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Nicholas J. DeRoma, Corporate Attorney, and Eddie Cheung, MD, Join the Board of the ALF

Nicholas J. DeRoma, a senior executive with extensive general counsel experience in major global corporations, including IBM and Nortel Networks Corporation, and Eddie C. Cheung, MD, FACG, were nominated to the Board of Directors of the American Liver Foundation, effective October 1, 2006.

October 11, 2006, New York, NY-- Nicholas J. DeRoma, a senior executive with extensive general counsel experience in major global corporations, including IBM and Nortel Networks Corporation, and Eddie C. Cheung, MD, FACG, were nominated to the Board of Directors of the American Liver Foundation, effective October 1, 2006.

Mr. DeRoma enjoyed a distinguished 35 year career as a corporate attorney. He was employed by the IBM Corporation from 1972 to 1997 and held many executive legal positions in the U.S.A., Europe and Asia including the General Counsel of IBM North America. He joined the Nortel Networks Corporation in 1997 and served as the Chief Legal Officer until his retirement in 2005.

Mr. DeRoma received his J.D. Degree from the College of William & Mary in Virginia and currently resides in New Canaan, Connecticut.

Dr. Cheung is a clinical professor of internal medicine and gastroenterology/hepatology at the University of California Davis School of Medicine, and clinical faculty at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has been involved in clinical practice, research and teaching for almost thirty years and is involved on a national and international level in a number of efforts in the fight against hepatitis. In that regard, he is currently chairman of the American Liver Foundation’s National Asian Leadership Advisory Council. He is also president of the Chinese American Physicians Society, where he chairs the hepatitis committee.

Dr. Cheung received his medical degree from Taipei Medical University in Taiwan, received medical trainings in Tri-service General Hospital and Central Clinic in Taipei as well as Catholic Medical Center in New York and served as a Fellow in Digestive Diseases and Nutrition at the University of Louisville. He resides in San Francisco, California with his wife and three children.

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