Staff

Lori Lucas
President & CEO 
(202) 775-6320 
lucas@ebri.org
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Team Listing Alphabetically

John Adams
EBRI Research and
Publications Associate
(202) 775-6329
adams@ebri.org

Zahra Ebrahimi
Research Associate
(202) 775-6309
ebrahimi@ebri.org

David Smith 
Office Manager
(202) 572-7422 
smith@ebri.org

Jack VanDerhei
Director of Research 
(202) 775-6327 
vanderhei@ebri.org
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Betsy Jaffe
Director of Marketing and
Media Relations
(202) 775-6347
jaffe@ebri.org
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Craig Copeland
Senior Research Associate (Retirement) 
(202) 775-6356 
copeland@ebri.org

Paul Fronstin
Director of the Health Research and Education Program 
(202) 775-6352 
fronstin@ebri.org
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Jake Spiegel
Research Associate
(202) 775-6341
spiegel@ebri.org

Ryan Smith
Member Relations Specialist
(202) 775-6306
ryans@ebri.org

Mike Cross
Database Programmer 
(202) 775-6367 
cross@ebri.org

Marcene Pugh
Director of Finance and Administration 
(202) 775-6307 
pugh@ebri.org

Hari Prasad Thikkavarapu
Director of IT and Research Databases
(202) 775-6348
thikkavarapu@ebri.org 
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