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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
Boards and Councils
Board of Directors Founders’ Council Jimmy Choi
Jeff Keefer, Chairman Lonnie and Muhammad Ali Carey Christensen
Chief Executive
Officer Skip Irving,
Vice Chairman Steven A. Cohen Todd Sherer, PhD Glenn Batchelder
Holly S. Andersen, MD
Co-Founder &
Executive Vice
Chairman Mark Booth
Deborah W. Brooks John S. Daly
Deputy Chief
Executive Officer
Sohini Chowdhury
Sr. Vice President,
Communications &
Content Strategies
Holly Teichholtz
Vice President,
Communications
Deborah Burzynski
Creative Director
Gwen Schroeder
Associate Director,
Development
Communications
Albert B. Glickman
John Griffin
Andrew S. Grove
Katie Hood
Jon Brooks
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Barry J. Cohen
Morton M. Kondracke
Andrew Creighton
Edwin A. Levy
Nora McAniff
Donny Deutsch
Donna Shalala, PhD
David Einhorn
Leadership Council
Karen Finerman
Richard Fitzgerald,
Chairman
Lee Fixel
Nelle Fortenberry
Omar Abdel-Hafez
Akbar Gbajabiamila
Shakeeb Alam
Willie Geist
Loren Berger
David Glickman
Felix Bhandari
David Golub
Susan Bilotta
Mark L. Hart III
Zachary Brez
Anne M. Holloway
Alexandra Cherubini
Edward Kalikow
Dev Chodry
Amar Kuchinad
Taryn Fixel
Marc S. Lipschultz
Michael Kaplan
Ofer Nemirovsky
Julia Kelly
Andy O’Brien
Justin Lepone
Douglas I. Ostrover
Pamela Mirels
Tracy Pollan
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
Karen Jaffe, MD
Nicole Jarvis, MD
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
Dan Morris Tatiana Foroud, PhD
Daisy Prince Warren Hirst, PhD
Rafi Rosman Carole Ho, MD
Scott Schefrin Karl Kieburtz, MD
Carolyn Schenker Bill Shepherd Jeffrey Kordower, PhD
Curtis Schenker Ryan Squillante Ken Marek, MD
Richard J. Schnall Meredith Tutterow Connie Marras, MD, PhD
Woody Shackleton Patient Council Kalpana Merchant, PhD
Anne-Cecilie Engell Speyer D. James Surmeier, PhD
George Stephanopoulos Soania Mathur, MD,
Co-Chair Bonnie Strauss Bret Parker, Co-Chair Writer Rick Tigner Matt Ackerman Carol Blymire Fred G. Weiss Carl Bolch, Jr. Sonny Whelen Eugenia Brin Peter Zaffino Ken Cater
Jaclyn Wing,
Newsletter Editor
Senior Publications
Coordinator
Emily Murphy
Design
Simplissimus
Ryan Reynolds
Hartley T. Richardson
Frederick E. Rowe
Lily Safra
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Spring/Summer
The Fox Focus
2019
Andrew West, PhD