The National Health Council is governed by a volunteer board of directors made up of representatives from our various membership categories. Board members set the strategic direction and establish policy to guide the NHC in meeting its mission to provide a united voice for people with chronic diseases and disabilities and their family caregivers.
Officers
board Members
Nancy Brown
American Heart Association
Lisa Butler
GBS│CIDP Foundation International
Matt Eyles
America’s Health Insurance Plans
Julie Louise Gerberding, MD, MPH
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH)
Daniel Gillison
NAMI (National Alliance on Mentail Illness)
Diana Gray, MA
Hydrocephalus Association
Leah Howard
National Psoriasis Foundation
Cassandra McCullough, MBA
Association of Black Cardiologists
Michael Osso
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation
Gary A. Puckrein, PhD
National Minority Quality Forum
Eric Racine, PharmD, MBA
Sanofi
Lisa Simpson, MB, BCh, MPH, FAAP
AcademyHealth
Stephen J. Ubl
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
Leonard A. Valentino, MD
National Hemophilia Foundation
NHC Committee Members
- Chairperson Kenny Mendez, Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America
- Jeff Todd, Prevent Blindness
- Schroeder Stribling, Mental Health America
- Sue Peschin, Alliance for Aging Research
- Harold Wimmer, American Lung Association
- Immediate Past Chair LaVarne Burton, American Kidney Fund
- Chairperson LaVarne Burton, American Kidney Fund
- Kenny Mendez, Chair, Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America
- Lisa Simpson, AcademyHealth
- Harold Wimmer, American Lung Association
Diana Gray, Hydrocephalus Association
- Chairperson Schroeder Stribling, Mental Health America
- Sue Peschin, Alliance for Aging Research
- Eric Racine, Sanofi
- Len Valentino, National Hemophilia
- Dan Gillison, NAMI
- Cassandra McCullough, Association of Black Cardiologists
- Chairperson Harold Wimmer, American Lung Association
- Kenny Mendez, Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America
- Jeff Todd, Prevent Blindness
- Michael Osso, Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation
- Lisa Butler, GBS/CIDP Foundation
- Calaneet Balas, The ALS Association
- Chairperson Sue Peschin, Alliance for Aging Research
- Kenny Mendez, Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America
- Bob Gebbia, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
- Emily Boyd Stormoen, Arthritis National Research Foundation
- Michele Oshman, BIO
- Kelly Cox, Johnson & Johnson
- Julie Block, National Eczema Association
- Micah Cost, Pharmacy Quality Alliance
- Donna Cryer, Global Liver Institute
- Chairperson LaVarne Burton, American Kidney Fund
- Kenny Mendez, Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America
- Harold Wimmer, American Lung Association
- Michael Zincone, Pfizer
- Lee Grossman, Orthopaedic Research & Education Foundation
- Tracy Hart, Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation
- Michael Weamer, The Marfan Foundation
- Luther Clark, Merck
- Eleanor Dahomey, Research!America
- Chairperson Jeff Todd, Prevent Blindness
- Julia Jenkins, EveryLife Foundation
- Schroeder Stribling, Mental Health America
- Gary Puckrein, National Minority Quality Forum
- Matt Eyles, AHIP
- Steve Ubl, PhRMA
- Steve Echard, American College of Rheumatology
- Kristin Julason Damato, Cigna
- Charles Henderson, American Diabetes Association
- Christine Simmon, Food and Drug Law Institute
- Jason Resendez, National Alliance for Caregiving
- Co-Chairperson Leah Howard, National Psoriasis Foundation
- Co-Chairperson Oved Amitay, Solve M.E.
- Louise Vetter, Huntington’s Disease Society of America
- Andrea Ferris, LUNGevity
- Cynthia Bens, Personal Medicine Coalition
- Jill Yersak, PhD, Biogen
- Julie Fiol, Access National MS Society
- Devin Jopp, APIC
Irene Aninye, Society for Women’s Health Research
Former Chairs of the board
2022 | LaVarne Burton |
2021 | Diana Gray Hydrocephalus Association |
2020 | Ann Palmer Arthritis Foundation |
2019 | Steven Taylor, MBA Sjögren’s Foundation |
2018 | Robert Gebbia American Foundation for Suicide Prevention |
2017 | Cyndi Zagieboylo National Multiple Sclerosis Society |
2016 | Tracy Smith Hart Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation |
2015 | Randy Beranek National Psoriasis Foundation |
2014 | Nancy Brown American Heart Association |
2013 | LaVarne A. Burton American Kidney Fund |
2012 | Larry Hausner American Diabetes Association |
2011 | John H. Klippel, MD Arthritis Foundation |
2010 | Steven Taylor, MBA Sjögren’s Syndrome Foundation |
2009 | Cindy Brownstein Spina Bifida Association |
2008 | Margaret C. Kirk Breast Cancer Network of Strength |
2007 | James E. Williams, Jr. Easter Seals |
2006 | John Walsh Alpha-1 Foundation |
2005 | Eric R. Hargis |