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Board of Directors

Officers

Melanie Macleod
Chair

Anoushé Husain
Vice Chair

John Zonarich, Esq.
Secretary

Rob Rubin
Treasurer

Directors

Ward Fitzgerald ExCorde Capital CEO Commercial Realestate Conshocken PA Portrait Corporate

Edward (Ward) Fitzgerald III

Woodrow Gandy, MD

Francie Fitzgerald

Camille Samuels

Colin O’Donnell

Medical and Scientific Board

Glenda Sobey, MB, ChB, BSc Med (Hons, FC Derm
Chair
Geneticist (UK)

Clair Francomano, MD
Geneticist (USA)

Fransiska Malfait, MD, PhD
Vice Chair
Geneticist/Rheumatologist
(Belgium)

Peter Byers, MD
Geneticist (USA)

Raymond Dalgleish, PhD
Geneticist (UK)

Alan Hakim, MA, FRCP
Rheumatologist (UK)

Hanna Kaz Kaz, BA, MSc, MB
Rheumatologist (UK)

Louise Tofts, MB BS, DCH, MRCPCH, MSpMed, FAFRM, FRACP
Paediatric Rehabilitation Specialist (Australia)

Photo: Della Perrone / University of Illinois Carle Illinois College of Medicine

Christina Laukaitis, MD, PhD
Internal Medicine and Medical Genetics (USA)

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