Our Leadership Team

Our Leadership Team is  an award-winning team of passionate individuals who are patient advocates "at the table", serving on advisory panels, participating as research liaisons, and using their stories to influence policy.  This, combined with their professional experience in business, education, and research, makes our organization what it is today.

Tiffany Westrich-Robertson

Chief Executive Officer | Co-Founder


Person living with non-radiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis & various co-morbidities.


Julie Lopez

Executive Assistant
Person supporting friends with AiArthritis Diseases

Yasmine Elkabir

People Operations

Person supporting family with AiArthritis Diseases

Leila P.L. Valete

Health Education Manager

Person living with Lupus & Sjögren's Disease

Kelly Conway

Co-Founder

Community Awareness

Person living with Spondyloarthritis

Eileen Davidson

 "Chronic Eileen"

Community Awareness

Person living with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Michael Guadalupe

Volunteer Program

& Administrative Assistant

Person living with Psoriatic Arthritis

Deeanne Quist

Volunteer Program

& Administrative Assistant

Person living with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Ray Patnaude

Patient Advocacy Advisor

Person living with Psoriatic Arthritis

Brian DuVal

Advocacy Manager

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Support

Ryan Reeves

AiArthritis Voices 360 Production & Audio Engineer

Christina Davis

AiArthritis Voices 360 Production & Marketing Expert

Janessa Lee

Social Media Assistant

Person supporting family with AiArthritis Diseases

Jitasa Group

Accountant / CPA

Non-Profit Accounting & Bookkeeping

Donna Mehr

Fundraising Consultant

AiArthritis Voices 360 Co-Hosts


Diversity of Perspectives

In 2019, we won a small Innovation Impact Award to launch our version of a podcast, or talk show, that aims to expand vocal diversity among those who lead conversations that influence our work to impact education, advocacy, and research.  The voices leading our show represent a wide variety of people living with our diseases - representative of different geographic locations, biological sex, gender, age, diagnoses, and experience (patient advocacy and professional). The show also plans to "tour", recording live with an audience of those affected by our diseases. These co-hosts will help elevate our mission to include all voices "at the table" to levels no one else in our community has achieved. We are excited they are part of our "team!"

Meet Our Co-Hosts!

Volunteers


Volunteers who are passionate about our cause can become foundation leaders. They help in a variety of ways including:  project development, project implementation, coalition membership, and ambassadors for our organization and in our communities and around the world.

Join Our Team!

Advisors


As people living with these diseases and communicating with others like us daily, we are continuously identifying outstanding issues that our community needs to solve. We then identify the right experts or stakeholders to bring "to the table" - alongside people living with AiArthritis diseases, to help develop and implement solutions together. These are called our Engagement Partners. 

Advisors may include other patient advocacy organizations, healthcare and medical professionals, and various stakeholders who bring value and expertise to each project team.   

Examples of existing advisors include: Rheumatology Nurses Society, FORWARD Databank, Center for Survey Research (Boston), Center for Autoinflammatory Diseases.

Board of Directors


We are  an organization of change agents, working - at times quickly - to tackle the most pressing community issues.  Keeping our Board of Directors small helps to expedite approvals when needed.   Since our primary aim as an organization is to infuse the patient voice in all we do,  which at times may challenge current healthcare practices, our Board members cannot be affiliated with therapeutic practice.  Any medical input we obtain is strictly done in an advisory capacity.   



Tiffany Westrich-Robertson

President

CEO | Business Development | Educator

& Sr. Project Manager

Person living with non-radiographic Axial Spondyloarthropathy

Florian Klett

Board Member

Consultant | Patient Expert

Former Member of EULAR & FOREUM

Person supporting family members affected by AiArthritis Diseases

Chris Glosemeyer

Treasurer

Senior Engineer III

with Nestle-Purina

Person supporting a relative living with an AiArthritis disease

Suzanne da Câmara

Secretary

MBA | Bachelors in Engineering | Educator

Person supporting friends with AiArthritis diseases

Auralie Najm

Board Member

Person supporting those with AiArthritis diseases

WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR TWO ADDITIONAL BOARD MEMBERS FOR 2023

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