Our Leadership

Our leaders are recognized medical and scientific experts, including Nobel Prize laureates and members of national academies of medicine and science.


Chief Executive Officers
Stuart B. Levy, MD; Chairperson & President
Director, Center for Adaptation Genetics and Drug Resistance
Tufts University School of Medicine

Thomas F. O’Brien, MD; Vice President
Director, Microbiology Lab
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA

Arnold G. Reinhold, MBA, Treasurer
Information technology consultant
Cambridge, MA

Bonnie Marshall, MT, Secretary
Research Associate, Microbiology Department
Tufts University School of Medicine


Board of Directors
Stuart B. Levy, MD; Chairperson & President
Director, Center for Adaptation Genetics and Drug Resistance
Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA

Thomas F. O’Brien, MD; Vice President
Director, Microbiology Laboratory
Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA

Harris A. Berman, MD
Retired CEO, Tufts Health Plan;
Chair, Department of Family Medicine & Community Health,
Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA

Gordon W. Grundy, MD, MBA
Northeast Regional Medical Director,
Aetna, Inc., Hartford, CT

Morton A. Madoff, MD, MPH
Dean Emeritus, Professor of Family and Community Health
Department of Community Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine

Bonnie Marshall, MT, Secretary
Research Associate, Microbiology Department
Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA

Arnold G. Reinhold, MBA, Treasurer
Information technology consultant
Cambridge, MA

Stephen C. Schoenbaum, MD
Senior Vice President, The Commonwealth Fund
New York, NY

Philip D. Walson, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, and
Director, Clinical Pharmacology & Clinical Trials Office
Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH


Scientific Advisory Board
Jacques F. Acar, M.D., Professor Emeritus, Microbiologie Medicale Foundation, Hopital Saint-Joseph, Paris, France

Werner Arber, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of Basel, Switzerland (1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)

Fernando Baquero Mochale, M.D., Director,Servicio de Microbiologia, Hospital “Ramon y Cajal”, Madrid, Spain

Michael L. Bennish, M.D., Director, Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies in Mtubatuba, South Africa, and Professor, Departments of Medicine & Pediatrics, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Mass., USA

Patrice Courvalin, M.D., FRCP, Head of Antibacterial Agents Unit and of the (French) National Reference Center for Antibiotics, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Jose Ramiro Cruz, Regional Advisor (Guatemala) for Laboratory and Blood Services, Unit of Essential Medicines, Vaccines & Technologies; Pan American Health Organization; Washington DC

Iwan Darmansjah, M.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of Pharmacology, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, and Chair of the Subcommittee on Evaluation of Drugs for Safety & Efficacy, Indonesian Department of Health

Julian Davies, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia, and Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Terragen Diversity, Inc., Vancouver, BC, Canada

Stanley Falkow, Ph.D., Cahill Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, California, USA

Paul Farmer, M.D., Medical Director, Clinique Bon Saveur, and the Institute for Health & Social Justice, in Haiti, and Professor of Medical Anthropology, Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

Walter Gilbert, Ph.D., Loeb University Professor, Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., USA (1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)

Herman Goossens, Ph.D., Director, Department of Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium, and Project Leader of ESAC-European Surveillance on Antimicrobial Consumption

Sherwood L. Gorbach, M.D., Professor, Community Health & Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass., USA

Ian M. Gould, Ph.D., Consultant Microbiologist, Aberdeen Royal Hospital, Aberdeen, Scotland

George Jacoby, M.D., Infectious Disease Section, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, Mass., USA and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Sam Kariuki, Ph.D., Principal Research Officer, KEMRI, Nairobi, Kenya

Ellen L. Koenig, M.D., Principal Investigator, Institutto Dominicao De Estudios Virologicos, and Professor of Microbiology, Iberoamerican University School of Medicine, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Calvin M. Kunin, M.D., FACP, Emeritus Professor of Internal Medicine, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA

Jacobo Kupersztoch, Ph.D., Director, Centro Communitario Mexicano, Dallas, Texas, USA

Joshua Lederberg, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus and Sackler Foundation Scholar, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA (1958 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology)

Stephen A. Lerner, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, and Associate Dean, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA

Jay A. Levy, M.D., Director, Laboratory for Tumor and AIDS Virus Research, and Professor, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA

Donald E. Low, M.D., FRCPC, Microbiologist-in-Chief, Mt. Sinai & Princess Margaret Hospitals, and Professor, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada,

Scott McEwen, D.V.M., D.V.Sc., ACVP, Professor, Department of Population Medicine, Ontario Veterinary College of the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Jos. W.M. van der Meer, M.D., FRCP, Professor of Medicine, University Medical Center of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Richard P. Novick, M.D., Professor of Microbiology and Medicine, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

Iruka Okeke, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA & Nigeria

Maria Eugenia Pinto, M.D., Faculty of Medicine/Microbiology, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

Vidal Rodriguez-Lemoine, M.D., Director, Centro Venezolano de Colecciones de Microorganismos, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela

José Ignacio Santos, M.D., Director, National Immunization Council, Colonia Merced Gomez D.F., Mexico, and Professor of Experimental Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the School of Medicine, UNAM

Mervyn Shapiro, Ph.D., ChB., Director, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

K.B. Sharma, Ph.D., Director, Centre for Infectious Disease Education & Research, New Delhi, India

Atef M. Shibil, Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology, King Saud University College of Pharmacy, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

E. John Threlfall, Ph.D., Head, Antibiotic Resistance/Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Laboratory of Enteric Pathogens, Health Protection Agency, London, England

Alexander Tomasz, M.D., Microbiology Laboratory, Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA

Thelma E. Tupasi, M.D., Head, Infectious Disease Section, Makati Medical Center, Manila, The Philippines

Anne K. Vidaver, Ph.D., Head, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

Fu Wang, M.D., Honorary Director, Institute of Antibiotics, Shanghai Medical University, and doctor in the Hua Shan Hospital, Shanghai, China

Thomas Wellems, M.D., Ph.D., Acting Co-chief, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, and Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institutes of Health/ National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Bernd Wiedemann, M.D., Professor, Pharmazeutisch Microbiolgie, University at Bonn, Germany.

     
 

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