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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.
Lists updated as of December 10, 2021
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. Cockrell, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Wayne Gibbens, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Lyda Hill, Dallas, TX
Melvyn N. Klein, Executive Committee, Corpus Christi, TX
Nancy B. Loeffler, Executive Committee, San Antonio, TX
Harry J. Longwell, Dallas, TX
L. Lowry Mays, San Antonio, TX
Red McCombs, San Antonio, TX
James J. Mulva, De Pere, WI
William E. Rosenthal, Fort Worth, TX
BOV Senior Members
Linda L. Addison, Houston, TX
Richard C. Adkerson, Phoenix, AZ
Peggy Brunet Ahuja, Corpus Christi, TX
Mark W. Albers, The Woodlands, 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., 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
Lily C. Garfield, Aspen, CO
Gary F. Gibson, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Terry M. Giles, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Thomas S. Glanville, Houston, TX
Steven L. Gordon, Houston, TX
Richard W. Gray III, Miami Beach, FL
David M. Grimes II, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Ben A. Guill, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Maureen Hackett, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Janelle Hail, Frisco, TX
Katherine C. Hatcher, Houston, TX
Adrea D. Heebe, Gretna, LA
Becky Bradfield Heiser, Austin, TX
Gloria Hicks, Corpus Christi, TX
Yerger Hill III, Floresville, 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
Charles E. Hurwitz, Houston, 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
T. Mark Kelly, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Nancy G. Kinder, Houston, TX
Henry A. Kissinger, South Kent, CT
Gregory A. Kozmetsky, Dallas, TX
Demos T. Kyrazis, Albuquerque, NM
Julie Kyte, Scottsdale, AZ
Neda Ladjevardian, Houston, TX
Eric S. Lane, New York, NY
Elyse Lanier, Houston, TX
Pierre F. Lapeyre Jr., New York, NY
Sally Berry Larson, Dallas, 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
Jeff B. Love, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Mary Ralph Lowe, Fort Worth, TX
Marlene A. Malek, McLean, VA
Rodney H. Margolis, Houston, TX
Kade L. Matthews, Clarendon, TX
Karen R. Matthews, Dallas, 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
Sonceria Messiah-Jiles, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Howard M. Meyers, Dallas, TX
Kit Moncrief, Fort Worth, TX
Denise D. Monteleone, Houston, TX
William C. Montgomery, Houston, TX
Henry G. Musselman, Albany, TX
Joseph Neubauer, Philadelphia, PA
Robert Nichols III, Dallas, TX
Dennis E. Nixon, Laredo, TX
Marvin Odum, Houston, TX
Kay M. Onstead, Houston, TX
Pamela K. Onstead, Santa Fe, NM
Paul F. Oreffice, Paradise Valley, AZ
Vicky M. Pappas, Houston, TX
Roseann Park, Cleveland, OH
Melinda Hill Perrin, Houston, TX
Jan R. Pickens, Dallas, TX
Ralph Ponce de Leon, Phoenix, AZ
Jack P. Randall, Houston, TX
Scott E. Rozzell, Houston, TX
Thomas V. Rushing, Houston, TX
Thomas L. Ryan, Houston, TX
Andrew E. Sabin, East Hampton, NY
A. R. "Tony" Sanchez Jr., Houston, TX
William P. Sanders, El Paso, TX
Laura Sayavedra, Houston, TX
Nancy M. Seliger, Austin, TX
Peggy Sewell, Dallas, TX
Marc J. Shapiro, Houston, TX
John H. Shields II, Executive Committee, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
Marsha M. Shields, San Antonio, TX
Jerry Simon, Houston, TX
Donald R. Sinclair, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Glenn B. Stearns, Santa Ana, CA
Lenise Stephenson, Dallas, TX
H. Leighton Steward, Boerne, TX
Gayle B. Stoffel, Dallas, TX
Delia W. Stroud, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Mac Tichenor Jr., Executive Committee, Dallas, TX
Sue S. Timken, Canton, OH
Shelley Tortorice, Beaumont, TX
S. Wil VanLoh Jr., Executive Committee, Houston, TX
William M. Webster IV, Spartanburg, SC
Herbert D. Weitzman, Dallas, TX
Margaret Alkek Williams, Houston, TX
Sheridan Williams, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Tonya N Williams, Washington, DC
Cyvia Wolff, Houston, TX
Randall P. Wright, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
BOV Members
Durga D. Agrawal, Houston, TX
Kimberly M. Alfonso, Las Vegas, NV
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., Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Tony Chase, Houston, TX
