• Board of Directors
• Associates Board
• Medical Advisory Board



Board of Directors

President
Robert Fishman
Producer/Director, CBS Sports
New York, NY

Vice President
Elaine Textor
Philanthropist
Locust Valley, NY

Treasurer
Robert A. Mitchell, Esq.
Attorney at Law
New York, NY

Secretary
Michael Kasper
Executive Director
JP Morgan Chase, New York, NY

Honorary Trustee
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
President, International Foundation for
Socio-Economic and Political Studies
President, Green Cross International

Jonathan Alter
Senior Editor/Columnist, Newsweek
New York, NY

Evan Handler
Actor/Author
Los Angeles, CA

Leigh Hampton
Producer
New York, NY

Jane Holzer
Philanthropist
New York, NY

Christina Merrill
Founder and Executive Director,
The Bone Marrow Foundation
New York, NY

Harry J. Pearce
Chairman, Nortel
Troy, MI

Leslie Sacks
Philanthropist
Jupiter, FL



Associates Board

Tim & Donna Andrea
Matti & Jennifer Anttila
Meg Braff
Don Brown
Lea Butler
Deirdre Cossman
Kathleen Crowley
Sharon Crowley
Kelly DeGennero
Lisa Eastman
Anna Evans
Vasilianna Fakiris
Tara & Jeff Fishman
Claire Blaydon Florence

Stacy Fornell
Kate Friedman
Leila & Frank Harrington
Lesley Koeppel
Brad & Tracy Matthews
Christina & Marshall May
Marie Napoli
Kate O’ Neil
Cathy Paterson
Cheryl & Andrew Robin
Donna Rossi
Hollis F. Russell
Mara Shore



Medical Advisory Board

Chair
Joseph Antin, MD

Chief, Adult Oncology Stem Cell
Transplantation Program
Dana Farber Cancer Institute


Brian L. Abbott, MD

Medical Director, Hematology Program
Big Sky Oncology at
Sletten Cancer Institute

Linda Abramovitz, RN, MSN
Pediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist
University of California, San Francisco
Medical Center

Tauseef Ahmed, MD
Director, Bone Marrow
Transplantation Program
Westchester Medical Center

Kristy Applegate, BBA
Blood and Marrow Transplant Coordinator
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston

Scott I. Bearman, MD
Clinical Director,
Bone Marrow Transplantation Program
Rocky Mountain Cancer Center

Jean Blaylock, RN, BA
Nurse Coordinator
City of Hope National Medical Center

Mark W. Brunvand, MD
Rocky Mountain Blood and Marrow
Transplant Program

Mitchell S. Cairo, MD
Director, Blood and Marrow
Transplantation Program
Children’s Hospital, Columbia University

Richard E. Champlin, MD
Chairman, Department of
Blood and Marrow Transplantation
MD Anderson Cancer Center

Nelson J. Chao, MD, MBA
Professor of Medicine and Immunology
Chief, Division of Cellular Therapy/BMT,
Duke University

Peter Coccia, MD
Vice-Chairperson, Department
of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
University of Nebraska Medical Center

Morton Cowan, MD
Medical Director, Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Program
University of California,
San Francisco Medical Center

Pamela Crilley, DO
Director, Bone Marrow
Transplantation Program
Hahnemann University Hospital

Nicholas C. D’Cunha
Medical Director,
Bone Marrow Transplant Program
Texas Tech University HSC

John DiPersio, MD
Program Director,
Division of Stem Cell Transplantation
Barnes-Jewish Hospital
at Washington University

John R. Edwards, MD
Director, Bone Marrow
Transplantation Program
Florida Hospital Cancer Institute

James L.M. Ferrara, MD
Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine
Doris Duke Distinguished Clinical Scientist
Director, Blood and Marrow
Transplantation Program
University of Michigan
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Vicki L. Fisher, RN, MSN, CPNP
Program Manager – Pediatric BMT Program
Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital

Steven Fruchtman, MD
Medical Director, Hematology
Novartis Pharmaceuticals

Henry Fung, MD
Director BMT Center Section of Hematology and Stem Cell Transplantation
Rush-Presbyterian/St.LukesMedical Center

Steven C. Goldstein, MD
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine,
Bone Marrow Transplantation Program
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer & Research Institution

Luis Isola, MD
Medical Director,
Bone Marrow Transplantation Program
Mount Sinai Hospital

Roy B. Jones, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
University of Texas,
MD Anderson Cancer Center

Neena Kapoor, MD
Clinical Director, Bone Marrow
Transplantation Program
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Gary Kleiner, MD
Co-Director of HSCT
Pediatric Immunology
University of Miami

Tidi Lambert, RN, MN, OCN

Bone Marrow Transplant Coordinator
University of California, Los Angeles

Michael Lill, MD
Director, Blood and Marrow
Transplantation Program
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Jeffrey M. Lipton, MD, PhD
Chief, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and
Stem Cell Transplantation
Schneider Children's Hospital

David Maloney, MD, PhD
Associate Member,
Clinical Research Division,
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Division of Oncology,
University of Washington

Sam Mazj, MD
Hematology/Oncology – BMT Division
North Shore University Hospital

Kenneth R. Meehan, MD
Director, Bone Marrow
Transplantation Program
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Stephen D. Nimer, MD
Head, Division of Hematologic Oncology
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Richard J. O’Reilly, MD
Chief, Bone Marrow Transplantation Service
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Andrew L. Pecora, MD, FACP
Cancer Center Director
Hackensack University Medical Center

Virginia Ross, RN
Nurse Coordinator
Mount Sinai Hospital

Scott Rowley, MD
Chief, Adult Blood and Marrow
Transplant Program
Hackensack Medical Center

Peggy A. Russell, RN, CHTC
Allogeneic Nurse Coordinator
Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center

Michael W. Schuster, MD
Director, Bone Marrow & Hematopoietic
Stem Cell Transplantation Program
New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center

Eileen Scigliano, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
Mount Sinai Hospital

Stuart Seropian, MD
Assistant Professor,
Section of Medical Oncology
Yale University School of Medicine

Franklin Smith, III, MD
Director, Hematology/Oncology
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital

Ranier Storb, MD
Program Head - Clinical Research
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Sieboney Stowe, RN
Nurse Coordinator
UCD Health System

Mary Territo, MD
Director, Bone Marrow
Transplantation Program
UCLA Center for the Health Sciences

Kathryn Tierney, RN, MSN
Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist,
Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
Stanford University Medical Center

Koen van Besien, MD
Medical Director
University of Chicago
Stem Cell Transplant Program

Marcel R.M. van den Brink, MD, PhD
Chief, Allogeneic Bone Marrow
Transplantation Service
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

William P. Vaughan, MD, MBA
Director, UAB Bone Marrow
Transplantation Program
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Georgia B. Vogelsang, MD
Professor of Oncology
Johns Hopkins Oncology Center

James C. Wade, MD, MPH
Chief, Neoplastic Diseases
and Related Disorders
Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital

John R. Wingard, MD
Director, Blood and Marrow
Transplantation Program
Florida Shands Cancer Center