February 22, 2011 (CHARLESTON, SC)—The National Association For Continence (NAFC) announced the election of four new members and the re-election of one member to its Board of Directors, each for three-year terms beginning in November 2010. The Board provides oversight for the direction and operations of the non-profit consumer education and patient advocacy organization headquartered in Charleston.

The newly elected members of the Board are as follows:

• Anie E. Caddigan, Esq., legal council for the Richmond Shared Services Center of Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). She advocates on behalf of 35 HCA hospitals in six states. Prior to joining HCA, Caddigan was a litigator in private practice for a Washington, DC law firm.

• Fran D. Goldfarb, MA, CHES, director of family support at the USC University Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD), Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles (CHLA) and serves as parent faculty in the Interdisciplinary Leadership Education in Neuro-developmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) program at the USC UCEDD. Along with her husband, she founded and has led the Los Angeles Asperger Syndrome Parent Support Group since 1996. Goldfarb is currently on the board of the United Advocates for Children and Families (UACF).

• Brooke Gurland, MD, a general laparoscopic and colorectal surgeon at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. Dr. Gurland has special interests in evaluation and treatment of patients with functional bowel and complex pelvic floor disorders. She is board certified in colon and rectal surgery. After receiving her medical degree from Hahnemann, she trained at Mount Sinai in New York City and subsequently at the Cleveland Clinic in Florida.

• Nancy Hicks, senior vice president of healthcare for Ketchum Communications, a public and media relations firm with global operations. Hicks previously served, in earlier decades, two consecutive terms on NAFC’s Board and on the Project Advisory Council to the Board. She helped create Bladder Health Week in 1995 and launched the first national survey of women about their bladder control problems.

Eric Rovner, MD, was re-elected for a second, three-year term. Dr. Rovner is professor of urology at the Medical University of South Carolina and serves in a leadership capacity with the American Urological Association (AUA) and the Society for Urodynamics and Female Urology (SUFU). He also serves on the Editorial Advisory Panel for NAFC’s monthly e-newsletter, Quality Care®, and frequently authors and edits articles and publications for NAFC.

In January, the Board elected 2011 Officers in accordance with its bylaws. Continuing in service another year are: Niall Galloway, MB, FRCS, FRCSE, as Chairman; Jane Frahm, MS, PT, as Vice Chair; Cheryl LeCroy, MSN, RN, as Secretary; and Alex Te, MD, as Treasurer.

New to the Project Advisory Council in 2011 are the following individuals each serving two-year terms: Ted Benderev, MD; Bob Bowman; Jorgé Daboub; Susan Rinkus Farrell, MSN, RNB, BNP-BC; Paul Fine, MD; Lynn Nye, PhD; and Jill Rabin, MD, FACOG.

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