Our Team
Louis Brown
Executive Director
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Louis has served as Executive Director of CMF since 2019. He leads CMF’s overall efforts to advance medical conscience and religious freedom rights and to reclaim health care for the culture of life by offering pro-life health and wellness programs to individuals, families, and Catholic employers nationwide.
An attorney for over 15 years, Louis received his law degree from Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C. and began his career in private law practice at a Midwest law firm. He later became a Congressional staffer on Capitol Hill where he served as legislative counsel for a U.S. Congressman which included serving as the Congressman’s advisor on federal health care law and policy. He also served as the Congressman’s primary liaison to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee where he provided legislative counsel to the Congressman on numerous Judiciary Committee issues including criminal justice, civil rights, and oversight of the Department of Justice. Louis first joined CMF in 2014 to help launch its pro-life health option in partnership with a Christian health sharing ministry.
In 2017, Louis joined the Trump Administration as a political appointee at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where he served in the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and eventually became the Principal Advisor for Civil Rights to the OCR Director. Under the leadership of the OCR Director, Louis worked to enforce civil rights in health care nationally. Louis also supported the OCR Director’s initiatives to defend religious freedom and conscience rights.
Louis returned to CMF as executive director in 2019. He works to defend religious freedom, medical conscience rights, and human dignity and to build the culture of life in health care through expanding CMF’s Catholic health and wellness services.
He sits on the board of directors of two Catholic pro-life health care entities. He is a co-founder and board member of the Catholic Health Care Leadership Alliance, a new organization providing national Catholic leadership for Catholic health care from an integrated Christ-centered perspective. In 2021 and 2024, Louis served as a law lecturer at Catholic University Columbus School of Law where he taught a law course on human dignity and religious freedom in health care. He has published opinion pieces in First Things, the Hill, Public Discourse, and National Review (co-authored). He serves as one of the authors for the Washington Insider column for National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly. Louis has been interviewed in various media outlets on pro-life health care, religious freedom, civil rights in health care, and the federal law and policy that shapes the American health care system. He is inspired by St. John Paull’s call to build a civilization of love and justice.
Mike O’Dea
Founder, Board President, Emeritus Executive Director
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Mr. O’Dea is an MBA graduate from the University of Detroit, a Vietnam War veteran and Bronze Star recipient. Since 1987, after a successful career with Dow Chemical and in health care sales, Mr. O’Dea has been providing employers and individuals unique health care management resources and benefits consulting, specializing in Christ-centered health care. In 1984 he founded and is currently a board member of Mother & Unborn Baby Care, a non-profit charitable organization that assists mothers faced with a crisis pregnancy.
In 1997, Mr. O’Dea established the Christ Medicus Foundation, a leading not-for-profit organization focused on reclaiming Christ-centered health care by reforming corporate and public policy to allow a conscious choice and religious liberty in health care.
In 2014, Michael co-founded CMF CURO, the Nation’s first fully operational Catholic health sharing ministry. Mr. O’Dea has been recognized by the Heritage Foundation, The Galen Institute, The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Family Research Council, the Catholic Medical Association, and Right to Life of Michigan as well as the Center for Law and Religions Freedom for his valiant and tireless efforts. He is also a speaker for beginning and end of life issues.
Michael and his wife Peggy are parents to seven children, five of whom are adopted, and have 27 grandchildren.
Board of Directors
Michael Warner
Vice President
Dr. John Damiani, D.O.
Vice President
L. James Wilson, JD
Secretary
Kathryn Allwein
Board Member
Our Advisors
David Wilson
Co-Founder of CMF CURO
Mr. Wilson is a national thought leader on the critical requirement of active patient engagement, patient comprehension, market empowerment and human authority. He is a founder of the employee-patient centered health and health care movement today; focused on the improved health and wellbeing of the whole person, reduced health care costs, the active patient-physician relationship and the formation of increased business value.
Mr. Wilson has over 35 years’ experience developing, growing and capitalizing successful businesses that actively invest in the requirements of improved individual health and greater wellbeing. He is the CEO of Asset Health, a national leader in integrated health and wellness management technologies, President of Wilson Partners Group, a national health care and benefits management consulting firm, and an active leader in the definition of Federal health care policy.
His present and past efforts in the marketplace and public policy have touched on effective health care reform, including the definition of comprehensive Flexible Benefit Plans, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Reimbursement Arrangements and Health Savings Accounts. He co-founded CMF CURO in 2014 to provide a Catholic option for health sharing.
William Cueto
COO of CMF CURO
William is a graduate of Marymount University where he earned a degree in business administration and of St. Thomas University where he earned his law degree.
William’s 20 plus year career consists of working for a Fortune 200 company in the business services industry as a corporate executive, leading global compliance requirements. Part of his role involved leading the government relations function and serving as the company’s Washington health care reform representative to the leading policy and advocacy arm of Fortune 500 companies, working with corporate and government officials through stages of health care reform.
In support of Church ministry, William led the establishment of an international young men’s Catholic student residence in Miami, created and hosted a EWTN cable series, Builders of Hope, and became admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of a plaintiff group that attempted to overturn Roe v. Wade.
William seeks to apply his work and ministry experience to serve the Christ Medicus Foundation and CMF CURO members by striving to administer the corporal and spiritual works of mercy and to live the gospel in healthcare by working with his CURO colleagues to build up the culture of life.