Faculty at the University of Minnesota Medical School who hold national or international leadership positions
In addition to their service on boards or in top leadership positions of national and international organizations, listed below, University of Minnesota Medical School faculty also serve in ways not listed: as editors of journals, on study sections, and in councils and committees of the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, and in other major professional organizations.
Mustafa al'Absi, Ph.D., Family Medicine and Community Health, is a board member of the leadership council of the American Psychosomatic Society.
Fred Apple, Ph.D., Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, is a member of the Global Task Force for Redefinition of Myocardial Infarction, and chair of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine’s Committee for Standardization of Markers of Cardiac Damage.
Macaran Baird, M.D., M.S., Family Medicine and Community Health, is on the Board of Directors for the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Foundation and also on the Advisory Board for the MacArthur Foundation, Depression in Primary Care.
Nancy Baker, M.D., Family Medicine and Community Health, is a member-at-large of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Board of Directors.
Kumar G. Belani, M.B.B.S., M.S., Anesthesiology, Pediatrics, Medicine, and Environmental Safety, is a member and part of the Advisory Committee for the One World Hospital and Healing Centre, Bangalore, India.
Jerica Berge, Ph.D., Family Medicine and Community Health, serves on the Advisory Board of the National Council on Family Relations.
Kimberly Bohjanen, M.D., Dermatology, serves on the Medical Dermatology Society Board of Directors.
James Boulger, Ph.D., Behavioral Sciences, is the co-chair of the National Rural Health Association, Rural Medical Educators Group, and a board member for Agriwellness, Inc.
Ray Christensen, M.D., Family Medicine and Community Health, is a delegate of the American Medical Association.
Jay Cohn, M.D., Medicine, is founder and first president of the Heart Failure Society of America.
Eli Coleman, Ph.D., Family Medicine and Community Health, is a WHO liaison officer for the World Association for Sexual Health.
Scott Crow, M.D., Psychiatry, is immediate past president of Academy for Eating Disorders.
Bruce Cunningham, M.D., Surgery, is president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
Joycelyn Dorscher, M.D., Family Medicine and Community Health, is president of the Association of American Indian Physicians.
Timothy Ebner, M.D., Ph.D., Neuroscience, is a counselor for the Association of Medical School Neuroscience Chairpersons.
Barbara Elliott, Ph.D., Family Medicine, is a board member of the KELLOGG Fellows Leadership Alliance.
Meri Firpo, M.D., Medicine, serves on scientific advisory board of the Stem Cell Research Foundation.
Patricia Fontaine, M.D., M.S., Family Medicine and Community Health, serves on the International Board for the American Academy of Family Physicians Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics Program.
M. Kent Froberg, M.D., Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, is the immediate past-president of the Association of Clinical Scientists.
Leo T. Furcht, M.D., Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, is president of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
Robert Ganz, M.D., Medicine, serves as councilor for the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.
Apostolos Georgopoulos, M.D., Ph.D., Neuroscience, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Institute of Medicine in the National Academy of Sciences.
Dwenda Gjerdingen, M.D., M.S., Family Medicine and Community Health, served on the Women’s Mental Health Symposium and the Development of Postpartum Depression Training and Support Materials for Primary Care Providers for the National Institute on Mental Health.
Barbara S. Gold, M.D., Anesthesiology, serves the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia on its Past Presidents Council.
Ashley Haase, M.D., Microbiology, is a member of the Institute of Medicine and chair of the U.S. Delegation, U.S.-Japan Cooperative Medical Sciences Program.
Frederic Hafferty, Ph.D., Behavioral Sciences, serves on the board of the Association for Behavioral Sciences and Medical Education.
Cynthia Herrington, M.D., Surgery, is an invited expert of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Division of Organ Transplantation Breakthrough Collaborative.
Marshall Hertz, M.D., PACC, Medicine, is a director for the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Scientific Registry.
David Hom, M.D., Otolaryngology, serves on the Board of Directors for the American Board of Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery.
Lois Jane Heller, Ph.D., Physiology, serves on the Council of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine.
Bernhard J. Hering, M.D., Surgery, is a director of the North American Office of the International Islet Transplantation Registry; founding member of the Cell Transplant Society; founding member of the International Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association; and, medical director and chair, Scientific Advisory Committee, Collaborative Islet Transplant Registry, a National Institutes of Health-initiated and -sponsored collaboration.
Peter Hilger, M.D., Otolaryngology, is president-elect for 2005-2006 of the American Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery. He will be president for 2006-2007.
David H. Ingbar, M.D., Medicine, serves the American Thoracic Society as president-elect 2006-2007 and president 2007-2008, and the Association of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Program Directors on the Executive Committee and as past president.
Harry Jacob, M.D., Medicine, is a past-president of the American Society of Hematology.
