PAF Executive Board of Directors & Scientific Advisory Committee

Patient Advocate Foundation’s Executive Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Committee is comprised of leading professionals from the fields of medical research, clinical care, legal and regulatory, information technology, patient advocacy and health insurance who are all committed to the mission of proving direct support to patients who experience access and affordability challenges and leveraging these experiences for system change and reform. Our Executive Board of Directors provides oversight and guidance to staff leadership, collaborating and shaping the strategic goals of the organization and supporting the ethical and patient centric culture that has existed for over two decades.

Alan J. Balch, PhD

Chief Executive Officer
Non-Voting Member

Deborah Parham Hopson, PhD, RN, FAAN

Board President

Senior Vice President for Public Health Systems Innovation and Senior Public Health Scientist
Maya Tech Corporation

F. Marc Stewart, MD

Immediate Past Board President

Professor of Medicine, University of Washington
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Nancy Davenport-Ennis

Founder & Chair Emerita
Non-Voting Member

Diane Mauk

Board Secretary

Chief Architect/President
Software Architects, LLC

John L. Murphy

Chair, Finance Committee

Pearl Moore, RN, MN, FAAN

Chair, Governance Committee

CEO (Retired)
Oncology Nursing Society

Al Benson III, MD, FACP

Director

Professor of Medicine, Associate Director for Clinical Investigations
Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University

Christian Downs

Director

Executive Director
Association of Community Cancer Centers

John H. Ennis, Jr.

Co-Founder
Non-Voting Member

Brian Garofalo

Director

Managing Partner
Patient Alliances

Otis Maynard

Director

Associate General Counsel
United Healthcare

Andy Miller, MHSE, MCHES

Director

Head of Healthcare and Social Services
The Morris Foundation

Edith Peterson Mitchell, MD, FACP, FCPP

Director

Clinical Professor of Medicine and Medical Oncology, Program Leader, Gastrointestinal Oncology, Department of Medical Oncology Director
Center to Eliminate Cancer Disparities
Associate Director, Diversity Affairs
Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson

Robert M. Rifkin, MD, FACP

Director

Attending Physician
Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers

Lori Williams, RN, MSN, DSN®, OGN, AOCN

Director

Assistant Professor
Department of Symptom Research, University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

W. Jackson Wisdom

Director

Senior Partner
Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom, LLP

Scientific Advisory Committee

Charles Balch, MD, FACS

Chair

Professor of Surgery
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Pamela S. Becker, MD, Ph.D

Associate Professor of Medicine/Hematology
Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington

Al Benson III, MD, FACP

Professor of Medicine, Associate Director for Clinical Investigations
Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University

David Brizel, MD

Leonard R. Prosnitz Professor of Radiation Oncology
Professor in Head & Neck Surgery, Co-Director, Head & Neck Cancer Program
Duke University Medical Center

Pamela Douglas, MD

Ursula Geller Professor of Research in Cardiovascular Diseases, Director of Imaging Program at DCRI
Duke University Medical Center

Jean G. Ford, MD

Paul J. Johnson Chair, Department of Medicine
Einstein Healthcare Network

Paul J. Martin, MD

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Professor of Medicine
University of Washington

Edith Peterson Mitchell, MD, FACP, FCPP

Clinical Professor of Medicine and Medical Oncology, Program Leader, Gastrointestinal Oncology, Department of Medical Oncology Director
Center to Eliminate Cancer Disparities
Associate Director, Diversity Affairs
Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson

Deborah Morosini, MD

VP, Clinical Affairs & Patient Engagement
Loxo Oncology, Inc.

Robert M. Rifkin, MD, FACP

Attending Physician
Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers

Lori Williams, RN, MSN, DSN®, OGN, AOCN

Assistant Professor
Department of Symptom Research, University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Sandra L. Wong, MD, MS

Chair of Surgery
Dartmouth-Hitchcock & Geisel School of Medicine