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P-POD Staff

The P-POD Staff

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

  • Anju Madan, MPH RDN,
    Director of Operations

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

  • Allison Kolb, BS, Director of Marketing and Productivity

Gratitude for past years of service as Co-Coordinators!

  • Laura Aliberti, MA BS

  • Melinda Benz, RDN

  • Kelsey Q. Cherry, RDN CSG LDN

  • Suzie Genyk, MPH RDN

Nonprofit Board Members

P-POD Nonprofit Board of Directors Members

Our Board Today

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:
•Sheri Orlekoski, RN BS HCSA CRRN (2018-2025)
•Judy Brangman, MD DipABLM (2023-2025)

•Tammy Robertson, RN BSN (2021-2025)

•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)

Board Members Speaking

Board Members Speaking in Upcoming P-POD Series

Each of the two images below shows FIVE presentations that include distinguished P-POD board members as speakers, spanning multiple dates in our Fri. Sept. 25 to Sun. Oct. 18 virtual series.

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Founding Endorsers 2014

The P-POD Nonprofit's Founding Endorsers from 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

   

  

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 (Canada)

Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr.

MD

Suzanne Hobbs

DrPH MS RDN

Micaela Karlsen

PhD MSPH

Julie Loveless

BS BA (deceased)

Baxter Montgomery

MD FACC (deceased)

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

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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