Newsom Appoints Pediatrician and Public Health Expert to Lead CHHS [nbclosangeles.com]

I found more info Dr. Ghaly - sure sounds like his interests align with ACEs and resilience science!  I hope we now have another champion at the state level!

Mark Ghaly served as a Child Health Inequities and General Pediatrics Fellow at the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) and at Stanford in 2005, doing part of his fellowship work at CHP/PCOR with faculty member Paul Wise. He completed a residency in pediatrics at UCSF and participated in the PLUS program -- Pediatric Leadership for the Underserved. He has considerable experience in health leadership and health advocacy; he is a co-organizer and health adviser at the Healing Arts Center -- a community teen health clinic and program center in San Francisco's underserved Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood -- and was a co-founder and director of Boston City Voices, a community-based violence prevention program for high-risk teens. His international volunteer and advocacy work includes providing care to HIV-positive children in an outpatient clinic in Kampala, Uganda in fall 2004, and helping to establish a home for street children in La Paz, Bolivia, in winter/spring 2001. He also researched the health hazards faced by child laborers in Tamil Nadu, India in fall 2000.