Board of Directors
Phillip Bradford
Co-Founder, Board Chair, President & CEO
During the prior 35 years, before co-founding Immune Recovery Foundation, Inc, Phillip Bradford achieved Sales and Marketing success as a Business Entrepreneur, Management Consultant, Corporate Director and Marketing Consultant.
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Detail oriented, Phil is highly skilled in business finance, negotiation, client relations and organizational oversight. In addition to years of aiding small and medium sized under-served businesses in successfully obtaining needed capital, he has also recruited, trained mentored small business executives and entrepreneurs.
Phil’s looks forward to using his hands-on experience in the areas of nonprofit operations, donor engagement, strategy development, systems enhancement, strategic planning, advertising & promotions, contract negotiations, and marketing to aid in IRF’s growth and development.
Snejana Sharkar, RND, FNP, ACNP
Board Member
Snejana Sharkar, Principal Healthcare Provider and Founder of Indigo Integrative Health Clinic is an ANCC Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) and an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP). She has more than 30 years experience
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in Family Practice Medicine, Cardiology, Naturopathic and Functional Medicine, with a special interest in immune system imbalances, as seen with patients diagnosed with cancer, Lyme disease and more.
Further, Snejana is Board Certified in Integrative Medicine and a member of the American Association of Integrative Medicine, Registered Naturopathic Diplomat (RND), American Holistic Medical Association (AHMA) and the American Academy of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP), DC Association of Naturopathic Physicians (DCANP), American Academy of Restorative Medicine (AARM), International Lyme and Associated Disease Society (ILADS), Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) and the Academy for Insulin Potentiation Therapy Low Dose (IPTLD).
Norma Gonzalez
Board Member
With 15 plus years experience in the Medical Management sector, Norma Gonzalez is known for her versatile talent in administrative management. A dedicated professional, Norma developed expertise through her career building business
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and nonprofit roles as a Managing Director of Client Support and Implementation, Practice Administrator, Office Manager, Executive Assistant, Patient Care Coordinator, and Customer Service Representative. She successfully increased engagement with customers, patients, and employees as well as improved internal systems and processes resulting in patient satisfaction, increased efficiency and the organizations’ bottom line.
Jacqueline Burrell
Co-Founder, Board Secretary & Vice President
Jacqueline Burrell, Principal of J Burrell Communications, LLC, has a wealth of senior level experience in business development, project management, change management, facilitation and strategic communications, providing oversight and leadership.
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A former award winning journalist, she has worked in all mediums: television and radio, wire, newspaper, magazine, social media, and the Web. Today, Jacqueline is a communications specialist handling a variety of communications and program needs for associations, non-profits, start-up companies and well-established organizations, bringing a distinctive and creative perspective.
Jacqueline provides solutions to organizations with special projects and major initiatives. Known for her highly collaborative style and experience, she has a unique ability to hone key messages that connect with diverse audiences. Jacqueline not only develops messages that resonate with her clients’ target audiences, but also leverages the most effective methods to deliver those messages.
Advisory Board
Col James Paige, USA (Ret)
Board Advisor
James “Jim” Paige, President/CEO, PTG Consulting Group and Executive Director/Co-Founder, Concerned Citizens Network of Alexandria (CCNA), has a wealth of senior level experience in military operations, logistics, international
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affairs, program management and community outreach. He is known as a brilliant strategic planner. Currently, as head of CCNA, Jim networks with state and local elected officials, other area nonprofit organizations and the local school system with a focus on educational improvement for under-served and at-risk students as well as civic, health and social issues that affect the community.
Jim also served as Senior Advisor for the U.S. Army National Museum project. In that role, he worked with potential donors, senior leaders, the academic community, and conducted oral history interviews with Tuskegee Airmen, Sioux Code Talkers, and other military veterans.
Pam Rattananont
Board Advisor
Pam Rattananont is an accomplished life sciences and patient advocacy leader with over 25 years of experience in the field. With a proven track record of delivering outstanding results for pharmaceutical/biotech partners, patients, advocates, and care partners, she helped each in addressing challenges with care coordination and accessibility to care in patient populations with high unmet medical needs such as cancer and rare diseases.
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Pam began her career in medical education and has held leadership positions with renowned organizations such as Takeda Pharmaceuticals, The Association of Community Cancer Centers, Academy of Oncology Patient & Nurse Navigators, and Global Genes. Her experience in these roles allowed her to drive transformative initiatives and collaborate with key stakeholders to improve patient outcomes and ensuring that patients, their care partners, and healthcare teams are equipped with the knowledge, confidence, and resources to make informed, shared treatment decisions.
Pam holds a Master of Public Health degree from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience from Colgate University. Her passion, focus, and dedication have been recognized with several prestigious awards and executive development programs. She has been honored as one of PharmaVoice’s 100 Most Inspiring People and has been included in Folio’s Top Women in Media and selected for the Women in Leadership programs.
Kelli Baxter
Board Advisor
As Managing Partner at KG1 Consulting, Kelli Baxter has provided strategic oversight and leadership for nonprofit associations and for-profit businesses. Kelli served in national senior management roles as Executive Director, Deputy Executive Director,
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and Chief Operating Officer providing leadership, change management, business development, marketing, and communications for key clients.
With more than 15 years of success, Kelli is known for her detailed oriented mindset and as a skilled strategist and negotiator with a strong ability for management of finances, performance of complex operations, advancing organization objectives, while building positive client relations, cultivating business development/growth, and sustaining financial viability for high-growth organizations that she has had the pleasure of working with throughout her career.
