Chapter Staff and Board of Directors

APDA Information & Referral Center
Boston University Medical Campus

Cathi Thomas, MS, RN
Director

APDA Center for Advanced Research
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Marie Saint Hilaire, MD, FRCPC
Medical Director

APDA Center for Advanced Research
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Vikram Khurana, MD, PhD
Medical Director

Board of Directors

The Chapter Board is comprised of approximately twenty volunteers with diverse backgrounds who meet monthly to direct the operation of the APDA Massachusetts Chapter. Board members are not paid for their services and are committed to the mission of helping find a cure through funding research, and to helping people in their day-to-day activities. Board members work extremely hard in planning and organizing information sessions, the Annual “Optimism Walk” and numerous fundraising events.

Working closely with the APDA Information and Referral Center and Massachusetts’s two APDA Centers for Advanced Research, the APDA Massachusetts strives to provide service to the approximately 20,000 people living with Parkinson’s in the state,* as well as their family members and care partners. The Chapter fulfills this mission by giving grants to organizations providing Parkinson’s programming,  supplying guidance and education to support groups across the state, and supporting educational programming in collaboration with the APDA Information and Referral Center, among other activities.

*Based on the 2020 Census.

All are welcome to sit in on Board meetings, and those interested in doing more can apply to become Board members, subject to Chapter Bylaws.

Executive Board

Memebers at Large

Advisors