April 2015 / No. 7

campaign
BULLETIN
Be part of the vision
$5M
Over $5 million
raised during the
Close the Gap
Campaign
April 2015 / No. 7
THANK YOU!
The WFH gratefully acknowledges the more than
900 individuals and organizations who contributed
to the Close the Gap Campaign 2012-2014.
The community campaign raised an outstanding
$1.9 million!
$500,000
and more
André de la Porte Family
Foundation
$250,000–$499,000
Hemophilia Center of
Pennsylvania 340B Program
Laureen A. Kelley
$100,000 – $249,999
Association française des
hémophiles*
National Hemophilia
Foundation (USA)*
Novo Nordisk Haemophilia
Foundation
$50,000 – $99,999
Hemophilia Alliance Foundation
Hemophilia of Georgia, Inc.
$25,000 – $49,999
Biogen Idec Hemophilia
Canadian Hemophilia Society*
Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter
Irish Haemophilia Society Ltd.*
1 anonymous donor
$10,000 – $24,999
340B Factor Program at Akron
Children’s HTC
Baxter Healthcare Corporation
Bayer HealthCare
Patsy Carman
Haemophilia Foundation
Australia*
Katharine Dormandy Trust
LA Kelley Communications, Inc.
The Skinner Family
Ministère de la santé et des
Services sociaux
Opticom International Research
AB
Phillips 66
Lisa Sackuvich
Stichting de Erven Leeuwenhart
Swiss Hemophilia Society*
$7,500 – $9,999
Haemophilia Foundation of
New Zealand*
1 anonymous donor
$5,000 – $7,499
Cascade Hemophilia Consortium
Deutsche
Hämophiliegesellschaft
(Germany)*
Héma-Québec
Hemophilia Foundation of
Michigan
Scott and Kim Martin
Mary M. Gooley Hemophilia
Center
John R. Taylor
The Marketing Research
Bureau, Inc.
Barbara and Gerard Volk
$2,500 – $4,999
Paula H. Bolton-Maggs and
Benjamin Bolton-Maggs
Canadian Blood Services
Anthony K. Chan
Colorado Chapter of the
National Hemophilia
Foundation
CSL Limited (Australia)
Cheryl and Tony D’Ambrosio
Fundación de la Hemofilia
(Argentina)*
Assad Haffar
Hemophilia Foundation of
Greater Florida, Inc.
Hemophilia of Iowa, Inc.
Netherlands Haemophilia
Society*
Adam Newsome
Norwegian Hemophilia Society*
Elizabeth A. Paradis
Glenn and Beatrice Pierce
William T. Sparrow
Swedish Hemophilia Society
(FBIS)*
Foundation for America’s Blood
Centers
1 anonymous donor
$1,000 – $2,499
Julia M. Alvarez and Alfred
Hiermann
John E. Bournas
Ute Braun
Mark Brooker
The Capretto Family
Paula Cobb
Diagnostica Stago, Inc. (US)
Nancy Flemming
Florida Hemophilia
Association
Dietje Elisabeth Fransen van
de Putte
Haemophilia Association of
Mauritius (HAM)*
Haemophilia Foundation
Victoria
$145
Average cost to
diagnose one
person with a
bleeding disorder
Aris Hashim and Zaiwiah
Zainuddin
Hemophilia Foundation of
Minnesota/Dakotas
Japan Committee for People
with Hemophilia
Elizabeth Johnston
Carol K. Kasper
Nigel and Melissa Key
Marion A. Koerper
Phillip Kucab
Philip and Susan Le
Ron and Jenny Lees
John Murphy
Yasuharu Nishida
Brian O’Mahony
Shannon W. Penberthy
Rocky Mountain Hemophilia &
