Lexercise is built upon the expertise and best practices of seasoned professionals in a variety of industries. Our esteemed Advisory Board provides a tremendous amount of education and real world experience as a foundation upon which we are able to innovate. Among our impressive list of advisers are:
Clinical Advisers
Jane Holmes Burnstein, PhD
- Specialty: international research in learning disabilities
- Neuropsychologist with a PhD in Linguistics
- Assoc. Prof. of Psych., Dept. of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School & past director of Neuropsychology, Children’s Hospital Boston
Adrienne Classen, MD
- Specialty: pediatric chronic illnesses, medical fragility & developmental disability
- Pediatrician in private practice, Elkin, NC
- Former pediatrician with Kaiser Permanente
Mary V. Compton, Ed. D.
- Specialty: deaf education (over 35 years of experience)
- Associate Prof. in Dept. of Specialized Education Services at UNCG
- Research: early intervention, itinerant teaching & cochlear implants
Rebecca Felton, Ph.D.
- Specialty: diagnosis and remediation of reading disabilities
- Former Wake Forest University School of Medicine NICHD investigator
- 1994 National Dyslexia Research Foundation Award & 2005 NC IDA June Lyday Orton Award
Celia Hooper, Ph.D.
- Specialty: neurogenic communication disorders
- Professor & Dean, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
- Former VP at American Speech-Language and Hearing Association
Susan Lowell, M.A., B.C.E.T.
- Specialty: diagnosis and remediation of reading disabilities
- Director of Educational Therapy Associates-private clinical practice
- International Dyslexia Association Board Member and advisor to the Board of Directors of the US Office of Overseas Schools
Joshua R. Steinerman, MD
- Specialty: neurology & neuropsychiatry, clinical practice & research
- Assistant Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Founding Scientist at ProGevity Neuroscience
William O. Young, MD
- Specialty: pediatric ophthalmology & teaching parents, primary care physicians and school nurses about the neurolinguistic basis of dyslexia
- Adjunct Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill & Wake Forest/ Bowman Gray Schools of Medicine
- Pediatric Ophthalmologist in private practice, Greensboro, NC
Business Advisers
Seth Blackley, Harvard MBA
- Specialty: healthcare services technology
- Managing Director at The Advisory Board Company (NASDAQ: ABCO)
- Former McKinsey & Company analyst and consultant
Joseph Pigato, Wharton MBA
- Specialty: e-learning technologies
- Sold his e-learning company in 2002
- Key manager at Score! during acquisition by Kaplan