Brant S. Mittler, M.D., J.D.

Attorney at Law

Dr. Mittler has practiced medicine in San Antonio for 34 years and law for the past 9 years.  He has an active litigation practice in health care law and related subjects.

For 22 years he was a full time cardiologist in private practice.  He did his undergraduate work at Harvard College, his medical school and cardiology training at Duke and graduated from the St. Mary’s University School of Law in 2001.  He had formal training in health policy at both Johns Hopkins and Duke as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar.  His writings about health care policy have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the San Antonio Express News, and other newspapers. From 1988-1994 he provided weekly presentations on health care issues for  KENS-TV. He has appeared on ABC World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, CNN, and Good Morning America discussing health care policy. He has served as a technical advisor to ABC-TV in their investigation of health care issues.   He maintains an active adjunct faculty appointment in the Department of Medicine at Duke.

Ted Borcherding

Senior District Executive, Victory District, Alamo Area Council, Boy Scouts of America

Ted Borcherding is a native San Antonion.  He is a graduate of Jefferson High School and has a BBA from UTSA. After college, Ted had an 18-year career in hotel management and sales and was employed by the Hyatt, Hilton and Holiday Inn Corporations in Texas and Louisiana and earned numerous awards and honors.

As a young father, Ted volunteered to be the Scout leader for his two sons and was soon “bitten by the bug” as they say, and quickly moved up the volunteer ranks of Scouting both in Louisiana and here in San Antonio. After 9/11 Ted left the hotel business and went to work as a professional Scouter for the Alamo Area Council and has been there ever since.

Alyssa Burgin

Texas Drought Project, Founder

“Ending the Hydro-Illogical Cycle in Texas”

Learn how precious our water resources are in Central/South Texas.  Alyssa Burgin is a fifth-generation Texan and a fourth-generation San Antonian.. She grew up in the world of ideas, and became active in politics at a very early age. Although she began her education at the UT at Austin as a double major in physics and microbiology, she graduated with masters degrees in journalism and speech communication, and went to work on the national level in political media. For the last eight years, she has served as media and outreach director of the statewide nonprofit Texans for Peace, and as such, has handled international media for two Iraq-based kidnapping crises. Two years ago, she took up issues related to the environment, and as a response to problems she saw developing in Texas and the southwest, founded the Texas Drought Project, which educates on current and coming water scarcity in this ever-growing state.

Ernest Estrada

CPR !st, Owner

Ernest has been a paramedic and firefighter for the City of San Antonio for 30 years, has owned CPR 1st for 20 years and has been associated with the Training Center for the American Heart Assoication, National Safety Council for 17 years.