The Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation

Board of Directors

Tony Addario
Tony is a driving force behind fundraising efforts and in recruiting champions for the Foundation.

Prior to helping launch the Foundation, Tony spent a successful career helping build several technology leaders and is on the advisory board for several Silicon Valley start-ups. He’s a retired vice president for Customer Support and Services for both Bay Networks and Juniper Networks. He also spent several years as a senior technical advisor on several of NASA’s programs including the Manned Space Flight Network. In addition to the Foundation, he serves on several boards including the Thunderbird Lodge Preservation Society in Lake Tahoe, the Green Hills Country Club in Millbrae CA and on the Computer Science Advisory Board for Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village NV. He’s also the past and current Chair of the Sequoia Hospital Golf Fundraiser and past co-chair with Bonnie of the hospital’s annual Gala.

A Philadelphia, PA native and Temple University graduate, Tony is the father of three and grandfather of seven.

Kitty Cullen Bohlman

Mrs. Bohlman brings over twenty five years of sales and marketing management experience in the high technology industry. She is currently the Vice President of Sales at Xsigo Systems, a start-up venture in Sunnyvale, California. Prior to that Mrs. Bohlman ran a consulting business, Kitty Cullen Associates providing sales and marketing expertise to various portfolio companies sponsored by Kliener Perkins, Warburg Pincus and several public entities. She served as Senior Vice President of North American Sales and Services at Verisign, Inc., Senior Sales Vice President of Technology Services at AOL/Time Warner, Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Java Software at Sun Microsystems and Vice President and General Manager for Distributed Computing at BMC Software in Houston.

She spent eight years with Oracle Corporation beginning her career as National Account Manager in the Federal Division and rose to Corporate Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for Internet Products. While at Oracle, Mrs. Bohlman was inducted into the Oracle Hall of Fame after three consecutive years of running the #1 sales organization in the company.

She serves on the Board of the Forum for Female Executives and Entrepreneurs and often writes articles for Sales and Marketing Magazine and has served on panels at Stanford University in their Entrepreneur in Residence program.

Mrs. Bohlman attended Oklahoma University where she majored in Journalism.

Carole Carney

Carole is a native of Port au Prince, Haiti from where she immigrated to the U.S. in 1970. Carole has lived in Massachusetts, California and Paris, France. She is fluent in French, English and Haitian Creole.

In addition to serving on the Executive Board of the Bonnie J. Addario Foundation, Carole serves on the board and is the President of the Lloyd and Carole Carney Foundation. The Foundation is focused on charitable support for children in need and medical care in developing countries. The Foundation provides the majority of the financial support for the Ikhayalethemba Village near Cape Town, South Africa.

The goal of the Village is to provide integrated community-based residential and daycare for HIV+ children, Aids orphans as well as other abandoned, abused, neglected and/or disabled children.

The Foundation also is a significant sponsor of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula. Support also has been provided to hospitals in Jamaica in the form of new medical equipment and refurbishing of operating theatres.

Carole has a Bachelor of Science degree from Boston State College in Business Management. She resides in Atherton, California today with her husband and two children. Her children attend college at Wellesley College, Massachusetts and Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles.

Carole enjoys golf and painting in both oils and watercolors.

Deborah Ettinger

Deborah Ettinger is a San Francisco Bay area native and mother of two wonderful children. She is a community advocate, adjunct trustee of the Educational Foundation of America and a trustee of the Ettinger Foundation.

Her relationship to lung cancer is a success story. Her brother was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer in December 2005 and today, with the help of some wonderful doctors it has all but gone away.

Deborah’s continued involvement with the Bonnie J. Addario A Breath Away from the Cure Foundation is a reminder that we can change lung cancer statistics and a source of encouragement and support in our efforts to save more lung cancer victims and potential lung cancer sufferers worldwide.

Deborah Flanagan

Deborah Flanagan spent 20 years in technology sales and sales management responsible for both domestic and European sales campaigns. Deborah retired from Juniper Networks where she was Operations Director of the UK and Ireland. As a native of Indianapolis, she started her career as a high school English teacher and spent five years with Random House Publishing in sales management prior to entering the high tech industry. Deborah is retired and divides her time between Northern Indiana and the San Francisco Bay area.

