Officers Alanna Caffas Chief Executive OfficerEmail: [email protected] Administrative Team Shannon Austermann Hula, PhD Grants and Contracts ManagerEmail: [email protected] Jennifer Mock Finance & Operations ManagerEmail: [email protected] Laura Soule Post Award Grant AnalystEmail: [email protected] Alyssa Kukonik Program Support SpecialistEmail: [email protected] Kate White, MFA, MA Communications SpecialistEmail: [email protected] Board of Directors Ali F. Sonel, MD, FACC, FACP Chairman of the BoardChief of Staff, VA Pittsburgh Walid Gellad, MD, PhD Associate Chief of Staff for Research & Development, VA Pittsburgh Donald E. Koenig, JD Medical Center Director, VA Pittsburgh Russell E. Lloyd Medical Center Director, VA Wilkes-Barre Frank DeCarlo, Esq. Major/U.S. ArmyGeneral Counsel and Corporate SecretaryLiberty Tire and Recycling Vamsee Potluri Medical Center Director, VA Wilmington Ronald Poropatich, MD Colonel/Retired/U.S. ArmyProfessor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care MedicineExecutive Director, Center for Military Medicine Research, Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Thomas C. Grau, MD, EdD, Col (ret), USAF Associate Chief of Staff for Education and Innovative Learning, VA Pittsburgh Jim McMahon, CPA MBA Bronder & Company Lyndsay Tkach, MS, CBIS Mental Health/Brain Health Services DirectorWounded Warrior Project Phil Hahn U.S. Air ForceDeputy Director, AFWERX John Innocenti, MBA PresidentUPMC Presbyterian and Shadyside Hospitals Akshar B. Abbott, MD U.S. Department of Veterans AffairsVISN 23 Clinical Resource Hub-OphthalmologistVHA Innovation Ecosystem-Entrepreneur in Residence
