President
Steven J. Eickelberg, MD, FASAM
Steven J. Eickelberg is President of Performax, a psychiatric practice located in Paradise Valley, Arizona. He specializes in addiction psychiatry, sport psychiatry and fitness-for-duty assessment and follow-up of airline pilots. His psychiatric practice focuses upon providing psychotherapy for business, airline and health professionals, professional athletes and their family members. He has worked with Major League Baseball and numerous MLB clubs for the past decade. Dr. Eickelberg has served on the MERF Board of Directors since 1999, The Board of the California Society of Addiction Medicine since 1995, and as the President of the MERF Board since 2002. Dr. Eickelberg is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and is a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine.

Board Member
Garrett O'Connor, MD
Garrett O'Connor is an internationally recognized expert in the clinical assessment of fitness-for-duty in safety sensitive personnel. He has extensive clinical experience in corporate risk and liability arising from workplace addiction, crisis intervention, and disaster response strategies. In this latter capacity, he was the principal expert witness for the plaintiffs in the Exxon Valdez trial. Dr. O'Connor is certified in General and Addiction Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and in Addiction Medicine by the American Society of Addiction Medicine.

Board Member
Max A. Schneider, MD, FASAM
Max Schneider is Director of Education at the Positive Action Center at Chapman Medical Center, Orange, California, a Fellow and past president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), a Past Chair and current Member of the Board of Directors of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD), a past consultant to the Drug and Alcohol Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and a former Certified Medical Review Officer. Educated at the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School, he has been active in the field of Addiction Medicine since 1953 and currently serves as a Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine (Addiction Medicine) at the University of California at Irvine College of Medicine. He has produced ten films and five booklets on addiction; authored over 60 papers and has lectured in 49 states, three Canadian provinces and six countries.

Board Member
Gail N. Shultz, MD
Gail Shultz retired from being the medical director at the Betty Ford Center in 2001 and now practices part-time in Tucson, Arizona at Cottonwood de Tucson. He remains active on the BFC Chairman's Council and on the Betty Ford Institute Executive Committee. He is a member of both the California Society of Addiction Medicine and the American Society of Addiction Medicine, having served as a director of both those organizations and as President of CSAM from 1997 to 1999. He is certified in Addiction Medicine and has been on the board of MERF for 8 years.

Board Member
Kenneth Saffier, MD
Ken Saffier is a family physician specializing in addiction and chronic pain management from the Contra Costa Health Services Department. He works in the U.C.Davis affiliated family medicine residency program at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center and Health Centers in Martinez, California.