Diana Zuckerman, Ph.D.,
President
Diana
Zuckerman is the President of the National Research Center
for Women & Families, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research and education
organization that works to improve policies and programs that affect
the health and safety of women, children, and families.
Dr. Zuckerman received her Ph.D. in psychology from Ohio State University and was a post-doctoral fellow in epidemiology and public health at Yale Medical School. She started her career as a psychologist on the faculty of Vassar College and then directed research on the impact of television on children as a faculty member at Yale University. After a post-doctoral fellowship taking epidemiology courses and doing research on depression, domestic violence, and the health of the elderly poor at Yale Medical School, she went to Harvard to direct a groundbreaking research study of college students.
Dr. Zuckerman left her academic career in 1983, to come to Washington, DC as a Congressional Science Fellow, sponsored by the American Psychological Association. After spending the year working in the House of Representatives, she decided that public health was her career priority. She spent the next ten years working as a Congressional staffer in the House and Senate, and at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, working to improve federal programs and policies for women and families. She initiated highly influential Congressional hearings on a wide range of health issues.
In 1995, Dr. Zuckerman served as a senior policy advisor in the White House, working for First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Since 1996, she has served in leadership positions at nonprofit organizations, and has been President of the National Research Center for Women & Families since 1999.
In addition, Dr. Zuckerman is a fellow at the University of Pennsylvania
Center for Bioethics. She has served on numerous boards and commissions,
including the Board of Directors of the FDA Alliance, and until
recently was the chair of the Governor’s Women’s Health Promotion
Council for the State of Maryland.
Dr. Zuckerman is the author of four books and dozens of articles
in medical and academic journals, and in newspapers across the country.
Her policy work has resulted in news coverage on all the major TV
networks, including ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News, public television,
60 Minutes, 20/20, National Public Radio, and in major U.S.
print media such as The New York Times, The Washington Post,
The Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, USA Today,
Detroit Free Press, New York Daily News, Newsweek, Time, U.S. News
and World Report, Family Circle, the New Yorker, Glamour, Self,
as well as many other newspapers, magazines, and radio programs.
In addition, she is the author of four books, several book chapters,
and dozens of articles in academic journals and national newspapers.
She is the proud mother of two children, ages 17 and 20.
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Paul Brown
Government Relations Manager
As the Government Relations Manager for the National Research Center for Women & Families, Paul Brown educates federal and state lawmakers and their staffs about health care issues that effect women, children, and families. He also monitors the activities of the Food and Drug Administration and other federal health agencies. He leverages NRC for Women & Families’ influence through his effective outreach to other nonprofit organizations and by helping organize the legislative efforts of the Patient and Consumer Coalition.
Prior to joining NRC for Women & Families, Mr. Brown had 13 years of advocacy experience, as a consumer health care advocate with US PIRG and as the Southern Nevada Director of the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN). In addition to health care issues, Mr. Brown has advocated for improving social safety net programs, campaign finance reform, and increasing resources for K-12 education.
Mr. Brown has authored or co-authored numerous reports on issues such as prescription drug prices, campaign finance reform, economic contributions of immigrants, and state taxes. He has been frequently quoted in the media and has published numerous op-eds and letters to the editor.
A graduate of the University of Iowa, Mr. Brown is married to Lori Lipman Brown, a former Nevada State Senator. Mr. Brown ran his wife’s successful grassroots State Senate campaign in 1992, spending less than $2,000 to win the primary campaign. He can be reached at
pb@Center4Research.org
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Hydi Miller
Director of Communications
Hydi
Miller is the Director of Communications for the National
Research Center for Women & Families. She is editor of NRC’s newsletter,
The Voice for Women & Families, and is responsible for publications,
media relations, and public relations for the organization.
Ms. Miller has more than 15 years of professional experience working
as a public affairs liaison in both the public and private sectors.
Prior to joining NRC, Ms. Miller served as the Communications Director
for the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) National Headquarters in
Washington, DC where she promoted several major issues, including
LSC’s www.KatrinaLegalAid.org
website, through which people affected by natural disaster could
receive legal aid. She also served as Managing Editor of the Corporation’s
magazine, Equal Justice.
Previously, Ms. Miller served as the Legislative and Communications
Director for the Professional Managers Association (PMA), an organization
that represents the interests of U.S. government managers and management
officials. In that position, Ms. Miller lobbied before Congress,
the Administration and federal agencies on behalf of PMA's membership
on issues such as Medical Savings Accounts, Americans with Disabilities
Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act. In addition, Ms. Miller
served as the Editor in Chief of The Capitol Digest, PMA's
award-winning weekly publication.
