The New Federalism

Speakers

Organizer

Anthony Shorris

Policy Research Institute for the Region
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Anthony Shorris is lecturer of public and international affairs and director of the Policy Research Institute for the Region. He was formerly New York City's Commissioner of Finance and its Deputy Budget Director, and was the first deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

Presenters

Laurence C. Baker, PhD

Stanford University
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Laurence Baker is associate professor of health research and policy and chief of health services research at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Fellow of the Center for Health Policy at Stanford University. He holds a courtesy appointment in the Stanford University department of economics. He is also research associate in the health care, productivity, and children's programs of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA. He was awarded the Alice S. Hersh Young Investigator Award by the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy in 2000, and in 1997 and 1999 he received the National Institute for Management's research prize for his work on managed care.

Paul Berg, PhD

Stanford University
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Paul Berg is the Cahill Professor in Cancer Research Emeritus and Director Emeritus of the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine at Stanford University. Widely regarded as one of the principal pioneers in gene splicing, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980 for developing methods to map the structure and function of DNA. Berg received his PhD in biochemistry from Case Western Reserve University. In addition to the Nobel, for his work on the genetic mechanisms through which cells form proteins and the development of recombinant DNA technology, he has received the Eli Lilly Award (1959), the California Scientist of the Year Award (1964), the Mattia Prize (1972), and the Gairdner Foundation Award, the New York Academy of Sciences Award, the Lasker Foundation Award, the American Association for the Advancement of Science Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award, the National Medal of Science, and the National Library of Medicine Medal.

Richard J. Codey

Acting Governor of New Jersey
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Richard Codey is the Acting Governor of New Jersey. In a career in state government that has lasted more than three decades, Codey, a former state legislator and state senator, was co-president of the Senate in 2004 and senate minority leader from 1998-2002. He had earned a reputation as a skillful leader who is able to achieve bipartisan goals. As acting governor, a post he assumed in November 2004, Codey has focused on ethics in government, creating the post of inspector general and hiring a special ethics counsel to develop a mandatory ethics training program.

Lori P. Knowles

University of Alberta
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Lori Knowles is a bioethics policy consultant and research associate of the Health Law Institute, University of Alberta, Canada. A specialist in international comparative law, particularly as it relates to biotechnology regulation, she holds law degrees from Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Knowles has served as a consultant to President Bush's Council on Bioethics, President Clinton's National Bioethics Advisory Commission, the US Food and Drug Administration, and the National Academy of Sciences. She is a member of the Ethics Oversight Committee for the US Department of Veterans Affairs DNA Tissue Bank, and a faculty member at the Bard College School of Environmental Policy. She lives in Boston.

Roger G. Noll, PhD

Stanford University
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Roger Noll is professor of economics at Stanford University and the director of the Stanford Center for International Development. The author of 13 books and over 300 articles, Noll's work in R&D policy includes The Technology Pork Barrel, a study of large-scale federally funded programs to develop commercial technologies, and several articles on public-private R&D cooperation.

Panelists

David P. Beck, PhD

Coriell Institute for Medical Research
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David Beck is president and CEO of the Coriell Institute for Medical Research, which has a special focus on stem cell research. Beck has served at the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of General Medical Science, where he was deputy director of the genetics program and legislative liaison for the director of the Institute. He was also associate director for administration at the Public Health Research Institute in New York City. He serves on the boards of directors of the New Jersey Technology Council and the New Jersey Association for Biomedical Research.

Ira B. Black, MD, PhD

Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey
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Ira Black is founding director of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey, and professor and chairman of the department of neuroscience and cell biology at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He is also chairman of the publications committee of the International Society for Stem Cell Research and a member of the scientific advisory board of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine of New Jersey and the scientific advisory council of the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation.

Neil M. Cohen

New Jersey State Assembly
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Neil M. Cohen is a New Jersey assemblyman and the deputy majority leader. He is also chairperson of the Committee on Banking and Insurance, and a member of the Labor Committee and the Joint Legislative Commission on Ethical Standards. He was first elected to the General Assembly in 1990 and is now serving his seventh term. Cohen has received statewide recognition as the leading advocate for women's rights in the Assembly. He has received numerous awards, including the Torch of Freedom Award and the B'nai B'rith National and Civic Affair Award. He also was honored by the state business and labor community as Legislator of the Year in 1991.

