Brett Kopelan
Executive Director
Catherine Doernbrack MSN, RN, CPNP
EB Nurse Educator
Jeanette Gissen
Programs Director
Jason Kelly
Supporter Led Events Director
Jenna Kubeck
Special Events Director
Mike Powers
Finance Director
Aigerim Saparova-Smith
Digital Marketing Director
Monica Sylvanus
Programs Associate
Lambert Tamin
Bookkeeper
Board of Directors
Andrew Tavani, Chair, Atlanta, Georgia
J Alec Alexander, Treasurer, Gainesville, GA
John Lee, Secretary, San Francisco, CA
Angela Christiano, Ph.D., New York, NY
William Cornman, Sewickley, PA
Richard Gallagher, Chair Emeritus, Gurnee, IL
Leslie Rader, Louisville, KY
Robert Ryan, Ph.D., Durham, NC
Thomas Trimarchi, New York, NY
Jouni Uitto, M.D., Ph.D., Philadelphia, PA
James Wetrich, Dallas, TX
Arlene Pessar, R.N, debra of America Founder
Scientific Advisory Board
- Alan Arbuckle, M.D., Kaiser Permanente
- Richard G. Azizkhan, M.D., Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
- Eugene A. Bauer, M.D., Stanford University School of Medicine
- Susan Bayliss, M.D., Washington University School of Medicine
- Gary Bellus, M.D., University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
- Anna L Bruckner, M.D., University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
- Angela Christiano, Ph.D. (Co-chair), Columbia University
- Richard A.F. Clark, M.D., SUNY Stonybrook
- Jonathan Alden Dyer, M.D., University of Missouri Health Care
- Ervin Epstein, Jr., M.D., Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute
- Nancy B. Esterly, M.D., Medical College of Wisconsin
- Jo-David Fine, M.D., Vanderbilt University
- Elaine V. Fuchs, Ph.D., Rockefeller University
- Sharon Glick, M.D., SUNY Downstate Medical Center
- Paul Honig, M.D., Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
- Gerald S. Lazarus, M.D., Johns Hopkins University
- Moise L. Levy, M.D., Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital
- Anne W. Lucky, M.D., Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
- Joseph McGuire, M.D., Stanford University School of Medicine
- Laurence Miller,M.D., Potomac, MD
- Kimberly D. Morel, M.D., New York-Presbyterian Hospital
- Amy Paller, M.D., Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago
- Francis Palisson, M.D., La Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile
- Neil S. Prose, M.D., Duke University Medical Center
- Elena Pope, M.D., Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
- Juliette Prendiville, M.D., University of British Columbia
- Dennis R. Roop, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine
- Lawrence Schachner, M.D., University of Miami School of Medicine
- Tor Shwayder, M.D., Henry Ford Hospital
- Daniel Siegel, M.D., Dermatologic Surgery Institute & President, American Academy of Dermatology
- Mary K. Spraker, M.D., Emory University Clinic of Woodruff Medical Center
- Jouni Uitto, M.D., Ph.D. (Co-chair), Thomas Jefferson University
- Madeline Weiner, RN, Chapel Hill, NC
- Timothy Wright, D.D.S., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
