CSTL COMMITTEE MEMBER BIOGRAPHIES
Kennedy, Donald, Co-chair (NAS, IOM), A.B. (Biology), Harvard University; Ph.D. (Biology), Harvard University, has served since June 1, 2000, as editor-in-chief of Science, the prestigious weekly international journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is President Emeritus and Bing Professor of Environmental Science, Stanford University. He came to Stanford in 1960, served as chairman of the Department of Biology and then became chairman of the Program in Human Biology, an interdisciplinary undergraduate program he helped create. His early research interests at Stanford were originally in animal behavior and neurobiology in particular. Although these interests remain, they were overtaken by a deeper concern with ecology and environmental policy—exploring how the natural and social sciences can contribute to improving environmental practices and institutions. His specific areas of expertise range from global climate change to the ecosystem impacts of alien marine species invasions. More recently at Stanford he co-directed the Center for Environmental Science and Policy in the Institute for International Studies, an interdisciplinary center devoted to the development of policies regarding such environmental problems as major land-use changes, economically driven alterations in agricultural practice, global climate change, and the development of regulatory practices. He took leave from Stanford in 1977 to serve as FDA Commissioner, then returned in 1979. He served for a year as Stanford’s Provost before assuming the university’s presidency for a tenure of 12 years. He is the author of Academic Duty, that discusses some of the challenges facing American institutions of higher education. Dr. Kennedy is a member of the National Academy of Science, the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He was a member of the National Commission for Public Service, and the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government, and on the Board of the Health Effects Institute. Dr. Kennedy’s past service on National Academies committees includes (1) Board of Overseers; (2) Board of Advisors, (3) Governing Board of the National Research Council, (4) Policy Division Advisory Committee (ex-officio member), (5) Steering Committee on Science and Creationism, (6) Center for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education Advisory Board (chair); (7) Committee on International Organizations and Programs; (8) Panel for the “National Science Education Standards” and Television Project; (9) Working Group on Teaching Evolution (chair); (10) Project on Report to the National Education Goals Panel; (11) Undergraduate Convocation Program Steering Committee; (12) Issues in Science and Technology Advisory Board. Dr. Kennedy was a member of the National Academies planning committee that initiated the 1997 Academy Symposium on Science, Technology, and Law. He currently serves as Co-Chairman of the Science, Technology, and Law Panel, and served as a member of its Subcommittee on Ensuring the Quality of Information Disseminated by the Federal Government.
Merrill, Richard A., Co-Chair, (IOM), A.B., Columbia University; B.A., Oxford University; M.A., Oxford University; LL.B., Columbia University School of Law, is Daniel Caplin Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School. He is Of Senior Counsel, Covington & Burling. An expert in administrative, environmental, and food and drug law, Professor Merrill joined the law faculty in 1969 after four years of practice with the law firm of Covington & Burling. In 1975 he took a leave from the Law School to serve for two years as chief counsel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, where he received the FDA Commissioner’s Special Citation and the agency’s Award of Merit. He was Dean of the Law School from 1980 to 1988. During the fall of 1988 he was scholar-in-residence at the National Wildlife Federation and in the spring of 1989 he was a visiting fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Oxford University. He was a member of the faculty of the American law session of the Salzburg Seminar in 1981 and 1986. A former Rhodes Scholar, Merrill was editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review. After graduation, he served as law clerk to Judge Carl McGowan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He has been a consultant to the U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He is a member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the Virginia Law Foundation. Professor Merrill is a member of the Institute of Medicine. Professor Merrill has served on numerous National Academies boards and committees, including (1) Board on Health Sciences Policy; (2) Policy Division Advisory Committee; (3) Food Forum; (4) Committee to Ensure Safe Food from Production to Consumption; (5) Report Review of IOM Reports; (6) Committee to Study the Use of Advisory Committees by the Food and Drug Administration; (7) Committee on Nutrition Components of Food Labeling (chair); (8) Council of the Institute of Medicine (executive committee); (9) Committee on Scientific and Regulatory Issues Underlying Pesticide use patterns and Agricultural Innovation; (10) Board on Toxicology and Environmental Health; (11) Committee on Urgent Research Opportunities on Health Effects of Hazardous Exposures; and (12) Committee on Institutional Means for Assessment of Risks to Public Health. Professor Merrill was a member of the National Academies planning committee that initiated the 1997 Academy Symposium on Science, Technology, and Law. Professor Merrill currently is Co-Chair of the National Academies Committee on Science, Technology, and Law and was a member of its Subcommittee on Ensuring the Quality of Information Disseminated by the Federal Government.
