Foundation Team
Hubbard Foundation Board of Directors, 2012
David R. Hubbard, MD - Chairman of the Board
David Hubbard, MD is a neurologist, fMRI researcher, and Chairman of the Hubbard Foundation board. He is a founding member and treasurer of the International Society for NeuroVascular Disease (ISNVD), along with Drs. Zamboni, Haacke, McDonald, Simka, and Zvadinov. He is the Medical Director of the Applied fMRI Institute and has been researching blood flow within the brain since 2007. He began studying Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Central Nervous System (CNS) blood flow when his son was diagnosed with MS in 2009. He is co-author of 2 publications on CCSVI, has 2 of his own publications pending, and has spoken internationally on CCSVI.
He received his BA in Philosophy from Yale University (1970), MA in Counseling Psychology from Stanford (1971), and his MD from the University of Connecticut (1977). Dr. Hubbard’s neurology residency was completed at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, NY), where he was Chief Resident, and he continued his education in Cognitive Neuroscience at University of California San Diego (2003).
Arlene Hubbard, MS, OTR/L - Vice-Chair, Secretary
Arlene Hubbard, MS, OTR/L, is the wife of David Hubbard, MD, and mother of Team Hubbard. She is an Occupational Therapist by training with a Masters degree in Counseling. She helped implement the first cardiac rehabilitation program and BMHC in New York City. She and David Hubbard, MD, initiated the neurology rehabilitation program rounds, in an effort to discern which patients required early rehabilitation. Arlene and David have over 30 years of experience working together and conducting research. Following their son Devin's diagnosis with Multiple Sclerosis in 2009, Arlene was disapointed to learn that little progress had been made in the traditional treatment of MS. This prompted her to seek alternative approaches, which eventually led her to Dr. Paolo Zamboni's CCSVI theory. The discovery led to CCSVI treatment for Devin and the resolution of his symptoms. He has been lesion free for over a year. Arlene's love for her son and her deep commitment to all MS patients ultimately inspired and motivated the Hubbard Foundation to begin studying CCSVI in 2010. Since then, 400 people with MS have been tested and treated for CCSVI through the Hubbard Foundation.
Arlene has been the catalyst for promoting a healthy lifestyle and diet for MS-CCSVI patients. In addition to her work with the Hubbard Foundation, Arlene works with Dr. Sandy McDonald on the Public Relations Committee of the International Society for Neurovascular Disease (ISNVD.org). Arlene enjoys meeting with patients and their families during her frequent visits to the Hubbard Foundation's Applied fMRI Institute in San Diego.
Mira Habel - Treasurer
Mira Habel has been the Corporate Controller of Kennon S. Shea and Associates (KSSA), a privately held Administrative Services Company, since October 2008. KSSA provides financial, administrative, and clinical services to 7 skilled nursing facilities, an assisted living facility, and a home care operation. All operations are located in San Diego County, have common ownership and, in total, employ nearly 1,000 employees. Previously (2004 – 2008), Mira was the Controller of Artes Medical, Inc., a publicly traded company, which manufactured ArteFill, an injectable permanent dermal filler. Mira was a key contributor to Artes Medical’s IPO registration statement in 2006. Mira was Controller (2002-2004) and Director of Financial Planning and Analysis (1996-2002) for Collateral Therapeutics, Inc., a publicly traded biotech company. Prior to 1996, Ms. Habel was employed by various hi-tech companies with increasing levels of responsibilities. She received her BSBA, with an accounting emphasis, from San Diego State University.
Danielle Rhéaume, MFA - Communications Chair
Danielle Rhéaume (pr. ray-ohm) is the CCSVI Communications Manager for Vascular Access Centers—a Philadelphia-based healthcare company with outpatient treatment centers throughout the United States. She works closely with the CEO, Dr. James McGuckin, an interventional radiologist and bioengineer, on development and administration of VAC’s CCSVI program, which is proudly part of the Hubbard Foundation Multi-Center Registry for the Study of CCSVI. She also regularly plans special events, creates educational materials, and advocates for MS/CCSVI patients in the United States and Canada. As a citizen of both countries, she is uniquely positioned to understand the challenges patients experience on both sides of the border.
Danielle is also uniquely positioned to understand both MS and CCSVI, because of being diagnosed at birth with a rare, complex and incurable venous malformation in her left foot. Throughout adolescence and adulthood, she learned what havoc problematic veins could wreak in the body. So, when she came across Zamboni’s CCSVI theory within days of receiving her MS diagnosis in May of 2010, she was already convinced there was a strong correlation between CCSVI and Multiple Sclerosis. She then committed herself to getting treatment, while also increasing knowledge of CCSVI within the MS community. Just a couple of days after being diagnosed, she pitched a story on CCSVI to Seattle’s ABC news affiliate, KOMO. That autumn, KOMO followed Danielle and fellow patient, Tarah Virgil, down to the Hubbard Foundation to document their successful and beneficial CCSVI procedures. That was when Danielle’s association with the Hubbard Foundation began. Today she is delighted and honored to be on their Board of Governance, where she is able to bring her writing experience and passion for CCSVI to the Communications Committee
She has a Master of Fine Arts in Research-based Nonfiction Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles (AULA) and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from The Evergreen State College (TESC) in Olympia, Washington. She currently resides in Seattle, where she is an active member of the patient led advocacy group, CCSVI in Seattle. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her black standard poodle, as well as writing a book about her experiences discovering and returning the lost lyrics to U2’s album October.
