- Mark Geier
Dr. Mark R. Geier has an MD., with a PhD in genetics. Dr. Geier is president of the Genetic Centers of America, president of the Institute of Chronic Illnesses and has been in clinical practice for more than 25 years. He was a researcher at the National Institutes of Health for 10 years. Dr. Geier was also a professor at the Johns Hopkins University and at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
- Marcia Angell
Marcia Angell , M. D., is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She stepped down as Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine on June 30, 2000. A graduate of Boston University School of Medicine, she trained in both internal medicine and anatomic pathology and is a board-certified pathologist.
- Arthur Kellermann
Dr. Arthur L. Kellermann, M.D., M.P.H. (born 1955) is a professor and chairman of the department of emergency medicine at Emory University. He is also currently director of the Center for Injury Control of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University School of Medicine, as well as co-chair of the Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
- Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel is a noted NIH bioethicist, and a leading opponent of state-assisted suicide. Currently Emanuel is Director of the Clinical Bioethics Department at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. He graduated from Amherst College and received his MSc from Oxford University in Biochemisty. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School and a PhD in Political Philosophy from Harvard University. He also is a brother of Hollywood-based superagent Ari Emanuel, …
- Judith Rodin
Judith Rodin (born 1944) Ph.D., is the first female president of an Ivy League university. She served as the seventh president of the University of Pennsylvania from 1994-2004 and in 2005 was named president of the Rockefeller Foundation. A Penn alumna, she received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1970. Rodin is credited with expanding and improving the University and significantly changing the character of much of the area surrounding campus.
- Alain Enthoven
Alain C. Enthoven, born September_10, 1930, was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1965. From 1965 to 1969 he was Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis. He is Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, Emeritus, at Stanford Institute for International Studies. Enthoven received his B.A. from Stanford University in 1952, an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 1954, and a Ph.D. from MIT in 1956.
- Leroy Hood
Dr. Hood is recognized as one of the world's leading scientists in molecular biotechnology and genomics. A passionate and dedicated researcher, he holds numerous patents and awards for his work and prides himself on his life-long commitment to making science accessible to the general public. One of his foremost goals is to bring hands-on, inquiry-based science to K-12 classrooms.
- David Eisenberg
David S. Eisenberg (born 15 March 1939) is an American biochemist noted for his seminal contributions to structural and computational molecular biology. A professor at the University of California, Los Angeles since the early 1970s and director of the UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics & Proteomics since the early 1990s, Eisenberg's current experimental work focuses on the structural biology of amyloidogenic proteins, …
- David Botstein
David Botstein (born 1942 in Switzerland) is an American biologist who has been the director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University since 2003. He graduated from Harvard in 1963 and received a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1967. He then taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he became a Professor of Genetics. In 1990, he became Chairman of the Department of Genetics at Stanford University.
- Stanley J. Korsmeyer
Dr. Stanley J. Korsmeyer (1951 - March 31, 2005) was an American oncologist. Through his studies of apoptosis, Korsmeyer helped develop the concepts of the role of programmed cell death in carcinogenesis. In 1989 Korsmeyer was among the first to confirm that a particular form of lymphoma arose in certain B cells because they had a genetic flaw that caused them to overexpress a gene, Bcl-2, that was involved in the body's normal process for getting rid of them.
- Stanley Falkow
Stanley Falkow, PhD, is microbiologist and a professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is sometimes referred to as the father of molecular microbial pathogenesis, which is the study of how infectious microbes and host cells interact to cause disease at the molecular level. He formulated molecular Koch's postulates, which have guided the study of the microbial determinants of infectious diseases since the late 1980s.
- Herbert Needleman
Herbert Needleman, MD, known for research studies on the neurodevelopmental damages caused by lead poisoning, is a pediatrician, child psychiatrist, researcher and professor at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, an elected member of the Institute of Medicine, and the founder of the Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning (now known as the Alliance for Healthy Homes). Dr.
- Antonio Gotto
Dr. Gotto has served as National President of the American Heart Association, as a member of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Advisory Council, and on the National Diabetes Advisory Board. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was the recipient of the 2000 Distinguished Alumnus award from Vanderbilt University and the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
- H. Keith H. Brodie
H. Keith H. Brodie (b. August 24, 1939, New Canaan, Connecticut) is an American psychiatrist, educator, and president emeritus of Duke University. Brodie studied chemistry at Princeton University and medicine at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed an internship in internal medicine at the Ochner Foundation Hospital in New Orleans and a residency in psychiatry at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.
