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Secretary Thompson has named four new members to the FIC Advisory
Board. They are Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, M.D., D.C.M.T.,
University of California–San Diego; Patricia Danzon, Ph.D.,
the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Wafaie Fawzi,
Dr.PH., Harvard School of Public Health; Douglas Heimburger,
M.D., M.S., F.A.C.P., University of Alabama, Birmingham; Lee
W. Riley, M.D., UC–Berkeley School of Public Health; Jean
A. Wright, M.D., Backus Children's Hospital; and May L. Wykle,
Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing,
Case Western Reserve University. The new appointees will serve through
January 2007.
The FIC Advisory Board is made up of world class experts, each
of whom has relevant scientific expertise or is committed to advancing
global health as a public member through the FIC programs and initiatives.
New members join currently serving members: Sharon Ramey, Ph.D.,
Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies; Robert
Redfield, M.D., University of Maryland, Baltimore; Burton
Singer, Ph.D., Princeton University, and Dikembe Mutombo
(appointment pending).
At the last Advisory Board meeting in February, NIH Director Elias
Zerhouni, M.D., gave his perspectives on global health and Torsten
Wiesel, M.D., President Emeritus of Rockefeller University,
discussed international programs for scientific interaction and
training.
We are sad to announce the death on December 25 of Theodore
Reich, M.D., who served on the FIC Advisory Board from 2000
until January 2004. Ted was the Samuel and Mae S. Ludwig Professor
of Psychiatry and Professor of Genetics at the Washington University
School of Medicine in St. Louis. Ted's NIH-supported work included
genetic epidemiology, genomic study of bipolar disorder, and novel
phenotypes for the genetic analysis of alcoholism. In addition,
he was Coinvestigator and Advisor on an Indian Department of Biotechnology
grant in Bangalore, India, which is concerned with molecular genetic
studies of schizophrenia and bipolar disorders, and he helped lead
a team of geneticists in a 3-year study attempting to uncover the
genetic basis of depression.
We also are sad to announce the death of Robert Shope, M.D.,
one of the world's foremost authorities on insect-borne viruses,
who died on January 19 in Galveston, Texas. Bob Shope was a two-time
member of the Advisory Board and a good friend of FIC. During his
30-year career at Yale, he directed the Yale Arbovirus Research
Unit and helped develop a unique reference collection of thousands
of virus strains. At the time of his death, he was a Professor at
the University of Texas, Galveston, where he codirected the World
Reference Center on Emerging Viruses and Arboviruses. Collaboration
was a hallmark of Bob Shope's approach to science. Arboviruses were
his specialty, but he is remembered just as vividly for connecting
people as for the connections he discovered between pathogens and
their hosts.
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