OUR TEAM

Our Organizational Structure

Our structure formally recognizes leaders from the FON community and provides an efficient, effective structure for management, including the subgroups below.

The Executive Leadership Team is accountable for the effective functioning of the learning network, strategic planning, financial and operational success, delivery of its products and services, and customer satisfaction.

The four Work Groups focus on individual areas of work, including:

  • Data & Analytics: Propose strategy and operationalize collection, validation, and analysis of network data.

  • Quality Improvement: Guide improvement work to lead to quantifiable outcomes.

  • Research: Drive generation of new knowledge.

  • Community Building & Engagement: Develop processes that enable the entire community—patients, family, researchers, clinicians—to engage in the work of the network.

The Project Management, Quality Improvement, Communications, & Data Team help develop, implement, and sustain the network’s various workstreams to push the work of the network forward.

The broad membership aims to be representative of the diverse collaborative participants and stakeholders.

All members of the FON leadership adhere to this Conflict of Interest Policy.

Executive Leadership Team

  • Sasha Opotowsky, MD, MMSc

    Executive Co-Director

    Cincinnati Children’s

  • Jack Rychik, MD

    Executive Co-Director

    Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

  • Carole Lannon

    Collaborative Science DIrector

    Anderson Center, Cincinnati Children’s

  • Tom Glenn, MD

    Parent/Patient Director

  • Richard James

    Parent/Patient Director

Workgroup Leadership

Community Building & Engagement

  • Tom Glenn, ELT Sponsor

  • Lacie Patterson, NPC-QIC ELT Sponsor

  • Meghan Didier, Co-Chair

  • Amanda Harper, Co-Leader

  • Michelle Steltzer, Co-Leader

  • Arsalan Altaf

  • Letitia Aloysius

  • Shahnawaz Amdani, MD, MBBS

  • Adrian Dantzer

  • Noelle Ebel, MD

Physical Activity & Exercise

  • Katie Dodds, QI Sponsor

  • Jesse Hansen, Co-Leader

  • Michael Danduran, Co-Leader

Publications

  • Jennifer Conway, Co-Chair

  • Adel Younoszai, Co-Chair

  • Brandy Troisi, Co-Leader

  • Mauna Kareti, Co-Leader

  • Ryan Fischer, Co-Leader

  • Sunil Ghelani, Co-Leader

  • Shahnawaz Amandi, Co-Chair

  • Nadine Kasparian, Co-Chair

  • Kurt Schumacher, Co-Leader

  • Nancy Pike, Co-Leader

  • Suren Reddy, Co-Leader

  • Jennifer Conway, Co-Leader

  • Fred Wu, Co-Leader

  • Elly Steffan, Co-Leader

  • Molly Gord, Co-Leader

  • Elizabeth Ramos, Co-Leader

  • Riley Yang, Co-Leader

Expert Feedback

  • Greg Fleming, MD

  • Amber Hildreth, DO

  • Taylor Houlihan, MD

  • Katherine Madigan

  • Mandi McCormick, MD

  • Trudy Pierick, Co-Leader

  • Humera Ahmed, Co-Leader

  • Nadia Naz, MD

  • Melanie Parent, APNP

  • Elizabeth Rand, MD

  • Suren Reddy, MD

  • Rusty Rodriguez, MD

Research

  • David Leone, Co-Leader

  • David Renaud, Co-Leader

  • Sandra McCormick, Co-Leader

  • Stephen Dolgner, Co-Leader

  • Sumeet Vaikunth, Co-Leader

Data

  • Sasha Opotowsky, ELT Sponsor

  • Mike DiMaria, Co-Chair

  • Rahul Rathod, Co-Chair

  • Jennifer Teh, Co-Chair

  • Andrew Cheng, Co-Leader

  • Ashley Paulson, Co-Leader

  • Ryan Krause, Co-Leader

  • Manica Hing, Co-Leader

  • Jose Silva Sepulveda, MD

  • Rachael Suddarth, PhD, CCC-SLP

  • Divya Suthar, MD, MHA

  • Molly Weisert

  • Kerry Wong, MD, FRCPC

Project Development

  • Andrew Cheng, MD

  • Jennifer Conway, MD, MSc

  • Daniel Ganger, MD

  • Alexis Gumm, MD

  • Autumn Jones, APRN, FNP-C

  • Jana McClymonds

  • Cara Morin, MD, PhD

  • Anita Pai, MD

  • Mary Rouzer, DNP, APRN, FNP-C

  • Jack Rychik, MD

  • Anita Saraf, MD, PhD

  • Fred Wu, MD

Quality Improvement

  • Carole Lannon, ELT Sponsor

  • Kiona Allen, Co-Leader

  • Katie Dodds, Co-Leader

  • Sal Ginde, Co-Leader

  • Alicia Wilmoth, Co-Leader

Systems of Care Taskforce

  • Alanna Ash

  • Jessy Balma

  • Adrienne DiFabio

  • Emilee Glenn

  • Kelly King

  • Andrew Mackie

  • Melanie Parent

  • Kathryn Wheller

  • Bryan Wolfe

Internal Support Team

Melissa Mock
Project Manager

 

Leann Stallard
Sr. Project Specialist

 

Becky Collins
Project Specialist

 

Kelly Diaspro
Program Coordinator

 
 

Drew Warmin
Lead Quality Improvement Specialist

 

Adriana Chavez
Quality Improvement Specialist

 

Jenné Slaw
Sr. Communications Specialist

 

Sam Walkow

Senior Data Analyst

 
 

Srujana Bandla

Data Analyst

 

Sarah Jones
Clinical Research Coordinator

 

Kenneth Mucheck
Clinical Research Coordinator

 

Jeffrey Theobald
Data Management Specialist

 
 

Mark Timbers
Regulatory Affairs Specialist

 

Rohith Vanam

Senior Analyst