Earlier in her career, Hydi was the National Director of Public Relations for the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A.; served at The White House under Presidents Bush and Reagan, as a Confidential Assistant in the Office of Legal Counsel to the President and in the Office of Presidential Personnel; and as a Congressional Aide on Capitol Hill.
A graduate of Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, Ms. Miller attended
graduate programs at Georgetown University and the National Institutes
of Health (NIH). Hydi Miller can be reached via email at hm@Center4Research.org
Board of Directors
Brief Biographies
George
Thomas Beall, M.A.
Tom Beall is the managing director of the
Social Marketing Practice of Ogilvy Public Relations, which is responsible
for communications on health and social issues. Mr. Beall has been
one of America’s leading social marketing practitioners since 1988,
when he directed components of the Center for Disease Control and
Prevention’s America Responds to AIDS Program.
Previously, Mr. Beall was vice president
of constituency relations at Burson-Marsteller. While there, he
developed and managed stakeholder, ally relationship and public
education programs for clients.
For nearly 20 years, Mr.
Beall worked in the field of aging, most recently as a senior manager
for The National Council on the Aging and as director of National
Voluntary Organizations for Independent Living for the Aging, coalition
of more than 200 national organizations with interest in older adults.
His current community volunteer work includes
serving on the Board of Directors of the Epilepsy Foundation, of
OWL: The Voice of Midlife and Older Women, and the National Woman’s
Party. He previously chaired the Board of Directors of the National
Institute of Senior Housing.
Mr. Beall holds a master’s
degree in health services administration and a bachelor’s degree
in psychology, both from The George Washington University.
Wendy
Elizabeth Braund, MD, MPH, MSEd
Dr. Wendy Braund is the Luther Terry Fellow and Senior Clinical Advisor at the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Her responsibilities include federal prevention policy development, analysis, and integration, as well as prevention education for the residents, medical, nursing and public health students and emerging scholars who rotate through the office. A 2007 graduate of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Preventative Medicine Residency Program, she is board certified in General Preventive Medicine and Public Health. Her professional interests include injury prevention, health policy, outcomes research, and medical education. She has been a long-term supporter of women’s health issues: prior to and during medical school she worked as a Research Coordinator for women’s health studies regarding intimate partner violence and polycystic ovary syndrome. She also served as the Resident Representative on the American Medical Women’s Association Board of Directors from 2002-2005.
Her degrees include a BA from Duke University, MSEd from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, MD from the Pennsylvania State College of Medicine, and MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prior to embarking on her medical career, Dr. Braund was a special education teacher and middle school guidance counselor.
Arthur
L. Caplan, Ph.D.
Art Caplan is the Director of the
Center for Bioethics, Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics,
and Emmanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics at the University
of Pennsylvania Medical Center.
Dr. Caplan has served as Chair of the
Advisory Committee to the United Nations on Human Cloning; Chair
of the Advisory Committee to the Department of Health and Human
Services on Blood Safety and Availability; and a member of the
Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Illnesses, the special
advisory committee to the International Olympic Committee on genetics
and gene therapy, and the special advisory panel to the National
Institutes of Mental Health on human experimentation on vulnerable
subjects
Dr.
Caplan is the author or editor of more than twenty books and over
500 papers in refereed journals of medicine, science, philosophy,
bioethics and health policy. He currently writes a regular column
on bioethics for MSNBC.com. He has received many awards and honors
including the McGovern Medal of the American Medical Writers Association,
Person of the Year-2001 from USA Today, one of Fifty Most
Influential People in American Health Care by Modern Health Care
magazine and six honorary degrees from colleges and medical schools.
He is a fellow of the Hastings Center, the NY Academy of Medicine,
the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the American Association
for the Advancement of Science.
Pamela
F. Gallin, M.D.
Dr. Pamela Gallin is Director of Pediatric
Ophthalmology and Associate Professor of both Ophthalmology and
Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of New York Presbyterian Medical
Center, where she is on the faculty of the Columbia University College
of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Gallin has an international clinical
surgical practice.
Dr. Gallin served on Hilary Clinton’s White
House Health Task Force, authored numerous scientific papers, and
has been in Best Doctors in America for many years. In addition,
Dr. Gallin orchestrated the air lift and medical care for many Bosnian
Children treated through Columbia Presbyterian.
