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
| Anna Clausen Abbott | Fabio Lievano, MD AbbVie |
| *Douglas A. Graham, Esq. INTREN | Tarneka Manning, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center |
| *Diana P. Hackbarth, PhD, RN Loyola University – Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing | *Anthony M. Marinelli, MD West Suburban Hospital |
| Brandon Ham Weiss-Ham Capital | Nasima Patel, Abbott |
| Eva Hernandez, MSN Healthcare Alternative Systems | Jeff Philips Kivvit |
| *Douglas Kyle Hogarth, MD, FCCP University of Chicago | *Thomas Pluss Lockton Companies, Inc. |
| Vania Hudson The Healthy Tree Movement, LLC/Wellness House for Living with Cancer | Jason Pyrz, Esq., PMP Mayer Brown LLP |
| *H. Ari Jaffe, MD University of Illinois at Chicago | Jennifer Ryan, PT, DPT, MS, CCS Rush University Medical Center |
| *Ravi Kalhan, MD, MS Northwestern University Feinberg of School of Medicine | Kathleen Hart Solovy |
| Jerry Krishnan, MD, PhD UI Health | Hariharan Subramanian NanoCytomics LLC, Briteseed, LLC |
| *Barry Levenstam, Esq. Jenner & Block LLP | *Janet Williams American Medical Association |