Rx Laughter Board Members

Board of Directors:

Jeffrey D. Bader 
Chris Costello 
Sherry Dunay Hilber

Entertainment  Industry Advisors:

Alice Cahn, Vice President of Development, The Cartoon Network

Robert Carroll, Jr., "I Love Lucy" comedy writer/producer

Christopher Chaplin, Actor, Son of Charlie Chaplin

Josephine Chaplin, Daughter of Charlie Chaplin

Peggy Charren, Founder of Action for Children’s Television;

Melissa Talmadge Cox, Granddaughter of Buster Keaton

Susanne Daniels, President of Lifetime Television Network

Madelyn Pugh Davis, "I Love Lucy" comedy writer/producer;

Ronald J. Fields, Producer/Comedy Writer, Author, Grandson of W.C. Fields; www.wcbiz.com

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"

Meryl Marshall, Chairman and CEO Emeritus of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

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, Media Relations Publicist

John Wells, Creator & Executive Producer of "ER"

Gene Wilder, Film and Stage Actor, Philanthropist, Academy Award nominee, and Honorary Worldwide Director of Gilda's Club.

Scientific & Medical Advisors:

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., Ph.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.

George Solomon, M.D., Professor Emeritus, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute & Hospital; Chair Emeritus of Norman Cousins Psychoneuroimmunology Department at UCLA.

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.

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