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VHLFA Staff and Board of Directors

 

Staff    Current Directors    Medical Advisors    Medical Emeritus    
International Affiliates    Advisors    Founders  

Staff

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

Hannah Costa, Office and Gifts Coordinator

Ranjana Sharma, Research Services Coordinator

Mary Lou Linn, Member Services Coordinator

Robin Cochrane, Publications Coordinator

List of current Board of Directors

and Medical Advisory Board
and their affiliations

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

Board of Directors

Camron King, Chairman of the Board, California Wine Growers Association, Sacramento

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

Christol Sorrell, Treasurer, Hospice of the North Country, New York

Linda S. Berk, Secretary, Retired paralegal

Sunny Greene, Career Counselor, Retired, Falls Church, Virginia

Robert Lydon, National Tax Review Service, Chicago (died 12/07)

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

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

Robert E. Schoenhals, Director. Financial analyst, Daimler-Chrysler, Detroit.

Bruce Weinberg, J.D., attorney. San Francisco, California.

Medical Advisory Board

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

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

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

Col. Scott McLean, M.D., Genetics, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas

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

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

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

Andrew C. Novick, B.S., MDCM, Department of Urology, Cleveland Clinics, Cleveland, Ohio

Edward H. Oldfield, M.D., Chief, Surgical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland

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

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

AUSTRALIA: Jennifer Kingston 

BRAZIL: J. C. Casali da Rocha

BELGIUM: Chris Hendrickx 

CANADA: Jill Shields

CHILE: Pierre Jacomet

DENMARK: Richard & Vibeke Harbud

ENGLAND: Mary Weetman

FRANCE: Gilles Brunet

GERMANY:  Gerhard Alsmeier

ITALY: Francesco Lombardi and M. Luisa Guerra

HUNGARY: Dr. Helga Süli-Vargha

IRELAND: Gloria Proby

JAPAN: Hanako Suzuki

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 21 August, 2008 , JWG]


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