Anderson, Frederick R., B.A., (History of Science), University of North Carolina; J.D., Harvard Law School, Oxford University, is a partner of the law firm of McKenna, Long, & Aldridge LLP in Washington, D.C., where he leads the environment, energy, and natural resources law group--addressing legal strategies for bringing chemicals to market, a wide variety of Clean Air Act issues, risk assessment and management, greenhouse gas science and international negotiations, chemical regulation and toxic tort claims, TSCA premanufacturing clearances, Superfund and RCRA cleanups, FDA and EPA food contact and antimicrobial approvals, access to genetic information, and environmental aspects of international trade. Mr. Anderson is former Dean of the law school at American University, and was the first full-time President of the Environmental Law Institute. He was the first Editor-in-Chief of the Environmental Law Reporter and was Chairman of the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Environmental Law. He served on a 12-member Congressional study commission created by the Superfund legislation to examine toxic tort recovery for injury from hazardous substances. Mr. Anderson was a member of the Harvard Group on Risk Management and Reform and was chairman of the Advisory Working Group on Environmental Sanctions for the U.S. Sentencing Commission. He has been both a member of and a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States. In 1984 his analysis of the Superfund program resulted in the adoption by the Conference of a policy favoring negotiated solutions to disputes about waste site cleanup. Mr. Anderson is also Chairman of the Board of the Center for International Environmental Law and was chairman of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Inter-American Affairs. As chairman of the ABA’s Standing Committee on Environmental Law, he played a key role in organizing international conferences in Europe and Canada on acid rain, and in Mexico City on environmental issues. His book, NEPA in the Courts, went through several printings and was a Literary Guild selection. His book, Environmental Improvement through Economic Incentives, has been translated and widely used by governments and in universities. He has written numerous scholarly articles as well as other pieces. Mr. Anderson has served on several National Academies committees, including (1) Committee on EPA Assessment Factors for Data Quality, (2) Commission on Life Sciences, (3) Committee on Industrial Competitiveness and Environmental Protection, (3) Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, (4) Committee to Review Risk Management in the DOE’s Environmental Remediation Program, and (5) Panel on Integration of Socio-Economic Criteria into the Site Selection Process for a High-Level Radioactive Waste Repository. He was a member of the National Academies’ planning committee that initiated the 1997 Academy Symposium on Science, Technology, and Law. He currently serves as a member of the Committee on Science, Technology, and Law and was a member of the Committee’s Subcommittee on Ensuring the Quality of Information Disseminated by the Federal Government.
Bienenstock, Arthur I., B.S. (Physics), Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn; M.S. (Physics), Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn; Ph.D. (Applied Physics), Harvard University, is Director, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University. Previously he was Associate Director for Science, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the (U.S.) President (1997-2000); Director of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Stanford University (1978-1997); Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs (1972-1977), Stanford University; Member of the Stanford University Faculty since 1967. He is the recipient of the Sidhu Award of the Pittsburgh Diffraction Society; the Distinguished Alumnus citation of Polytechnic Institute of New York Alumni Association, and the Rector’s Lecture and Medal, University of Helsinki, 1994. In 1998 he received an honorary Ph.D. from Polytechnic University. His National Academies service includes current membership on the Committee on Smaller Facilities and on the Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology. He served previously on the Forum on Diversity in the Engineering Workforce; Committee on Physics of the Universe; Committee on Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics, among other activities. He is a Fellow, American Physical Society; Fellow, AAAS; Member, American Crystallographic Association, the Materials Research Society, New York Academy of Science, and Sigma Xi.
