The LAM Foundation Boards and Staff Members

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The LAM Foundation Board of Directors

Executive Committee

Laura Lentz, Board Chair (IL)
LAM Patient
Senior Financial Manager, Kraft Foods, Inc. - Former

Pat Venters, Vice Chair (NH)
Sister of LAM Patient 
Vice President Oncology Care, Philips Health Care

Carol Langelier, Treasurer (VA)
Mother of LAM Patient
Partner, Deloitte – Retired

Ed Plocharczyk, Secretary (IN)
Husband of LAM Patient 
Senior Engineering Consultant, Eli Lilly and Company - Retired

Richard Bard, Development Chair (CO)
Husband of LAM Patient 
Founder and Manager, Bard Capital Group LLC

Tom Laurenzi, Immediate Past Chair (NJ)
Husband of LAM Patient 
President, Delmhorst Instrument Company

Frank McCormack, MD (OH)
Scientific Director
Chairman, Scientific Advisory Board
Director, Internal Medicine, 
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine 
University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH

Board Members

Greg Downey, MD (CO)
LAM Clinic Director
Executive Vice President, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO

Christina Hamilton (VA)
Friend of the Foundation,
Senior VP, Gephardt
Government Affairs

Mary Harbaugh, PhD (MN)
LAM Patient,
Biology Professor

Madeline Nolan (CT)
LAM Patient
Health Teacher, Crosby High School

Eden Pontz (NY)
LAM Patient
Executive Producer, CNN New York

 

Daniel Roche (IL)
Brother-in-law of LAM Patient
Director of Finance,
Regina Dominican HS

Andrew Romanosky (IL)
Brother-in-Law of LAM Patient 
Vice President, Union Bank 

Teresa Stoker (GA)
LAM Patient
Chief Executive Officer, Hillside, Inc.

Eugene Sullivan, MD, FCCP (MD)

Chief Medical Officer, EJS Consulting

Lisa Young, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine
LAM Clinic Director
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN

The LAM Foundation Staff

Sylvia Richard
Development Director
513-777-6889 ext.106 
srichard@thelamfoundation.org

Kim Hasselfeld
Scientific Project Coordinator
khasselfeld@thelamfoundation.org

Sue Byrnes
Scientific Research Administrator
sbyrnes@thelamfoundation.org

Sally Lamb
Director of Patient Services
513-777-6889 ext. 105
slamb@thelamfoundation.org


Joanne Chappell
Finance Director
513-777-6889 ext. 109
jchappell@thelamfoundation.org

Kerri Morgan-Byrnes
Administrative Assistant
513-777-6889 ext. 110
kbyrnes@thelamfoundation.org


The LAM Foundation Scientific Advisory Board

An outstanding and dedicated LAM Scientific Advisory Board is the cornerstone of The LAM Foundation's research program. The LAM Scientific Board advises the Foundation on all scientific matters and formulates the direction of LAM research to be supported by The LAM Foundation Board of Directors.

Basic Science Board

Francis X. McCormack, MD
Chairman, LAM Foundation Scientific 
Advisory Board
Director, Division of Pulmonary 
Critical Care Medicine
University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH

John J. Bissler, MD
Associate Program Director for Research and Academic Careers
Division of Nephrology 
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH

Thomas V. Colby, MD
Professor of Pathology
Mayo Clinic Scottsdale
Scottsdale, AZ

Gregory P. Downey, MD
Executive Vice President, Academic Affairs
Professor of Medicine
LAM Clinic Director
National Jewish Health
Denver, CO

Jilly Evans, PhD
Vice President, Biology
Co-Founder, Amira Pharmaceuticals
San Diego, CA

Barry Fanburg, MD
Professor of Medicine
New England Medical Center
Boston, MA

Geraldine Finlay, MD
Associate Professor Pulmonary Medicine
LAM Clinic Director
Tufts Medical Center
Boston, MA

Stephen Hammes, MD, PhD
Chief, Division of Endocrinology
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY

Elizabeth Petri Henske, MD
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Director, Center for LAM Research & Clinical Care
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Simon Johnson , MD
Senior Lecturer & Honorary Consultant Physician
University of Nottingham
Division of Therapeutics & Molecular Medicine 
Queens Medical Centre 
Nottingham, England

 

Vera Krymskaya, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA

David Kwiatkowski, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Boston, MA

Brendan Manning, PhD
Assistant Professor of Genetics 
and Complex Diseases
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA

Joel Moss, MD, PhD
Senior Investigator
Laboratory of Translational Research
NIH/NHLBI
Bethesda, MD

Reynold Panettieri Jr., MD
Professor of Medicine
Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

David Plas, PhD
Associate Professor Cancer Biology
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH

Andrew Tee, PhD
Medical Genetics
Institute of Medical Genetics
Wales College of Medicine 
Cardiff University
Cardiff, Wales, UK

Cheryl Walker , MD
Professor, Department of Carcinogenesis
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Smithville, TX

Jeffrey A. Whitsett, MD
Chief, Division of Neonatology, Perinatal 
and Pulmonary Biology
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH

Raymond S. Yeung, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, 
Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine and Pathology
Division of Medical Genetics
University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle, WA

Lisa Young, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine
LAM Clinic Director
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, TN

Clinical Science Board

Jean-Francois Cordier, MD
Professor, Hospital Louis Pradel
Lyon, France

David Franz, MD
Director, Tuberous Sclerosis Clinic
Associate Director Clinical Affairs,
Division of Neurology
Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH

Yoshikazu Inoue, MD, PhD

Director, Department of Diffuse Lung Diseases
& Respiratory Failure
National Hospital Organization
Kinki-chuo Chest Medical Center
Sakai, Osaka, Japan

Janet Maurer, MD

National Medical Director for LIFESOURCE
CIGNA HealthCare
West Granby, CT

Sonoko Nagai, MD
Kyoto University Graduate School
Department of Respiratory Medicine
Kyoto, Japan

Jay H. Ryu, MD
Professor of Medicine, Director
Div of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

Steven A. Sahn, MD

Professor of Medicine and Director
Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine
Dept. of Medicine/Pulmonary
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC

Marvin Schwarz, MD
Professor of Medicine
Head, Division of Pulmonary/Critical
Care Medicine
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Denver, CO

Eugene Sullivan, MD, FCCP
Chief Medical Officer, EJS Consulting
Silver Spring, MD

Elbert Trulock, MD
Professor of Medicine, Medical Director
Barnes - Jewish Hospital,
Lung Transplant Program
Washington University Medical Center
St. Louis, MO

Clinical Trials Advisory Board

Eugene Sullivan, MD, FCCP, Chair
Chief Medical Officer, EJS Consulting
Silver Spring, MD

Peter Barnes, DM, DSc

Professor of Medicine
National Heart & Lung Institute
London, England

James Donahue, MD
Professor of Medicine,
Chief of Pulmonary Division
The University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC

Lewis Rubin, MD
Professor of Medicine
UCSD Medical Center
La Jolla, CA