Core Team Members
James R Cochrane (LCLI Convenor)
Dr., Emeritus Professor, (BSc, MDiv, PhD, DDiv h.c.), Department of Religious Studies, and Senior Research Associate in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine, at the University of Cape Town.
Jim, who with Gary Gunderson and Teresa Cutts (TC) launched the LCL Initiative, coordinates its activities, interacts with Fellows, and manages communications and occasional gatherings.
Gary Gunderson
Vice President for Faith and Health, Professor of Public Health Sciences and (at the Divinity School) Professor of Religion and the Health of the Public, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Centre and Wake Forest University School of Divinity..
Gary, with Jim Cochrane and Teresa Cutts (TC), launched the LCL Initiative, and is a driving force in much of what it does.
Teresa Cutts
Dr., Director of Research for Innovation, Centre of Excellence in Faith and Health, Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare, Memphis, adjunct academic appointments.
TC, as she is widely known, helped Gary Gunderson and Jim Cochrane launch the LCL Initiative and continues to contribute at multiple levels.
Andy McCarroll
(BA/JD Vanderbilt University, MA University of Chicago Divinity School), General Counsel, Southeastern Asset Management, Inc., offices in Memphis, London, Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney.
Andy is a crucial incubator of the LCL Initiative, there to provide critical support at the outset and later key moments.
Heather Wood Ion
Heather has degrees from McGill University, Claremont Graduate School and Oxford University in history, comparative religion, cultural anthropology and Indology, doing teaching, fieldwork and various jobs in UC San Diego, Calcutta, Kyoto and Heidelberg.
Heather's gives regular inputs to the LCL Initiative, not least in her penetrating insights into what works is needed on the basis of her experience in her own Epidemic of Health programme,