Bierer, Barbara, Senior Vice President, Research at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Bierer, a graduate of Harvard Medical School, completed her internal medicine residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital and her hematology and medical oncology training at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Bierer maintained a research laboratory in the Department of Pediatric Oncology at DFCI and was appointed Director of Pediatric Stem Cell Transplantation at DFCI and Children’s Hospital in 1993. In 1997, she was named Chief of the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Biology at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. She returned to DFCI in July 2002, as Vice President of Patient Safety and Director of the Center for Patient Safety. In 2003, Dr. Bierer moved to the Brigham and Women’s Hospital to assume her current position.
Dr. Bierer’s laboratory research interests include mechanisms of T cell activation and of immunosuppression, interests that complement her clinical commitment to bone marrow and stem cell transplantation. In addition to her academic responsibilities, Dr. Bierer is the President of the Board of Directors of the Association for Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP). She serves on the Board of Directors of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) and on the Medical and Scientific Advisory Boards of ViaCell, Inc. She is on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Institute of Aging, NIH. In addition to her research and administrative role at the BWH, Dr. Bierer also sits on a number of editorial Boards, including serving as Editor, Current Protocols in Immunology; Deputy Editor, Journal of Immunology; Deputy Editor, Blood and Bone Marrow Transplantation; Board of Consulting Editors, The Journal of Clinical Investigation; and the Editorial Boards of American Journal of Transplantation and Blood.
Blackburn, Elizabeth H.
Professor Blackburn is a leader in the area of telomere and telomerase research. She discovered the molecular nature of telomeres – the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes that serve as protective caps essential for preserving the genetic information – and she discovered the ribonucleoprotein enzyme, telomerase. Blackburn and her research team at the University of California, San Francisco are working with various cells including human cells, with the goal of understanding telomerase and telomere biology. Blackburn earned her B.Sc. (1970) and M.Sc. (1972) degrees from the University of Melbourne in Australia, and her Ph.D. (1975) from the University of Cambridge in England. She did her postdoctoral work in Molecular and Cellular Biology from 1975 to 1977 at Yale. In 1978, Blackburn joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Molecular Biology. In 1990, she joined the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco, where she served as department chair from 1993 to 1999. Blackburn is currently a faculty member in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF. She is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Salk Institute. Throughout her career, Blackburn has been honored by her peers as the recipient of many prestigious awards. These include the Eli Lilly Research Award for Microbiology and Immunology (1988), the National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology (1990), and an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Yale University (1991). She was a Harvey Society Lecturer at the Harvey Society in New York (1990), and the recipient of the UCSF Women’s Faculty Association Award (1995). Most recently, she was awarded the Australia Prize (1998), named California Scientist of the Year in 1999, and awarded the Harvey Prize (1999), the Keio Prize (1999), American Association for Cancer Research-G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award (2000), American Cancer Society Medal of Honor (2000), AACR-Pezcoller Foundation International Award for Cancer Research (2001), General Motors Cancer Research Foundation Alfred P. Sloan Award (2001), E.B. Wilson Award of the American Society for Cell Biology (2001), 26th Annual Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cancer Research (2003), The Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine (2004), The Kirk A. Landon-AACR prize for Basic Cancer Research (2005) and The Albert Lasker Medical Research Award in Basic Medical Research (2006). Professor Blackburn was elected President of the American Society for Cell Biology in 1998. She is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991), the Royal Society of London (1992), the American Academy of Microbiology (1993), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2000). She was elected Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences in 1993, and was elected as a Member of the Institute of Medicine in 2000. In 2007 she was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People.
