Please welcome our new Business Advisory Council (BAC) members: Mark Treglio, president of NEP Services, Catalina Ciabonu, VP of marketing for PBI Performance Products, David Abri, founder and owner of Abri Dental, and Robin Welch, Financial Consultant for Thrivent.
We also welcome our new Health and Wellness Advisory Council (HWAC) members: Kenny Fent, PhD, CIH, Director, NIOSH National Firefighter Registry and Dr. Christine Kannler, MD Internal Medicine and Dermatology.
Our BAC and HWAC consists of thoughtful national community leaders who advise the FCSN Board of Directors and staff and serves as a critical-community champion of our mission – to assist firefighters and EMS providers and their immediate families diagnosed with cancer by providing badge-to-badge support, training, education, and guidance.
We are grateful to our new members and welcome this exciting time for them to contribute to our national growth and international expansion.
Mark Tregio, NEP Services President
Mark Treglio is the President at NEP Services, where he manages the day-to-day operations of this rapidly growing tech and communications company that serves over 600 police and fire organizations nationwide.
Prior to joining NEP, Mark oversaw communications at the International Association of Fire Fighters. He was responsible for many of the union’s innovations and advancements in communications, including the Strategic Campaigns program and the IAFF Communications Training Academy.
Mark retired from the Jacksonville (FL) Fire & Rescue Department. He was the Communications Director for his home local, IAFF Local 122. During the great recession, he developed a communications strategy that successfully fended off an all out assault on the Jacksonville Police and Fire Pension Fund by national think tanks the Arnold Foundation, Americans For Prosperity, the Tea Party, the Pew Foundation and more.
Mark hails from a law enforcement family, with his father being a retired NYPD Detective and his brother working in Homeland Security. He has a degree in criminal justice and is working towards a degree in Emergency and Disaster management.
Dr. David Abri, Los Angeles-based Dentist
Dr. David Abri is a highly-regarded dentist based in Los Angeles, where he has been a resident
since 1989. He pursued his dental education at USC School of Dentistry and graduated in 2002. Currently, he operates his thriving dental practice from offices located in both Beverly Hills and Burbank, California. With nearly two decades of experience, Dr. Abri has garnered a reputation as one of the foremost cosmetic, general, and implant dentists in Southern California. His expertise also extends to treating complex cases involving TMJ, oral facial pain, traumatic oral and dental injuries, and full mouth oral rehabilitation. Dr. Abri’s dedication to making a difference goes beyond dentistry. He actively engages in various charitable endeavors and organizations, reflecting his profound passion for helping others. Driven by a strong sense of commitment, he particularly focuses on supporting individuals and communities in need, channeling his efforts to bring positive change and uplift those facing challenges.
Catalina Ciobanu, PBI Vice President of Marketing – PPE Division
Catalina has been in the fire service industry for almost 20 years. She joined PBI in 2015 to oversee the company’s global marketing, branding and communications strategy and manage conferences, trade shows, seminars, and special VIP events. She also leads business development activities and sales initiatives for Canada.
Health and Wellness Advisory Council:
Our Health and Wellness Advisory Council consists of researchers and practitioners who serve as critical subject matter experts to help FCSN achieve our vision to be the global leader in firefighter support, awareness, and education. We’re proud to welcome two leading doctors to our council:
Dr. Kenny Fent, Head of NIOSH National Firefighter Registry for Cancer
Dr. Kenny Fent is a research industrial hygienist and currently the head of the National Firefighter Registry (NFR) for Cancer at NIOSH. The NFR for Cancer is open for all firefighters in the U.S. to enroll and aims to be the largest registry of firefighters ever assembled to monitor their occupational cancer risk. He has spent 15 years studying firefighters’ exposures and health effects and published over 80 scientific articles and reports. His research findings have provided evidence to support a variety of control measures to reduce carcinogenic exposures in the fire service. He is also a Commander in the U.S. Public Health Service and has responded to public health emergencies in the United States and abroad.
Dr. Christine Kannler, Dermatologist
Christine is a dermatologist and Mohs micrographic surgeon in North Andover, Mass., and Manchester, New Hampshire, where she has been practicing for over 15 years. She received a dual MD/ MPH degree and completed an internal medicine residency prior to her dermatology training. Her interest in occupational cancer started when her 36-year-old firefighter brother was diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer. Since 2018, she has been donating her valuable expertise and time to promote free potentially life saving skin cancer screenings to firefighters across the state of Massachusetts as part of the American Academy of Dermatology’s Skin Cancer Screening Program. To date she has conducted over 4,000 skin exams. In 2023, she started to screen firefighters nationally to promote cancer education and screening across the United States.
Christine was awarded the Friends of the Boston Fire Department award in 2018, the 2020 AAD Presidential Citation Award, the 2022 Massachusetts Stephen D. Coan Fire Marshal Award and the 2023 Boston University Distinguished Alumni Award for her volunteerism and advocacy. She is also an active member of the American College of Mohs Micrographic Surgery and Cutaneous Oncology (ACMS), the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery (ASDS), and has served as the President of the New Hampshire Society of Dermatology.
