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Meet Our Team

Driving Cure CMD's mission wouldn't be possible without these dedicated individuals.

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Rachel Alvarez

Executive Director

Board Member, Secretary

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Gustavo Dziewczapolski, PhD

Scientific Director

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Doenica Palacio

Outreach & Development Coordinator

Kelly Berger

Kelly Berger

Outreach & Engagement Coordinator

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Lani Knutson

Legislative Advocacy
Team Leader

Avery

Avery Roberts

Outreach & Engagement Coordinator

Terry Selucky

Terry Selucky

Grants & PR Consultant

Fine Point Consulting

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Charlene York

Publication Librarian

Travel Coordinator

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Kierra Sunris

Young Adult Content Creator

Hoban

Luke Hoban

Editor

Community Advisor

Miller

Liam Miller

App Developer

Community Advisor

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Rob Sunris

Board Member

President

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John Day, MD PhD

Board Member

Scientific & Medical Advisor

Mayer

Oscar H. Mayer, MD

Board Member
Scientific & Medical Advisor

Wolff

Jodi Wolff, PhD

Board Member
Industry & Development Advisor

Kim

Eunice Kim

Board Member
Vice President

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Hilary Dover

Board Member
Incoming Treasurer

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Anthony Parisi

Board Member
Community Advisor

May

Patrick May

Board Member
Co-Founder, Outgoing Treasurer

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Carla Grosmann, MD

Board Member
Medical Advisor
, Genetic Curator

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Mindy Roberts

Board Member
HR & Governance Advisor

Beare

Mark Beare

Board Member

Executive Advisor

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Tim Knutson

Board Member

Development Advisor

Rowbottom

Jeff Rowbottom

Board Member
Development Advisor

Foley

A. Reghan Foley, MD

Scientific & Medical Advisor

Neuromuscular & Neurogenetic Diseases of Childhood
NINDS, NIH

Sawnani

Hemant Sawnani, MD

Medical Advisor
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Pascoe

John Pascoe, MD

Medical Advisor
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

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Wayne Ogata

Scientific Advisor
Community Member

With Gratitude

Cure CMD is grateful for Dr. Anne Rutkowski, co-founder and prior medical director, for her long standing service to the CMD Community. Cure CMD's foundation was built on Anne's vision and single-minded determination to aggressively drive research toward treatments for the congenital muscular dystrophies. We would not be where we are today without her.

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We would also like to thank Richard Cloud for his outstanding contributions as co-founder of Cure CMD, and for founding the first pharmaceutical company focused solely on identifying a treatment for CMD.

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