Officers Alanna Caffas Chief Executive Officer Administrative Team Shannon Austermann Hula, PhD Grant ManagerEmail: Shannon.Hula@va.gov Laura Soule Interim Operations ManagerEmail: Laura.Soule@va.gov Alyssa Kukonik Program Support SpecialistEmail: Alyssa.Kukonik@va.gov Board of Directors Akshar B. Abbott, MD U.S. Department of Veterans AffairsVISN 23 Clinical Resource Hub-OphthalmologistVHA Innovation Ecosystem-Entrepreneur in Residence Sharon Coyle RN, MSN, MBA Medical Center Director, VA Butler Frank DeCarlo, Esq. Major/U.S. Army Major/U.S. ArmyGeneral Counsel and Corporate SecretaryLiberty Tire and Recycling Walid Gellad, MD, PhD Associate Chief of Staff for Research & Development, VA Pittsburgh Donald E. Koenig, JD Medical Center Director, VA Pittsburgh Marc Geraci, Vice Chancellor for Research, Health Sciences Vice Dean for Medical Research and Professor of Medicine at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Russell E. Lloyd Medical Center Director, VA Wilkes-Barre Phil Hahn, Chief, DAF Capital Investments Jim McMahon, CPA MBA Bronder & Company Vamsee Potluri Medical Center Director, VA Wilmington Ronald Poropatich, MD Colonel/Retired/U.S. Army 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 Lyndsay Tkach, MS, CBIS Mental Health/Brain Health Services DirectorWounded Warrior Project