Dr. Gallin recent book, “How to Survive
Your Doctor’s Care” (LifeLine Press), was featured on the Today
Show series “Second Opinions” and recommended by Forbes and The
Wall Street Journal. Her previous book, “The Savvy Mom’s Guide to
Medical Care” (St. Martins Press), was a Book of the Month Club
and Amazon #1 Parents Choice, and was directed towards families
and the care of their children. She has been interviewed on many
national TV shows.
Dr. Gallin graduated from Washington University
in St. Louis, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi and was
at the top of her class in their medical school. She is married
and has four children.
Mary
G. Hager, M.A.
Mary
Hager is a free-lance writer who retired from Newsweek after
serving as a Contributing Editor and correspondent for the Washington
Bureau. Ms. Hager's recent work includes commission reports to the
President and Congress on arthritis and epilepsy, and articles for
publications such as Self Magazine, Eco, Longevity, American
Psychologist, Impact 21, Consumer's Digest, America's Agenda, National
Wildlife, World Almanac, Collier's Yearbook, and Grolier's
Medicine and Health Yearbook.
Ms. Hager received her M.A. in journalism
and communications from Stanford University and was a Sloan-Rockefeller
Advanced Science Writing Fellow at the Columbia University School
of Journalism. She has received many awards for her work, including
the Balance in Journalism Award of the National Environmental
Development Association, the Page One Award of the New York
Newspaper Guild, the Searle Award of the American Medical
Writers Association, and national awards from the National Mental
Health Association, the National Easter Seal Society, and Action
on Smoking or Health. Ms. Hager was a member of the U.S. Delegation
to the U.S./Japan Common Agenda Conference on Environmental Education
in 1997, was named a Senator John Heinz Fellow in Environmental
Reporting in 2000, and is a member of the Board of Directors of
the Institute of Journalism and Natural Resources.
Nancy Hardt, M.D.
Dr. Nancy Hardt is professor of pathology, immunology, and laboratory
medicine and of obstetrics and gynecology, as well as the recently appointed
Senior Associate Dean for External Affairs at the University of Florida
College of Medicine. As Dean, she is involved in legislative issues, women's
health initiatives, and expansion of the capabilities of the East Side
clinic, and will develop a center of excellence in minority health care
disparities.
In 2006-2007, Dr. Hardt was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow,
working as Health Policy Advisor with Senator Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico
and as a key staffer on health issues in the office of Speaker of the House
Nancy Pelosi.
Dr. Hardt is boarded in both Pathology and Obstetrics and Gynecology. She
served on the full-time faculty at the university for nearly 20 years,
rising to the rank of Professor with tenure and Associate Dean for Clinical
Affairs and Managed Care. She has held a number of key leadership
positions, including serving as Co-Director, Center for Research on Women's
Health. In 2002, she moved to the University of Tennessee Health Science
Center, where she served as the Director of the Institute for Women's
Health.
Dr. Hardt has been recognized for her outstanding contributions by many
organizations, including the National Board of Medical Examiners
Distinguished Service Award in 2006 and being named as one of "50 Women Who
Make a Difference" in Memphis in 2005.
Judith
L. Harris, J.D.
Judy Harris is partner at
the law firm Reed, Smith, Shaw and McClay, where she is Head of
the Communications Group and concentrates on telecommunications
policy issues. Prior to her current position, Ms. Harris served
as Director of the Office of Legislative and Inter-Governmental
Affairs at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). She was
in charge of the Commission's work with Capitol Hill and the Clinton
Administration during the debate on children's television, digital
T.V. and connecting classrooms to the Internet, among many other
issues.
Before her appointment at the FCC, Ms. Harris'
practice focused on litigation and antitrust counseling, primarily
with respect to the healthcare and communications industries, and
included the defense and prosecution of class action lawsuits, and
grand jury, merger and other investigations involving the Antitrust
Division and the Federal Trade Commission. In addition to her recent
government position, Ms. Harris served as a senior trial attorney
with the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. Her first
job after graduating from Yale Law School was as a law clerk to
the Honorable James A. Belson, now of the D.C. Court of Appeals.
Ms. Harris is married to Norman Ornstein, a political analyst and
commentator with the American Enterprise Institute. They have two
sons, Daniel and Matthew.
