About Us

Board of Directors

Chair

Gina Wilkerson, DVM
Senior Officer Animal Welfare and Ethics
GSK Pharmaceuticals

Directors

Harut Avsaroglu DVM, PhD, Dipl. ECLAM
Executive Director, Global Laboratory Animal Resources
Inotiv

Cindy Buckmaster, PhD
Director of Operations
Washington National Primate Research Center

Shelly Carballo
Business Development Manager
BASi Research Products

Laura Conour, DVM, DACLAM
Executive Director, Laboratory Animal Resources
Princeton Neuroscience Institute

Michael T. Fallon, DVM, PhD
Retired from U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA)

John J. Fung, MD, PhD
Chief, Section of Transplantation Surgery
Director, University of Chicago Medicine Transplantation Institute
University of Chicago Medicine

Alissa Hatfield, M.S.
Science Policy Manager
American Physiological Society

Richard B. Huneke, DVM, MPH, DACLAM
Director, University Laboratory Animal Resources
Drexel University College of Medicine

J. David Jentsch, PhD
Professor, Behavioral Neurosciences
SUNY – Binghamton University

Nakpangi A. Johnson, PhD
Director, Toxiocology& Laboratory Animal Resources
Incyte Corporation

Sonnet S. Jonker, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Loma Linda University

Joe Kays
Director, Research Communications
University of Florida

Tom Leach, Esq
Executive Director
New Jersey Association for Biomedical Research and Pennsylvania Society for Biomedical Research

Jennie Lofgren, DVM, MS, DACLAM
Global Head of Animal Welfare and Compliance
Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research

Jim Newman
Group Account Director
K Harvey Brand Partners

Lisa Newbern
Chief, Public Affairs
Emory National Primate Research Center

Stacy Pritt, DVM, MS, MBA, CPIA, CHRC, EXCS, ECoP(EAR), DACAW
Associate Vice Chancellor & Chief Research Compliance Officer
The Texas A&M University System

Amy Puffenberger, MAM
Strategic Communications Manager, Animal Care & Use Program
University of Michigan

Allison Thiede, DVM, DACLAM
Senior Clinical Veterinarian
AbbVie

Brian Turner
Vice Presidient, Corporate Security
Bristol Myers Squibb

Bill Yates, PhD
Vice Chancellor for Research Protections and Professor of Otolaryngology and Neuroscience
University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine

Honorary Directors

Jacquie Calnan, MPA

Howard C. Hughes, VMD

In Memoriam
John D. Young, VMD, MS