Friend for Life

Our Board

Kristen Mellinger, Board President
Director, Underwriting and Policy Services, Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance
Joined 12/2019
Mary Dickman, Treasurer
Strategic Project Manager, Baptist Health
Joined 2023
Jason Howard, President Emeritus / Immediate Past President
Bristol Meyers Squibb
Joined 2014
Bart Bushong, Nomination Committee Chair / President Emeritus
CEO, RFX Technologies
Joined 2008
Karen Donahue, Immediate Past Treasurer
Vice President, Operations and Finance, Norton Cancer Institute & Norton Medical Group
Joined 2011
Kenya Whitfield
Community Outreach Manager, Hosparus, Inc.
Joined 2016
Jim Gaffney, MD
Retired, Chief Medical Officer, Hosparus
Joined 2018
Janell Seeger, MD
Retired, Medical Oncologist
Joined 2018
Laura Mitchell, APRN
Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist, Baptist Health Louisville
Joined 2018
Scott DeGaris
Territory Sales Manager, Inari Medical
Joined 2020
Joan Scales
Psych-Oncology Program Director, UKHC Markey Cancer Center
Joined 2023
Haleh Karimi
Assistant Professor of Management, Bellarmine University
Joined 2023
Amy L Holthouser, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Louisville, Pediatric Hospitalist, Norton Healthcare
Joined 2023
Brittany Cook
System Vice President Neurosciences and Oncology, Norton Healthcare
Joined 2024