Henne Fredkin

Jack Hanson

Jack Hanson, a third generation San Franciscan, host of “Jack’s Place,” former KGO reporter, and 5-year host of “AM San Francisco,” and currently host of Comcast Local Edition (a local interview program that airs on the half-hour with CNN Headline News) has over a half a century of broadcast experience in the Bay Area.

Born August 8, 1932, Jack grew up in the Panhandle near the Haight. Hanson attended Lowell High School and City College of San Francisco before joining the Air Force. He returned to San Francisco after his service, graduating from San Francisco State University in 1956.

As a cousin of Bonnie J. Addario, it did not take much arm-twisting to get Jack to join the BJALCF Board. As an astonishing interviewer who is best known and loved for “spontaneous conversation,” Jack is best known and loved at this Foundation for hosting our “show” at every turn—every step of the way.

Tamara Hicks

Tamara J. Hicks was born in San Diego County, CA and moved to San Francisco in 1992. She earned her undergraduate degree in Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. After moving to San Francisco she received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology.

She has a firm commitment to volunteering and has been active in organizations which serve the undeserved since 1992. In 1992 Tamara was the President of the Berkeley-Oakland Chapter of the National Organization of Women. As a volunteer for the past three years she has been the team leader for the San Francisco American Red Cross’ Mental Health Division. She was on the Board of Trustees for Family Service Agency-SF and served as their Vice President. She has been on the Board of Trustees of The San Francisco School for 9 years and served as its President for three of those years.

Professionally, in 1994, Tamara co-founded an agency serving adults with developmental disabilities and autistic spectrum disorders (Residential and Educational Services) and continues to serve as the Clinical Director of this agency serving over 100 individuals. In 2001 she founded Potrero Hill Psychotherapy where she provides psychotherapy to children, adolescents and adults.

Five years ago along with her husband (David Jablons) and their kids (Josy and Emmy), she started an organic goat dairy in the coastal town of Tomales.

Tamara is excited to serve on the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation Board since she has seen the devastation this cancer can have upon the lives of so many. She believes that as a psychologist she can assist in breaking through the psychological barriers that prevent the philanthropic community, researchers, and others from taking the aggressive and immediate action that must be taken to find a cure for Lung Cancer.

Lori Hope

Lori Hope is an author, producer, and speaker with two decades of experience as a communications professional. A former newspaper editor and journalist who developed hundreds of medical news reports and documentaries for television, her dozens of honors include two Emmys and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.

Hope’s widely-read book, Help Me Live: 20 Things People with Cancer Want You to Know has been featured in media including Redbook magazine, US News & World Reports, and ABC News’ “Nightline.” Hope, a lung cancer survivor who quit smoking seventeen years before her diagnosis, has written for Newsweek and other publications. One of her essays appears in a college English textbook with works by Barbara Ehrenreich and Nelson Mandela. Her work has appeared on major networks, and she has been a guest on the Oprah show.

Hope has lectured about compassionate communication, smoking cessation, and the stigma of lung cancer, at Tulane Medical School, UCSF, and UCLA, and has presented before the American Cancer Society, the Jewish Federation, and the American Thoracic Society. She speaks not only about communicating with cancer patients, but anyone who is rendered more vulnerable by illness or other conditions. Her speeches are based partly on research she conducted for Help Me Live, which include interviews with Jimmie Holland, MD (Memorial-Sloan Kettering psychiatrist and author of The Human Side of Cancer);Wendy Harpham, MD (author of Happiness in a Storm); and Jerome Groopman, MD (New Yorker staff writer and author of The Anatomy of Hope).

A health expert on SheSource.org and a National Cancer Survivors Day Speakers Bureau member, Hope graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, Hope with a BA in Philosophy before working as a journalist in cities including St. Louis, Chicago and San Francisco, where she taught documentary production workshops for a decade. Currently, she sits on the executive board of the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation, and volunteers for The Lung Cancer Alliance and The Cancer League.

