C.L.A.S.S. BOARD OF DIRECTORS
& COMMITTEE MEMBERS
The individuals listed below have generously volunteered their
time, talents, and expertise in support of our mission.
Board of Directors
Diane Sumner
President
Parent of a child with biliary atresia & liver transplant
Email: Support Srv@aol.com
Ann Whitehead, RN, JD
Vice-President
Peg McDonald
Secretary
Parent of a teenager with biliary atresia
Beverly Greaney
Treasurer
Sharyn Ahlstrom
Parent of an adult child with biliary atresia
Arden Anderson
Grandparent of a child with biliary atresia & liver transplant
WIlliam Berquist, MD
Roger Brooks
Suzanne Brooks
Scott Hand
Website Design
Parent of a child with biliary atresia
& living donor liver transplant
Joe McDonald
Parent of a teenager with biliary atresia
Melissa Morris
Donna Roy
Northern California Representative
C.L.A.S.S. Care Package Coordinator
C.L.A.S.S. Chat Room
Coordinator
Parent of a child with biliary atresia
Mark Sumner
Parent of a child with biliary atresia & liver transplant
Advisory Committee
Laurie Johansen
Discussion Forum Administrator
Website Manager
Editor, C.L.A.S.S. Notes Newsletter
Parent of a child with
biliary atresia
Cathy Olmo
Organ Donor Awareness
Parent of a child with neonatal hepatitis liver transplant
Scientific Advisory Committee
William E. Berquist, MD
Chairman, C.L.A.S.S. Scientific Advisory Board
Director, Pediatric Liver Transplant Program
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford
750 Welch Road #116
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Ronald W. Busuttil, MD, PhD
Director, The Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center
10833 Le Conte Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Robert A. Cannon, MD
Region Sub Chief of Gastroenterology
Kaiser Permanente of Sacramento
2025 Morse Avenue
Sacramento, CA 95825
Kenneth Cox, MD
Chief, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and
Nutrition
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford
750 Welch Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Jean Emond, MD
Director, Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
177 Fort Washington Avenue, MHB 7SK
New York, NY 10032
Carlos Esquivel, MD
Program Director, Pediatric Liver Transplantation
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford
750 Welch Road, Suite 319
Palo Alto, Ca 94304
Melvin Heyman, MD, MPH
Chief of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
University of California-San Francisco
Department of Pediatrics, Box 0136, Room MU-4
San Francisco, CA 94143-0136
Jeffrey Punch, MD
Medical Editor, C.L.A.S.S. Notes
Chief, Division of Transplantation
University of Michigan Medical Center
2926 Taubman Center, Box 0331
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Jorge Reyes, MD
Director of Pediatric Liver & Intestine Transplantation
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
3705 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Philip Rosenthal, MD
Medical Director, Pediatric Liver Transplant Program
UCSF Children's Hospital
505 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94143
Frank Sinatra, MD
Children’s Hospital-Los Angeles
Division of Gastroenterology & Nutrition
1240 North Mission, #L939
Los Angeles, CA 90033
Sam So, MD
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford
750 Welch Road, Suite #319
Palo Alto, CA 94304-0126
Jorge Vargas, MD
Associate Professor
Pediatric Gastroenterology/Nutrition
UCLA Medical Center
10833 Le Conte Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024-1684
