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The Michael J. Fox Foundation 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.
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Founder
Michael J. Fox
Chief Executive
Officer
Todd Sherer, PhD
Co-Founder &
Executive Vice
Chairman
Deborah W. Brooks
Boards and Councils
Board of Directors Founders’ Council Christopher Chadbourne
Jeff Keefer, Chairman Lonnie and Muhammad Ali Jimmy Choi
Skip Irving,
Vice Chairman Steven A. Cohen Carey Christensen
Michael R. “Rich” Clifford
Holly S. Andersen, MD Albert B. Glickman John Griffin Quentin Dastugue
Andrew S. Grove Steve DeWitte
Katie Hood Anne Cohn Donnelly, DPH
Jeffrey Katzenberg David Eger, PhD
Morton M. Kondracke Hadley Ferguson
Edwin A. Levy Michael S. Fitts
Nora McAniff Bill Geist
Donna Shalala, PhD Cynthia Gray
Leadership Council Lynn Hagerbrant
Richard Fitzgerald,
Chairman Karen Jaffe, MD
Glenn Batchelder
Mark Booth
Jon Brooks
Barry J. Cohen
Andrew Creighton
John S. Daly
Deputy Chief
Executive Officer Donny Deutsch
Sohini Chowdhury Karen Finerman
Sr. Vice President,
Communications &
Content Strategies Nelle Fortenberry
Holly Teichholtz
Director,
Communications
Deborah Burzynski
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Senior Publications
Coordinator
Emily Murphy
David Einhorn
Lee Fixel
Akbar Gbajabiamila
Willie Geist
David Glickman
David Golub
Mark L. Hart III
Anne M. Holloway
Edward Kalikow
Amar Kuchinad
Marc S. Lipschultz
Ofer Nemirovsky
David Iverson
Daisy Prince, Vice Chairman Nicole Jarvis, MD
Omar Abdel-Hafez Tony Mendez
Shakeeb Alam Hilton Mirels, MD
Loren Berger Eric Pitcher
Felix Bhandari Claudia Revilla
Susan Bilotta Bryan Roberts
Zachary Brez Israel Robledo
Alexandra Cherubini Richie Rothenberg
Dev Chodry Margaret Sheehan
Taryn Fixel Dan Suwyn
Michael Kaplan W.N. (Bill) Wilkins
Julia Kelly Justin Lepone Executive Scientific
Advisory Board
Pamela Mirels Bastiaan Bloem, MD, PhD
Dan Morris Alice Chen-Plotkin, MD
Rafi Rosman Ted Dawson, MD, PhD
Scott Schefrin John Dunlop, PhD
Bill Shepherd Steven Finkbeiner, MD, PhD
Ryan Squillante Tatiana Foroud, PhD
Meredith Tutterow Warren Hirst, PhD
Anne-Cecilie Engell Speyer Patient Council Karl Kieburtz, MD, MPH
George Stephanopoulos Soania Mathur, MD,
Co-Chair
Andy O’Brien
Douglas I. Ostrover
Tracy Pollan
Ryan Reynolds
Design Frederick E. Rowe
Simplissimus Lily Safra
Carolyn Schenker
Curtis Schenker
Richard J. Schnall
Woody Shackleton
Bonnie Strauss
Rick Tigner
Fred G. Weiss
Sonny Whelen
Peter Zaffino
Ken Marek, MD
Connie Marras, MD, PhD
Bret Parker, Co-Chair Kalpana M. Merchant, PhD
Carl Bolch, Jr. Michael Schwarzschild, MD, PhD
Eugenia Brin
Ken Cater
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Fall/Winter
The Fox Focus
2018