Center for Medicine in the Public Interest

CMPI Board of Directors

The CMPI Board of Directors is comprised of some of the nation's leaders in academic medical research, clinical practice, health care delivery, patient advocacy, innovation leadership and science reporting. The board will be involved in helping CMPI reaching a broader group of stakeholders in their respective communities and in shaping CMPI programs in the future.

• Bruce Booth Principal, Atlas Venture

• Bruce Brandfon Publisher, Scientific American

• Fred Goodwin, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry, The George Washington University Medical Center

• Dennis Johnson Vice President, Policy and External Affairs at The Children's Health Fund

• Suzanne Pattee, J.D.Vice president, Public Policy and Patient Affairs for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

• Steven Sammut Lecturer, Wharton School, the Law School and the School of Engineering and Applied Science of the University of Pennsylvania

• Mark Thornton, M.D., Ph.D.Chairman and President, Sarcoma Foundation of America

• Michael Weber, M.D.Associate Dean and Professor of Medicine, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, Brooklyn, New York

• Raymond Woosley, M.D., Ph.D.President and CEO, C-Path Institute

CMPI Advisory Board

• Joesph L. Bast

President and CEO, The Heartland Institute, Chicago, IL

• John E. Calfee

Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.

• Joseph A. DiMasi, Ph.D.

Director of Economic Analysis, Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, Tufts University, Boston, MA

• Helen Disney

Director, Stockholm Network, London, England

• John Kamp

Executive Director, Coalition for Healthcare Communication

• Sam Kazman

General Counsel, Competitive Enterprise Institute

• Dr. Merrill Mathews, Jr.

Resident Scholar, Institute for Policy Innovation

Director, Council for Affordable Health Insurance

• David McIntosh

Attorney, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, Washington, D.C.

• Julian Morris

Director, International Policy Network, London

• Tomas J. Philipson

Professor, The Harris School, Chicago, IL

• Stephen Pollard

Senior Fellow at the Centre for the New Europe, Brussels, Belgium

• William Roper

CEO, University of North Carolina Health Care System

• Ellen V. Sigal, Ph.D.

Founder and Chairperson, Friends of Cancer Research

• Samuel C. Silverstein, M.D.

John C. Dalton Professor and Chairman, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University

Professor of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University

• Philip Stieg, M.D.

Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurological Surgery, Weill Medical College

Neurosurgeon-in-Chief, New York-Presbyterian Hospital

• Daniel E. Troy

Former Chief Counsel of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Partner in the Washington, New York Offices of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood

• Grace Marie Turner

President, The Galen Institute

• Ben Zycher

Senior Fellow in Economics, Pacific Research Institute

Adjunct scholar, Cato Institute, Claremont Institute