Program Chairs

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    Jamie Banks

    QUIET LANDCARE CHAIR

    Jamie Banks, PhD, MSc, is Founder and President of Quiet Communities. She is a health care and environmental scientist with an extensive background in health outcomes and economics, environmental behavior, and policy who brings a multi-faceted perspective to her work.

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    Arline Bronzaft

    QUIET AMERICAN SKIES HONORARY CHAIR

    Arline Bronzaft, PhD, is Professor Emerita of the City University of New York, and a researcher, public advocate, and consultant on the effects of noise worldwide for five decades. In her hometown of New York City she has been continuously appointed by five NYC mayors to the Board of GrowNYC where she oversees its noise activities, and assisted in the 2007 revision of New York City’s noise code.

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    Neil D. Donnenfeld

    QUIET RESTAURANTS CHAIR

    Neil D. Donnenfeld, MBA, is a board member and chair of the Quiet Restaurants initiative. He is single-sided deaf and suffers from tinnitus and hyperacusis as the result of an acoustic neuroma (benign brain tumor).

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    Daniel Fink

    QUIET COALITION CHAIR

    Daniel Fink, MD, MBA is a board-certified internist and medical management expert. A graduate of Yale University and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Dr. Fink completed his internal medicine training at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, and then recieved an MBA from the Wharton School. He has been on the faculty of three medical schools, and also worked in medical management for 40 years in medical groups, HMOs, and hospitals. More recently, Dr. Fink was Medical Director, Case Management, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, where he is currently on the Emeritus Medical Staff.

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    David Sykes

    QUIET HEALTHCARE CHAIR and QUIET AMERICAN SKIES VICE CHAIR

    David M. Sykes, MA, is lead author of “Sound & Vibration” (Springer-Verlag), co-author of “Sound Matters” (U.S. General Services Administration), and a contributor to the National Academy of Engineering report, “Technology for a Quieter America.”

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    Mary Tatigian

    QUIET STREETS CHAIR and QUIET AMERICAN SKIES CO-CHAIR

    Mary Tatigian is chair of the Quiet Streets initiative. She is the founder of Quiet Florida, a nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing harmful noise that is not a direct affiliate of QC. Quiet Florida was established in 2021 and has close to 1,000 members.