Leadership

Emeritus Professor of Applied Behavioral Science
Director, Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence
Graziadio School of Business
Pepperdine University

2003-2010 Associate Dean of Full-Time Programs, Graziadio School
1984–2012 Pepperdine University, Chair of a number of committees and task forces

"As a polio survivor I have been aware of the work of PHI for many years. I attended PHI’s 11th International Conference in St. Louis in 2014. I was a panelist on a session titled My New Reality, which led to my further engagement with the organization and my relationship with Joan Headley. In 2017 I applied for and was accepted as a Board member.

"I was on the faculty of Pepperdine University for 32 years, in the field of Organizational Behavior until retiring in in 2012. I continued teaching one course per year in our Executive MBA program, as well as teaching part-time in Germany at the European Business School. Currently, I’m the Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence at the Graziadio School of Business. My position is part-time which I have held for the past three years.

"During my time in the classroom, I received a number of teaching awards including the Charles Luckman Outstanding Teaching Award. I have published dozens of research articles, presented at numerous conferences, and continue practicing as an independent consultant in the field of leadership and management.

"My interests include cooking, reading, active viewer of multiple forms of entertainment, and committed to regular exercise. I’ve been married, for 36+ years, one daughter, and two grandchildren."

Frederick M. Maynard, MD is a 1968 graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School (UMMS) and is a Board Certified Specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R). He was a faculty member of the UMMS for 16 years and started a post-polio clinic there in 1984 and led a Post-Polio Research & Education Center for 8 years. He then served as Professor & Chairman of PM&R at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, for 6 years before moving to Marquette, Michigan, in 1999 to practice community-based PM&R.

He was drawn into the post-polio community by Gini Laurie as a speaker at the first Post-Polio & Independent Living Conference in 1981 and has been a planner and speaker at all of the subsequent ten GINI/PHI Post-Polio & Independent Living Conferences. He joined the Board of Directors in 1990 and has served as President and as Chairperson of several Board committees, including the Medical Advisory Committee. Before his retirement from medical practice in 2015, he began organizing and/or inspiring Post-Polio Health & Wellness Retreats that have been held in three states and three foreign countries. He has written the “Ask the Doctor” column for PHI’s newsletters for over 20 years and still enjoys speaking to post-polio groups. In his leisure time, he enjoys music, gardening and outdoor activities in his beloved Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Marny Eulberg, MD, earned her BS in clinical laboratory technology from South Dakota State University and MD from the University of Arizona in Tucson. She is a retired family practice physician residing in Wheat Ridge, Colorado.

Dr. Eulberg is polio survivor and has served on the board of PHI since 2002. She is Rotary District 5450 Polio Committee chairperson and Medical Advisor to Colorado Post-Polio Organization.

In her free time, she enjoys spending time at her cabin in the Colorado mountains and serving on the boards of several non-profits involved in healthcare to underserved, education for girls in Senegal, senior housing, and a medical clinic in Zimbabwe.

Mike Mrozowicz had a 42-year career with John Deere and has extensive experience in accounting, finance, and operations. He is a CPA and has a BS in Accounting from the University of Illinois and an MBA (finance emphasis) from the University of Nevada - Reno. He currently resides in Highlands Ranch, Colorado and has served as PHI's treasurer since 2018.

"I believe that my greatest strength is my ability to work cooperatively with others from different disciplines and backgrounds to accomplish complex organizational objectives. I am also a polio survivor (1952 at the age of 2), so I have been dealing with the after effects of polio almost all my life. I joined the Board because I felt that I had the background and experience to help PHI achieve its organizational objectives.

"I have been on the Board of a number of non-profits and have also lent my finance skills to support other non-profits.

"I particularly enjoy outdoor activities like biking, golf, and even skiing."

Paulette Bergounous graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, with an MS degree in Communications Disorders. She is owner of Navigating Personal Change, LLC with a DBA as One-Handed Solutions.

She is one of the newest members of the Board of Directors. For many years, Paulette raised awareness of post-polio and the need for worldwide eradication of polio through speaking and authoring two books. Over the past five years she has gained valuable insights while pursuing her business projects and plans to assist PHI in the strategic planning of the organization.

Paulette has been Treasurer for Sacramento Association of Speech Pathologists, Recording Secretary for the International Association of Orofacial Myology and Dean Elect for the National Speakers Association, Arizona Chapter. She was awarded the “You Light the Way” Award by parents of a Special Education student, San Juan Unified School District. Paulette also participated in the People to People Program as an Ambassador in Communication Disorders in Vietnam and Cambodia.

In her free time, Paulette enjoys traveling and spending quality time with her two rescued dogs, Elsa and Mia. She also loves to travel and experience different cultures.

Ann Crocker is our newest member to PHI’s Board of Directors. A co-founder of the Post Polio Support Group of Maine, she remains active in the group, including compiling and writing the newsletter sent to nearly 500 people. Ann’s career included working as a paralegal, property manager, financial analyst, and oversight manager in a number of areas at the state housing authority of Maine. While working fulltime, she completed her BS degree and MBA by taking evening classes through the University of Maine system.

Now retired, Ann pursues her interest in health-related topics, such as nutrition and research. She has been a spokesperson for the importance of protecting our children through vaccination against so many potentially diseases, such as polio. Volunteerism also included chairing public suppers and being treasurer of her local fish and game club for over 25 years.

She values the wonderful work PHI offers polio survivors, medical professionals and the general public, and cites PHI as a topnotch source of credible information and services. With her strong analytical background, she is looking forward to working with other members of the Board to help continue PHI’s quality services.