Amy L. Marshall Lambrecht
Amy
Marshall Lambrecht serves as the Director of Corporate and Foundation
Relations for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. She previously
served as Vice President for Development of The Washington Monthly,
Director of Development at The American Prospect, the Director
of Development at the Institute for Women's Policy Research, the
Deputy Director of Development at the Economic Policy Institute,
and Deputy Director of Development at the National Mental Health
Association.
Ms.
Lambrecht has extensive fundraising experience working with foundations
and major donors across the country. She has contributed to the
organizational development of numerous nonprofits, both as a staff
member and as a consultant. As well, she contributed to the publication
“Guide to Federal Funding Opportunities” produced by the National
Council for Research on Women. Ms. Lambrecht was a columnist for
the Manassas Daily Journal in the 1990s.
Lambrecht received her B.A. degree from Johns Hopkins University, with a major in French and minors in Pre-Med and Art History. She also has done graduate work at the American University in Paris and Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C.
Lambrecht is also an active volunteer, serving on several boards in Manassas, Virginia, where she lives with her husband and their five children.
Alan
Mendelson, LLD
Alan Mendelson was elected to the Board
of Directors of the National Research Center for Women & Families
in June 2006. He is a venture capitalist in Hartford, Conn., where
he is the founder and managing general partner of Axiom Venture
Partners. Axiom has over $200 million under management and invests
in both information technology and the life sciences. Mendelson
heads the life science practice.
Prior to founding Axiom, Mendelson served
as vice president for Aetna Life and Casualty for about 25 years.
In this capacity, he oversaw many projects including Aetna's $135
million venture program, which generated over $300 million of profits.
He also helped to create MBIA, the country's largest municipal bond
insurance company and he worked directly on over three billion dollars
of corporate loans. Mendelson successfully worked with the chief
information officer to formulate strategy and policy regarding Aetna's
$27.5 billion commercial mortgage loan portfolio. During this time,
he also initiated and served as president and CEO of Aetna, Jacobs,
and Ramo, a venture capital deal sharing arrangement.
He has dedicated more than two decades
of his career to technology policy and development in Connecticut.
As the finance committee vice chairman of the State's first High
Technology Task Force in 1984, Mendelson created Connecticut Seed
Ventures and two Centers of Excellence. He has served on the Advisory
Board of Connecticut Innovations since 1989, and is currently a
board member of the Connecticut Technology Council. In his industry
roles for the State, he has received the Distinguished Service Award
from Connecticut Innovations and the Leadership Award from the Connecticut
Venture Group, of which he was a past president.
Mendelson currently serves on the Board
of the MIT Enterprise Forum and the Advisory Council of Claremont
College's Keck Graduate Institute, which offers a master's degree
in Bioscience. He also is treasurer and a Board of Trustee member
of the Jewish Community Foundation, a director of the Jewish Federation
of Greater Hartford, and chairman of the Board of Trinity College
Hillel.
Mendelson graduated Phi Beta Kappa, with
a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Trinity College. He received,
with honors, his LLD degree from the University of Connecticut.
Sharon Scribner Pearce
Sharon Scribner Pearce is Senior Managing Director of Sonnenschein, an international law firm that provides legal services and business counseling. At Sonnenschein, she has worked on many successful legislative initiatives, including an effort to provide for the regulation of all contact lenses as medical devices, which became Public Law 109-96 in 2005.
Ms. Pearce joined Sonnenschein after six years on Capitol Hill, most recently as Legislative Director for Representative Gene Green (D-TX). Her legislative achievements included enactment of several public health bills, and securing federal funding for several health projects.
In addition, Sharon is a member of the American Diabetes Association's Government Relations team, and in that role she coordinated outreach activities, public policy forums, advocacy training, and other grassroots activities. Ms. Pearce is also widely known for her knowledge and expertise in the public health field and has presented many times before the National Health Council.
A long-time member of the Congressional Chorus, Ms. Pearce is also an active member of Women in Government Relations.
Omega
Logan Silva, M.D.
Omega
Logan Silva, M.D., is professor emeritus of medicine at the George
Washington University in Washington, D.C. She is a long-standing
advocate for universal health care and a committed supporter of
the advancement of women in medicine.
Omega Silva started her career as a chemist
as the National Institutes of Health, and in 1963 returned to Howard
University to train as a physician. After earning a doctor of medicine
degree in 1967, Dr. Silva completed a residency in internal medicine
at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Washington, D.C., and
from 1970 to 1974 served as a fellow in endocrinology at George
Washington University.
