Officers Alanna Caffas Chief Executive OfficerEmail: Alanna.Caffas@va.gov Administrative Team Shannon Austermann Hula, PhD Grants and Contracts ManagerEmail: Shannon.Hula@va.gov Jennifer Mock Finance & Operations ManagerEmail: Jennifer.Mock3@va.gov Laura Soule Program Support SpecialistEmail: Laura.Soule@va.gov Board of Directors Ali F. Sonel, MD, FACC, FACP Chairman of the BoardChief of Staff, VA Pittsburgh Franca Cambi, MD, PhD Acting 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 Vincent Kane Medical Center Director, VA Wilmington Patrick J. Doyle, PhD Former Director Audiology & Speech Pathology Program, VAPHSAssociate Director of Research, GRECC Thomas Grau, MD Associate Chief of Staff for Education and Innovative Learning, VA Pittsburgh Jim McMahon, CPA MBA Bronder & Company Alan Smith Major/Retired/U.S. Air ForceCongressional Veteran and Military Liasion 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 John Innocenti, MBA PresidentUPMC Presbyterian and Shadyside Hospitals
