Board of Directors
William H. Stuart, M.D.Chairman of the Board
The MS Center of Georgia
Medical Director
The MS Center of Atlanta
Dr. William H. Stuart graduated from Northwestern University Medical School in 1961. Following an Internship at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, Dr. Stuart returned to Northwestern University where he completed an Internal Medicine Residency. He subsequently served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer at the Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta for two years following which he completed a three year Fellowship in Neurology at Emory University Medical School. Upon completion of this training, and serving at the NINDS he entered private practice in the Atlanta area, forming the Atlanta Neurological Clinic, subsequently renamed The Peachtree Neurological Clinic in 1990.
Dr. Stuart was one of the founding members of the American Society of Neuroimaging in 1975. He remained active with this organization and served as its President in 1984 and 1985. In 1980, he became a member of the Practice Committee of the American Academy of Neurology, remaining active on that committee until 1991 and serving as the Chairman of that committee from 1985 through 1991. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the American Academy of Neurology for several years and served for 2 years as the Treasurer. Dr Stuart's most recent activity with the AAN was aiding in the formation of the MS Section of the Academy and serving on the Long-Range Planning Committee of the American Academy of Neurology beginning that activity in 1996. Dr. Stuart has maintained a broad interest in education and has served as a Clinical Professor of Neurology at Emory University Medical School since 1987. He was twice named the Clinical Teacher of the Year at Piedmont Hospital in 1987 and 1988. Dr. Stuart's Board Certification includes the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He began his focused interest in Multiple Sclerosis in 1988, developing the Multiple Sclerosis Comprehensive Care and Research Center at Shepherd Center in 1991. He resigned this position in January 2001 to become the Medical Director of The MS Center of Atlanta. The Multiple Sclerosis Center of Atlanta[MSCA] encompasses comprehensive clinical care, as well as clinical research, socio-economic outcomes and basic science studies. Dr. Stuart has maintained an active interest in the rehabilitative aspects of Chronic Neurologic Disease and since 1995 has been the Medical Director of the Center for Rehabilitation Medicine at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.
John F. McMullan, C.P.A.Vice Chairman of the Board
The MS Center of Georgia
President, CEO
Camden Real Estate
John F. McMullan is chief executive officer of Camden Real Estate, an Atlanta-based company that he founded in 1990. He also serves as a director of Life Care Centers of America Inc., which operates more than 280 skilled nursing, assisted living and retirement centers in 28 states. He has been affiliated with Life Care since its inception in 1976. Previous CEO positions McMullan has held include SMS Investment Associates Inc. and McMullan & Co. accounting firm. During the 1960s, McMullan was an assistant professor of tax and accounting theory at both Georgia State University and the University of South Florida. He also served as a senior accountant at Price Waterhouse.
McMullan is a trustee of UGA's Arch Foundation and an emeritus trustee of the University of Georgia Foundation. His professional affiliations include the American Institute of CPAs, the Georgia Society of CPAs and the National Conference of CPA Practitioners, of which he is a former chairman. McMullan's mother was one of 10 children, all of whom graduated from college. His father, Thomas Leverette McMullan graduated from UGA in 1929 with a degree in agricultural economics. He was a Newton County extension agent, as well as a district agent for the UGA Cooperative Extension Service. McMullan is a member of Sigma Chi, and he was instrumental in rebuilding the fraternity house on the UGA campus. He is also a past president of the Touchdown Club of Atlanta.
John McMullan is a founding Board member of the Multiple Sclerosis Center of Atlanta. He has served as its Secretary and currently serves as Vice Chairman.
James G. PopePresident (ret.)
Hazlehurst and Associates, Inc.
Jim Pope is the retired President and CEO of Hazlehurst & Associates, Inc. (now Northern Trust Retirement Consulting, L.L.C., a subsidiary of Northern Trust Bank), an Atlanta based actuarial and consulting firm.
Jim began his business career in 1965 as an electrical engineer for E.I. DuPont, following graduation from Georgia Tech. After five years he joined Electronic Data Systems (EDS), better known for its founder, H. Ross Perot, in the Systems Group, and soon became responsible for accounting, human resources, compensation, benefits, taxation, security and internal systems. In 1975, he joined H&A and became its president and CEO. In 1994, H&A was acquired by Northern Trust. After overseeing the integration and developing a successor management team, Jim retired at the end of 1998.
In addition to leading H&A, Jim has been a member of The Young President’s Organization, The World President’s Organization, a Director of a New York Stock Exchange member company Blackburn & Company, a Director of the Southern Pension Conference, listed in Who’s Who in Business and Industry, a Trustee of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association, and a member of the Roswell Presbyterian Church.
His experience in education began in the early ‘90’s when he became a member of the Executive Committee of the Georgia Coalition for Excellence in Mathematics Education. Currently, he is Chairman of the Georgia Coalition for Science, Technology and Mathematics Education. In early 2001, Jim became an advisor to the Georgia Department of Education and participated in developing Georgia’s Choice, a statewide initiative to improve student achievement in low performing schools. He is responsible for the Business Advisor component of the Initiative. Georgia’s Choice is being implemented in 161 schools statewide and is the largest initiative of its kind ever attempted in the U.S.
