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 Lovells US LLP
U.S. Representative, 1980-2001
*Martha N. Hill, PhD, RN, Vice Chair
Dean of the School of Nursing, and
Professor of Nursing, Medicine & Public Health, 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 and Founder, MIT Collaborative Initiatives
Visiting Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lecturer in the Program of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Nancy Brown
Chief Executive Officer, American Heart Association
*Hon. Michael N. Castle
Partner, DLA Piper
U.S. Representative, 1993-2011
Susan Dentzer, Editor-in-Chief
Health Affairs
*Victor J. Dzau, MD Chancellor for Health Affairs, Duke University
President and CEO, Duke University Health System
Joseph M. Feczko, MD
*Jay A. Gershen, DDS, PhD,
President, Northeast Ohio Medical University
Carol W. Greider, PhD
Professor, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
*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
Vice President, The Atlantic 
Debra R. Lappin, JD
Counsel, FaegreBD Consulting 
*Alan I. Leshner, PhD
Chief Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Lucinda Maine, PhD, RPh
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 
Hon. Kweisi Mfume
U.S. Representative, 1987-1996
Elizabeth G. Nabel, MD
President, Brigham and Women's Hospital
*Herbert Pardes, MD
Executive Vice Chairman, Board of Trustees, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Sudip S. Parikh, PhD
Vice President of AgriFood and Vice President of Health Policy, Battelle
John R. Seffrin, PhD
Chief Executive Officer, American Cancer Society
*Larry J. Shapiro, MD
Executive Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs, Washington University in St. Louis
Ellen V. Sigal, PhD
Chairperson and Founder, Friends of Cancer Research 
Laing Rogers Sisto
Community Leader
*Jack T. Watters, MD
Vice President for External Medical Affairs, Pfizer Inc
Elias A. Zerhouni, MD
President, Global Research & Development, sanofi
Honorary Director
C. Everett Koop, MD, ScD
Former Surgeon General
United States Public Health Service
Emeritus Directors
William G. Anlyan, MD
Dennis A. Ausiello, 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
Randolph Siegel
Samuel C. Silverstein, MD
Hon. Louis Stokes
Hon. Louis W. Sullivan, MD
Hon. Billy Tauzin
Reed V. Tuckson, MD
Christopher A. Viehbacher
Alan G. Walton, DSc, PhD
M. Cass Wheeler
John Whitehead
Phillip L. Williams
Ruth Wooden
Judy Woodruff
James B. Wyngaarden, MD