Brian Flanagan, PhD

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
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Brian Flanagan is scientific program manager of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation with responsibility for the islet biology and transplantation portfolio. He is also chair of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International's Oversight Committee for Stem Cell Research.

Joseph Hammang, PhD

Pfizer Global Research and Development
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Joseph Hammang is director of science policy and public affairs at Pfizer Global Research and Development. Prior to joining Pfizer, Hammang served as the Governor of Rhode Island's advisor for science and technology at the Rhode Island Economic Policy Council, and was vice president for science, technology and business development at the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation. Previously, at Bristol-Myers Squibb, he was involved in Alzheimer's disease research, and at CytoTherapeutics, Inc. he was director of cell and molecular neuroscience and the director of the ophthalmology therapeutic program.

Robert F. Johnston

Johnston Associates Inc.
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Robert Johnston is president of Johnston Associated Inc., which provides merger advisory and financing for emerging companies in technology-intensive industries. A former investment banker for F.S. Smithers & Co. and for Smith Barney & Co., he also previously founded a number of other companies focused on biotechnology and health care.

Kenneth I. Moch

Alteon
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Kenneth I. Moch is president and CEO of Alteon, Inc. and chairman of the Biotechnology Council of New Jersey. He is also a member of the executive committee of the New York Biotechnology Association and a member of the governing body of the emerging companies section of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO).

David A. Paterson

New York State Senate
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David Paterson is a New York State senator and the senate minority leader. A leading legislative advocate for social and economic justice for all New Yorkers and a human rights advocate, Paterson is the highest-ranking African-American official in New York State. He has received state and national recognition for efforts to preserve the legacy of African-American culture in New York. The Senator, who is legally blind, is also a leading advocate for the rights of the visually and physically challenged, and was elected as a member of the American Foundation for the Blind. He is also a board member of the Achilles Track Club.

Sherrie Preische, PhD

New Jersey Commission on Science & Technology
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Sherrie Preische is executive director of the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology. Previously, she was science and technology policy advisor to former New Jersey Governor James McGreevey. She has conducted research in fusion energy at Princeton and in France, and worked for the American Physical Society in Washington, D.C.

Uwe Reinhardt, PhD

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
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Uwe Reinhardt is the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University and professor of economic and public affairs for the department of economics and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He has served or is currently serving as a board member on the National Advisory Council for Health Care Policy, Research, and Evaluation of the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality and the World Bank, among others.

Leon Rosenberg, MD

Princeton University
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Leon Rosenberg is professor of molecular biology and public affairs at Princeton University. He also has a faculty appointment at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. A former dean of the Yale University School of Medicine, he was professor of human genetics, pediatrics, and medicine at Yale, and chairman of Yale's department of human genetics, which he established. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Institute of Medicine. He is a past president of the American Society of Human Genetics, the Association of American Physicians, and the Funding First Initiative of the Mary Lasker Trust.

Lee M. Silver, PhD

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Lee Silver is professor of molecular biology and public affairs at Princeton University and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He also has joint appointments in the Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy, the Center for Health and Wellbeing, the Office of Population Research, and the Princeton Environmental Institute. He is the author of Remaking Eden: How Genetic Engineering and Cloning Will Transform the American Family. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a recipient of a 10-year National Institutes of Health MERIT award. He was a member of the New Jersey Bioethics Commission Task Force.

Robert D. Willig, PhD

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
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Robert Willig is professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University. He served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the US Department of Justice and has been a member of policy task forces for the Governor of New Jersey, the Defense Science Board, and the National Research Council. He was also a supervisor in the economics research department of Bell Laboratories. A Fellow of the Econometric Society, Willig is the author of Welfare Analysis of Policies Affecting Prices and Products, among other books.

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Mary Crowley

Mary Crowley produces a weekly news service for Cover the Uninsured, a national campaign sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Formerly, she was the editorial director of Praxis Press, where she co-created Praxis Post, a webzine of medicine and culture. She also developed the Praxis Press News Bureau and was founding editor of Johns Hopkins Health after 50, a widely circulated monthly consumer-health newsletter.