In 2002 Jim Pope joined the Board of the Multiple Sclerosis Center of Atlanta where he served as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and as a member of the executive committee. The Multiple Sclerosis Center of Atlanta was established in 2001 to support the ongoing quest for state-of-the-science care for the MS patients in the Southeast, and to allow people with MS the opportunity to participate in clinical trial research, ultimately leading to improved treatment outcomes for this disease.
Clayton F. JacksonZWJ Investment Counsel
Clay Jackson is a portfolio manager, a member of the Investment Policy Committee and a director with Zeliff Wallace Jackson Investment Counsel.
Mr. Jackson joined Zeliff Wallace Jackson in 1984 after working in the audit and private business advisory departments of Peat Marwick.
A graduate of The Lovett School in Atlanta, he received with distinction a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Virginia. As a Merit Scholar, he earned a master’s degree in business administration from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.
Mr. Jackson is active in several community areas. At All Saints’ Episcopal Church, he has been Junior and Senior Warden and has served on the Vestry. He currently serves as chairman of the Endowment and Planned Gifts Committee at the parish.
Mr. Jackson currently serves on the boards and the executive committees of the Lovett School, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and the Multiple Sclerosis Center of Georgia as well as the Board of the Friends of First Tee at East Lake. He is also an advisory director of the George West Mental Health Foundation. For over a decade, he has served on the regional committee for the Jefferson Scholar program of the University of Virginia. He is a member of the Alexis de Tocqueville Society of the United Way.
Past service in the community includes the Board of Prevent Blindness of Georgia and founding Board member and past chairman of the Georgia Foundation for Athletic Excellence. Mr. Jackson served on the executive cabinet of the 2001 United Way campaign and has chaired the annual fund for the Atlanta Speech School. He has also served as a member of the planned gifts committee of the DeKalb Medical Center Foundation and the Georgia Planned Giving Council. Mr. Jackson is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of the Atlanta Society of Financial Analysts and the CFA institute. He is also a Chartered Investment Counselor. He has served as a member of the Charles Schwab & Company Institutional Advisory Board. He and his wife, Jane, have a daughter, Audrey, and a son, Clayton.
John DeckerDivision Partner
Childress Klein Properties
John Decker is a graduate of Auburn University earning a BA in 1975. He began his post-graduate career as District Manager and Finance Director for U.S. Congressman, Jim Collins from 1976 until 1982. He worked for the Tramell Crowe Company as Marketing Principal from 1983 through 1988 at which time he helped found Childress Klein Properties as the Division Partner for the Atlanta Industrial Division. Mr. Decker is affiliated with the NAIOP Advisory Council (Past President), serves on the Board of Directors for Atlanta Community Ministries, is Co-Chair of the Atlanta Real Estate Prayer Breakfast, Chairman of Solutions Foundation and Board of Directors of The Study Hall. He also is the Manager of the Auburn University School of Business Decker Endowed Scholarship. John Decker joined the Board of Directors of The Multiple Sclerosis Center of Atlanta in 2004.
W. Howard Hudson, M.D.
Orthopaedic Associates of Augusta
Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery
Howard Hudson is a prominent orthopaedic surgeon in Augusta, Georgia, and a founding Board Member of the Multiple Sclerosis Center of Atlanta. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia and received his M.D. at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, where he also completed his Internship and Residency. He has completed a Fellowship in Orthopaedic Arthritic Surgery at St. Joseph Hospital in Denver, Colorado, and a Fellowship in Hand Surgery at the University of Louisville Hospitals in Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. Hudson is board-certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery.
R. Terry SmithPresident/C.E.O.
The MS Center of Atlanta
R. Terry Smith, CEO Multiple Sclerosis Center of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Mr. Smith previously held the position of President and COO of the Marietta Daily Journal, Cherokee Tribune and Neighbor Newspapers, Inc. since 1997. Mr. Smith is a member of the Board of Directors of Southern Polytechnic State University Foundation and the Multiple Sclerosis Center of Atlanta. He is past director and officer of Georgia Press Association and he also is a former chair of the University of the South Parents Council and Founding Director and past President of the Hobe Sound Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Smith serves as a Director on the Board for Signature Bank of Georgia.
Martin H. Steckel, Esq.Managing Partner
Wimberly, Lawson, Steckel,
Schneider and Stine, P.C.
Martin H. Steckel is a senior principal in the firm. He received his A.B. in 1968 and his J.D. in 1972 from The University of Georgia, and attended Duke University and George Washington University. He practices in all areas of labor and employment law, and currently advises national trade associations in the health care, transportation and emergency medical services industries. He has extensive experience in the practice areas of labor management defense; development of proactive corporate HR programs and policies; contract administration; dispute resolution; and wage-hour litigation. Mr. Steckel is a member of the American Bar Association, the Georgia Bar Association, and the Atlanta and Decatur/DeKalb Bar Associations. He serves on the Board of several charities and is a contributing author to several national publications, including the EMS Insider. Mr. Steckel joined the Board of Directors for the Multiple Sclerosis Center of Atlanta in 2007.
