A distinguished panel of respected leaders in academia, voluntary health, professional societies, industry, patient advocacy and news media comprises our board of directors.
Our chair is a former Member of Congress with a track record as a true champion of health and medical research.
Officers
*=Executive Committee Member
*Hon. John Edward Porter, Chair
Partner, Hogan & Hartson
U.S. Representative, 1980-2001
*Martha N. Hill, PhD, RN, Vice Chair
Dean, School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University
*Mary Woolley, President
CEO, Research!America
*Georges C. Benjamin, MD, Secretary
Executive Director, American Public Health Association
Mary J.C. Hendrix, PhD, Treasurer
President and Scientific Director
Children's Memorial Research Center, Chicago
Board Members
Tenley E. Albright, MD, Director, Collaborative Initiatives
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
*Dennis A. Ausiello, MD, Physician-in-Chief of the Medical Service
Massachusetts General Hospital
William R. Brinkley, PhD, Senior Vice President for Graduate Sciences
Dean, Graduate School of Biological Sciences
Baylor College of Medicine
Yank D. Coble, Jr., MD, Distinguished Professor and Director
Center for Global Health and Medical Diplomacy
University of North Florida
Joseph M. Feczko, MD
New York City
Eugene Garfield, PhD, President and Founding Editor
The Scientist
*Jay A. Gershen, DDS, PhD, President
Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy
Karen A. Holbrook, PhD,
Vice President for Research and Innovation
University of South Florida
Harry Johns, President and Chief Executive Officer
Alzheimer's Association
Jackie Lovelace Johnson, Chair of the Board,
Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute 
*Evan Jones, Managing Member, jVen Capital
Elizabeth Baker Keffer, President, Atlantic LIVE and
Vice President, The Atlantic 
Debra R. Lappin, JD, Senior Vice President
B&D Consulting, LLC
*Alan I. Leshner, PhD, CEO
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Lucinda Maine, PhD, Executive Vice President & CEO
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, Director
Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform
Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
Leonard D. Schaeffer Director's Chair in Health Policy Studies
Brookings 
*Herbert Pardes, MD, President and CEO
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
John R. Seffrin, PhD, CEO
American Cancer Society
*Randolph Siegel
President and Publisher, PARADE 
Laing Rogers Sisto, Community Leader
Hon. Louis Stokes, Senior Counsel
Squire, Sanders, and Dempsey L.L.P.
U.S. Representative, 1968-1998
Hon. Billy Tauzin President and CEO,
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America 
Christopher A. Viehbacher, CEO
sanofi-aventis
Ruth Wooden, President
Public Agenda
Judy Woodruff, Senior Correspondent and Political Editor
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Tadataka Yamada, MD, President
Global Health Program
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Elias A. Zerhouni, MD, Former Director
National Institutes of Health
Honorary Director
C. Everett Koop, MD, ScD, Former Surgeon General
United States Public Health Service
Emeritus Directors
William G. Anlyan, MD
Kenneth I. Berns, MD, PhD
Roger J. Bulger, MD
G. Steven Burrill
Gail H. Cassell, PhD
Wendy Chaite, Esq.
Jordan J. Cohen, MD
Dominick P. DePaola, DDS, PhD
Sam Donaldson
John P. Donnelly
Robert Dresing
Myron Genel, MD
Irma E. Goertzen
M.R.C. Greenwood, PhD
Elmer E. Huerta, MD, MPH
Robert A. Ingram
Caroline A. Kovac, PhD
Philip R. Lee, MD
Ellen Levine
Constance E. Lieber
John P. Margaritis
Jewell Jackson McCabe
Catherine E. McDermott
Donnica L. Moore, MD
James E. Mulvihill, DMD
William D. Novelli
William A. Peck, MD
Edward E. Penhoet, PhD
William L. Roper, MD, MPH
Leon E. Rosenberg, MD
Isadore Rosenfeld, MD
Raymond R. Sackler, MD
Charles A. Sanders, MD
Mitchel Sayare, PhD
Carol R. Scheman
M. Roy Schwarz, MD
Susan C. Scrimshaw, PhD
Samuel C. Silverstein, MD
Hon. Louis W. Sullivan, MD
Reed V. Tuckson, MD
Alan G. Walton, DSc, PhD
M. Cass Wheeler
John Whitehead
Phillip L. Williams
James B. Wyngaarden, MD