New Hope : the Organization

New Hope is a non-profit organization guided by a fifteen-member Board of Directors representing medical professionals, corporate executives, nutritional experts, and families whose members suffer from chronic illness caused by chemical sensitivities, allergies, and hormonal imbalances. A twenty-six member highly qualified national committee of advisors provides a wide range of resources for program planning, implementation and referrals.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

David D. Stegmaier, President and Interim Executive Director

Formerly: Special Assistant, Office of U.S. Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI), 2001-2003;
         State Representative, Hawaii State Legislature, November 1988 - 2000;
         Claims Assistant, King & Neel, Inc., Honolulu, Hawaii, 1990-1999;
         Insurance Regulation Analyst, Hawaii State Department of Commerce and
         Consumer Affairs (1985-1988); Member, Oahu Alliance for the Mentally Ill (1988-1993).
Juris Doctor, Richardson School of Law , University of Hawaii
B.A., Secondary Teaching Certificate, Rhode Island College B.A., Political S
cience, Earlham College

Gloria Boyer

With her husband, Terry, owns and operates William T. Boyer & Company, a successful heating and air-conditioning business;
Wife (married 38 years) and mother of two adult sons, one of whom has been chronically ill for many years;
Active member of the New Hope Foundation Awareness Committee;
Graduated Yorktown High School ;
Degree in cosmetology from Alexandria Beauty Academy ;
1982 - 1984 Republican Precinct Chairman for the Greenway Downs District;
Volunteer for the Good News Mission (a nationwide Prison Ministry);
Bible study teacher at the Alexandria Detention Center for Children;
Member of Well Mind Association of Greater Washington , D.C.

Jerry Cott, Ph.D

Neuropsychopharmacologist specializing in psychotherapeutic drug development and the role of phospholipids in psychiatric illness;
Scientific Advisor to the Institute of Mental Health Research at the Royal Ottawa Hospital in Canada ;
Advisory Board of the American Botanical Council;
Former Chief of the Adult Psychopharmacology Research Program at the National
Institutes of Mental Health, 1991-May 2000. Presently with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
B.A., Chemistry and Biology, Central State University , Oklahoma.
Ph.D, Pharmacology, University of North Carolina , Chapel Hill , NC . Postdoctoral fellowship, University of Gothenberg , Sweden

Norton L. Fishman, MD, CNS

The Washington Metropolitan Center for Integrative Medicine;
Physician with board certification in Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine
Certified Nutritional Specialist;
Diplomate in Anti-Aging/Longevity Medicine;
MD degree from the University of Illinois Medical School;
Trained in Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic, Rochester , Minnesota ;
Physician in Air Force;
In private practice more than 30 years

Peter W. Gilson

Chairman, Swiss Army Brands, Inc. (Retired)
Formerly President/CEO Physicians Support System 1991-99: The Warrington Group, Ltd.
Boards of Directors: Chairman, Swiss Army Brands, Inc. Chairman, Outlast
Technologies. Member: Glenayre Technologies: Fort Hill Group; Pamet River Foundation; Deerfield Academy
Brown University , B.A.

Edward Kane

CEO, BodyBio Corporation, Instructs physicians in biomedical course on lipid metabolism
Visiting professor at the Wharton School of Business, Philadephia;
CEO and sole owner, Kane Steel, founded company in 1955;
Founded K-TRON International (1964) and K-FLOW International (1980);
Temple University , B.S.

Patricia Kane, Ph.D.

Active clinical research in metabolic intervention. Private practice in nutritional biochemistry, serving as Director of Medical Research, Body Bio Centre, Millville, NJ; consultant to the Kennedy Kreiger Institute Peroxisomal Diseases Lab;
Prolific author on the subject of essential fatty acids and ecosanoids and related topics;
Former: Chief of Nutrition, Carl C. Markwood Preventive Medicine and Clinical Allergy
Center (Sacramentio, CA); Exec. Director, Body Bio Centre, Director of Metabolics, Kaplan Foundation Residential Center for Autism, ( Orangeville , CA )
Unique work on fatty acid metabolism with presentations at Fourth International Congress on Essential Fatty Acids and Eicosanoids (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1997); Columbia University (1998, 1999); National Institute of Health (1998, 1999); Kennedy Kreiger Institute (2000)

Maria K. Urreiztieta

Retired.
Undergraduate study at University of Puerto Rico , Catholic University
Professional activities in Boston , Washington , D.C. , Venezuela and Mexico City
Harvard, M.Ed.;
Further study: Sloan School (MIT) in International Management;
Harvard Law School , Negotiation and Dispute Resolution

Michael A. Susko

B.S. in Philosophy, St. Bernard College
M.S. in Counseling Psychology, Loyola College , Baltimore
Editor, Cry of the Invisible, Writings of the Homeless and Survivors of Psychiatric Hospitals ; Author, “Contrasting Approaches to People who are Psychiatrically Labeled,”
In Journal of Mind and Behavior
Presently, an Outreach Specialist to homeless chronically ill clients, Department of Social Services, State of Maryland ;
Formerly: Adjunct faculty at Essex Community College, Loyola College where he designed and taught “Personal Archetypes of Western Civilization,” “History of Mental Illness in Western Civilization,” and “Sacred Art of Indigenous Cultures;”
Formerly: Counselor at St. Paul Halfway House

Lawrence A. Plumlee, M.D.

Specialist in chemical sensitivity. Private practice in the Washington , D.C. area involved traditional and alternative medical treatments, environmental health, toxicology and physiology;
Currently a medical consultant on chemical sensitivity disorders. Also, co-counseling teacher in the Washington , D.C. area. Regular bi-monthly contributor to Twentieth Century Living ;
Formerly: Scientific author/co-author for 19 journals and publications in the areas of physiology and toxicology. Fellow in the Department of Cardio Respiratory Diseases of Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and Investigator for the Division of Neuropsychiatry/Department of Neurophysiology at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research;
Joined Well Mind Association of Greater Washington in 1977;
B.A. in Biology, Princeton University
M.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

NEW HOPE ADVISORS

Iris Bell, MD, PhD, Arizona
Arnold Brenner, MD, Maryland
Hyla Cass, MD, California
John Crayton, MD, Illinois
Professor James Croxton, California
Alan Gaby, MD, Maryland
Natalie Golos, author, Maryland
Abram Hoffer , MD , PhD, British Columbia
Michael Janson, MD, Massachusetts
Patricia Kane, PhD, New Jersey
Oscar Kruesi, MD, New Jersey
Richard Kunin, MD, California
Stephen A. Levine, PhD, California
Allan Lieberman, MD, South Carolina
David Lukoff, PhD, California
Ruth McGill, MD, Texas
William Meggs, MD, North Carolina
Candace Pert, PhD, Maryland
William Philpott, MD, Oklahoma
William Rea, MD, PhD, Texas
Thomas L. Stone, MD, Illinois
Alan R. Vinitsky, MD, Maryland
William Walsh, PhD, Illinois