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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

John Edward Porter
*Hon. John Edward Porter, Chair
Partner, Hogan & Hartson
U.S. Representative, 1980-2001

Martha N. Hill
*Martha N. Hill, PhD, RN, Vice Chair
Dean, School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University


Mary Woolley
*Mary Woolley, President
CEO, Research!America

Georges C. Benjamin
*Georges C. Benjamin, MD, Secretary
Executive Director, American Public Health Association

Mary J.C. Hendrix
Mary J.C. Hendrix, PhD
, Treasurer
President and Scientific Director
Children's Memorial Research Center, Chicago


Board Members

Tenley E. Albright
Tenley E. Albright, MD
, Director, Collaborative Initiatives
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dennis A. Ausiello
*Dennis A. Ausiello, MD, Physician-in-Chief of the Medical Service
Massachusetts General Hospital

William R. Brinkley
William R. Brinkley, PhD
, Senior Vice President for Graduate Sciences
Dean, Graduate School of Biological Sciences
Baylor College of Medicine

Yank D. Coble
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
Eugene Garfield, PhD
, President and Founding Editor
The Scientist

Jay Gershen
*Jay A. Gershen, DDS, PhD, President
Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy

 

Karen A. Holbrook
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
*Evan Jones, Managing Member, jVen Capital

 

Elizabeth Baker Keffer
Elizabeth Baker Keffer, President, Atlantic LIVE and
Vice President, The Atlantic

Debra R. Lappin
Debra R. Lappin, JD
, Senior Vice President
B&D Consulting, LLC

Alan I. Leshner
*Alan I. Leshner, PhD, CEO
American Association for the Advancement of Science

 

Lucinda Maine
Lucinda Maine, PhD, Executive Vice President & CEO
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy

Mark McClellan
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
*Herbert Pardes, MD, President and CEO
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

John R. Seffrin
John R. Seffrin, PhD,
CEO
American Cancer Society


*Randolph Siegel

President and Publisher, PARADE

Laing Rogers Sisto
Laing Rogers Sisto, Community Leader

Louis Stokes
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
Ruth Wooden,
President
Public Agenda

Judy Woodruff
Judy Woodruff,
Senior Correspondent and Political Editor
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

Tadataka Yamada
Tadataka Yamada, MD, President
Global Health Program
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

 

Elias Zerhouni
Elias A. Zerhouni, MD, Former Director
National Institutes of Health


Honorary Director

C. Everett Koop
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

 

In Memoriam
Michael E. DeBakey, MD

The Honorable Paul G. Rogers

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