Our Leadership
Board of Directors

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

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

Carol Kurland (Secretary)
Philanthropist

J. Jeffrey Assaf
Senior Managing Director
ICG Advisors, LLC

Cynthia Chen McTernan
Attorney
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

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

Shannon La Cava, PsyD (PSY27456)
Chief Clinical Officer, Director of Programs & Research

Elizabeth Lazar
Chief Strategic Growth & Development Officer

Nancy Willard
Operations and Finance Manager

Kathy Riley, MPH, CHES
Associate Director, Programs

Sigall Cahn, LCSW (LCS68264)
Associate Director, Clinical Services

Kelly Hagen
Development Coordinator

Edlin Rodarte
Program Coordinator

Sophia Makal, MA, AMFT, APCC
Clinical Associate
Supervised by Shannon La Cava, PsyD (PSY27456)

Liz Doyle, MA, AMFT
Clinical Associate
Supervised by Shannon La Cava, PsyD (PSY27456)
Program Facilitators

Rita Aron, LMFT (LMFT6255)
Facilitator

Deborah Brownstone, LCSW (LCSW22708)
Facilitator

Debbie Cervantes, LCSW (LCS100243)
Facilitator

Alexandra Gubin, MSW LCSW-C (LCSW86944)
Facilitator

William Kavanagh, LMFT (LMFT98486)
Facilitator

Julie LaCumbre, PsyD (PSY31212)
Facilitator

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

Catalina Lawsin, PsyD
(PSY31125)
Facilitator

Jill Pomerantz, LCSW (LCSW24287)
Facilitator

Malcolm Schultz, JD, LMFT (LMFT25149)
Facilitator

Lynne Silbert, LMFT (LMFT19226)
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
- Carolyn Katzin, MSPH, CNS — UCLA, Simms Mann
- Santosh Kesari, MD, PhD — Neuro-Oncology Pacific Neuroscience Institute
- Laura Kruper, MD — City of Hope
- Jennifer Linehan, MD — Providence Saint John’s Cancer Institute
- 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
- Zul Surani — Cedars-Sinai Cancer, Cancer Research Center for Health Equity
- David Wellisch, PhD — UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute
- Deane Wolcott, MD — Emeritus Psychiatrist, Cedars-Sinai Health System