Officers

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Alanna Caffas

 

Chief Executive Officer

Administrative Team

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Samantha Gray, MS, CCRP


Director, Sponsored Programs

Email: samantha.gray@veteranshealthfoundation.org

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Shannon Austermann Hula, PhD, CRA

 
Grants & Contracts Manager
Email: shannon.hula@veteranshealthfoundation.org

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Justin Johnson, MBA


Controller, Staff Sergeant US Army

Email:
justin.johnson@veteranshealthfoundation.org

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Alyssa Kukonik


Program Support Specialist

alyssa.kukonik@veteranshealthfoundation.org

Board of Directors

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Akshar B. Abbott, MD

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

VISN 23 Clinical Resource Hub-Ophthalmologist

VHA Innovation Ecosystem-Entrepreneur in Residence

 

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Sharon Coyle RN, MSN, MBA

Medical Center Director, VA Butler

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Frank DeCarlo, Esq.


Major/U.S. Army

Major/U.S. Army
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Liberty Tire and Recycling

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Walid Gellad, MD, PhD

Associate Chief of Staff for Research & Development, VA Pittsburgh

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Donald E. Koenig, JD

Medical Center Director, VA Pittsburgh

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Marc Geraci, Vice Chancellor for Research, Health Sciences

Vice Dean for Medical Research and Professor of Medicine at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

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Russell E. Lloyd

Medical Center Director, VA Wilkes-Barre

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Phil Hahn, Chief, DAF Capital Investments

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Jim McMahon, CPA

MBA Bronder & Company

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Thandiwe Nelson-Brooks, MPH, FACHE

Medical Center Director, VA Wilmington

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Ronald Poropatich, MD


Colonel/Retired/U.S. Army

Colonel/Retired/U.S. Army
Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine

Executive Director, Center for Military Medicine Research, Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh

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Lyndsay Tkach, MS, CBIS

Mental Health/Brain Health Services Director
Wounded Warrior Project

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Ali Sonel, MD

Chief of Staff, VA Pittsburgh