CHADD Staff
Chief Executive Officer
Ruth Hughes, PhD, CEO
Ruth Hughes is a clinical psychologist, the mother of an adult
son with ADHD, and the CEO of CHADD. During her years at CHADD, she
has worn many hats and has at various times been responsible for public
policy, chapters, membership, Parent to Parent Training and Teacher to
Teacher training. For seventeen years she was the Chief Executive
Officer of the International Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation
Services (now USPRA), an association representing providers or
rehabilitation services to adults and children with serious mental
illnesses. Today her work focuses on advocating for a system of care
where every child and adult with ADHD has access to state-of-the-art
information and services.
Communications and Media Relations
Susan Buningh, MRE, Executive Editor, Attention and
chadd.org; Media Relations
Susan Buningh is executive editor of Attention
magazine and the CHADD website, as well as the online publications
Attention 2.0 and Attention 2.0 Professional
Edition. She is also responsible for handling media
inquiries and communications for the National ADHD
Education Initiative. Susan edited various print publications
for more than twenty-five years before coming to CHADD in
2007. Susan holds an AB in history from Vassar College and a
master's in religious education. A longtime Special Olympics
volunteer and equestrian coach, Susan is the mother of an adult daughter
who has intellectual disabilities.
Membership and Affiliate Services
Trish White, Director of Membership and
Affiliate Services
Karen Peterson, Membership Database Coordinator
Wanda Bazemore, Membership and Development Accounts
Coordinator
Parent to Parent
Jennifer Klotz, Parent to Parent Training
Coordinator
Development, Operations and Finance
Russell L. Shipley, IOM, Chief
Development, Operations and Publishing Officer
Russ Shipley joined CHADD in 1998. He is responsible for
strategic planning and implementation of many aspects of CHADD's revenue
generation programs. These include corporate support, major donors,
direct mail campaigns, special events, and affinity programs. Russ
manages general office operations and serves in a lead budget
development and financial oversight role. He serves as publisher of
Attention magazine and assists in advertising sales and
marketing. Prior to joining CHADD, Russ was in senior management
with several nonprofit professional and trade associations, including
managing director of the American Trucking Associations Intermodal
Conference, executive vice president of the Independent Insurance Agents
of Maryland, vice president of the National Grocers Association, and
executive vice president and publishing director of the National Candy
Wholesalers Association. He holds a BS in journalism from the
University of Maryland and a four-year certification from the U. S.
Chamber of Commerce Institute for Organization Management. He served in
the U.S. Army in Vietnam and Germany and is active in the Crofton,
Maryland Kiwanis Club.
Jenifer Artis, Staff Accountant
Jenifer Artis has been with CHADD since 2000 in the position of Staff
Accountant. She received her formal education from Knoxville College in
Knoxville, Tennessee where she obtained her BA degree in 1970. She has
been an accounting professional for mainly nonprofit associations for
over thirty years. Jenifer's primary responsibilities are to coordinate
and monitor the daily financial and administrative operations of CHADD
while working closely with Cordia Partners, CHADD's outsourced
accounting consultants.
Barbara Rose, Advertising Manager
Meetings and Event Planning
Marsha Bokman, CMP, Director of Meetings and Events
Marsha Bokman has been with CHADD since 1999. She is
responsible for coordinating and executing the overall management of
CHADD's annual international conference as well as many
other meetings and programs during the year. A certified meeting
planner, Bokman works in tandem with her staff in the areas of
meeting logistics, registrations, publications, marketing, hotel and
convention center negotiation and selection, budgeting, speaker liaison,
and continuing education accreditation.
National Resource Center on ADHD (NRC)
Tim MacGeorge, MDiv, MSW, Director
Since May 2006, Tim MacGeorge has been the director of the NRC, a
program of CHADD that is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC). Prior to being named director, Tim had been the NRC's
deputy director since its inception in 2002. As director, Tim serves as
liaison between CHADD and the CDC, while overseeing the program's $1
million budget and supervising a staff of professionals who operate and
staff the NRC, a lifeline to the millions of people affected by ADHD.
The NRC includes the nation's only library dedicated exclusively to
literature and research on ADHD. Prior to coming to CHADD, Tim was
director of information and referral at the National Alliance on Mental
Illness (NAMI). Before that, he worked at AARP while pursuing graduate
studies in social work. Tim holds an AB in philosopy, an MDiv, and an
MSW in social work policy and administration.
Sarah S. Firestone, MSW, Health Information Team Leader and Operations
Manager
Adisa Griffin, Health Information Specialist
Karen Sampson Hoffman, MA, Health Information Specialist
Britany Locher, Health Information Specialist
Zuali Malsawma, MLS, Librarian
Bryan Jaffe, Writer-Editor
Cynthia Troy, Receptionist
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