Albert Roy

Al serves as the Executive Director of Lupus Therapeutics and is responsible for the planning, directing, and coordinating the organization’s core business operations and the Alliance’s clinical trial endeavors.

Maria Dall’Era, MD – LuCIN Chair

Maria Dall’Era is the Jean S. Engleman Distinguished Professor and Chief of the Division of Rheumatology at UCSF. She is the Director of the UCSF Lupus Clinic and the Rheumatology Clinical Research Center.

Saira Sheikh, MD – LuCIN Vice Chair

Dr. Saira Sheikh is trained, and board certified in Internal Medicine, Rheumatology and Allergy/Immunology. She is the Linda Coley Sewell Distinguished Professor of Medicine Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology, the Director of the Clinical Trials Program at the UNC Thurston Arthritis Research Center, and the UNC Rheumatology Lupus Clinic.

Joseph Craft, MD (Chair)

Paul B. Beeson Professor of Medicine and Professor of Immunobiology at the Yale School of Medicine, and past chief of the Section of Rheumatology at Yale.

Jennie DeScherer 

Jennie is an active Board member of the Lupus Research Alliance having helped lead its predecessor organizations – S.L.E. Lupus Foundation (S.L.E.) and the Lupus Research Institute (LRI) – since their early years.

Kenneth Farber

Ken serves as the President and CEO of the Lupus Research Alliance. Ken is a graduate of Clark University, with a Juris Doctor from the Fordham University School of Law. He has spent 40 years in the non-profit world, working with and for voluntary health agencies and private foundations.

Mark C. Genovese, MD

Dr. Genovese is the SVP for Inflammation Clinical Research at Gilead Sciences. He oversees all clinical research endeavors in the areas of Rheumatology, Pulmonary, GI, Liver, Kidney, and Male Health at Gilead Sciences.

Kenneth Kalunian, MD

Kenneth Kalunian, M.D., is a rheumatologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. He graduated from Occidental College magna cum laude and from St. Louis University School of Medicine.

Brian Kotzin, MD

Dr. Kotzin has been committed to patient care, research, and teaching during his 25-year academic career. He currently serves as a Senior Vice President at Nektar Therapeutics.

Joe Mauriello

Joseph retired in 2006 as Deputy Chairman & COO of KPMG, after 40 years in various leadership positions. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, NJ.

Kelly McVearry, PhD, MA, Ed.M.

Kelly has two decades of experience leading the design, development, due diligence and commercialization of life science and information technologies.

Alexander von Perfall

Alexander joined Royalty Pharma in 2009 as Vice President, Investor Relations & Public Affairs. Earlier, Mr. von Perfall was the Co-Founder and Chief Network Officer of XTF, a start-up exchange-traded fund ratings agency.

Daniel J Wallace MD, FACP, MACR 

Dr. Wallace is a board-certified internist and rheumatologist. A Clinical Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, he is the Associate Director of the Rheumatology Fellowship Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where he also serves on the Board of Governors.

Kimberly Williams 

Kimberly currently serves as Director of Public Affairs and Alliance Development for Novo Nordisk, Inc., one of this nation’s largest pharmaceutical companies where her responsibilities include support for company priorities around alliance development and advocacy with Specialty patient and physician organizations.

William Wolfe

Co-founder and Chairman of First Washington Realty, Inc., a privately held real estate investment advisory firm specializing in ownership of major metropolitan area shopping centers.