Bleeding Disorders
Association
Reynaldo and Rosario
Sarmenta
The Schnabel Family
Claudia Schoenig-Diesing
Dolly Shinhat-Ross
David Silva Gómez
Eric and Marion Stolte
UK Haemophilia Society*
Virginia Hemophilia
Foundation
Mary Q. Wingate
2 anonymous donors
$750 – $999
Belgian Haemophilia Society*
Wicher de Groot
Egyptian Society of
Hemophilia*
Gavin Finkelstein
John and Penny Gisselbeck
Otieno Walter Mwanda
Elizabeth Myles
Kathleen Pratt
Sol Ruiz
Alok Srivastava
Jerome Teitel
Alain Weill
$500 – $749
Association Libanaise de
l’Hémophilie
Jim and Margie Braden
Gordon Clarke
Jesse and Anne-Marie Dijkman
Patricia A. Dominic
Fondazione Angelo Bianchi
Bonomi
Donald and Barbara Goldman
HAPLOS – Hemophilia
Association of the
Philippines for Love*
Hemophilia of North Carolina
Craig Kessler
Barbara A. Konkle
Jeanne Lusher, MD
Shelly A. Mattson
Randy Moore
Österreichischen Hämophilie
Gesellschaft (Austria)
Arnoud Plat
Man-Chiu Poon
Joseph Pugliese
Maria M. Salas
Thomas Sannié
Society for Inherited & Severe
Blood Disorders (Trinidad &
Tobago)
The Poepjes Family
Karen Tubridy
Leonard A. Valentino
Deon York
2 anonymous donors
$250 – $499
Megan and Thomas Adediran
Aiki
Antonio J. Almeida
Neva L. Anderson
Axon-com
Paula Bell
David Blanchard
Martin Boakye
Francoise Boehlen
Brothers Healthcare
Patric Brown
Ruth R. Brown
Jens Bungardt
Daniel Button
John and Heather Button
Margareth Castro Ozelo
Rob Christie
Gregory Christofi
Antonietta Colavita
Randall Curtis
Czech Society of Hemophilia*
Dan Doran
Bjorn Drebing
Jeanne Fellows
Elena Galstian
Cesar Garrido and Antonia
Luque de Garrido
Nicholas Goddard
Barbara J. Gordon
Haemophilia Foundation
Australia Capital Territory
Ann Harrington
Oliver Hegener
Hemophilia Association of
Davao,Inc.
Hemophilia Association of the
Capital Area
Vanessa Herrick
Caroline and Pete Hultgren
Scott S. Johnson
Peter Jones
Ashwin Kaushal
Michael King
Steve Kitchen
Roshni Kulkarni
David Lillicrap
Hélène Lussier
James Marshall
Sally K. McAlister
Harvey J. McCarter
George D. McCoy
Craig T. McEwen
Marjorie and Ross McLimont
Merck & Co., Inc.
Robin and Kirk Myers
Ellis Neufeld
M.R. Nijziel
Declan Noone
Orthopaedic Hemophilia
Treatment Center
David Page and Patricia
Stewart
Greg Price
Peter Pustoslemsek
Margaret V. Ragni
Marlene Ranz
Allen and Amy Renz
Paul W. Riley
Bruce Ritchie
Carlos Safadi Marquez
Elianna Saidenberg
Sam Schulman
Pier Luigi Solimeno
Angel Sosa
Marlene Spencer
Craig Arthur Steinke
Alison M. Street
Candace Terpstra
Pamela and Brock Wilton
Karen Wulff
Yongqiang Zhao
6 anonymous donors
$100 – $249
Maliheh Afzali Naeeni
Akin Akinc
Asociación Venezolana para la
Hemofilia*
Lili Aszodi-Fulop
Theis Bacher
Marianna Balakhnina
$130,000
Largest single
donation received
in one year
Geneviève Beauregard
Thomas Becker
Anacleto R. Benito
Per Arne Berg
Val D. Bias
Rémi Boyer
Sharri Brodie
Paulina Campos
Darin Carman
Leigh Carpenter
Ronald H. Cobb
