BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Executive Director, Board President
Patricia R. Schissel, LMSW
Board Vice President
Michael A. Buffa, Esq
Deputy Director
Bernice Polinsky
Board of Directors
- John Almont
- Leslie Feinberg
- Patricia Fitzgerald, MS, CCCSLP, TSHH
- Bea Gravino
- William J. Heslin, CLU, ChFC
- Carole N. Kalvar
- Oleg Zuto
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Professional Advisory Board
- John Pomeroy, MD, Chair
- Diane Adreon, EdD
- May-Lynn Andresen, DNP
- Tony Attwood, PhD
- Katherine Cody, PsyD
- Elizabeth Cohn, PhD, RN
- Susan Deedy, Esq
- Michelle Dunn, PhD
- V. Mark Durand, PhD
- Dena Gassner, MSW, PhD candidate
- Valerie Gaus, PhD
- Lynda Geller, PhD
- Peter F. Gerhardt, EdD
- Temple Grandin, PhD
- C. Faith Kappenberg, PhD, LCSW
- Ami Klin, PhD
- Matthew Lerner, PhD
- Brenda Smith Myles, PhD
- Jerry Newport, BA
- Shana Nichols, PhD
- Martin Schwartzman, CFE, CIE, CPCU
- Stephen Shore, EdD
- Liane Holliday Willey, EdD
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Founding Members
- Phyllis Francois (1988-2008)
- Patricia Long
- Maryann O’Shaughnessy
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