Doris M. Griffin

       In 2001, Doris Griffin was appointed to the Board of Medicine by Governor Bob Wise.  She is one of the public members of the Board. Ms. Griffin was born and raised in New Brunswick, N.J. She is a graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., where she majored in Consumer Economics and Public Policy.  She received her M.B.A. from Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management in 1975, with a concentration in health and hospital administration.  After completing a Hospital Administrative Residency at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, Ms. Griffin was employed as a Management Analyst at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in East Orange, New Jersey.  She has lived in Martinsburg, West Virginia for more than 20 years, working at the Martinsburg VA Medical Center in hospital management until her retirement in 2000.  At the time of her retirement, she was Assistant to the Medical Center Director.  In 1983, she attained the level of Member in the American College of Healthcare Executives.  She graduated from the Leadership VA Program in 1994, and is a Life Member of its Alumni Association.  

Honors received by Ms. Griffin include the Martin Luther King Scholarship Committee Award for Community Service in Berkeley County, which was awarded in 1992; second place for Media Relations for public affairs coordination of President Clinton’s visit to the Martinsburg VA Medical Center in 1993, and; recognition from the Berkeley County Board of Education for her 1993 presidency of the School-Business Partnership Program.  She is also a graduate of Leadership Berkeley.   

Ms. Griffin is active in civic affairs, and in January 2004, Governor Wise appointed her to the Shepherd College (University) Board of Governors.  In 2004, she was also appointed to the City Hospital Foundation Board in Martinsburg and to the AEL  Board, a four state non-profit educational research-based program headquartered in Charleston, WV.  She is also currently a board member of the United Way of Berkeley and Morgan Counties, the Martinsburg Rotary Club and RESA VIII Head Start.  From 1998-2000, she represented the VA Medical Center as a board member of the Eastern West Virginia Rural Health Education Consortium.  For ten years, she was Chairperson of the Cornell University Area (WV, MD and VA) Alumni Admissions Volunteer Committee, and from 1982-83, served on Cornell’s National Alumni Admissions Volunteer Advisory Committee in Ithaca, NY.  She is a member of The Links, a national women's service organization, and attends Destiny Church in Martinsburg, where she is a member of the Imani Foundation, the social service agency of the church.