ON PARKINSON’S
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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 therapies
for those living with Parkinson’s today. MJFF publishes The Fox Focus on Parkinson’s twice a
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Chief Executive Officer
Todd Sherer, PhD
Sr. Vice President, Communications &
Content Strategies
Founder
Holly Teichholtz
Co-Founder and Executive Vice Chairman
Cheryl Blowers
[email protected]
Michael J. Fox
Editor
Deborah W. Brooks
BOARDS AND COUNCILS
BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
FOUNDERS’
COUNCIL
PATIENT
COUNCIL
SCIENTIFIC
ADVISORY BOARD
Jeff Keefer,
Chairman
Woody Shackleton,
Vice Chairman
Holly S. Andersen, MD
Glenn Batchelder
Mark Booth
Jon Brooks
Barry J. Cohen
Andrew Creighton
Donny Deutsch
David Einhorn
Karen Finerman
Lee Fixel
Nelle Fortenberry
Michael J. Fox
Willie Geist
David Glickman
David Golub
Mark L. Hart III
Skip Irving
Edward Kalikow
Amar Kuchinad
Edwin A. Levy
Marc S. Lipschultz
Ofer Nemirovsky
Andy O’Brien
Douglas I. Ostrover
Tracy Pollan
George E. Prescott
Ryan Reynolds
Frederick E. Rowe
Lily Safra
Carolyn Schenker
Curtis Schenker
Richard J. Schnall
Anne-Cecilie Engell Speyer
George Stephanopoulos
Bonnie Strauss
Rick Tigner
Fred G. Weiss
Sonny Whelen
Peter Zaffino
Lonnie and
Muhammad Ali
Steven A. Cohen
Albert B. Glickman
John Griffin
Andrew S. Grove
Katie Hood
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Morton M. Kondracke
Nora McAniff
Donna Shalala, PhD
Carl Bolch, Jr.
Eugenia Brin
Ken Cater
Christopher Chadbourne
Carey Christensen
Rich Clifford
Quentin Dastugue
Steve DeWitte
Anne Cohn Donnelly,
D.P.H.
David Eger, PhD
Bill Geist
Cindy Gray
Lynn Hagerbrant
David Iverson
Karen Jaffe, MD
Nicole Jarvis, MD
Soania Mathur, MD
Tony Mendez
Hilton Mirels, MD
Bret Parker
Eric Pitcher
William (Bill) Richter
Bryan Roberts
Richie Rothenberg
Margaret Sheehan
Dan Suwyn
W.N. (Bill) Wilkins
Alberto Ascherio, MD, Dr PH
Erwan Bezard, PhD
Anders Björklund, MD, PhD
Susan Bressman, MD
Robert E. Burke, MD
Angela Cenci-Nilsson, MD, PhD
Marie-Françoise Chesselet,
MD, PhD
P. Jeffrey Conn, PhD
Mark R. Cookson, PhD
David Eidelberg, MD
Matthew Farrer, PhD
Thomas Gasser, MD, PhD*
Charles (Chip) Gerfen, PhD
J. Timothy Greenamyre, MD, PhD
Franz F. Hefti, PhD
Etienne C. Hirsch, PhD*
Oleh Hornykiewicz, MD
Ole Isacson, MD (Dr Med Sci)
Joseph Jankovic, MD
Jennifer Johnston, PhD
Jeffrey H. Kordower, PhD
J. William Langston, MD
Andres Lozano, MD, PhD
Kenneth Marek, MD
Eldad Melamed, MD
Kalpana M. Merchant, PhD*
C. Warren Olanow, MD
Bernard M. Ravina, MD, MSCE
Peter H. Reinhart, PhD
Ian J. Reynolds, PhD
Irene Hegeman Richard, MD
Ira Shoulson, MD*
Tanya Simuni, MD*
Andrew Singleton, PhD
David G. Standaert, MD, PhD
Dennis A. Steindler, PhD
Matthew Stern, MD*
Caroline Tanner, MD, PhD, FAAN
Malú G. Tansey, PhD*
David M. Weiner, MD
Michael Zigmond, PhD
LEADERSHIP
COUNCIL
Richard Fitzgerald,
Chairman
Daisy Prince,
Vice Chairman
Omar Abdel-Hafez
Shakeeb Alam
Loren Berger
Felix Bhandari
Susan Bilotta
Dev Chodry
John S. Daly
Julia Kelly
Justin Lepone
Rafi Rosman
Scott Schefrin
Bill Shepherd
Ryan Squillante
*Executive Committee
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