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Professor Canizares (NAS) is Vice President and the Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institution of Technology. He has responsibility for MIT’s major international partnerships and oversees the MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Professor Canizares earned his BA, MA and Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University. He came to MIT as a postdoctoral fellow in 1971 and joined the faculty in 1974. He has served as Director of the Center for Space Research (1990-2001), Associate Provost (2001-2006), and most recently as Vice President for Research & Associate Provost (2006-2013). Professor Canizares is a principal investigator on NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. He has also worked on several other space astronomy missions and is author or co-author of more than 230 scientific papers.

Professor Canizares’ service outside MIT includes the Department of Commerce’s National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Emerging Technology and Research Advisory Committee and the National Research Council’s (NRC) Committee on Science, Technology and the Law. He served as chair of the NRC’s Space Studies Board and was a member of the NASA Advisory Council and the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, among others. He is also a member of the L-3 Communications, Inc. Board of Directors. Professor Canizares is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the International Academy of Astronautics and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has also received several awards including decoration for Meritorious Civilian Service to the United States Air Force, and two NASA Public Service Medals.

Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss is the Pauline Newman Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. She holds B.A. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry and spent several years as a research chemist before entering Columbia University School of Law, where she served as Articles and Book Review Editor of the Law Review. After graduating, she was a law clerk to Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of the U.S. Supreme Court. During her time at NYU School of Law, she has served as the director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy and as a member of the New York City Bar Association, the American Law Institute, and BNA's Advisory Board to USPQ. She was a consultant to the Federal Courts Study Committee, to the Presidential Commission on Catastrophic Nuclear Accidents, and to the Federal Trade Commission. She is a past chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the American Association of Law Schools.

Professor Dreyfuss served as a member of two National Academy of Sciences Committees, one on Intellectual Property in Genomic and Protein Research and Innovation, the other on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy. She is currently a Reporter for the American Law Institute Project on Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes. She has visited at the University of Chicago Law School, University of Washington Law School, and Santa Clara School of Law. In addition to articles in her specialty areas, she has co-authored casebooks on civil procedure and intellectual property law.

Marcus Feldman, Ph.D.,is Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Biology at Stanford University and External Professor the Santa Fe Institute. Dr. Feldman’s specific areas of research include the evolution of complex genetic systems that can undergo both natural selection and recombination, the evolution of modern humans using models for the dynamics of molecular polymorphisms, especially DNA variants, and the evolution of learning as one interface between modern methods in artificial intelligence and models of biological processes, including communication. He is the author of more than 440 scientific papers and nine books on evolution, ecology, mathematical biology, and Chinese demography, adding significantly to the greater database over the years.

In 2003, Dr. Feldman’s work received the “Paper of the Year” award for biomedical science from The Lancet. Dr. Feldman is now working on three books—on gene-culture coevolutionary theory, niche construction in evolutionary biology, and the sex-ratio issue in China—and also serves as academic director of Bridging the Rift, a project to develop collaborations between Israeli and Jordanian scientists. In addition to his teaching, research, writing, and directing, he is managing editor of Theoretical Population Biology and associate editor of Genetics, Human Genetics, Annals of Human Genetics, Annals of Human Biology,and Complexity. He is a former editor of The American Naturalist. Dr. Feldman is a member of the The American Society of Human Genetics and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and of the California Academy of Sciences. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University have awarded him honorary doctorates of philosophy, and Beijing Normal University and Xi’an Jiaotong University have each appointed him honorary professor.

Jeremy D. Fogel is a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. He became Director of The Federal Judicial Center (FJC) on October 3, 2011.

Born in San Francisco, Judge Fogel received a B.A. (with Great Distinction) in religious studies from Stanford University in 1971. He received a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1974. He was in private practice in San Jose, California from 1974 to 1978 and was Founder and Directing Attorney of the Mental Health Advocacy Project, Santa Clara County Bar Association Law Foundation.

