Health, Biomedical Science and Society Initiative
Health, Biomedical Science and Society Initiative
Speakers
The following individuals have confirmed their participation as speakers at the forum.
Peter Agre, MD
Vice Chancellor for Science and Technology
Duke University Medical Center
David Agus, MD
Research Director, Louis Warschaw Prostate Cancer Center
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Pervez Ahmed, MBBS
Executive Director, Medical Operations
Max Healthcare
Arash Alaei, MD, MPH
Director, International Education and Research Cooperation
Iranian National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
Kamiar Alaei, MD, MPH, MS
Visiting Fellow
Harvard University School of Public Health
Alan Altman, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
Harvard Medical School
Robert Armstrong, PhD
Vice President of Global External Research and Development
Eli Lilly Company
Catherine Arnold, MBA, MHA
Director and Senior Analyst, U.S. Major Pharmaceuticals
Credit Suisse
Anthony Atala, MD
Director, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Ronald Atlas, PhD
Co-Director, Center for Health Hazards Preparedness
University of Louisville
Zoë Baird, JD
President, The Markle Foundation
John Barry
Distinguished Visiting Scholar
Center for Bioenvironmental Research
Tulane and Xavier Universities
Sharon Begley
Scince Columnist, Newsweek
J. Michael Bishop, MD
Chancellor, University of California, San Francisco
Adam Bly
Chief Executive Officer and Editor-in-Chief
Seed Media Group
Susan Brink
Health Staff Writer, The Los Angeles Times
Andrea Califano, PhD
Professor and Associate Director, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
Sir Roy Calne, MD
Professor of Surgery Emeritus, Cambridge University
Nigel Cameron, PhD
President, Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future
Nora Chase
Artist
Stanley N. Cohen, MD
Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in the School of Medicine
Stanford University
William Colby, JD
Senior Fellow, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
Rita Colwell, PhD
Senior Advisor and Honorary Chairperson
Canon U.S. Life Sciences
Max Coppes, MD, PhD, MBA
Executive Director, Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders
Children's National Medical Center
Dan Crippen, PhD
Former Director, Congressional Budget Office
Clive Crook
Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Alice Dautry, PhD
President, Institut Pasteur
Susan Dentzer
Health Coorespondent
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
James D'Orta, MD
Founder, Chairman and CEO
Consumer Health Services, Inc
David Eddy, MD, PhD
Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Archimedes, Inc.
Einer Elhauge, JD
Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics
Harvard University
Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD
Director, Department of Clinical Bioethics
National Institutes of Health
Ruth Faden, PhD, MPH
Executive Director, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
Anthony Fauci, MD
Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
National Institutes of Health
Charles Figley, PhD
Director, Florida State Traumatology Institute
Harvey Fineberg, MD, PhD
President, The Institute of Medicine
Silvia Formenti, MD
Chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology
NYU School of Medicine
Henry Friedman, MD
Deputy Director, Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center
Duke University Medical Center
The Hon. William Frist, MD
Former Senate Majority Leader
Craig Fuller
Executive Vice President
APCO Worldwide
Mark Ganz
President and CEO
The Regence Group
Elliot Gerson
Executive Vice President, Seminars and Public Programs
The Aspen Institute
Joan Goldberg
Executive Director
American Society for Cell Biology
Glenda Greenwald
Founder and Chair Emeritus, Aspen Center for Integral Health
James Greenwood
President and Chief Executive Officer
Biotechnology Industry Organization
David Grubin
President, David Grubin Productions
Steve Gutman, MD, MBA
Director, Office of In Vitro Diagnostic Device Evaluation and Patient Safety
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Margaret Hamburg, MD
Senior Scientist, Nuclear Threat Initiative
William Haseltine, PhD
President, The Haseltine Foundation for Medical Sciences and the Arts
Joseph Hogan, MBA
President and Chief Executive Officer
GE Healthcare
Stuart Hogarth
Research Associate
Department of Public Health and Primary Care
Cambridge University
Robert Honigberg, MD, MBA
Chief Medical Officer
GE Healthcare
Kathy Hudson, PhD
Founder and Director, The Genetics and Public Policy Center
Johns Hopkins University
Thomas Hughes, PhD
Head of Diabetes and Metabolism Research
Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Inc.
