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Chair
Gwen Traficant
Board member, Central Union Mission; Caregiver
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Vice Chair
Hermionne Johnson, MSN, RN
Caregiver; CEO, Ayana’s Hope Cells; Clinical Nurse Educator
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Ijeoma Azubuko, MS
The Ruby Ball Foundation
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John R Feore III, JD
Senior Director, Jeffrey J. Kimbell & Associates; Director, Health Policy and Advocacy, Institute for Gene Therapies
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Wes Fisher
Public Policy Professional
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Michael Friedlander, PhD
Vice President for Health Sciences and Technology, Virginia Tech; Executive Director, Fralin Biomedical
Research Institute at VTC; Senior Dean for Research, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Professor
of Biological Sciences and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine
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Stephen Green, MD, FIDSA
Hospitalist; Infectious Diseases Society of America, Fellow; American College of Physicians, Fellow Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, Fellow; Medical staff, Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center
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Gregory Josephs, MA
Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America, Toastmasters International
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Peter Kasson, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia
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Tiffany Kimbrough, MD, FAAP
Medical Director, Mother-Infant Unit; Assistant Professor, General Pediatrics; Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU
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Sharon Kopis, Ed.D. MS, RN, FNP- C
CNE Professor Nursing, Liberty Nursing
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Leslie Mehta
Chief of Staff and Counsel to the CEO at RMTA; Attorney; Rare Disease Advocate; International Rett Syndrome Foundation Board Member
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Angela Olmsted, PharmD
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Elissa Pierson
Caregiver
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Stephen Rich, PhD
Director, Center for Public Health Genomics; Harrison Professor of Public Health Services, University of Virginia
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Elisabeth Scott
Mother and Caregiver
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John Michos, MD, FCCP
Regional Vice President & Sr. Clinical Officer, Commercial Clinical Operations, Elevance Health
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ex officio member
Marcus C. Allen, MPH
Program Director, Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs Program
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ex officio member
Samantha Hollins, PhD
Assistant Superintendent,
Department of Special
Education and Student Services,
Virginia Department of Education
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ex officio member
Lisa Price Stevens, MD, MBA, MPH, FACP
Chief Medical Officer, Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS)
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Vacant
Geneticist licensed and currently practicing in Virginia