Center for Global Initiatives

Announcing the Board of Directors for the Center:   DALE W. GALASSIE, M.A., M.S., Executive Director, Lake County Health Department, Waukegan, IL.   EDITH H. GROTBERG, PhD is a Psychologist and Professional Lecturer at George Washington University School of Public Health, Department of Prevention and Community Health. A faculty member at the university's Institute for Mental Health Initiatives, Grotberg is former Director of Research for the Administration of Children, Youth and Families, for the federal Department of Health and Human Services. She has also been a Professor at American University in Washington, D.C., and is internationally known for her research on resilience. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and former President of the International Council of Psychologists. Advisors Henry Breed, Assistant to the Under-Secretary-General, United Nations. Missions in Mozambique, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia. Serves on the Jane Goodall Foundation. Author. Matthew J. Cadbury, Managing Director, Cadbury Schweppes. Turkey. Degree in engineering, Cambridge; MBA. Experience in production management and consulting; Marketing Director, Spain. Joined Cadbury Schweppes in 1990. Specialty in developing businesses and the developing world - setting up an operation in Poland, a joint venture in Mexico and several acquisitions. Karen Hansen, Director of the Institutional Review Office at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, WA. Karen is responsible for and promotes the assurance of compliance with federal, state, and local law and policy relating to IRO activities. Karen provides certification of IRB and/or IACUC approval(s) to funding agencies and supportive interaction and negotiations with agencies, institutions, sponsors, research participants and auditors involving investigators, staff and/or IRB or IACUC activities. Karen is a moving force behind the widely adopted national online IRB training curriculum, which also meets federal requirements imposed in the last several years on all investigators. Karen has begun helping other countries to adopt human subjects rights and protections policies and training for their situations so that they will be compliant with the regulations which the Hutch-sponsored clinical trials has to follow. She had intriguing views and experiences on working with the Chinese team. Karen has a valuable perspective on the international diffusion of Human Subjects and IRB work, but she would also a perspective on working with international partners in clinical trials in prevention and screening and vaccine development (HIV-AIDS). The Hutchinson Center has over a ten-year history of this kind of work - from Nobel-prize winning work on bone marrow transplantation to international bone marrow donor registries and trained all of the various centers around the world now doing BMT. Karen has been at FHCRC for 25 years. Her credentials and integrity are impeccable and her national leadership in this area admired. Mariano J. Levin, PhD, Dr. Levin is Principal Researcher in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Chagas Disease at the Institute for Research on Genetic Engineering and Molecular Biology, CONICET (Argentinian National Research Council), Buenos Aires, and Full Professor in the School of Science, Department of Biology, at the University of Buenos Aires. He received a PhD, in biochemistry in 1981 from the University of Leipzig, Germany. He conducted postdoctoral work in France at INSERM, CNRS, and Institut Pasteur. He has received several prizes from the Argentine Society of Cardiology, and in 1998 he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. He is currently a Howard Hughes International Research Scholar. He has developed strong lines of research studying the antibody response in chronic Chagas heart disease, the severest form of infection by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. He has also been one of the major organizers of the Trypanosoma cruzi genome project in Latin America, contributing important information as to the nature of one of the most complicated parasite genomes ever sequenced. Ed Mallinckrodt, Co-founder, Oyster Partners, UK. Mallinckrodt was the leading force behind bookshop.co.uk, the first known Internet bookshop, established in 1994, as well as securities.com, nutravida.com, travelstore.com and Fingertips Media. Five years ago, with partner Sherry Catou, Mallinckrodt bought Internet firm Oyster and sold bookshop to a UK retailer. Mallinckrodt is also co-founder of Interactive Investor International (iii.co.uk), an online service for equity trading and information on UK (and offshore) financial services. Ralph C. Musicant, JD, CEO, Ideas and Methods, Inc., is a Harvard Law School graduate who has founded and operated companies in a variety of industries. His academic career includes an appointment as the Martin C. Remer Visiting Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. Mehmet Oz, MD, MBA, Irving Assistant Professor of Surgery, Columbia University; Attending Surgeon, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Director: Assist Device Program; Complementary Medicine Program; Clinical Perfusion Services; Clinical Trials of New Surgical Technology; Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. 