Board of Directors and Officers

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

The Honorable Michael N. Castle, Chair

U.S. Representative, 1993-2011

The Honorable John Edward Porter, Chair Emeritus

U.S. Representative, 1980-2001

The Honorable Kweisi Mfume, Vice Chair

Director, Health Policy Research Consortium; Chief Health Equity Officer, Capital Technologies Informatics System
U.S. Representative, 1987-1996

Mary Woolley, President

CEO, Research!America

E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, Secretary

Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs, University of Maryland
John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and Dean, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Sudip S. Parikh, PhD, Treasurer

Senior Vice President & Managing Director, DIA Americas

Board Members

Tenley E. Albright, MD

Director, MIT Collaborative Initiatives

Georges C. Benjamin, MD

Executive Director, American Public Health Association

Nancy Brown

Chief Executive Officer, American Heart Association

Susan Dentzer

Visiting Fellow, Robert J. Margolis, MD, Center for Health Policy, Duke University

Victor Dzau, MD

President, National Academy of Medicine

Susan Fitzpatrick, PhD

President, James S. McDonnell Foundation

Jay A. Gershen, DDS, PhD

President, Northeast Ohio Medical University

The Honorable Bart Gordon

Partner, K&L Gates LLP
U.S. Representative, 1985-2011

William N. Hait, MD, PhD

Global Head, Johnson & Johnson Global External Innovation

Larry Hausner, MBA

President, ConStrat

Mary J.C. Hendrix, PhD

President, Shepherd University

Martha N. Hill, PhD, RN

Dean Emerita, The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

The Honorable Rush D. Holt, PhD

U.S. Representative, 1999-2015

Elizabeth Baker Keffer

Managing Director and Chief Network Officer, BDT & Company

Debra R. Lappin, JD

Principal, Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting

Alan I. Leshner, PhD

CEO Emeritus, American Association for the Advancement of Science

James L. Madara, MD

Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President, American Medical Association

Lucinda Maine, PhD, RPh

Executive Vice President & CEO, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy

Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, MPA

Director, Robert J. Margolis, MD, Center for Health Policy, Duke University
Former Administrator, CMS, 2004-2006
Former Commissioner, FDA, 2002-2004

Herbert Pardes, MD

Executive Vice Chairman, Board of Trustees, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

Harold L. Paz, MD, MS

Executive Vice President and Chancellor for Health Affairs, The Ohio State University

Guillermo Prado, PhD

Dean, Graduate School; Leonard M. Miller Professor of Public Health Sciences; Director, Division of Prevention Science and Community Health, Miller School of Medicine; University of Miami

Derek Rapp

Gary M. Reedy

Chief Executive Officer, American Cancer Society

Amy Comstock Rick, JD

President and CEO, Food and Drug Law Institute

Laing Rogers

Community Leader

Larry J. Shapiro, MD

Chief Executive Officer, University Health Partners of Hawai’i

Gregory Sorensen, MD

Executive Chairman, IMRIS

Keith Yamamoto, PhD

Professor; Vice Chancellor for Science Policy and Strategy; Director, UCSF Precision Medicine; University of California, San Francisco

Elias A. Zerhouni, MD

Former Director, National Institues of Health, 2002-2008

Emeritus Directors

Hortensia Amaro, PhD
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
Sam Donaldson
Robert K. Dresing
Joseph M. Feczko, MD
Myron Genel, MD
Irma E. Goertzen
M.R.C. Greenwood, PhD
Elmer E. Huerta, MD, MPH
Robert A. Ingram
Harry Johns
Jackie Lovelace Johnson
Evan Jones
The Honorable Patrick J. Kennedy
Caroline A. Kovac, PhD
Philip R. Lee, MD
Ellen Levine
John P. Margaritis
Jewell Jackson McCabe
Catherine E. McDermott
Donnica L. Moore, MD
James E. Mulvihill, DMD
Elizabeth G. Nabel, MD
William D. Novelli
William A. Peck, MD
Edward E. Penhoet, PhD
William L. Roper, MD, MPH
Leon E. Rosenberg, MD
Charles A. Sanders, MD
Mitchel Sayare, PhD
Carol R. Scheman
M. Roy Schwarz, MD
Susan C. Scrimshaw, PhD
John R. Seffrin, PhD
Randolph Siegel
Samuel C. Silverstein, MD
The Honorable Louis W. Sullivan, MD
The Honorable Billy Tauzin
Reed V. Tuckson, MD
Christopher A. Viehbacher
M. Cass Wheeler
John Whitehead
Ruth A. Wooden
Judy Woodruff

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Michael Coburn

Executive Vice President and

Chief Operating Officer

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Paul Marinec, PhD; University of California San Francisco