Cardiac Expertise
Our volunteer-driven organization is guided by the cardiac
expertise of our Board of Directors, many of whom are practicing heart specialists.
Collectively, the physicians on our governing board have more than 100 years'
experience caring for heart patients. In addition, Heart to Heart board members
also have extensive experience developing open-heart surgery programs in the U.S.
and in Russia.
Lizbeth Hasse, Esq., Legal Counsel
1990-Present
1990-Present
I went with the very first team on the medical mission in 1990
to help raise Soviet media and other public interest in the program because of my experience
and contacts in the Soviet media at the time. I couldn't resist the project and began doing
legal work and advising for it. I was invited to join the Board during that first year, and
I have been Heart to Heart's legal counsel for nearly twenty years now. I am very pleased
with the maturity, inclusiveness and remarkable sustainability of Heart to Heart's medical
programs.
Lizbeth Hasse is a senior partner of Creative Industry Law Group, LLP,
in San Francisco. She practices in the fields of business law, intellectual property law
(copyright, trademark, licensing and trade secret), media, entertainment and commercial
law and negotiations on an international basis. Much of her legal work is for media and
technology clients in the software, motion picture, publishing, ecommerce, digital media,
and telecommunications industries. Liz serves as a neutral mediator in her areas of expertise
and has recently mediated cases involving Adelphia, Enron, race discrimination issues in Los
Angeles area schools, Intel, and human rights cases involving major corporations.
Liz has served as chief legal counsel for international joint venture
projects based in Russia, Ukraine and Senegal, as well as the US. She served as election
monitor and mediator in the Fergana Valley region of Kyrgystan during 2001 elections. She
also consulted in the mediation of disputes over the distribution of the first private
broadcasting licenses in Moldova and assisted in setting up the criteria for resolution of
similar broadcast licensing disputes for the initial distributions of independent broadcast
licensing in the former USSR.
While Director of the Communications Law Project in the 1990's, she
helped draft copyright, trademark and communications legislation in several Eastern European,
African and Asian countries. Her advisory work has been supported by the John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Foundation, Soros Foundation, Rockefeller Fund and Washington Research Institute.
Liz also consults as a Rule of Law and Democratic Governance Specialist and in 2001- 02 surveyed
countries in Central Asia and the Caucasus to provide an assessment for the US government of
Rule of Law Programs in those regions. She was active in the early 90's on Piracy Commissions
set up by the Ministries of Culture and Communications for USSR /Russia.
She also currently serves on the Boards of Directors of TR ACK II Center
for Citizen Diplomacy and the Presidio World College. She previously served on the Board of
The Russian-American Center (formerly The Soviet-American Center) for seven years. Liz speaks
fluent French, comfortable German, and describes both her Russian and Spanish proficiency as
"functional."