Our Team

Our Executive Director, Board members, and all other personnel are unpaid volunteers.

Jonathan Prather, Ph.D.

Executive Director

President

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Bend Biomedical

Bend, Oregon

Tolu Oyewumi, M.D., M.P.H.

Board of Directors

Chairperson

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Physician-Scientist

Live Love Lead Consulting

Denver, Colorado

Kei Inoue, M.S.

Board of Directors

Vice President

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Scientist II

Serán Bioscience

Bend, Oregon

Ryan Dunlap, C.P.A.

Board of Directors

Treasurer

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Chief Financial Officer

Gurobi Optimization

Portland, Oregon

Amanda Swick

Outreach Coordinator

Secretary

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Bend Biomedical

Bend, Oregon

Tameem Bakkar

Board of Directors

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CEO

Ensemble Technical Services

Orlando, Florida

Kajari Bandyopadhyay, M.D.

Board of Advisors

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Assistant Professor, Community Medicine

College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital

Kolkata, India

Sitikantha Banerjee, M.D.

Board of Advisors

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Senior Resident

Community Medicine

All India Institute of Medical Sciences

Kolkata, India

Jason Barron, J.D., Ph.D.

Board of Directors

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Senior Counsel

Acer Therapeutics Inc.

Bend, Oregon

Steve Becker

Board of Directors

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Principal Security Consultant

FireEye, Inc.

Bellevue, Washington

Kim Cummings, M.D.

Board of Advisors

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Pediatrician

Virginia Garcia Wellness Center

Beaverton, Oregon

Neil Dial, J.D.

Board of Directors

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Corporate Attorney

Eisenhower Carlson PLLC

Auburn, Washington

Valerie Fauvelle, M.S.

Board of Advisors

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Senior Vice President for Regulatory Affairs

Chinook Therapeutics, Inc.

Seattle, Washington

Alyson (Aly) Fuller, J.D., Ph.D.

Board of Directors

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VP Intellectual Property and Government Affairs

Prolacta Bioscience

Bend, Oregon

Bedan Gichanga, M.D., M.B.A.

Board of Advisors

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Chief Medical Officer

Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Linda Goodwin, R.N., Ph.D.

Board of Directors

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Retired Professor and IRB Member

Duke University

Klamath Falls, Oregon

Sunil Khanna, Ph.D.

Board of Directors

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Professor and Chair, Global Health

Oregon State University

Corvallis, Oregon

Cindy Lee Riesen, R.N.

Board of Directors

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Research Biologist

Case Western Reserve University

Bay Village, Ohio

RuthAnn Sapinsky, B.S.N.

Board of Advisors

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Emergency Department Nurse

Southwest Washington Medical Center

Vancouver, Washington

Ward Smith

Board of Directors

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Director, Marketing & Business Development

Keystone Folding Box Company

Cincinnati, Ohio

Charley Rowe, Ph.D.

Editorial Advisor

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Bend Biomedical

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Raven Hollister, CNA

Intern

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Bend Biomedical

Bend, Oregon

Jaron Swick

Webmaster

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Bend Biomedical

Bend, Oregon

Foreign Board members are Advisors and not Directors, because our insurance carrier for Directors and Officers insurance requires it.

We also have eleven "Young Advisors." We are kids age 7 to 14 in Central Oregon.

Our names are Millie, Josh, Gabriel, Brennan, Justus, Josiah, Moriah, Joslin, Devon, Lane, and Jaron (I'm a Young Advisor in addition to being the Bend Biomedical webmaster).

Here the Young Advisors are asking nicely for improved medicines and medicines in short supply to go to kids in poor countries:

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