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Board President
Norman J. Kleiman, Ph.D. is Director of the Eye Radiation & Environmental Research Laboratory (ERERL) at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University in New York and is an internationally recognized expert on the effects of ionizing radiation on the eye. |
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Board Secretary/Treasurer
Gaby Kressly spent over 30 years as Director of Administration and later as Director of Facilities, Planning and Logistics in the Department of Ophthalmology at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, FL. |
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Elaine C. Hall, Ph.D. has been an Associate Research Scientist at the Center for Neural Science at New York University and is currently the only blind woman in eye and vision research. She received a Fight for Sight grant in 1996 for her work in eye movements. |
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Randy H. Kardon, M.D., Ph.D. is Professor and Director of Neuro-ophthalmology at the University of Iowa Hospital & Clinic in Iowa City, Iowa. He has provided many years of service to Fight for Sight as its Scientific Director overseeing the grants program. |
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Tracy Suitt Keogh is Senior Vice-President of Human Resources for Corporate HR Staff at Hewitt Associates in Chicago. |
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Anne Marie Prevost is an attorney with Sidley, Austin, LLP, in New York City, advising on SEC and State securities compliance issues. |
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Polly Sheppard is an independent healthcare consultant, president of Sheppard Consulting and founder and principle of Collective Minds. She is based in Fenton, Michigan. |
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| STAFF |
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Mike Wilke is the Executive Director of FFS. He previously founded and ran a nonprofit organization for eight years that promoted image awareness in media and advertising that developed out of his career as a business journalist. He studied journalism at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. |
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Janice Benson is Assistant Director of FFS with direct responsibility for grants administration. She has worked at Fight for Sight since 1993, where she worked closely with FFS founder Mildred Weisenfeld. |
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