The Whitaker Foundation

Chairman's Statement

Biomedical Engineering and the Heart

Strategic Directions in Biomedical Engineering

How to Apply for Funding

Program Descriptions

Grants Approved in 1997

Financial Statements

Organization and Advisors

Foundation Governing Committee

G. Burtt Holmes, O.D., Chairman
William R. Brody, M.D., Ph.D.*
Eckley B. Coxe IV**
Ruth Whitaker Holmes, Ph.D.
Thomas A. Holmes
Lee L. Huntsman, Ph.D.***
James E. Kielley, J.D.****
Harold A. McInnes
Portia Whitaker Shumaker

Allen W. Cowley Sr., M.D., Emeritus


Officers

Miles J. Gibbons Jr.
President

Peter G. Katona, Sc.D.
Executive Vice President, Biomedical Engineering

Trustee

The Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, N.Y.

Administrative Staff, Rosslyn, Va.

Frank N. Blanchard
Director of Communications

Mark A. Bowman
Communications Assistant

James A. Frost, C.P.A.
Director of Finance

Carina S. Hreib
Grants Manager

Heather L. MacKechnie
Office Administrator

Mark Metheny
Financial Assistant

Jennifer L. Mizroch
Executive Assistant, Grants Administrator

Mozhie G. Shahvari, C.P.A.
Financial Assistant

Wolf W. von Maltzahn, Ph.D., P.E.
Program Director

Administrative Staff, Mechanicsburg, Pa.

Paula L. Libhart
Office Administrator

Arva I. Rahemanji
Financial Assistant

Scientific Advisory Committee

Joseph D. Andrade, Ph.D.
University Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of Utah

William R. Brody, M.D., Ph.D. §
President
The Johns Hopkins University

Eugene N. Bruce, Ph.D.
Professor
Center for Biomedical Engineering
University of Kentucky

Don P. Giddens, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Georgia Tech/Emory Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology and
Emory University School of Medicine

R. Mark Henkelman, Ph.D.
Vice President for Research
Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics
University of Toronto

Raymond E. Ideker, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Biomedical Engineering
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Stephen J. Riederer, Ph.D.
Professor of Diagnostic Radiology
Director, Magnetic Resonance Laboratory
Mayo Clinic

Michael Welch, Ph.D.
Professor of Radiology
Director, Division of Radiation Sciences
Washington University Medical School

Martin L. Yarmush, M.D, Ph.D.
Helen Andras Benedict Professor of Surgery and Bioengineering
Harvard Medical School
Director, Center for Engineering in Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital

Ronald Zernicke, Ph.D.
Professor and Heritage Medical Scholar
Departments of Surgery, Mechanical Engineering,
Civil Engineering and Kinesiology
University of Calgary

Fellowship Advisory Committee

S. James Adelstein, M.D., Ph.D.
Executive Dean for Academic Programs
Harvard Medical School

Janie M. Fouke, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University

Yuan-Cheng B. Fung, Ph.D.
Professor, Bioengineering and Applied Mechanics
Department of Bioengineering
University of California, San Diego

Eric J. Guilbeau, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of Bioengineering
Department of Chemical, Biological and
Materials Engineering
Arizona State University

Douglas A. Lauffenburger, Ph.D.
Director
Center for Biomedical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

John H. Linehan, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Biomedical Engineering Department
Marquette University

Lawrence P. Schramm, Ph.D.
Professor
Biomedical Engineering Department
The Johns Hopkins University

Ernest M. Stokely, Ph.D.
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor, Computer and Information Sciences
Associate Dean for Research, School of Engineering
University of Alabama at Birmingham

* Term began 10/1/97
** Emeritus 10/1/97
*** Retired 12/31/97
**** Term began 1/1/98
§ Resigned 10/1/97

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