About Our Clinic
Management Biographies
Carl Stuart - Chairman, Board of Directors
Carl Stuart Investment Advisor, Inc. is an Independent Registered Investment Advisor. It manages approximately $220 million, primarily on a fee basis, and has been in the business for 30 years.
Carl has been married to his wife, Claire, for 39 years and has three children, ages 35, 32, and 29.
In 2002, he was honored by Registered Representative, a national magazine, as one of the top 10 advisors in the United States. In 2007 and 2008, Carl was honored again by Registered Representative magazine as one of the top100 independent advisors in the country. In 2008, Carl was listed in Fortune Magazine as one of the top 50 independent advisors in America. In 2009, Carl was listed in Barron’s magazine as one of the top 1,000 advisers in the nation.
Carl is Chairman of the Board of the Texas Presbyterian Foundation in Dallas, former Trustee and Chairman of the Investment and Finance Committee of Pine Manor College in Boston, Massachusetts, Board Member and Chair of People’s Community Clinic, past Chair of the YMCA of Austin, and past President of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Austin.
Since 1995, Carl has broadcast “Money Talk” – a two hour call in radio show on 590 KLBJ and is heard from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. every Saturday.
Regina Rogoff, J.D. - Chief Executive Officer
Regina Rogoff, J.D., is the CEO of People's Community Clinic, a not-for-profit primary care clinic providing affordable health care for uninsured central Texans. Regina has a B.A. degree from the University of Michigan/Ann Arbor and a J.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law.
Prior to joining PCC, Regina was Executive Director of Legal Aid of Central Texas for twenty years and a Legal Aid staff attorney for ten years. She began her career as a VISTA lawyer. Regina has held numerous leadership positions in Austin's human services, legal and Jewish communities. She currently serves on the Boards of Capital I.D.E.A. and the Interfaith Education Fund and is a co-chair of Austin Interfaith. She is a past-president of the Austin Area Human Services Association and secretary of the Indigent Care Collaboration.
The Austin Bar Association (formerly the Travis County Bar Association) created the "Regina Rogoff Award" in her honor to be given annually to an attorney in Travis County who demonstrates outstanding service in the public/non-profit sector. Regina has been recognized by the Austin Business Journal as a "Profile in Power" (2007) and a "Healthcare Hero" (2005). Under her leadership, the People's Community Clinic was awarded the 2005 Ethics in Business Award by the Samaritan Center. She takes special pride in introducing the nationally recognized anti-racism program, "Facing History and Ourselves" to the Austin area.
Regina is an avid rower and can be seen rowing most mornings on Lady Bird Lake. She has been married to Sam Jones, CPA, for over 30 years and is the mother of two adult daughters, Alissa Jones Zachary and Sarah Jones.
Louis Appel, MD, MPH, FAAP - Chief Medical Officer and Director of Pediatrics
Louis Appel, MD, MPH, FAAP serves as Chief Medical Officer and Director of Pediatrics at People's Community Clinic. Dr. Appel provides primary pediatric care at the Clinic in addition to overseeing the clinical programs. He is co-facilitator of the Community Access to Child Health Program for the Texas chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and co-chairs the Texas Pediatric Society's Community Access to Child Health Committee.
In the past he has served on the Texas Pediatric Society's Task Force on Childhood Obesity as well as on the Travis County Early Impact Team, advising on the coordination of Early Childhood Intervention services in the county. He has also served on the Austin Multi-Institutional Review Board.
Dr. Appel graduated from Harvard Medical School and obtained his MPH at the Harvard School of Public Health, with a concentration in public management and community health. He completed his pediatric residency at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Read Dr. Appel's Interview.
Linda L. Anderson - Chief Financial Officer
Linda L. Anderson is the Chief Financial Officer for People's Community Clinic. Linda worked for many years in the corporate technology industry in the varying roles of Controller, Chief Financial Officer and Finance Director at both IBM and Dell. Linda's interest in non-profit service began through volunteering for the ARC of the Capital Area, where she currently serves on their Board of Directors. She moved to a position at Lone Star Circle of Care in Georgetown, Texas in early 2008. She joined the staff at People's Community Clinic in November, 2008.
Linda's career started in Minnesota and continued in the Northeast. She has lived in Austin since 2000. Linda has been married to her husband, Brad, for over 30 years and is the mother of an adult daughter Taina and an adult son Luke.
Tony Moore, MBA - Director of Operations
Tony Moore, MBA, is Director of Operations for People’s Community Clinic. Tony has a B.A. in Philosophy and Criminal Justice from UT San Antonio and an M.A. in Human Resources Development from Webster University (St. Louis, MO), where he also received his MBA in 2002. For many years, Tony worked as a healthcare administrator and Management Trainer for the Brooke Army Medical Center in Fort Sam Houston, TX. He was also a child advocate and facilitator for the Texas Department of Protective & Regulatory Services in Abilene. He later served as Senior Business Consultant at Infrared Marketing (Winston-Salem, NC), where he managed the Business and Human Resources departments.
Tony has been back in Texas since 2006, teaching undergraduate and graduate business courses part-time at the University of the Incarnate Word and Our Lady of the Lake University, both in San Antonio, while also working in Austin. Tony served as Regional Practice Administrator and Project Director at CommUnity Care for three years before joining the PCC staff in May, 2010.
Margaret Henkels - Director of Development
Margaret Henkels is the Director of Development for People's Community Clinic. Ms. Henkels earned her B.A. degree in English Literature from New York University. After studying ceramics at Columbia Teachers College in New York City, she worked for many years as an artist and ceramics teacher.
Ms. Henkels began her career in the non-profit sector when she became the first Marketing Director at the Women's Studio Workshop in upstate New York. After arriving in Austin in 1992, she took a position in the development department at the Austin Children's Museum. Since then she has led the fundraising efforts at Arthouse (then the Texas Fine Arts Association) as its Director of Development and at the Austin Public Library Foundation as its Executive Director. She joined the staff of the People's Community Clinic in 2005.
Sharon Lynch, RN
Sharon Lynch, RN provides oversight of daily clinical activity as the Clinical Operations Manager. Ms Lynch has a degree in social work from Texas Woman’s University and a degree in nursing from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. Ms. Lynch graduated from a vocational nursing program at Coastal Bend College in 1976 and worked in hospitals and clinics for 9 years before coming to People’s Community Clinic as Clinic Coordinator in 1985. After 3.5 years here, she left to complete her BSN, and went on to work for Austin-Travis County Health and Human Services, becoming charge nurse of a clinic in southeast Austin. She also worked as a surveyor and quality assurance consultant for the Department of State Health Services for several years before returning to People’s Community Clinic.
Susan Berliner, SPHR - Human Resources Manager
Susan Berliner, SPHR, is the Human Resource Manager at People's Community Clinic. Susan has a B.A. degree from the University of Texas at Austin and has worked in the nonprofit community most of her career.
In addition to leadership roles at Austin Community Nursery Schools (now Mainspring Schools), United Way, CEDEN Family Resource Center and Child and Family Service, Susan also provided nonprofit management services and training to community organizations for over six years. She served as consultant and facilitator for several nonprofit mergers, including those at LifeWorks, Any Baby Can and Austin Recovery. Susan has over ten years experience as a human resources generalist and joined the staff at PCC in 2009.