Margaret Hunt, MS, ATC
Medical Services Director, United States Olympic Committee
Neen Hunt, EdD
President, The Lasker Foundation
Jennifer Jarrett, MBA
Director, Health Care Group, Investment Banking Department
Credit Suisse
Scott Johnson, MBA
President and Founder
Myelin Repair Foundation
C. Ronald Kahn, MD
Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School Joslin Diabetes Center
Frances Kamm, PhD
Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government
Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
Regis Kelly, PhD
Director, California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3)
Cynthia Kenyon, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
University of California San Francisco
Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD
Assistant Professor in Public Health Practice
Yale University School of Public Health
Darrell Kirch, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer
Association of American Medical Colleges
Richard Klausner, MD
Managing Partner, The Column Group
Robert N. Klein, JD
Chairman, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Caroline Kovac, PhD
Managing Director, Burrill & Company
Clifton Leaf, MFA
Journalist and Former Executive Editor, Fortune
Stepanie Lederman, EdM
Executive Director, American Federation for Aging Research
Alan Leshner, PhD
Chief Executive Officer
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Navid Madani, PhD
Instructor and Staff Scientist
Harvard Medical School Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
James Madara, MD
Chief Executive Officer, University of Chicago Medical Center
John Maeda, PhD, MBA
Associate Director of Research
MIT Media Lab
Rob Mashal, MD
CEO, Alinea Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Mark McClellan, MD, PhD
Visiting Senior Fellow
AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies
Michelle McMurry, MD, PhD
Director of the Health, Biomedical Science and Society Policy Program, and the Aspen Health Forum
The Aspen Institute
Peter McMurry
Cystic Fibrosis Patient and Long Time Organ Transplant Recipient Survivor
Michael Milken, MBA
Founder and Chairman, FasterCures
Hala Moddelmog
President and Chief Executive Officer
Susan G. Komen for the Cure
R. Bartley Moore
Executive Director of Research, Atlantic Media
David Nabarro, CBE, FRCP
Senior Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza
United Nations
Elizabeth Nabel, MD
Director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
The National Institutes of Health
Gary Nabel, MD, PhD
Director, Vaccine Research Center
National Institutes of Health
Norman Neureiter, PhD
Director, Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Eve Nichols
Vice President for Science
The Fidelity Foundation
Trent Nichols, MD
Founder, Center for Nutrition and Digestive Disorders
John Niederhuber, MD
Director, National Cancer Institute
Larry Norton, MD
Norna S. Sarofim Chair in Clinical Oncology
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Gilbert Omenn, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Genetics, Public Health and Computational Biology
University of Michigan Medical School
Dean Ornish, MD
Founder and President, Preventive Medicine Research Institute
Peter Orszag, PhD, MSc
Director, Congressional Budget Office
Jessica Owens, MBA
Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
John Parr, JD
Co-Founder, Civic Results
Aaron Peirsol
Two-time Olympian and Oceana spokesperson
Georg-Andreas Pogany
Founder, Just One Wounded Warrior
Amy McGuire Porter
Executive Director, Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
John Porter, JD
Partner, Hogan & Hartson LLP
Franklyn Prendergast, MD, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology and Former Director
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center
Franklin Raines, JD
Vice Chairman, Revolution Health Group Board of Directors
N. Krishna Reddy
CEO, CARE Hospital
Tannishtha Reya, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Duke University School of Medicine
Richard Robb, PhD
Director, Biomedical Imaging Resource
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Jimmy Roberts
Sportscaster, NBC
Mary Robinson, LLB, LLM
President, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative
The Aspen Institute
Barbara Romberg, PhD
Founder and Executive Director, Give an Hour
Eric Rose, MD
Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Steven Rosenberg, MD, PhD
Chief, Surgery Branch
National Cancer Institute
Wayne Rosenkrans, Jr., PhD
Scientific and Medical Strategy Director for External Medical Relations
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals
Leonard Rubenstein, JD
President, Physicians for Human Rights
Ellis Rubinstein
President, New York Academy of Sciences
David Scadden, MD
Gerald and Darlene Jordan Professor of Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Andrew Schiff, MD, MBA
Managing Director, Aisling Capital II, llc.
Eric Schlosser
Author and Journalist
Mark Siegler, MD
Director, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
University of Chicago
Greg Simon, JD
President, FasterCures
Stewart Simonson, JD
Vice President for Global Public Health Preparedness
Constella Group, LLC
Sri SivaKumar
Chief Executive, ITC Limited
Jay Skyler, MD
Professor of Medicine and Director
The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Stuart Smith, JD, MBA
Managing Director and Head of Health Care, Investment Banking Department
Credit Suisse
Steven Southwick, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center
Yale University School of Medicine
Bruce Stillman, PhD
President and Chief Executive Officer
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Edwin Stone, MD, PhD
Director, Carver Family Center for Macular Degeneration
University of Iowa
Picabo Street
Olympic gold medalist and skier
Jack Taunton, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Vancouver Organizing Committee
2010 Olympic Games
Elizabeth Teisberg, PhD
Co-Author, Redefining Health Care
Brian Thiele, MD
Professor of Surgery
University of Queensland, Australia
Hon. Tommy Thompson, JD
Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Former Secretary of Health and Human Services
Priyadarshi Tiwari, MD
Chief of Community Health & Wellness Services
Care Hospitals
Robert Tjian, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Jennifer Vasterling, PhD
Chief of Psychology and Clinical Investigator
The National Center for PTSD
Gregory Verdine, PhD
Harvard College Professor
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
Nora Volkow, MD
Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse
Kenneth Weakley, MBA
Managing Director, Equity Research Department, Investment Banking Division
Credit Suisse
Daniel Weinberger, MD
Senior Investigator
The National Institute of Mental Health
Irving Weissman, MD
Director, Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
Stanford University
Jonathan Weissman, PhD
Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of California, San Francisco
Terrie Fox Wetle, PhD
President, American Federation for Aging Research
R. Sanders Williams, MD
Dean and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Duke University School of Medicine
Ron Winslow
Deputy Editor, Health and Science
The Wall Street Journal
Nathan Wolfe, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology
School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles
Malissa Wood, MD
Assistant Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital
Mary Woolley
President and CEO
Research!America
Steven Zeisel, MD, PhD
Kenan Distinguished University Professor
UNC-Chapel Hill School of Public Health
Paul Zimmet, AO, MD, PhD
Director, International Diabetes Institute
Douglas Zipes, MD
Emeritus Director, Cardiology Division
Indiana University School of Medicine
John Zogby
President and Chief Executive Officer
Zogby International


