Executive Director & Staff

	Kristin Loomis – President & Executive Director Kristin is Co-founder, and Executive Director of the Foundation. A graduate of Wellesley and Harvard Business School, Kristin was a publishing and marketing executive before devoting herself full time to non-profit activities. Kristin directs the HHV-6 Foundation staff, administers the Foundation’s advocacy and initiates research collaborations along with the Scientific Director. She was instrumental in persuading Roche to fund Stanford’s placebo controlled trial and has initiated several important collaborations between scientists.
	Jill Chase – Vice President Jill brings an extensive background in clinical research and administration to the Foundation. With graduate degrees in Neuroscience and Neuropsychology and a Bachelor’s Degree in Biomedical Engineering, Jill was running multi-site clinical trials at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York while teaching at Columbia University before founding the first outpatient clinical psychiatry care center in Istanbul, Turkey. She has since managed clinical trial studies for a medical device company in Santa Barbara. Jill has worked at the HHV-6 Foundation since 2007, coordinating international research collaborations and managing the HHV-6 & 7 repository with the Scientific Director.
	Joshua Pritchett- Research Assistant, Patient & Physician Correspondent Joshua comes to the Foundation with a background in both clinical care and laboratory research. Previously an intern with the Minnesota Department of Health, Joshua has a breadth of experience working in nearly every realm of patient care. Joshua has been engaged in microbiological research with Bordetella, the causative bacterium in Whooping Cough, since 2009 and received his B.S. in Biology and Chemistry from Westmont College in 2010. Joshua works directly with the Foundation’s Scientific and Executive Directors in an effort to promote collaborative HHV-6 research worldwide and maintain the Foundation’s goal of being an effective and helpful resource to patients suffering from HHV-6 infection.
	Nathan Zemke- Project Assistant Nathan is a recent graduate of the Univ of Calif, San Diego with a B.S. in Molecular Biology and brings a background in biomedical research to the foundation. As an undergraduate he worked in a clinical research lab inside a VA Hospital on studies focused on aging and neurodegenerative disease within a Glial cell model. Nathan also completed a senior thesis project in a lab at the Salk Institute, investigating the TGFβ signaling pathway and the proto-oncogene c-Myc in human breast cancer. Nathan provides essential data analysis and support to the Foundation’s executive staff and investigators to be used in ongoing HHV-6 projects nearing publication.
	Louise G. Chatlynne Ph.D. – Senior Advisor Dr. Chatlynne helped set up the laboratories of Retrovirology Department at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and designed the first usable ELISA test for HHV-8 antibodies. She worked for many years in industry working on viral reagents and doing in vitro antiviral testing. Instead of retiring, she is contributing her time to the HHV-6 Foundation to do literature research and to assist scientists in preparing their scientific findings for publication.
	Courtney Hischier – Advisor Courtney is a former director of fundraising for the University of California at San Francisco.  Prior to joining UCSF, she served as  Vice President of the HHV-6 Foundation, working closely with the Executive Director on the Stanford trial and other important collaborations.  She was an initial fundraiser for Drake Management, a New York-based credit hedge fund that grew to $10bn of assets, and began her career as a fixed income saleswoman at Goldman Sachs. Courtney has an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from Boston College.
	Judith Anderson - Advisor Judith brings operational experience from her background as a business management consultant in the computer software industry. Specializing in Sales and Marketing, she devoted many years to non-profit advocacy and management holding board positions with organizations as diverse as The March of Dimes, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Waterkeepers. Her keen interest in Medical Science led her to the HHV-6 Foundation.