Board of Advisors

Daniel B. Carr, MD, Co-Chair, Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine, Anesthesiology, Medicine, and Molecular Physiology and Pharmacology

David A. H. Lee, MD, PhD, FFPM, MRCP, Co-Chair, Senior Strategic Advisor, Endo Pharmaceuticals


Michael Ashburn, MD, MPH, Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Matthias B. Bowman, MBA, Founder of RCT Logic, LLC, and of One Mind for Research

David B. Clissold, JD, Attorney, Hyman, Phelps & McNamara

Jay D. Kranzler, MD, PhD, Chairman Emeritus, Cypress Bioscience

Ira Shoulson, MD, Professor of Neurology, Pharmacology and Human Science, and Director, Program for Regulatory Science & Medicine (PRSM), Georgetown University

Tracy Spicer, Former Deputy Chief of Staff to Senator Edward M. Kennedy and currently Founding Partner of Avenue Solutions

Theodore H. Stanley, MD, Professor Anesthesiology, University of Utah

Vibeke Strand, MD, Biopharmaceutical Consultant and Adjunct Clinical Professor, Division of Immunology/Rheumatology, Stanford University School of Medicine

Melanie Thernstrom, MFA, Author of "The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010)