Age: 67

Education: Oregon State University, Bachelor of Science, 1966; University of Oregon Dental School, 1969

Family: Wife, Kim, three grown children, two stepchildren, five grandchildren

Occupation: Shirtcliff is the CEO of Advantage Dental, a company that manages a network of 900 dentists in Oregon and Idaho. Advantage Dental is owned by 300 rural dentists. The goal of the company is to create access to dental care for community members regardless of economic status. The company is a for-profit cooperative.

In Salem: Shirtcliff was part of the Oregon Health Transformation Team. He is also part of several other groups ranging from the governor’s Medicaid Advisory Committee to a member of the Healthy Kids Advisory Committee and is the chairman of the Oregon Health Plan Medical Committee. “The governor and Legislature have been working on transforming the health care delivery system because costs keep going up,” Shirtcliff said. His role has been to identify where oral health fits in and how to continue providing health care while the system is being overhauled. “How do we do it so people currently getting covered don’t lose coverage when we transform to something new?” For some of those answers, Shirtcliff said the state will be looking to Central Oregon, where health care leaders have been working on similar issues for several years.

Central Oregon connections: Shirtcliff moved to Redmond in 2001 from Roseburg. He has a son and daughter-in-law who are both dentists in Bend.

Hobbies: Golf, fishing and riding his motorcycle

Last book read: “Paradigms: The Business of Discovering the Future,” by Joel Arthur Baker