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

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, DC.

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

Sam Silverstein, M.D. John C. Dalton Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysic Professor of Medicine Columbia University

Philip Stieg, MD 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 FDA Partner in the Washington, New York Offices of Sidley Austin Brown and Wood

Grace Marie Turner President The Galen Institute

Ben Zycher Senior Fellow in Economics Pacific Research Institute Adjunct scholar Cato Institute, Claremont Institute