FOUNDATION LEADERSHIP

President
Mahesh K. Shetty MD;FRCR;FACR;FAIUM
Clinical Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Medical Director
Woman's Clinic for Breast
and Gynecological Imaging & Pink Door Imaging Center

Patron
Dr Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Chairman & Managing Director
Biocon Limited
Bangalore, India

Board of Trustees
Ron Somers
President
US-India Business Council
Washington D.C.

Jennifer Garza
CEO Edinburg Regional Medical Center/Edinburg Children's Hospital
Edinburg, Texas

Mrs. Mona Parikh PHR, MBA
Sr. Human Resources Business
Partner

Mr Andrew Novarini
CEO, Cypress Station Branch
Bank of Houston

Kelli Cohen MD
General and Pediatric Radiologist

Eric S. Greisel J.D.
General Legal Counsel


PROGRAM ADVISOR

Loretta A. Hanser
Director of Imaging Services
Mammography, CHP Radiology
Harris County Hospital District

Regional Directors
Mrs. Trishna Dey [Asia]
Ms. Esther Biira [Africa]
Dr Adhmer Longatto [S.America]
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MEDICAL ADVISORY COUNCIL

Chair
Mahesh Shetty MD;FRCR;FACR;FAIUM
Clinical Professor of Radiology
Baylor College of Medicine

Members
Dr. Steve Sener
Former President
American Cancer Society

R. Sankaranarayanan
Chief of Cancer Screening Group
International Agency for Research on Cancer,
WHO
Lyon, France

Saraswati Sukumar MD
Barbara B.Rubenstein Professor of Oncology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Britt-Marie Ljung, MD
Professor of Clinical Pathology,
Director of Cytopathology
UCSF, California

Dr Usha Menon MD; FRCOG
Professor and Director
Gynecological Cancer Research Center
UCL Elizabeth Garrett Institute of Women's Health
University College London

Dr Edmundo Mauad
Director
Barretos Cancer Hospital,
Sao Paulo, Brazil

Peter Dempsey MD; FACR
Professor of Radiology
MD Anderson Cancer Center

Terri Pustilnik MD
Gynecology Oncology of Houston

Dr Diljeet K. Singh, MD, DrPH
Co Chair of MAC

Dr Wei Yang, M.B.B.S., F.R.C.R.
Professor
Deputy Chairman, Department of Diagnostic Radiology
The University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Co-Chair and Director of Clinical Research

Dr Neerja Bhatla MD, FICOG
A/Professor, Dept of Ob-Gyn, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India,
Vice President, AOGIN,
Inaugural President, AOGIN-India,
Organising Chairperson, AOGIN 2010

Dr Jill Donnelly
Consultant Breast Surgeon
Herford Hospital, UK

Dr Martin M. Matzuk M.D., Ph.D.
Stuart A. Wallace Chair
Professor of Pathology and Immunology

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PUBLIC AWARENESS COUNCIL

Mrs. Susan Rafte
Chair of the PAC

Mrs. Sathya Saran
Co-chair,
Editor DNA,
Former Editor, Femina,
Mumbai, India

Ms. Lucy Noland
Co-chair,
News Anchor,
KNBC,
Los Angeles

Sharda Cherwoo
Partner
Ernst & Young

 
 


Martin M. Matzuk, M.D., Ph.D.
 
 
     
  Martin M. Matzuk, M.D., Ph.D., is the Stuart A. Wallace Chair and Professor of Pathology and Immunology at Baylor College of Medicine and Director of Clinical Chemistry at Ben Taub General Hospital. He graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.A. with Honors in Biology, received his M.D. and Ph.D. from Washington University School of Medicine, and performed his residency training at the University of Pennsylvania and Baylor College of Medicine. He is a board-certified clinical pathologist, cancer biologist and reproductive biologist.

Dr. Matzuk has over 25 years of research experience deciphering germ cell, hormonal, and TGF beta superfamily signaling pathways in cancer and fertility. He has published more than 270 papers, holds 12 patents for his biomedical research discoveries, and has lectured at more than 140 symposia in 27 countries. He has received many prestigious honors including the Roy Greep Award from the Endocrine Society, the HypoCCS Award from Eli Lilly, the Pfizer Outstanding Investigator Award from the American Society for Investigative Pathology, the Society for the Study of Reproduction Research Award, and a National Institutes of Health MERIT award.

Dr. Matzuk has held several key national positions of authority. He was chair of the National Institutes of Health Cellular, Molecular and Integrative Reproduction study section (2004-2006) and was co-chair of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund advisory committee for the Career Awards in the Biomedical Sciences (2004-2006) and subsequently the Career Awards in the Medical Sciences (2006-2007). He was a member of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences Committee on New Frontiers in Contraceptive Research (2003-2004). He is currently a member of the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science and Treasurer of the Society for the Study of Reproduction.

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