Cecil, Joel S. Ph.D. (Psychology), Northwestern University; J.D., Northwestern University, is a Project Director in the Division of Research at the Federal Judicial Center. Currently he is directing the Center’s Program on Scientific and Technical Evidence. As part of this program he is responsible for judicial education and training in the area of scientific and technical evidence and serves as principal editor of the Center’s Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence which is the primary source book on evidence for federal judges. He has also published several articles on the use of court-appointed experts. He is currently directing a research project that examines the difficulties that arise with expert testimony in federal courts, with an emphasis on clinical medical testimony and forensic science evidence. Other areas of research interest include federal civil and appellate procedure, jury competence in complex civil litigation, and assessment of rule of law in emerging democracies. Dr. Cecil serves on the editorial boards of social science and legal journals and on the National Academies. He previously served on the National Academies Panel on Confidentiality and Data Access. He currently is a member of the National Academies Science, Technology, and Law Panel and was a member of its Subcommittee on Access to Research Data: Balancing Risks and Opportunities.
Celeste, Richard F., President, Colorado College. Richard Celeste was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1937. After graduating Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University in 1959, Ambassador Celeste attended Oxford University in England as a Rhodes Scholar. After a short term as a Staff Liaison Officer in the Peace Corps, Ambassador Celeste worked for four years as Special Assistant to the American Ambassador to India in New Delhi. Following this, Ambassador Celeste returned to his native Ohio where he served as a State Representative for four years and Lt. Governor for a further four years. After an unsuccessful campaign for Governor, Celeste was asked by President Carter to serve as Director of the Peace Corps. After two years Ambassador Celeste returned to Ohio to wage a successful quest for the Governor's Office. Celeste was elected in 1982 and reelected in 1986. Barred by Ohio's Constitution from seeking a third term, Ambassador Celeste became a managing partner in the business consultancy, Celeste & Sabety Ltd., located in Columbus Ohio. Ambassador Celeste served as a Director of Navistar International, Healthsouth Corporation, Republic Engineered Steels and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. He was also Chairman of the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable, a Member of the Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board and a Visiting Fellow in Public Policy at Case Western Reserves University. On November 10, 1997 Richard Celeste was sworn in as the United States Ambassador to India, a post he held until April 2001. During his tenure, Indo-US relations experienced a remarkable warming, culminating in the historic visit of President Clinton to India. Ambassador Celeste serves as Chairman of the Health Effects Institute in Boston. He is a Director of Cibernet, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Cohen, Joel E. (NAS), Dr. P.H. (Population Sciences and Public Health), Harvard University; Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics), Harvard University, is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations at the Rockefeller University. At Columbia University, he is Professor of Populations in the School of International and Public Affairs, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology. He heads the Laboratory of Populations at both Rockefeller and Columbia. Dr. Cohen is best known “for his complete re-conceptualization of food webs—the organization of living species in pyramids such that energy flows from lower to higher levels. These and other achievements have made him widely viewed as among the foremost theoreticians in the fields of ecology and evolution.” In June 2002 Cohen received the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Science and Technology from the Mayor of the City of New York. In March 1999 Cohen was named co-winner of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. In March 1997 he was the first winner of the Olivia Schieffelin Nordberg Prize for excellence in writing in the population sciences, recognizing his book How Many People Can the Earth Support? In addition to several other books, Cohen has published more than 300 academic papers. Cohen is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (and was an elected Councilor), the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences (and was an elected Councilor). Dr. Cohen serves as a member of the worldwide board of directors of The Nature Conservancy, a trustee of the Black Rock Forest Preserve, and was a member of the Governing Board of the National Research Council. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is an Honorary Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association. He was elected a Fellow of Harvard University’s Society of Fellows, King’s College Cambridge, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Statistical Association, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He has served as a trustee and Vice Chairman of the Board of the Russell Sage Foundation, a Director’s Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, a Visiting Scholar of Phi Beta Kappa, a member of the Committee on the Selection of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and a member of the Editorial Board of The American Scholar. From 1991 to 1995 Dr. Cohen served as a U.S. Federal Court-appointed neutral expert on projections of asbestos-related claims associated with the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust. In addition, he has served as a Special Master in silicone gel breast implant products liability. His past National Academies service includes (1) Panel on Population Projections (2) Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications, (3) Committee on National Statistics. Dr. Cohen currently serves as a member of the National Academies Science, Technology, and Law Panel and served as a member of its Subcommittee on Ensuring the Quality of Information Disseminated by the Federal Government.
Dreyfuss, Rochelle Cooper
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.
