2009 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
Barry Bloom, PhD
Dean
Harvard School of Public Health
Jordan J. Cohen, MD
The George Washington University
School of Medicine & Health Sciences
Anthony S. Fauci, MD
Director
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Phil B. Fontanarosa, MD
Executive Editor, JAMA
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
Joan Steitz, PhD
Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
HHMI Investigator
Yale University
Susan L. Swain, PhD
Member, President Emeritus
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
Terri A. Cerveny (Secretary)
Senior Vice President, Development
Albany Medical Center Foundation
