Leadership

IANDS Board of Directors and Staff

Details: Last Updated: Tuesday, 11 June 2019 15:33

Executive Committee of the Board

	Chuck Swedrock, BSc Computer Sci; MBA; ACISTE LC President IANDS Groups Coordinator; Technology & Groups Committees IANDS Sharing Groups Online (ISGO™) Coordinator Co-facilitator Arizona IANDS Groups Occupation: Retired Information Technology Specialist Residence: Tucson, Arizona Served on the board 2005 - 2011, rejoined 2017
	Diane Corcoran, RN, PhD Vice-President Chair of Education and Research Committees Occupation: Nurse, Educator, Retired Army Colonel, currently doing legal nurse consulting; Residence: North Carolina Joined the board in 2004 - 2017 Past IANDS president emeritas, author articles on NDEs for health care professionals; currently sponsoring research on combat related NDES.

	James Fisher, MBA, CPA Treasurer Occupation: Retired Business Executive - Anesthesia Mgmt. Residence: North Carolina Joined the board in 2018
	Linda Truax, MA Mgmt, Major USA (retd) Secretary, Conference & Education Cmtes Residence: Texas Joined the board 2014

Other Board Members

	Jacqueline Arnold, MSLS Boulder IANDS & Bees Group Leader Residence: Colorado Joined the board in 2016
	Robert Bare, MPA Occupation: Retired Executive & Intl Bus. Consultant;Technical Writer & Grant Writer Residence: South Beach, Oregon Joined the board in 2019
	Daniel Endy, Technology Committee, IANDS Group Facilitator Residence: Pennsylvania Joined the board in 2019

Jose Hernandez, Artist, NDExperiencer
Spanish Translation Task Force, Groups Cmtes
Summerland, BC, CN
Joined the board in 2018

	Yvonne Kason, MD Family Physician & Psychotherapist (retd) Education Committee Toronto, Ontario, CN Joined the board in 2018
	Rev David Maginley, MDiv, Chaplain Publicity, Marketing Halifax, Nova Scotia, CN Joined the board in 2018
	Rebecca Valla, MD Education Committee Occupation: Board Certified Psychiatrist Residence: North Carolina Joined the board in 2015

Staff

	Susan Amsden, BSc, IANDS Business Manager Editor Vital Signs; New Groups Mentor Durham IANDS - Group Facilitator Occupation: Business Specialist ACISTE Life Coach Joined the IANDS staff in 2015
	Marybeth Maranuk, BA Marketing, Office, IANDS Groups Support Residence: North Carolina Occupation: Retired CPM, Property Management Joined the IANDS staff in 2008
	Hope Pickard, BA Membership, Donations,Office Residence: North Carolina Occupation: Certified Holistic Health Coach Joined the IANDS staff in 2019

Committees

Janice Holden, Ed.D
Editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies
Past president of IANDS
Residence: Texas
Occupation: Professor of counseling at the University of North Texas in Denton
Served on the board from 2000 - 2006
Dr. Holden is an NDE researcher who also supervises doctoral students conducting NDE research.

Bruce Greyson, M.D
Past President of IANDS
Consulting Editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies
Residence: Virginia
Occupation: Professor of psychiatry
Served on the board 1981-1992
Served as Editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies from 1982 - 2008 (26 years!).

Katie Connolly, CPA
Media Council
Residence: Colorado
Occupation: Certifiied Public Accountant
Served since 2017

Nicole Gruel, PhD in Transpersonal Psychology, ACISTE Life Coach ISGO™ Lead Facilitator
Residence: Newport, Australia
Joined the board in 2018
(ISGO™=IANDS Sharing Groups Online)

Debbie James, MSN, RN, CCRN, CRS
Conference & Education Committees
Residence: Texas
Occupation: Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist
Served on the board 1995-2008; Rejoined the board in 2011-2017
National conference coordinator from 1996 - 2006, 2010

Robert Mays, BSc
Former Treasurer
Finance, Technology & Website Committees
Residence: North Carolina
Occupation: NDE researcher (consciousness, veridical perceptions), retired Senior Software Engineer, retired science teacher

Yolaine Stout, B.A.
Chair of the Integration/Support Committee
Past president of IANDS
Residence: California
Occupation: Self-Help Writer, Life Coach, Nonprofit Consultant
17 years experience in non-profit leadership and development. Honors graduate UC Berkeley. 25 year educator in Austria and the United States.

Majorie Woollacott, PhD
Director of Research
Professor of Neuroscience, University of Oregon
Researcher in the field of rehabilitation, cognition & meditation