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Officers and directors

The officers and board of directors of the Lupus Research Institute are lay leaders in the lupus community, representatives of state lupus organizations, lupus scientists, and medical clinicians. All are dedicated and fully committed to conquering lupus without delay.

Jack Lavery, Co-chair
Past president, S.L.E. Lupus Foundation;
CEO and chairman, Lavery Consulting Group
Chairman & CEO, Lavery Consulting Group, L.L.C.

Immediately prior to forming his own economic and public policy research firm, Jack Lavery was Visiting Professor and Executive in Residence on the undergraduate and graduate faculty of the Stillman School of Business of Seton Hall University. Prior to that, Mr. Lavery had a distinguished 20-year career in key management positions at Merrill Lynch & Co: from Chief Economist worldwide of Merrill Lynch & Co., to the executive role of Director of Global Equities.

Mr. Lavery formerly served as Chairman of the Board, Lupus Foundation of America and as a member of the S.L.E. Foundation Board of Directors.


Robert J. Ravitz, Co-chair
Past president, S.L.E. Lupus Foundation
Principal, David J Greene and Company, L.L.C.

Robert J. Ravitz received his bachelor of science from Colgate University in 1951, and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1956. He practiced law for six years in New York before joining the investment firm of David J. Greene & Co. in 1962, where he currently is a principal.

Mr. Ravitz is a board member and former president of the S.L.E. Lupus Foundation, and a founding member of the Lupus Research Institute. He lives in Manhattan with his wife.


Margaret G. Dowd, President

Steve Alexander

John Buck

Kathleen Buck

Jerome A. Chazen

Debra Cowan

Roger Cowan

Jennie DeScherer

Richard K. DeScherer

C.J. Feinberg

Anita Fricklas

Susan Golick

Hope Hetherington

Thomas R. Kaplan

Stuart S. Kassan, MD
Lupus Foundation of Colorado

Robert S. Katz, MD

Jack Lavery

Diane O'Connor
Lupus Mid-Atlantic

Robert J. Ravitz

JoAnn Quinn
Lupus Alliance of America

Arthur Selkowitz

Daniel J. Wallace, MD
Lupus LA

Carol Weisman

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