George J. Cornett
CXG
Danish Haemophilia Society*
Piet de Kleijn
Francine Décary
Carol M. Dekernion
Donna and William Dible
Shelby L. Dietrich, MD
Anne Duffy
The Ellis Family
John Emmerton
Emmanuel Favaloro
Federación de Hemofilia de la
República Mexicana*
Janel W. Feierabend
Zev Fishman
Angela L. Forsyth
John G. Foster
John Freedman
Elmira Gadimova
Karen Geney
Joan C. Gill
Anne Goodeve
David Green
Allison Greig
Sally and Gary Griffiths
Harriët Heijboer
Hemophilia Foundation of
Southern California
Hemophilia of South Carolina
Martin Heuer
M. Silvija and Roger Hoag
Christopher Hodgson
Keith Hoots
Hospital Infantil Pediatrico/
Hospital Escuela
Dan Ignas
Rose Jacobson
Chi Shan Bonnie Kho
Hee-Soon Kim
Lily Kong
Allan Kucab
Dana Kuhn
Edward Laane
Blandine Lacroix
Martin Lampacher
Georg Lemm
Jacopo Leonardi
Claudia Leveque
Silvia Linari
Gabriel Lottaz
Johnny N. Mahlangu
Michael Makris
Maria Manahan
Ann Mancini
Bernard Manson
Gita Massey
Tadashi Matsushita
Eveline Pauline MauserBunschoten
Nicolas Mayle
Dora Ngum Shu Mbanya
Anthony McCarthy
Kieran D. McHugh
Colleen McKay
Carol McKenna
Salomé Mekhuzla
Richard J. Metz
Anders Molander
Paul E. Monahan
Martha Monteros Rincón
Paul Moorehead
Kevin Moran
Andreas Mueller-Beckhaus
Kathy J. Mulder
Sukesh C. Nair
2 new
programs
(Research Program
and Cornerstone
Initiative) introduced
Alan Neaigus
Marilyn Ness
W. Warren Newman
Beatrice Nolan
Deborah Nosowsky
Peter O’Malley
Leslie C. Oygar
Gianluigi Pasta
Stephanie Pineda
Lydia Pitcher
Phillip R. Poovey
Flor Loya Porragas
Debbie Porter
Nadège Pradines
Lisa Sorkin Rabin
Michel Raymond
Eduardo Rey
Michael Rose
David Ross
Jennifer Ross
Timothy Ross
Juan J. J. Rota Arrieta
Dawn Rotellini
Stephen Russell
Catherine Sabourin
Hiroyuki Saito
Mathieu Sannié
Isabel Santamaria
Michael Schindelar
Thomas Schindl
Emily and Mark Schmidt
Jack and Ann Schnabel
Cynthia Secrest
Rahajuningsih D. Setiabudy
Mardelle Shagool
Astrid Shapiro
Abdulaziz A. Sherif
Janet Sloan
Sydney Smidt
Robert Smith
Sociedad Hondureña de
Hemofilia*
Janaki Sonoo
Jayson Stoffman
Stephanie Storey
Marion and Charles Stuart
Gary Sutherland
Aliakbar Tchupan
Christine Thomas
Jackie Touzeau
Ilia Tsiklin
Edward G.D. Tuddenham
Craig Upshaw
Luis Uribe Cock
Anita Vuksan
Karen Wenderoff
Tefu Weng
Frederick Wensing
Western Pennsylvania Chapter,
NHF
Jerzy Windyga
Michelle Witkop
Paula Zeff
13 anonymous donations
$50 – $99
Bradley Andre
Maria C. Arango
Wendy Aronson
Sulochana Badagabettu
Judy A. Bagato
Michael Barry
Joan and John Bates
Anne Becker
Sébastien Bédard
Paul Bedbrook
Andy Blackledge
Paul Bonner
Ruud Bos
Brian Boyer
Uros Brezavscek
Frédérica Y. Cassis
Waveny Charles
Arleigh R. Clemens
Leo Copeland
Cameron Corlett
Mary Cousins
Daniel Credazzi
Helene H. Crown
Lorraine De Smet
Mylène D’Fana
Lisa Dickson
Catharine Dowis
Shireen Du Preez
Amy Dunn
G. Duraisamy
Michelle Dursun
Evelyne Eggs Chapplis
Nancy L. Erwin
Clara Espinosa
