Overview
The Board of Directors is the primary decision-making body for the National Forum, providing leadership, evaluation and accountability while administering the overall activities of the National Forum.
National Forum Board of Directors 2010-2011
Chair, Thomas Pearson, MD, MPH, PhD University of Rochester Medical Center
Past -chair, Mark Alan Schoeberl, MPA
AmericanHeart Association Executive Vice President, Advocacy
Founder Emeritus, Darwin R. Labarthe, MD, MPH, PhD
Director, Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Secretary/Treasurer, Sharon Moffatt, RN, BSN, MSN
Chief of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
Chair-elect, Keith Ferdinand, MD, FACC
Chief Science Officer, Association of Black Cardiologists
Keith Mason, Executive Director
National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention
Linda Faulkner
Cardiovascular Health Council Delegate – Arkansas Department of Health
Emmeline Ochiai, MPH Healthy People 2010 Partnership Delegate DHHS, Office of Public Health and Science
Namvar Zohoori, MD, MPH, PhD National Association of Chronic Disease Directors Delegate Chronic Disease Director, Arkansas Department of Health
At-large members
James Baranski, CPA
Chief Executive Officer, National Stroke Association
William Caplan, MD
University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation
Associate Medical Director, Care and Quality Innovation
Branka Legetic, MD. MPH, PhD
PAHO Regional Adviser
Unit of Noncommunicable Diseases
Area of Health Surveillance and Disease Management
Denise Simons-Morton
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
Implementation Group Chairs
Jill Birnbaum, JD Action Priorities Implementation Group Vice President, State Advocacy & Public Health
National Advocacy Department
American Heart Association
Communication Implementation Group
Kristen Betts
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Monitoring and Evaluation Implementation Group
Steve Sidney,
Kaiser Permanente
Organizational Capacity Implementation Group
Marti Macchi
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Policy Research Implementation Group
Alexander White, JD, MPH
Cardiovascular Health Council Delegate North Carolina
Public Health Leadership and Partnership Implementation Group
Jay Glasser, PhD
Medicine and Public Health Initiative
President, MPHI
Regional and Global Collaboration Implementation Group
Arun Chockalingam, MS, PhD
Professor and Director of Global Health
Faculty of Health Sciences
Simon Fraser University