Falkowski, Paul G.
Paul G. Falkowski is Board of Governors Professor in the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences and the Department of Geology at Rutgers University. His research interests include evolution, paleoecology, photosynthesis, biophysics, biogeochemical cycles, and symbiosis. Born in 1951 and raised in New York City, Falkowski earned his B.S. and M.Sc. degrees from the City College of the City University of New York and his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. After a Post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Rhode Island, he joined Brookhaven National Laboratory 1976 as a scientist in the newly formed Oceanographic Sciences Division. He received tenure in 1984 and served as head of the division from 1986 to 1991. From 1991 to 1995 he was Deputy Chair in the Department of Applied Science, responsible for the development and oversight of all environmental science programs. In 1998 he moved to Rutgers University. His research efforts are directed towards understanding the co-evolution of biological and physical systems. In 1992 he received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1996 he was appointed as the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor at the University of British Columbia. In 1998 he was awarded the Huntsman Medal. In 2000 he was awarded the Hutchinson Prize. In 2001 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. In 2002 he was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2005 he received the Vernadsky medal from the European Geosciences Union. In 2007 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He has authored or coauthored over 250 papers in peer-reviewed journals and books. Together with John Raven, he is co-author of Aquatic Photosynthesis (Princeton University Press), and has co-invented and patented a fluorosensing system which is capable of measuring phytoplankton photosynthetic rates nondestructively and in real time. He is an advisor to the National Science Foundation and NASA and serves on the Mars Architecture Mission team, the Earth System Science and Applications Advisory Committee, the Astrobiology Oversight Committee, is co-chair of the IGBP Carbon Cycle Working Group, and a member of the Carbon Cycle Science Steering Committee. He is on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science and an associate editor of 5 other journals.
Gast, Alice P.
On August 1, 2006, Alice P. Gast became Lehigh University's 13th president. 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 enzymes 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. She has served on numerous advisory committees including the NRC Board on Chemical Science and Technology, and the Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee. She was elected to the Board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2006.
Gostin, Lawrence O.
Lawrence O. Gostin is Associate Dean (Research and Academic Programs) and the Linda D. and Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he directs the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Dean Gostin is also Professor of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University and Director of the Center for Law & the Public’s Health at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities—a Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dean Gostin is Visiting Professor of Public Health (Faculty of Medical Sciences) and Research Fellow (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies) at Oxford University. He is the Health Law and Ethics Editor, Contributing Writer, and Columnist for the Journal of the American Medical Association. In 2007, the Director General of the World Health Organization appointed Dean Gostin to the International Health Regulations (IHR) Roster of Experts and the Expert Advisory Panel on Mental Health.
Dean Gostin has three honorary degrees. In 1994, the Chancellor of the State University of New York conferred an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree. In 2006, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Vice Chancellor awarded Cardiff University’s (Wales) highest honor, an Honorary Fellow. In 2007, the Royal Institute of Public Health designated Dean Gostin as a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health (FRIPH).
Dean Gostin is an elected lifetime Member of the Institute of Medicine at The National Academies and serves on the Board on Health Sciences Policy and the Committee on Science, Technology, and Law. He currently chairs the IOM Committee on Health Informational Privacy, and has chaired Committees on genomics and on prisoner research. The IOM awarded Dean Gostin the Adam Yarmolinsky Medal for distinguished service to further its mission of science and health. He received the Public Health Law Association’s Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award “in recognition of a career devoted to using law to improve the public’s health” presented at the CDC. Internationally, Dean Gostin received the Rosemary Delbridge Memorial Award from the National Consumer Council (U.K.) for the person “who has most influenced Parliament and government to act for the welfare of society.” He also received the Key to Tohoko University (Japan) for distinguished contributions to human rights in mental health.
Dean Gostin’s latest books are: Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint (University of California Press and Milbank Memorial Fund, 2nd ed. Forthcoming 2008); Public Health Ethics: Theory, Policy and Practice (Oxford University Press, 2007); The AIDS Pandemic: Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations (University of North Carolina Press, 2004); The Human Rights of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities: Different But Equal (Oxford University Press, 2003); Public Health Law and Ethics: A Reader (University of California Press and Milbank Memorial Fund, 2002).
