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Elaine Hime is the director of Project DOCC, Delivery of Chronic Care, Houston. In 2002 Elaine joined Project DOCC which was in place at Baylor College of Medicine, Pediatrics. Dedicated its growth, as director, Elaine founded Project DOCC programs at the McGovern Medical School of UTHealth Houston in 2008, Texas A&M University Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine in 2015 and the Transition Medicine Clinic at Baylor College of Medicine in 2019. Elaine also serves as a DOCC parent teacher and enjoys training pediatric residents.  

In 1993, Elaine developed The Resource Guide for Parents of Children with Disabilities, Houston and Surrounding Areas which was updated and reprinted for 15 years in partnership with Texas Children’s Hospital in English and Spanish. She was awarded the Community Grassroots Organizing Award by the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities in 1996, the Barbara Jordan Media Award by the Texas Governor’s Committee on People with Disabilities in 1997 and the Health Care Educator Award for Health Care Heroes by the Houston Business Journal in 2011. 

Elaine has served on several Texas Health and Human Services Commission advisory councils concerning services for families of children with disabilities and Medicaid Managed Care. 

Elaine Hime and her husband Jim are the parents of three adult children including their youngest son Rutherford who has multiple disabilities and is medically fragile. A graduate of Texas A&M University with a BS in Zoology, Elaine enjoys walking the family dog Ringo and has worked for the Houston Zoo in the education department as an evening specialist.

Desiree Collins-Bradley is the program coordinator for Project DOCC Houston. She also holds a position at ATW Health Solutions, a nationally-recognized healthcare advisory firm, where she manages a Patient Partner Innovation Community (PPIC) of over 4,000 members across the country.

Her goal is to inspire other patients and caregivers to become advocates in their healthcare communities. She is a strong advocate for patient populations at most social risk. Desiree has worked on several Social Determinants of Health initiatives (SDOH) with the National Quality Forum. Through their partnership, she has participated in panel discussions at congressional briefings in Washington, DC.

Compelled by her daughter who was born with an extremely rare genetic disorder, Desiree’s passion is patient and family engagement in healthcare and ensuring that patients’ voices are represented at all levels of shared decision-making. 

Desiree is passionate about health equity and has been able to exercise that passion through membership as a strategic advisor for AMA’s Rise to Health Coalition. She is currently serving as a caregiver co-investigator on several research projects funded by Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). 

She is involved in several committees and advisory councils in Texas and Vermont. Desiree founded and co-chaired the Newborn Center Family Advisory Committee. She has served on the Family Leader Faculty for the Vermont Oxford Network, which focuses on global NICU improvement projects.

Her family’s journey inspired Desiree to become an advocate not only for her daughter but also in the medical community. She believes in the pillars of family-centered care, and it is her passion to spread the importance and awareness of them.

Robin Powell has 20 years of corporate and tax accounting experience and over 20 years of nonprofit accounting experience. Over her career, Robin has worked with numerous charities in the Houston area. Robin holds a BBA in Accounting and an MBA, both from the University of Houston Central Campus. 

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Project DOCC Houston
4502 Woodside St.
Houston, Texas 77023 

Dr. Kathryn Jordan Kemere serves as assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine. She sees patients at the BCM Transition Medicine Clinic where she provides medical care and social support services to the growing population of adolescents/young adults with a chronic childhood illness or disability as they move from pediatric to adult healthcare. Dr. Kemere attended medical school at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and previously earned her MS from the University of California, Berkeley.

Safieh Hill currently serves as Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretary of Oceaneering International, Inc. Safieh has over fifteen years of experience as a corporate attorney, having worked in house with oil and gas companies and as an associate attorney at Locke Lord LLP in Houston and brings extensive corporate governance experience to our Board of Directors.  

In addition to serving on the Project DOCC Houston board of directors, Amy Featherston Potts serves as a Project DOCC parent teacher. With the hopes that others can learn from her family’s experiences, Amy is proud to share the story of her family, including her young-adult son who is deafblind with other disabilities. Amy was awarded the Trail Blazer award by Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired in 2023 for her advocacy for families of the deafblind. Amy, her husband Mark and son Rees were recognized by the DeafBlind Multihandicap Association of Texas with the Olivia Cruz Family Award in 2023. Amy has spent her career in program management at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Prior to her tenure at HMNS, she was a consultant at Accenture. Amy earned her undergraduate degree and MBA at Baylor University.

Dr. Sherry Sellers Vinson served as associate professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, program director of the BCM Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Residency and a developmental pediatrician at The Meyer Center for Developmental Pediatrics at Texas Children’s Hospital and The Harris Health Developmental High Risk Clinic. She graduated from Texas Tech Medical School, completed her residency in general pediatrics at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, and completed a fellowship in Developmental Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. 

Prior to her career in medicine, Dr. Vinson taught public school for ten years, having earned a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Education with specialization in reading. Over the years she has participated in various clinical research projects funded by Autism Speaks, The Simons Foundation and pharmaceutical companies such as Novartis, Roche, Seaside Therapeutics, Alcobra, Neuren and Zynerba. Since she has retired from practice, Dr. Vinson enjoys time with her great nieces and nephews.

Bonnie Smith has over 40 years of experience in various healthcare settings, having worked at a major acute care hospital then finding her passion in home healthcare. In the latter part of her career, she was co-principal in The Care Group and Reach Healthcare Services. These agencies provided crucial nursing, therapy and home medical equipment to support the chronic care needs of medically fragile pediatric and adult patients in the home setting. Bonnie earned her BSN degree at the University of Texas Austin and Health Science Center Houston.