Floyd F. Petersen

Floyd F. Petersen, M.P.H. has served as a member of our Board of Directors since August 2004. From 1986 to the present, Mr. Petersen has been an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Loma Linda University Schools of Public Health, Medicine, and Nursing. From 1990 to 2010, he served as Director of the Loma Linda University Health Research Consulting Group, which consults on health research study design and data analysis. He has personally consulted on over 700 health-related research projects. As a visiting professor, he has taught/consulted in health research in Chad, Romania, PR China, Thailand, Cambodia, PDR Lao, Kenya, Indonesia, Guam, and Russia. Mr. Petersen was a member of the Loma Linda, California City Council from 1990 to 2010 and served as the Mayor of Loma Linda from 1996 to 2006. Mr. Petersen is currently the vice-chair and a board member of Vtrans, a non-profit, quasi-governmental agency, which coordinates all public transportation for the elderly and handicapped in the Inland Empire of Southern California. He earned his M.P.H. in Public Health from Loma Linda University with concentrations in Biostatistics and Health Administration.