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Alexander F. Metherell, MD, PhD, Board Member
Dr. Alex Metherell has distinguished himself in the multi-disciplinary fields of engineering, medicine, business and community service. He has held academic appointments at the University of Minnesota, UCLA and UCI. He is currently holds a faculty appointment as a Research Specialist in Information and Computer Sciences at UCI where he is doing computer modeling of muscle contraction mechanisms and developing a novel medical imaging system. He is also a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and has served on the editorial board of the IEEE Proceeding which is the world’s pre-eminent journal in EE.
Dr. Metherell’s community involvement includes election as an Elder in St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach where he has been a member for 30 years. He has been active with the General Assembly where he served as a 214th General Assembly Elder Commissioner in 2002 and has served on the Governing Board of one of its renewal organizations. He served six years on the Board of Directors of the John Guest Evangelistic Team. Since 1989 he has served as a Presbyterian Corporate Member, one of a small group of about 35 that elects one third of the member of the Board of Directors of Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach.
In other community service he has participated with a volunteer group of senior executives that work with CEO’s and other high level executives who are cut free from their high level positions for various reasons. Metherell is involved in forming a personal “Board of Directors” around these executives to give them objective advice and council during their transition until they become re-established.
Alex has been a resident of Orange County for the past 36 years. Alex has been married to his wife Pam for 40 years, and is the father of three children; Mark, Alison, and Caroline.
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