CDF Board Members

Children’s Diabetes Foundation Board of Directors

  • Barbara Davis, Chairman, Beverly Hills, CA
  • Joseph Smolen, Vice-Chairman, Parker, CO
  • Dana Davis, CDF Executive Director, Denver, CO
  • Shawn Hunter, Treasurer, Denver, CO
  • Shane Hendryson, Secretary, Denver, CO
  • Richard S. Abrams, MD, Denver, CO
  • David Asarch, Denver, CO
  • Lisa Corley, Denver, CO
  • Stephen R. Daniels, MD, PhD, Denver, CO
  • Nancy Davis-Rickel, Los Angeles, CA
  • Daniel J. Feiten, MD, Centennial, CO
  • Lori Finch, Foxfield, CO
  • Sandip Garg, San Francisco Bay, CA
  • Arlene Hirschfeld. Denver, CO, *Emeritus Member
  • Deidre Hunter, Denver, CO
  • Steve Lucas, Denver, CO
  • Kenny Rickel, Los Angeles, CA
  • Stacy Robinson, Denver, CO
  • John H. Sampson, MD, PhD, MBA, Aurora, CO
  • Cameron van Orman, Denver, CO
  • Cindy Wells, Greenwood Village, CO

Ex-officio Member



  • Marian Rewers, MD, PhD (Executive Director, Barbara Davis Center), Denver, CO
  • Richard S. Abrams, MD, Director, Colorado Preventive Medicine, Rose Medical Center; Clinical Professor of Medicine UCD
  • Mark Atkinson, PhD, Professor of Pathology & Pediatrics, Director, University of Florida Diabetes Institute
  • Ezio Bonifacio, PhD, Professor for Preclinical Approaches to Stem Cell Therapy, Center for Regenerative Therapies, Dresden, Germany
  • Robert Eckel, MD, Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics, University of Colorado School of Medicine
  • Matthias Hebrok, PhD, Professor in Residence and Director, Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco
  • Steven Kahn, MB, ChB, Professor of Medicine, Director of the Diabetes Research Center, University of Washington
  • Rudolph Leibel, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, Co-Director, Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center, Columbia University
  • Alvin Powers, MD, Professor of Medicine, Molecular Physiology/Biophysics, Division Director, Vanderbilt University
  • William Tamborlane, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine

Mrs. Jamie Angelich
Mrs. Linda Broughton
Sir Michael Caine
Dr. Bonita Carson
Mr. Phil Collins
Mrs. Nancy Cowee
Mr. Robert A. Daly
Mr. Tony Danza
The Honorable Diana DeGette
Mr. Neil Diamond
Mr. Placido Domingo
Mrs. Chris Foster
Mr. David Foster
Mrs. Sally Frerichs
Mr. Kenny G
Mr. David Geffen

Ms. Debbie Gradishar
Mrs. Helen Hanks

Mrs. Marty Jensen
Mrs. Janet Knisely
Ms. Sherry Lansing
Mr. Jay Leno
Mr. Paul Marciano
Mrs. Sally Newcomb
Mr. Lionel Richie
Mrs. Carol Roger
Mrs. Adrienne Ruston Fitzgibbons
Mr. George Schlatter
Ms. Maria Shriver
Mrs. Kay Stewart
Mrs. Jane Weingarten
Mr. Gary L. Wilson
Mr. Stevie Wonder