Meet Our Board Members

Thomas L. Johnson, JD

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

Crystal A. Riley, PharmD. MHA, MBA

Vice Chair
Deputy Director / Government Policy & Reimbursement
Baxter International, Inc.
Washington, DC

JaKela Walker

Board Treasurer
Finance Director and Global
Financial Controller
DSM BioMedical, Inc.
Exton, PA

Bobby Staten III

Board Secretary
Principal Solutions Architect
Appleseed Consulting
Atlanta, GA

Lewis Hsu, MD

Lewis Hsu, MD

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

Edward Donnell Ivy, MD, MPH

Vice Chief Medical Officer
Health Education Coordinator
Association of Black Cardiologists
Toronto, ON

Biree Andemariam, MD

Biree Andemariam, MD

Director, New England Sickle Cell Institute
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Hematology/Oncology
University of Connecticut Health Center
Farmington, CT

David N. Braxton, PhD

Senior Vice President, Global Procurement
Bank of America
Atlanta, GA

Melissa Creary, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
School of Public Health
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Ed Flowers

Managing Partner & Executive Committee Member
DHR International Executive Search
Atlanta, GA

TaLana Hill-Hughes, MPH

Executive Director
Sickle Cell Disease Association of Illinois
Chicago, IL

Christopher Hollins, MBA

Christopher Hollins, MBA

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

Bernie Lawrence-Watkins

B. Lawrence-Watkins, Esq.

Principal Attorney
B. Lawrence Watkins & Associates
Atlanta, GA

Monica B. Mitchell, Ed.D.

Founder/President & CEO
MERAssociates, LLC (MERA)
Vienna, VA

Kim Smith-Whitley, MD

Executive Vice President and Head of Research and Development
Global Blood Therapeutics
Philadelphia, PA

Lennette Benjamin, MD

Board Member Emeritus