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| (i) Name of supported organization | (ii) EIN | (iii) Type of organization (described on lines 1- 10 above (see instructions)) | (iv) Is the organization listed in your governing document? | (v) Amount of monetary support (see instructions) | (vi) Amount of other support (see instructions) | |
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(a) 2015 | (b) 2016 | (c) 2017 | (d) 2018 | (e) 2019 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grant.") .. | 2,948,133 | 3,993,797 | 4,249,484 | 1,820,693 | 1,848,898 | 14,861,005 |
| 2 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf.... | ||||||
| 3 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge.. | ||||||
| 4 | Total. Add lines 1 through 3 | 2,948,133 | 3,993,797 | 4,249,484 | 1,820,693 | 1,848,898 | 14,861,005 |
| 5 | The portion of total contributions by each person (other than a governmental unit or publicly supported organization) included on line 1 that exceeds 2% of the amount shown on line 11, column (f).. | 11,656,570 | |||||
| 6 | Public support. Subtract line 5 from line 4. | 3,204,435 | |||||
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(a) 2015 | (b) 2016 | (c) 2017 | (d) 2018 | (e) 2019 | (f) Total | |
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| 7 | Amounts from line 4.. | 2,948,133 | 3,993,797 | 4,249,484 | 1,820,693 | 1,848,898 | 14,861,005 |
| 8 | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources... | 1,439 | 2,796 | 3,464 | 9,206 | 6,761 | 23,666 |
| 9 | Net income from unrelated business activities, whether or not the business is regularly carried on.. | ||||||
| 10 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part VI.).. | 6,675 | 149 | 8,243 | 15,067 | ||
| 11 | Total support. Add lines 7 through 10 | 14,899,738 | |||||
Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2015 | (b) 2016 | (c) 2017 | (d) 2018 | (e) 2019 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grants.") . | ||||||
| 2 | Gross receipts from admissions, merchandise sold or services performed, or facilities furnished in any activity that is related to the organization's tax-exempt purpose | ||||||
| 3 | Gross receipts from activities that are not an unrelated trade or business under section 513 ..... | ||||||
| 4 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf... | ||||||
| 5 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge | ||||||
| 6 | Total. Add lines 1 through 5 | ||||||
| 7a | Amounts included on lines 1, 2, and 3 received from disqualified persons | ||||||
| b | Amounts included on lines 2 and 3 received from other than disqualified persons that exceed the greater of $5,000 or 1% of the amount on line 13 for the year. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 7a and 7b.. | ||||||
| 8 | Public support. (Subtract line 7c from line 6.) | ||||||
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(a) 2015 | (b) 2016 | (c) 2017 | (d) 2018 | (e) 2019 | (f) Total | |
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| 9 | Amounts from line 6... | ||||||
| 10a | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources.. | ||||||
| b | Unrelated business taxable income (less section 511 taxes) from businesses acquired after June 30, 1975. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 10a and 10b. | ||||||
| 11 | Net income from unrelated business activities not included in line 10b, whether or not the business is regularly carried on. | ||||||
| 12 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part VI.) .. | ||||||
| 13 | Total support. (Add lines 9, 10c, 11, and 12.).. | ||||||
| Section A - Adjusted Net Income | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Net short-term capital gain | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Other gross income (see instructions) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Add lines 1 through 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Depreciation and depletion | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Portion of operating expenses paid or incurred for production or collection of gross income or for management, conservation, or maintenance of property held for production of income (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Other expenses (see instructions) | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Adjusted Net Income (subtract lines 5, 6 and 7 from line 4) | 8 | ||||
| Section B - Minimum Asset Amount | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Aggregate fair market value of all non-exempt-use assets (see instructions for short tax year or assets held for part of year): | 1 | ||||
| a | Average monthly value of securities | 1a | ||||
| b | Average monthly cash balances | 1b | ||||
| c | Fair market value of other non-exempt-use assets | 1c | ||||
| d | Total (add lines 1a, 1b, and 1c) | 1d | ||||
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Discount claimed for blockage or other factors (explain in detail in Part VI): |
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| 2 | Acquisition indebtedness applicable to non-exempt use assets | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Subtract line 2 from line 1d | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Cash deemed held for exempt use. Enter 1-1/2% of line 3 (for greater amount, see instructions). | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Net value of non-exempt-use assets (subtract line 4 from line 3) | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Multiply line 5 by .035 | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Minimum Asset Amount (add line 7 to line 6) | 8 | ||||
