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ABOUT US
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. To change your subscription preferences, email
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Founder
Michael J. Fox
Chief Executive
Officer
Boards and Councils
Board of Directors Founders’ Council Bill Geist
Jeff Keefer, Chairman Cindy Gray
Donny Deutsch 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 David Einhorn Leadership Council Richie Rothenberg
Margaret Sheehan
Woody Shackleton,
Vice Chairman
Holly S. Andersen, MD
Todd Sherer, PhD Glenn Batchelder
Co-Founder &
Executive Vice
Chairman Jon Brooks
Deborah W. Brooks
Deputy Chief
Executive Officer
Mark Booth
Barry J. Cohen
Andrew Creighton
Karen Finerman
Publications
Coordinator Tracy Pollan Emily Murphy Frederick E. Rowe Richard Fitzgerald,
Chairman
Daisy Prince, Vice Chairman
Omar Abdel-Hafez
Shakeeb Alam
Loren Berger
Felix Bhandari
Susan Bilotta
Zachary Brez
Dev Chodry
John S. Daly
Taryn Fixel
Michael Kaplan
Julia Kelly
Justin Lepone
Pamela Mirels
Rafi Rosman
Scott Schefrin
Bill Shepherd
Ryan Squillante
Lily Safra Patient Council
Carolyn Schenker David Iverson, Co-Chair
Soania Mathur, MD,
Co-Chair
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
Sohini Chowdhury
Lee Fixel
Nelle Fortenberry
Michael J. Fox
Sr. Vice President,
Communications &
Content Strategies Willie Geist
Holly Teichholtz Skip Irving
Editors
Allison Boiles
Kat McCarrick
newslettereditor@
michaeljfox.org
Writers
Laura Amann
Jen Miller
Designer
Simplissimus
David Glickman
David Golub
Mark L. Hart III
Edward Kalikow
Amar Kuchinad
Edwin A. Levy
Marc S. Lipschultz
Ofer Nemirovsky
Andy O’Brien
Douglas I. Ostrover
George E. Prescott
Ryan Reynolds
Curtis Schenker
Richard J. Schnall
Anne-Cecilie Engell Speyer
George Stephanopoulos
Bonnie Strauss
Rick Tigner
Fred G. Weiss
Sonny Whelen
Peter Zaffino
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Spring/Summer
The Fox Focus
2017
Lynn Hagerbrant
Karen Jaffe, MD
Nicole Jarvis, MD
Tony Mendez
Hilton Mirels, MD
Bret Parker
Eric Pitcher
Bryan Roberts
Israel Robledo
Dan Suwyn
W.N. (Bill) Wilkins
Executive Scientific
Advisory Board
Bastiaan Bloem, MD, PhD
Ted Dawson, MD, PhD
John Dunlop, PhD
Steven Finkbeiner, MD, PhD
Thomas Gasser, MD, PhD
Kalpana M. Merchant, PhD
Michael Schwarschild, MD, PhD
Tanya Simuni, MD
Matthew Stern, MD
Malú Tansey, PhD
Public Policy Council
Melissa Blechman
David Charles, MD
Phil Cox
Quentin Dastugue
Tom Davidson
Douglas L. DuMond
Col. Karl E. Friedl, PhD, Ret.
David Higgins, PhD
Julius W. Hobson Jr.
Matt Keswick
Rod Larson
Jessica Lawrence-Vaca
Daniel Lewis, JD
Monnie Lindsay, JD
Jim McNasby, JD
Jeff Strunk
Anne J. Udall, PhD