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, Chairman, Department of Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Susan Dentzer, Editor-in-Chief
Health Affairs
Victor J. Dzau, MD, Chancellor for Health Affairs, Duke University,
President and CEO, Duke University Health System
Joe Feczko, MD
New York City
*Jay A. Gershen, DDS, PhD, President
Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy
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
Larry J. Shapiro, MD, Executive Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs
Washington University in St. Louis
*Randolph Siegel, President, Local Digital Strategy
Advance Publications
Ellen Sigal, PhD, Chairperson and Founder
Friends of Cancer Research 
Laing Rogers Sisto, Community Leader
Hon. Billy Tauzin President and CEO,
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America 
Christopher A. Viehbacher, CEO
sanofi-aventis
John T. Watters, MD, Vice President for External Medical Affairs
Pfizer Inc 
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
William R. Brinkley, 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
Eugene Garfield, PhD
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 Stokes
Hon. Louis W. Sullivan, MD
Reed V. Tuckson, MD
Alan G. Walton, DSc, PhD
M. Cass Wheeler
John Whitehead
Phillip L. Williams
Ruth Wooden
James B. Wyngaarden, MD