Aisha Fakeir
Thelma Ferber
Josh Ferguson
Michael A. Fournel
Sandy and William Fox
Marc C. Fullington
Elizabeth and Christopher
Fung
Laura García Changpo
Daniel Anibal Garcia Diego
Jennifer Garlinge
Susanne Gillespie
Grace Gilmore
Catriona Gordon
Marina Goruppi
Kerry Grant
Suzi Greer
Arthur and Janet Haines
Khalilullah Hamdard
Ken Hatfield
Lily Heijnen
Hemophilia Association of the
Philippines Inc. - Cebu
Thomas Hendrickson
Michael Hockey
Melissa Hurtt
David Inglis
Robina E. Ingram-Rich
Alfonso Iorio
Marc Isler
Mohd Zulhilmi Paiz Ismadi
Esmaeil Jafari Araghi
Paula Denise James
Yuxin (Ellen) Jiang
Cecilia Johnston
Anita Julshamn
Faye Katzman
Kate Khair
Stephen Kinsman
Delin Kong
Peter Kouides
François Laroche
Adrienne Lee
Patricia Le-Fort
James Lockley
Catherine Manno
Francine Ménard
Shane Meotti
Oscar J. Monteros Rincón
Satomi Motojima
Jose Antonio Munoz Puche
Lisa Murphy
Omar Naima
Ann-Marie Nazzaro
Patricia C. Neff
Suzanne O’Callaghan
Ogechi Ohadomere
Marie-Anne Olivier
Eva Olsen
Galafteon G. Oltean
Albert Orriols
Lorena Padilha
Marilyn Passer
Douglas W. Pierce
Stephen Price
Rajiv K. Pruthi
Sarah-Louise Quig
Wendy Quinn
Laura Quintas
Doris Quon
Moche Raz
Guido Reber
Judith Rees
Eileen Regier
991 donors
from 96 countries
James P. Riddel
Brenda Riske
Soledad Rivero Hardo
Patrick Robert
Elaine Rock
Julie Ronaldson
Russell and Carol Rose
Françoise Rossi
Cynthia Rothschild
Susan J. Russell
Christoph Schmidt
Victoria Schwager
Jack Scott
Shelley Shaw
Chantakorn Shutidamrong
Toby Simon
Alan Skinner
Mike Skinner
Jonathan Spencer
Janine Staunton
MacGregor Steele
Courtney Stevens
John Stevens
Linda L. Sulser
Srilatha Tangada
Sylvia Thomas
Arthur R. Thompson
Dawn L. Thorp
Tomye Tierney
Deirdre Tuck
John Tuck
Gary and Nola Unruh
Sandra Vallin Antunes
Ellen White
Denise Wilson
Sharyn Wishart
Wing Yen Wong
Cynthia Zamora
Anabella Zavagno
Claire Zellner
7 Anonymous donors
$25 – $49
Fatmah K. Abdallah
Manuela Albisetti
Syed Ali
AbdulKareem M. AlMomen
Kagehiro Amano
Favero Anicée
Ana Antun
Denise Armstrong
Jacqueline Aubry
Marilyn August
Raul Aurelio Bordone
Arafat Awajan
Omolade Awodu
Markus Bachhuber
Natasha Barry
Julie-Anne Bell
Brad Benne
Stephen Bennett
Gary M. Benson
Meltonian Blake
Neil Boal
Nellie Boot
Evan Borstein
Alicia Brard
Florian Brassel
Andrew Brewer
David Brock
Kai Broker
Donald Brophy
Cameron Brown
Paulette Bryant
Belinda Burnett
Donald J. Button
Andrés Campos
Carlos Campos
Sebastián Campos
Robert T. Card
Jodie Caris
Jorge Carneiro
Shannon Carpenter
Marcus Carr
Hervé Chambost
Pratima Chowdary
Natashia Coco
Desiree Coen Herak
Linda Cole
Carly Conway
Judi Cooper
Stephanie Coulman
Charlene Cowell
Enrica Cristina
Patrick Crowley
Eric Cubberley
Jon Davis
Stephanie Devine
Kimberly Ebsworth
Winand Eerens
Beryl Favaloro-Dawson
Chad Feay
Catharina Jacoba Fijnvandraat
Kevin Fisher
Neil Frick
Katsuyuki Fukutake
Ernestine Fuller
Joanne Galati P.T.