Ann Boroch, CNC, Naturopath
Ann Boroch is a certified nutritional consultant, naturopath, clinical hypnotherapist, certified iridologist, educator, author, and inspirational speaker. She is a graduate of the International Society of Naturopathy, the Holmes Center for Hypnotherapy, the American Association of Nutritional Consultants, and Bernard Jensen's International Iridology Practitioners Association.
Ann healed herself from Multiple Sclerosis and has been symptom-free for 17 years. She specializes in allergies, autoimmune diseases, gastrointestinal disorders, endocrine imbalances, weight loss, depression/anxiety, and is an expert on the silent epidemic, Candida. Ann uses various integrative natural approaches to help her clients: nutritional therapy, herbs, supplements, detoxification methods, and hydrotherapy. Her successful practice of 14 years in Los Angeles, California, has helped thousands of clients achieve optimum health. Ann’s passion is to help people realize that the body has an innate intelligence that allows it to heal itself—the key is to give it the right environment for a long enough period of time.
Ann has appeared on national radio and television, including a feature appearance on The Montel Williams Show, where she promoted her breakthrough book, Healing Multiple Sclerosis (also in Spanish and Italian) that was released 2007. Her latest book, The Candida Cure: The 90-Day Program to Beat Candida and Restore Vibrant Health (also in French and Italian) came out March 2009.
Ashton Embry, Ph.D
Dr. Embry is a Geoscience expert in Canada and an important advocate for MS research. He founded Direct-MS (www.direct-ms.org), an organization that has been providing access to and funding for scientific research to evaluate dietary strategies in slowing or halting MS progression. The organization recently began providing access to scientific research on CCSVI and MS as well. Direct-MS has contributed funding to: CCSVI research at University of Buffalo, evaluation of the nutrition and electrical stimulation program at the Wahls Foundation (University of Iowa), study of Vitamin D and MS at the University of Toronto and Mt. Sinai Hospital.
Dana Hubbard Kaminsky, RN
Dana Hubbard Kaminsky holds a nursing degree from Cornell University, and did her undergraduate work at Vassar College (New York). At Cornell, she worked in the in-patient and out-patient settings and ER. Dana served as Head Nurse of Pediatrics at Jacksonville Children’s Hospital (Florida), and was a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Pediatric Cardiology at Duke University Medical Center (Durham, NC).
She is the sister of Dr. David Hubbard, and a strong supporter of the Hubbard Foundation’s research mission to ultimately find a cure for MS, and of her nephew, Devin, who was diagnosed with MS in 2009.
Bart Locanthi, PhD
Bart Locanthi, PhD, holds degrees in Engineering and Computer Science from Caltech. He has been a researcher at Bell Laboratories and helped found Silicon Graphics, Responsys, and other startups.
Bart is interested in neurovascular disease at all levels—including imaging and information display, data management, fluid mechanics, modeling, and analyzing clinical outcomes across a spectrum of disease, including MS, chronic fatigue, Parkinson's, and dementia, in general.
Bart currently works at Google and lives in Mountain View, California.
Carol Schumacher
"All for one and one for All" Carol works to promote research into CCSVI and its link to MS and other chronic diseases. She is a founding member of the Bay Area CCSVI MSketeers. The MSketeers has done fundraising for Michael Dake's research at Stanford, and meet regularly with local MS support groups to keep them informed on CCSVI research and treatment options. She is also an advisor to the Annette Funicello Research Fund for Neurological Disorders, and is helping to organize their scientific advisory board, select research proposals worthy of funding, and fundraise for needed resources.
Carol is a partner in the Mid-Peninsula Animal Hospital (midpen.com), and has recently retired from the California Veterinary Medical Board's Registered Veterinary Technician Committee, where she served as chair. She has 3 grown children and 2 grandchildren. Carol has SPMS, was treated for CCSVI in 2010, and is enjoying the benefits, which have personally motivated her to share her significant improvements. The treatment has allowed her to resume a full life and start a new hobby making fused glass art with her supportive husband, Scott.
Staff
Alexandra Meyerowitz, Executive Director
Alexandra Hubbard Meyerowitz has been managing her family's foundation since its inception in early 2007. In 2010, she became the president of the organization and director of development, managing its two national registries and San Diego study, as well as partnering with other organizations and philanthropists to end MS. As a family member of someone with MS, she is passionate about the organization's mission and her parents' vision for the future of MS research.
Alexandra holds a BA in Philosophy from San Diego State University, and has continued her education in health sciences and non-profit management. Her main hobby is Yoga; she is an avid practitioner, a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT), and a volunteer, teaching yoga and meditation to kids with behavioral disorders in San Diego. Alexandra also is on the board of her husband Adam Meyerowitz's non-profit, the Hero Inside Foundation, which helps children cope with illness through mind/body medicine techniques.
Science Board
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