Leadership

Board of Directors

• Rick Rader, MD,FAAIDD, DHL (hon)
  President of AAHD
  Editor-in-chief, Exceptional Parent Magazine
  Director, Habilitation Center,
  Orange Grove Center, Chattanooga, TN
  VP Public Policy, American Academy of
  Developmental Medicine and Dentistry
• Ronald G. Blankenbaker, MD
  Past AAHD President
  Associate Dean Emeritus
  University of Tennessee College of Medicine
  Chattanooga, TN
• Vince Campbell, Ph.D.
  Disability Researcher and Consultant
  Gulf Shores, AL
• Michael Hoenig, MA
  University of Iowa
  Health Care Center for Disabilities and Development
  AAHD Scholarship Committee Co-Chair
  Iowa City, IA
• Matt Holder, MD, MBA
  Chief Executive Officer
  Lee Specialty Clinic
  Louisville, KY
• Amy Houtrow, MD, MPH, Ph.D
  Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Pediatrics
  Endowed Chair for Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine
  University of Pittsburgh
  Pittsburgh, PA
• Matthew P. Janicki, Ph.D
  Associate Research Professor
  Department of Disability and Human Development
  University of Illinois at Chicago
  Chicago, Illinois
• Gary Liguori, Ph.D, FACSM
  Dean, College of Health Sciences
  University of Rhode Island
  Kingston, RI
• Margaret A. Nosek, PhD
  Executive Director
  Center for Research on Women
  with Disabilities
  Baylor College of Medicine
  Houston, TX
• Susan L. Parish, Ph.D., MSW
  Susan L. Parish
  Dean
  College of Health Professions
  Virginia Commonwealth University
• Bruce Pearlman, LLC, CPA
  Financial Consultant
  Rockville, MD