Board Of Directors & Officers

Sudip S. Parikh, PhD*
Chair

Chief Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Executive Publisher, Science Family of Journals

Georges C. Benjamin, MD*
Vice Chair

Executive Director, American Public Health Association

Mary Woolley*
President

CEO, Research!America

Harold L. Paz, MD, MS*
Secretary

Professor of Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine,
Former Executive Vice President for Health Sciences and CEO, Stony Brook University Medicine, Stony Brook University

Nancy Brown*
Treasurer

Chief Executive Officer, American Heart Association

Deborah Deas, MD, MPH

Dean of the School of Medicine and Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences,  University of California, Riverside

Hon. Charlie Dent

Executive Director & Vice President, The Aspen Institute
Senior Policy Advisor, DLA Piper LLP
U.S. Representative, 2005-2018

Mikael Dolsten, MD, PhD *

Chief Scientific Officer and President of Worldwide Research, Development and Medical, Pfizer Inc

Victor J. Dzau, MD *

President, National Academy of Medicine

Kafui Dzirasa, MD, PhD

A. Eugene and Marie Washington Presidential Distinguished Professor, Duke University Medical Center

Ayman El-Mohandes, MBBCh, MD, MPH, FAAP

Dean, City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

Arthur C. Evans Jr., PhD

Chief Executive Officer, American Psychological Association

Darío Gil, PhD

Senior Vice President, and Director of Research, IBM

Hon. Bart Gordon

Partner, K&L Gates LLP
U.S. Representative, 1985-2011

Mary J.C. Hendrix, PhD

President, Shepherd University

Hon. Rush D. Holt, PhD

U.S. Representative, 1999-2015

Karen Knudsen, MBA, PhD

Chief Executive Officer, American Cancer Society and American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN)

Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, MPA

Director, Robert J. Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University
Former Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2004-2006; Former Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, 2002-2004

Michelle McMurry-Heath, MD, PhD

Jessica L. Mega, MD, MPH

Cardiologist, Stanford Health Care, Stanford University
Co-Founder, Verily, an Alphabet Company

Herbert Pardes, MD

Executive Vice Chairman, Board of Trustees, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

Mary Pittman, DrPH

President and Chief Executive Officer Emerita, Public Health Institute

Guillermo J. Prado, PhD

Interim Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Miami

Derek K. Rapp

Managing Director, RiverVest Venture Partners

E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA *

Dean Emeritus and Former University Executive Vice President;
Endowed Professor and Director, Center for Advanced Research Training and Innovation (CARTI);
Senior Scientist, Center for Birth Defects Research,
University of Maryland School of Medicine 

David Reese, MD

Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Amgen

Amy Comstock Rick, JD *

Principal, Leavitt Partners, LLC

Lewis G. Sandy, MD, FACP

Principal and Co-Founder, Sulu Coaching

Hon. Donna E. Shalala, PhD

Interim President, The New School
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1993-2001
U.S. Representative, 2019-2021

Deborah Trautman, PhD, RN, FAAN

President & Chief Executive Officer, American Association of Colleges of Nursing

M. Roy Wilson, MD

President Emeritus, Wayne State University; Chancellor Emeritus, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center; Distinguished Professor, Wayne State University School of Medicine

Keith Yamamoto, PhD

Professor Emeritus; Vice Chancellor for Science Policy and Strategy; Director, UCSF Precision Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Cynthia Zagieboylo *

President and Chief Executive Officer, National MS Society

Elias A. Zerhouni, MD

Professor Emeritus Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Former Director, National Institutes of Health, 2002-2008