People

Advisory Board

The advisory board provides strategic guidance and support for the Institute and its work. The board includes academics, business leaders, lawyers, judges, philanthropists and community leaders.

Alexander H. Levi – Chair
Roger Faxon – Chair, Executive Committee
George Lloyd Bunting, Jr.
Caroline Bagley Burnett, ScD, RN
Bhaskar Chaudhuri, Ph.D.
Andrew Cohen
Barry S. Coller, M.D.
Richard M. Danziger, Esq.
Lynn Deering
Andreas C. Dracopoulos
Lee-Lee Ellis, Ph.D. ’15
Elaine Freeman
David Goldsteen, M.D.
Margaret Conn Himelfarb, M.P.H
Patricia A. King, Esq.
Michael J. Kneeland
Walter G. Lohr
Sylvia Morris, M.D., M.P.H., BSPH ’97
Fredric S. Newman, Esq.
Morris W. Offit
Laura Parsons, Psy.D.
Michelle Rosenbloom, M.D.
S. Ford Rowan, D.P.A.
Amy Engel Scharf ’90
Charles Scheeler
Maxwell Thanhouser
Reed V. Tuckson, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Jay Wagley
L. John Wilkerson, Ph.D.

Meet Our New Board Members

Caroline Bagley Burnett, ScD, RN is an alumna of the Bloomberg School of Public Health from the class of 1990. She was an Associate Professor of Nursing and Oncology at Georgetown University and served as the Chair of the St. Vincent Regional Medical Center’s Bioethics Committee in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her research and clinical activities focus on decision-making behaviors as they relate to cancer patients considering participation in cancer screening and treatment.

Charles Scheeler is a trustee of Johns Hopkins University. He has previous experience practicing law as a federal prosecutor in the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland. Currently, he is retired from his position as a partner at the law firm DLA Piper and now serves as the Chairman for Rosedale Federal. He is on the Hopkins Board of Trustees, as well as the Johns Hopkins Medicine Board and the Board of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He and his family have been long-time supporters of the Johns Hopkins Department of Psychiatry, Neurosurgery, and the Institute of Genetic Medicine.