Board of Directors

Geraldine Carroll
Geraldine has worked with Allergan for the past 5 years in Marketing and Medical affairs. In January of 2011, she joined the Corporate Communications team as Director of Patient Advocacy Relations.

Sheila Dugan, MD, PT
Dr. Dugan is the co-director of the Rush University Medical Center Program for Abdominal and Pelvic Health in Chicago, Illinois. She is currently Chair of the American College of Sports Medicine Strategic Health Initiative on Women, Sport and Physical Activity and takes over as President of the Physiatric Association of Spine, Sports and Occupational Rehabilitation (PASSOR), the musculoskeletal section of the American Academy of PM&R, in September 2007. She also served as Principal Investigator for a Retirement Research Foundation and Pfizer Investigator-Initiated multi-site research study investigating the efficacy of a chair-based pelvic fitness program for women over the age of 65. The study resulted in WHF’s newly minted Total Control Platinum™ program.

Judith Florendo, PT
Judith Florendo is a pelvic floor physical therapist in private practice in Chicago, Illinois. Additionally, she is on the Vulvar Pain Task Force in the American Physical Therapy Association's Section on Women's Health .

Cheryle B. Gartley
Cheryle Gartley is the founder and president of The Simon Foundation for Continence, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to increasing public and professional awareness about incontinence, in Chicago Illinois.

Roger Goldberg, MD, MPH
Dr. Goldberg is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Pritzker Schoolof Medicine, and Director of Research at NorthShore University HealthSystem.

Holly Herman, PT
Holly has a private practice in Boston, MA and has trained thousands of therapists and medical professionals to work with women to improve their urologic, gynecologic, obstetric, colorectal, orthopedic and sexual function.

Timothy R. Lavender
Tim Lavender is a Partner with the national law firm of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, which represents the Foundation, in Chicago, Illinois.

Nancy Lerner
Nancy Lerner is President and Chief Strategic Officer at Otherwise Incorporated, a Chicago-based integrated marketing agency. She is also Founder / EVP Strategy and Sales for Brill Street + Company, Inc., a talent development company that cultivates smart, motivated students and recent grads to establish an early, enriching dialogue between the real world of business and America¹s workforce of the future.

Liz Kramer Myslik
Liz Kramer Myslik has experience and expertise of building entrepreneurial natural products companies into national brands, including Mix1 Beverage, Halo Purely for Pets, Eco-Products, and Gaiam, among others. Previously, Liz founded and led The Zam Group, a leading provider of marketing and general management services to natural products companies. She also led marketing and business development at Gaiam, a leading health & wellness company, where she helped the company grow to over $200 million in sales by pioneering new products and new channels of distribution, including grocery, drug, and mass.

Elizabeth Schrock
Elizabeth Colt Schrock is a Managing Director in the Corporate and Investment Banking group of SunTrust Robinson Humphrey in Atlanta, Georgia.

Advisory Council

Mary Drill
Mary Drill is an American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and an American Council on Exercise (ACE) certified personal trainer. Mary established Body Mechanics by Drill in 1988 to further her role as an educator and began offering Tools for the Trainer workshops in Chicago, Illinois.

Diane Lee, BSR, FCAMT, CGIMS
Diane is the owner, director and physiotherapist at Diane Lee & Associates - Consultants in Physiotherapy. Diane is well known both nationally and internationally for her clinical work on thoracic, lumbar and pelvic (sacroiliac) dysfunction and has integrated the scientific research on lumbopelvic function into a clinical model for assessment and treatment.

Janelle Foote, DO, MD
Dr. Jenelle Foote is a Urologist at Midtown Urology in Atlanta, GA. She is a Fellow of the American College of Surgery and completed a fellowship in female urology, incontinence, and recontructive surgery at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Maureen McClain George, PT
Maureen George is a senior physical therapist at Accelerated Rehabilitation in Chicago, Illinois. She is an orthopedic specialist and has a certificate in Manual Therapy and the Pilates Mat Program.

Francie Bernier, PhD, RN.C
Dr. Bernier is on the Nursing Faculty at Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA. Dr. Bernier has published many articles related to the non-surgical care of urinary incontinence and several book chapters related to the care of patients with urogenital complaints.

Janis M. Miller, PhD, RN.C
Dr. Miller is on faculty at the University of Michigan School of Nursing and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, at the University of Michigan School of Medicine in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Elizabeth Mueller, MD, MSME, FACS
Dr. Mueller is a board certified urologist, who completed an accredited fellowship in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. She is an Assistant Professor in Urology and Obstetrics /Gynecology at Loyola and is Medical Director of the Division of Urogynecology. Her special interests include surgical anatomy and minimally invasive (robotic, laparoscopic and vaginal) surgical treatment of women with pelvic floor dysfunction.

Janet E Tomezsko, MD, FACOG
As a specialist in urogynecology and pelvic reconstructive medicine, Dr. Tomezsko is dedicated to restoring pelvic health in women, including urinary, genital, bowel, and pelvic floor function. Urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, and associated problems are debilitating issues that significantly impair quality of life for millions of women. Offering an array of treatment options—both surgical and nonsurgical—allows Dr. Tomezsko to meet each patient’s needs in restoring function and quality of life on an individual basis. As there remains much to perfect in the field of pelvic health, Dr. Tomezsko actively explores therapies and prevention for pelvic floor disorders.

Julie Tupler, RN, CCE
Julie is a Registered Nurse, childbirth educator and certified fitness instructor. She developed the Maternal Fitness® Program in 1990 and for the past 20 years has been teaching and developing the Tupler Technique® Program. During this time, she developed a substantial and loyal client base, wrote two bestselling books (Maternal Fitness & Lose Your Mummy Tummy), produced DVDs of the same name and developed the Diastasis Rehab Splint™. In addition to the Women's Health Foundation Advisory Board, she is on the advisory board of Fit Pregnancy and the Women’s Sports Foundation. She is a frequent speaker at medical and fitness conferences.

Jean F. Wyman, PhD, RN, FAAN, FSGA
Dr. Wyman is a Professor and Endowed Chair in nursing research at the University of Minnesota’s School of Nursing, as well as Professor of community health and family practice at the School of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.