Dejan (Dan) Glisovic, M.D.
Board Advisor
Dan Glisovic, MD is a Senior Medical Director at Cara Therapeutics and a physician with over 20 years of experience in clinical trials and drug development. He has contributed to the development of numerous new life-changing medications in the fields of immunology, oncology, nephrology, MS, and rare diseases.
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In his role, Dr. Glisovic evaluates the benefits and risks of medical compounds, diagnostics, and devices, including epidemiology of specific indication, natural course of disease, standard of care and alternative treatment options. He also provides therapeutic training to project teams and presents at investigator, internal, and external project team meetings.
As a member and Board Director of SAMDS, a nonprofit physician society, Dan is passionate about assisting patients from underprivileged groups access current state-of-the-art treatment options and is eager to use his experience to help patients when they need it most through the Immune Recovery Foundation.
Jessica Bateman
Board Advisor
Jessica Bateman is the Senior Director of Advocacy & Strategic Alliances at Aurinia Pharmaceuticals where she provides outreach to patient, professional, and research advocacy organizations that advance Aurinia’s community partnerships. Jessica has more than 20 years of policy and advocacy experience in both lupus and rare disease communities
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Jessica has a master’s degree from Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland and is a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and Certified Patient Navigator. She was awarded the National Lupus Advocacy Award, in 2014 by the Lupus Foundation of America and served as a lupus grant reviewer for the Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program for four (4) grant award cycles.
Carey Manhertz
Board Advisor
Carey Manhertz, is a Client Executive, Government and Public Sector, at Ernst and Young. He has extensive experience managing growth and sustainment for multi-billion-dollar portfolios for large and small business concentrated in the Department of Defense government contracting, supply chain, health, and technology services.
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Carey is a strategic leader highly adept at driving change, challenging teams, and improving operations for Fortune 500 organizations and Military organizations. As a business development leader, he managed growth and sales strategies resulting in increased market share while delivering long-lasting solutions to a diverse client base in geographically dispersed environments.
He serves as board President and Chairman for non-profit civic organizations based in Virginia. A retired Navy Commander, he is an active alumnus at US Naval Academy and member of various organizations focused on veterans’ services, child education, health, information technology and social policies.
Mulenga Tembo
Board Advisor
Mulenga Tembo is Chief Security Officer, CISO and Program Manager at Kreative Technologies, LLC. For more than 31 years Mulenga Tembo has managed complex commercial and federal Cybersecurity, Systems Engineering, Requirements
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Engineering, Development, Quality Assurance in demanding Commercial Cloud, GovCloud, OnPrem, DevSecOps, CI/CD and fast-paced Agile environments that include Defense, Healthcare, Federal, Risk Management, Assessment & Consulting, involving FISMA, NIST, FedRAMP and HIPAA in arenas involving Defense Health Agency (DHA), Veterans Administration (VA), FEMA, Airforce, Army, Navy and several government and fortune 500 commercial entities.
Mulenga has served as an instructor, visiting professor or invited panel member in a variety of classrooms, fora and symposia at George Washington University, George Mason University, Fairfax University of America (FXUA, formerly Virginia International University), etc., and serves as an Adjunct Professor of Cybersecurity at Marymount University.
Frank (Francisco) Mantero
Board Advisor
Frank (Francisco) Mantero is Vice President of Marketing at the Knights of Columbus. With 20 plus years of progressive leadership experience, Frank’s career has spanned high-level management roles in both global agency and Fortune 500 organizations.
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He is a proven strategic leader able to uncover new processes for cost reduction and performance enhancement, using a data-driven approach to bolster effectiveness.
A Global Brand and Marketing Communications Executive, Frank is also Vice President & Member, Board Of Directors at Habitat for Humanity of Greater New York City Metropolitan Area.
He is bilingual (English and Spanish) and has been awarded the CSR Executive of the Year (Public Relations) by PR News in 2010 and Top Latinos in Corporate America in 2021.
Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Holland, RN
Board Advisor
Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Holland is a Medical Affairs Director in oncology at Quest Diagnostics. She is a registered nurse with a bachelor’s from both Johns Hopkins University and University of Maryland School of Nursing. She also holds an MFA from the University of Baltimore.
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Bringing 16 years of direct patient care and industry experience, she has cared for the underserved: through an urban trauma center, The Johns Hopkins infectious disease clinic, Abbvie with the first curative agents of the hepatitis C virus, and molecular testing in oncology.
Her leadership has led to publications used as national collateral and numerous executive partnerships to advance the science behind molecular testing in the oncology space.
Maj Gen George F. Bowman, USA (Ret)
Board Advisor
George F. Bowman, retired U.S. Army Major General, is Managing Director & Principal at The Bowman Group and has a wealth of experience in strategic communications, program management, governance, senior level operations and community outreach.
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He is broadly recognized in both the public and private sectors as a brilliant leader, strategic thinker and astute problem solver. Today, George works tirelessly on behalf of our nation’s veterans and their families and is committed to finding solutions to their problems, which includes health issues and homelessness.
Prior to starting his own firm, George served three highly successful terms as Jefferson County (Alabama) Commissioner, directly impacting over $600 Million in the county’s economic development. While serving two terms as the National Association of County Officials’ (NACO) National Chair of Veterans and Military Services Committee, he concentrated heavily on the plight of homeless veterans.
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