Our Leadership
Board of Directors

Elisabeth Lesser (Chair)
Co-Founder and CFO of Mattagan Properties, LLC

Cynthia Chen McTernan (Vice Chair)
Attorney
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Patricia Kennedy (Treasurer)
Senior Advisor
Asia Pacific Land Ltd.

Carol Kurland (Secretary)
Philanthropist

J. Jeffrey Assaf
Senior Managing Director
ICG Advisors, LLC

Susan Dost
CEO
Sheridan In-Home Health Care

Mitch Golant, PhD FAPOS
Fellow, American Clinical Psychologist
American Psychosocial Oncology Society

Aaron De Los Reyes
Vice President, Softtek Industrial Solutions/ Product Management Services

Tom F. Keefer
General Manager
The New Mart, Inc.

Steven Rosen
President Creative Marketing and Publishing
Regime Music Group

Ruth Salk
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Our Team

Julia Forth
Chief Executive Officer

Cristin O'Leary Jones
Development Director

Nancy Willard
Operations and Finance Manager

Kathy Riley, MPH, CHES
Associate Director of Programs

Sigall Cahn, LCSW (LCSW68264)
Clinical and Program Director

Ashley Juhasz, AMFT (139873), MSW
Clinical Coordinator
Supervised by Sigall Cahn, LCSW #68264

Kelly Hagen
Development Coordinator

Sophia Makal, MA, AMFT, APCC (AMFT135485, APCC12559)
Clinical Associate
Supervised by Sigall Cahn, LCSW #68264

Fiorella Chujutalli, MS, AMFT
Bilingual Community Navigator (AMFT135074)
Supervised by Sigall Cahn, LCSW 68264
Program Facilitators

Rita Aron, LMFT (LMFT6255)
Facilitator

Deborah Brownstone, LCSW (LCSW22708)
Facilitator

Debbie Cervantes, LCSW (LCS100243)
Facilitator

Jennifer Cumiskey, LCSW (LCS94497)
Facilitator

Alexandra Gubin, MSW LCSW-C (LCSW86944)
Facilitator

William Kavanagh, LMFT (LMFT98486)
Facilitator

Julie LaCumbre, PsyD (PSY31212)
Facilitator

Julia Leavitt MSW, LCSW, OSW-C
Facilitator

Tom Pier, LCSW, OSW-C (LCS21605)
Facilitator

Jill Pomerantz, LCSW (LCSW24287)
Facilitator

Malcolm Schultz, JD, LMFT (LMFT25149)
Facilitator

Lynne Silbert, LMFT (LMFT19226)
Facilitator

Yin Yoon-Rowlands, LCSW (LCSW112988)
Facilitator
Professional Advisory Board
- Arash Asher, MD — Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
- Anita Bajpai, MD — Nutrition Medicine
- Rachel Beller, MS, RD — Beller Nutrition
- Anton Bilchik, MD — 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
- 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
- Santosh Kesari, MD, PhD — Neuro-Oncology Pacific Neuroscience Institute
- Laura Kruper, MD — City of Hope
- Jennifer Linehan, MD — Providence Saint John’s Cancer Institute
- Ghecemy Lopez, DSW, MAEd — Cedars-Sinai Cancer
- Parvin Peddi, MD — Providence Saint John’s Cancer Institute
- Heather Richardson, MD — Bedford Breast Center
- Lisl Schweers, LCSW — Cancer and Blood Disease Institute, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
- Dennis Slamon, MD, PhD — UCLA, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Annette Stanton, PhD — UCLA Dept. of Psychology
- David Wellisch, PhD — UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute
- Deane Wolcott, MD — Emeritus Psychiatrist, Cedars-Sinai Health System