Board Members

Meet Our Board Members

Thomas L. Johnson, JD

Chair of the Board
Executive Director
ASAP 340B
Washington, DC

Adeyinka Ogunlegan, Esq.

Vice Chair
Chief of Staff & Vice President, Federal Affairs
National Urban League
Washington, D.C.

Ed Flowers

Board Secretary
Managing Partner & CHRO Practice Leader and Executive Committee Member
DHR Global
Atlanta, GA

Kenneth Thorpe, PhD, MA

Board Treasurer
Robert W. Woodruff Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Atlanta, GA

Edward Donnell Ivy, MD, MPH

Chief Medical Officer
Education Coordinator
Sickle Cell Awareness Group of Ontario
Toronto, ON

Crawford J. Strunk, MD

Vice Chief Medical Officer
Pediatric Hematologist-Oncologist
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH

Krystal Folk-Nagua, DSW

Senior Director of Programs
Girls for Gender Equity
Brooklyn, NY

Christopher Hollins, MBA

Executive Vice President
Strategic Acquiring Partnerships
WorldPay, Inc.
Atlanta, GA

Lewis Hsu, MD

Director of the Pediatric Sickle Cell Center and Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatric Hematologist
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL

TaLana Hill-Hughes, MPH

Executive Director
Sickle Cell Disease Association of Illinois
Chicago, IL

Katherine Napier, EDB, CPA, MBA, CISA, CIA

Board Treasurer
Senior Vice President for Finance/Chief Financial Officer
Morehouse School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA

Crystal A. Riley, PharmD., MHA, MBA

Deputy Director / Government Policy
Baxter International, Inc,
Washington, D.C.

Kim Smith-Whitley, MD

CMAO RWE, Patient Advocacy and External Collabortion
Pfizer
San Francisco, CA

JaKela Walker

Sr. Finance Director & Regional Finance Lead
dsm-firmenich
Exton, PA