RAND CORPORATION - Key Persons
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- PJT Partner
- President and Chief Executive Officer / the Georgetown Company
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- Lerner Family Associate Dean, Public Interest & Public Service, George Washington University Law School
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- Founder and Senior Member, Togut, Segal & Segal LLP
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- Member of the Board
- Co - Founder and CEO, ARCHANGELS
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- Assistant
- Student, RAND School of Public Policy, and Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND
Allegra Abbruzzese is an assistant policy researcher at RAND and an M.Phil. student at the RAND School of Public Policy. Prior to joining RAND, she graduated from Pitzer College with honors in political studies.
During her time at Pitzer, she worked as a policy research fellow at Claremont McKenna College's Policy Lab, where she collected data for a research paper on voter turnout in federal elections. Additionally, she worked as the student program advisor for Pitzer College's Title IX office, where she conducted interviews and reviewed literature on best practice. Her undergraduate thesis contained original research on policy solutions to gender-based violence in Europe.
Her policy interests include national security, public safety and climate change. She is proficient in Stata, R Studio, SPSS and excel. She is fluent in English and Spanish and conversational in Italian.
Education
B.A. in political studies, Pitzer College
Languages
Spanish; Italian
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- Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
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- Customer Service Supervisor
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- Member of the Board
- Retired Executive Vice President, Health Plan Operations and Chief Growth Officer, Kaiser Permanente
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- Evaluation and Research Leader
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- President / American Standard Development Co.
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- United States District Judge, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
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- Director, RAND Israeli - Palestinian Initiative Adjunct Economist
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- Affiliated Adjunct Physician Policy Researcher
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Assistant under Secretary
Carolyn Clancy serves as the assistant under secretary for health (AUSH) for Discovery, Education & Affiliate Networks (DEAN), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), effective July 22, 2018. The office of the DEAN fosters collaboration and knowledge transfer with facility-based educators, researchers and clinicians within VA, and between VA and its affiliates. Prior to her current position, she served as the acting deputy secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, the second-largest cabinet department, with a $246 billion budget and over 424,000 employees serving in VA medical centers, clinics, benefits offices, and national cemeteries, overseeing the development and implementation of enterprise-wide policies, programs, activities, and special interests. She also served as the VHA Executive in Charge, with the authority to perform the functions and duties of the Under Secretary for Health, directing a health care system with a $68 billion annual budget, overseeing the delivery of care to more than 9 million enrolled veterans. Previously, she served as the interim under secretary for health from 2014-2015. Clancy also served as the VHA AUSH for organizational excellence, overseeing VHA's performance, quality, safety, risk management, systems engineering, auditing, oversight, ethics, and accreditation programs, as well as 10 years as the director of Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. She is a highly experienced and nationally recognized physician executive. Clancy is a general internist and health services researcher, a graduate of Boston College and the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She holds an academic appointment at George Washington University's School of Medicine and serves as senior associate editor, Health Services Research Journal. She has contributed to eight academic textbooks and authored, co-authored and provided invited commentary in more than 225 scholarly journal articles. She served as member of the National Quality Forum's Board of Directors, Chair of the AQA Alliance and served on the Board of Governors for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and was presented with the 2014 Quality Champion Award from the National Committee for Quality Assurance. She was also named as an Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and was selected as the 2015 Outstanding Federal Executive of the Year by Disabled American Veterans. In 2018, she was selected as one of the Top 50 Physician Executives by Modern Healthcare, and in 2019, she was identified as one of the 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives by Modern Healthcare. She was also awarded the 2023 Primary Care Collaborative's (PCC) prestigious Barbara Stanfield Award.
