Familial Dysautonomia: the leader in FD treatment and research
Building healthy lives
and happy futures.
Our Leadership
Staff:
Lanie Etkind -- Executive Director
Albulena Prelvukaj -- Manager of Fundraising and Communications
aprelvukaj@famdys.org
Julia Winer -- Development Operations Associate
Officers & Directors+
President
Faye Ginsburg*
Vice Presidents
Ed Baranoff ***
Jeffrey Goldberger **
Steven Kietz **
Laurent Landau *
Lisa Newman *
Paul Wexler**
Secretary
Steven S. Fass *
Treasurer
Allan Cohen ***
Directors
Gerald Adler *
Daniel Landau***
Gregg Meyers *
Rebecca Sernovitz
Jennifer Sonenshein **
Brian E. Stillman***
Howard Weiser ***
Scientific Advisory Board
Co-Chairs
Adrian Gilbert, PhD
Neuroderm
Frances Lefcort, PhD
Montana State University
Members
Felicia Axelrod, MD
New York University
Bat el Bar Aluma, MD, PhD
Sheba Medical Center, Israel
Alejandra Gonzalez-Duarte, MD, PhD
Dysautonomia Center at NYU Langone Health
Alex Gileles-Hillel, MD
Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center
Horacio Kaufmann, MD
New York University School of Medicine
Adrian Krainer, PhD
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Ralph Laufer, PhD
Lysogene, France
Adam Sachs, MSE
AstraZeneca
Eric Schon, PhD
Columbia University
Susan Slaugenhaupt, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Gail E. Sonenshein, PhD
Tufts University School of Medicine
Dysautonomia Foundation Chapters
Montreal
Israel
United Kingdom
+All board members are independent voting members.
*Term expires 2022
**Term expires 2023
***Term expires 2021
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