Fogel served as a judge on the Santa Clara County Municipal Court from 1981 to 1986. He was appointed as a judge at the Superior Court of Santa Clara County in 1986 and remained there until 1998. Fogel was Presiding Judge, Santa Clara County Municipal Court, from 1984-85; Supervising Judge, Family Law Division, Santa Clara Superior Court, from 1987-88 and in 1995; Supervising Judge, Probate/Mental Health Division, 1991; and Civil Team Leader and Law and Motion Judge, Santa Clara Superior Court from 1992-94 and from 1996-98. In 1998, he was appointed to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California

Judge Fogel was a member of the executive board of the California Judges Association from 1988-91; Vice-President, 1990-91; Chair, Judicial Ethics Committee, 1987-88; Chair, Judicial Discipline Advisory Panel (confidential counseling service for judges facing discipline), 1992-98. He was Chair, Planning Committee, California Continuing Judicial Studies Program from 1995-97. Fogel was a faculty member of the California Continuing Judicial Studies Program and California Judicial College (alternative dispute resolution, psychology, ethics, family law, sexual harassment awareness and prevention, domestic violence, and judicial excellence) from 1987-2009. He was mediation trainer and member, Advisory Committee on ADR Education, Federal Judicial Center, 2002-2009 and faculty, FJC Advanced Patent Program from 2005-present. He has been a member of international legal exchange delegations to various countries in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and East and South Asia (alternative dispute resolution, case management, intellectual property rights and judicial ethics) from 1999-present. Judge Fogel is a frequent lecturer on ethics, discipline and professional conduct for both Bench and Bar. He has been Lecturer, Stanford University Law School (psychology of litigation) from 2003-present (on leave while at FJC).

Judge Fogel is the recipient of the President’s Award for Outstanding Service to the California Judiciary, California Judges Association, 1997; the Judge of the Year Award, Santa Clara County Trial Lawyers Association, 1997, 2005 and 2011; and of the “LACY Honors” Award, Legal Advocates for Children and Youth, Santa Clara County Bar Association Law Foundation, 1997. He is the recipient of the Special Award for Exemplifying Highest Standards of Professionalism in the Judiciary, Santa Clara County Bar Association, 2002. He was named Justice of the Year, San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association and one of California’s 100 most influential lawyers by Daily Journal Corporation in 2007.

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Alice P. Gast (NAE) became Lehigh University's 13th president on August 1, 2006. Previously she was the Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Vice President for Research and Associate Provost at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to moving to MIT in 2001, she spent 16 years as a professor of chemical engineering at Stanford University and at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory. In her research she studies surface and interfacial phenomena, in particular the behavior of complex fluids. Some of her areas of research include colloidal aggregation and ordering, protein lipid interactions and enzyme reactions at surfaces. In 1997 Gast co-authored the sixth edition of “Physical Chemistry of Surfaces” with Arthur Adamson. Professor Gast received her BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Southern California. After earning her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Princeton University, Gast spent a postdoctoral year on a NATO fellowship at the École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles in Paris. She returned there for a sabbatical as a Guggenheim Fellow. She was a 1999 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Technical University in Garching, Germany. She received the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiative in Research, and the Colburn Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002.

Professor Gast has served on numerous advisory committees and boards, including the Board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute Board of Directors. She is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Physical Society.

Benjamin W. Heineman, Jr. was GE’s Senior Vice President-General Counsel for GE from 1987-2003, and then Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs from 2004 until his retirement at the end of 2005. He is currently Distinguished Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Program on the Legal Profession, Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Program on Corporate Governance, Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. A Rhodes Scholar, editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal and law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, Mr. Heineman was assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and practiced constitutional law prior to his service at GE. His book, High Performance with High Integrity, was published in June, 2008 by the Harvard Business Press. He writes and lectures frequently on business, law, public policy and international affairs. He is also the author of books on British race relations and the American presidency.

He is a member of the American Philosophical Society, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and recipient of the American Lawyer’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award of Board Member Magazine. He was named one of America’s 100 most influential lawyers by the National Law Journal, was named one of the 100 most influential individuals on business ethics by Ethisphere Magazine and was named on of the 100 most influential people in corporate governance by the National Association of Corporate Directors. He serves on the boards of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (chair of patient care committee), the Center for Strategic and International Studies (chair of program committee), Transparency International-USA (chair of program committee) and the Committee for Economic Development (chair of the corporate governance committee). He is a member of the board of trustees of Central European University. He is currently on an international panel advising the President of the World Bank on governance and anti-corruption.

He is a graduate of Harvard College (BA – high honors in history), Oxford University (B.Litt) and Yale Law School (JD).

