2008 Selection Committee
James J. Barba (Chair)
President and CEO
Albany Medical Center
Marlene Belfort, PhD
Director, Division of Genetic Disorders
Wadsworth Center NYS Dept. of Health
David Axelrod Institute
Anthony S. Fauci, MD
Director
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Joel Mitchel Friedman, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics
Professor, Department of Medicine
Young Men’s Division Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Ivar Giaever, PhD
President
Applied BioPhysics, Inc.
A. John Popp, MD
Co-Director, Neurosciences Institute
Head, Division of Neurosurgery
Henry and Sally Schaffer Chair
Albany Medical Center
Dominick P. Purpura, MD
Dean Emeritus
Distinguished University Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Steven A. Schroeder, MD
Distinguished Professor of Health & Health Care
Director, Center for Health Professions
Leadership on Tobacco Cessation
Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Susan L. Swain, PhD
President and Director
Trudeau Institute, Inc.
Daniel C. Tosteson, MD
Caroline Shields Walker Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology
Department of Cell Biology
Dean Emeritus
Harvard Medical School
Vincent P. Verdile, MD
Dean
Albany Medical College
Lori Matt-Murphy (Secretary)
Associate Vice President of Foundation Operations and Planned Giving
Albany Medical Center
