Board of Directors & Medical Research Advisory Board

Board of Directors

• President
  DeNiece Roach*
  Minneapolis, MN
• Vice-President
  Charlene Danielson*
  Minnetonka, MN
• Secretarv/Treasurer
  Larry Loomis*
  West St. Paul, MN
• Laura Ranum, PhD
  Minneapolis, MN
• Camille Daglio
  Hattiesburg, MS
• Lawrence Schut, MD
  Maple Lake, MN
• John Day, MD, PhD
  Minneapolis, MN
• Harry T Orr Ph.D.
  Minneapolis, MN

• Dave Zilles
  Atlanta, GA
• Harold Crawford
  Terry, MS
• Julie Schuur
  Luverne, MN
• Denise Drake-Asselin
  Kenner, LA
• Robin Smothers
  Golden Valley, MN
• Arnie Gruetzmacher*
  Plymouth, MN
• Millard McWhorter, III, MD
  Andalusia, AL
• Earl McLaughlin
  EI Cajon, CA

Key Personnel

• Michael Parent
  Executive Director

• Becky Kowalkowski
  Patient Services Director

* Executive Committee Members

Medical Research Advisory Board

• Research Director
  Harry T. Orr, PhD
  Tulloch Professor of Genetics
  Dept. of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
  Director, Institute of Human Genetics
  University of Minnesota
  Mayo Mail Code 206
  Minneapolis, MN 55455
• Medical Director
  Lawrence Schut, MD
  11091 County Road 7, NW
  Maple Lake, MN 55358
  Center Care
  St. Cloud, MN
• Research Medical Liaison
  John Day, MD, PhD
  Professor
  Dept. of Neurology – MMC 295
  420 Delaware St.
  Mpls, MN 55455
• Associate Director
  Henry Paulson, MD, PhD
  University of Michigan Medical Center
  Professor of Neurology
  4001 Biomedical Science Research Building
  109 Zina Pitcher Place
  Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2200
  Phone: (734) 615-5638
  Email: henryp@umich.edu
• Tetsuo Ashizawa, MD
  Professor and Chairman
  Dept. of Neurology
  University of Texas
  301 University Blvd.
  Galveston, TX 77555-0539
• Christopher Gomez, MD, PhD
  Professor and Chair
  Dept. of Neurology
  University of Chicago
  5841 S. Maryland
  Chicago, IL 60637
• Daniel Geschwind, MD, PhD
  Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics
  Professor of Neurology & Psychiatry
  UCLA School of Medicine
  710 Westwood Plaza
  Los Angeles, CA 90095-1769
• Sid Gilman, MD FRCP
  William J. Herdman Distinguished University Professor of Neurology Director
  Michigan Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
  Dept. of Neurology
  University of Michigan
  300 N. Ingalls St. 3D15
  Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5489
• William G Johnson, MD
  Professor of Neurology
  UMDNJ- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  UBHC Room D-431
  671 Hoes Lane
  Picataway, NJ 08854
• Bronya Keats, PhD
  Dept. of Genetics
  Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
  533 Bolivar St.
  New Orleans, LA 70112-1393
• Arnulf H Koeppen, MD
  Professor of Neurology and Pathology
  Albany Medical College
  Chief, Neurology Service (127)
  VA Medical Center
  113 Holland Ave.
  Albany, NY 12208
• Joanna Jen, MD, PhD
  Associate Professor
  Dept. of Neurology
  UCLA School of Medicine
  710 Westwood Plaza
  Los Angeles, CA 90095-1469
• David Lynch, MD
  Dept. of Neurology
  Univ. of Pennsylvania
  2nd floor-Ravden Bldg.
  3400 Spruce St.
  Philadelphia, PA 19104

• Jau-Shin Lou, MD, PhD
  Associate Professor
  3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd.
  Portland, OR 97201-3098
• Massimo Pandolfo, MD
  Chef de Service
  Service de Neurologie
  Universite Libre de Bruxelles-Hopital Erasme
  Route de Lennik 808
  B-1070 Bruxelles
  Belgium
• Martha Nance, MD
  Struthers Parkinson’s Center
  6701 Country Club Drive
  Golden Valley, MN 55427
• Susan Perlman, MD
  UCLA Neurological Services
  300 Medical Plaza, Suite B200
  Los Angeles, CA 90025
• Louis J Ptacek, MD
  Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  University of California San Francisco
  Dept. of Neurology Box 2922
  Rock Hall, RM 548F
  1550 4th St.
• Stefan Pulst, MD
  Carmen & Louis Warschaw
  Chair in Neurology
  Professor of Medicine and Neurobiology
  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
  8631 West 3rd Street, Suite 215
  Los Angeles, CA 90048
• Laura Ranum, PhD
  Professor
  Department of Genetics
  Cell Biology Development MMC 206
  420 Delaware Street
  Minneapolis, MN 55455
• Roger Rosenberg, MD
  Zale Chair & Professor
  Dept. of Neurology
  University of Texas
  Southwestern Medical School
  5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
  Dallas, TX 75390-9036
• Jeremy D. Schmahmann, MD
  Associate Professor of Neurology
  Harvard Medical School
  Director, Ataxia Unit: Cognitive/Behavioral
  Massachusetts General Hospital
  CPZS-340, 55 Fruit Street
• S.H. Subramony, MD
  Dept. of Neurology
  University of Texas
  301 University Blvd.
  Galveston, TX 77555-0539
• Michael Wilensky, MD
  200 West Esplanade
  Suite 610
  Kenner, LA 70065
• Robert B. Wilson, MD, PhD
  Associate Professor
  University of Pennsylvania
  Room 509 A, Stellar-Chance Labs
  422 Curie Blvd.
  Philadelphia, PA 19104
• Huda Zogbi, MD
  Baylor College of Medicine
  Dept. of Molecular and Human Genetics
  One Baylor Plaza, Rm T807, MS225
  Houston, TX 77030
• Honorary Member
  Lee Schact, PhD
  100 S.E. 2nd St.
  Mpls., MN 55414