William (Bill) Lammers

In addition to the Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, Bill currently serves on the Board of Directors for other Washington DC based nonprofit organizations, including Active Minds, the nation’s preeminent collegiate mental health/suicide prevention organization; and, the Institute For Behavior and Health, a highly regarded national thought leading organization whose mission is to reduce illegal drug use and improve public health. Bill recently concluded a highly successful nine-year term on the Board of Trustees of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, the nation’s largest nonprofit addiction treatment organization.

Bill’s professional career to date includes: service as an accomplished financial and healthcare consultant; a leadership role in the US Housing and Urban Development’s financing programs for hospitals and nursing homes; the chief financial officer for a large, multi-state, 13-hospital healthcare system; a partner in a large regional CPA/Consulting firm; and, a leadership role in a large community hospital. Bill also served as an Officer in the US Navy.
Bill has been honored as a ‘Life Fellow’ in the American College of Healthcare Executives; ‘Chapter Life Member’ in the Healthcare Financial Management Association; CPA (Retired) in the American Institute of CPA’s and Indiana CPA Society; and as a ‘Distinguished Alumni’ inducted into his Ohio high school Hall of Fame.

Bill has undergraduate and graduate degrees in accounting and business administration from Miami University, Oxford OH, and counts as his greatest achievement his wonderful 4 children and 10 grandchildren.