Eric Zuckerman was born in Brooklyn, raised on Long Island, and received his BA in Psychobiology from SUNY at Buffalo and medical school in Des Moines, Iowa before coming to Detroit in 1981 for residency training in Ophthalmology.
Eric became program director of the Ophthalmology Residency training program in Detroit through Michigan State University in 1987, training residents for over 10 years and is presently in private practice.
His daughter diagnosed with Crohn's disease in 2004 and has been in remission for 3 years. Eric has learned that a good day is when she is feeling well and is forever grateful to those who have participated in her medical care.
Eric has served as a specialist on the Advisory Board at Blue Cross and continues to be involved in graduate medical education.
Scott is a 1975 graduate of Tufts University and a 1978 graduate of Boston College Law School. He is a partner in the Boston firm of Tucker, Heifetz & Saltzman, LLP.
Scott represents parties in all areas of civil litigation with a concentration in personal injury cases involving motor vehicles, products liability, premises liability, construction, nursing home liability and professional liability as well as commercial disputes.
He is a member and Past-President of the Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association. He is a member of International Association of Defense Counsel, DRI, TIDA, ABOTA and The Council on Litigation Management.
Scott served as a faculty member for the IADC’s Defense Counsel Trial Academy in 1995, and was the Director of the Trial Academy in 2003. He currently serves as the President of the IADC Foundation.
He currently serves as the President of the Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Foundation.
Scott’s wife, Fran Sherman is a professor at Boston College Law School and is the Director of the Juvenile Rights Advocacy Project. They have three children, Leah, Sarah and Jake.
Rodney is a producer for Turner Sports, responsible for some of the organization's award-winning sports programming on both the TBS and TNT networks.
Joining Turner in 1996, Rodney was Turner Sports' first full‐time African- American producer and since that time has served in a variety of roles in a number of top‐rated telecasts including TNT's multi-Emmy® award-winning Inside the NBA and the 2005 British Open which also was awarded an Emmy®.
In October 2007 Rodney served as the producer of the network's innovative broadband channel, TBS Hot Corner on MLB.com, where he coordinated and produced a live broadcast every night of the postseason. Rodney was also the producer of NBA All-Star Saturday Night since 2007 and the 2009 NBA All-Star Game encore. He has also produced the British Open encore broadcasts since 2006. In 2008, Rodney produced Atlanta Braves games on Peachtree TV.
Joel Shapiro is the Chief Executive Officer of Timbervest, LLC, and has direct responsibility for the overall leadership, strategy and marketing of Timbervest and its related entities. Under his leadership, Timbervest with $2 billion in assets under management, has grown into one of the premier investment managers in the timberland, environmental infrastructure and opportunistic real estate asset classes.
Joel has 25 years of experience in the investment industry, having previously founded Shapiro Capital Management, one of the nation's premier "small-cap value" money management firms. In addition, he was the founder and president of The Atlanta Growth Fund, a publicly traded mutual fund, deploying a regionally focused investment strategy.
Throughout his career, he has developed novel approaches to investments and investment theories, and his views and concepts have been published, noted and written about in books and journals, as well as various national publications.
Shari Mae Wyner Narva earned her B.S. in Human Development and Family Studies at Cornell University and an MSW at Smith College. Her has worked in child and family therapy in community mental health, child protective work in the legal system, private practice, and business consulting.
Shari has presented at a number national psychological association meetings and many university based family business programs. She volunteers as "Sparkle," a pediatric hospital clown, at Boston Medical Center.
When her son Zachary was diagnosed with IBD her skills as a case manager and advocate were never more critically utilized. She has an abiding concern and respect for how difficult such management can be and understands the need for effective communication and advocacy on behalf of IBD patients.
Shari and Zach have worked with medical students at Harvard Medical School, based on Zach's inpatient experience, to sensitize the students to the emotional needs of patients.
Dora Lewin is a Private Client Advisor at U.S. Trust Private Wealth Management at Bank of America. She is responsible for developing and managing key high and ultra high net worth relationships within the Private Bank. Dora has worked in Banking for over two decades.
Dora has served as the Treasurer of the Friends of Brigham and Women's Hospital for 10 years, co-chair of various arts organization (Boston Camerata, Topf Dance Center, Boston Conservatory Chamber Players, Boston Public Library Foundation) and currently serves as a Director for the African Women Health Education Fund (AWHEF).
Dora and her husband Michael are dedicated to furthering the goal of finding a cure for inflammatory bowel disease. Their son Jeremy was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis at age 6.
Robert Becker earned his BA and MA at New York University, and PhD at the University of Reading (UK). He was awarded a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh and several research grants, serving also as a professor of English and scholar with an international research program (still active).
In the mid 1980s he left the classroom to design and produce interactive corporate learning. in 1994 he founded Becker Multimedia, a creative agency in the e-learning and serious game industries.
Bob's wife Jody is on staff at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. Their children are currently undergraduates at the University of Chicago and Vassar College.
Their daughter was diagnosed with Crohn's in the third grade and managed the disease successfully under the phenomenal care of Dr. Stan Cohen, the Pediatric IBD Consortium investigator who introduced Bob to the Foundation. Now her brother is interning in the lab of gastroenterologist Dr. David Rubin at the University of Chicago Hospital - in his own way, helping in the search for a cure.
