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|  | Thomas Mack, M.D., MPH
 After receiving a BA from Carleton College, Dr. Mack received an MD from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, took an internship at Colorado General Hospital, a residency, and then a fellowship in infectious disease at the University of Washington Hospitals. After a year at CDC in Atlanta, he studied the epidemiology of smallpox and possible control strategies in Lahore, Pakistan for 2 years and returned through Geneva, where he reviewed the experience with smallpox imported into Europe. He then took an MPH in tropical medicine at the Harvard School of Public Health, and joined the epidemiology faculty at that institution in 1970. Having shifted his interest to chronic disease, Dr Mack joined the Departments of Pathology and Preventive Medicine at the University of Southern California, where he long directed the Los Angeles County cancer registry and conducted analytic studies of cancer etiology, most notably of breast cancer, malignant melanoma, pancreas cancer, and Hodgkin lymphoma. He is a past co-editor of CANCER IN FIVE CONTINENTS. More recently he has been interested in the study of chronic disease using twin subjects, and has initiated two of the largest twin registries, one of twin pairs affected by chronic disease and one of healthy population-based pairs. Among studies based on observations of such twin pairs and published recently are those strongly suggesting that early exposure to solar flux diminishes the risk of multiple sclerosis. In addition to his research publications, Dr. Mack has published a compendium of geographic and other descriptive patterns of neoplasm incidence in the Los Angeles population by site and histology (CANCERS IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT, Academic Press, 2004).
| | Jerold Mikszewski, MD
Jerold Mikszewski, MD earned a BS Biology at Brown University, cum laude with Honors in Biology MD Georgetown University School of Medicine, cum laude with Honors in Neurology. He is a member of The Scientific Research Society of North America and American Academy of Neurology. He has also been Board Certified for American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
Dr. Mikszewski is a Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Georgetown University School of Medicine and has completed numerous clinical research projects. Dr. Mikszewski has served on the Board of Committes for National MS Society and is affiliated with Virginia Hospital Center, Arlington, Virginia- where he is active Medical Staff Chief, Neurology Section, Department of Medicine. | | | | | Shelia L. Mobley, RN, MSCN
Shelia L. Mobley, RN, MSCN is a Nurse Clinician at the Augusta MS Center, located at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, where Dr. Mary D. Hughes is the Medical Director. Shelia has been a neurology nurse for the past 21 years and has been practicing as a MS nurse for the last 5 years of her career. She has been a certified MS nurse since 2002 and is also a member of IOMSN, the International Organization of Multiple Sclerosis Nurses. Shelia has sat on several MS advisory boards and attended numerous MS nurse-training programs. She is assistant research nurse for several clinical trials for persons with MS. She is a frequent speaker for MS patient educational luncheons at the Medical College of Georgia.
| | | | | Marie A. Namey, RN, MSN, MSCN
 Marie A. Namey received her master of science degree in nursing from Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University. She received her bachelor of science degree in nursing from Villa Maria College, Erie, Pa.
Marie Namey has been part of the interdisciplinary team a the Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis Treatment and Research at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation since its inception in 1985.
She is a member of the local MS Society Chapter Professional Advisory Committee and the Chapter Program Committee. She is a popular speaker for patient and professional groups on aspects of MS care.
She is a member of Advisory Groups for pharmaceutical companies. She is on the Editorial Board for Real Living with MS.
She has published on topics of bladder and bowel function and adherence.
She has been a member of the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers 1986 and has served as secretary, vice president and President of this organization. She was chair of the Education Committee and participated on the Education Committee and Abstract review Committee. She currently chairs the Advocacy Committee.
She is a founding member and currently is Treasurer of the International Organization of Multiple Sclerosis Nurses (IOMSN). | | Jorge Oksenberg, Ph.D
Dr. Jorge Oksenberg holds the G. Zimmermann Endowed Chair in Neurology and is Professor of Neurology at the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Oksenberg is director of the UCSF Molecular Immuno-genetic laboratory and is a leading investigator in the multi-center "Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Group" and the “International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium.”
Dr. Oksenberg received his Ph.D. in Immunology in 1987 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and joined the UCSF faculty in 1993 following post-doctoral training at Stanford University.
Dr. Oksenberg’s laboratory conducts research in three primary areas of neurological disease: I) the immunologic, molecular, and genetic mechanisms affecting multiple sclerosis; II) the role of inflammation in epilepsy, and III) the control of the immune response in the brain during early HIV infection. Dr. Oksenberg has published over one hundred and fifty papers and review articles, and serves as an associate editor of the Annals of Neurology. He also serves in the scientific advisory boards of several Federal and private grant funding organizations.
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