Bruce Cowan

Vice President, Executive Committee Member

Bruce joined our board in the fall of 2021. He has been passionately involved with the scleroderma community for over 25 years. His wife was diagnosed with scleroderma in 1993 and tragically lost her battle to this difficult disease in 2000. He was a volunteer, a board member and for the past 5 years the Executive Director of the Tri-State Chapter of the Scleroderma Foundation, retiring in July 2021. He has worked with many of the fine people connected to the Steffens Foundation since its inception over a decade ago. Attending, assisting, and collaborating on a number of Steffen's activities and initiatives. It is his desire to bring his understanding of scleroderma as a caregiver, his business management experience, and board knowledge to the foundation, with the mutual goal to grow our outreach and expand our mission going forward in this next decade.