Leadership in Professional Societies

Cem Akin, MD, PhD
Vice-Chair, Mast Cell Disorders Task Committee,
  American Academy of Allergy Asthma and
  Immunology
Grant Review Committee, American Academy of
  Allergy Asthma and Immunology
Medical Advisory Board, Mastocytosis Society
Medical Advisor, European Competence Network on
  Mastocytosis

Douglas A. Arenberg, MD
Chair-elect, Thoracic Oncology Steering Committee,
  American College of Chest Physicians
Lung Cancer Task force, American Thoracic Society

David M. Aronoff, MD
Annual Meeting Program Committee, Infectious
  Diseases Society of America
Annual Meeting Program Committee, American
  Society of Microbiology's Interscience Conference on
  Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

James R. Baker Jr, MD
Director, American Board of Allergy and Immunology
Immunotherapy and Allergy Diagnostics Committee,
  American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and
  Immunology

Laurence H. Baker, DO
Chair, Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG)
Chair, Sarcoma Alliance Research Consortium (SARC)
Board of Directors, Coalition of Cancer
  Cooperative Groups
External Advisory Board, Department of Sarcoma
  Medical Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Chair, External Advisory Committee, James P.
  Wilmot Cancer Center, University of Rochester,
  Rochester, New York
Bone Cancer Guidelines Panel (Chair); Sarcoma
  Guidelines Panel (Co-Chair), National
  Comprehensive Cancer Network
Advisory Board, Oncology Congress
External Advisory Board, University of Kansas
  Cancer Center

James L. Baldwin, MD
President, Michigan Allergy and Asthma Society

Eric R. Bates, MD
Board of Trustees, American College of Cardiology
Vice Chair, Program Committee, Council on Clinical
  Cardiology, American Heart Association
Interventional Cardiology Test Committee, American
  Board of Internal Medicine

Caroline S. Blaum, MD
American Geriatrics Society Representative,
  AGSE/AGA Physician Consortium for Performance
  Improvement
Chair, Geriatrics Quality Measure Development
  Group, AMA Physician Consortium for Performance
  Improvement
Chair, American Geriatrics Society Quality Work Group
Executive Committee, AMA Physician Consortium for
  Performance Improvement
National Voluntary Consensus Standards for
  Hospital Care: Outcomes and Efficiency Steering
  Committee, National Quality Forum

Douglas W. Blayney, MD
President-elect, American Society of Clinical
  Oncology (ASCO)
Board of Directors, National Comprehensive Cancer
  Network (NCCN)

Paula L. Bockenstedt, MD
Director's Committee, National Hemophilia
  Foundation Treatment Center
Treatment of Thrombosis in Malignancy Guidelines
  Committee,National Comprehensive Cancer Network
  (NCCN)

Suzanne F. Bradley, MD
Publication Committee, Society for Healthcare
  Epidemiology of America
Humanities and Arts Committee; Membership
  Committee, Biological Science Section,
  Gerontological Society of America
Gerontological Society of Americal Representative,
  Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation of
  Fever and Infection in Long-Term Faculities: 2008
  Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of
  America
American Geriatrics Society Representative,
  Infectious Diseases Society of America
  International Guidelines for the Diagnosis,
  Prevention and Treatment of Catheter-Associated
  Urinary Tract Infection

George J. Brewer, MD
Board, International Society for Trace Element
  Research in Humans

Frank C. Brosius III, MD
Chair, Science Advisory & Coordinating Committee;
  Council Operations Committee; Program Committee,
  High Blood Pressure Research Annual Meeting
Young Investigator Award Committee, American
  Society of Nephrology
Steering Committee, Animal Models of Diabetic
  Complications Consortium

Charles F. Burant, MD, PhD
Oversight Committee, American Diabetes Association

William D. Chey, MD
Chair, Clinical Practice Section, American
  Gastroenterological Association

Rashmi Chugh, MD
Cancer Education Committee, Sarcoma Track,
  American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)

