Board Of Trustees
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Margaret Stern -
Chair and CEO of the Foundation, first became interested
in neurological diseases of the brain over 25 years ago,
originally through Huntington’s disease, when she
learned of a close friend’s diagnosis, then Alzheimer’s,
for which she is also on the board of the Fisher Center
for Alzheimer’s Disease Research Foundation, a sister
organization of the Michael Stern Parkinson’s Research
Foundation.
In 1990 she founded Margaret Stern
Communications, Inc. to provide specialized
communications and marketing programs tailored to North
American target audiences. Prior to founding her own
company, she was vice president, director of external
affairs/public relations for the Buckingham Wile,
Seagram Wine, Wine Spectrum (Coca-Cola) and Schieffelin
Companies as well as brand manager at Schieffelin and
vice president director of marketing at Frederick
Wildman & Sons (Hiram Walker-Allied Vintners). She is
fluent in English, Italian and French. |
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Dr. Paul Greengard
- Vice Chair of the Foundation 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. Dr.
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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Mary Ann
Sallas – Secretary, is Chief Operating Officer of the Foundation. She is on the board of trustees of The Friends of Fisher House, West Palm Beach, Florida. She is also a trustee of the foundation SoS, Support Our Soldiers, Inc., which holds an annual Radio-thon on Veterans Day, November 11th, to raise money for soldier and veterans support organizations. 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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Michael Stern
Jr. – Trustee, is an Attorney at Law and member
of the New York State Bar. After a long career in
newspaper publishing, with Newhouse Newspapers
(publishers of New Orleans 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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Herman I.
Abromowitz – Trustee, earned his medical degree
from The Ohio State University College of Medicine in
1958 and has practiced as a physician for over 45 years.
He has been involved in multiple levels of leadership at
many county, state and national medical organizations.
Currently, Dr. Abromowitz holds academic appointments as
a clinical professor at Wright State University’s
Boonshoft School of Medicine (Dayton, OH) in two
departments (Family Practice and Community Health). |
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William B. Dunham – Trustee,
is Chairman of the
Board of The Webster Apartments. Located in
Manhattan, Webster is a not-for-profit 350-unit
residence for working women and interns from
around the world. Dunham is also owner and
manager of his own real estate interests in New
York City, as well as heading a separate company
that manages real estate for foreign investors.
Earlier, Dunham was a consultant with Axel
Johnson & Co., a Swedish-owned U.S. industrial
complex, where he also held a number of human
resources and administrative positions. Prior
to that, he was vice president of Administration
at the Wall Street firm G.H.Walker Laird Inc.,
was employed at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
and with the American Overseas Petroleum Co.,
which included a two-year assignment in Libya.
Mr. Dunham received his B.A. in Economics from
Harvard College and lives in New York City with
his wife Sonya.. |
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William Pope – Trustee, 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 & Defense 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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Saralie
Slonsky – Trustee, has been a strategic
communications counselor for 25 years, assisting
healthcare providers, pharmaceutical companies, and
medical equipment manufacturers address a broad spectrum
of corporate/marketing goals. As executive vice
president of two major public relations agencies, she
led the development of pioneering programs to influence
stakeholders. She currently serves on the boards of the
National Women’s Health Resource Center and the
pharmaceutical industry trade publication Communiqué,
and is an adjunct professor at New York University.
Earlier, she was an industry liaison to the American
Medical Association (AMA), and a consultant to the Lupus
and American Kidney Foundations and Medic Alert. |
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Honorary Trustees |
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Princess
Grazia Borghese – Trustee, 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 - Trustee, is 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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Hon. Carolyn
Maloney - Trustee, 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; founding member and co-chair of the
Bicameral Congressional Caucus on Parkinson’s Disease,
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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