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- Director
- Director, Pittsburgh Office Senior Researcher Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
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- Managing Partner / Riverwood Capital
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- Founding Partner, Seeger Weiss LLP
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- Associate Policy Researcher / Co - Principal Investigator
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- Founder and Managing Partner / Solace Capital Partners, LLC
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- Chairman
- Member of the Board
- Secretary of the Advisory Board
Secretary Chuck Hagel served as the 24th Secretary of Defense from 2013 to 2015. He is the only Vietnam veteran and enlisted combat veteran to serve as Secretary of Defense. He represented the state of Nebraska in the U.S. Senate for two terms from 1997 to 2009. In the Senate, Hagel was a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations; Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; and Intelligence Committees. Previously, Hagel was co-chairman of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, deputy administrator of the Veterans Administration, a distinguished professor at Georgetown University, chairman of the Atlantic Council, chairman of the United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration Advisory Committee, co-chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Corporate Council, president and CEO of the USO, president and CEO of the Private Sector Council, and co-founder of Vanguard Cellular Systems, Inc. Hagel serves on the RAND Corporation's board of trustees, among other current commitments including senior adviser to GALLUP; distinguished statesman at the Atlantic Council; centennial scholar, Georgetown Walsh School of Foreign Service; distinguished scholar, University of Nebraska at Omaha; board of directors of the Public Broadcasting Service; advisory board member of Corsair Capital; director and founding member of the American Security Project; and advisory board chairman of the HillVets veterans organization. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
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- Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Secretary, Liberty Mutual Insurance
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- Vice Admiral
- Senior Fellow - Adjunct, International / Defense Researcher
Vice Admiral Dan Abel (retired) completed over 37 years of active duty in the U.S. Coast Guard, culminating as its Chief of Operations. Other senior roles included leading all Coast Guard units in the Northeast U.S. and later command of forces in the brutal conditions of Alaska, the Northern Pacific, and emerging Arctic. Interagency and joint military roles included Chief of the Joint Coordination Cell confronting COVID for the Secretary of Health & Human Services, Director of Operations of U.S. Southern Command, and Deputy Director of Operations at U.S. Northern Command. Flying helicopter and jet aircraft, he commanded Air Stations in San Francisco and Cape Cod. As a staff officer, he served in the small cadre that crafts and defends the Coast Guard's budget, and was Program Manager of the Coast Guard's Rescue 21 project, which recapitalized the nation's maritime distress alerting radio network. He holds degrees from the Coast Guard Academy, the National Defense University, and the College of William and Mary. He is President of the crisis response/recovery coaching and consulting firm Status Paratus ("Condition: Ready"), and serves as a senior fellow for both the National Defense University and RAND. He crafted and teaches Crisis Leadership for Virginia Commonwealth University's Master of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Executive Chairman and Founder, the ConAm Group
Dan Epstein is the founder of The ConAm Group, headquartered in San Diego. The ConAm Group is among the top privately owned apartment management/ownership/development firms in the country and presently operates approximately 50,000 apartments throughout the United States. In addition to its management activities, ConAm is developing apartments and mixed-use projects in the Pacific Northwest and Los Angeles. Epstein serves on the board of trustees for the University of Southern California (USC), the board of councilors of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, and he serves as chairman of the advisory committee of USC Viterbi's Epstein Department of Industrial and System's Engineering. Epstein is also on the board of trustees for Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Research Institute, the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Foundation, and the California State University San Marcos (CSUSM) Foundation Board. CSUSM recently awarded Epstein with an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. He has received USC Viterbi's Distinguished Alumni Award, the USC Alumni Association's Alumni Service Award, and the USC Asa V. Call Alumni Achievement Award. Ernst & Young named him San Diego's Entrepreneur of the Year for the real estate industry. He is a member of UCSD Rady School Dean's Advisory Council and a member of the Chief Executives Organization and the Young Presidents Organization. He graduated from the Viterbi School at USC in 1962 with a bachelor's degree in engineering.
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- Member of the Board
- Commissioner, Los Angeles County Prevention and Community Health Task Force
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- Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, EQT Corporation
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- Senior Research Communications Analyst
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- Member of the Board
- Chairman, Oracle Health
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- Northwestern Health Sciences University
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- Executive Director, Office of General Counsel, Merck
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- Retired President and Chief Executive Officer, Agensys, Inc. Former U.S. Secretary of the Air Force Former President and Chief Executive Officer, RAND
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- Member of the Board
- Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Vulcan Materials Company
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- Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
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- Partner, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP
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- Partner and Practice Group Chair, Weitz & Luxenberg
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- Member of the Board
- Founder and CEO, Favus Institutional Research
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- Adjunct Policy Researcher
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- Member of the Board
- Director, Ford Dorsey Master 's in International Policy, Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University
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- President, Reinsurance Association of America
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- Director / Chammas Group of Companies
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- Columbia Fertility Associate
- Executive Chairman
- Founding Partner
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- Member of the Board
- Professor, Harvard University
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- President
- Secretary - General
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- Executive Producer
- PJT Partner
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- Managing Director / Phoenix Finance Partners
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- Director
- Codirector
- Senior Health Policy Researcher
Ian Coulter is codirector of the RAND Research Across Complementary and Integrative Health Institutions (REACH) Center, a senior health policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, professor emeritus at UCLA, and research professor at the Southern California University of Health Sciences. He has more than 40 years of experience conducting both qualitative and quantitative research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and integrative medicine (IM) and has published over 200 articles and books. Coulter was successful in securing a gift to create the endowed RAND/Samueli Chair in Integrative Medicine and a gift to establish the original RAND Center for Collaborative Research in Complementary and Integrative Health.
