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Laughter Board Members include leaders in science and entertainment
and
the families of classic comedy legends.
Board
of Directors:
Jeffrey D. Bader
Chris Costello
Sherry Dunay Hilber
Advisory
Board - Medical & Scientific: (alphabetical)
Bette Billet, RN, CNS. Pediatric Nurse Specialist,
Mattel Children's Hospital @UCLA
at the David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine.
Ian Cook, M.D., Associate Professor, Psychiatry
& Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Research Institute
& Hospital
Andrea Cousins, Ph.D., Psy.D., Psychologist, Daughter
of Norman Cousins ("Anatomy of an Illness")
William F. Fry, M.D., Professor Emeritus, Stanford
University Medical School
Michael Joseph, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department
of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
Edward McCabe, M.D., Ph.D., Physician in Chief,
Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA, and Executive Chair, Department
of Pediatrics, Mattel Children's Hospital of UCLA at the David Geffen
School of Medicine.
David Spiegel, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry,
Stanford University School of Medicine
Margaret Stuber, M.D., Professor of Child &
Adolescent Psychiatry, Director of Child Psychiatry & Liaison
Services at Mattel Children’s Hospital, David Geffen UCLA
School of Medicine
Theodore Moore M.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics
and Clinical Director of the Hematology-Oncology Division at the
Mattel Children's Hospital @UCLA at the David Geffen School of Medicine.
Peter Whybrow, M.D., Physician-In-Chief &
Executive Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral
Sciences @ the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Research Institute & Hospital.
Lonnie Zeltzer, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry,
Pediatrics & Anesthesiology; Director of the Pediatric Pain
Program at the Mattel Children's Hospital of UCLA at the David Geffen
School of Medicine; Medical Director of the Trinity KidsCare Pediatric
Hospice; and Author of "Conquering Your Child's Chronic Pain-A
Pediatrician's Guide for Reclaiming a Normal Childhood",January
2005: http://www.healthcare.ucla.edu/pedspain.
Paul Zeltzer, M.D., NeuroOncologist, Maxine Duntz
Neurosurgical Institute at Cedars Sinai Hospital, Author "Brain
Tumors, Leaving the Garden of Eden - A Guide for Surviving Catastrophic
Illness" (www.surviving
braincancer.com) 2005.
Advisory
Board - Entertainment Industry (alphabetical)
Jeffrey Bader, Executive Vice President, ABC Entertainment
Alice Cahn, Vice President of
Social Responsibility, The Cartoon Network
Christopher Chaplin, Actor, Son of Charlie Chaplin
Josephine Chaplin, Daughter of Charlie Chaplin
Peggy Charren, Founder of Action for Children’s Television, Visiting Scholar at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award, Author of "The TV-Smart Book for Kids," "Television, Children and the Constitutional Bicentennial," "Changing Channels: Living (Sensibly) with Television" and Peabody and Emmy Award winner.
Chris Costello, Daughter of Lou Costello of Abbott & Costello
Melissa Talmadge Cox, Granddaughter of Buster
Keaton
Susanne Daniels, Past President of Entertainment at Lifetime Television and The Warner Bros. Television Network.
Madelyn Pugh Davis, "I Love Lucy" comedy
writer/producer
Joshua Feldman, New Media Director, The Playtone Company
Ronald J. Fields, Documentary Producer and Grandson of WC Fields
Jerold Franks, President Emeritus, Casting Society
of America, Co Founder of Onorato-Franks Casting Agency, Board Member
of The Thalians Mental Health Unit at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los
Angeles.
Ms. Goldie Hawn, Academy Award Winner, Executive
Producer
Suzanne Lloyd Hayes, Granddaughter of Harold Lloyd
Kevin James, Comedian, star of CBS sitcom "King
of Queens"
Bill Marx, Musician, Son of Harpo Marx (The Marx
Bros.)
Daniel Petrie, Jr., Director, President and Vice
President Emeritus, Writers Guild of America
Ray Romano, Emmy Award winner, star of "Everybody
Loves Raymond"
Jack Shea, Director and President Emeritus of
the Directors Guild of America
Patricia Eliot Tobias, Co-Founder of the international Buster Keaton Society.
Sara Vicendese, Vice President, Sunshine Sachs West.
John Wells, President of Writers Guild of America West, and Emmy Award Winning Executive Producer & Writer (ER, West Wing, China Beach, Third Watch).
Gene Wilder, Film and Stage Actor, Philanthropist,
Academy Award nominee, and Honorary Worldwide Director of Gilda's
Club.
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