Hart, Gary W.
Since retiring from the United States Senate, Gary Hart has been extensively involved in international law and business, as a strategic advisor to major U.S. corporations, and as an author and lecturer. For 15 years, he was Senior Counsel to Coudert Brothers, a multinational law firm. He is the Wirth Professor of Public Policy and the University of Colorado. He was co-chair of the U.S. Commission on National Security for the 21st Century. The Commission performed the most comprehensive review of national security since 1947, predicted the terrorist attacks on America, and proposed a sweeping overhaul of U.S. national security structures and policies for the post-Cold War new century and the age of terrorism. He was president of Global Green, the U.S. affiliate of Mikhail Gorbachev's environmental foundation, Green Cross International. He is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the U.S.-Russia Investment Fund; a former member of the Defense Policy Board; and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was co-chair of the Council task force that produced the report: "America Unprepared - America Still at Risk," in October, 2002. Gary Hart has been Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Chatham Lecturer, and McCallum Memorial Lecturer at Oxford University, Global Fund Lecturer at Yale University, and Regents Lecturer at the University of California. He earned a doctor of philosophy degree from Oxford University and graduate law and divinity degrees from Yale University. He was visiting lecturer at the Yale Law School and is the author of sixteen books. Gary Hart represented the State of Colorado in the United States Senate from 1975 to 1987. In 1984 and 1988, he was a candidate for his party's nomination for President. Senator Hart was first elected to the Senate in 1974, having never before sought public office, and was re-elected in 1980. During his 12 years in the Senate, he served on the Armed Services Committee, where he specialized in nuclear arms control and was an original founder of the military reform caucus. He also served on the Senate Environment Committee, Budget Committee, and Intelligence Oversight Committee. During his Senate years, he played a leadership role in major environmental and conservation legislation, military reform initiatives, new initiatives to advance the information revolution and new directions in foreign policy. He is widely-recognized as among the first to forecast the end of the Cold War.
Heineman, Benjamin W., Jr.
From 1987-2003, Mr. Heineman was the Senior Vice President-General Counsel for General Electric. He then served as Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs until his retirement at the end of 2005. Mr. Heineman was responsible for managing a team of 1,100 in-house lawyers in over 100 countries around the world. Under his guidance, GE's legal department became world-renowned for its excellence, not only in legal service, but also for the major role that its attorneys play in business and management. Prior to joining General Electric, Mr. Heineman was a managing partner at Sidley & Austin, focusing on Supreme Court and test case litigation. Previously, he served as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation with the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Carter. Mr. Heineman began his career as a staff attorney for the Center for Law & Social Policy in Washington, D.C., and moved on to become a litigator at Williams & Connolly. Mr. Heineman is a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Program on the Legal Profession at the Harvard Law School, a Senior Advisor to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Senior Counsel to WilmerHale. He researches and writes on a variety of topics, including globalization, anticorruption, corporate citizenship, dispute resolution, and the legal profession. Mr. Heineman is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves on the boards of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Transparency International-USA and The National Constitution Center. He is the author of books on British race relations and the American presidency, and most recently, High Performance with High Integrity (Harvard Business Press, 2000). Mr. Heineman received a J.D. from Yale Law School where he was editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Journal, before serving as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart. As a Rhodes Scholar, he received a B.Litt. from Oxford University in political sociology. He received a B.A. in history with high honors from Harvard University.
Hornby, D. Brock, United States District Judge, Portland, Maine. Judge 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. He is a past chair of The Federal Judicial Center’s Committee on District Judge Education and of the United States Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management. He was a member of the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act Study Committee (the Breyer Committee) established by Chief Justice Rehnquist to study the system of judicial discipline for federal judges (final report 2006). In 2005, the Chief Justice appointed him as chair of the Judicial Conference Committee on the Judicial Branch. In 2007, the Chief Justice appointed him as chair of an Ad Hoc Committee to secure judicial salary restoration. Judge Hornby has presided over major Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) antitrust class lawsuits. He has been a lecturer or consultant on United States judicial topics to judges in 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.