D. Brock Hornby was born in Canada, obtained his B.A. from the University of Western Ontario, and graduated from Harvard Law School where he was Supreme Court Note and Developments Editor of The Harvard Law Review. He clerked for U.S. Fifth Circuit Judge John Minor Wisdom, taught at the University of Virginia Law School (he became a U.S. citizen during that period), practiced with Perkins, Thompson, Hinckley & Keddy in Portland, Maine, served as a United States Magistrate Judge, then as a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and became a United States District Judge in 1990. He is a member of the Council of The American Law Institute. He is a fellow of the American and Maine Bar Foundations. He is a member of the National Academies Standing Committee on Science, Technology and the Law. He has served on both the United States Judicial Conference and its Executive Committee. Previously, the Chief Justice appointed him chair of The Federal Judicial Center’s Committee on District Judge Education, chair of the United States Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management, member of the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act Study Committee (the Breyer Committee) to study the system of judicial discipline for federal judges, and chair of the Judicial Conference Committee on the Judicial Branch. In 2009, Judge Hornby received the 27th Annual Edward J. Devitt Distinguished Service to Justice Award. Judge Hornby has presided over major multidistrict litigation (MDL), antitrust, and data theft class action lawsuits. He has been a lecturer or consultant on United States judicial topics to judges in Argentina, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, England, Moldova and Thailand. Apart from his judicial opinions, he has written on a variety of legal and judicial topics.

David Korn (IOM), B.A., M.D., Harvard University, is presently Consultant in Pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. From November 15, 2008 to June 30, 2011, he was the inaugural Vice-Provost for Research at Harvard University. Prior to joining Harvard, Dr. Korn had served as the Chief Scientific Officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in Washington, D.C. since January 15, 2007, and before that as the Senior Vice President for Biomedical and Health Sciences Research at the Association since September 1, 1997.

Dr. Korn served as Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Professor and Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine from October 1984 to April 1995, and as Vice President of Stanford University from January 1986 to April 1995. Previously, he had served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pathology at Stanford, and Chief of the Pathology Service at the Stanford University Hospital, since June 1968. Dr. Korn has been Chairman of the Stanford University Committee on Research; President of the American Association of Pathologists (now the American Society for Investigative Pathology), from which he received the Gold-Headed Cane Award for lifetime achievement in 2004; President of the Association of Pathology Chairman, from which he received the Distinguished Service Award in 1999; a member of the Board of Directors and of the Executive Committee of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology; and a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Academic Health Centers.

Dr. Korn was a founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the California Transplant Donor Network, one of the nation’s largest Organ Procurement Organizations. Later, he was a founder of the nonprofit Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, created to enhance and standardize the protection of human research participants. He has been a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences since 1989, has served on many NAS and IOM committees, was a founder of the IOM’s Clinical Research Roundtable, and is currently co-chair of the Committee on Science, Technology and Law. In 1996-97 Dr. Korn chaired a Special Subcommittee of the Science Board of the Food and Drug Administration to Review the FDA’s Intramural Research Program, for which he received the Commissioner’s Special Citation and the Harvey W. Wiley Medal. From 1984 to 1991 he served as Chairman of the National Cancer Advisory Board, a position to which he was appointed by President Reagan. Dr. Korn is a Fellow of the AAAS and has served on its Council, and he was a member of the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong from 1998-2004, where he was Chairman of the Medical Subcommittee.

Dr. Korn served on the Board of Directors of the Stanford University Hospital from October 1982 to April 1995, the Children’s Hospital at Stanford from October 1984 to its closure, and the Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford from October 1984 to April 1995. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the California Society of Pathologists from 1983-86.

Dr. Korn has been a member of the editorial boards of the American Journal of Pathology, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, and Human Pathology, and for many years was an Associate Editor of the latter. He has sat on many Society Councils and Boards. His more than 250 publications range from bacteriophage biochemistry and genetics to the biochemistry and molecular biology of DNA replication in human cells, and more recently, concern issues of academic values and integrity, research integrity, health and science policy, and financial conflicts of interest in academic medicine.

