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Leadership & Board

Foundation Staff

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Adrienne Barton, CFRE
Chief Operating Officer
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Nicole Schaefer
Chief Administrative Officer
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Tania Competiello
Senior Director, National Healthcare Programs
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Crystal Cottrill
National HHT Coordinating Center Grant Manager
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Cassi Friday, PhD
Director, Research Programs and Grants
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Daneil Johnston
Grants & Finance Specialist
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Michael Kennedy
Bookkeeper
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Cathleen Kinnear
Operations & Business Systems Associate
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Nolie Krock
Clinical Care Network and Research Grant Consultant
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Phyllis Loveland
Senior Manager, Development & Community Engagement
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Valaree Machen, MS
Senior Manager, Content and Brand Strategy
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Ellie Olitsky, MBA
Community Manager
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Scott Olitsky, MD, MBA
Global Center of Excellence and Outreach Director
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Katy O'Toole
Director, Major Gifts
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Kassidy Swords
Research Coordinator
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Hellen Tecle
Manager, Community Events & Education
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Murali Chakinala, MD
Senior Clinical Research Advisor
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Marie Faughnan, MD, MSc
Vice Chair, North American Scientific and Medical Advisory Council
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James Gossage, MD
Vice Chair, Center of Excellence Executive Committee
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Christopher C.W. Hughes, PhD
Chair, North American Scientific and Medical Advisory Council

Board of Trustees

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John Dunn, MA
Chair

Scotts Valley, CA

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Gabriella Choi, MBA
Vice Chair

Venice, CA

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Terry Thompson, MBA
Treasurer

Bedminster, NJ

Karen Silber Weissel, PhD
Secretary

Newton, MA

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Anthony Anzell, Ph.D.
Trustee

St. Louis, MO

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Hara Levy, MD, MMSc
Trustee

Glendale, WI

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Douglas Marchuk, PhD
Trustee

Chapel Hill, NC

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Michael Nolan
Trustee

Cork, Ireland

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Brandon Probst, PhD
Trustee

Lehi, UT

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Dennis Sprecher, MD
Consulting Trustee

Bluebell, PA

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Dennis Routledge
Trustee Emeritus

Somerset, NJ

Global Research and Medical Advisory Board

Hanny Al-Samkari, MD
Chair

Hematology

Massachusetts General Hospital

Franck Lebrin, PhD
Vice-Chair

Basic Science

Leiden University

Rosemary Akhurst, PhD

Basic Science

University of California, San Francisco

Sabine Bailly, PhD

Basic Science

INSERM Grenoble

Pinar Bayrak-Toydemir, PhD

Genetics

ARUP Labs

Luisa Maria Botella, PhD

Scientist

Centro Investigaciones Biologicas, CSIC

Murali Chakinala, MD, FCCP

Pulmonology

Washington University School of Medicine

Mark S. Chesnutt, MD

Pulmonology

Dotter Interventional Institute, Oregon Health and Science University

Miles Conrad, MD

Interventional Radiology

University of California, San Francisco 

Sophie Dupuis-Girod, MD, PhD

Genetics

Lyon, France

Marie E. Faughnan, MD, MSc

Pulmonology

University of Toronto

Urban W. Geisthoff, MD

Otolaryngology

University of Marburg, Germany

James Gossage, MD

Pulmonology

Augusta University

Steven Hetts, MD

Neuroradiology

University of California, San Francisco 

Christopher C. W. Hughes, PhD

Vascular Biology

University of California, Irvine

Raj Kasthuri, MD

Hematology

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Anette Kjeldsen, MD

Otolaryngology

Odense University

Masaki Komiyama, MD

Neuro-Interventional Radiology

Osaka City General Hospital

Hans-Jurgen Mager, MD

Hematology

Massachusetts General Hospital

Guido Manfredi, MD

Hepatology

Maggiore Hospital Crema, Italy

Philippe Marambaud, PhD

Basic Science

Feinstein Institute Northwell Health

Keith McCrae, MD

Hematology

Cleveland Clinic

Jamie McDonald, MS, CGC

Genetic Counselor

University of Utah

Stryder Meadows, PhD

Basic Science

Tulane University

Meir Mei-Zahav, MD

Pediatrics

Schneider Children's Hospital, Israel

S. Paul Oh, PhD

Basic Science

Barrow Neurological Institute

Michael Ohlinger, MD PhD

Radiology and Biomedical Imaging

University of California San Francisco

Roxana Ola, PhD

Basic Science

Heidelberg University

Jeffrey Pollak, MD

Interventional Radiology

Yale University

Marco Post, MD, PhD

Cardiology, PAH

St. Antonius Hospital

Felix Ratjen, MD, FRCP

Pediatrics

Toronto Sick Kids Hospital

Beth L. Roman, PhD

Basic Science

University of Pittsburgh

Bethany Samuelson-Bannow, MD

Hematology

Cleveland Clinic

Bill Sellers, MD

Cancer Research

Broad Institute

Marcelo Serra, MD

Internal Medicine

Hospital Italiano

Edda Spierkotter, MD

Pulmonology, PAH

Stanford

Michkael Tanter, PhD

Biomedical Imaging & Ultrasound

Paris

Andrew White, MD

Pediatrics

St. Louis Children’s Hospital

Ingrid Winship, MDChB, MD, FRACP, FACD

Genetics

Royal Melbourne

Lawrence H. Young, MD

Cardiology

Yale University

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