Silent Spring Institute Board of Directors

Ellen Parker, Chair Bev Baccelli Lawrence Neil Bailis, PhD John K. Erban, M.D.

Catherine Farrell, Esq. Amy Present, Treasurer Cathie Ragovin, M.D., Secretary Anne Speakman

Ellen Parker, Chair, is a social worker in private practice in Newton, Massachusetts, specializing in psychotherapy with individuals and couples. She is a former president of the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition and a founding board member of both MBCC and Silent Spring Institute. She was the director of social work services for Tufts-New England Medical Center and won the Eleanor Clark Award for Innovative Programs in Patient Care from the American Hospital Association and the National Association of Social Workers Social Worker of the Year Award.

Bev Baccelli has spent her thirty-three year social work career working with children and their families. In 1982 she co-founded and currently is the director of Southeastern Adoption Services. Since then she has helped hundreds of individuals and couples, nationally and internationally, become parents through adoption. She is a past president of the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition.

Lawrence Neil Bailis, Ph.D.., is a senior research associate at the Center for Youth and Communities and an associate professor at the Heller School, Brandeis University. In recent years, he has served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator for more than a dozen evaluations in a wide range of youth development, education, and workforce-development related fields. In 2005, Dr. Bailis was selected as John Glenn Scholar in Service-Learning.

John K. Erban, M.D., is an associate professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and Director of Breast Cancer Program at Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Erban specializes in breast cancer and hematologic malignancies. Dr. Erban is a board member for the Cam Neely Foundation for Cancer Care and the Massachusetts Society of Clinical Oncology. He is a past president of the Massachusetts Society of Clinical Oncologists and from 2001 to 2004 he served on the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Catherine Farrell, Esq., is an assistant city solicitor with the city of Newton's Law Department. She has over thirty years experience in managing legal matters for corporations and government agencies, particularly focusing on environmental issues. She previously held positions as vice president and general counsel at Fluor Daniel GTI, Inc., an environmental consulting company, and was general counsel for the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority.

Amy Present, Treasurer, is a psychotherapist in private practice in Newton, Massachusetts. She is a former board officer of the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition and a founding board member of both MBCC and Silent Spring Institute.

Cathie Ragovin, M.D., Secretary, is a psychiatrist in private practice in Weston, Massachusetts. She is a former board member of the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition and a former steering committee member of the National Action Plan on Breast Cancer.

Anne Speakman is the director of marketing at Children’s Hospital Boston. She has more than 20 years of experience in health care marketing and communications. She previously has held positions as director of marketing and public affairs at New England Medical Center and as director of national promotion at WGBH.