Ann Arvin, MD, Is the Lucile Salter Packard Professor of Pediatrics And

MEMBERS’ MEETING VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE FEBRUARY 27, 2019 PRESENTERS Ann Arvin, MD, is the Lucile Salter Packard Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, and the vice provost and dean of research emerita, Stanford University. Dr. Arvin was vice provost and dean of research from November 2006 to September 2018. In this role, she oversaw Stanford’s eighteen interdisciplinary institutes and major shared research facilities, as well as university research policies, compliance with regulations concerning the responsible conduct of research and human and animal research, and the Office of Technology Licensing/Industry Contracts Office. Dr. Arvin’s laboratory research focuses on molecular mechanisms of varicella zoster virus (VZV) infection and immune responses to this common human herpesvirus and is supported an NIH MERIT award. Her clinical research seeks to improve the understanding of the developing immune system in infants and young children in the context of viral infections and vaccines. Her work has been recognized by election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Academy of the American Society for Microbiology, the Association of American Physicians and the American Pediatric Society. Dr. Arvin was chief of the Infectious Diseases Division, the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford from 1984 to 2006. She received her A.B. from Brown University, M.A. in philosophy from Brandeis University, and M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her residency in pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, and subspecialty training in infectious diseases at UCSF and Stanford University. Peter Schiffer is vice provost for research and a professor of applied physics and physics at Yale University. As vice provost for research, he works to support and enhance the research enterprise across all schools and departments in the university. Before joining Yale in 2017, he was the vice chancellor for research and a professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He previously served in a number of administrative, faculty, and research roles at Pennsylvania State University. Prior to that, he was on the faculty at the University of Notre Dame, and performed postdoctoral work at AT&T Bell Laboratories. His personal research focuses on artificial spin ice, geometrically frustrated magnets, and other magnetic materials. He has co-authored more than 200 papers and is the recipient of a Career Award from the National Science Foundation, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the Army Research Office, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship recipient, and he received the Faculty Scholar Medal in the Physical Sciences and the Joel and Ruth Spira Award for Teaching Excellence from Penn State. He is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He has served as the chair of the Topical Group on Magnetism and its Applications and the chair of the Division of Materials Physics in the American Physical Society. He received his B.S. from Yale University in 1988 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1993. Tapio Schneider is the Theodore Y. Wu Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at Caltech and a senior research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His research focuses on how the climate of Earth and other planets comes about and may change, for example, by changes in atmospheric circulation or cloud cover. He is currently leading the Climate Modeling Alliance whose mission is to build the first Earth system model that automatically learns from diverse data sources to produce accurate climate predictions with quantified uncertainties. He was named one of the “Top 20 Scientists under 40” by Discover Magazine, was a David and Lucile Packard Fellow and Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, and is a recipient of the James R. Holton Award of the American Geophysical Union and of the Rosenstiel Award of the University of Miami. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Young Scientists Community. 2 .

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