Jeffrey L. Curtis, MD
Scientific Advisory Committee, American Thoracic
  Society

Diane M. Cibrik, MD
Education Committee, American Society of
  Transplantation

Kathleen A. Cooney, MD
Steering Committee, International Consortium on
  Prostate Cancer Genetics (ICPCG)
Grants Selection Committee, American Society of
  Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
National Cancer Institute, SPOREs in Prostate
  Cancer, Genetic Alteration/Genetic Studies Working
  Group

Matthew J. DiMagno, MD
Pancreatic Disorders Nominating Committee,
  American Gastroenterological Association

Clair S. Duvernoy, MD
Chair, Credentialing and Membership Committee,
  American College of Cardiology

Kim A. Eagle, MD
Executive Council, Association of University
  Cardiologists
Chair, Steering Committee, National Registry of
  Genetically Triggered Aortic Aneurysms and
  Cardiovascular Conditions, National Heart Lung and
  Blood Institute

Daniel T. Eitzman, MD
Midwest Research Committee, American Heart
  Association
Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and
  Vascular Biology "Mouse Models of Thrombosis"

Grace H. Elta, MD
President, American Society for Gastrointestinal
  Endoscopy

N. Cary Engleberg, MD, DTM&H
Chair, Committee for the
  development/implementation of the In-Training
  Exam, Infectious Diseases Society of America
Committee to Evaluate the United States Medical
  Licensing Examination (USMLE) Program
Comprehensive Review of USMLE Design Task Force

Harry P. Erba, MD, PhD
Practice Guidelines Committee for Acute Myeloid
  Leukemia, Practice Guidelines Committee for
  Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, Practice Guidelines
  Committee for Myelodysplastic Syndromes, National
  Comprehensive Cancer Network
Executive Officer, Southwest Oncology Group

Kevin R. Flaherty, MD
Treasurer, Michigan Thoracic Society

Scott A. Flanders, MD
Executive Committee, Associate Chiefs of General
  Internal Medicine
Board of Directors; Nominations Committee; Chair,
  Academic Hospitalists Task Force, Society of
  Hospital Medicine
Executive Review Committee, Society of Hospital
  Medicine
Executive Council, Association of Specialty
  Professors

Robert J. Fontana, MD
Clinical Research Committee, American Association
  for the Study of Liver Disease

David A. Fox, MD
President, American College of Rheumatology
Chair, International League of Associations of
  Rheumatology

James B. Froehlich, MD, MPH
Treasurer, Society for Vascular Medicine
Board Exam Writing Committee, American Board of
  Vascular Medicine
Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiovascular
  Evaluation for Noncardiac Surgery Writing
  Committee, American College of Cardiology/American
  Heart Association (AHA)

Crystal A. Gadegbeku, MD
Fellow, Council for High Blood Pressure Research,
  American Heart Association
Chair, Community Health Initiative Advisory Board,
  National Kidney Foundation of Michigan
Co-Chair, Renal Section, National Medical
  Association Annual Meeting

David Ginsburg, MD
Executive Council, American Society of
  Hematology

Scott D. Gitlin, MD
Roster of Cancer Experts; Fellowship Match Task Force; In-Training Examination Steering Committee, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
Chair, Committee on Training Programs; Chair,
  Clinical Research Training Institute Oversight
  Sub-Committee; Chair, Curriculum Subcommittee;
  Fellowship Match Task Force; Chair, In-Training
  Examination Steering Committee; Co-Director;
  Documentary Oversight Committee; Faculty Mentor,
  Trainee Council, Joint American Society of
  Hematology-European Hematology Association
  "Translational Research Training in Hematology"
  Oversight Committee (to create a Clinical Research
  Training Institute in Europe), American Society of
  Hematology
Associate Faculty Member, National Research
  Council
Councilor; Member Services Committee, Association
  of Specialty Professors

Susan D. Goold, MD
Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, American
  Medical Association
Professional Development Subcommittee, American
  Society for Bioethics and Humanities
Committee on Promotion and Tenure in Bioethics and
  Humanities, Society of General Internal
  Medicine
Secretary; Management Committee, International
  Society on Healthcare Priorities
Committee on Promotion and Tenure, Association of
  Bioethics Program Directors

