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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
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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
Sr. Vice President,
Communications &
Content Strategies
Holly Teichholtz
Director,
Communications
Deborah Burzynski
Editor
Cheryl Blowers
newslettereditor@
michaeljfox.org
Senior Publications
Coordinator
Emily Murphy
Writers
Laura Amann
Margaret Crane
Design
Simplissimus
Boards and Councils
Board of Directors Founders’ Council
Jeff Keefer, Chairman
Skip Irving,
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
Michael J. Fox
Akbar Gbajabiamila
Willie Geist
David Glickman
David Golub
Mark L. Hart III
Anne M. Holloway
Edward Kalikow
Amar Kuchinad
Marc S. Lipschultz
Ofer Nemirovsky
Andy O’Brien
Douglas I. Ostrover
Tracy Pollan
Ryan Reynolds
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 Lonnie and Muhammad Ali
Steven A. Cohen
Albert B. Glickman
John Griffin
Andrew S. Grove
Katie Hood
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Morton M. Kondracke
Edwin A. Levy
Nora McAniff
Donna Shalala, PhD
Leadership Council
Richard Fitzgerald,
Chairman
Daisy Prince, Vice Chairman
Omar Abdel-Hafez
Shakeeb Alam
Loren Berger
Felix Bhandari
Susan Bilotta
Zachary Brez
Dev Chodry
Taryn Fixel
Michael Kaplan
Julia Kelly
Justin Lepone
Pamela Mirels
Dan Morris
Rafi Rosman
Scott Schefrin
Bill Shepherd
Ryan Squillante
Meredith Tutterow
Patient Council
Soania Mathur, MD,
Co-Chair
Bret Parker, Co-Chair
Carl Bolch, Jr.
Eugenia Brin
Ken Cater
Christopher Chadbourne
Jimmy Choi
Carey Christensen
Michael R. “Rich” Clifford
Quentin Dastugue
Steve DeWitte
Anne Cohn Donnelly, D.P.H.
David Eger, PhD
Hadley Ferguson
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Spring/Summer
The Fox Focus
2018
Michael S. Fitts
Bill Geist
Cynthia Gray
Lynn Hagerbrant
David Iverson
Karen Jaffe, MD
Nicole Jarvis, MD
Tony Mendez
Hilton Mirels, MD
Eric Pitcher
Claudia Revilla
Bryan Roberts
Israel Robledo
Richie Rothenberg
Margaret Sheehan
Dan Suwyn
W.N. (Bill) Wilkins
Executive Scientific
Advisory Board
Bastiaan Bloem, MD, PhD
Alice Chen-Plotkin, MD
Ted Dawson, MD, PhD
John Dunlop, PhD
Steven Finkbeiner, MD, PhD
Tatiana Foroud, PhD
Warren Hirst, PhD
Karl Kieburtz, MD, MPH
Ken Marek, MD
Connie Marras, MD PhD
Kalpana M. Merchant, PhD
Michael Schwarschild, MD, 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