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VHLFA Staff and Board of Directors

 

Other than staff, all persons named on this page are volunteers, who receive no compensation for their services to the VHL Family Alliance.

 

Staff

 

Ilene Sussman, Executive Director

Joyce Graff, Wellness Director, Editor of the VHL Family Forum

Mary Lou Linn, Member Services Coordinator

Susan Milliken, Office Manager

Board of Directors

Jeanne McCoy, Chairman of the Board, Junior League, Greenville, SC

Tom Rath, Vice-Chairman, Global Practice Leader, Gallup Organization, Washington, D.C.

Sunny Greene, Secretary of the Board, Career Counselor, Retired, Falls Church, VA

Michelle Cieslak, Treasurer, accountant, Woodland Hills, CA

Fred Johnson, Retired/Software Consultant, Brooklyn, NY

Camron King, California Wine Growers Association, Sacramento, CA

Robert Kramer, DDS, dentist and professor of dentistry, Cave Creek, AZ

Jane McMahon Romanoff, Executive Recruiter, King of Prussia, PA

Sarah Nielsen, MSGC, Genetic counselor, University of Chicago, IL

Thomas D. Rodenberg, Esq, attorney, Blue Springs, MO

Bill B. Scheitler, S&H Marketing, Remsen, IA

Medical Advisory Board

Gennady Bratslavsky, M.D., Chair, Urology, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York

Debra L. Collins, M.S., Division of Genetics, University of Kansas Med Center, Kansas City, Kansas

Karina Villar Gómez de las Heras, MD, President of La Alianza de las Familias VHL, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare for Castilla-LaMancha, Toledo, Spain

Michael B. Gorin, M.D., Ophtlmology, University of California, Los Angeles, California

Eric Jonasch, M.D., Urologic Oncology, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

Richard Alan Lewis, M.D., Professor of Ophthalmology, Pediatrics, Medicine, and Molecular and Human Genetics and Faculty Associate at the Huffington Center on Aging, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

John A. Libertino, M.D., Chair, Institute of Urology, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, Massachusetts

Steven K. Libutti, M.D., Director, Einstein-Montefiore Center for Cancer Care, New York, New York

Joseph Locala, M.D., Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio

Eamonn R. Maher, M.D., F.R.C.P., Professor of Medical Genetics, University of Birmingham, England

Ian McCutcheon, M.D., FRCSC, Neurosurgery, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

Scott McLean, M.D., Genetics, San Antonio Genetics

Virginia V. Michels, M.D., Department of Medical Genetics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

Hartmut P. H. Neumann, M.D., Department of Nephrology, Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany

Edward H. Oldfield, M.D.,Surgical Neurology, University of Virginia

Stéphane Richard, M.D., Neuro-Oncologie, Necker Hospital, Paris-Sud, France

Armand Rodriguez, M.D., Family Medicine, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Medical Emeritus

Lloyd M. Aiello, M.D., Chief, Beetham Eye Institute, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, Massachusetts

Yujen Edward Hsia, M.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of Genetics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii

Col. James M. Lamiell, M.D., Chief, Clinical Investigation Regulatory Office, U.S. Army Medical Center and School, Fort Sam Houston, Texas

Haring J. W. Nauta, M.D., Ph.D., Chief of Neurosurgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas

R. Neil Schimke, M.D., Dir. of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Genetics, University of Kansas Med Center, Kansas City, Kansas

Robert B. Welch, M.D., Chairman Emeritus, Department of Ophthalmology, Greater Baltimore Med Center, Baltimore, Maryland

International Affiliates

Contact people are available in these and other  countries; call for a referral

ARGENTINA: Carlos Fredes

AUSTRALIA: Jennifer Kingston 

BRAZIL: Jamile Mansour

BELGIUM: Dirk Werbrouck

CANADA: Jill Shields

DENMARK:Susanne Bøgger Hansen and Jens Strandgaard

ENGLAND: Mary Weetman

FRANCE: Edith Lassus-Laurent

GERMANY:  Gerhard Alsmeier

ITALY: Francesco Lombardi and M. Luisa Guerra

HUNGARY: Dr. Helga Süli-Vargha

IRELAND: Gloria Proby

JAPAN: Ms. Shinkai

THE NETHERLANDS: Henny Berisha

NEW ZEALAND: Jon & Valerie Johnson

SOUTH AFRICA: Markus van Vuuren

SPAIN: Karina Villar, M.D.

SWITZERLAND: Erika Trutmann

Advisor

Sheila Tepper, Development.  Radio Producer, Los Angeles, California

Founders

Susan Warnick, R.N., Reisterstown, Maryland

Peggy Ann Graham, R.N., Warren, Michigan

Joyce Wilcox Graff, Brookline, Massachusetts

[Last updated 15 January, 2012 , JWG]


Further information is available from the VHL Family Alliance, info@vhl.org.

 

[Last modified 15-Jan-2012 ]