Dr. DeMayo has nearly 30 years of clinical experience in the field of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. He has served as Medical Director for several comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation units and has also maintained an active outpatient practice. Areas of special interest have included Spinal Cord Injury Medicine, Polio, Charcot Marie Tooth, musculoskeletal/neuropathic pain management and bracing. In his early years of practice he managed bracing clinics that cared for many polio survivors. After moving to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1996, he managed a comprehensive post-polio clinic at the John P. Murtha Neuroscience and Pain Institute.

Dr. DeMayo graduated magna cum laude from Boston College and received his MD degree from Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1986. He completed his internship at Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh and then returned to Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City for three years of residency training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He served as Medical Director for a busy Spinal Cord Injury Program in Connecticut for six years before being recruited to Johnstown to open up the Crichton Center for Advanced Rehabilitation. He transitioned into private practice in 2002 and continued to do part-time work with the John P. Murtha Neuroscience and Pain Institute.

In September, 2017 Dr. DeMayo accepted a unique opportunity with Capital Health, as the Director of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Abu Dhabi, developing their first inpatient rehabilitation hospital. This Specialized Rehabilitation Hospital (www.ch-srh.ae) will be a model of care for the United Arab Emirates and the Gulf region. He joined the Board of Directors of Post-Polio Health International in 2017.

Bonnie is a 1951 polio survivor who was paralyzed from the neck down. After many months in a Sister Kenny rehabilitation hospital, Bonnie credits that treatment and the doctors who cared for her, for her remarkable, but not complete recovery.

Bonnie has received community service awards for outstanding service from Kiwanis, the local school system, and the Michigan Polio Network, Inc. She brings, to the PHI board, many years of experience as the Director of Student Activity at a major suburban high school. Her duties included, but not limited to, event planning, public speaking, fundraising, philanthropic projects, and daily interaction with students, parents, administrators, teachers and the general public. While serving in this capacity, Bonnie initiated and developed new programs including a foreign exchange program for teens, which promoted greater appreciation and understanding between cultures.

For 10 years, Bonnie actively served on the board of the Michigan Polio Network, Inc. She helped organized statewide conferences, public presentations to many Rotary groups, facilitator for the newcomer group, etc. Additionally, for the past fifteen years, she has served as facilitator to a very active Southeast Michigan Post-Polio Support Group.

Additionally, Bonnie voluntarily worked with a major health care system in Detroit, to develop a specialty clinic treating polio survivors. And currently, 20 years later, it is one of only a very few in the United States. The Medical Director of the clinic asked Bonnie to join the staff in a volunteer capacity greeting and educating patients about the late effects of having had polio.

Bonnie remains passionate about advocating for polio survivors. She believes polio remains an issue of relevance and concern and she continues to bring current information to anyone interested in this deadly or crippling virus.

Sunny Roller, MA, graduated from Central Michigan University and completed some doctoral work at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University. She currently is a part time research study consultant at Michigan Medicine in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Before her official retirement in 2005, she was employed there as a Research Program Coordinator for 19 years.

Sunny has a long-held interest in helping polio survivors find the information and support they need. As a polio survivor, herself, she has been a post-polio support group facilitator since 1985; and has been actively involved with PHI since 1987, serving as a PHI Board member since 2004.

In 1997, Sunny was conferred an Honorary MD degree by the Regents of Central Michigan University. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan and is a member of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Ann Arbor Garden Club. She enjoys writing and publishing essays, teaching, gardening, reading, handicrafts and traveling. She writes a blog about aging well with a disability that can be accessed at www.sunnyrollerblog.com.

Dr. Carol Vandenakker Albanese is a Health Sciences Clinical Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at University of California, Davis, School of Medicine.  Both her Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Physiology and her medical degree were earned at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Residency training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation was completed at New York University Medical Center/ Rusk Institute in New York City.

Before joining the faculty at UC Davis, she held faculty positions in the Columbia University Department of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine and the University of Miami Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation.

She established and maintained a busy Post-Polio clinic at the University of Miami in 1994 and has continued her work with polio survivors at UC Davis since 2001.  Her research and publications have focused on exercise, post-polio syndrome and aging with disability. She has served as medical advisor to several polio support groups, joined the Post-Polio Health International Medical Advisory Board in 2012 and was appointed to the Board of Directors in 2015.

Dr. Vandenakker serves on committees for the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the Association of Academic Physiatrists, the American Board of PM&R and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

Martin Wice, MD has been involved with PHI since 1987 in multiple capacities, including being president of the board for eight years. He presently is on the PHI medical advisory committee. He initiated and ran the post-polio clinic at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, for 25 years before joining the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. As part of his WUMS practice, he treated post-polio patients until his retirement in July, 2019. He has lectured on post-polio syndrome locally and at the PHI international post-polio conferences. He was also medical director of the rehabilitation program at Mercy Hospital St. Louis. He maintained a general rehabilitation practice throughout his career. He served as liaison of the state physical medicine and rehabilitation societies to the American Academy of PM&R.

He received his undergraduate degree at Grinnell College, his medical degree at Northwestern University School of Medicine where he was introduced to rehabilitation at the then Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. He did his internal medicine residency at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and rehabilitation medicine residency at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is boarded in both internal medicine and physical medicine and rehabilitation and is a fellow in the Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

Dr. Wice grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He has grown twin sons, one an internist, geriatric and palliative care physician and the other a lawyer who works for the Security Exchange Commission in Washington, DC. Dr. Wice has also had an interest in cancer rehabilitation and is on the medical advisory board for the Cancer Support Community St. Louis. He collects crafts and is on the board of Craft Alliance. He plays the violin, enjoys traveling, does mindfulness/meditation/spirituality studies and attempts to stay in physical shape with exercising.