In 1975 she was appointed assistant professor
of medicine at George Washington University, and in 1977 she was
also appointed associate professor of oncology at Howard University.
Dr. Silva has held academic posts at both institutions ever since,
becoming full professor at Howard in 1985 and at George Washington
in 1991. In 1983 she was elected president of the Howard University
Medical Alumni, making her the first woman to hold that post. From
1977 to 1996 Dr. Silva was also assistant chief of the Metabolic
Section and chief of the diabetic clinic at the Veterans Affairs
Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Silva is a member of dozens of local
and national committees and organizations and from 2000 to 2002
served as president of the American Medical Women's Association.
She has served on six separate advisory groups for the National
Institutes of Health and was a consultant to the Food and Drug Administration's
Immunology Section from 1981 to 1989. Dr. Silva has also served
on the board of directors for the Howard University Medical Alumni
Association, the National Association of Veterans Affairs Physicians,
the American Medical Women's Association and the Foundation for
the History of Women in Medicine.
Dr. Silva has made numerous media appearances
to highlight issues in women's health including smoking, cervical
cancer, and thyroid disease. She has also participated in various
career days and educational events at local schools, and has been
an editorial referee for Chest, Archives of Internal Medicine
and The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics.
In 1984, Dr. Silva received a Letter of
Commendation from the President Reagan and in 1995 she was given
a Letter of Thanks from President Clinton for her participation
in health care reform. In 2003 Dr. Silva was elected to a Mastership
at the American College of Physicians. She is also listed in American
Men and Women of Science, Who's Who in Black America,
Who's Who in Professional and Executive Women, and Who's
Who of American Women.
Susan F. Wood, Ph.D.
Dr. Susan F. Wood is Research Professor
at the George Washington University School of Public Health and
Health Services, where her work focuses on the use of scientific
knowledge in public policy.
Dr. Wood served as Director of the Food
and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Women's Health (OWH) from
November 2000 through August 2005. She championed women’s health
both inside and outside the FDA, and then resigned on principle
over FDA’s delay of approval of emergency contraception for over-the-counter
sale.
Previously, Dr. Wood was the Director for
Policy and Program Development at the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health, where she led the
development of policy for the Office. She also coordinated the activities
of the Public Health Service Coordinating Committee on Women’s Health.
From 1990 to 1995, Dr. Wood worked on Capitol Hill for the Congressional
Caucus for Women’s Issues, an organization of Members of Congress
dedicated to legislation that promotes legal, economic, and health
equity for women. Prior to coming to Capitol Hill, Dr. Wood was
a research scientist at the John Hopkins University School of Medicine,
in the Department of Neuroscience, where her research focused on
cellular mechanisms of sensory transduction. She received her Ph.D.
in biology from Boston University at the Marine Biological Laboratory
in Woods Hole, MA, where she carried out basic research on the biochemistry
of vision.
Dr. Wood has received numerous awards in
recognition of her work. She is married and has a 12-year old daughter.
National
Advisory Board
Judy Woodruff, Broadcast Journalist, CNN and PBS
Susan Wood, Ph.D., Former Director of FDA's Office of Women's Health
Michael Weitzman,
M.D., Director, Center for Child Health Research, American Academy
of Pediatrics
The Honorable Olympia
Snowe, U.S. Senator from Maine
Joy Simonson, President,*
Clearinghouse on Women's Issues
Shari Miles,
Ph.D., Executive Director, Society for the Psychological Study
of Social Issues
Mary McDonough,
Actress and Director
Lisa
Lopez, J.D., Senior Vice President and General Counsel
for Haemonetics Corporation
Irene S.
Levine, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Nathan S. Kline Institute
for Psychiatric Research, and Clinical Professor at New York University
Rebecca Klemm,
Ph.D.,President, Klemm Analysis Group
Sally Kenney, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Women and Public
Policy, University of Minnesota
Phyllis
A. Katz, Ph.D., Director of the Institute for Research
on Social Problems
Patricia
Hendel, Past President of the National Association of Commissions
for Women
Mark Frankel,
Ph.D., Director, Scientific Freedom, Responsibility and Law
Program, American Association for the Advancement of Science
The Honorable
Rosa DeLauro, U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut
* Joy
Simonson obituary
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