| Section C - Distributable Amount | Current Year | |||||
| 1 | Adjusted net income for prior year (from Section A, line 8, Column A) | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Enter 85% of line 1 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Minimum asset amount for prior year (from Section B, line 8, Column A) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Enter greater of line 2 or line 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Income tax imposed in prior year | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Distributable Amount. Subtract line 5 from line 4, unless subject to emergency temporary reduction (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
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| 3 Administrative expenses paid to accomplish exempt purposes of supported organizations | ||
| 4 Amounts paid to acquire exempt-use assets | ||
| 5 Qualified set-aside amounts (prior IRS approval required) | ||
| 6 Other distributions (describe in Part VI). See instructions | ||
| 7Total annual distributions. Add lines 1 through 6. | ||
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| 9 Distributable amount for 2019 from Section C, line 6 | ||
| 10 Line 8 amount divided by Line 9 amount | ||
| Section E - Distribution Allocations (see instructions) |
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| j Remainder. Subtract lines 3g, 3h, and 3i from 3f. | ||||
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| Return Reference | Explanation |
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| Part II, Section C, line 17a: | THE FOUNDATION SATISFIES THE 10% FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES TEST TO BE A PUBLICLY SUPPORTED 501(c)(3) ORGANIZATION. (1) Summary and Conclusion. The FH Foundation qualifies as a publicly supported 501(c)(3) charitable and educational nonprofit organization. It received greater than 10% of its support from public sources, it is organized and operated as a publicly supported charitable entity, and, explained in detail below, it satisfies the facts and circumstances test as set forth in the Regulations. (2) The FH Foundation serves a critical public purpose. It saves lives by informing doctors, assisting public health officials, and educating the general public about Familial Hypercholesterolemia ("FH"), an inherited disorder that leads to aggressive and premature cardiovascular disease, if it's not properly diagnosed and treated. The Foundation works to save the lives of people with a life-threatening type of high cholesterol called Familial Hypercholesterolemia (referred to as "FH"). Heart disease is the number one cause of morbidity and mortality in the U.S., and is linked to high cholesterol, affecting 72 million Americans. FH is a genetic condition that causes high cholesterol and early heart disease. People with FH who are diagnosed can be helped if FH is diagnosed early and treated. FH is as prevalent as Type 1 diabetes and is twenty times more prevalent than Cystic Fibrosis. Approximately 1 out of every 250 people, equally at least 1.3 million people in the United States and about 30 million people worldwide have Familial Hypercholesterolemia. If untreated, a man with FH has a 50% chance of having a heart attack before the age of 50 and a woman with FH has a 30% chance of having a heart attack before the age of 60. Children who have inherited FH from two parents, most often do not live to 20 years old without the appropriate care. Effective therapies exist to manage the condition, but FH must be diagnosed and treated appropriately from childhood. Tragically, 85% of the people with FH are never accurately diagnosed or appropriately managed. As recently as 2011, a study showed that fewer than 30% of the cardiologists were able to diagnose a case of FH. That is why people with FH and doctors who understand FH created the FH Foundation, and provided its initial funding. The FH Foundation was formed in late 2011 and incorporated in April 2012. The organization's mission is to raise awareness and save lives by increasing the rate of early diagnosis and encouraging proactive treatment. As noted, if left untreated, FH leads to aggressive and premature heart disease in women, men and children of all racial and ethnic backgrounds. In just nine years, the FH Foundation has made an astounding amount of progress in increasing FH awareness, amassing global information about patients, and bringing together doctors, patients, public health officials, and government leaders to discover and disseminate information about diagnosis and treatment options. In fact, we believe our work helped reduce the number of people who have undiagnosed FH from 90% to 85%. Part of this effort was assisted by the Foundation advocating for and achieving a separate IDC-10 code specific for clinicians to identify FH. (3) As part of its educational mission, the Foundation regularly publishes medical and scientific information that is widely used by physicians and is a key free resource for patients with FH. - The FH Foundation has led the publication of 25 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals since 2014, including four in 2019. It is the leader in advancing scientific and medical understanding of FH. - The FH Foundation publishes medical information in 11 different languages, providing doctors and patients with information essential to understanding and treating FH. - The Foundation convenes the annual FH Global Summit, which produces medical and scientific information to educate doctors and other medical professionals about FH. It is the only educational conference dedicated to solving global challenges in the care and treatment of familial hypercholesterolemia through a multi-stakeholder and interdisciplinary approach. It brings together speakers and panelists who are experts in FH, genomics, precision medicine, alongside leading healthcare practitioners, individuals with FH and industry. Specifically, the 2019 FH Global Summit brought together 287 world-renowned experts in FH, cardiology, public health, advocacy, as well as families living with FH to accelerate best practices for FH care. During the 2019 Summit, Dr. Muin Khoury, founding director of the Office of Genomics and Precision Public Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, discussed how familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) sets the stage for precision public health for other inherited conditions and the progress we have made identifying and treating individuals with FH. Khoury underscored the importance of data for more precisely developing and delivering public health programs to sub-populations: "Families live across states and healthcare systems. We can't do this without precision." . - The FH Foundation has had more than 200 articles about FH appear in the media, including Wall Street Journal, US News and World Report, Medscape, Women's Health, and more, reaching a potential audience of more than 200 million people. (4) The Foundation participates in and sponsors programs and efforts by |
| members of the public having special knowledge or expertise, | officials, or civic or community leaders. - The Foundation works with officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and national/international organizations like the World Health Organization. - The Foundation's President, Katherine Wilemon, works closely with key government health officials, including with the head of genomics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and with the National Academies- Genomic Public Health Action Collaborative Working Group. - A bedrock of the FH Foundation's work has been the establishment of a national familial hypercholesterolemia CASCADE FH Registry. Launched in September 2013, by December 2019 over 6,000 individuals have been entered in the Registry at 40 clinical sites across the United States at many major academic medical institutions. As a patient centric organization, the Foundation designed the CASCADE FH Registry to include physician entered and patient entered data with learnings and data returned to both stakeholder groups. - Senior officials at both the CDC and National Institutes of Health (NIH) - National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) have been consulted on how to sustain and grow the CASCADE FH Registry because it is of such value to public health and the clinical research community. The Registry by design will advance the scientific understanding of FH, increase the rate of FH diagnosis, improve the quality of care for individuals living with FH, and enable additional education of the public and health officials about FH and the need for additional research and information about effective care. - The FH Foundation succeeded in having FH classified within the International Classification of Diseases (the "ICD"), following three years of focused effort. This was a great advance for the general public as the ICD holds critical information about epidemiology, managing health, and treating conditions and is used by healthcare professionals to code and identify health conditions. This will bring much-needed visibility to the FH diagnosed population. Public health workers and insurers use the recording of ICD codes to see trends in health, to track morbidity and mortality and to classify conditions and determine reimbursement. As of December 2019, 197,000 individuals had been diagnosed using the FH diagnosis code (E78.01). - The FH Foundation created the FH Specialists Network identifying over 540 healthcare providers across 35 countries who specialize in FH. The FH Foundation provides educational materials to these clinicians to provide to their patients. The FH Foundation's Specialist Network is easily assessible on the FH Foundation's website. - In addition to a number of community volunteers, one hundred and fifteen people have been trained to be FH Advocates who raise awareness by sharing their FH stories, support others through their own journeys, and inform the work of the FH Foundation to ensure the Foundation is addressing what matters most to FH patients. FH Advocates educate their elected representatives and medical professionals to help them to better understand FH. The FH Advocates educate the public directly by participating in health fairs, speaking at service clubs and their workplaces, and speaking directly with newly diagnosed patients. The FH Foundation helps to share their stories via its website, social media, and news media outreach. FH Advocates also reach out to their network of family and friends to raise awareness and funding for the FH Foundation. (5) The Foundation provides continuous and definitive programs and direct services to the general public to accomplish its charitable work. - The Foundation is the only research and advocacy organization dedicated to increasing scientific understanding and public awareness of this condition. It operates a website with extensive information and distributes educational materials about FH. - The FH Foundation's CASCADE FH Registry provides information available to the general public about issues regarding care, medical needs, observational and implementation research studies that are being conducted, and a research study that aims to understand the willingness for individuals with a clinical diagnosis of FH and their family members to undergo confirmatory genetic testing. - The FH Foundation's national CASCADE FH Registry and its related global Patient Portal provide comprehensive longitudinal data that fills gaps in FH diagnosis and treatment, including disparities in care. The Registry's data is available to researchers, public health officials (CDC, FDA), clinicians, patients, and other decision makers. The Foundation also disseminates this data in presentations to medical conferences, in the news media, and on social media. - The FH Foundation offers financial support to patients and to parents whose children have FH to attend the annual FH Global Summit so they can learn more about the disease, medical advances, and treatment options. - The Foundation provides families with the essential service of helping patients find physicians who understand and specialize in the treatment of FH. - The Foundation works with payers and providers directly to educate them about diagnosis and treatment of FH. - The Foundation provides the public with online and print tools to help patients navigate their own diagnosis, treatment, and access issues. - The Foundation hosts in-person events where FH families connect with each other, the work of the FH Foundation, and directly with FH medical experts. When needed, it financially supports the participation of individuals in these in-person events. It also supports the participation of its FH Advocates in medical meetings. It manages an online discussion group where people can go for reliable information about FH diagnosis and management and connect with each other. It answers questions by email and phone from people who contact it directly. - The Foundation maintains a list of clinical research studies on the website that is searchable so that patients or parents with children with FH can find medical resources or research studies. - The Foundation provides regular email updates on clinical trial research. - In 2012, the FH Foundation created the National FH Awareness Day as September 24. Today, this is a worldwide event, adopted by individuals and organizations. Its month-long campaign leading up to FH Awareness Day on September 24, 2019, reached an audience of 25 million people through social media around the world. - With its FH advocates, it has succeeded in getting governors in Kansas, Oregon, Colorado, New Hampshire, Louisiana, South Dakota, Florida, Indiana, Arkansas and Wisconsin to have FH Awareness Day in their states. - The FH Foundation engages in educational and outreach work to advance the awareness and interests of the general public about FH. With its educational outreach, FH Foundation has - Over 7.300 people following it on Twitter Over 2,2000 people in an online Facebook discussion group from 54 countries around the globe Over 12,500 Likes" on Facebook and 6,600 follow it on Twitter Over 540 FH specialists featured in its Global Specialist Network Over 280 people attending the FH Global Summit each year Over 115 volunteer FH Advocates for Awareness Over 6,200 enrolled in CASCADE FH Registry Clinical Sites Over 500 enrolled in CASCADE FH Registry Patient Portal Over 7,000 people receive its newsletter In-person events for FH families held in Boston, Rochester MN, Portland OR, Dallas/Ft Worth, Northern CA, Southern CA, Miami, Dallas, Pasadena (x2), Arlington (x3), Rockville, Philadelphia, Maine, Kansas |
| City. | (6) The Foundation began by raising financial support from among the few patients and health-care professionals who knew about Familial Hypercholesterolemia. The Foundation is organized and operated to attract new and additional public or governmental support on a continuous basis. -Our percentage of public support continues to increase. In 2017, we calculated our public support at 15.33%, in 2018, we calculated our public support at 18.26%, and now in 2019, we calculate our public support at 21.51%. - In its initial years of existence, the FH Foundation was able to generate financial support from among the small group of people aware of FH and deemed most likely to provide seed money. It received an amount sufficient to enable it to begin its charitable activities and undertake an expanded solicitation program. In those early years, by necessity it focused on building a credible reputation so that it can be successful in its research and educational efforts. - Through initial successful educational efforts, the Foundation increased awareness and knowledge about FH among doctors, public health officials, patients, families, and policymakers. It later began receiving support from the larger group of people learning about, or directly affected by, the disease. - Given that the Foundation's mission relates to a specific group of people affected by or concerned with the disease, and with the relatively short time the Foundation has been in existence, its fundraising efforts have been successful. - With our deep connections to the research community, with strong partnerships and collaborations with an academic research facility and another with a community-based research health system, we successfully secured sub-award agreements on two federal research grants that have diversified our funding streams. We are fulfilling our mission by participating in important research to improve the diagnosis rates of those with FH, their care and outcomes. - In 2019, the Foundation had several fundraising successes that included: Corporate Advisory Council - $150,000 FH Global Summit - requested sponsorships from 27 prospects, raised $505,534 FH Community in Action - $370,550 The Foundation received $1,527,884 in corporate support. The Foundation requested support from 10 companies on the Corporate Advisory Council. The Foundation solicited 27 prospective sponsors to support the FH Global Summit. The Foundation solicited six companies involved in the Foundation's Community in Action. The Foundation engaged in multi-channel direct marketing, raising $151,136 from individual giving donors (peer to peer fundraising, direct mail appeals, 4 email appeals, Giving Tuesday, 2 End of Year appeals, memorial and tribute gifts, etc.) The Foundation engaged a family member of someone where the parent and children have either FH or HoFH. This family member created a fundraising event around his 40th birthday and raised more than $50,000. He will do another event in 2020 and hopes to raise at least this same. The Foundation now maintains a continuous and significant program for solicitation of funds from the general public. Its activities are designed to attract support from interested segments of the general public. The Foundation expects its public support to increase in 2020. (7) The Foundation's governing body represents the broad interests of the public, rather than the personal or private interests of a limited number of donors. Its Directors represent a broad cross-section of the views and interests of the community affected by FH and have special knowledge and expertise about FH disease. - The Board of Directors consists of approximately 50% patients and 50% clinical experts. Five members of the board are physicians who treat FH patients and/or conduct FH clinical research studies without benefiting financially from the FH Foundation. - It has leaders in medicine as well as those who have played key roles in the public health fields advocating for others, such as its Chair emeritus Dr. Bill Neal. Dr. Neal has been widely recognized for his public health leadership on behalf of children nationally and especially in his home state of West Virginia. Its Vice Chair & Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Dan Rader, has long worked with the NIH and in his position at the University of Pennsylvania on behalf of those born with the most devastating genetic conditions. - A biosketch of each of the 2019 board members is below. William A. Neal, MD Chairman of the Board William A. Neal, MD, a native of Huntington, WV, earned his undergraduate degree from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1962. His medical degree was awarded by West Virginia University in 1966, where he was the first recipient of the Edward J. Van Liere Award for medical student research. From 1985 to 1998 he served as Chair of the WVU Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Neal was instrumental in the conceptualization and development of WVU Children's Hospital and served as its first Medical Director. Dr. Neal is currently James H. Walker Professor of Preventive Cardiology in the Department of Pediatrics at West Virginia University. Upon graduation from medical school, Dr. Neal continued training as a rotating intern at the Milwaukee County General Hospital, Marquette University, 1966-'67. He was then commissioned in the U.S. Navy, where after graduation from the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute, he was assigned as Flight Surgeon aboard the USS Constellation. He made two combat tours to Vietnam. Postgraduate education in his chosen specialty of pediatric cardiology was accomplished at the University of Minnesota 1970-74. Dr. Neal then joined the faculty at WVU. He was awarded Emeritus status July 1, 2014 after forty years of service to the University and State. Neal's clinical career at WVU focused on development and regionalization of newborn intensive care, establishment of a statewide system of outreach clinics in pediatric cardiology, and founding of the Coronary Artery Risk Detection In Appalachian Communities (CARDIAC) Project. CARDIAC has provided risk factor surveillance, intervention, and research for over 150,000 school-age children from every West Virginia Community over the past sixteen years. As the largest comprehensive accumulation of health status data on children in the nation it has strongly influenced policy guidelines of the American Academy of Pediatrics regarding blood cholesterol screening and treatment for children at risk for premature heart disease and diabetes. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Familial Hypercholesterolemia Foundation. He was named Distinguished Alumnus of the WVU School of Medicine in 2006. Stacey R. Lane, JD, MBE Vice Chair Stacey Lane is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and received her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law. Additionally, she received a Master's Degree in Bioethics from Penn, with a concentration in public policy and regulation of new medical technologies. In addition to her work with the FH Foundation, Stacey is a member of the Board of Trustees of Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, and is working on several bioethics initiatives in the New York area. She is also on the Advisory Council of the Hastings Center and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Bioethics Masters Program at Columbia University. Having been diagnosed with FH when she was 8, Stacey was originally treated at Rockefeller University in New York in the 1960s in some of the first cholesterol studies and has been monitored consistently since that time. She is the mother of three sons, two of whom also have FH. Mary P. McGowan, MD Secretary Treasurer Mary McGowan received her medical degree from the University of Massachusetts. She remained at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center for both intern- ship and residency. She completed her fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. McGowan is the Co-Director of the Lipid Clinic at Dartmouth Hitchcock Heart and Vascular Center. She is the author of numerous articles and five books. She has been the principal investigator on over 30 national and international clinical trials and has lectured widely in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia on cholesterol metabolism. Dr. McGowan serves on the alumni board at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and the National Lipid Association Foundation Board. She has previously served on the National Lipid Association Board of Di- rectors, the NH Affiliate of the American Heart Association Board and was the first Chief Medical Officer of the Familial Hypercholesterolemia Foundation. Dr. McGowan lives in Bedford, NH with her husband. They have three children. Barry A. Brooks, JD |
| Board Member | Barry Brooks is a partner of Paul Hastings, LLP, an international law firm with approximately 1,000 attorneys, and has practiced with that firm for 35 years, starting in the Los Angeles and Santa Monica, California offices, and moving to New York City in 1990. Mr. Brooks is currently the Chair the New York Office of the Firm - which at 275 attorneys is the Firm's largest. Mr. Brooks represents parties in a variety of complex transactions and is the chair of the firm's New York office and a partner in its Corporate Department. He represents parties in a broad range of public and private domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate finance and joint venture transactions. Mr. Brooks represents private equity funds, hedge funds and other private investment funds and institutional investors and private and public operating companies in various industries. Mr. Brooks also advises public companies and their boards and committees in connection with corporate responsibility, fiduciary duty, disclosure and executive employment matters. Mr. Brooks is the Vice Chair and a board member of the Tennis Foundation Of Connecticut, which has sponsored the annual Connecticut Open tennis tournament since 1989 and sponsors multiple programs to promote women's causes and local youth access to tennis and other sports programs. Mr. Brooks is a member of the State Bars of New York and California and of the American Bar Association. Mr. Brooks received his A.B. degree, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1978 from the University of California at Los Angeles and his J.D. degree, cum laude, in 1981 from Harvard Law School, cum laude. Allison Jamison Board Member Allison serves the FH Foundation as a volunteer FH Advocate for Awareness and as a Board Member. She earned her BS in Commerce from the University of Virginia, and her MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. She currently works as the director of recruitment and marketing for the Daytime MBA and MMS programs at Duke Fuqua School of business. Joshua W. Knowles, MD, PhD Chief Research Advisor Dr. Joshua W. Knowles is an Attending Physician in the Stanford Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease where he treats patients with Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH). He has had a longstanding interest in the genetic (inherited) basis of cardiovascular disease and in particular the use modern genetic techniques to improve our ability to diagnose and treat patients at risk of heart disease. Dr. Knowles completed his MD-PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he worked in the lab of Prof. Nobuyo Maeda and Nobel Laureate Oliver Smithies studying animal models of atherosclerosis and lipid metabolism. He then completed his Internal Medicine residency and Cardiovascular Medicine fellowship training at Stanford University working in the lab of Dr. Thomas Quertermous. He has published over 35 papers focused on heart disease with research projects currently funded by the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association. He is particularly excited to be involved with the FH Foundation in their mission to increase awareness of this condition, identify patients with FH, encourage screening of family members of those with FH and facilitate treatment of FH patients. He views FH as a "winnable battle" because once FH is identified, it can be usually be treated quite effectively. Josh and his wife Juliet live in Palo Alto with their daughter. Daniel J. Rader, MD Chief Scientific Advisor Dr. Rader is the Seymour Gray Professor of Molecular Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves as the Chair of the Department of Genetics as well as the Chief of the Division of Translational Medicine and Human Genetics in the Department of Medicine. He is also Associate Director of Penn's Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics. Dr. Rader's research focuses on the human genetics and functional genomics of lipoprotein metabolism and atherosclerosis, as well as the translational implications for novel therapeutic approaches. He led the scientific and clinical development of a first-in-class inhibitor of microsomal transfer protein for the treatment of severe hypercholesterolemia, which is now on the market. He has a particular interest in HDL metabolism and function, and novel approaches to targeting HDL metabolism and reverse cholesterol transport in the treatment, prevention, and regression of atherosclerosis. Dr Rader trained in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital and in human genetics and physiology of lipoprotein metabolism at the National Institutes of Health. He has been on the Penn faculty since 1994. Dr. Rader is a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a recipient of several awards including the Clinical Research Award from the American Heart Association. Michael D. Shapiro, DO Board Member Dr. Shapiro is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine and Radiology at Oregon Health & Science University where he is on faculty in the Knight Cardiovascular Institute. After completing a cardiology fellowship, Michael spent two additional years in a clinical and research fellowship focused on advanced cardiovascular imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital. At OHSU, he's been able to combine his interests in atherosclerosis imaging and prevention of cardiovascular disease. He is Director of the Cardiac MR CT Program, Director of Atherosclerosis imaging, and Associate Director of the Center for Preventive Cardiology. His clinical practice is dedicated to the evaluation and management of patients with or at risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, with a specific focus on Familial Hypercholesterolemia. Michael has published extensively in the areas of atherosclerosis imaging, lipid disorders, and preventive cardiology. Additionally, he is engaged in clinical trials testing novel lipid modulating therapeutics. His current investigative research focuses on PCSK9 physiology and its impact on lipoprotein metabolism and he directs a large registry and biorepository at the OHSU's Center for Preventive Cardiology. He has enjoyed working with the FH Foundation since its inception and is deeply committed to its mission. Michael and his wife, Grace, live in Portland, OR with their two children. Maria E. Sophocles, MD Board Member Maria Sophocles is a board-certified ob/gyn in practice since 1995. She is currently the Medical Director of Women's Healthcare of Princeton, a progressive practice she founded in 2007. She is a Sexual Medicine specialist who pioneered the use of Co2 laser for vaginal and vulvar applications. She has introduced the technology on five continents and advocates for women's health issues through teaching and lecturing lay public and clinicians nationally and internationally. As an Ob/Gyn and one of 15 members of her family with FH, she hopes to see FH diagnosed more in adult and adolescent women. She believes there is an as yet untapped opportunity to increase awareness and diagnosis of FH through Ob/Gyns since 25% of women use an Ob/Gyn as their sole clinical provider, and women are the primary gatherers for clinical information in the family unit. Katherine A. Wilemon Founder, CEO Katherine's own journey to receive an accurate diagnosis and appropriate care for Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH) urged her to devote her life to this cause. After being turned away from the ER several times and having a heart attack at 38, Katherine set out to raise awareness of FH and save lives. Katherine has spoken to thousands of people across the US and Europe in her effort to bring FH into focus, both for the public and the medical community. In the U.S. alone there are more than 1.3 million people affected by FH, yet 90% of them are undiagnosed. With the formation of The FH Foundation in 2011, Katherine's goals are to reverse the shocking statistics and empower people with FH to have longer, healthier lives. |
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| Form 990, Part I, line 1, Description of Organization MIssion: | advocacy, and education of familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). Our mission is to raise awareness of FH in order to increase the rate of early diagnosis and encouraging proactive treatment. If left untreated, FH leads to aggressive and premature heart disease in women, men and children of all racial and ethnic backgrounds. The FH Foundation is the result of the team effort of patients and healthcare practitioners who have joined their knowledge and passion for helping others in changing the status quo for FH. We are honored to have key FH opinion leaders, both from the U.S. and international arena, sharing their expertise and research insight with The FH Foundation. Our success is rooted in collaboration, innovation, and commitment. With the help of a dedicated group of physicians and nurse practitioners, professional organizations, governmental representatives, and volunteers, The FH Foundation takes pride in its forward-thinking and versatile approach to making a real change in the world of FH. Programs and Initiatives are: CASCADE FH Registry FIND FH FH Global Summit FH Awareness Day FH Patient Speakers Bureau Grand Rounds & Family Forum HoFH Community |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b | The Form 990 is e-mailed to each member and reviewed via electronic media prior to filing. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c | Conflicts of interest are monitored annually and reviewed by the governing body prior to approval or determination of action. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15a | The CEO's salary is reviewed on an annual basis by the Board of Directors and then approved by the Executive Committee. Part VI, line 15(b) was answered "no" as there were no other officers or key employees as defined in Form 990 instructions who received compensation. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 | All documents are available to the public upon request. |
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