Jennifer J. Griggs, MD, MPH
Steering Committee, National Institutes of
  Health
Patient Navigation Research Program, National
  Cancer Institute
Co-Chair, Adjuvant Aromatase Inhibitors Clinical
  Practice Guidelines, American Society of Clinical
  Oncology
Co-Chair, ASCO Guidelines on Chemotherapy Dosing
  in the Elderly and Obese Cancer Patient, American
  Society of Clinical Oncology
Executive Committee, Commission on Cancer,
  American College of Surgeons

Stephen B. Gruber, MD, PhD
Chair, Colon Cancer Family Registry Advisory
  Committee; Head and Neck Cancer Steering Committee
  Rare Tumors Task Force, National Cancer Institute
  (NCI)
Cancer Steering Committee, Rare Tumors Task Force,
  NCI
Chair, Cancer Genetics Education Committee,
  American Society of Clinical Oncology

Hilary M. Haftel, MD, MHPE
Nominating Committee, Pediatric Rheumatology
  Section, American Academy of Pediatrics
Associate Chair, Mid-America Region, Association
  of Pediatric Program Directors

Karen E. Hall, MD, PhD
Chair, Aging Subsection of the American
  Gastroenterological Association Section on Growth,
  Development and Aging
American Geriatrics Society Representative,
  AGSE/AGA Physician Consortium for Performance
  Improvement Endoscopy/Polyp Surveillance Work
  Group

Gary D. Hammer, MD, PhD
Program Committee, International Adrenal Cortex
  Conference
Annual Meeting Steering Committee, Endocrine
  Society
Program Director/Organizer, 2008 International
  Cancer Symposium

Richard E. Harris, PhD
Co-President, Society for Acupuncture Research

Daniel F. Hayes, MD
Program Committee, Annual Meeting, American
  Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
Co-Chair, Tumor Marker Expert Panel, ASCO
Chair, Breast Cancer Sub-Committee, ASCO
Chair-Elect, Scientific Program Committee, ASCO
Chair, Breast Cancer Correlative Sciences
  (Translational Medicine) Committee, Southwest
  Oncology Group (SWOG)
Cadre member, Breast Committee, SWOG

Michele Heisler, MD, MPA
Chair, Chronic Disease and Management Abstract
  Review Committee, 2008 Annual SGIM meeting
Co-Chair, Board of Directors, Myers and Briggs
  Foundation

N. Lynn Henry, MD, PhD
Breast Committee; Symptom Control and Quality of
  Life Committee; Cancer Survivorship Committee,
  Southwest Oncology Group

Peter D. Higgins, MD, PhD
Clinical Organizing Committee, Advances in IBD
  meeting-national meeting for Crohn's and Colitis
  Foundation of America (CCFA)
Professional Education Committee, CCFA
Working Group Leader for World Congress of
  Gastroenterology 2009 Consensus Statement on Use
  of Biologics in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Carolyn J. Hoban, DSc
Chair, Group Banking Committee, National Cancer
  Institute
Executive Officer, Tumor Bank
  Committee-Translational Medicine, Early
  Therapeutics, Cancer Control and Prevention, Tumor
  Banking, Southwest Oncology Group

Lawrence B. Holzman, MD
Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, NephCure Foundation

Ao-Lin Allen Hsu, PhD
Session Chair, 3rd East Asia Worm Meeting,
  Shanghai, China
Selected speaker at 3rd East Asia Worm Meeting,
  Shanghai, China

H. David Humes, MD
Board of Trustees; Secretary-Treasurer, American
  Society for Artificial Internal Organs

Maha H.A. Hussain, MD
Chair, Cancer Education Committee, American
  Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
Chair, Advanced Prostate Cancer
  Sub-Committee/Genitourinary Cancer Committee,
  ASCO
Scientific Program Committee; International
  Affairs Committee; Cancer Communications
  Committee, ASCO
Prostate Cancer Action Committee, Michigan Cancer
  Consortium
Michigan Advisory Committee on Prostate Cancer

Robert W. Ike, MD
Chair, Task Force on Musculoskeletal Ultrasound,
  American College of Rheumatology

