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The P-POD Staff

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  • Bob LeRoy, MS EdM MAT RDN, Founder/President

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  • Anju Madan, MPH RDN, Director of Operations (on maternity leave)

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  • Michele Gallo, MS MPT ACSM-CEP NBC-HWC, Director of Speaker and Volunteer Relations

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  • Melinda Benz, RDN, Co-Director of Marketing and Productivity

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  • Suzie Genyk, MPH RDN, Co-Director of Marketing and Productivity

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  • Allison Kolb, BS, Special Projects Leader

Gratitude for many past years of service as Co-Coordinators!

  • Laura Aliberti, MA BS

  • Kelsey Q. Cherry, RDN CSG LDN

P-POD Nonprofit Board of Directors Members

P-POD Board Members Honored As on Extended Leave

  • Mladen Golubic, MD PhD FACLM DipABLM

  • Micaela Karlsen, PhD MSPH

  • Milton Mills, MD

  • Annamarie Rodriguez, RDN LD FAND

P-POD Former Board Members

Our P-POD nonprofit expresses deep gratitude for past service of our former board members:

•Joanne Evans, RN PMHCNS-BC MEd (2023-2024)
•Amber Orman, MD DipABLM (2023-2024)

•Qadira M. Ali, MD MPH FAAP DipABLM (2021-2024)
•Chef Nina Curtis, MBA (2020-2023)

•Kathy Pollard, MS (2015-2023)
•Matt Ruscigno, MPH RDN (2015-2023)
•Caroline Trapp, DNP ANP-BC CDCES DipACLM FAANP (2015-2021)
•Monique Richard, MS RDN LDN (2015-2019)
•Tim Radak, DrPH MPH RDN (2018-2018)
•Robert Ostfeld, MD MSc FACC (2015-2017)

P-POD Founding Endorsers, 2014

Our founder (Bob LeRoy), first staff members, first speakers, and individuals who offered crucial encouragement or support at early moments in our history.

Carol Barnett

PhD

Ted Barnett

MD FACLM DipABLM

Julie Covington

PhD MS RDN LDN

Katie Cox

MFA

Mladen Golubic

MD PhD FACLM DipABLM

Joseph Gonzales
RDN LDN

Bob LeRoy     

MS EdM RDN     

Susan Levin

MS RDN CSSD (deceased)

Robert Ostfeld

MD MSc FACC

Jeff Novick

MS RDN

Matt Ruscigno

MPH RDN

Janardhan Srinivasan

MD FACC

Julia M.W. Wong 

PhD RD

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This is the team and the

community we began with.

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Lauren Brady
MA RDN

T. Colin Campbell

PhD

Brenda Davis

RD

Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr.

MD

Suzanne Hobbs

DrPH MS RDN

Micaela Karlsen

PhD MSPH

Julie Loveless

BS BA (deceased)

Baxter Montgomery

MD FACC

Jill Nussinow

MS RDN

Myriam Parham

RDN LDN CDCES

Caroline Trapp        
DNP ANP-BC CDCES DipACLM    

Gabrielle Turner-McGrievy

  PhD MS RDN FTOS

....and all the conference

volunteers!

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Thomas M.Campbell II   

MD  

   Paulette Chandler

   MD MPH

Stephan Esser

MD

Hope Ferdowsian

MD MPH FACP FACPM

Parul Kharod

MS RDN LDN

Amy Lanou

PhD

Meghan Murphy

BA (deceased)

William Najger

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Kathy Pollard

MS

Tim Radak

DrPH MPH RDN

Van White

ChE MBA

W. Shane Williams

MD FRCP(C)

....and all the conference

attendees!

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