1982, BA, Harvard University; 1986, joint MD and MBA, School of Medicine and Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania; 1986-90, Intern & Resident, General Surgery, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York. 1993, Traveling Fellowship in: Paris; Houston; Cleveland; Los Angeles; Boston; Toronto. Member of numerous associations, including: American Association of Thoracic Surgeons; American Board of Surgery; International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation; International Society for Optical Engineering; American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery; American College of Cardiology. Author of over 300 original publications, book chapters, abstracts. Research interests: organ preservation; cardiopulmonary bypass; minimally invasive heart surgery. Recipient of awards. Joshua Ramos, Senior Editor, Time Magazine. Born 1968. When Ramos joined Time in 1996, he was the magazine’s youngest-ever senior editor. He currently is editor of Time’s world section, which encompasses the magazine’s international coverage. Ramos has also served as editor of Time Digital, a magazine specializing in personal technology and is the person responsible for having developed the magazine’s most popular issue, which highlights the world’s “cyber elite”. Ramos’s journalistic past includes a stint as CEO of Time Warner’s AthenaNow, where he helped produce digital journalism products. A graduate of the University of Chicago in 1992, he sits on the advisory board of the University of Chicago magazine and volunteers in the New York City public school system. Ramos is an avid aerobatic pilot. Jody L. Ranck, Dr.P.H, MA. Dr. Ranck’s career has spanned a wide range of health, development and human rights concerns in all corners of the globe. With a career that has involved work in war-torn Rwanda to fieldwork in rural Bangladesh with the well-known Grameen Bank under founder Muhammad Yunus’ guidance, he is now a consultant to a variety of projects ranging from the development of a Biotechnology Foundation at the University of California, San Francisco’s Institute for Global Health, to the AIDS Research Institute’s international programs. He is also the founder of the Berkeley Working Group on Biotechnology, Social and Information Technologies which is in the process of developing a think-tank to address emerging ethical and policy issues related to globalization, technology and health and includes some of the leading thinkers in the anthropology of science, health policy and genomics. He is currently completing a book on the Rwandan genocide with the well-known photographer Robert Lyons who has commissioned writings from Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz and the grandfather of African literature, Chinua Achebe for his past works. Theogene Rudasingwa, MD, Director of the Cabinet, Chief of Staff, Office of the President, Rwanda. Fields Wicker-Miurin is an experienced international business executive with more than 20 years experience in the global financial services and media industries. A strong believer in the value of multi-disciplinary leadership, Fields holds both executive and non-executive positions in business, EU financial services policy, UK business policy, education and the arts. She is Co-founder and Director of Leaders’ Quest, an international organisation that works with leaders from all sectors of business and society to build interdisciplinary, international, responsible leadership skills. Through bringing together leaders from different sectors and countries for experiential learning ‘quests’ around the world, Leaders’ Quest helps leaders continue to learn - about the world, about other approaches and styles of leadership, and about themselves. Fields is also a Non-Executive Director of CDC Group plc, the arm of the UK government that invests directly in the private sectors of emerging markets, of the Royal London Group, the UK's second largest mutual life insurance group, of Savills plc, a leading international property advisory company and of The Carnegie Group, the leading independent investment bank in Scandinavia. She is a member of the Nasdaq Technology Advisory Council in New York. Friends Denise Caruso, Founder and Executive Director, Hybrid Vigor Institute. Prior to founding the Hybrid Vigor Institute in February 2000, Caruso - a 17-year veteran analyst and commentator on the convergence of technology with communications and information - wrote a bi-weekly technology column, "Digital Commerce," for the Monday Information Industries section of The New York Times. In January 2000, she became an occasional contributor to the Times' Arts & Ideas section, writing primarily about scientific and academic research in progress. In addition to consulting for the Pew Charitable Trusts and Consumers Union on standards and practices for improving credibility on the Internet, Caruso has also been a visiting scholar at Interval Research Corporation and a visiting lecturer at Stanford University in the Human-Computer Interaction program. Her analyses have been published in The Wall Street Journal, Columbia Journalism Review, WIRED, I.D. Magazine, San Jose Mercury News and Utne Reader. She has also provided commentary for National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered." Dominique-Henri Freiche, former CEO, Christie’s, France Pat Ryan, Jr, MBA, JD, Northwestern University Board of Trustees, USA. Doris Schopper, MD, Honorary President, Medecins sans Frontieres, Switzerland. Jean A. Wooldridge, MPH, is Strategic Advisor for Cancer Communication Technologies, Office of the Director, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, Maryland. She is based at the Cancer Prevention Research Program, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. Her private company, St. Cloud Communications, leverages private/public partnerships in eHealth. Previously, she was Regional Program Director for the Pacific Cancer Information Service (PCIS) at the Hutchinson Center, as part of the national CIS network of the NCI. Program areas included outreach to undeserved populations (working with 500 regional agencies) and communications research. Ms. Wooldridge led teams receiving federal contracts totalling over $21 million, and developed the first resource relational database in the CIS network in 1983. Her recent masters thesis at the University of Washington, was "Technology Features of a Public Health Internet Collaboratory: Acknowledging Stakeholder Diversity and Public/Private Roles in Complex Global Systems." Committee work for NCI and the US Department of Health and Human Services covers clinical trials, public/private partnerships, Healthy People 2010, and academic/commercial technology futurist conferences. Interests: private/public partnerships, decision support, simulation, agents, and graphic interfaces for complex data.