Board of Directors

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 Officers

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

 

Directors

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