Andrzej J. Jakubowiak, MD, PhD
Steering Committee; Project Review Committee;
  Clinical Operations Committee, Multiple Myeloma
  Research Consortium


José Jalife, MD
Vice-President, Cardiac Electrophysiological
  Society

Kenneth A. Jamerson, MD
President, International Society of Hypertension
  in Blacks
Public Policy Committee; Education Committee;
  Nominating Committee; American Society of
  Hypertension

Gregory P. Kalemkerian, MD
Chair, Small Cell Lung Cancer Guidelines
  Committee, National Comprehensive Cancer Network
Co-Chair, Lung Cancer Early Detection Workgroup,
  Michigan Cancer Consortium, Michigan Department of
  Community Health

Mark S. Kaminski, MD
Hodgkin's Lymphoma Panel, National Comprehensive
  Cancer Network
Scientific Committee on Lymphoid Neoplasia,
  American Society of Hematology

Mariana J. Kaplan, MD
Chair, Subcommittee on Research Advocacy and
  Public Awareness; Committee on Research;
  Government Affairs Committee, American College of
  Rheumatology
Rheumatology/Immunology Section Chief, Central
  Society for Clinical Research
Representative, European League against
  Rheumatism/American College of Rheumatology US
  Study Group
Chair, American College of Rheumatology/ National
  Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH Task Force.

Carol A. Kauffman, MD
Board of Directors, Infectious Diseases Society of
  America

Eve A. Kerr, MD, MPH
Steering Committee Member, Practice Systems
  Assessment Survey, Veterans Health Administration
  (VHA)

Catherine Kim, MD, MPH
Gestational Diabetes Working Committee, Centers
  for Disease Control and Prevention, National
  Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health
  Promotion
Scientific Merit Review Board for Women's Health,
  Veterans Administration Health Services Research
  and Development

Alisa E. Koch, MD
Organizing Committee, Neuroendocrine
Immunology Study Group; Research and Education
  Foundation Scientific Advisory Board; Abstract
  Selection Committee Basic Science Chairman;
  Annual Meeting Planning Committee; Research and Education
  Foundation Scientific Advisory Council, American
  College of Rheumatology

Ronald J. Koenig, MD, PhD
GREAT Group (Graduate Research, Education, and
  Training), Association of American Medical
  Colleges
Awards Committee, American Thyroid Association

Christopher D. Lao, MD, MPH
Melanoma Committee and the Melanoma Correlative
  Sciences Subcommittee, Southwest Oncology Group
Clinical Research Unit Advisory Committee; Cancer
  Education Committee, Melanoma/Skin Cancer Track,
  American Society of Clinical Oncology
Career Development Award, Young Investigator Focus
  Group, Sarcoma Alliance for Research through
  Collaboration

Alan B. Leichtman, MD
Board of Trustees; Board of Directors, Gift of
  Life Foundation
Transplant Advisory Group, American Society of
  Nephrology

John E. Levine, MD
Chair, Subcommittee on Transplantation, Severe
  Chronic Neutropenia International Registry
Executive Committee, ex-officio member, Pediatric
  Blood and Marrow Transplant Consortium
Co-Chair, Subcommittee on Transplantation; Sickle
  Cell Disease Committee, National Heart, Lung, and
  Blood Institute
Vice-Chair, Hematopoietic Stem Cell
  Transplantation Steering Committee, Children's
  Oncology Group
Patient and Donor Safety Committee, National
  Marrow Donor Program

Benjamin L. Margolis, MD
Scientific Advisory Board, Polycystic Kidney
  Disease Foundation

Jorge A. Marrero, MD
Chair, Hepatobiliary Special Interest Group,
  American Association for the Study of liver
  Disease

Fernando J. Martinez, MD
Chair, Clinical Problems Assembly, American
  Thoracic Society
Invited Member, Fleischner Society

W. Joseph McCune, MD
Subspecialty Board on Rheumatology, American Board
  of Internal Medicine

Vallerie McLaughlin, MD
Chair, Scientific Leadership Council, Pulmonary
  Hypertension Association
Chair, Clinical Expert Consensus Document on
  Pulmonary Hypertension, American College of
  Cardiology

