Meet Our Board Members

Thomas L. Johnson, JD

Chair of the Board and Treasurer
Executive Director
ASAP 340B
Washington, DC

Bobby Staten III

Vice Chair
Principal Solutions Architect
Appleseed Consulting
Atlanta, GA

Adeyinka Ogunlegan, Esq.

Board Secretary
Chief of Staff & Vice President, Federal Affairs
National Urban League
Washington, D.C.

Edward Donnell Ivy, MD, MPH

Chief Medical Officer
Education Coordinator
Sickle Cell Awareness Group of Ontario
North York, ON

Crawford J. Strunk, MD

Vice Chief Medical Officer
Pediatric Hematologist-Oncologist
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH

Melissa Creary, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
School of Public Health
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Ed Flowers

Managing Partner & CHRO Practice Leader and Executive Committee Member
DHR Global
Atlanta, GA

TaLana Hill-Hughes, MPH

Executive Director
Sickle Cell Disease Association of Illinois
Chicago, IL

Christopher Hollins, MBA

Christopher Hollins, MBA

Executive Vice President
Strategic Acquiring Partnerships
WorldPay, Inc.
Atlanta, GA

Lewis Hsu, MD

Lewis Hsu, MD

Director of the Pediatric Sickle Cell Center and Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatric Hematologist
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL

Katherine Napier, EDB, CPA, MBA, CISA, CIA

Senior Vice President for Finance/Chief Financial Officer
Morehouse School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA

Crystal A. Riley, PharmD., MHA, MBA

Deputy Director / Government Policy
Baxter International, Inc,
Washington, D.C.

Kenneth Thorpe, PhD, MA

Robert W. Woodruff Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Atlanta, GA

JaKela Walker

Sr. Finance Director and Regional
Finance Lead
dsm-firmenich
Exton, PA

Kim Smith-Whitley, MD

CMAO RWE, Patient Advocacy and External Collabortion
Pfizer
San Francisco, CA