Wallace D. Loh became the 33rd president of the University of Maryland, and professor in its School of Public Policy, in November 2010. He provides leadership to the university’s 27,000 undergraduate and 10,000 graduate students, 12 colleges and schools, 9,000 faculty and staff members, and oversees its $1.7 billion operating budget (including about $500 million in annual external research funding) and its on-going $1 billion fundraising campaign.

His priorities include strengthening educational excellence by emphasizing student opportunity and achievement; expanding innovation and entrepreneurship to make the university a major catalyst for economic vitality in the region and the nation; internationalizing the university by bringing the world to the campus and projecting the campus to the world; and adapting the public service values of the land-grant mission to enhance the quality of life of people of the state of Maryland.

Prior to coming to Maryland, Loh served as executive vice president and provost at The University of Iowa. Previously, he served as dean of arts and sciences at Seattle University; director of executive policy and chief policy advisor to Governor Gary Locke of the State of Washington (now the U.S. Ambassador to China); vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean of faculties at the University of Colorado-Boulder; and dean of the University of Washington Law School.

While working in Washington State government, Loh formed and staffed Governor Locke’s “2020 Commission on the Future of Post-Secondary Education.” The work of the Commission resulted in the “Washington Promise Scholarship” that expanded college access for students from low- and middle-income families.

Loh was on the law faculty at the University of Washington (where students voted him Outstanding Professor of the Year), Vanderbilt University, Emory University, University of Houston, Cornell University, University of Texas-Austin, and Peking University (Beijing, China). His scholarship and teaching are in criminal justice and the uses of social research in the legal process. He was elected President of the Association of American Law Schools, the learned society of the academic legal profession.

Loh is currently chair of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Academic Advisory Council, a member of the American Council on Education’s Committee on Inclusion, and a member of the National Academies’ Committee on Science, Technology, and Law.

Born in Shanghai, China, he moved with his family to Lima, Peru. After graduating from high school there, he immigrated alone to the United States and became a naturalized citizen. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School; a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan; an M.A. from Cornell University; a B.A. from Grinnell College; and did graduate study at the Universiteit te Leuven (Louvain, Belgium). He received honorary degrees from Grinnell College, Iowa Wesleyan College (where he serves on the board of trustees), and Montgomery College. He received the “Immigrant Achievement Award” from the American Immigration Council and the “Trailblazer Award” from the National Asian Pacific-American Bar Association.

Margaret H. Marshall is currently Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer, Harvard Law School and Senior Counsel, Choate Hall & Stewart, LLP. Until her retirement in December 2010, she was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. Born and educated in South Africa, she earned a B.A. from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and a master's degree in education from Harvard University. After graduating from Yale Law School, she practiced law for sixteen years in Boston before her appointment as Vice President and General Counsel of Harvard University in1992. She was appointed to the Supreme Judicial Court in 1996 and appointed Chief Justice in 1999, the first woman to hold that position. During her fourteen years on the Court, Chief Justice Marshall wrote more than 300 opinions, many of them groundbreaking, including the 2003 decision in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, which declared that the Massachusetts Constitution prohibits the state from denying same-sex couples access to civil marriage. The ruling made Massachusetts the first state to legalize gay marriage. Chief Justice Marshall is a member of the Council of the American Law Institute and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The recipient of numerous honorary degrees, as well as professional awards, she has lectured frequently in the United States and abroad, and published many scholarly articles.

Richard A. Meserve (NAE), J.D., Harvard Law School; Ph.D. (Applied Physics) Stanford University; B.A., Tufts University, is President of the Carnegie Institution for Science. Before assuming the Carnegie presidency in April 2003, he was Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), having served since October 1999. Before joining the NRC, Dr. Meserve was a partner in the law firm of Covington & Burling LLP, where he now serves on a part-time basis as a Senior Of Counsel. He devoted his legal practice to technical issues arising in environmental and toxic tort litigation, counseling scientific societies and high-tech companies, and nuclear licensing. Early in his career, he served as legal counsel to the President’s science advisor, and was a law clerk to Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court and to Judge Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Philosophical Society; a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, and the American Physical Society; and a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He currently serves as Chairman of the International Nuclear Safety Group, chartered by the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Co-Chairman of the Department of Energy's Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee. He is also President of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University and a member of the Council of the National Academy of Engineering. He has previously served on numerous committees and boards of the National Academies. Dr. Meserve also serves on the boards of PG&E Corporation and TriAlpha Energy Corporation. He wrote the amicus briefs on behalf of the National Academy of Engineering in the Kumho case and on behalf of the National Academy of Sciences in the Daubert case. These landmark cases established the basis for admitting expert testimony into court.

