CHADD Staff
Chief Executive Officer
E. Clarke Ross, DPA, CEO
Clarke Ross provides CHADD with its leadership and vision.
He sets forth the organization’s short- and long-term goals and
objectives, in concert with the board, while ensuring the integrity and
fulfillment of its mission and purpose. He has worked for
over thirty years in positions at five national mental health and
disability organizations, including deputy executive director for public
policy, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI); executive director,
American Managed Behavioral Healthcare Association (AMBHA); assistant
executive director for federal relations and then deputy executive
director, National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
(NASMHPD); and director of governmental activities, United Cerebral
Palsy Associations (UCPA). He is the father of a young
adult son with special challenges. Clarke holds a doctorate in
public administration.
Director of Public Policy, Communications, and Media
Relations
E. Clarke Ross, DPA
Publishing Officer
Russell L. Shipley, Jr., IOM (see bio under Development
and Operations)
Susan Buningh, MRE, Executive Editor of Attention and
chadd.org
Susan Buningh is executive editor of Attention
magazine and the CHADD website, as well as the online publications
Attention 2.0 and Attention 2.0 Professional
Edition. She edited various print publications
for more than twenty-five years before coming to CHADD in
2007. Susan holds an AB in history from Vassar College and a
master's in religious education. A longtime Special Olympics
volunteer and equestrian coach, Susan is the mother of an adult daughter
who has intellectual disabilities.
Membership Services and Parent to Parent
Ruth Hughes, PhD, Chief Program Officer
Ruth Hughes oversees CHADD’s membership programs as well as our
dynamic training programs—Parent to Parent and Teacher to Teacher.
She is a clinical psychologist by training and has an adult son with
ADHD who is thriving. Ruth is a former member of CHADD’s national
board of directors. For seventeen years she was the CEO of the
International Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services (now
USPRA), an association representing providers of rehabilitation programs
for adults and children with serious mental illnesses. Ruth has also
been the CEO of a state association for rehabilitation and a large
psychiatric rehabilitation program affiliated with Johns Hopkins
Hospital.
Jennifer Klotz, Parent to Parent Training Coordinator
Karen Peterson, Membership Database Coordinator
Wanda Bazemore, Membership and Development Accounts
Coordinator
Development, Operations and Finance
Russell L. Shipley, IOM, Chief
Development, Operations and Publishing Officer
Russ Shipley joined CHADD in 1998. He is responsible for
strategic planning and implementation of many aspects of CHADD's revenue
generation programs. These include corporate support, major donors,
direct mail campaigns, special events, and affinity programs. Russ
manages general office operations and serves in a lead budget
development and financial oversight role. He serves as publisher of
Attention magazine and assists in advertising sales and
marketing. Prior to joining CHADD, Russ was in senior management
with several nonprofit professional and trade associations, including
managing director of the American Trucking Associations Intermodal
Conference, executive vice president of the Independent Insurance Agents
of Maryland, vice president of the National Grocers Association, and
executive vice president and publishing director of the National Candy
Wholesalers Association. He holds a BS in journalism from the
University of Maryland and a four-year certification from the U. S.
Chamber of Commerce Institute for Organization Management. He served in
the U.S. Army in Vietnam and Germany and is active in the Crofton,
Maryland Kiwanis Club.
Jenifer Artis, Staff Accountant
Affiliate Services
Trish White, Director of Affiliate Services
and Advertising Sales Representative for Attention
Meetings and Event Planning
Marsha Bokman, CMP, Director of Meetings and Events
Marsha Bokman has been with CHADD since 1999. She is
responsible for coordinating and executing the overall management of
CHADD's annual international conference as well as many
other meetings and programs during the year. A certified meeting
planner, Bokman works in tandem with her staff in the areas of
meeting logistics, registrations, publications, marketing, hotel and
convention center negotiation and selection, budgeting, speaker liaison,
and continuing education accreditation.
Suzanne Urie, Exhibit Manager
Suzanne Urie has been with CHADD since 2003. She is
responsible for coordinating and executing the management of exhibitors
and advertisers for CHADD's annual international conference.
Suzanne populates the conference and exhibit sections of the CHADD
website.
Megan Feeley, Meetings and Events Assistant
Megan Feeley has been with CHADD since 2009. She assists in the
planning, logistics, and registration of conferences; corresponds
with speakers and attendees; books travel; and posts materials on the
website.
National Resource Center on ADHD (NRC)
Tim MacGeorge, MDiv, MSW, Director
Since May 2006, Tim MacGeorge has been the director of the NRC, a
program of CHADD that is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC). Prior to being named director, Tim had been the NRC's
deputy director since its inception in 2002. As director, Tim serves as
liaison between CHADD and the CDC, while overseeing the program's $1
million budget and supervising a staff of professionals who operate and
staff the NRC, a lifeline to the millions of people affected by ADHD.
The NRC includes the nation's only library dedicated exclusively to
literature and research on ADHD. Prior to coming to CHADD, Tim was
director of information and referral at the National Alliance on Mental
Illness (NAMI). Before that, he worked at AARP while pursuing graduate
studies in social work. Tim holds an AB in philosopy, an MDiv, and an
MSW in social work policy and administration.
Sarah S. Firestone, MSW, Health Information Team Leader and Operations
Manager
Myra Cushman, DESS, Senior Health Information Specialist
Karen Sampson, MA, Health Information Specialist
Avery Shattuck, Health Information Specialist
Pamela Mercer, Health Information Specialist
Adisa Griffin, Health Information Specialist
Zuali Malsawma, MLS, Librarian
Bryan Jaffe, Writer-Editor
Cynthia Troy, Receptionist
Ralph Stanley, Administration, Mailroom
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