The Carolinas Staff & Board
Local Staff
Brenita Brooks
Regional Vice President - Midwest & Southeast
513.240.6447
brenita.brooks@kidney.org
Ashby Andrews
Executive Director
(704) 519-0020 ext 135
ashby.andrews@kidney.org
Lilian Jarvinen
Senior Community Outreach Manager
803.799.3870 x633
lilian.jarvinen@kidney.org
Melissa Rubio
Program Coordinator
704.519.0020 ext 626
melissa.rubio@kidney.org
Nicole Conti
Development Coordinator
803.799.3870 x634
North Carolina
NC Advisory Board Members
Amy Gray Cunningham
Board Chair, Patient Advocate
Jenny Ashcraft
Strive Health
Strait Gaston
Fresenius Kidney Care
Brett and Heather Goode
Gray Construction
Dawn Lawson
Fresenius
Natalie Polk
Duke Energy
Phelicia Price
Patient Advocate
NKF NC Medical Advisory Board
Dr. Clarissa Diamantidis
Chair, Duke
Dr. Ryan Bonner
Nephrology Fellow UNC
Dr. Pamela Vasquez-Buitron
Scotland Health
Dr. Emily Chang
UNC
Dr. Tejas Desai
Department of Veterans Affairs
Dr. Alcia Edwards
Wake Forest Baptist Health
Aries Ford
WFBH Outpatient Dialysis
Dr. Barbara Gillespie
Covance
Dr. Jim Godwin
NC Nephrology
Kristel McLawhorn
Eastern Nephrology Associates
Dori Muench
WakeForest Baptist Health
Dr. Anjali Muraleedharan
Nephrology Fellow, Duke
Dr. Anjali Singla
Metrolina Nephrology Associates
Leah Smith
Metrolina Nephrology Associates
Dr. Matt Sparks
Duke
Tonya Stokes
Davita