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Willard V. (Bill) Harris, Jr. is a Director & Vice President of the Foundation. Bill has served as a trustee of Whittier college for the past 25 years and is currently vice chairman of the board. He is also chairman and a trustee of the Brethren Manor Senior Care Center in Long Beach, California, serves on the Board of Directors for the Prentice School for dyslexic children in Santa Ana, California and is president of Harris Taylor Management in Santa Ana.
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David Seftel, M.D., MBA is Executive Vice President and Director of Research Development for the Foundation, Dr. Seftel, a Board Certified and part-time practicing Internist, trained at Harvard's Beth Israel Hospital and Loyola University of Chicago. He holds a Masters in Business Administration with graduate honors from Harvard University. He currently serves as medical management consultant to hospitals and health systems worldwide and as faculty advisor to the Executive Education Program at Harvard Business School.
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Philip Filner, PhD., is Director of Basic Science Research for the Foundation. A graduate of John Hopkins University (B.A. in Biophysics) and CalTech (Ph. D. in Biochemsitry), Dr. Filner is the author of 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers. His professional service responsibilities include work on the Grant, Program Review, or Advisory Committees of the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Agriculture, the Department of Energy and the National Aeronautics and Space Agency. He has additionally served on the Editorial Board of four scientific journals.
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Stuart L. Fine M.D. - Board of Scientific Advisors
Chairman, Professor of Ophthalmology, and Director of the Scheie Eye Institute, The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.
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Robert J. D'Amato M.D., Ph.D. - Board of Scientific Advisors
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Karp Center for Macular Degeneration Research at Boston Childrens Hospital. He obtained his M.D. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins Medical School where he was the recipient of the coveted Paul Ehrlich Award for Research Excellence and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Physician Research Fellowship. He heads up the Nation's leading research laboratory in wet macular degeneration at the Children's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
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