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Signers of the Life Science/Healthcare Statement on Academic Boycotts AJC New England May 30, 2017 Signers of the Life Science/Healthcare Statement On Academic Boycotts AJC New England May 30, 2017 1. Michael Agus, MD Associate Professor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Chief, Division of Medicine Critical Care, Boston Children’s Hospital 2. Stuart Altman, PhD Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy and Former Interim President, Brandeis University; Founding Dean, Heller School, Brandeis University 3. Angelika B. Amon, PhD Kathleen and Curtis Marble Professor of Cancer Research, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator; Member of National Academy of Sciences 4. Katrina Armstrong, MD, MSCE Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chair of the Department of Medicine and Physician- in-Chief, Massachusetts General Hospital 5. Scott Allen Armstrong, MD, PhD David G. Nathan Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Chair, Department of Pediatric Oncology; Dana- Farber Cancer Institute 6. W. Gerald Austen, MD Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School 7. Edward J. Benz, Jr., MD Richard and Susan Smith Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; President Emeritus Dana Farber Cancer Institute 8. David Brown, MD Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital 9. Myles Brown, MD Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Member of National Academy of Sciences 10. David Charytan, MD, MSc Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital 11. Michael Collins, MD Professor, Quantitative Health Sciences and Medicine, University of Massachusetts; Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Senior Vice President for the Health Sciences 12. Mark Creager, MD Professor of Medicine, Geisel Medical School, Dartmouth College; Director, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Heart and Vascular Center; Former President of the American Heart Association 13. Merit Cudkowicz, MD, MSc Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School; Chief, Neurology Service, Massachusetts General Hospital 14. Bruce Donoff, DMD, MD Walter C. Guralnick Distinguished Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery; Dean of Harvard School of Dental Medicine 1 15. Jeffrey Ecker, MD Joe Vincent Meigs Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School; Head, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital 16. Stephen J. Elledge, PhD Gregor Mendel Professor of Genetics and Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Winner, Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research; Winner, Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Member, National Academy of Sciences 17. Allessio Fasano, MD Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; W. Allan Walker Chair in Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition; Division Chief, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Massachusetts General Hospital 18. David Fisher, MD, PhD Edward Wigglesworth Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School; Chief, Dermatology Service, Massachusetts General Hospital 19. Jeffrey Scott Flier, MD Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard Medical School; 21st Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University 20. David Frank, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School 21. Arnold Freedman, MD Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 22. Jonas Galper, MD, PhD Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine; Cardiologist, Tufts Medical Center, Molecular Cardiology Research Initiative 23. Judy E. Garber, MD, MPH Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, Center for Cancer Genetics and Prevention, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Former President, American Association for Cancer Research 24. Laurie H. Glimcher, MD Richard and Susan Smith Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; President and CEO of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Member of National Academy of Sciences 25. Samuel Goldhaber, MD Professor, Harvard Medical School; Director, Thrombosis Research Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital 26. Allan Goldstein, MD Marshall K. Bartlett Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Surgeon-in-Chief and Chief of Pediatric Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children 27. James D. Griffin, MD Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chair, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 28. Steven Grinspoon, MD Professor, Harvard Medical School; Director, Program in Nutritional Metabolism at Massachusetts General Hospital 29. Daniel A. Haber, MD, PhD Kurt J. Isselbacher/Peter D. Schwartz Professor of Oncology, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Director, Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital 30. Joel Hirschhorn, MD, PhD Concordia Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School 31. Susan Hockfield, PhD Professor of Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 16th President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology 32. Melanie Hoenig, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 33. Anthony Hollenberg, MD Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief of the Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Division at Beth Israel - Deaconess Medical Center 2 34. Steven E. Hyman, MD Distinguished Service Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University; Director Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research and Core Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; former Provost of Harvard University; former Director of U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH); Member, the National Academy of Medicine 35. Ralph Isberg, PhD Professor of Molecular Biology & Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Member of National Academy of Sciences 36. Elliot Israel, MD Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital 37. Michael Johnstone, MD Associate Professor, Medicine, Tufts Medical Center; Cardiologist, St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center 38. Leonard Kaban, DMD, MD, FACS Former Walter C. Guralnick Professor and Chairman of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Harvard School of Dental Medicine; Former Chief of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital 39. Douglas I. Katz, MD Professor of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; President, American Congress of Rehabilitative Medicine 40. Anastasia Khvorova, PhD Professor, RNA Therapeutics Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School 41. Carey Kimmelstiel, MD Associate Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine; Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Tufts Medical Center 42. Daniel Kirschner, PhD Professor of Biology, Boston College 43. Marc Kirschner, PhD John Franklin Enders University Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School; Member of National Academy of Sciences 44. Henry Klapholz, MD Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Dean for Clinical Affairs, Tufts University School of Medicine 45. Ronald Ellis Kleinman, MD Charles Wilder Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Physician-in-Chief, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children 46. Anne Klibanski, MD Laurie Carrol Guthart Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Chief, Neuroendocrine, Massachusetts General Hospital 47. Marvin Konstam, MD Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine; Chief Physician Executive, The CardioVascular Center, Tufts Medical Center 48. Robert Kotin, PhD Professor, Microbiology and Physiological Systems, University of Massachusetts Medical School 49. Monty Krieger, PhD Whitehead Professor of Molecular Genetics; MacVicar Faculty Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member of National Academy of Sciences 50. Mitzi M. Kuroda, PhD Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Member, National Academy of Sciences 51. Jeffrey Kuvin, MD Professor of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College; Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine, Dartmouth- Hitchcock Medical Center 52. Bruce Landon, MD, MBA, MSc Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School; Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel - Deaconess Medical Center 3 53. Robert Langer, ScD David H. Koch Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member of National Academy of Sciences; Winner of the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences 54. Ethan Lerner, MD Associate Professor of Dermatology Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital 55. David Livingston, MD Professor of Genetics, Emil Frei Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Member of National Academy of Sciences 56. David N. Louis, MD Benjamin Castleman Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School; Chair of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital 57. Thomas Lynch, MD former Richard and Jonathan Sackler Professor of Internal Medicine, Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine; former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Massachusetts General Physicians Organization 58. Madhusmita Misra, MD, MPH Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Division Chief, Pediatric Endocrinology, Massachusetts General Hospital 59. Martin Maron, MD Assistant Professor,
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