Respiratory Health Association has both a governing Board of Directors and an Associate Board. The Board of Directors meets four times each year with Executive Committee meetings held on alternative months. For more information about serving as an RHA director please email Joel Africk, President & Chief Executive Officer, at jafrick@resphealth.org.
Board leadership and a full list of directors are provided below. *Denotes service on the board’s Executive Committee.
Board Chair: *Daniel Lavin, Pekron Consulting, Inc.
Chair Elect: *Cathy Catrambone, PhD, RN, Rush University College of Nursing
Chair Elect: *Cynthia Gronkiewicz, RN, MS, APN, AE-C
Suburban Lung Associate
Treasurer: *Christopher O’Hara, CIBC
Secretary: Brandon Ham, Weiss-Ham Capital
| Anna Clausen Abbott | Tarneka Manning Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center |
| *Douglas A. Graham, Esq. INTREN | *Anthony M. Marinelli, MD West Suburban Hospital |
| *Diana P. Hackbarth, PhD, RN Loyola University – Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing | Nasima Patel Abbott |
| Eva Hernandez, MSN Healthcare Alternative Systems | Meenal B. Patwardhan, MD, MHSA AbbVie |
| *Douglas Kyle Hogarth, MD, FCCP University of Chicago | Jeff Philips Kivvit |
| Vania Hudson The Healthy Tree Movement, LLC/Wellness House for Living with Cancer | Dwayne Pickett Constellation |
| *H. Ari Jaffe, MD University of Illinois at Chicago | *Thomas Pluss Lockton Companies |
| *Ravi Kalhan, MD, MS Northwestern University Feinberg of School of Medicine | Jason Pyrz, Esq., PMP Mayer Brown LLP |
| Jerry Krishnan, MD, PhD UI Health | Jennifer Ryan, PT, DPT, MS, CCS Rush University Medical Center |
| *Barry Levenstam, Esq. Jenner & Block LLP | Kathleen Hart Solovy |
| Fabio Lievano, MD AbbVie | Hariharan Subramanian NanoCytomics LLC, Briteseed, LLC |
| Joshua Luther Lockton Companies | *Janet Williams American Medical Association |