Our Staff & BOD
Our Administrative Staff
Julia Forth
Chief Executive Officer
Cristin O'Leary Jones
Development Director
Sigall Cahn, LCSW (LCSW68264)
Clinical and Program Director
Kathy Riley, MPH, CHES
Community Partnerships Director
Jennifer Cumiskey, LCSW (LCS94497)
Clinical Supervisor & Youth Program Manager
Abby Eduardo Espinosa, MSS
Program Manager
Yvette Barriga, AMFT (AMFT147225)
Bilingual Clinical & Program Coordinator
Kelsey Funk
Development & Communications Manager
Brianna Moeller
Donor Engagement Coordinator
Lilianna Davalos
Expansion Program Manager
Nikki Hedlund, AMFT (AMFT144844)
Clinical Associate
Supervised by Sigall Cahn, LCSW #68264
Susan Williger
Event Planner
Support Group Facilitators
Rita Aron, LMFT (LMFT6255)
Facilitator
Jacqui Boles, LMFT, ATR, BC-TMH (LMFT116132)
Facilitator
Deborah Brownstone, LCSW (LCSW22708)
Facilitator
Kyle Bullock, LCSW (LCSW99653)
Facilitator
Debbie Cervantes, LCSW (LCS100243)
Facilitator
Maria Chavez-Brown, LCSW (LCSW28256 )
Facilitator
William Kavanagh, LMFT (LMFT98486)
Facilitator
Julie LaCumbre, PsyD (PSY31212)
Facilitator
Sophia Makal, LMFT, LPCC, (LMFT 159778, LPCC 20615)
Facilitator
Vanessa Myrie, MSW, MSG, LCSW (LCSW106755)
Facilitator
Bob Oppenheimer, LCSW (LCSW20758)
Facilitator
Tom Pier, LCSW, OSW-C (LCS21605)
Facilitator
Jill Pomerantz, LCSW (LCSW24287)
Facilitator
Lynne Silbert, LMFT (LMFT19226)
Facilitator
Nancy Tomas, LCSW (LCSW26122)
Facilitator
Yin Yoon-Rowlands, LCSW (LCSW112988)
Facilitator
Board of Directors
Mitch Golant, PhD FAPOS (Chair)
Fellow, American Clinical Psychologist
American Psychosocial Oncology Society
Geri Weinfeld (Secretary)
Consultant
Weinfeld Consulting
Dr. Reilly S. White, PhD (Treasurer)
Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Finance
University of New Mexico
Benilda Anzures
Lifecycle Marketing & Operations
J. Jeffrey Assaf
Senior Managing Director
ICG Advisors, LLC
Susan Dost
CEO
Sheridan In-Home Health Care
Katherine Huddleston
Transformation Consultant
PwC
Tom F. Keefer
Founder & Managing Director
Fashion Techworks
Steven Rosen (CSCLA Community Representative)
President Creative Marketing and Publishing
Regime Music Group
Liz Russomanno-Doyle
Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT137352)
Therapia Psychotherapy Group
Professional Advisory Board
- Arash Asher, MD — Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
- Anita Bajpai, MD — Nutrition Medicine
- Rachel Beller, MS, RDN — Beller Nutrition
- Anton Bilchik, MD — Providence Saint John’s Cancer Institute
- Ashraf Elsayegh, MD, FCCP, FAASM — Cedars Sinai & Providence Saint John’s Cancer Institute
- Richard Essner, MD — Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
- Armando Giuliano, MD — Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
- Mitch Golant, PhD — Private Practice Psychologist
- Melanie Goldfarb, MD — Providence Saint John’s Cancer Institute
- Shanthi Gowrinathan, MD — Providence Saint John’s Cancer Institute
- Behrooz Hakimian, MD — Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
- Omid Hamid, MD — The Angeles Clinic
- Ronald Hurst, MD — California Oncology Research Institute
- Scott Irwin, MD, PhD — Cedars-Sinai Health System, Cedars-Sinai Cancer
- Beth Karlan, MD — Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
- Daniel Kim, MD – Accuray
- Mark Krieger, MD — Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
- Shannon La Cava, PsyD — Simms/Mann-UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology, UCLA Health
- Jennifer Linehan, MD — Providence Saint John’s Cancer Institute
- Parvin Peddi, MD — Providence Saint John’s Cancer Institute
- Lisl Schweers, LCSW, OSW-C — Cancer and Blood Disease Institute, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
- Dennis Slamon, MD, PhD — UCLA, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
- David Wellisch, PhD — UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute
- Deane Wolcott, MD — Emeritus Psychiatrist, Cedars-Sinai Health System