Abe Malaster

Deborah Morosini, MD,
is a sister of the late Dana Reeve. After graduating from Mount Holyoke College with a BA in English, she received her MSW from the NYU School of Social Work. Pre-medical studies at Columbia University were followed by her 1990 matriculation at Boston University School of Medicine. Deborah has two teenage sons, James and Peter, whom she raised as a single parent while completing medical school part time. Christopher Reeve, her brother-in-law, was the commencement speaker for her 1997 medical school graduation. She completed a residency in pathology, at Boston Medical Center, where she was chief resident. Currently, Deborah is the Principal Pathologist for AstraZeneca in the R&D area of oncology discovery medicine.

As a board member of the Lung Cancer Alliance, Deborah has met with key national legislators, including Nancy Pelosi, Hilary Clinton, Dianne Feinstein, and Chuck Hagel to further lung cancer research and treatment. She recently joined the board of the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation, http://www.lungcancerfoundation.org and can be heard nationally on public service announcements promoting lung cancer awareness. She is a talented public speaker whom audiences have described as “mesmerizing and unforgettable.” Media appearances include Entertainment Tonight, the Howard Stern show, as well as multiple network news interviews and feature stories with local Boston affiliates (Fox, ABC, NBC). Her writing appears in the Summer 07 issue of CURE magazine. Other writing appears on www.lungcanceralliance.org and, in the recent publication Voices of Lung Cancer (5 star review on Amazon.com).

Alissa Robinow

Whitney Spagnola

Whitney Spagnola spent her early working years as a consultant for hotel and restaurant development. Whitney worked for Laventhol & Horwath then Kimpton Properties, both in San Francisco. After deciding to become a full-time mother, she became heavily involved in volunteering for the Mill Valley School District as well as the Kiddo! Foundation, an organization dedicated to preserving the arts in public education. She was a member of the Financial Advisory Board for the school district Superintendent and worked in a leadership role raising money for educational programs as well as Parcel Tax Measures. Her work helped the district manage through a difficult time of state funding cutbacks for public education.

When a close friend was diagnosed with stage four, lung cancer, she learned about A Breath Away From The Cure. After reading the statistics, learning about the lack of resources dedicated to lung cancer and meeting Bonnie, she realized she wanted to put energy behind such an important cause.

Whitney graduated from the University of Denver and currently resides in Los Gatos, California with her husband, Jeff Spagnola and two children, Jeffrey and Carly.

Debbie Tully

Debbie Tully was born in Buffalo, N.Y and moved to California as a young girl. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. She has a degree in Social Welfare with a concentration in Political Science and Public Policy. She also has an MBA from Golden Gate University.

After a career in retail as an executive with Macys and managing the Intellectual Property program for Bank of America she turned her focus to the non-profit sector. She worked for the American Heart Association in their school site program. After leaving the American Heart Association she continued her interest in non-profit work on a volunteer basis with various organizations.

She volunteers at the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project (BAHOP) in San Mateo, CA. BAHOP is dedicated to giving witnesses of the Holocaust the opportunity to record their life histories and to create a legacy for future generations. She has researched available grants for BAHOP and assisted in writing a grant to the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Debbie, her husband Larry and their very outgoing yellow Labrador Retriever Dexter also volunteer with Furry Friends. Furry Friends is a pet assisted therapy group that visits hospitals, nursing homes and rehabilitation facilities in the Bay Area.

Debbie joined the Foundation Board shortly after her Mother passed away from lung cancer in February 2006. She feels her work with the Foundation has helped her and her family to focus their pain and loss into something positive and serves as a way to honor the memory of her Mother, Gloria Tully.

Lisa Wing

Lisa Wing was born and raised in Northern California. Her grandfather passed away from lung cancer when she was six years old. She remembers the suffering and pain it caused him and her family. Recently, a dear friend, who is only 47 was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer. She became involved with this foundation because as a VP in a corporation, she felt that while what she was doing contributed to financial results, it left her feeling empty in her need and desire to help others. Lisa has two small children (ages 3 and 18 months) and cannot imagine not being here for them. As scary as early detection may sound and probably is – Lisa believes it is definitely a way to enable us to live and breath a life we are all blessed to have. Her husband and children live in beautiful Marin county and her mother and sister and her husband live in the East Bay. Lisa and her family have one dog named Otis and recently lost their our other dog, Bailey, to lymphoma.