Advisor Bios
Lenore Coover, RN, MSN, AE-C
Lenore has worked as a pediatric nurse on staff, in the pediatric emergency department, in home-health, and in clinics. She is a certified asthma educator and has been active in providing asthma education to both health professionals and community members in Chicago and Northwest Indiana. Her accomplishments include establishing the Chicago Lung Association's summer camp for children with asthma, developing an asthma home management program that focuses on identification and avoidance of environmental triggers affecting asthma management, and successfully managing the comprehensive asthma management of 40 high-cost children. As a past president of the Chicago Asthma Consortium, Lenore continues to work with the CAC to promote its many programs and partnerships and to continue the important linkage between healthcare professionals and the community.
Michael Foggs, MD
Michael has worked in all facets of health care including academic medicine, private practice and managed care. Board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Allergy & Immunology, he is a national leader in the care and treatment of people with asthma . Michael's leadership in the asthma community is both wide and deep. He is a Fellow of both the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology and the American College of Chest Physicians. He is Co-Chair of the Executive Committee of the Allergy & Immunology Section of the National Medical Association (NMA), Vice Chairman of the Affordable Access & Managed Care Committee of the American College of Asthma, Allergy & Immunology, and serves on the Committee for the Underserved of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology. He also serves on the 2003 Consensus Panel on Asthma in the African American Community and is a member of the National Heart, Blood, & Lung Institute/National Asthma Education Prevention Program, responsible for writing the new Guidelines for the Diagnosis & Management of Asthma.
Edward Naureckas, MD
Ted is a past president of the Chicago Asthma Consortium. Currently, he sees patients in the Pulmonary Clinic and the Intensive Care Unit at the University of Chicago and directs the Pulmonary Function Lab and the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Center. He is active in asthma clinical research in both the assessment of the appropriateness of asthma care using prescription databases and as a co-investigator for the ALA-sponsored Asthma Clinical Research Network. Ted is a longtime board member of the CAC and plans to remain active in helping the consortium on issues pertaining to adult asthma and asthma surveillance.
Victoria Persky, MD
Norman Ryan, MD
Sandra Thomas, MD
Sandra is the Assistant Commisioner for Epidemiology at the Chicago Department of Public Health, managing the offices of Epidemiology and Vital Records as well as contributing to internal advisory and administrative committees, and representing CDPH to intergovernmental, academic and community partners. She has also been the principal investigator for many grants and contributes to the oversight of the program's current grant-funded activities. Sandra's research has been published in the American Journal of Public Health, Chest, and Pediatric Research, and has appeared at annual meetings for the American Public Health Association, the Society for Epidemiologic Research, American College of Epidemiology, and the American Thoracic Society.
Kevin Weiss, MD
Lenore has worked as a pediatric nurse on staff, in the pediatric emergency department, in home-health, and in clinics. She is a certified asthma educator and has been active in providing asthma education to both health professionals and community members in Chicago and Northwest Indiana. Her accomplishments include establishing the Chicago Lung Association's summer camp for children with asthma, developing an asthma home management program that focuses on identification and avoidance of environmental triggers affecting asthma management, and successfully managing the comprehensive asthma management of 40 high-cost children. As a past president of the Chicago Asthma Consortium, Lenore continues to work with the CAC to promote its many programs and partnerships and to continue the important linkage between healthcare professionals and the community.
Michael Foggs, MD
Michael has worked in all facets of health care including academic medicine, private practice and managed care. Board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Allergy & Immunology, he is a national leader in the care and treatment of people with asthma . Michael's leadership in the asthma community is both wide and deep. He is a Fellow of both the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology and the American College of Chest Physicians. He is Co-Chair of the Executive Committee of the Allergy & Immunology Section of the National Medical Association (NMA), Vice Chairman of the Affordable Access & Managed Care Committee of the American College of Asthma, Allergy & Immunology, and serves on the Committee for the Underserved of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology. He also serves on the 2003 Consensus Panel on Asthma in the African American Community and is a member of the National Heart, Blood, & Lung Institute/National Asthma Education Prevention Program, responsible for writing the new Guidelines for the Diagnosis & Management of Asthma.
Edward Naureckas, MD
Ted is a past president of the Chicago Asthma Consortium. Currently, he sees patients in the Pulmonary Clinic and the Intensive Care Unit at the University of Chicago and directs the Pulmonary Function Lab and the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Center. He is active in asthma clinical research in both the assessment of the appropriateness of asthma care using prescription databases and as a co-investigator for the ALA-sponsored Asthma Clinical Research Network. Ted is a longtime board member of the CAC and plans to remain active in helping the consortium on issues pertaining to adult asthma and asthma surveillance.
Victoria Persky, MD
Norman Ryan, MD
Sandra Thomas, MD
Sandra is the Assistant Commisioner for Epidemiology at the Chicago Department of Public Health, managing the offices of Epidemiology and Vital Records as well as contributing to internal advisory and administrative committees, and representing CDPH to intergovernmental, academic and community partners. She has also been the principal investigator for many grants and contributes to the oversight of the program's current grant-funded activities. Sandra's research has been published in the American Journal of Public Health, Chest, and Pediatric Research, and has appeared at annual meetings for the American Public Health Association, the Society for Epidemiologic Research, American College of Epidemiology, and the American Thoracic Society.
Kevin Weiss, MD