SOSCA 2008 Speakers
Grant Albrecht , Advocate
Steve Allen , Partner, SalientPoint, LLC
Mark Burton , Campaign Director for the Michigan Stem Cell Ballot Question Committee
Amy Comstock Rick , CEO, Parkinson's Action Network; President, Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research
Amy Daly , Co-Executive Director, Americans for Cures Foundation
Jeannie Fontana , MD, PhD, Advocate, ICOC Board Member
Michael J. Fox , (via video) Actor & Founder, Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
Brad Kemp , Executive Director of the Kansas Coalition for Lifesaving Cures
Robert N. Klein , Co-author and Chairman, California's Proposition 71 and Chairman, Independent Citizens Oversight Committee (ICOC), California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)
Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD, Director of the UCSF Institute for Regeneration Medicine
Jay Levy , MD, Professor in the Department of Medicine and Research Associate at the Cancer Research Institute, UCSF and Director of the Laboratory for Tumor and AIDS Virus Research UCSF
Paul Mandabach , Partner, Winner & Mandabach Campaigns
Richard Martin , Former Campaign Manager for Senator Claire McCaskill
Richard Maullin , Founding Partner, Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin & Associates
Constance McKee , Co-Executive Director, Americans for Cures Foundation
Don Reed , Advocate and Sponsor of the Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Research Act
Brock Reeve , Director, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and brother of Christopher Reeve
Renee Reijo Pera , MD, PhD, Stanford Professor and Director, Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education
Tricia Riccio , Advocate
Donn Rubin , Chairman of the Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures
Bernard Siegel , Founder & Executive Director, Genetics Policy Institute
Carlana Stone , Advocate, Founder of "The Courage Community"Alan Trounson , PhD, President, CIRM
Siri Vaeth-Dunn , Advocate and mother of daughter with cystic fibrosis



