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ASAP's Professional Team
For more information about each
team member and the project(s) they are involved in please, click on the
person's name.
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Chief Executive Officer
Richard T. Hellner
Dick_Hellner@ASAP.org
Operations Administrator
Patricia Maxwell
Patricia_Maxwell@ASAP.org
Assistant Operations Administrator
Jamie Mayhan
Jamie_Mayhan@ASAP.org
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ASAP's Professional Team Individual Biographies
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Richard Hellner
Chief Executive Officer
Richard T. Hellner (Dick) brings to ASAP extensive experience as a non-profit
executive, including twenty years of senior level experience with national and
international health organizations. He joins the ASAP team in 2008 from his office in Atlanta, GA.
Most recently he served as the international CEO of the Foundation for
Allergy & Immunology Research and was previously employed as national Chief Operating
Officer of the Arthritis Foundation. His nonprofit leadership also includes the Chief
Executive Officer positions at Prevent Blindness America and the National Hemophilia
Foundation. With strong for-profit experience as well, he made the transition to
nonprofit management in 1985 in founding the United Way of Jamaica as an executive
consultant with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Dick received his BA in Political Science and History from Seton Hall University.
He has been an active member of the American Public Health Association, American
Society of Association Executives and served as the Board Chair of the National
Health Council. Moreover, with strong basic and clinical research experience,
Dick served for four years as a member of the Advisory Council and Strategic
Planning Committee for the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes
of Health.
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Patricia Maxwell
Operations Administrator & Newsletter Editor
Patricia Maxwell first met ASAP's co-founder, Barbara White, in the summer
of 1990. At that time Barbara and Don ran ASAP out of their home. Patricia
remembers, "During my visits with Barbara, we would talk about the
disorder, her history and the organization. I quickly became emotionally
involved to those fighting these disorders and in the spring of 1991, I
began a relationship with ASAP that has only grown stronger over the
years."
"I have watched the organization mature with dedicated volunteers who have
helped ASAP 'reach the next level' several times. The knowledge and
awareness of syringomyelia and Chiari have made great strides. This would
not have been possible without the dedication of its members and Boards.
One person can make a difference but through the combined effort of a group,
the world can be changed."
Patricia and husband, David, live in Longview, Texas. They have four
children and eight grandchildren. When they are not working, they enjoy
spending time with their family.
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Jamie Mayhan
Assistant Operations Administrator
Jamie has been an ASAP employee for the past 10 years. She resides in Longview, TX with her husband, Larry, and two sons, Andrew and Garrett.
I first got involved with ASAP while I was in high school. I volunteered, helping Patricia with much needed filing, numerous information packages and distributing the newsletter to the rapidly growing membership. After several years of volunteering, I was hired part-time and eventually I was hired on full-time. I am not just an employee of ASAP but am part of the ASAP family. To know that I can give comfort to a mother, wife or grandparent gives me great joy. Personally knowing ASAPs co-founder Barbara White and knowing her dream for ASAP, I feel privileged to be a part of the work that will one day lead to a cure. Its with that knowledge that I am able to give hope and comfort to newly diagnosed people. Throughout the years I have met wonderful and successful people who have overcome the adversity of the disorders to benefit themselves and their family. Without our dedicated members, ASAP would not be what it is today. Not just an organization but a family.
Jamie enjoys spending time with her family and friends, watching professional sporting events, shopping, making craft projects and watching her oldest sons sporting events.
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