Korn, David
In November 2008, David Korn became Vice-Provost for Research of Harvard University, where he is also Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. Prior to that he was senior vice president for biomedical and health sciences research at the Association of American Medical Colleges in Washington, D.C., a position he assumed on 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. Before that 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). 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. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and a founder of the Clinical Research Roundtable. Dr. Korn served on the Boards 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. He has been a member of the National Academies’ committee on Science, Technology, and Law since its inception.
Meserve, Richard A. (NAE), J.D., Harvard Law School; Ph.D. (Applied Physics) Stanford University, is President, Carnegie Institution of Washington. Before assuming the Carnegie presidency in April 2003, he was Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), having served since October 1999. He has been a member of the Carnegie Institution’s Board of Trustees since 1992. Before joining the NRC, Dr. Meserve was a partner in the law firm of Covington & Burling. 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 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, and the American Physical Society. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has previously served on numerous committees and boards of the National Academies, including (1) Board on Energy and Environmental Systems (vice chair); (2) Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources; (3) Committee on Balancing Scientific Openness and National Security (chair); (4) Committee on Upgrading Russian Capabilities for Controlling Highly Enriched Uranium and Plutonium (chair); (5) Steering Committee of the Trilateral Workshop on Atmospheric Change and the North American Transportation Sector; (6) Committee on Dual-Use Technologies, Export Controls, and Materials Protection, Control, and Accountability (chair); (7) Panel on DOE Declassification Policy and Practice; (8) Committee on Declassification of Information for DOE’s Environmental Remediation and Related Programs (chair); (9) Energy Engineering Board (vice chair); (10) Committee on Fuel Economy of Automobiles and Light Trucks (chair); (11) Study on Scientific Responsibility and the Conduct of Science; (12) Panel on Cooperation with the USSR on Reactor Safety (chair); (13) Committee to Provide Interim Oversight of the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex (chair); (14) Committee to Assess Safety and Technical Issues at DOE Reactors (chair); (15) Panel on the Impact of National Security Controls on International Technology Transfer; and (16) Panel on Scientific Communication and National Security. Dr. Meserve was a member of the National Academies planning committee that initiated the 1997 Academy Symposium on Science, Technology, and Law. 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. Dr. Meserve currently serves as a member of the National Academies Science, Technology, and Law Panel, and was recently asked to serve as a member of the Roundtable on Scientific Communication and National Security, and as a member of the Committee on Indigenization of Programs to Prevent Leakage of Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium from Russia.
Moore, Duncan
Duncan Moore (NAE) received his B.A. degree in Physics from the University of Maine at Orono. He received his Masters (1970) and Ph.D. (1974) degrees from The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester. His theses were on the topic of gradient-index optics. He is the former Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, as well as the former Director of The Institute of Optics. He is the Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Professor of Optical Engineering at The Institute, having been a member of the faculty since 1974. During 1983, he spent a sabbatical year working for Nippon Schlumberger K.K. as Acting Manager of Optics in its Tokyo facility. In 1994, he served as Science and Technology Advisor to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV. He is a past President of the Optical Society of America. From 1997 to 2001, he served as Associate Director for Technology in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy for the Clinton Administration, where he worked on the Next Generation Internet, Clean Car Initiative, new construction materials, and NASA. From 2002 until 2004, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Infotonics Technology Center Inc., an industry, academia, and government partnership to foster cutting-edge research, prototyping of new technology, and economic development in Upstate New York State.
Morrison, Alan B., 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.
Rabb, Harriet
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.
Rheingold, Paul D.
