John Tisdale received his medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. He completed an internal medicine and chief residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville and then trained in hematology in the Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI). He joined the Molecular and Clinical Hematology Branch of NHLBI in 1998 and is now the Chief of the Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch.

Dr. Jonathan Reiner, MD, is an accomplished interventional cardiologist and Professor of Medicine and Surgery at George Washington University.

Dr. Carl June is the Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy, Director of the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies and Director of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Mackowiak is Emeritus Professor of Medicine and the Carolyn Frenkil and Selvin Passen History of Medicine Scholar in Residence at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Maryland College Park.

Dr. Sadowsky is an Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and is the Clinical Director for the International Center for Spinal Cord Injury at the Kennedy-Krieger Institute at Johns Hopkins University, a nationally recognized center of excellence. She has published extensively on spinal cord injury and manage

Dr. Thakkar is a board certified psychiatrist, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine, and Chief Medical Executive and Medical Director of Solstice Psychiatric Consulting, LLC in Westport, CT. He is also Founder and President of Reimbursify, LLC, a digital health technology company providing software to file out-of-network health insurance claims.

Due to the extraordinary circumstances of COVID-19, the regular members’ meeting was held via Zoom. Winners of the Ethics Competition were introduced. Members were each given a few minutes for comments.

Dr. Constance Bohon is a Fellow of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Associate Clinical Instructor at George Washington.

Dr. Pao is Clinical Director and Deputy Scientific Director of the National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program, Bethesda MD, and is on the Clinical Faculty at Georgetown University, George Washington University and Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine.

Dr. Stanley Rapoport retired from a 53-year research career at the NIH in 2017.

Chief of the Section of Neurological Infections, and Clinical Director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH.

Director of Trauma Surgery at GW Hospital.

Double-board certified fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Preventive Medicine.

Section Chief, Kidney Diseases Branch and Adjunct
Professor of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

Member of the New York Times science news staff

Investigator in the Section on Nutritional Neurosciences, Laboratory of Membrane Biophysics and Biochemistry in the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Eugene Meyer III Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine, Director of the AIDS Psychiatry Service, Co-Director of the Chronic Pain Treatment Program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Clinical Director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Head, Molecular Hematopoiesis Section, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH

Deputy Center Director, Center for Biologic Evaluation and Research, FDA

The Oscar B. Hunter Chair of Pathology, Georgetown University Medical Bio-Ethics

The Joseph Butenas Professor of and Dean of Medical Education at Georgetown University

Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine, The F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine of the Uniformed Services University

Former Chief of the Child Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD

Professor of Pathology at USUHS

Professor of Neurology at USUHS and Director of Clinical Research at the Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine

Professor and Chair of Microbiology and Immunology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS)

Director of the Advanced Cardiac Care Support Clinic, Washington Hospital Center

Executive Physician and Senior Partner in the healthcare consulting firm of Martin, Blanck & Associates

President of the Institute of Medicine

CEO of The Global Telemedicine Group, Professor of Medicine (Adjunct) at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Professor of Pathology, The School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Uniformed Services University

Professor of Pathology (Neuropathology), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Walter G. Ross Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University

Clinical Professor of Health Care Sciences and of Health Policy, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences

Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health

Dean, University of Maryland, College Park, School of Public Health

Panel Chair, President of the Institute of Medicine, National Academies of Sciences

Former Surgeon General of the U.S. Army

Professor of Law, Georgetown University

Former Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army

Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Georgetown University