HHV-6 FOUNDATION - Key Persons


Alex Greninger

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor / University of Washington

Amy Hudson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor / Medical College of Wisconsin / USA

Anna Fodgell Hahn

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor / Karolinska Institute / Sweden

Anna Fogdell-Hahn

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor / Karolinksa Institute / Sweden

Anthony Komaroff

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Branka Horvat

Job Titles:
  • National Institute of Health and Medical Research ( INSERM ) France

Danielle Zerr

Job Titles:
  • Professor & Division Chief / University of Washington & Seattle

Danny Toomey

Danny received his Master's in Medical Sciences from Alpert Medical School of Brown University and was formerly a Research Affiliate in the Attention Lab at UCSB. He received his BS in Biopsychology with Honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Danny led a study that sought to use attentional deficits to predict Alzheimer's Disease and is interested in understanding the effects of HHV-6 on the brain.

Dharam Ablashi - VP

Job Titles:
  • Foundation Staff Member
  • Scientific Director
  • Vice President

Fred Hutchinson

Job Titles:
  • Cancer Research Center

Harrison Zhu

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate
A medical student At Baylor College of Medicine, Harrison is a research associate and newsletter writer for the HHV-6 Foundation and works with physicians on literature reviews relating to HHV-6. He previously studied biochemistry at University of Texas.

Hideo Hashizume

Job Titles:
  • Department Head / Iwata City Hospital / Department of Dermatology / Japan

Jane Alexander

Job Titles:
  • Foundation Staff Member
  • Special Projects Manager

Jason Stanley

Job Titles:
  • Conference Administrator
Jason Stanley - Conference Administrator Jason Stanley holds a BA in Legal Studies from UC Berkeley and handles most general IT and day-to-day tasks for the foundation. He is an avid woodworker and can often be found cruising the surf on a stand-up paddleboard.

Jill Chase - VP

Job Titles:
  • Foundation Staff Member
  • Vice President
  • Repository Manager
  • Vice President / HHV - 6 Foundation
Jill Chase - Vice President Jill brings an extensive background in clinical research and administration to the Foundation. With graduate degrees in Neuroscience and Neuropsychology and a Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Engineering, Jill worked on multi-site clinical trials at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York while teaching at Columbia University and managed clinical trial studies for a medical device company in Santa Barbara. Jill has worked at the HHV-6 Foundation since 2007, coordinating international research collaborations and managing the HHV-6 & 7 repository with the Scientific Director. She also developed the protocol and IRB proposal to establish the ciHHV-6 repository and registry, which she manages.

Joshua A. Hill

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Judith Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
Judith Anderson - Advisor & Patient Advocate Judith is a sales and marketing consultant in the technology industry who brings her skills to the Foundation to assist with researcher collaborations, outreach, planning, marketing and patient advocacy.

Kristin Loomis - President

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director
  • Foundation Staff Member
  • President
  • Co - Founder and Executive Director of the Foundation
Kristin is the Co-founder and Executive Director of the Foundation. A graduate of Wellesley and Harvard Business School, Kristin was a publishing and marketing executive before devoting herself full-time to non-profit activities. Kristin directs the HHV-6 Foundation staff, administers the Foundation's advocacy and initiates research collaborations along with the Scientific Director.

Louis Flamand

Job Titles:
  • Member of the International Organizing Committee

Louise Chatlynne

Job Titles:
  • Foundation Staff Member
  • Senior Advisor

MASAO OGATA

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Medicine / Oita University

Michael Boeckh

Job Titles:
  • Member of the International Organizing Committee
  • Professor of Medicine / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Mona Eliassen - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board
  • Founder of Eliassen Group, Inc
Mona is the founder of Eliassen Group, Inc., an industry leader in the IT consulting and staffing industry. Chosen as a finalist in 1998 for Ernst & Young's "Entrepreneur of the Year," Mona has since been inducted into the Women's Business "Hall of Fame" and selected as Incentive Magazine's "Motivator of the Year." Mona earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Boston University.

Philip E. Pellett

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Roberta Rizzo

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor / University of Ferrara / Department of Medical Sciences / Italy

Sheryl Lunsford

Job Titles:
  • Foundation Staff Member
  • Office Manager

Steve Jacobson

Job Titles:
  • Chief of Viral Immunology / National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke / USA

TETSUSHI YOSHIKAWA

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Chair / Fujita Health University School of Medicine / Japan

Tuan Phan

A graduate of Tulane Medical School, Tuan is currently an internal medicine resident at Ohio State Wexner Medical Center. Tuan has published a number of papers on HHV-6 including a meta-analysis on HHV6B reactivation and subsequent aGVHD, a review of HHV-6B in liver transplantation and a review of the role of HHV-6B infection on T cell reconstitution.

Yoshiki Kawamura

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor / Fujita Health University School of Medicine / Japan