About

Leadership

Clinical Research Forum Board of Directors

The Board of Directors of the Clinical Research Forum represents senior leaders across clinical and translational research, guiding the organization’s mission and national impact.

Officers

Chair

Harry P. Selker, MD, MSPH

Chair, Clinical Research Forum
Dean, Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Tufts Medical Center
Executive Director, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies

Vice Chair of Membership and Member Engagement

Emma A. Meagher, MD

Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology
Senior Vice Dean, Clinical and Translational Research, Perelman School of Medicine
Vice President, Clinical Research, University of Pennsylvania Health System
Senior Associate Vice Provost for Human Research, University of Pennsylvania

Vice Chair of Top 10 Clinical Research Awards and Development

E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA

Former Dean of Medicine & University Executive Vice President
The Distinguished University and Endowed Professor & Director, Center for Advanced Research Training and Innovation (CARTI)
Senior Scientist, Center for Birth Defects Research
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Treasurer

Rachel Hess, MD, MS

Associate Vice President for Research in Health Sciences
Professor of Population Health Sciences and Internal Medicine
University of Utah

Members

Lindsey Baden, MD

Nabel Family Professor, Harvard Medical School
Vice President, Clinical Research, Mass General Brigham
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Mass General Brigham

Rickey Carter, PhD

Professor of Biostatistics, Division of Clinical Trials and Biostatistics
Director, Research Methods, Center for Clinical and Translational Science
Mayo Clinic

Pamela Davis, MD, PhD

Arline and Curtis Garvin Research Professor
Center for Community Health Integration
Case Western Reserve University

Harry B. Greenberg, MD

Joseph D. Grant Professor of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, Emeritus
Stanford University School of Medicine

Julie A. Johnson, Pharm.D.

Dr. Samuel T. and Lois Felts Mercer Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine
Professor of Medicine, Pharmacy and Pharmacology
Director, Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research, College of Medicine
Associate Vice President for Research
The Ohio State University

Rainu Kaushal, MD, MPH

Senior Associate Dean, Clinical Research
Chair, Department of Population Health Sciences
Nanette L. Laitman Professor
New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Weill Cornell Medical College

John H. Krystal, MD

Robert L. McNeil Jr. Professor of Translational Research
Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience and Psychology
Chair, Department of Psychiatry
Co‑Director, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (CTSA)
Yale University

Duane Mitchell, MD, PhD

Phyllis Kottler Friedman Professor for Neurosurgery
Assistant Vice President for Research
Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Sciences
University of Florida

Sharon M. Moe, MD

Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research
Indiana University School of Medicine

Gary Elliot Rosenthal, MD, FACP

Professor of Internal Medicine
Wake Forest University

Arthur H. Rubenstein, MBBCh

Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
University of Pennsylvania Health System

Ex Officio Members

Daniel E. Ford, MD, MPH

IT Roundtable Chairman, Clinical Research Forum
David M. Levine Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry
Senior Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research
Director, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Christopher J. Lindsell, PhD

Director, Data Science & Biostatistics, Duke Clinical Research Institute
Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University
Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center