Leadership

Our board is a self-funded entity whose primary purpose is to enhance patient care through seed funding of social services programs, volunteerism, and education.

Auxiliary Board Officers

  • President: Joanna Sirulnick
  • Vice President: Leslie May Blauner
  • Vice President: Lisa Lowenthal Pruzan
  • Secretary: Brooke Effron
  • Treasurer: Malva Rabinowitz
  • Assistant Treasurer: Holly Zimmerman
  • Project Funding & Review Chairs: Audrey Bedolis and Jennifer Price
  • Marketing: Wendy Forman Myers and Eileen Solomon
  • Nominating & Governance Chair: Lisa Lowenthal Pruzan
  • Program Committee Chairs: Melissa Komaroff, Aline Shapiro, Stephanie Steinberg  

Auxiliary Board Members

  • Audrey Bedolis
  • Hillary Beckman
  • Barbara R. Biben
  • Leslie May Blauner
  • Jean C. Crystal
  • Brooke Effron
  • Bettina Emden^
  • Karen C. Fang
  • Sue K. Feld
  • Anita R. Fields^
  • Karen H. Freedberg
  • Bonnie Gray
  • Marlene A. Herring
  • Anne Herrmann
  • Elizabeth Feld Herzberg
  • Aileen T. Janover
  • Amber Ju
  • Miki Kagan
  • Ellen S. Klapper
  • Linda Klein
  • Melissa Komaroff
  • A. Gale Kroeger
  • Audrey Kubie^
  • Valerie Levy
  • Lisa Licht
  • Jennifer Lipschultz
  • Ellen Lowey
  • Cindy Mark
  • Wendy Forman Myers
  • Donna L. Navarro
  • Jane C. Novick
  • Jennifer Price
  • Lisa Lowenthal Pruzan
  • Malva Rabinowitz
  • Deborah Ribner
  • Jennifer S. Rich
  • Elizabeth Rile
  • Liz Rile
  • Marjorie Ross
  • Bellanca Smigel Rutter
  • Edie Schur*
  • Aline Shapiro
  • Hillary Sherman
  • Margie Schneidman
  • Radhika Shroff
  • Joanna Sirulnick
  • Roberta M. Smith
  • Eileen Solomon
  • Stephanie Steinberg
  • Maura Surnamer
  • Jodi L. Sussman
  • Jephtha Tausig
  • Susan L. West
  • Carol Zicklin
  • Holly Zimmerman
  • Jane Litwin Zimmerman

*Honorary Members
^Leave of Absence (LOA)

Past Presidents

  • 2021 – Present: Joanna Sirulnick
  • 2017 – 2021: A. Gale Kroeger
  • 2013 – 2017: Jennifer Price
  • 2010 – 2013: Jephtha Tausing
  • 2006 – 2010: Maura Surnamer
  • 2000 – 2006: Sue K. Feld
  • 1996 – 2000: Jean C. Crystal
  • 1991 – 1996: Karen Freedberg
  • 1986 – 1991: Edith Schur
  • 1981 – 1986: Patricia Levinson
  • 1976 – 1981: Mary Wolf
  • 1971 – 1976: Ruth Klein
  • 1966 – 1971: Jane Aron
  • 1961 – 1966: Henrietta Weil
  • 1956 – 1961: Helen Benjamin
  • 1949 – 1956: Hortense Hirsch
  • 1917 – 1949: Ruth Cook
  • 1916 – 1917: Edith Lehman