Alan B. Morrison, LL.B., Harvard Law School, spent most of his professional career at the Public Citizen Litigation Group in Washington, D.C., which he founded with Ralph Nader in 1972. He is currently the Associate Dean for Public Interest and Public Service at the George Washington University School of Law. Mr. Morrison was Special Counsel to the Attorney General for the District of Columbia from September 2007 to January 2008. Before becoming Special Counsel to the Attorney General, he spent three years as a Senior Lecturer at Stanford Law School where he has taught courses in the fields of litigation, administrative law and legal ethics. He has also taught at the law schools at Harvard, NYU and the University of Hawaii and is a member of the American Law Institute. Prior to his work at Public Citizen he was an associate in a law firm and an Assistant U.S. Attorney in New York City. Mr. Morrison was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy after he graduated from Yale College. In 1999-2000 he was President of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. Mr. Morrison has served two previous terms on the National Academies Science, Technology, and Law Panel, and was a member of its Subcommittee on Ensuring the Quality of Information Disseminated by the Federal Government.

Cherry A. Murray (NAS/NAE) is Dean of Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS); John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences; and Professor of Physics.

Previously, Murray served as principal associate director for science and technology at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and was president of the American Physical Society (APS).

Before joining Lawrence Livermore in 2004, Murray was Senior Vice President of Physical Sciences and Wireless Research and had a long and distinguished career at the famed Bell Laboratories.

Murray was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1999, to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001, and to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002. She has served on more than 80 national and international scientific advisory committees, governing boards and National Research Council panels and as a member of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. She is currently chair of the National Research Council Division of Engineering and Physical Science.

A celebrated experimentalist, Murray is known for her scientific accomplishments in condensed matter and surface physics.

She received her B.S. in 1973 and her Ph.D. in physics in 1978 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has published more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals and holds two patents in near-field optical data storage and optical display technology.

Roberta B. Ness (IOM), M.D., M.P.H., a recognized expert in women’s health research, became dean of The University of Texas School of Public Health November 1, 2008. She is the School’s fourth dean since it was established in 1969. Dr. Ness also holds the M. David Low Chair in Public Health, is a professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Disease Control, and Vice President for Innovation at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science, a fellow of the American College of Physicians and past-President of the American College of Epidemiology. She is President-Elect of the American Epidemiological Society.

Dr. Ness received her M.D. from Cornell University and her M.P.H. from Columbia University. She has been at the forefront of women’s health research, being one of the first to propose the research paradigm now termed “gender based biology” in her book entitled, Health and Disease among Women (Oxford U Press, 1999). In her most recent book, Innovation Generation (Oxford U Press, 2012), which is based on the highly successful program she developed at the UT School of Public Health, she provides the tools needed to think "outside the box." This book and the course provide proven techniques to expand the ability to generate original ideas, which will help scientists develop new strategies to prevent many common chronic diseases.

Dr. Ness is a frequent advisor to the National Institutes for Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Department of Defense. She has taken part in several Institute of Medicine, National Academies’ reports.

Dr. Ness is past-President of the American College of Epidemiology and has served as a member of its board of directors since 2004. Recently, she became the founding chair of the Joint Policy Committee of the Societies of Epidemiology – the first organization to coordinate joint policy actions among 14 epidemiology societies. Dr. Ness is an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology, and on the editorial boards of Annals of Epidemiology, and WHO STD Bulletin. She is an elected member of the prestigious American Society for Clinical Investigation, Delta Omega Honorary, and the American Epidemiologic Society.

Dr. Ness was formerly chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health where she was a professor of epidemiology, medicine, and obstetrics & gynecology. She also served as director of the Epidemiology of Women’s Health Program in the Department of Epidemiology. Dr. Ness was on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh beginning in 1993 and served as interim dean from 2005-2006. Prior to 1993 she was on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania.

Harriet Rabb was at Columbia Law School as a clinical professor, head of the clinical program and a member of the faculty during the course of her affiliation of more than two decades there. In 1991, she was named the first George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility and, in 1992, added the title of vice dean of the law faculty. In 1998, she was the recipient of the Law School’s Lawrence A. Wien Prize for Social Responsibility.

