BOARD+STAFF
BOARD+STAFF

AFAR Board of Directors

Irving S. Wright, MD*
Founder

Fred D. Thompson
Founding Chair

William J. Lipton, JD, LLM, CPA
Chair, Board of Directors

Executive Committee

Roger J. McCarter, PhD
President

Diane A. Nixon
Vice Chair

George M. Martin, MD
Scientific Director

Richard W. Besdine, MD
Medical Officer

Steven N. Austad, PhD
Vice President

Ann M. Connolly, MBA
Treasurer

Joan L. Quinn, RN, MSN, FAAN
Secretary

Joan Murtagh Frankel, JD
John B. Rhodes, MBA
Richard L. Sprott, PhD
Terrie T. Wetle, PhD
Joyce M. Yaeger

Stephanie Lederman, EdM
Executive Director

Honorary and Emeriti Directors
George E. Doty, Honorary Chair
Dorothy Dillon Eweson*, Honorary Chair
Hadley C. Ford, ScB, MBA, Chair, Emeritus
Diana Jacobs Kalman, Chair, Emeritus
Senator John H. Glenn, Honorary Director

Directors

Nir Barzilai, MD
Charles Beever, MBA
Marie A. Bernard, MD, Federal Liaison - ex-officio
Robert H. Binstock, PhD
Harvey J. Cohen, MD
Mark R. Collins
Gaetano Crepaldi, MD
Helen K. Edelberg, MD, MPH
Jay M. Edelberg, MD, PhD
Howard J. Federoff, MD, PhD
Alexandra L. Gatje
Mikhail Y. Gurfinkel, JD
Mark S. Lachs, MD, MPH
Kevin J. Lee, PhD
Stefania Maggi, MD, MPH, PhD
Rick A. Martinez, MD
Clarence Pearson, MPH
Corinne H. Rieder, EdD
John T. Watters, MB, ChB
Gary L. Zwerling, MBA

*deceased

Staff

Stephanie Lederman
Executive Director

Ashby Andrews
Communications and Development Officer

Aimee Cegelka
Program Associate

Catherine Cullar
Administrative Manager

Gwen Cullen
Program Associate, Communications and Development

Hattie Herman
Program Officer

Nancy O'Leary
Director, Development

Jacalyn Schwartz
Director, Finance

Odette van der Willik
Director, Grant Programs





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