Doris B. Shaheen (Mrs. Shouky Shaheen)
Corporate Secretary
Shaheen & Co., Inc.
Mrs. Shaheen is a graduate of Shorter College with an AB in biology and Long Island University for her graduate studies in cell physiology. Her past employment includes Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology as a Research Associate for 5 years. She worked for 2 years as a Cancer Research Associate at Burroughs Wellcome Research Laboratories in Tuckahoe, NY. Mrs. Shaheen currently serves on the Piedmont Hospital Philanthropy Board as the Board Secretary and Chairman of the Nominating Committee. She continues to serve on the 11Alive Community Service Awards Board of Governors. She is a Life Member of the Woman’s Auxiliary of Piedmont Hospital and is past President of the Auxiliary. She has chaired the Piedmont Ball numerous times and served as the Honorary Chairman twice. For ten years Mrs. Shaheen has been involved with Saks Fifth Avenue and the “Key to the Cure” events in their Atlanta store. In the ten years Saks has been doing this, the events have raised over a million dollars for the Doris Shaheen Breast Health Center at Piedmont Hospital. Doris Shaheen joined the Board of Directors of the Multiple Sclerosis Center of Atlanta in 2009.
William (Rocky) A. Roquemore, Jr.
Golf Course Architect
Rocky Roquemore is a Real Estate Developer, Investor and Entrepreneur who is known for designing more than twenty golf courses worldwide. Eight of his golf courses have been the site of PGA tour stops. In 2009 Mr. Roquemore joined the Board of Directors for the Multiple Sclerosis Center of Atlanta.
Jennifer A. BakerPresident
J. Baker & Associates
Jennifer Baker brings to the board of directors nearly 20 years of marketing, news and business-management experience with a Fortune 500 company, as well as years of involvement in a wide range of volunteer and fund-raising efforts on behalf of MS causes. A graduate of Georgia State University, Mrs. Baker is president and owner of J. Baker & Associates, a brand-development and strategy firm based in Cumming, Ga. She specializes in sales and sales management, new-product development and communications. She is married and lives with her husband and four children in Cumming, Ga.
James H. Lokey, Jr. (Jim)Partner,Tax Practice Group Leader
King and Spalding
Jim Lokey is the practice group leader of King & Spalding’s Tax Practice Group, which includes the firm’s income tax and employee benefits and executive compensation practices. Over his more than 30-year career, Mr. Lokey has advised clients on a wide variety of tax, business, and strategic matters.
Mr. Lokey is best known for his work in structuring complex private equity investment funds, real estate capital markets transactions, private equity investments, and corporate joint ventures. He also has significant experience in tax planning for tax-exempt health care and other Section 501(c)(3) organizations, debt restructurings, cross-border finance transactions, corporate acquisitions and reorganizations, and investments by non-U.S. persons (including government sovereign wealth funds) in the United States. In his practice, Mr. Lokey works closely with lawyers in the firm’s corporate, private equity, real estate, health care, and global transactions practice groups. Mr. Lokey is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, the Atlanta Bar Association, the Section of Taxation of the American Bar Association, the American Health Lawyers Association, and the Atlanta Tax Forum. He is a Director of the Multiple Sclerosis Center of Georgia, a member of the Advisory Board of an Atlanta bank and a Trustee Emeritus of The Galloway School. He has spoken at numerous institutes and seminars. Top of Form
From 1983 to 1986, Mr. Lokey served first as Attorney-Advisor and then as Associate Tax Legislative Counsel in the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Legislative Counsel. In those positions he assisted in the development of tax regulations, rulings, and other tax policy matters and participated in the development of the Treasury Department’s recommendations for Federal tax legislation, including the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 and the Tax Reform Act of 1986. He was one of the principal authors of Treasury regulations concerning partnership allocations under Section 704(b) and participated in a number of other income tax regulation projects involving partnerships and other areas of federal income tax.
Mr. Lokey earned his B.S. degree,
magna cum laude (Economic Theory), from David Lipscomb University in 1974. He received his J.D. in 1978 from the Vanderbilt University Law School where he received the Founder’s Medal for First Honors (awarded to the student ranked first in the graduating class), was elected to the Order of the Coif, and served as Student Writing Editor of the
Vanderbilt Law Review. Mr. Lokey is a native of Nashville, Tennessee.
Ad Hoc Members
Thorne S. Winter MD, FACP, FACC
Medical Director of Internal Medicine
The Multiple Sclerosis Center of Atlanta
Jeffrey B. English, MD
Medical Director of Research
The Multiple Sclerosis Center of Atlanta
Douglas S. Stuart, MD
The Multiple Sclerosis Center of Atlanta
President Elect of Piedmont Hospital Medical Staff
David E. Dalrymple, MD, FACP, FACE
Internal Medicine Department
The Multiple Sclerosis Center of Atlanta
Billie R. Bishop
Practice Administrator
The Multiple Sclerosis Center of Atlanta