HEPB.ORG - Key Persons


Alaina Schukraft

Job Titles:
  • Development Manager

Alan Brownstein

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team

Alice Lohrman Andrews

Job Titles:
  • Alice Lohrman Andrews Research Professor of Hepatology, Director of Clinical Hepatology, Assistant Dean for Clinical Research, University of Michigan

Anna Lok

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
  • Alice Lohrman Andrews Research Professor of Hepatology, Director of Clinical Hepatology, Assistant Dean for Clinical Research, University of Michigan

Anousha Qureshi

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator, Public Health

Anthony Ford-Hutchinson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team

Beatrice Zovich

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager, Public Health / BLUMBERG INSTITUTE

Brian McMahon

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
  • Scientific and Clinical Director, Liver Disease and Hepatitis Program, Alaska Native Medical Center, Fairbanks, AK

Carol Brosgart

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
  • Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of Global Health, UC San Francisco

Catharine Williams

Job Titles:
  • Member of the BOARD OFFICERS Team
  • Vice Chair

Catherine Freeland

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Public Health Research

Chari A. Cohen - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Member of the BOARD OFFICERS Team
  • President
  • President, Hepatitis B Foundation

David A. Gruber

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Owner, Gruber Administrative Services, LLC

Don Ganem

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
  • Professor Emeritus, UC San Francisco

Dr. Timothy M. Block - Chairman, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Co - Founder
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Member of the BOARD OFFICERS Team
  • Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
  • Co - Founder and Former President of the Hepatitis B Foundation
  • Co - Founder and Former President, Hepatitis B Foundation, Baruch S. Blumberg Institute and Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center
  • Co - Founder, Hepatitis B Foundation and Baruch S. Blumberg Institute
Dr. Timothy M. Block is a co-founder and former president of the Hepatitis B Foundation and its research arm, the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute. He also is a co-founder and former president of the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center (PABC), which is managed by the Blumberg Institute. Dr. Block stepped down as president in July, 2022 but he is still actively participating in the leadership of the Foundation, the Blumberg Institute, and PABC. He now chairs the Board of Directors for all three organizations. Read more about this transition here. The three nonprofit organizations share a campus in Doylestown, Pa. Dr. Block resides in Doylestown with his wife Joan, a registered nurse and Hepatitis B Foundation co-founder and board member emeritus. Internationally recognized for his outstanding scholarship and scientific contributions, Dr. Block has been engaged in viral hepatitis research for more than 30 years. He has been a member of the faculty at Thomas Jefferson University (1984-2005) and the Drexel University School of Medicine (2005-2015). He is an adjunct professor at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Block holds more than 20 patents and has co-authored more than 240 scholarly papers. Joan and Tim Block were honored in 2020 by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases with its inaugural Distinguished Advocacy Service Award, which "recognizes service provided to the hepatology community over an extended period that raises awareness or garners public and federal legislative support and promotes liver health and quality patient care." Dr. Block's many honors include being elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and being named a Fellow of the Glycobiology Institute of the University of Oxford. He was named a "Visionary in Hepatitis" by the World Hepatitis Alliance in 2017 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases in 2022. Dr. Block was inducted in 2017 as a National Academy of Inventors Fellow; and named "One of 100 Most Inspiring People in the Life-Sciences Industry" by PharmaVoice (2011). He has also received "Distinguished Service Recognition" from the National Cancer Institute's Early Detection Research Network and a "Special Citation" from the U.S. House of Representatives in recognition of "Outstanding Achievements." Dr. Block received an honorary Medical Doctorate and was elected to the Bulgarian Academy of Medicine; named "Judges' Choice of the Year" by the Philadelphia Business Journal's Inaugural Life Sciences Awards (2010); named Philadelphia Business Journal's Power 100 List (2019); and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce for his humanitarian efforts in addressing the global health problem of hepatitis B. A principal investigator on numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Block serves on several NIH study sections. He is an elected Fellow, International Union Against Cancer; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and Fellow of the Glycobiology Institute of the University of Oxford. Dr. Block received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the State University of New York Buffalo and completed his post-doctoral training at Princeton University.