Woet Gianotten
Aidee Gilbraltar
Marc Gilgannon
25
Campaign
volunteers
Nicolas Giraud
Peggy Glazzard
Haemophilia Foundation of
Nigeria*
Fiona Hall
Teresa Hall
Vicky Hannemann
Harlinda Haroen
Jennifer Harris
Michael Heim
Hemophilia Society of
Malaysia*
Tanya Hill
Ron Hoffman
Joseph Hopcraft
Nicola Hope
Anne Hurlet
Aleksandra Ilijin
Shannon Jackson
Kim Jacobsen
Hans-Göran Jakobsson
Lawrence Jardine
William Jefferson
Robert E. Johnson
Janna M. Journeycake
Susan Karp
Suresh Katakkar
Claudia D. Khayat
Soon Ki Kim
Bartholomew Kirby
Vincent La Terza
Audrey Ledru
Tom Lee
David Marshall
Gabriele Martin
Prasad Mathew
Andrew B. Matthews
Ann McCarthy
Simon McRae
Maia and Robert Meier
Karla Bayer Mendonca
Bonnie Mills
Aldo Monteros
Massimo Morfini
April Morris
Ian Muir
Lochana Nanayakkara
Annick Ndoumba
Daniela Neme
Theresa Ukmaka Nwagha
Niamh O’Connell
Cheryl Oenema
David Oenema
David Oleson
Sandra C. Oliveira
Martine Pennetier
Genevieve Pietu
Victor Manuel Ponce Rojas
Nichakan Poolchai
Jerry S. Powell
Murielle Pradines
Laura Primiani
Sylvain Proulx
Sanj Raut
Bradley Rayner
Laurel Reger
Harold R. Roberts
Marie Roemcke
Laura Roldán
Maria Serena Russo
Christian Alejandro Sastre
Loraine Sastre
Richard Scott
Ming Ching Shen
Scott Shepherd
Leslie Situ Ferber
Slovenské Hemofilické
Zdruzenie (Slovakia)*
Leanne Stephenson
Jean St-Louis
Anthony Stowers
Gustaf Strindevall
Pavel V. Svirin
Maryse Tamburro
Yasuhito Tanaka
Elizabeth Tawil
Lisa Thilbeault
Patrick Thomenius
Prasanna Kumar
Thummanahalli Subbanna
Duc Tran
Giuseppe Turchetti
Marijke van den Berg
Grace Vaz
Bert Verbruggen
Sudharma Vidyatilake
Vietnam Hemophilia
Association*
Kyelle Jodi Virgil
Annette von Drygalski
Susanna von Oettingen
Ahoefa Vovor
Peter Vuksan
Elaine Warner
Alvaro Luiz Wolff
Lyn Wong
Hassan M Yaish
John York
Sounya Zerouali
Baiba Ziemele
4 anonymous donors
up to $24
Boumelit Abdelkadar
Medini Abderrahim
Ahmed Abdul Bari
Sergio Acosta
Deborah Adamkin
Marian Ahlberg
Rehab Al Bloushi
Issa Ibn Abrahim Ali
Sa’eed Alsuleimyyeh
Premroop Alva
Daniel Andrei
Ruth Antonio
Rafael Aparicio
Karl Archibald
Pablo Ardiles
Maria Eugenia Arias Corona
Raul Arita Auxume
107
Countries
received support
from the WFH
in 2014
Association Marocaine
des Hémophiles*
Peter Aubry
Patricia Avilva
Tine Bacher
Alice Banze
Joy Barrett
Selma Barry
Dalia Bashari
Diya Bassis
Charles Bayl
Obdulia Betancourt
Ashish Bhattad
Stephen L. Bland
Beatriz Carla Boggia
Tutaglio
Amanda Bok
Fayçal Bouabellou
Donna Bradley
Sam Bradley
Per Arne Brånsgård
Patrice Bravo
Joanna Brodie
Dustin Burseth
Judy Butler
Guillermo Campillo
Daniel Caris
