Our Leadership
ACTING EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR*
Jen MacKenzie
*Our Executive Director, Andi Buchanan, is on extended leave as of June 2024. Jen is serving as Acting Executive Director in her absence.
BOARD of DIRECTORS
Martha Bond
Aubrey Bolan
Isaac Brodsky
Cara Gady Church
Jodi Ettenberg
Kyle Spawn
One other board member with significant disability due to spinal CSF leak prefers to remain anonymous at this time.
In memoriam: Amanda J. Pickard, PhD
MEDICAL ADVISORY BOARD
– listed alphabetically –
Timothy Amrhein, MD
Associate Professor
Director of Spine Intervention
Department of Radiology
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Andrew Callen, MD
Assistant Professor of Neuroradiology
Director, CU CSF Leak Program
Department of Radiology
University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
Ian Carroll, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Stanford Headache Clinic
Stanford University School of Medicine, Redwood City, CA
Jeremy Cutsforth-Gregory, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Department of Neurology
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Connie Deline, MD
Founder, Spinal CSF Leak Foundation
Camp Hill, PA
David Dodick, MD
Professor of Neurology
Medical Director of Headache Program
Medical Director of Sport Neurology and Concussion Program
Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ
Deborah Friedman, MD, MPH
Neuro-Ophthalmologist and Headache Medicine Specialist
Dallas, TX
Peter G. Kranz, MD
Associate Professor
Chief, Neuroradiology Division
Department of Radiology
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Linda Gray Leithe, MD
Associate Professor
Division of Neuroradiology
Department of Radiology
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Charles Louy, PhD, MD, MBA
Los Angeles, CA
Mark Mamlouk, MD
Neuroradiology
Radiology lead, The Permanente Medical Group
Kaiser Permanente/University of California San Francisco
Santa Clara, CA
Marcel Maya, MD
Co-chair, Department of Imaging
S. Mark Taper Foundation Imaging Center
Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA
Abhay Moghekar, MBBS (Chair)
Associate Professor of Neurology, Otolayngology and Neurosurgery
Research Director, Center for CSF Disorders
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
Simy Parikh, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Jefferson Headache Center
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Jill Rau, MD, PhD
Neurologist- Headache Specialist
HonorHealth Neuroscience Institute, Scottsdale, AZ
Wouter Schievink, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery
Director, Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak Program
Director, Vascular Neurosurgery Program
Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA
Stephen Silberstein, MD
Professor of Neurology
Director, Jefferson Headache Center
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
In Memoriam:
Bahram Mokri, MD of Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Served from 2015-2017