Board of Visitors & Advance Team

The MD Anderson Cancer Center Board of Visitors, together with MD Anderson's Advance Team, work together to collectively advance MD Anderson's mission to end cancer.

Board of Visitors (BOV)

The MD Anderson Cancer Center Board of Visitors is an appointed board committed to helping the institution achieve its mission to end cancer. Board programs emphasize private fund development, public relations and outreach on behalf of the institution.

BOV Life Members

James A. Baker III, Houston, TX
Charles Butt, San Antonio, TX
Ernest H. "Ernie" Cockrell, Houston, TX
Wayne Gibbens, Executive Committee, Middleburg, VA
Lyda Hill, Dallas, TX
Melvyn N. Klein, Executive Committee, Corpus Christi, TX

Harry J. Longwell, Dallas, TX
L. Lowry Mays, San Antonio, TX
Red McCombs, San Antonio, TX
W. A. "Tex" Moncrief Jr., Fort Worth, TX
Regina J. Rogers, Beaumont, TX

BOV Senior Members

Linda L. Addison, Houston, TX
Richard C. Adkerson, Phoenix, AZ
Peggy Brunet Ahuja, Corpus Christi, TX
John D. Alexander Jr., San Antonio, TX
Stanford J. Alexander, Houston, TX
Judy Ley Allen, Houston, TX
Barry G. Andrews, Dallas, TX
Glynn Andrews McAllen, TX
Matthew Anthony, Kansas City, MO
John W. Barnhill Jr., Brenham, TX
Michael G. Bartolotta, Houston, TX
Lawrence E. Bathgate II, Lakewood, NJ
Paul E. Begala, Mt. Jackson, VA
Brent Alan Benoit, Houston, TX
Patricia Hamilton Blalock, Houston, TX
Kelli L. Blanton, Houston, TX
Patricia Bodin, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
W. E. Bosarge Jr., Ph.D., Houston, TX
Joel Brochstein, Houston, TX
Robert T. Brockman, Houston, TX
Kyle C. Brooks, Cincinnati, OH
Rick J. Calhoon, Jackson, MS
Albert Y. Chao, Houston, TX
Lois Chiles, New York, NY
Gus H. Comiskey Jr., Houston, TX
Anne P. Connally, San Antonio, TX
John B. Connally III, Houston, TX
Rufus Cormier Jr., Houston, TX
Shirley Coskey, Houston, TX
Nadine Craddick, Midland, TX
Cheryl Creuzot, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Linnet F. Deily, Houston, TX
Ben A. Donnell, Corpus Christi, TX
Walter W. Driver Jr., Executive Committee, Atlanta, GA
Jan E. Duncan, Houston, TX
Jay S. Eisenberg, Parkland, FL
Elizabeth Gibbens Epley, Greenwich, CT
Christine Gaylord Everest, Oklahoma City, OK
James H. Everest, Oklahoma City, OK
G. Steven Farris Boerne, TX
Stephen L. Feinberg, Santa Fe, NM
Alan D. Feld, Dallas, TX
Dillon J. Ferguson, Austin, TX
Patsy S. Fourticq, Houston, TX
Steve L. Fox, Executive Committee, El Paso, TX
Gary F. Gibson, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Terry M. Giles, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Thomas S. Glanville, Houston, TX
Steven L. Gordon, Houston, TX
David M. Grimes II, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Richard W. Gray III, Miami, FL
Ben A. Guill, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Maureen Hackett, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Yerger Hill III, Floresville, TX
Janelle Hail, Frisco, TX
Adrea D. Heebe, Gretna, LA
Becky Bradfield Heiser, Austin, TX
Gloria Hicks, Corpus Christi, TX
Charles E. Hurwitz, Houston, TX
Jeffrey C. Hines, Houston, TX
Forrest E. Hoglund, Dallas, TX
Alter Holand, McAllen, TX
John A. Holland, Houston, TX
Woody L. Hunt, El Paso, TX
Barbara R. Hurwitz, Houston, TX
Gregory A. Kozmetsky, Dallas, TX
Judith Jaynes, Arlington, TX
Brenda L. Johnson, New York, NY
Luci B. Johnson, Austin, TX
Tom Johnson, Executive Committee, Atlanta, GA
Glenda R. Kane, Corpus Christi, TX
Danielle Kavanagh, Metairie, LA

