Christy Greeley Elected to New Position of CRN Executive Director; Brittney LeBeau Elected to Treasurer

Christy Greeley, who has served on the Cystinosis Research Network Board of Directors as Vice President of Research since 2003, has accepted the additional position of Executive Director. As Executive Director, Christy will act as the chief administrator of CRN and will be primarily responsible for the overall operation of CRN and supervision of its staff and programs.

Christy graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Master of Public Health in Public Health Policy and Administration. She has worked in both laboratory and clinical research at the University of Michigan Medical Center in the departments of Rheumatology, Pathology, and Psychiatry. She also worked for 9 years in pharmaceutical research at Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research as a Clinical Research Associate and Clinical Scientist, managing clinical trials for a variety of central nervous system drugs.

Christy's husband, Dave, is also a CRN Board Member. They have a son, Jack, and a daughter, Alex. Jack, age 6, has cystinosis.

Brittney LeBeau is from Aurora, Illinois and married to her high school sweetheart, Brett. The LeBeaus have two children, Alexis and Evan, ages 5 and 3 respectively. Both have Cystinosis and were diagnosed almost 3 years ago. They are doing well despite 11 medicines between them.

Brittney graduated with an Associates degree in Business at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, IL and a B.A. in Business Management from North Central College in Naperville, IL. She has eight years cumulative work experience in Banking & Finance. Since having her first child five years ago, she has stayed home taking care of her beautiful, yet "medically challenged" children. She has voluteered in a number of settings. Currently, she is working on her church's counting team to process the offerings.