1. 2013-2014
Board of Directors
San Francisco/
San Mateo County
Chairman of the Board
Patricia Sprincin
President
Yerem Yeghiazarians, MD,
FACC, FAHA, FSCAI
Barbara Adachi
Sean Alpert
Michael Covarrubias
Laura Doan
Keith Donnermeyer
Kenneth A. Fox, MD
Richard A. Francoz, MD
Gordon L. Fung, MD, MPH, PhD,
FACC, FAHA
Chuck Harvey
Thomas G. Hennessy
Robert H. Lustig, MD
John Maa, MD
Bill Pearce
Collin P. Quock, MD
Melvin Scheinman, MD
Laureen Seeger
Deepak Srivastava, MD
Chris Tsakalakis
Sebastian Wong
East Bay
Chairman of the Board
Chuck Prosper
President
Jeffrey Klingman, MD
Kim Burch
Dennis Byas, PhD
Ginger Campbell, RN, PhD
Matthew DeVane, DO, FACC
Luis E. Fonseca, MHA
Barney Fonzi
Dennis Garrison
Faizul Haque, MD
Junaid Khan, MD
Eric Kolstad, PE
Ronald Krauss, MD
Michael Lee, MD
Janice Murphy
Kate Newkumet, MD
Dan Rosenthal
Dan Smoot
Mike Thomas
Executive Director
Jill DiGiacomo
Greater Bay Area Division
426 17th St, Ste. 300, Oakland, CA 94612
Phone (510) 903-4050 Fax (510) 903-4049
www.heart.org
August 15, 2013
Feifan Xu
c/o Collabriv
901 Mission St., Suite 205
San Francisco, CA 94103
Dear Feifan,
I am writing to say thank you for all of your hard work and assistance as a Collabriv intern
at the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association over the last six months.
I want to especially mention four projects to which you contributed:
 Under the direction of Western States Affiliate Health Equity Vice President Sang-
Mi Oh, you worked with the Young Professional Society volunteer committee in
developing a business plan to engage young professionals with the work of the
American Heart Association.
 Also under Sang-Mi’s direction, you helped write scripts for a web series on
cardiovascular health topics. We hope to produce this series in the future when
funds become available.
 Working under the Greater Bay Area Social Market team, you performed market
research and created an engagement action plan for the inaugural San Francisco
PULSE Ball, a fundraising event for San Francisco’s leading group of young
professionals.
 You conducted and presented market research in preparation for the inaugural Bay
Area Go Red Expo, a day-long health conference targeted at underserved women
that will take place in 2014. This project was also done for the Bay Area Social
Market team.
Your efforts on these and other, smaller projects over the last six months contributed to the
mission of the American Heart Association: Building healthier lives, free of cardiovascular
diseases and stroke.
We are deeply appreciative of your hard work and commitment.
Sang-Mi, Kimberly, Caitlin, Anders and Antoinette join me in wishing you the best of luck
in all of your future endeavors.
Sincerely,
Julie Kaufmann
Senior Director, Community Health