Kahurangi Carter
Michelle Cecil
Maria A. Cedola
Kim Yin Chew
Sayun Chimpradit
Manjit Chohan
Collen Clark
Robyn Coleman
Justine Colonge
Anne-Louise Cruickshank
John Curran
Matthew Dalgleish
Sandra Davy
Dania Eliza De La Llata
Gómez
Stephan T. de Waard
Timothy Demos
Bethanne Deuel
Abdou Ramane Sambo
Diallo
Maryse Dien
Linda Dockrill
Roya Dolatkhah
Ines Duque Acosta
Pierre Durgaram
Robyn Edwards
Passeri Emilio Valter
María Enriquez
Barbara Faganel Kodjik
Maria Felix
Chris Fennicks
Caroline Ferguson
Patrick Finders-Binje
Sarah Ford
Tony Frisk
Kikue Fujii
Teruhisa Fujii
Ricardo Carlos Gaitán
Fitch
Mukesh Garodia
Guilherme Genovez
Jean-François Giard
Julie Gibson
Adrian Pilar Gil
Abeer Gilda
Edwin Goh
José Manuel Gomez
Duarte
Evelyn Grimberg
Kyme Groller
Gladys Guberrez
Elvira Guillen
Ameeta Gupta
Craig Haran
Steffen Hartwig
Ahmad Hazri Hashim
Sarah Hawk
Maureen Hayes
Sabine I. Heine
Julie and Paul Heinrich
Ana Lilia Hernandez
Pablo Hernandez
Tere Hernandez
Patricio Manuel Hidalgo
Dillon
Jessica Hirst
Michale Ho
Barbara Hodges
Grant Hook
Sean Hubbert
Tomoyuki Igawa
Masataka Inoue
Susan Inwood
Lisbeth Skjødt Ipsen
Miguel Izquierdo Franco
Jack Jefferson
M. Joseph John
Alexandra Johnson
Klemens Kaserer
James Kennedy
Zlatko Kerken
Romanoz Khomasuridze
Agnes Kisakye
Takehisa Kitazawa
Walid Kobisi
Chafik Kouache
Kristijan Krajacic
M.J.H.A. Kruip
Ilmar Kruis
Seth Kuhlman
Thomas Lammers Moran
Heidi Lane
Heather Lauder
Oswaldo Lazala
Martin L. Lee
Peter Lindholm
Kristina Linnér Swenson
Anders Lönegård
Paul Long
David Loveless
Ines Lugo
Johan Lundström
Martha Stella Madrid
Betancourt
Anne Mäkipernaa
Sebastian Maranga
Alessandro Marchello
Bertrand Marchiaro
Maribeth Marquard
Ingrid Mårtenzon
Malik Masood Fareed
Rema Mathew
Simbarashe Maziveyi
Sibongile Frieda Mbele
Carl McKay
Shannon Meeks
Luis Melgar Araúz
Zavier Meotti
Alicia Mercado
Margaret Melda Michael
Richard Minja
Leonard Minty
Raissi Mohamed Taoufik
Benigno Montenegro
Reyer
Catriona Moriarty
Marianne Mosling
Diane Munro
Esther Muntu
Sarkuna Devi Murugasan
Hiroshi Nakashima
778
First-time
donors
Shan N. Narayanan
Rasheed Nasr
Carol Nave
David Naveh
Ronnie Nelson
Megi Neziri
Hanh Ngo
Lauren Nyhan
Tania Maria Onzi Pietrobelli
Manuel Santiago
Ordoñez Bastidas
Eadaoin O’Shea
Lisa Padilha
Paresh P. Parmar
Linda Parry
Leanne Pearce
Jorge Peña Siado
Charity Pikiti
Jane Pittadaki
Vince Poma
Bishesh Poudyal
the late David Pouliot
Sarah Preston
Rosana Quinteros
Indrawattee Rampaul
Joan and Arvin Randle
Carol Reddie
Emilie Rehel
Rosalie Reiri
Sheikh Moin Riaz
Erl Roberts
Sergio Robledo
Barbara Rodgers