Nancy G. Kinder, Houston, TX
Demos T. Kyrazis, Ph.D., Albuquerque, NM
Henry A. Kissinger, Ph.D., South Kent, CT
Mary Ralph Lowe, Fort Worth, TX
Julie Kyte, Scottsdale, AZ
Neda Ladjevardian, Houston, TX
Eric S. Lane, New York, NY
Elyse Lanier, Houston, TX
Sally Berry Larson, Dallas, TX
Stephen A. Lasher, Houston, TX
Helen H. Laughery, Rocky Mount, NC
C. Berdon Lawrence, Houston, TX
Marty V. Leonard, Fort Worth, TX
Mary V. Lester, Indian Wells, CA
Max S. Levit, Houston, TX
Michael R. Levy, Austin, TX
Michael C. Linn, Houston, TX
Nancy B. Loeffler, Executive Committee, San Antonio, TX
Jeff B. Love, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Marlene A. Malek, McLean, VA
Kade L. Matthews, Clarendon, TX
Linda Mays McCaul, Executive Committee, Austin, TX
Stacie McDavid, Fort Worth, TX
Michael D. McKinnon, San Diego, CA
R. Drayton McLane Jr., Temple, TX
Thomas F. McLarty III, Washington, DC
Robert Nichols III, Dallas, TX
Sonceria Messiah-Jiles, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Kit Moncrief, Fort Worth, TX
James J. Mulva, De Pere, WI
Henry G. Musselman, Midland, TX
Paul F. Oreffice, Paradise Valley, AZ
Dennis E. Nixon, Laredo, TX
Marvin Odum, Houston, TX
Kay M. Onstead, Houston, TX
Pamela K. Onstead, Santa Fe, NM
Helen Lho Ryu, Los Angeles, CA
Vicky M. Pappas, Houston, TX
Roseann Park, Cleveland, OH
Jan R. Pickens, Dallas, TX
Ralph Ponce de Leon, Phoenix, AZ
Jack P. Randall, Houston, TX
Sheila Reese, Houston, TX
William E. Rosenthal, Fort Worth, TX
Scott E. Rozzell, Houston, TX
Thomas V. Rushing, Houston, TX
Walter J. Smith, Houston, TX
Andrew E. Sabin, East Hampton, NY
A. R. "Tony" Sanchez Jr., Houston, TX
Christopher Sarofim, Houston, TX
Joan Weingarten Schnitzer, Houston, TX
Nancy M. Seliger, Austin, TX
Peggy Sewell, Dallas, TX
Marc J. Shapiro, Houston, TX
Jan A. Levit Silver, Houston, TX
Herbert D. Simons, Houston, TX
Gary W. Stein, Houston, TX
Lenise Stephenson, Dallas, TX
H. Leighton Steward, Boerne, TX
Gayle B. Stoffel, Dallas, TX
Charles W. Tate, Houston, TX
Mac Tichenor Jr., Executive Committee, Dallas, TX
Sue S. Timken, Canton, OH
Robert B. Tudor III, Houston, TX
Steven H. Wasserman, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
William M. Webster IV, Spartanburg, SC
Herbert D. Weitzman, Dallas, TX
Margaret Alkek Williams, Houston, TX
Sheridan Williams, Houston, TX
John H. Wilson III, Dallas, TX
Don M. Woo, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Eric S. Zorn, Executive Committee, Sarasota, FL

BOV Members

Durga D. Agrawal, Houston, TX
Mark W. Albers, The Woodlands, TX
Nita Ambani, Nariman Point, Mumbai
James B. Archer, Executive Committee, San Angelo, TX
Andrew M. Baker, Park City, UT
Lee D. Barberito, Covington, LA
Alan R. Batkin, Executive Committee, Greenwich, CT
G. Alex Bernhardt Sr., Lenoir, NC
J. Robert Brown, Executive Committee, Dallas, TX
I. Jon Brumley, Granbury, TX
William R. Bush, Chicago, IL
Clarence P. Cazalot Jr., Chair-Elect, Houston, TX
Tony Chase, Houston, TX
David A. Cockrell, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
William M. Daley, Chicago, IL
Christopher Damico, Executive Committee,
Pacific Palisades, CA
Doug Deason, Dallas, TX
Alfred L. Deaton III, Houston, TX
William J. Doré Sr., Lake Charles, LA
Susan Zane Epstein, M.D., Austin, TX
Donald L. Evans, Chair, Midland, TX
Gregg H. Falgout, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Alejandra De la Vega Foster, El Paso, TX
Randy A. Foutch, Tulsa, OK
Robert G. Gwin, Houston, TX
James L. Gallogly, Vice Chair, Austin, TX
Lily C. Garfield, Aspen, CO
Diane D. Gates, Corpus Christi, TX
Jimmy I. Gibbs, Spartanburg, SC
Rosalind Redfern Grover, Midland, TX
Katherine C. Hatcher, Houston, TX
Lawrence H. Hayward, Paradise Valley, AZ
Winell Herron, Executive Committee, Houston, TX

Mindy Hildebrand, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Wyck A. Knox Jr., Augusta, GA
T. Mark Kelly, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Pierre F. Lapeyre Jr., New York, NY
Jed Manocherian, New York, NY
R. Stan Marek Jr., Houston, TX
Karen R. Matthews, Dallas, TX
Andrew D. McCullough Jr., Houston, TX
Charles D. McVean, Memphis, TN
Michael J. Medrano, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Howard M. Meyers, Dallas, TX
Denise D. Monteleone, Houston, TX
William C. Montgomery, Houston, TX
Walker N. Moody, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Laura G. Murillo, Ph.D., Houston, TX
Martha W. Murphy, El Dorado, AR
Joseph Neubauer, Philadelphia PA
Ana Palacio, Madrid
Melinda Hill Perrin, Houston, TX
Leslie Rainbolt, M.D., Oklahoma City, OK
Ashley Scott Rankin, Dallas, TX
Glenn B. Stearns, Santa Ana, CA
John H. Shields II, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
Marsha M. Shields, Immediate Past Chair, San Antonio, TX
Jerry Simon, Houston, TX
Donald R. Sinclair, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Ida Louise Clement Steen, San Antonio, TX
Charles W. Stiefel, Raleigh, NC
Rabbi Alvin M. Sugarman, Atlanta, GA
Sam L. Susser, Executive Committee, Dallas, TX
S. Wil VanLoh Jr., Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Cyvia Wolff, Houston, TX
Isabella Arjona Zappala, New York, NY

