About Us
The Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) is dedicated to finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease through an
aggressively funded research agenda and to ensuring the development of improved therapies for those
living with Parkinson’s today. MJFF publishes The Fox Focus on Parkinson’s twice a year, including an
interactive version. To change your subscription preferences, email [email protected].
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Founder
Michael J. Fox
Chief Executive Officer
Todd Sherer, PhD
Co-Founder &
Executive Vice Chairman
Deborah W. Brooks
Deputy Chief
Executive Officer
Sohini Chowdhury
Chief People Officer
& General Counsel
Jim McNasby
Sr. Vice President,
Communications &
Content Strategies
Holly Teichholtz
Editor
Deborah Burzynski
Design and Production
Jessica Levine
Emily Murphy
Simplissimus
Writers
Allison Boiles
Carol Blymire
Christina Destro
Rachel Dolhun
Krishna Knabe
Maggie Kuhl
Kat McCarrick
Boards and Councils
Board of Directors
Skip Irving, Chairman
Jeff Keefer, Vice Chairman
Holly S. Andersen, MD
Glenn Batchelder
Mark Booth
Jon Brooks
Barry J. Cohen
Andrew Creighton
John S. Daly
Donny Deutsch
David Einhorn
Karen Finerman
Lee Fixel
Nelle Fortenberry
Akbar Gbajabiamila
Willie Geist
David Glickman
Mark L. Hart III
Anne M. Holloway
Edward Kalikow
Amar Kuchinad
Marc S. Lipschultz
Ofer Nemirovsky
Andy O’Brien
Douglas I. Ostrover
Lisa A. Piazza, MD
Tracy Pollan
Ryan Reynolds
Hartley T. Richardson
Frederick E. Rowe
Lily Safra
Carolyn Schenker
Curtis Schenker
Richard J. Schnall
Woody Shackleton
Anne-Cecilie Engell Speyer
George Stephanopoulos
Bonnie Strauss
Rick Tigner
Fred G. Weiss
Sonny Whelen
Peter Zaffino
Founders’ Council
Lonnie and Muhammad Ali
Steven A. Cohen
Albert B. Glickman
David Golub
John Griffin
Andrew S. Grove
Katie Hood
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Morton M. Kondracke
Edwin A. Levy
Nora McAniff
Donna Shalala, PhD
Leadership Council
Richard Fitzgerald, Co-Chairman
Susan Bilotta, Co-Chairman
Omar Abdel-Hafez
Shakeeb Alam
Loren Berger
Felix Bhandari
Zachary Brez
Alexandra Cherubini
Dev Chodry
Taryn Fixel
Michael Kaplan
Julia Kelly
Pamela Mirels
Dan Morris
Daisy Prince
Rafi Rosman
Scott Schefrin
Bill Shepherd
Ryan Squillante
Meredith Tutterow
Patient Council
Soania Mathur, MD, Co-Chair
Bret Parker, Co-Chair
Matt Ackerman
Carl Bolch, Jr.
Eugenia Brin
Ken Cater
Jimmy Choi
Carey Christensen
Michael R. “Rich” Clifford
Quentin Dastugue
Steve DeWitte
Anne Cohn Donnelly, DPH
David Eger, PhD
Hadley Ferguson
Michael S. Fitts
Bill Geist
Larry Gifford
Cynthia Gray
Lynn Hagerbrant
Kathy Holden
Karen Jaffe, MD
Nicole Jarvis, MD
Maria De Leon
Hilton Mirels, MD
Eric Pitcher
Bill Rasmussen
Claudia Revilla
Bryan Roberts
Israel Robledo
Richie Rothenberg
Margaret Sheehan
Dan Suwyn
W.N. (Bill) Wilkins
Executive Scientific
Advisory Board
Bastiaan Bloem, MD, PhD
D. James Surmeier, PhD
Andrew West, PhD
Jeffrey Kordower, PhD
Carole Ho, MD
Kalpana Merchant, PhD
Ken Marek, MD
Ian Reynolds, PhD
Patrik Brundin, MD, PhD
Soania Mathur, MD
Eric Siemers, MD
Brit Mollenhauer, MD
Rita Balice-Gordon, PhD
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