policy and business who volunteer their time and talents to advocate for the hospital.
A life-long resident of Lake Charles, Mr. Pumpelly is a graduate of Lake Charles High School, and completed Louisiana Tech University in Ruston with a degree in marketing. He is president and chief executive officer of Pumpelly Tire Centers, Inc. in Lake Charles, and Pumpelly Oil Company, LLC in Sulphur, a company founded by his father in 1937.
In addition to his service on the Memorial Board of Trustees, Mr. Pumpelly serves on the boards of the McNeese State University Foundation and MidSouth Bank. He has also served on the boards of the United Way of Southwest Louisiana, Lake Charles YMCA, and New Orleans Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; as chairman of the Board of the Chamber of Commerce Southwest Louisiana; campaign chairman for the United Way of Southwest Louisiana; president of the Louisiana Oil Marketers Association; chairman of Crime Stoppers of Southwest Louisiana; president of Children's Museum of Lake Charles; chairman of the Calcasieu Parish Heart Association; director of the Foreman-Reynaud YMCA; and director of the Petroleum Marketers Association of America.
Mr. Pumpelly and his wife Audra have four children.
As Medical Director, Dr. Kevin Mocklin is responsible for decisions relating to utilization, infection control, quality assurance, and the clinical aspects of Memorial Hospital's licensure, research, and delivery of health services.
His role of Corporate Compliance Officer includes the review and evaluation of compliance issues and concerns within the hospital. He will ensure that the Board of Directors, management and employees are in compliance with the rules and regulations of regulatory agencies, that hospital policies and procedures are being followed, and that behavior within the organization meets Memorial's Standards of Conduct.
A New Orleans native, Dr. Mocklin is a graduate of the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy and the Louisiana State University School of Medicine. He completed his internship at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson and his residency and chief residency at the LSU Medical Center in New Orleans before going into private practice in Lake Charles in 1982.
Board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, Dr. Mocklin also serves as an Instructor and Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at LSU New Orleans, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Graduate Nursing Education at McNeese State University. Additionally, he is on the faculty of the Lake Charles Memorial Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program.
Prior to assuming the position of Medical Director and Corporate Compliance Officer with Memorial, Dr. Mocklin retired from the Internal Medicine Clinic of Southwest Louisiana, which he co-founded in March 1996.
He and his wife, Cynthia Scott, MD, are the proud parents of two daughters, one a graduate of the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine, and the other a graduate of LSU and a graduate student at Virginia's William & Mary College in Archeology.
As President of the Lake Charles Memorial Medical Staff for 2008, Dr. Richard Martinez is involved with many aspects of Memorial Hospital, including performance improvement, quality assurance, and physician advocacy, and he is an active part of Memorial's Board of Trustees.
A radiologist with Radiology Associates of Southwest Louisiana, Dr. Martinez graduated from McNeese State University and the Louisiana School of Medicine in Shreveport. He completed both his internship and residency at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport.
Board certified by the American Board of Radiology, Dr. Martinez also serves as Medical Director of Radiology at Memorial and as the Medical Director of Advanced MRI. He succeeds Memorial surgeon Ken Moss Jr., MD, with Surgical Associates of Southwest Louisiana, who served as Medical Staff President in 2007.As chairman elect and vice chairman of the Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees, Philip Earhart joins an elite group of community advocates who fulfill their fiduciary roles toward Memorial Hospital by sitting on compliance, audit, finance and compensation committees.
In the chairman's absence Mr. Earhart will preside over all regular and special session board meetings and perform all duties of the chairman, with full authority.
A native of New Orleans, Mr. Earhart is a graduate of the University of the South in Tennessee with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and the University of New Orleans with a Masters of Business Administration in Finance and Management. Prior to assuming his position as regional president of Business First Bank, Mr. Earhart was area president for Whitney National Bank.
In addition to serving on the Memorial Board of Trustees, Mr. Earhart serves as the vice chairman of the Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana, and on the Louisiana Technical College Advisory Board. He has served as chairman of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities; treasurer of the Council for a Better Louisiana; chairman and campaign chair of the United Way of Southwest Louisiana; chairman of the Junior Achievement of Southwest Louisiana; and on the Chamber Southwest Louisiana board of directors.Mr. Earhart and his wife, Lucie, live in Lake Charles.
Dr. Manley Jordan, a pulmonologist and critical care specialist with Pulmonology Associates of Southwest Louisiana, serves on the Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees as president-elect of the medical staff. In the absence of the president, Dr. Jordan will assume the responsibility of performance improvement, quality assurance and physician advocacy.
A graduate of Northeast Louisiana University in Monroe, Dr. Jordan completed his medical school and his residency at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport.