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Jana FitzGerald
Marketing and Public Relations Coordinator
Cicatricial Alopecia Research Foundation
Email: media@carfintl.org
On March 6, 2010, CARF Cofounders Sheila Belkin and Vera Price, MD, were honored by the American Academy of Dermatology with a Gold Triangle Award for their individual contributions to the field of health. The photos in the following slideshow are from the Gold Triangle Awards dinner and the Women's Dermatologic Society luncheon at the AAD's Annual Meeting in Miami Beach.
In June, California Congressman Henry A. Waxman wrote a letter congratulating Sheila Belkin for the Gold Triangle Award. Click here to open the letter in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
CARF also has received Gold Triangle Awards for its website, its First International Patient Doctor Conference and its newsletter, CARF Communiqué.
Introducing Marketing and PR Coordinator Jana FitzGerald
CARF is pleased to announce that Jana FitzGerald has joined its team as marketing and public relations coordinator. Fitzgerald brings three years of PR and marketing experience to serve CARF's mission.
According to CARF cofounder and CEO Sheila Belkin, "We are thrilled to have Jana FitzGerald join our team! She brings great energy to our cause and will make important contributions to our outreach and education efforts." Fitzgerald says, "I'm excited to use my skills for such a meaningful cause. In CARF, I find a group working tirelessly and passionately towards a goal that is inherently universal. Through my work with the organization, I strive to create a platform to reveal the common ground of our mission."
Fitzgerald is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned a degree in comparative literature with a minor in art history. She works in publishing and resides in San Francisco. In her free time, she enjoys the arts, being by the ocean, vegetarian cooking, and practicing conscious movement through yoga, dance, and running.
Press Release Archive
2010
Doctor-Patient Team Receives Awards from American Academy of Dermatology for Founding Organization to Help People with Rare Hair Disorders
February 17, 2010
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in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
2009
NIH Awards $1.77 Million Grant to CARF Scientific Advisor Pratima Karnik, PhD for Cicatricial Alopecia Research
October 23, 2009
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in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
Breakthrough Discovery in Hair Biology Paves Way for Treating Scarring Hair Loss
March 12, 2009
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in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
2008
Annual Call for Research Proposals from Cicatricial Alopecia
Research Foundation (CARF)
March 17, 2008
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in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
World-Renowned Scientific Advisors for Cicatricial Alopecia
Research Foundation (CARF) to Confer at the American Academy Of
Dermatology (AAD) Meeting in San Antonio, Texas
January 11, 2008
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Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
2006
American Academy of Dermatology Honors Cicatricial Alopecia
Research Foundation (CARF) with Two Gold Triangle Awards
July 27, 2006
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in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
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