As chairman of the Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees, Philip Earhart 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 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 since 2004, 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.
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 chairman-elect /vice chairman of the Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees, the Honorable Gene Thibodeaux 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 Judge Thibodeaux will preside over all regular and special session board meetings and perform all duties of the chairman, with full authority.
A chief justice on the Third Circuit Court of Appeal, Judge Thibodeaux has been a member of Memorial Hospital's Board of Trustees since 2000. Prior to his election to the bench in 1992, Judge Thibodeaux practiced law for 17 years in New York City and Lake Charles, Louisiana, and served as a Lake Charles City Court Judge for a year.
An honors graduate of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, Judge Thibodeaux earned his law degree from Tulane University Law School. He is a member of the American Bar Association, American Judges Association, American Judicature Society, the Judicial Council of the National Bar Association, and the National Board of Trustees of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. He is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Louisiana Judicial College, serves on the Louisiana State Law Institute, and is vice-chairman of the Louisiana Judicial Compensation Commission and past chairman of the Conference of Court of Appeal Judges.
Judge Thibodeaux and his wife Phyllis live in Lake Charles.
As President of the Lake Charles Memorial Medical Staff for 2010, Dr. Thomas Strong 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. He succeeds Dr. Manley Jordan with Pulmonology Associates of Southwest Louisiana, who served as Medical Staff President in 2009.
A general surgeon with Surgical Associates of Southwest Louisiana, Dr. Strong is a native of Shreveport, and a graduate of Northeast Louisiana University and Louisiana State University School of Medicine. He completed his residency at the University of Oklahoma, Tulsa Medical College, and is board certified by the American Board of Surgery.
Dr. Strong and his wife Kim have two children and live in Lake Charles.
For more than 12 years, Glenn Pumpelly, President & Chief Executive Officer, Pumpelly Oil Company, Inc, has been a valued member of the Memorial Board of Trustees. He is now enjoying more of an advisory role as immediate past chairman.
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 five children.