Board Of Trustees
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Michael Stern - Michael Stern is Chairman and CEO of the Michael Stern Parkinson’s Research Foundation; and President and CEO of the Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Research Foundation. He is also a trustee of the American Medical Association Foundation, and on the board of the NIH’s PubMed. He is Vice Chairman of the Fisher House Foundation, which builds free lodging for hospitalized service men and women and veterans and their families around the world. He is also editor and publisher of the Fisher House Magazine. He has been Vice Chairman of the Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum since its inception in 1979. The Intrepid is a WWII aircraft carrier that served in the Pacific theater and is now a museum, docked at 46th Street in Manhattan. As a journalist, philanthropist and respected national and community leader, Mr. Stern brings a valuable perspective to all of the foundation boards on which he serves.
Mr. Stern was born in August of 1910. He graduated from Syracuse University, with a degree in Journalism. He has had an impressive career as a war and foreign correspondent, best selling author and, as a movie producer, he produced five films. “The Memphis Belle” and “Nuts – The Story of Bastogne” were selected in the anthology of the best stories of WWII. His books include “Into the Jaws of Death,” “Flight from Terror,” “No Innocence Abroad,” and the acclaimed autobiography “An American in Rome.” Mr. Stern has been knighted by the Italian government as a Cavaliere Ufficiale and is a recipient of the Intrepid Salute Award. |
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Dr. Paul Greengard - VP of the Foundation. He is the Vincent Astor Professor of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience at The Rockefeller University and Director of The Stern Center for Parkinson’s Research and the Fisher Center. Greengard has authored over 1000 scientific publications. He has membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and is a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He has won more than forty prestigious awards, including the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research. In 2000, Dr. Greengard was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries of the molecular mechanisms of nerve cell communication. |
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Margaret Stern - Co-Chairman &
CEO has been a director and senior vice president of public
relations, communications and marketing at major U.S.
corporations such as the Coca-Cola Company and Italian and
French government entities. Since 1990, she has been
president of Margaret Stern Communications, Inc. |
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Dr. Alvin Freiman - VP of the Foundation. Now retired, he is a cardiologist, and was an attending physician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and a professor of Clinical Medicine at Cornell University. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Physicians and the American Heart Association. |
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Michael Stern Jr. – VP of the Foundation. He is an Attorney at Law and member of the New York Bar. After a long career in newspaper publishing, with Newhouse Newspapers (publishers of New Orlean’s Times Picayune, the Cleveland Plain Dealer; Newark’s Star Ledger; Portland ’s Oregonian and many others), he retired in 2005 He is a graduate of Syracuse University and received his law degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo. |
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Princess Grazia Borghese – is married to Pierfrancesco Borghese, a leading member of the noble Borghese family. She designs jewelry for a high profile jewelry shop in Rome. She is very active in charitable affairs, including the religious foundation of Nostra Signora del Buon Consiglio for the construction of hospitals for the poor. |
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Hon. Betsy Gotbaum - is the Public Advocate of New York City. Elected first in 2001 and then again in 2005, she has been a longtime civic leader, and an advisor to three mayors. She is a trained teacher, has been the commissioner of the Dept. of Parks & Recreation and president of the New York Historical Society. In the 1980s she served as the Executive Director of the New York Police Foundation. She received a B.A. from George Washington University, and a Master’s from Columbia University’s Teacher’s College. |
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Harold Gray – has been the personal legal counsel to Willis H. du Pont for 42 years. He has served as a Special Master for the Southern District Court of Florida, is admitted to the Court of Military Appeals and is a member of the Federal and Florida Bars. He is a graduate of Valparaiso University in Indiana, and served in the Army Air Corps during WWII. |
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Kent Karosen - is the President of Karosen Strategic Partners LLC, a strategic consulting firm. In addition, he serves in the office of the chairman of Cantor Fitzgerald L.P., as a managing director. He is also a board member of the Intrepid Museum Foundation serving on its executive committee. Originally from Kansas City, he is a graduate of Kenyon College. |
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Hon. Carolyn Maloney - has served the City of New York since 1982; for ten years on the New York City Council, and as of 1993, in the U.S. House of Representatives for New York’s 14th district, as the first woman to ever represent that district. She is chair of the Committee on Financial Services’ Financial Institutions Subcommittee; vice-chair of the Joint Economic Committee; and is a senior member of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Some of Rep. Maloney's top priorities include campaign finance and government reform and support of women and families. |
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William Pope – served with the Foreign Service of the State Dept. for 33 years, till 2005; with tours in Rome, The Hague, Pretoria, Paris, Belgrade, Zagreb and Botswana and postings in Washington, most recently as the Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism. From
2005-2006, he was the V.P. for Homeland Security for L-3 MPRI, a leading professional services company. In 2006, he returned to the State Department as the Senior Advisor for Fellows. He is a Policy Fellow at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and is on the Board of the Fisher House Foundation. He also is on the Advisory Board of the Security & Defence Agenda, a Brussels-based forum on defense and security issues. Prior to the Foreign Service, he served in the U.S. Army. |
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Lila Prounis – was the first woman elected to the all-male Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Council and is its U.N. representative. From 1991-2000, she was the President of the Women’s National Republican Club and is its President Emeritus. Radio producer and broadcaster for Voice of America in the 1960’s to near East, Middle East, South Asia and Africa. |
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Dr. Paul Russo - is Attending Surgeon and Professor of Urology at the Weill School of Medicine of Cornell University in NYC. He joined the faculty of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 1988, where he had completed a four year research and clinical fellowship in urological oncology. He trained in general surgery and urological surgery at Barnes Hospital Washington University Medical Center in St. Louis, Missouri. His main academic interest is kidney tumors and he leads a multi-disciplinary renal cancer research team at MSKCC. He is a graduate of Colgate University and received his M.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. |
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Richard Salem - is the Chairman of Enable America, our nation’s first not-for-profit organization committed to the reduction of unemployment among persons with disabilities. He is the C.E.O. of Clean Water International, which converts wastewater and solids into renewable resources, and Thermal Matrix International, which integrates sensors into “suicide bomber detector” networks. He has a law practice, Salem Law Group, with offices in Florida, Washington, DC, and New York City. A graduate of Duke Law School, he is a member of its Board of Visitors, and is a Trustees of Belmont Abbey College. He recently completed terms on a National Institutes of Health Advisory Council, a Federal Judiciary Nominating Commission, and currently serves on the Boards of St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, the National Organization on Disabilities. |
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Mary Ann Sallas – is Chief Administrative Officer of the Michael Stern Parkinson’s Research Foundation. She is the Managing Editor of Fisher House Magazine and on the board of trustees for the Fisher House in West Palm Beach, Florida. She is on the steering committee of the 15th Street Friends’ Homeless Shelter. She works with the Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Research Foundation in various administrative and fundraising activities. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. |
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Richard Shortway - had a long career in publishing at Conde Nast Publications. He went on to become publisher of Vogue magazine and eventually, president in charge of Vogue and Vanity Fair magazines. He served as a 1st Lieutenant with the US Air Force in WWII and flew several missions over Germany. |
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Dr. Primo Valenti - is one of Italy’s leading urologists, and is currently the Director of the Department of Urology at Fatebene Fratelli Hospital, the Vatican hospital in Rome. |
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