Fernando Rodriguez
Chappell
Yadira Rojas Marcano
Gert Rudolf
Tobias Ruhl
James E. Rwehabwra
Aislin Ryan
Naouel Salhi
Andrea Sambo
John Francis Sarmenta
Maria Satti
Uwe Schlenkrich
John Schmitke
Delphine Schwartzmann
Lynley Scott
Kibet Shikuku
Naja Skouw-Rasmussen
Egidijus Sliauzys
Pamela Smith
Stephanie Smith
Debbie Snavely
Chean Sophal
Ana Carolina Sotillo
Henry Steenkamp
Theresa Stevens
Kristen M. Stewart
Patience Stirling
Jeff S. Stonebraker
Ari Antonius Sudana
Ekawat Suwantaroj
Te Whainoa Te Wiata
Virginie Terrier
Patrice Thomas
Rachel Tiktinsky
Anna Tollwe
Ahmadou Toure
Zorica Trajkova Antevska
Fendi Antonio Valdez
Bisono
Minette Van der Ven
Ingrid Van Steenberge
Aart van Wingerden
Jean-Noel Vernanchet
Kjersti Viken
Luz Graciela Villalaz
Garcia
Jacoba von Wielligh
Hemirau Waretini
Doris Wee
Victor Wendel
Gamini Wickramasinghe
Nathan Wilkes
Sonji Wilkes
Mayda Tamara Yasychyn
Romero
Ray Yu
A.B.M. Yunus
Lukas Zahrer
Mowcef Ziani
Sidki Zouhair
Bulent Zulfikar
Gabriele and Karl
Zwiauer
4 anonymous donors
Bold: The WFH is especially grateful to supporters who contributed to each year of the campaign.
*The WFH is proud to acknowledge the support of our national member organization.
Every effort has been made to ensure to accuracy of this list. Please contact us with any errors at
acolavita@wfh.org
Close the Gap campaign 2012-2014
Co-Chairs
Jan Willem André de la Porte, WFH patron
Alain Weill, WFH president
Honorary Campaign Committee members
representing WFH past presidents
Frank Schnabel, WFH president 1963-1987
Frank Schnabel, III
Gina Schnabel
Marie-France VanDamme
Charles Carman, WFH president, 1988-1993
Patsy Carman
Brian O’Mahony, WFH president, 1994-2004
Mark W. Skinner, WFH president, 2004-2012
REGIONAL CO-CHAIRS
Americas
Patricia Dominic, U.S.A.
Cesar Garrido, Venezuela
Phil Kucab, U.S.A.
Martha Monteros Rincón, Mexico
Carlos Safadi Márquez, Argentina
Pam Wilton, Canada
Europe
Anne Duffy, Ireland
Middle East & Africa
Megan Adediran, Nigeria
Magdy El Ekiaby, Egypt
Johnny Mahlangu, South Africa
Bradley Rayner, South Africa
Aliakbar Tchupan, Iran
Asia & Western Pacific
Gavin Finkelstein, Australia
Aris Hashim, Malaysia
Reynaldo Sarmenta, Philippines
Fund & Resource Development Committee
Chair
Deon York
Eric Stolte 2008-2012
50th Anniversary Honorary
Committee
Baxter
Bayer
Biogen Idec Hemophilia
Biotest
BPL
CSL Behring
Green Cross
Grifols
Kedrion
LFB
Novo Nordisk
Pfizer
Sanquin
The WFH is grateful to our corporate partners
for their support of the WFH 50th anniversary.
Contributions to the WFH
can be made on an ongoing basis
www.wfh.org/donate