Board of Directors

President
Kenneth Pituch, MD
C.S. Mott Children‘s, Hospital, Ann Arbor

Vice President
Teri Turner, RN, MS
Angela Hospice, Ann Arbor

Treasurer
Cheri Salazar, RN, CPNP
MSU College of Nursing, MSU HealthCare, East Lansing

Secretary
Tara Derby, LMSW
Jo Elyn Nyman Anchors Programs for Children, Ann Arbor

Ayanna Eggleston
Bereaved Parent, Family Center for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs, Lansing, MI

Maureen Giacomazza, RN, BSN, MA
Michigan Medicine

Bradd Hemker, MD
Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, Grand Rapids

Kim Howe, RN
PATCH Hospice

Shikha Kalra ,DO
Beaumont/Corewell Palliative Care, Royal Oak

Tricia Keefer, MD
C.S. Mott Children‘s, Hospital, Ann Arbor

Natalie Kontos, DO
Ascension Medical Group, Detroit

Scott Newport
Bereaved Parent

Yakov Sigal, MD
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, EastLansing

Nadia Tremonti, MD
Children’s Hospital of MI, Detroit

Ashley Waddell Tingstad
Bereaved Parent

Advisory Board

Jeanne Lewandowski, MD
Beaumont Hospital, Grosse Pointe

Jane Turner, MD
Michigan State University, East Lansing

Gabrielle Tazzia
Bereaved Parent

Heather Kluemper
Centered Care of MI

Abigail Waller
Bereaved Parent, East Lansing