LEADERSHIP

Chari A. Cohen, DrPH, MPH (bio)
President

Louis P. Kassa III, MPA (bio)
Chief Executive Officer

Robert Gish, MD (bio)
Medical Director

Su Wang, MD, MPH, FACP (bio)
Senior Advisor for Global Health

Joseph Erckert, MA (bio)
Chief Development Officer

Robert Christmas (bio)
Chief Operating Officer

Patti McAloon, MBA (bio)
Vice President, Finance

Edward F. Tate III, MS (bio)
Chief Communications Officer

BOARD OFFICERS

Timothy M. Block, PhD
Co-founder and Chair 

Louis P. Kassa III, MPA
Chief Executive Officer

Chari A. Cohen, DrPH, MPH
President

Catharine Williams, MGA
Vice Chair

Joel Rosen, Esq
Vice Chair

Elizabeth "Betsy" Seeber, MBA, CPA, FHFMA
Treasurer

Board of Directors & Staff

Board of Directors

Timothy M. Block, PhD, (bio)
Co-founder and Chair 

Stanley Broadbent
Retired Managing Director, The Glenmede Trust

Carol Brosgart, MD
Clinical Prof. of Medicine, UC San Francisco

Nathaniel Brown, MD
Retired biotech/pharma executive (focus on HBV and HCV)

Lillian W. Chiang, PhD, MBA
President and CEO, Evrys Bio

Gang Chen, MD, PhD
Physician, epidemiologist, consultant

Chari A. Cohen, DrPH, MPH
President, Hepatitis B Foundation 

David A. Gruber, CPA
Owner, Gruber Administrative Services, LLC

Lu-Yu Hwang, MD
Professor, UTHealth Houston School of Public Health

Raman Kapur, MBA
Chairman, Transition Patient Services, LLC

Louis P. Kassa III, MPA
CEO, Hepatitis B Foundation, Baruch S. Blumberg Institute and Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center (PABC); President of the PABC, President, Board of Directors

Mark Petty, MBA
Operating Partner, Tinicum, LP

Lewis Roberts, MB, ChB, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic

Elizabeth Seeber, MBA, CPA, FHFMA
V.P., Chief Financial Officer, Doylestown Health

Elizabeth D. Sigety, Esq
Partner, Fox Rothschild LLP 

Walter Tsou, MD, MPH
Adjunct Professor, University of Pennsylvania; Former City Health Commissioner of Philadelphia

Su Wang, MD, MPH, FACP
Medical Director, Center for Asian Health

 

Scientific and Medical Advisors

Harvey Alter, MD
Nobel Laureate
Former Chief, Infectious Disease Section, Transfusion Medicine, National Institutes of Health

Timothy M. Block, PhD 
Co-Founder, Hepatitis B Foundation and Baruch S. Blumberg Institute

Nathaniel Brown, MD
Retired Biotech/Pharma Executive (focus on HBV and HCV), San Francisco

Carol Brosgart, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of Global Health, UC San Francisco

Francis Chisari, MD
National Academy of Sciences; National Academy of Medicine; Professor Emeritus, Scripps Research Institute

Raymond Dwek, DPhil, FRS
Professor and Founder, Glycobiology Institute at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Hashem B. El-Serag, MD, MPH
Vice President, Learning Health System; Margaret M and Albert B Alkek Professor; Chair, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine

Anthony Ford-Hutchinson, PhD
Former Merck Sr. VP, Vaccine Research

Lawrence S. Friedman, MD
The Anton R. Fried, M.D., Chair, Department of Medicine, Newton-Wellesley Hospital; Assistant Chief of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Tufts University School of Medicine

Don Ganem, MD
Professor Emeritus, UC San Francisco

Robert G. Gish, MD
Medical director, Hepatitis B Foundation, and principal, Robert G Gish Consulting LLC

Haitao Guo, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics; Co-Leader, Cancer Virology Program, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Hie-Won L. Hann, MD
Professor and director, Liver Disease Prevention Center, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia

Ira M. Jacobson, MD
Professor of Medicine, NYU Langone Health

Patrick Kennedy, MB, BCH, BAO, BMEDSCI, FRCP, MD
Professor of Translational Hepatology; Consultant Hepatologist, Queen Mary University of London

Anna Lok, MD
Alice Lohrman Andrews Research Professor of Hepatology, Director of Clinical Hepatology, Assistant Dean for Clinical Research, University of Michigan

Brian McMahon, MD
Scientific and Clinical Director, Liver Disease and Hepatitis Program, Alaska Native Medical Center, Fairbanks, AK

Anand Mehta, PhD
SmartState Endowed Chair in Proteomic Biomarkers; Professor, Medical University of South Carolina

Robert Perrillo, MD
Senior Research Hepatologist, Hepatology Division of Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, and Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern 

Lewis Roberts, MB, ChB, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic

Kenneth Rothstein, MD
Director of Regional Outreach and Regional Hepatology; Professor of Clinical Medicine, Penn Medicine

Raymond Schinazi, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics and Chemistry, and Director of the Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology, Emory University; Founder of RFS Pharma

Thomas Shenk, PhD
Elkins Professor, Dept. of Molecular Biology, Princeton University

John Tavis, PhD
Professor, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine

Norah Terrault, MD
Professor, Chief of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, University of Southern California

David Thomas, MD
Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Co-Director, Clinical Core, Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research

Jack Wallace, PhD, MSS
Senior Research Officer, Burnet Institute

Scientific and Medical Advisory Board Members Emeritus

Stephen Locarnini, MD, PhD

Board Members Emeritus

Joan Block, RN, BSN

Alan Brownstein, MPH

Joseph Hediger

Joel Rosen, Esq

Janine Witte

 

Honorary Board Members

Anne Blumberg Dorfman

Jane Blumberg

 

In Memoriam

Baruch Blumberg, MD, DPhil
Nobel Laureate
Distinguished Scholar of the Hepatitis B Foundation (2011)

W. Thomas London, MD
Emeritus, Fox Chase Cancer Center (2017)

William Mason, PhD
Emeritus, Fox Chase Cancer Center (2022)

Edith Mitchell, MD
Jefferson University (2024)

Bud Tennant, DVM
College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University (2016) 

Paul Witte
Co-Founder (2021)

 

HEPATITIS B FOUNDATION

Chari A. Cohen, DrPH, MPH 
President

Su Wang, MD, MPH, FACP
Senior Advisor for Global Health

Monique Benvenutti
Social Media and Communications Manager

Fiona Borondy-Jenkins, MPH
Public Health Research Fellow

Maura Delaney 
Events Manager 

Joe Erckert
Chief Development Officer, Institutional Advancement

Catherine Freeland, PhD, MPH
Associate Director, Public Health Research

Frank Hood
Associate Director, Policy & Partnerships; Director, Hep B United 

Yasmin Ibrahim, MD, PhD, MBA
Public Health Program Director

Michaela Jackson, MS
Program Director, Prevention Policy

Shreya Koirala
Program Coordinator, Public Health

Michelle Liu, MPH
Program Manager, Advocacy and Engagement

Megan Pierce, CMP
Director of Events

Anousha Qureshi
Program Coordinator, Public Health

Ginny Robison
Consult Manager

Alaina Schukraft
Development Manager

Edward F. Tate III, MS
Chief Communications Officer

Brooke Walsh
Development Coordinator

Beatrice Zovich, MPH
Program Manager, Public Health

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