About Us / Advisory Committee

HONORARY BOARD

U.S. Senator Bill Bradley (ret)

U.S. Senator Susan Collins

U.S. Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart

U.S. Congresswoman Nancy Johnson

U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg

U.S. Senator Joseph I. Lieberman

Viktor Petrenko

Molly Schwenn, M.D.

U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter

Deputy Volodymyr Yavorivsky

PRESIDENT &

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

Zenon Matkiwsky, D.O.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Inya Chehade

Thomas N. Denny

Orest Fedash

Alexander B. Kuzma

Myron Holubiak

Nadia Matkiwsky

Leonard Mazur

Joseph A. Vena

Melanne Verveer

MEDICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Arlene Bardeguez, M.D.

Pat Benedetto, RNC, BSN, MPA

Silvia Bilobron, D.M.D., F.A.G.D.

Andrew Burachinsky, D.O.

Ghassan Chehade, M.D.

Morris Cohen, M.D.

Daria Klachko, M.D.

Renell Leichty, RA

Steven Lipshultz, M.D.

Patricia A. Polansky, R.N.

Ihor S. Sawczuk, M.D.

Oleh Slupchynskyj, M.D.

Olenka Speaker, D.O.

Shyan Sun, M.D.

Wolodymyr Wertelecki, M.D.

U.S. Senator Bill Bradley (ret)
U.S. Senator Susan Collins
U.S. Representative Maurice Hinchey
U.S. Representative Nancy Johnson
U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg
U.S. Senator Joseph I. Lieberman
Mona Mikalsen, Ph. D.
Viktor Petrenko
Molly Schwenn, M.D.
U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter
Deputy Volodymyr Yavorivsky

UKRAINE ADVISORY BOARD

Olena Welhasch-Nyzhnykevych, Chairwoman

John Karwatsky
Anatoliy Mushtuk
Youri Nyzhnykevych
Alexandra Perry
Michael Perry
Lyudmila Rabij
Myron Rabij
Jed Sunden

STAFF

USA

Zenon Matkiwsky,D.O., President & Chairman of The Board

Nadia Matkiwsky, Event Director & Founder

Valerie Burachinsky, Vice President
Tanya Fesenko Vena, Financial Director
Alexa J. Milanytch, Director of Procurement

Ukraine

Olya Datsenko, Accountant
Maryana Voronovich, Coordinator of Orphanage Program
Eugenia Medvedenko, Program Manager

Marta Stetsyk, Program Manager