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Board of Advisors

Peter K. Ellsworth, J.D.

President
The Legler Benbough Foundation

Dr. Ellsworth is President of The Legler Benbough Foundation and also serves as:
Chairman, Ellsworth Marine, Inc.
Board of Directors, San Diego Grantmakers and San Diego Neighborhood Funders
Working Group, Arts and Culture Foundation
Chair, The San Diego Family of Funds
Member of the Advisory Board, Balboa Park Cultural Partnership
Member of the Dean’s Roundtable, UCSD School of International Relations and Pacific Studies.

Peter K. Ellsworth, J.D.
From 1957-1986 he pursued a successful legal career. From 1986-1996 he served as President and CEO of Sharp Health Care and Sharp Foundation and built Sharp Health Care from a single hospital to a health care system that was the largest private employer in San Diego providing health care for one third of all San Diegans. He has also served as President of the San Diego Blood Bank, the Children’s Dental Health Association, the Stanford Club of San Diego, and Combined Arts of San Diego (COMBO), and as a member of the Board of Directors of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce, the Committee on Primary Care of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Conference of Barristers of the State Bar of California, and Chair, San Diego Business Task Force on Health.