Board

Current Board of Directors

CHAIR
Robin Elliott
Executive Director
Parkinson’s Disease Foundation

PAST CHAIR
Joseph T. Coyle, M.D.
Eden S. Draper Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Harvard Medical School
(2008-2011)

TREASURER
Amy Comstock Rick, J.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Parkinson's Action Network

SECRETARY
Janet Hieshetter
Executive Director
Dystonia Medical Research Foundation

Karen L. Ball
President & CEO
The Sturge-Weber Foundation

Peter H. Bell
Executive Vice President
Autism Speaks

Wade H. Berrettini, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Center for Neurobiology & Behavior
University of Pennsylvania

Mahlon R. DeLong, M.D.
W.P. Timmie Professor of Neurology
Emory University
Robert C. Griggs, M.D.
Professor of Neurology, Medicine, Pediatrics, & Laboratory Medicine
University of Rochester

Michael Fitzpatrick, MSW
Executive Director
National Alliance on Mental Illness

Frances Jensen, M.D.
Professor of Neuorology
Children’s Hospital

William Mobley, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Neurosciences
University of California, San Diego

Catherine Rydell
Executive Director /CEO
American Academy of Neurology

Jeffrey Samuels, MD
Medical Director, Inpatient Rehabilitation
North Broward Medical Center

Louise Vetter
Chief Executive Officer
Huntington's Disease Society of America

CORPORATE BOARD MEMBERS

Michelle A Collins, PhD
Director, Scientific Communications
Neuroscience Development
Abbott Laboratories

Rachel A. Hollingshead, MSN, RN, CPNP
Neurosciences and Ophthalmology
Merck & Co Inc.

Jeffrey S. Nye, MD, PhD
Vice President and Head, External Innovation for Neuroscience
Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical R&D, LLC.

Michele M. Oshman
Director, Advocacy & Professional Relations
Eli Lilly & Company: Bio-Medicines
Nancy S. Wexler, Ph.D.
Higgins Professor of Neuropsychology
Columbia University medical Center