- Alexander Rich
Alexander Rich, MD (American; born "c." 1925) is a biologist and biophysicist. He is the William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics at MIT (since 1958) and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rich earned both an A.B. ("magna cum laude") and an M.D. ("cum laude") from Harvard University. He was a post-doc of Linus Pauling along with James Watson. He has over 600 publications to his name. Rich is the founder of Alkermes Inc.
- Edward M. Hundert
Edward M. Hundert, M.D. is a nationally known scholar, educator, psychiatrist, and medical ethicist who was president of Case Western Reserve University, a renowned research university in Cleveland, Ohio. Hundert announced on the evening of March 15, 2006, that he would resign as president of the University effective June 1st, 2006, when he was replaced by Gregory Eastwood.
- Byllye Avery
Byllye Yvonne Avery (b. 1937) is a health care activist in the United States of America. She has worked to improve the welfare of African-American women by creating the National Black Women's Health Project in 1981. She has received the MacArthur Foundation's Fellowship for Social Contribution and the Gustav O. Lienhard Award for the Advancement of Health Care from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science, among other awards.
- Thomas L. Schwenk
Thomas L. Schwenk, M.D., is professor of Family Medicine and chair of the department of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. In 2002 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He also serves as a member of the national advisory committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program.
- Roy Anderson
Professor Sir Roy Malcolm Anderson FRS is a leading British expert on epidemiology. He has mathematically modelled the spread of diseases such as new variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease and AIDS. Roy Anderson was born in 1947. He gained a BSc in zoology at Imperial College and a PhD in parasitology in 1971. The majority of Roy Anderson's early career was at Imperial College, becoming a full professor by 1984.
- Bertil Hille
Dr. Bertil Hille is an American biologist. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington since 1968. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut on October 10, 1940. He received his B.S. "summa cum laude" in Zoology from Yale University (1962) and his Ph.D. in Life Sciences from The Rockefeller University (1967). Dr. Hille is particularly well known for his research and expertise on cell signaling by ion channels.
- Denise Faustman
Denise Faustman, is a U.S. physician and medical researcher. An associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard University, her work specializes in Diabetes mellitus type 1 (formerly called juvenile diabetes). She has worked at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston since 1985.
- William Hsiao
William C. Hsiao (b. January 17, 1936), an American economist, is the K.T. Li Professor of Economics at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts. He is internationally recognized for his work on health care financing and social insurance. Professor Hsiao is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and received his Ph.D from Harvard University in Economics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, the Society of Actuaries, …
- Ellen Vitetta
Ellen Vitetta is the director of the Cancer Immunobiology Center at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Vitetta is an immunologist who does translational (“bench to bedside”) research. She and her colleagues first described IgD on the surface of murine B cells and she was the co-discoverer of Interleukin-4. Her group demonstrated that IL-4 was a “switch” factor for Ig on B cells.
- Carla J. Shatz
Carla J. Shatz, Ph.D., is an American neurobiologist and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Institute of Medicine. Carla Shatz graduated from Radcliffe College in 1969 with a B.A. in chemistry. She received an M.Phil. in Physiology from the University College London in 1971. In 1976, she received a Ph.D. in neurobiology from Harvard Medical School, …
- Mina Bissell
Mina J. Bissell is an Iranian-American biologist and a world-recognized leader in the area of the role of extracellular matrix (ECM) and microenvironment in regulation of tissue-specific function, with special emphasis on breast cancer. She was brought up in a well-educated and well-to-do family. By the time she graduated high school, Bissell was the top graduate in her year in Iran. A family friend, through the American Friends of Iran, …
- James Rothman
James Rothman is the Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical Biology at Columbia University. He has received many honors, including the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 2002 and the King Faisal Award. Dr. Rothman received his B.A. at Yale University and his Ph.D. at Harvard. Dr. Rothman began his career in the Department of Biochemistry at Stanford University in 1978. He was at Princeton University from 1988 to 1991, …
- Herb Pardes
Dr. Herbert Pardes is the CEO of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. He was previously president of Presbyterian Hospital; when the latter merged with New York Hospital he became CEO of the combined entity. He is a former Dean of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Before becoming dean, Pardes was chair of Columbia's department of psychiatry, where he remains a professor. He is a national figure in psychiatry and academic medicine.