Paul Rheingold is senior partner in Rheingold,Valet,Rheingold Shkolnik & McCartney LLP, and has been in practice since 1958. He was graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School. He has practiced on the plaintiff's side of personal injury cases since graduation, and in recent years has specialized in mass tort litigation. He is the author of the two volume work, Litigating Mass Tort Cases (Thomson West 2006). He has been active on steering committees for such products as ephedra, Bextra, and fen phen. He has taught at Harvard Law School and Stanford Law School, among others. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of the Institute for Civil Justice at the RAND Institute, and has served as a consultant to the ICJ. He is a member of Committee on Science, Technology and Law of the National Academy of Science. He has lectured on mass torts at many conferences, and has written a number of law review articles on the subject. He has served on a number of ABA and New York Bar Association commissions, including on lawyer advertising and on punitive damages. He is a former office of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. Member of the Carnegie Task Force on Science and Technology in Judicial and Decision Making 1989-93, which produced several reports on the environment and regulation. Adviser to the Reporters on American Law Institute Restatement of the Law 3d, Products Liability (1998) and Enterprise Responsibility for Personal Injury (1991). Commentator on the mass torts chapter of the Federal Judicial Conference's Manual For Complex Litigation 4th (2004). Chairman of the Planning Commission, City of Rye, N.Y. 1990-1992.
Rothstein, Barbara
Judge Barbara Jacobs Rothstein is a United States District Judge for the Western District of Washington and served as Chief Judge of that district from 1987-1994. In 2003 she was appointed Director of the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C., by the Board of the Center, chaired by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, and is presently serving in that position. Judge Rothstein graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University and attended Harvard Law School. Before her appointment to the federal bench in 1980, she was a Superior Court judge for the State of Washington. Before that she practiced law with a private firm in Boston, Massachusetts, and with the Consumer Protection and Antitrust Division of the State of Washington’s Attorney General’s office. Judge Rothstein taught trial practice at the University of Washington Law School. She has presided over many complex and controversial criminal and civil cases. She has served on a variety of committees including the Federal-State Relations Committee of the United States Judicial Conference and the Ninth Circuit Standing Committee on Gender, Race, Religious and Ethnic Fairness. She is a frequent lecturer and is a member of the American Law Institute. She is currently on the Board of the Institute of Judicial Administration at New York University Law School, the Board of the American Law Institute-American Bar Association and the Board of the Rule of Law Initiative of the American Bar Association. She also serves on the American Judicature Society’s Commission on forensic Science and Public Policy, the Physicians and Lawyers for National Drug Policy Justice Education Advisory Committee, as well as the National Historical Publications and Record Commission; the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Judicial Advisory Board; and the Advisory committee for Georgetown University Law Center “Our Courts” project. She has also served on the Board of EINSHAC, an educational affiliate of the Human Genome Project dedicated to instructing judges on scientific issues connected with the role of genetics in litigation.
Samet, Jonathan M. (M.D.) (IOM), A.B. (Chemistry and Physics), Harvard College; M.S. (Epidemiology) Harvard School of Public Health; M.D. (Medicine) University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, is Professor and the Flora L. Thornton Chairman, Department of Preventive Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC). He also serves as the founding director of the USC Institute for Global Health. An epidemiologist and pulmonary physician, he has focused on the effects of inhaled pollutants, respiratory diseases, cancer, and risk assessment. Dr. Samet has worked extensively on risks posed by indoor and outdoor air pollution and of active and passive smoking. He has conducted research on the effects of radon on miners in New Mexico, and has worked in the development of models of risk assessment for radon. He has served on numerous National Academies committees, including (1) 1999 Report Review of IOM Reports; (2) Committee on Health Risks of Exposure to Radon (BEIR VI), Phase I (chair), and Phase II (chair); (3) Commission on Life Sciences; (4) Board on Radiation Effects Research, (5) Panel on Dosimetric Assumptions Affecting the Application of Radon Risk Estimates (chair); (6) Committee on the Biological Effects of Internally Deposited Alpha-Emitting Radionuclides (BEIR IV), and Chair of the Committee on Evaluation of the VA’s Presumptive Disability Decision-Making Process (PDDM), Institute of Medicine. Dr. Samet is currently Chair of the National Academies Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology and Chair of the EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee.
Tatel, David S., B.A ,University of Michigan (1963); J.D. University of Chicago Law School (1966), is a circuit judge of 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 US 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 continues to serve on the Council of National Advisors to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. He received his J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1966.
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