In 1993, Ms. Rabb was confirmed by the United States Senate to serve as general counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under Secretary Donna Shalala. As chief legal officer of the Department, Ms. Rabb was responsible for legal matters involving, among other agencies, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control, the Food and Drug Administration, the Health Care Financing Administration and the Administration for Children and Families. Ms. Rabb led the Department’s legal efforts on health policy issues, including human stem cell research, pandemic influenza, tobacco, assisted reproductive technology, tissue and organ allocation, fetal tissue and human embryo research, informed consent and various aspects of vaccines.

In 2001, Ms. Rabb was named to her current position as vice president and general counsel to The Rockefeller University.

David A. Relman (IOM) is the Thomas C. and Joan M. Merigan Professor in the Departments of Medicine and of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University, and Chief of Infectious Diseases at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System in Palo Alto, California. He received an S.B. (Biology) from MIT (1977) and M.D. (magna cum laude) from Harvard Medical School (1982), completed his clinical training in internal medicine and infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, served as a postdoctoral fellow in microbiology at Stanford University, and joined the faculty at Stanford in 1994. Dr. Relman’s current research focus is the human indigenous microbiota (microbiome), and in particular the nature and mechanisms of variation in patterns of microbial diversity in the human body as a function of time (microbial succession) and space (biogeography within the host landscape) and in response to perturbation, e.g., antibiotics (community robustness and resilience). One of the goals of this work is to define the role of the human microbiome in health and disease. This research integrates theory and methods from ecology, population biology, environmental microbiology, genomics, and clinical medicine. During the past few decades, his research directions have also included pathogen discovery and the development of new strategies for identifying previously unrecognized microbial agents of disease. This work helped to spearhead the application of molecular methods to the diagnosis of infectious diseases in the 1990s. His research has emphasized the use of genomic approaches for exploring host-microbe relationships. Past scientific achievements include the description of a novel approach for identifying previously unknown pathogens, the identification of a number of new human microbial pathogens, including the agent of Whipple’s disease, and some of the most extensive and revealing analyses to date of the human indigenous microbial ecosystem. Dr. Relman advises the U.S. government as well as nongovernmental organizations in matters pertaining to microbiology, emerging infectious diseases, and biosecurity. He currently serves as Chair of the Institute of Medicine’s Forum on Microbial Threats (National Academy of Sciences), a member of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), and a member of the Physical and Life Sciences Directorate Review Committee for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and advises several U.S. government departments and agencies on matters related to pathogen diversity, the future life sciences landscape, and the nature of present and future biological threats. He has served as Chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (National Institutes of Health [NIH]) and member of the Board of Directors, Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). Dr. Relman cochaired a three-year National Research Council study that produced a widely cited report entitled Globalization, Biosecurity, and the Future of the Life Sciences (2006). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and a member of the Association of American Physicians. Dr. Relman received the Squibb Award from the IDSA in 2001 and was the recipient of both the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award and the Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation in 2006.

Richard L. Revesz is Dean and Lawrence King Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. He is a leading scholar in several areas of environmental law and policy, including the allocation of authority between the federal government and the states, the use of cost-benefit analysis, and the design of liability rules. In 2008, he published Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health. Dean Revesz is also the faculty director of NYU’s Institute for Policy Integrity, a non-partisan think-tank that advocates for an unbiased approach to cost-benefit analysis. He is a member of the Administrative Conference of the U.S., has served on the National Research Council (NRC)'s Committee on Health, Environmental, and Other External Costs and Benefits of Energy Production and Consumption, and on the Science Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He is a Trustee of the American Museum of Natural History, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the American Law Institute.

David S. Tatel, B.A., University of Michigan (1963); J.D., University of Chicago Law School (1966), is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Before this appointment by President Clinton in 1994, Tatel was for fifteen years partner and head of the education group at Hogan & Hartson in Washington, D.C. From 1977 to 1979 he was director of the Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare under President Carter. Judge Tatel was a member of the Board of Directors for the Spencer Foundation, which he chaired from 1990 to 1997, and he is currently a member of the Board of Directors for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, which he chaired from 2006 to 2009.

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