Advisory Board

Benicia Ledford: Enloe High School | MBSA Coordinator

Thomas Ray: Alice Aycock Poe Center | Senior Director of Educational Programming

Sarah Turinsky: Worldwide Clinical Trials | Project Manager

Lakisha Dawkins: Duke Raleigh Hospital | Assistant Nurse Manager, Orthopedics, Ortho / Neuro Spine

Camille Grant Valentine: Duke Raleigh Hospital | Director of Community Affairs

Kartik Tyagi: NCDHHS | Senior Strategist for Policy and Communications

Anu Rao-Patel: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina | Practicing Physician and Medical Director

Leslie Wolfe: KBI Pharma Inc. | Senior Director, Process Development

Shatakshi Shekhar: Clarkson Consulting | Associate Consultant

Brittany Herron: Urban Ministries | Director of Volunteer Services

Jarod Bissonnette: Wake AHEC | Project Coordinator, Wake AHEC

Nicholas Ballard: HOSA    HOSA | International President/ Alum

Deborah Parrish: Enloe High School | Assistant Principal Instruction

Dr. Edwin Burkett: Alliance Medical Ministry | Medical Director

Allen Mason: Red Cross | Sickle Cell Account Executive

Deborah Massengill: MBSA Board Chair | Retired MBSA coordinator

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