Board Chair: Pat Gilligan
Pat Gilligan is a retired real-estate developer having developed and owned over five million square feet of commercial property, mostly concentrated in California.

Throughout his career, Pat also devoted his time to social leadership roles including having served as Past President of The Burlingame Country Club, Hillsborough CA, The Pacific-Union Club and Villa Taverna Club, both of San Francisco. In addition, Pat has been active with a number of conservation organizations and has in the past, held the following offices,

• California State Chair for Ducks Unlimited
• Board Chair, California Waterfowl Association
• Board Chair, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
• Chair, The Torstenson Wildlife Center in New Mexico
• Trustee, Filoli Historical Trust Woodside CA
• Member, Boone and Cricket Club

Pat and his wife Shelley have lived part-time in Paradise Valley for 35 years. They have two children, Sara Hildenbrandt who resides in Amsterdam, Holland with her husband and two daughters, and Patrick, Jr who lives with his wife in Portland, OR. In addition to being an avid hunter and fisherman, Pat is a Master Gardener and Certified Bread Maker.

Board Vice-Chair: Deborah (“Debbie”) Erdman, MD
Deborah Erdman, MD, is a respected physician, philanthropist, and friend in the Livingston community. During her seventeen years at Livingston Memorial Hospital and what would later be known as Livingston HealthCare, Dr. Erdman welcomed many lives into this world as an OB/GYN Physician. She has a keen interest in medical ethics and chaired the ethics committee while at Livingston HealthCare’s Park Clinic. Most recently she has been involved with philanthropic issues that confront our community, serving as a Co-Chair of the Capital Campaign Cabinet in the Livingston HealthCare Foundation’s New Hospital Campaign, and was personally responsible for attaining large contributions from local individuals.

Deb Anczak, Livingston HealthCare Interim Chief Executive Officer
Deb Anczak began her role as Livingston HealthCare's Interim CEO in March 2018. She has been a pharmacist for 25 years and in administrative roles for the past 13 years, most recently serving as Livingston HealthCare's Performance Improvement Director. In this role, Deb was responsible for managing and coordinating efforts to improve organization-wide performance and quality. She served as Pharmacy Manager at Livingston HealthCare for seven years. Prior to her time in Livingston, she was Director of Pharmacy at Billings Clinic. She has also served in pharmacy and administrative roles at healthcare institutions in Wisconsin and Idaho.

Melissa Potter Atkinson
Melissa Potter Atkinson is a retired librarian. She holds a BA in American Studies from the University of Kansas and a MLS from the University of Oklahoma. Her professional experience includes cataloging for private, museum and university library collections. Melissa served on the board of directors for Undercroft Montessori School, the Magic Empire Council of Girls Scouts and the Gilcrease Museum of Western Art—all in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has been a literacy tutor for adults and children. Melissa and her husband, Mike Atkinson, divide their time between their home of 17 years in the Shields River Valley and Tulsa, Oklahoma. They have 2 grown children living in Brooklyn, New York.

Michelle Becker, Livingston HealthCare Board Vice-Chair
Michelle Becker, broker/owner of Maverick Realty in Livingston, has been a board member since 2001. She is a lifelong resident of Park County, and has been an active Realtor since 1987. Becker also serves on the Livingston HealthCare Board of Directors as the Chair and played a key role in the New Hospital Campaign as a fundraiser and as a facilitator in the sale of the old facility. Ms. Becker was President of the Livingston Chamber of Commerce and was appointed to the Upper Yellowstone River Task Force by the Governors Raciot and Martz. She was President of the Montana Association of Realtors in 2000, and has served on multiple boards, task forces, working groups, and committees.

Scott Coleman, MD
Scott Coleman, MD, is a Board Certified Family Medicine physician who practices family medicine and obstetrics at Livingston HealthCare. He was selected to fill the role of Medical Director for Livingston HealthCare in October, 2013, at which time he joined the Livingston HealthCare Board of Directors. Dr. Coleman received a degree in Microbiology from the University of Tennessee, followed by his MD from the University of South Dakota. After the completion of his MD, Dr. Coleman served as a Lieutenant Commander in the US Navy for six years receiving the Navy Achievement Medal for Outstanding Performance as a Resident. In 2005, he moved to Park County to be closer to family. Dr. Coleman is presently a Major in the Medical Corp of the Montana Air National Guard.

Anne Donahoe
Anne Donahoe is a registered independent financial advisor with focus and expertise in capital formation, primarily within the not-for-profit healthcare sector. With over 30 years of experience in the capital markets as an investment banker, and more recently as an independent financial advisor, Anne has worked with boards and senior management teams developing comprehensive capital access plans. This has included examining traditional and alternate financing structures, sources of capital in the private and public markets and, where appropriate, associated derivative options. Her accumulated experience in the management and structuring of debt financings exceeds $5.5 billion of tax-exempt and taxable initial public bond issues and private placements. Anne received a B.A. from Newton College of the Sacred Heart, Newton, Massachusetts (merged with Boston College in 1974) and an M.B.A. with an emphasis in finance from the University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business. In addition, she studied mergers and acquisitions at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and earned an M.Ed. from the University of Pittsburgh.

Joey Lane
Joey Lane teaches history and economics at Park High School in Livingston with a BA from Colorado State University. She is a member of the National Council of Social Studies and the Montana Council for Economic Education. As a longtime community member, Mrs. Lane has been involved with many local charities and fundraising groups. Joey and her husband Tom own and manage the Lane Ranch and Legacy Land & Cattle, cattle ranching operations located in Park, Meagher and Gallatin counties.

Denis Prager, PhD, Livingston HealthCare Board Chair
Denis Prager is president of Strategic Consulting Services. From 1983 to 1994, he was director of the health program at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. From 1978 to 1983, Dr. Prager was associate director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He began his career in 1960 as a research scientist at the National Institutes of Health and has also served as a U.S. Public Health Service Fellow at Stanford University, where he received his PhD in physiology.

Ruth Striegel Weissman
Ruth Striegel Weissman is a professor emerita and former provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. She is internationally-renowned for her research on eating and weight disorders. Prior to joining the faculty at Wesleyan, she was on the research staff in the Department of Psychology at Yale University (New Haven, CT). Weissman earned a diploma in Psychology (Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen, Germany) and a PhD in Clinical Psychology (University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC). Mrs. Weissman and her husband, Walt, live on Snowy Range Ranch in Paradise Valley.