Carlyse Ciocca, San Francisco, CA
David A. Cockrell, Houston, TX
Christopher Damico, Executive Committee, Pacific Palisades, CA
Doug Deason, Dallas, TX
Alfred L. Deaton III, Houston, TX
Thomas J. Donohue, Arlington, VA
William J. Doré, Sr., Lake Charles, LA
Susan Zane Epstein, Austin, TX
Donald L. Evans, Executive Committee, Midland, TX
Gregg H. Falgout, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Alejandra De la Vega Foster, El Paso, TX
Randy A. Foutch, Tulsa, OK
James L. Gallogly, Executive Committee, Austin, TX
Diane D. Gates, Corpus Christi, TX
Jimmy I. Gibbs, Spartanburg, SC
Douglas B. Glass, Executive Committee, Naples, FL
Rosalind Redfern Grover, Midland, TX
Robert G. Gwin, Houston, TX
Lawrence H. Hayward, Paradise Valley, AZ
David T. Herr, Bellaire, TX
Winell Herron, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Mindy Hildebrand, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Kay Bailey Hutchison, Dallas, TX
Wyck A. Knox Jr., Augusta, GA
Jed Manocherian, New York, NY
R. Stan Marek Jr., Houston, TX
Andrew D. McCullough Jr., Houston, TX
Cappy R. McGarr, Dallas, TX
Michael J. Medrano, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Walker N. Moody, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Laura G. Murillo, Houston, TX
Martha W. Murphy, El Dorado, AR
Ebru Ozdemir, Besiktas/Istanbul, Turkey
Ana Palacio, Madrid
Sherri W. Patton, Fort Worth, TX
Leslie Rainbolt, Oklahoma City, OK
John T. Raymond, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Jan A. Levit Silver, Houston, TX
Herbert D. Simons, Houston, TX
Lynn H. Smith, Dallas, TX
Ida Louise Clement Steen, San Antonio, TX
Gary W. Stein, Houston, TX
Sam L. Susser, Executive Committee, Dallas, TX
Charles W. Tate, Houston, TX
Steven H. Wasserman, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Don M. Woo, Executive Committee, Houston, TX
Anat Kaufman Zeidman, Houston, TX
BOV Associate Members
Arun Agarwal, Dallas, TX
Javaid Anwar, Midland, TX
Clayton I. Bennett, Oklahoma City, OK
Kathy P. Britton, Houston, TX
Don Childress, Executive Committee, Atlanta, GA
John J. Christmann IV, Houston, TX
Paul N. Clark, Indian Wells, CA
Greg Curran, Houston, TX
Barbara Dreeben, San Antonio, TX
Mac Dunwoody, Houston, TX
Michelle Earley, Austin, TX
Roslyn S. Eckstein, River Ridge, LA
Gregory C. Garland, Houston, TX
Meg Gentle, Houston, TX
Vanessa D. Gilmore, Houston, TX
Cami Christ Goff, Fort Worth, TX
Vijay P. Goradia, Executive Committee, The Woodlands, TX
Kelly Hackett, Houston, TX
Fred Hall, Oklahoma City, OK
John D. Harkey Jr., Dallas, TX
Jason Hiley, Fort Worth, TX
William D. Hoffman, Hollywood, FL
Mary Helen Kliewer, Salado, TX
Timothy A. Leach, Midland, TX
Andreae Behlen LeMaistre, San Antonio, TX
Ashley C. Loeffler, Houston, TX
Tom P. Lynch, Jacksonville, FL
David R. McAtee II, Dallas, TX
Jeffrey John McDougall, Oklahoma City, OK
Michael Ryan McGrath, Houston, TX
Eric Mendelsohn, Summit, NJ
Gloria Moncrief Holmsten, Fort Worth, TX
Sharon M. Owens, Missouri City, TX
Bhavesh V. Patel, Houston, TX
Michael Petrick, Greenwich, CT
Mary Martha Pickens, Executive Committee, Dallas, TX
Sheila Reese, Houston, TX
Robert K. Reeves, Houston, TX
Mario E. Rodriguez, Pacific Palisades, CA
Regina J. Rogers, Beaumont, TX
Helen Lho Ryu, Beverly Hills, CA
Christopher Sarofim, Houston, TX
Joan Weingarten Schnitzer, Houston, TX
Walter J. Smith, Houston, TX
Rabbi Alvin M. Sugarman, Atlanta, GA
Byron D. Trott, Chicago, IL
Robert B. Tudor III, Houston, TX
John H. Wilson III, Dallas, TX
Cynthia Erickson Zaninovich, Paducah, KY
Isabella Arjona Zappala, New York, NY
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
Rachel Cruz Auwarter, Chair, Bellaire, TX
Courtney Somerville Becker, Austin, TX
Daniel E. Blum, Chair-Elect, Houston, TX
William R. Bobbora, Milford, MI
Amanda M. Boswell, Denver, CO
Caroline Stouffer Brown, Outreach Chair, Houston, TX
Celeste E. Byrom, Houston, TX
Holly H. Cauble, Fort Worth, TX
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
Jessica H. Ramsey, Houston, TX
Anson M. Reilly, Dallas, TX
Jamille W. Ruebsahm, Austin, TX
Samuel Tyler Sabin, New York, NY
Laine Santamaria, Houston, TX
Kimberly A. Scheele, Houston, TX
Chris Shilling, Oklahoma City, OK
Carolyn Starr, Houston, TX
Brandon Trama, Old Greenwich, CT
Chris Wallace, Houston, TX
Neshat Yazdi, D.D.S., Houston, TX
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