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 and chair emeritus are former Members of Congress with track records as true champions of health and medical research.
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Officers
*=Executive Committee Member
*Hon. John Edward Porter, Chair
Partner, Hogan & Hartson
U.S. Representative, 1980-2001
*Hon. Paul G. Rogers, Chair Emeritus
Partner, Hogan & Hartson
U.S. Representative, 1955-1979
*William A. Peck, MD, Vice Chair
Director, Center for Health Policy
Washington University School of Medicine
*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
Chief
Medical Officer,
Pfizer Inc 
Eugene Garfield, PhD, President and Founding Editor
The Scientist
*Jay A. Gershen, DDS, PhD, Vice Chancellor for External Affairs
University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
*Martha N. Hill, RN, PhD,
Dean, School of Nursing
Johns Hopkins University
Karen A. Holbrook, PhD,
Vice President for Research and Innovation
University of South Florida
Elmer E. Huerta, MD, MPH, Director, Cancer Preventorium
Washington Cancer Institute at Washington Hospital Center
Jackie Lovelace Johnson
Chair
of the Board,
Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute
Harry Johns, President and Chief Executive Officer
Alzheimer's Association
*Evan Jones, Principal
jVen Capital
Darrell G. Kirch, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer
Association of American Medical Colleges
Debra R. Lappin, JD, Senior Vice President
B&D Consulting, LLC
*Alan I. Leshner, PhD, CEO
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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
New York-Presbyterian Hospital
John R. Seffrin, PhD, CEO
American Cancer Society
Randolph Siegel
President
and Publisher, PARADE
Laing Rogers Sisto, Community Leader
Harrison C. Spencer, MD, MPH, President and CEO
Association of Schools of Public Health
Hon. Louis Stokes, Senior Counsel
Squire, Sanders, and Dempsey L.L.P.
U.S. Representative, 1968-1998
President and CEO, Pharmaceutical
Research and Manufacturers of America 
Christopher A. Viehbacher, President, U.S. Pharmaceuticals
GlaxoSmithKline
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
Honorary Directors
Michael E. DeBakey, MD, Chancellor Emeritus
Baylor College of Medicine
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
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
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
Daniel C. Tosteson, MD
Reed V. Tuckson, MD
Alan G. Walton, DSc, PhD
*M. Cass Wheeler
John Whitehead
Phillip L. Williams
James B. Wyngaarden, MD