Board of Directors News
February 3, 2012 Herbert Pardes, HDF Board of Director member, featured in Psychiatric News -
"Psychiatry Superstar Dials Back Distinguished Career"
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Nancy Wexler’s visit to Venezuela is featured in the July 28, 2010 issue of Panorama, a newspaper from Maracaibo, Venezuela!
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Congratulations Carrie!!!
Hereditary Disease Foundation Lifetime Director, lifetime friend and legendary actress, author and tabloid sensation Carrie Fisher is back on Broadway!!! Her new one-woman show, Wishful Drinking about "the highs and lows of life as a Hollywood princess" opens on Broadway at the Roundabout Theatre on September 22, 2009.
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“HDF Director, Kelly Posner Gerstenhaber, and colleagues from Columbia
University bring attention to the possible psychiatric side effects of
experimental medicines. As a result, the Food and Drug Administration is now
requiring drug makers to study closely whether patients become suicidal
during clinical trials.”
-Featured in the New York Times, January 24, 2008
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HDF Board of Director Herb Pardes,
President of New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System,
featured in January
7, 2007 New York Times article.
Carrie
Fisher Article, NY Times: "Comedic Postscripts From
The Edge", November 15, 2006.
Carrie
Fisher Article, Playbill: "Another Round: Carrie
Fisher's Wishful Drinking Extends Run in L.A.",
November 27, 2006. |
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Architect Frank Gehry presented his design
for a new Alzheimer's research center in Las Vegas
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VEGAS (AP) - Architect Frank Gehry presented his design
for a new Alzheimer's research center in Las Vegas on
Saturday, unveiling an uneven stack of blocks anchoring
a swooping trellis made of Gehry's signature contorted
steel. (Las Vegas Sun, 11 Feb 2006) - [.pdf
version]
Architect
Frank Gehry spoke at SfN about how his work progresses
from ideas to finished buildings.
(BrainWork, November/December 2006) - [.pdf
version]
Architect
Frank Gehry's plan for a retail, residential and entertainment
complex: opportunities and challenges LOS
ANGELES (AP) Grand
Avenue Project (The New York Times, Sun, 1 Jan 2007) -
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IN MEMORIAM |
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Blake Edwards We are saddened by the loss of Blake Edwards, a dear friend and longtime supporter of the Hereditary Disease Foundation.
Link to Los Angeles Times Article
Link to New York Times Article |
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Brandon Lee Roberts Brandon was born in Williamsburg, Va., April 7, 1975. He passed away peacefully, Sept. 7, 2010, knowing that he was so loved by his family and friends. |
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Milton
Wexler HDF Founder Milton
Wexler, psychoanalyst in Los Angeles for over fifty years,
beloved father of Alice and Nancy, died at home on March
16, 2007, at the age of ninety-eight.
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Alden "Buster" Blethen Alden Blethen lived a full life despite ravages of disease — When friends and family remember Alden "Buster" Blethen, they don't talk of
the man who was bedridden by a debilitating disease; they talk of the man who
lived life to the fullest, who bore no bitterness from the ravages of his
disease.
Mr. Blethen died Thursday from Huntington's disease, an inherited neurological
disorder. He was 55. |
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Leslie Gehry Brenner Leslie was a gifted artist who was creative with everything she touched. She drew magnifi cently and was an inspired painter, photographer and filmmaker. |
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G. William "Bill" Fox passed away on December 1, 2007, age 66, at his home in Medford, NJ surrounded by his loving family, and after a 17 year battle with Huntington's Disease |
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Don Fritts HDF Board of Director
and friend Donald H. Fritts passed away at
his home in Bakersfield on Thursday, May 4, 2006. A former
publisher of The Bakersfield Californian, Don had been
ill with Huntington's disease for many years."
"Gentleman Publisher Dies" | Thursday, May 4 2006
The Bakersfield Californian | Thursday, May 4 2006
The Bakersfield Californian | Friday, May 5 2006
Don Fritts' Obituary
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Jennifer Jones Jennifer Jones Simon, longtime friend and Founding Trustee of the Hereditary Disease Foundation—we all miss and love you! Read her obituary:
The New York Times
Los Angeles Times
Pasadena Star-News |
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Ruth Kirschstein We are all deeply saddened by the news of Dr. Ruth Kirschstein's death last evening. She died peacefully, after battling a long illness. Our hearts go out to Ruth's husband, Dr. Al Rabson, and their son, Dr. Arnold Rabson. |
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Vernon M. Ingram died in Boston at the age of 82. Vernon had attended the HDF Biennial Symposium in Cambridge, MA the previous weekend. His recent research focused on neuroscience, including Huntington's disease and Alzheimer's disease. |
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Harry Lieberman of Haverford, PA. Husband of Evelyn (nee Gagliardi) and the late Betty (nee Jaffe) father of Deborah Fine, Barbara Dubroff and the late Joan Baumgarten, brother of Samuel Lieberman and the late Isaac "Jack" and Theodore Lieberman, also survived by 6 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren. |
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William “Bill” Modell The Hereditary Disease Foundation is saddened by the death of HDF Lifetime Trustee and dear friend, William “Bill” Modell.
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Mike O'Brien a resident of Seattle, Washington and formerly of Oswego, NY died Sunday May1, 2005 while climbing Mt. Everest with his brother Christopher O'Brien. |
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Dick O'Neill The Hereditary Disease Foundation was saddened by the death of longtime HDF Lifetime Trustee and dear friend, Richard “Dick” O’Neill. Dick and his wife, Donna, have been part of the Hereditary Disease Foundation family since its inception in 1968.
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Max Palevsky died Wednesday of heart failure at his Beverly Hills home, said his wife, Jodie Evans.
"I'm not sure the average person knows him," said television producer Norman Lear, a longtime friend, "but anybody interested in the arts has Max to thank for the way he supported arts in this town … and, if you cared for his politics, for who he supported. He was a very unique soul." |
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Jack Penney died suddenly of a heart attack on January 31, 1999, at the age of fifty-one.
Jack Penney was Professor of Neurology at the Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where he treated patients and headed one of the premiere neuropharmacology research laboratories in the world. Together with Dr. Anne B. Young, Jack's life-long partner, wife and best friend. |
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