BOV Associate Members

Kimberly M. Alfonso, Las Vegas, NV
Javaid Anwar, Midland, TX
Clayton I. Bennett, Oklahoma City, OK
Don Childress, Executive Committee, Atlanta, GA
Carlyse Ciocca, San Francisco, CA
Thomas J. Donohue, Washington, DC
W. McComb "Mac" Dunwoody, Houston, TX
Michelle Earley, Austin, TX
Roslyn S. Eckstein, River Ridge, LA
Gregory C. Garland, Houston, TX
Douglas B. Glass, Executive Committee, Naples, FL
Meg Gentle, Houston, TX
Vijay P. Goradia, Executive Committee, The Woodlands, TX
Fred Hall, Oklahoma City, OK
David T. Herr, Bellaire, TX

Ashley C. Loeffler, Houston, TX
Timothy A. Leach, Midland, TX
Cappy R. McGarr, Dallas, TX
Eric Mendelsohn, Summit, NJ
Bhavesh V. "Bob" Patel, Houston, TX
Sherri W. Patton, Fort Worth, TX
Mary Martha Pickens, Executive Committee, Dallas, TX
John T. Raymond, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Laura Sayavedra, Houston, TX
Lynn H. Smith, Dallas, TX
Delia W. Stroud, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Tonya N. Williams, Executive Committee, Washington, DC
Randall P. Wright, Houston, TX
Cynthia Erickson Zaninovich, Paducah, KY

Advance Team

The Advance Team is a volunteer board of next-generation leaders dedicated to helping the institution advance its mission to end cancer.

Rahul Agrawal, Sugar Land, TX
David Ahlquist, Houston , TX
Holly Alvis, Houston, TX
Margot Athon, Houston, TX
Daniel E. Blum, Chair-Elect, Houston, TX
William R. Bobbora, Houston, TX
Amanda M. Boswell, Denver, CO
Caroline Stouffer Brown, Outreach Chair, Houston, TX
Celeste E. Byrom, Houston, TX
Holly H. Cauble, Fort Worth, TX
Rachel Cruz Auwarter, Chair, Bellaire, TX
Daniel G. Darling, San Francisco, CA
Danny David, Houston, TX
Margaret P. Doyal, Houston, TX
Ann Margaret H. Dudley, Houston, TX
McComb Dunwoody, Houston, TX
Courtney Duphorne, San Antonio, TX
Robert A. Elliott, Dallas, TX
Cari Ezell, Austin, TX
Christine Falgout-Gutknecht, Houston, TX
Louisa Fikes, Midland, TX
Kristin C. Hamilton, Events Chair, Houston, TX
Bradfield W. Heiser, Austin, TX
Mullaney Nichols Heiser, Austin, TX
Catherine Herr, Bellaire, TX
Jason B. Holton, Houston, TX
Ryan Hughes, Houston, TX
Jocelyn Johnson, Austin, TX
Randy D. Jones, Richmond, TX
Jeffrey F. Kane, Corpus Christi, TX

Barry R. Kessler, Houston, TX
Jenna K. Klein, Houston, TX
Lisa D. Kurtz, Houston, TX
Gentry Lee Jr., Houston, TX
Meghan Leggett, Houston, TX
Misty V. Lindenberger, Houston, TX
Chuck Matthews, Houston, TX
Sarah Moffitt, Midland, TX
Laura B. Nelson, Corpus Christi, TX
Thomas P. Nguyen, Katy, TX
Kathleen Perley, Houston, TX
Ashley Petersen, Houston, TX
Margaret Pinkston, Bellaire, TX
Brendon C. Quick, Oklahoma City, OK
Jessica H. Ramsey, Houston, TX
Anson M. Reilly, Dallas, TX
Jamille W. Ruebsahm, Austin, TX
Thomas Holden Rushing, Houston, TX
Samuel Tyler Sabin, New York, NY
William P. Sanders, El Paso, TX
Laine Santamaria, Houston, TX
Kimberly A. Scheele, Houston, TX
Chris Shilling, Oklahoma City, OK
Courtney Somerville Becker, Austin, TX
Carolyn Starr, Houston, TX
Claire C. Thielke, Houston, TX
Brandon Trama, Old Greenwich, CT
Chris Wallace, Houston, TX
Neshat Yazdi, D.D.S., Houston, TX