Meet Our Leadership
Board of Directors

Ali F. Sonel, MD, FACC, FACP
Chairman of the Board
Chief of Staff, VAPHS

Steven Graham, MD, PhD
Secretary/Treasurer
Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Development, VAPHS

Donald E. Koenig
Medical Center Director
VAPHS

Frank DeCarlo, Esq. Major/US Army
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Liberty Tire and Recycling

Thomas Grau, MD
Associate Chief of Staff for Education and Innovative Learning
VAPHS

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

Alan Smith
Major/Retired/U.S. Air Force
Congressional Veteran and Military Liasion

Marlon Ferguson
Southwest Regional Director,
U.S. Senator Bob Casey

John Innocenti, MBA
President
UPMC Presbyterian and Shadyside Hospitals

Patrick J. Doyle, PhD
Former Director Audiology & Speech Pathology Program, VAPHS
Associate Director of Research, GRECC

Jim McMahon, CPA
MBA Bronder & Company
Officers
Administrative Staff

Shannon Austermann Hula, PhD
Grants and Contracts Manager
Phone: (412) 360-2456
Email: Shannon.Hula@va.gov

Jennifer Mock
Operations Manager
Phone: (412) 360-2403
Email: Jennifer.Mock3@va.gov