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About-IPWSO » Officers & Board Members
Officers & Board Members
IPWSO Scientific Advisory Board
Chair: Prof. Dr. Leopold Curfs
Dept. of Clinical Genetics
University Maastricht/Academic Hospital
Maastricht, The Netherlands
Tony Holland, MD
PPP Chair of Learning Difficulties,
Director of the Centre for Learning Difficulties
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Dan Driscoll, Ph.D MD
University of Florida
Health Sciences Center
Div. Genetics / Dept. of Pediatrics
Gainesville, FL U.S.A.
Moris A. Angulo,
Director of Medical Genetics
Assistant Director of Pediatric Endocrinolgy
Winthrop University Hospital
Mineola, NY U.S.A.
Susanne Blichfeldt, MD
consultant (Neuropediatrics)
Herlev University Hospital
2730 Herlev
Denmark
Janice L. Forster, MD
Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist
Pittsburgh Partnership
Pittsburgh, PA U.S.A.
Professor Martin Ritzén
Pediatric Endocrinology
Karolinska Hospital
Stockholm, Sweden
Ann O. Scheimann, MD, MBA
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Dr. Shuan-Pei Lin
Division of Genetics
Dept. of Pediatrics
McKay Memorial Hospital
Taipei, Taiwan
Prof. Urs Eiholzer, MD
Associated Professor and Head
PEZZ Center for Pediatric Endocrinology
Möhrlistrasse 69
CH-8006 Zürich
Switzerland
Chief Executive
Giorgio Fornasier, Italy
IPWSO Board
President
Suzanne Cassidy, MD
IPWSO Board
President
Suzanne Cassidy, MD
PresidentSuzanne Cassidy, MD
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics,
University of California, San Francisco, USA
Vice President
Janalee Heinemann
Medical Director, PWSA (USA)
Secretary
Linda Thornton
IPWSO Secretary & PR Consultant
(New Zealand)
Dorica Dan (Romania) Treasurer
President Romanian Prader Willi Association
Romanian National Alliance for Rare Diseases
BoD EURORDIS, Romania
Tiina Silvast (Finland)
Board member and publications designer, Finland
Jackie Waters (UK)
Board member and Assistant Secretary;
Deputy Chief Executive/Operations Director PWSA (UK)
United Kingdom
Georgina Loughnan (Australia)
Co-opted Board Member, June 2011
Physiotherapist - Metabolism & Obesity Services
and the Prader-Willi Syndrome Clinic,
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW 2050, Australia
Anil K. Choubey (India)
Co-opted Board member, June 2011
Founder member and Trustee of the Indian PWS Association.
Jose Luis Garcia (Chile)
Co-opted Board Member, June 2011
International Businessman and
Grandfather to grandson with PWS.
Hubert Soyer PhD (Germany)
Co-opted Board member, June 2011
Psychologist, Director at Regens Wagner,
Apsberg
Professional Providers & Caregivers' Advisory Board
Chair: Norbert Hodebeck-Stuntebeck (PhD0
Psychologist, Diakonische Stifung
Wittekindshof, Germany
Co-Chair: Mary Ziccadi (USA)
Regional Director, REM, Ohio
Hubert Soyer PhD (Germany)
Pyscologist, Director of Regens Wagner,
Absberg
Dr Fanny Cortes (Chile)
Director of PWS Clinic, INTA,
University of Chile
Janice L. Forster MD (USA)
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist,
specialising in Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry,
Pittsburgh Partnership,
Jackie Mallow
Director of Admissions & Consultative Services
PWS Homes, Oconomowoc, USA
John Ford (New Zealand)
Psychologist, Tautoko Services
specialising in behavioural care
Larry Genstil PhD (Israel)
Psychologist, Executive Director
Genstil Institute of Human Behaviour
Susanne Blichfeldt, MD (Denmark)
Glostrup Iniversity Hospital
Pediatric Department L55
Denmark