Marc Jenkins, Ph.D., Microbiology, is a member of the National Advisory Committee for the Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences; member of NIH Expert Panel on Transplantation; and member of NIH Expert Panel on Food Allergy.
Jeffrey Kahn, Ph.D., M.P.H., Medicine, serves on the National Institutes of Health Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee.
Dan Kaufman, M.D., Medicine, serves on scientific advisory board of the Stem Cell Research Foundation.
Patrick Keenan, M.D., Family Medicine and Community Health,is on the Federal Advisory Committee for the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment.
Daniel P. Kohen, M.D., Pediatrics, is the vice president of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis; he also serves on the board of directors and is a past-president of the American Board of Medical Hypnosis.
Carol Lange, M.D., Medicine, is part of the International Steering Committee for the Endocrine Society.
Paul Letourneau, Ph.D., Neuroscience, is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board in the Spinal Cord Research Foundation, Paralyzed Veterans of America.
Louis Ling, M.D., Medicine, is chair of the American Board of Emergency Medicine.
Horace H. Loh, Ph.D., Pharmacology, is the founder and founding president of the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America, a Life Fellow in the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, a member of the Board of Directors, and Charter Fellow for the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD). For the Republic of China, he is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Department of Higher Education at the Ministry of Education, serves in the Academic Advisory Committee of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences for the Academia Sinica, Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee at the Institute of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Research of the National Health Research Institutes, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the National Health Research Institutes.
Michael Maddaus, M.D., Surgery, serves on the Executive Committee of the General Thoracic Surgical Club.
Robert Maisel, M.D., Otolaryngology, is the past-president of the American Academy of Otolaryngology.
Arthur Matas, M.D., Surgery, is American Society of Transplant Surgeons president-elect – 2005-2006.
James Pacala, M.D, M.S., Family Medicine and Community Health, is on the Board of Directors for the American Geriatrics Society.
Michael Potegal, Ph.D., L.P., Pediatrics, is an executive council member of the International Society for Research on Aggression.
Deborah E. Powell, M.D., Dean, serves on the board of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and is a member of the Institute of Medicine.
Richard C. Prielipp, M.D., M.B.A., F.C.C.M., Anesthesiology, serves on the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation.
Edward Ratner, M.D., Medicine, serves on the Board of Directors and is a past president of the American Academy of Home Care Physicians.
Jonathan Ravdin, M.D., Medicine, is a boardmember of the Association of Professors of Medicine.
Michael D. Resnick, Ph.D., Pediatrics, is a member of the Board of Directors at the Guttmacher Institute. He is a National Consulting Team Member for the Centers for Disease Control’s Guide to Community Preventive Services, as well as a scientific advisor to the CDC’s special panel: Protective and Promotive Factors for Youth Violence.
William Roberts, M.D., M.S., Family Medicine and Community Health, is the past-president of the American College of Sports Medicine.
Bean Robinson, Ph.D., Family Medicine and Community Health, is the executive director of the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association.
David A. Rothenberger, M.D., Surgery, is president, American Society of Colon & Rectal Surgeons Research Foundation.
Ashok Saluja, Ph.D., Surgery, is the immediate past president of American Pancreatic Association.
David Satin, M.D., Family Medicine and Community Health, is a member of the Development Group on Geriatric Pay-for-Performance Measures at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Patrick Schlievert, Ph.D., Microbiology, is a member of the NIAID National Board of Scientific Counselors.
David E. Sutherland, M.D., Ph.D., Surgery, is Honorary President, Cell Transplant Society.
Marc Swiontkowski, M.D., Orthopaedic Surgery, is chair of the American Board of Medical Subspecialties.
Doris Taylor, Ph.D., Integrative Biology and Physiology, serves on the Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration.
Selwyn Vickers, M.D., Surgery, is a past president of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons.
John Wagner, M.D., Pediatrics, was named to Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academies’ Research Council.
Kendall B. Wallace, Ph.D., Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, is immediate past-president of the Society of Toxicology; trustee for the Health and Environmental Sciences Institute; and, councilor for the International Union of Toxicology. He also serves on the Science Advisory Board of the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation.
Erin Mary Keener Warshaw, M.D., Dermatology, serves on the American Contact Dermatitis Society as president-elect, and is on the Women’s Dermatologic Society Board of Directors.
Warren Warwick, M.D., Pediatrics, is the co-chair of the International Cystic Fibrosis Aging Group.
Kathleen Watson, M.D., Medicine, serves on the governing board of the National Institute for Healthcare Improvement Health Professions Education Collaborative, 2006-2008.
Daniel Weisdorf, M.D., Medicine, is chair of the NHLBI/NCI sponsored Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network, as well as on the Network Steering Committee.
Mimi C. Yu, Ph.D., Cancer Center, has served on the National Board of Directors, American Cancer Society.
Brian Zamboni, Ph.D., Family Medicine and Community Health, serves on the Board of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.