Sofia D. Merajver, MD, PhD
Committee on Breast Cancer Risk Reduction
  Guidelines, National Comprehensive Cancer
  Network

Lona Mody, MD
Moderator, Medicare and the ID Specialist, 48th
  Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial
  Agents and Chemotherapy and 46th Annual Meeting
  of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Co-chair, Medical Subspecialties Section, American
  Geriatrics Society

Marcos L. Montagnini, MD
Council of Fellowship Directors, American Academy
  of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Bethany B. Moore, PhD
Web Director, AII Assembly, American Thoracic
  Society

Sean J. Morrison, PhD
Director; Treasurer, International Society for
  Stem Cell Research

Brahmajee K. Nallamothu, MD
Guidelines-Applied-in-Practice (GAP) D2B Alliance,
  American College of Cardiology

Timothy T. Nostrant, MD
Credentials Committee, American
  Gastroenterological Association

Gilbert S. Omenn, MD, PhD
Chair, American Association for the Advancement of
  Science
Advisory Board, Aspen Institute World Health Forum
Board of Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg,
  Austria
Report Review Committee, National Academies of
  Science
Policy and Legislative Committee, American
  Association for Cancer Research
Committee on Comparative Effectiveness Research,
  Friends of Cancer Research
Fiscal Future of the United States Analysis and
  Policy Options Panel, National Academies of
  Science
Keck Futures Initiative Review Panel, National
  Academies of Science
Vice President-Elect, Human Proteome Organisation
  (HUPO) Council
Director, Human Plasma Proteome Project, HUPO
US Vice President, HUPO

Chung Owyang, MD
Nominating Committee, American
  Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society

Vikas I. Parekh, MD
Co-Chair, Academic Hospitalist Task Force, Society
  of General Internal Medicine

Subramaniam Pennathur, MBBS
Leadership Committee, Council on the Kidney in
  Cardiovascular Disease; Communications Committee,
  Council on the Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease,
  American Heart Association

Kenneth J. Pienta, MD
Chair; Board of Scientific Advisors, Translational
  Medicine Committee, Southwest Oncology Group

Massimo T. Pietropaolo, MD
Steering Committee, Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet

David J. Pinsky, MD
Councilor, Association of Professors of Cardiology

Rodica Pop-Busui, MD, PhD
Council for Clinical Research, American
  Association of Clinical Endocrinologists

Pavan Reddy, MD
Scientific Committee, Immunology and Host Defense,
  American Society of Hematology
Scientific Committee, Annual Tandem Meetings
  2008-2009, American Society of Blood and Marrow
  Transplantation
Scholar Award Grants Review Committee, American
  Society of Hematology (ASH)
Awards and Grants Committee, American Society of
  Transplantation
Scientific Affairs Committee, American Society of
  Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Chair, Scientific Session: Immunological memory,
  Annual ASH Meeting

Bruce G. Redman, DO
Committees for Testicular and Kidney Cancers,
  National Comprehensive Cancer Network
Executive Committee, Southwest Oncology Group

Anne F. Schott, MD
Executive Committee, Southwest Oncology Group

Scott M. Schuetze, MD, PhD
Chair, Education Committee; Scientific Program
  Committee, Sarcoma Track, American Society of
  Clinical Oncology

Samuel M. Silver, MD, PhD
Chair-Elect, Cancer Quality Committee; Steering
  Committee, Clinical Practice Status of the
  Oncology Workforce Efforts; Workforce
  Implementation Group; Association Liaisons
  Committee; American Society of Clinical
  Oncology
Fellow, Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis
  and Vascular Biology, American Heart
  Association
Board of Directors, National Comprehensive Cancer
  Network
CPT Advisory Committee; RUC/Specialty Society
  Advisory Committee; American Medical
  Association
Subspecialty Advisory Group in Socioeconomic
  Affairs, American College of Physicians
Chairman, Subcommittee on Reimbursement,
  American Society of Hematology
BMT Quality Initiative Task Force, American
  Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation

David C. Smith, MD
Genitourinary Subcommittee, Southwest Oncology
  Group
Urothelial Cancer Tumor Marker Panel; Germ Cell
  Tumor Marker Panel, American Society of Clinical
  Oncology

Emily C. Somers, PhD ScM
Public Awareness and Advocacy Subcommittee,
  American College of Rheumatology
Standing Committee on Epidemiology and Health
  Services Research, European League Against
  Rheumatism

Moshe Talpaz, MD
Translational Research Review Committee, Leukemia
  and Lymphoma Society

Robert F. Todd III, MD, PhD
Council, American Society of Hematology
Diversity Committee, Association of Professors of
  Medicine

Andrea Todisco, MD
Hormones, Transmitters, Growth Factors & Their
  Receptors (HOR) Section Nominating Committee,
  American Gastroenterological Association

Galen B. Toews, MD
Chair, Allergy, Immunology and Inflammation
  Assembly; Research Advocacy Committee, American
  Thoracic Society
Fellowship, American College of Physicians

Susan G. Urba, MD
Gastrointestinal Committee, Southwest Oncology
  Group
Head and Neck Steering Committee; Gastrointestinal
  Steering Committee and Task Force, National Cancer
  Institute Anti-Emetic Guidelines Panel; Pain
  Management Guidelines Panel; Palliative Care
  Guidelines Panel, National Comprehensive Cancer
  Network

Catherine H. Van Poznak, MD
Bone Health Task Force, National Cancer Center
  Network
Chair, Task Force on Osteonecrosis of the Jaw,
  American Society of Bone and Mineral Research
Board of Directors, Paget Foundation
Board of Directors, Bone and Cancer Foundation
Health Services Committee and its Guidelines
  Implementation, Dissemination, and Evaluation
  (GUIDE) subcommittee representative for the Breast
  Cancer Quality of Care Online Module Working
  Group, American Society of Clinical Oncology
  (ASCO)
Panel on Clinical Practice Guideline update on the
  role of bisphosphonates in women with metastatic
  breast cancer, ASCO

Thomas D. Wang, MD, PhD
Conference Co-Chair-SPIE BIOS Endoscopic
  Microscopy

Eric S. White, MD
Steering Committee, Interstitial and Diffuse Lung
  Disease Network

Max S. Wicha, MD
Executive Committee, Michigan Cancer Consortium
Nominating Committee, American Association for
  Cancer Research

Jocelyn E. Wiggins, BM, BCh
Co-chair, Geriatric Curriculum Committee, American
  Society of Nephrology

Frank Worden, MD
Head and Neck Cancer Guidelines Committee,
  National Comprehensive Cancer Network

Gregory A. Yanik, MD
Neuroblastoma Strategy Group Committee, Children's
  Oncology Group (COG)
Hematopietic Stem Cell Committee, COG
Executive Committee, Pediatric Blood and Marrow
  Transplant Consortium
Regimen Related Toxicity Committee, Bone Marrow
  Transplant Clinical Trials Network
Pulmonary Toxicity Committee, Center for
  International Blood and Marrow Transplant
  Research
Oversight Committee, Pediatric Drugs and Devices
  Committee, Clinical and Translational Sciences
  Award
Executive Committee, Michigan Society of
  Hematology-Oncology
Executive Committee, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society,
  Michigan Chapter, Board of Trustees

Raymond L. Yung, MB, ChB
Geriatrics Committee, Association of Specialty
  Professors
Co-Chair, Geriatric Rheumatology and
  Musculoskeletal Aging Special Interest Group,
  American Geriatrics Society
Co-Chair, Geriatric Rheumatology Study Group;
  National Meeting Abstract Review Committee;
  Committee on Education, American College of
  Rheumatology
Chair, State-of-the-Art / Best Practice Session:
  "Polymyalgia Rheumatica and Giant Cell Arteritis".
  Annual European Congress of Rheumatology

Mark M. Zalupski, MD
Sarcoma and Gastrointestinal Committees, Southwest
  Oncology Group

Ellen M. Zimmermann, MD
Board of Trustees, Michigan chapter, Crohn's and
  Colitis Foundation
Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee, Crohn's and
  Colitis Foundation

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