Officers
Administrative Team
Board of Directors
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Ali F. Sonel, MD, FACC, FACP
Chairman of the Board
Chief of Staff, VA Pittsburgh
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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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Russell E. Lloyd
Medical Center Director, VA Wilkes-Barre
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Frank DeCarlo, Esq.
Major/U.S. Army
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Liberty Tire and Recycling
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Vamsee Potluri
Medical Center Director, VA Wilmington
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Ronald Poropatich, MD
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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Thomas C. Grau, MD, EdD, Col (ret), USAF
Associate Chief of Staff for Education and Innovative Learning, VA Pittsburgh
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Jim McMahon, CPA
MBA Bronder & Company
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Lyndsay Tkach, MS, CBIS
Mental Health/Brain Health Services Director
Wounded Warrior Project
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Phil Hahn
U.S. Air Force
Deputy Director, AFWERX
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John Innocenti, MBA
President
UPMC Presbyterian and Shadyside Hospitals
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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