Board
Cliff Deardorff
Treasurer
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Cliff Deardorff serves as Public Health Specialist for the Emergency Health Services Federation, the regional EMS council for SC PA. Most recently he served as facilitator and lead coordinator for the Perry County Health Coalition where he worked with the Perry County Commissioners and the Coalition to promote goals aligned among health care providers and stakeholders, leveraging new health resources to move community health goals forward including through school-based health centers. He is a long-time advocate for improving child and adolescent health outcomes through innovation and best practice. He held a number of public health administration roles at the Pennsylvania Department of Health where he served for more than 20 years. In this capacity he served as Program Officer to a major Robert Wood Johnson-funded initiative to launch a network of school-based health centers in the 1990s under then-Governor Robert P. Casey. He has also served as Executive Director of the Free Clinic Association of Pennsylvania through the Pennsylvania Medical Society Foundation, and staff liaison to the Prevention, Screening, and Detection Committee of the Cancer Advisory Board at the Pennsylvania Department of Health. He has also held leadership roles at the Carlisle Area Health & Wellness Foundation, The Center for Schools and Communities, the National MS Society; Director of Services, the Central Pennsylvania Chapter, and the Parent Education Network. Mr. Deardorff holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Temple University where he also completed Master’s level course work.