- Emil R. Unanue
Emil R. Unanue (born September 13, 1934) is an immunologist, and Paul and Ellen Lacy Professor of Pathology at Washington University School of Medicine. Unanue is a past recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research(1995), the Gairdner Foundation International Award(2000) and the Robert Koch Gold Medal from Germany. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Institute of Medicine.
- Camilla Stivers
Camilla Stivers is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at Levin College of Cleveland State University. She received an MPA from the University of Southern California and a Ph.D. in public administration and policy from Virginia Tech. She is a former Albert A. Levin Professor of Urban Studies and Public Service at Levin College. She is also Associate Editor of Public Administration Review.
- Frederick Redlich
Frederick Carl Redlich ("Fritz") (1910 - January 1, 2004) was a psychiatrist and academic administrator. He was dean of the Yale School of Medicine from 1967 to 1972. Redlich was born in Vienna, the son of Ludwig and Emma Redlich, and received his M.D. in 1935 from the University of Vienna. He moved to the United States in 1938 with his wife Elsa (they divorced in 1953) and became a U.S. citizen in 1943. He joined the faculty of Yale in 1942.
- Alexander Gordon Bearn
Alexander Gordon Bearn was Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society from 1997 until his retirement in 2002. Dr. Bearn, a physician, scientist and author, was elected a member of the Society in 1972 and served as a vice president from 1988 to 1996. He received the Society’s Benjamin Franklin Medal in 2001. Dr. Bearn was educated in England, and received his M.B., B.S. and M.D. degrees from the University of London.
- Donna Shalala
Donna E. Shalala became professor of political science and president of the University of Miami on June 1, 2001. President Shalala has more than 25 years of experience as an accomplished scholar, teacher, and administrator. Prior to joining the University, she served as secretary of Health and Human Services during the Clinton administration for eight years-the longest term in U.S. history.
- William R. Brody
Brody has led the university since September 1, 1996. His dozen years at Hopkins' helm make him the fifth-longest serving of its 13 presidents, and he has an extensive list of accomplishments to show for it. He created a university-wide Commission on Undergraduate Education to improve the undergraduate experience both in and out of the classroom.
- Mae Jemison
Essence Award, Essence magazine, 1988; named Gamma Sigma Gamma Woman of the Year,1990; honorary doctorate, Lincoln University 1991; Ebony Black Achievement Award, 1992; an alternative public school in Detroit was named The Mae C. Jemison Academy, 1992; Alpha Kappa Alpha, honorary member. By the time she was thirty-one, Mae Jemison had received a double major in Chemical Engineering and African-American studies and had served as a doctor in the Peace Corps in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
- Gertrude B. Elion
Gertrude Belle Elion (January 23, 1918 - February 21, 1999) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist, and a 1988 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Born in New York City to Jewish immigrant parents, she graduated from Hunter College in 1937 and New York University (M.Sc.) in 1941. Unable to obtain a graduate research position due to her sex, she worked as a lab assistant and a high school teacher, …
- Arthur Kleinman
Professor Arthur Kleinman was appointed chair of the DSM in 1991 and led the DSM into its second decade, continuing and strengthening academic programs in medical anthropology, the history of medicine, social and health policy, the humanities, and medical ethics.
- Leon Eisenberg
Dr. Leon Eisenberg (born 1922), Child Psychiatrist and Medical Educator, is credited with a number of "firsts" in medicine and psychiatry - in child psychiatry, autism, and the controversies around autism, RCTs, social medicine, global health, affirmative action, and evidence-based psychiatry.
- Myrl Cae Weinberg
- Dr Fitzhugh S M Mullan MD
- Baruch Fischhoff
Baruch Fischhoff Dr. Fischhoff is Howard Heinz University Professor, in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, where he heads the Decision Sciences major. A graduate of the Detroit Public Schools, he holds a BS in mathematics and psychology from Wayne State University and an MA and PhD in psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.