Meet Our Board Members
David N. Braxton, PhD
Chairman of the Board
Senior Vice President, Global Procurement
Bank of America
Atlanta, GA
JaKela Walker
Vice Chair
Finance Director and Global
Financial Controller
DSM BioMedical, Inc.
Exton, PA
Ed Flowers
Board Treasurer
Managing Partner & Executive Committee Member
DHR International Executive Search
Atlanta, GA
Crystal A. Riley, PharmD. MHA, MBA
Board Secretary
Deputy Director / Government Policy & Reimbursement
Baxter International, Inc.
Washington, DC
Biree Andemariam, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Director, New England Sickle Cell Institute
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Hematology/Oncology
University of Connecticut Health Center
Farmington, CT
Lewis Hsu, MD
Vice Chief Medical Officer
Director of the Sickle Cell Center and Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatric Hematologist
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL
Regina Hartfield
Manager, Customer Value Partners
Baltimore, Maryland
Christopher Hollins, MBA
Executive Vice President
Strategic Acquiring Partnerships
WorldPay, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
Thomas L. Johnson, JD
CEO
Family Matters of Greater Washington, DC
Washington, DC
Bernie Lawrence-Watkins
Principal Attorney
Lawrence Watkins & Associates
Atlanta, GA
Tanique Mitchell
Legal Administrative Assistant
Marhsall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, PC
Philadelphia, PA
Gwendolyn Poles, DO
Retired Physician, Honorary Medical Staff Member,
Faculty/Medical Director,
Internal Medical Residency Program,
UPMC Pinnacle Health, Harrisburg, PA
Genice T. Nelson, DNP, APRN
Nurse Practitioner Specialist
Sickle Cell Disease Day Treatment Clinic
UTSW Comprehensive
Sickle Cell Disease Program
Dallas, TX
Kim Smith-Whitley, MD
Clinical Director, Division of Hematology
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
Wanda Whitten-Shurney, MD
CEO & Medical Director
Sickle Cell Disease Association Michigan Chapter, Inc.
Detroit, MI
Lennette Benjamin, MD
Board Member Emeritus
Kwaku Ohene-Frempong, MD
Board Member Emeritus