Advisory Committee to the Director

Mary Beckerle, Ph.D.
Director
Huntsman Cancer Institute
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112

Colleen Conway-Welch, Ph.D., CNM,
FAAN, FACNM
Nancy and Hilliard Travis Professor of Nursing
Dean, School of Nursing
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37240

Catherine D. DeAngelis, M.D., M.P.H.
Editor-in-Chief
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
Chicago, IL 60610

Maria C. Freire, Ph.D.
President
Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation
New York, NY 10017

Karen A. Holbrook, Ph.D.
Vice President for Research & Innovation
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida 33612

Ralph I. Horwitz, M.D.
Arthur Bloomfield Professor of Medicine
Chair, Department of Medicine
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305

Thomas J. Kelly, M.D.
Director
Sloan-Kettering Institute
New York, NY 10021

Mary-Claire King, Ph.D.
American Cancer Society Professor
Department of Medicine and Genome Sciences
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195

Alan I. Leshner, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer and Science
Executive Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Washington, DC 20005

Beatriz Luna, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

John C. Nelson, M.D., M.P.H.,
FACOG, FACPM
Former President, American Medical Association
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Globus Relief
Salt Lake City, UT 84108

James Thrall, M.D.
Radiologist-in-Chief
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA 02115

Barbara L. Wolfe, Ph.D.
Professor
Departments of Economics and Population Health Sciences
La Follette School of Public Affairs
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Madison, WI 53706

Keith R. Yamamoto, Ph.D.        
Executive Vice Dean, School of Medicine, and
Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA 94143

Director’s Council of Public Representatives (COPR) Liaison to the ACD

Beth Furlong, J.D., Ph.D., RN
Associate Professor and Faculty Associate
Center for Health Policy and Ethics
Creighton University
Omaha, Nebraska 68104