Edward F. Tate III

Job Titles:
  • Director, Communications & Marketing

Elizabeth "Betsy" Seeber - CFO, Treasurer, VP

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Member of the BOARD OFFICERS Team
  • Treasurer
  • Vice President

Elizabeth D. Sigety

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Partner, Fox Rothschild LLP

Fiona Borondy-Jenkins

Job Titles:
  • Public Health Research Fellow

Francis Chisari

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
  • National Academy of Sciences / National Academy of Medicine

Frank Hood

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Policy & Partnerships Director, Hep B United

Gang Chen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Physician, Epidemiologist, Consultant

Ginny Robison

Job Titles:
  • Consult Manager

Harvey Alter

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team

Hie-Won L. Hann

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
  • Professor and Director, Liver Disease Prevention Center, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia

Holly Moore

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator, Public Health

Janine Witte

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team

Joan Block

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team

Joel Rosen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the BOARD OFFICERS Team
  • Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
  • Vice Chair

John Tavis

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
  • Professor, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology / Saint Louis University School of Medicine

Joseph Erckert

Job Titles:
  • Chief Development Officer
  • Chief Development Officer, Institutional Advancement

Joseph Hediger

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team

Kenneth Rothstein

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
  • Director of Regional Outreach and Regional Hepatology / Professor of Clinical Medicine

Lawrence Friedman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team

Lewis Roberts

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
  • Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic

Lillian W. Chiang

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • President and CEO, Evrys Bio

Louis P. Kassa, III - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Member of the BOARD OFFICERS Team
  • CEO, Hepatitis
CEO, Hepatitis B Foundation, Baruch S. Blumberg Institute and Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center (PABC); President of the PABC, President, Board of Directors

Lu-Yu Hwang

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Professor, UTHealth Houston School of Public Health

Mark Petty

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Operating Partner, Tinicum, LP

Maura Delaney

Job Titles:
  • Events Manager

Megan Pierce

Job Titles:
  • Director of Events

Michaela Jackson

Job Titles:
  • Program Director, Prevention Policy

Michelle Liu

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager, Advocacy and Engagement

Monique Benvenutti

Job Titles:
  • Social Media and Communications Manager

Nathaniel Brown

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
  • Retired Biotech / Pharma Executive ( Focus on HBV and HCV )
  • Retired Biotech / Pharma Executive ( Focus on HBV and HCV ), San Francisco

Norah Terrault

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
  • Professor, Chief of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, University of Southern California / Scientific and Medical

Patti McAloon

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Finance

Paul Witte - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder

Raman Kapur

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Chairman, Transition Patient Services, LLC

Raymond Dwek

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
  • Professor and Founder, Glycobiology Institute at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Raymond Schinazi - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Founder
  • Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
  • Professor
Raymond Schinazi, PhD Professor, Pediatrics and Chemistry, and Director of the Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology, Emory University; Founder of RFS Pharma

Robert Christmas - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer

Robert G. Gish

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
  • Bio ) Medical Director
  • Medical Director, Hepatitis B Foundation, and Principal, Robert G Gish Consulting LLC

Robert Perrillo

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
  • Senior Research Hepatologist, Hepatology Division of Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, and Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern

Shreya Koirala

Job Titles:
  • Program Coo Rdinator, Public Health

Stanley Broadbent

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Retired Managing Director, the Glenmede Trust

Stephen Locarnini

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
  • Board Members Emeritus

Su Wang

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Medical Director, Center for Asian Health
  • Senior Advisor for Global Health

Thomas Shenk

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
  • Elkins Professor, Dept. of Molecular Biology, Princeton University

Walter Tsou

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Adjunct Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Wayne Yetter

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Member of the BOARD OFFICERS Team
  • Secretary
  • Founding CEO of Astra Merck and Novartis ( USA )

William Mason

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus, Fox Chase Cancer Center ( 2022 )

Yasmin Ibrahim

Job Titles:
  • Public Health Program Director