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- PJT Partner
- Chief Executive Officer / Corsair Capital
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- Member of the Board
- Partner, Cameron Jones LLP
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- Policy Researcher Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
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- Chairman Emeritus of the Board
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- Assistant Director, Defence and Security European Lead, Space
Janet Napolitano, Founder and Faculty Director, Center for Security in Politics, The Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley; Former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security
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- Member of the Board
- Chief Executive Officer, Jigsaw ( a Google Company )
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- Member of the Board
- President and Chief Executive Officer, RAND
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- Vice President and General Counsel / the Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation
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- Chief Executive Officer, President, JND Legal Administration
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Director of Operations for the Afghanistan War Commission
- Director of Operations, Afghanistan War Commission
Jeremy Butler is the director of operations for the Afghanistan War Commission. Prior to joining the Commission, he spent nine years in the veterans advocacy space, including serving as CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and Chief Growth Officer of We The Veterans and Military Families. He currently sits on the board of both organizations as well as on the board of Veterans for All Voters. He is a Captain in the Navy Reserve assigned to the headquarters of Commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet. Butler is a graduate of the Naval War College in Newport, RI and Knox College in Galesburg, IL.
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- Partner, White & Case LLP
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- Senior Policy Researcher Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
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- Member of the Board
- Cofounder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, Globality, Inc. Cofounder and Former Chief Executive Officer, Current Media, LLC
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- Partner / McLaughlin & Stern LLP
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- Member of the Board
- Private Investor
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- Southern California University of Health Sciences
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- Senior Behavioral / Social Scientist
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- Member of the Board
- Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary, Amgen
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- Member of the Board
- Senior Strategic Advisor, Riordan, Lewis, & Haden
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- Senior Policy Researcher / Principal Investigator
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- Leader
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Chief Financial Officer, Epstein Family Foundation
Julie Bronstein is an experienced nonprofit leader and philanthropist. A graduate of Scripps College with a master's degree in public administration from the University of Southern California, she has spent the majority of her career working in nonprofit organizations focused on health, education, and community improvement. As managing executive director of development at UC San Diego, Bronstein oversees the Health Board of Advisors and fundraises for health sciences. Bronstein serves on the boards of the La Jolla Community Foundation and Hillel of the Claremont Colleges and previously served as an elected trustee of the San Dieguito Union High School District. In addition, Bronstein is a volunteer adviser for the Autism Tree Project Foundation.
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- Columbia Fertility Associate
- 39th Minister of Foreign Affairs / Thailand
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- Policy Analyst / Recruitment Lead
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Adjunct Social Scientist at RAND
- Senior Researcher for Reliability Engineering at Meta
Kathryn (Casey) Bouskill is a senior researcher for Reliability Engineering at Meta. In addition, Bouskill is an adjunct social scientist at RAND where she studies a range of public health topics. She has a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in anthropology and an M.P.H. in epidemiology from Emory University.
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- Member of the Board
- Managing Director in Commodities Origination at J.P. Morgan
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- Member of the Board
- Founder and Managing Partner, the Law Offices of Kenneth R. Feinberg, PC
- Founder and Managing Partner, the Law Offices of Kenneth R. Feinberg, PC / Board Chair
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- Member of the Caplin & Drysdale
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- Founding Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, WellPoint
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- Senior Policy Researcher Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
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- Member of the Board
- President, Pacific Pension & Investment Institute
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- Economist Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
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- Senior Physician Policy Researcher, Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
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- Associate Policy Researcher
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- Retired Co - Founder & Non - Executive Chairman
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- Independent Director / Quantum Advisors Pte. Ltd.
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- Principal, Mary Peters Consulting Group, LLC Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation
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- Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
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- Associate Policy Researcher
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- Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer, Ducera Partners LLC
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- Associate Center Director for Talent, Technology and Security Policy Center ( TASP )
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- Member of the Board
- Chief Executive Officer, MoveFlux Corporation
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- Partner and General Counsel, Ducera Partners LLC
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- Member of the Board
- Chairman, Snap Inc
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- Director
- Codirector
- Executive Director of Research and Innovation, Northwestern Health Sciences University
Michele Maiers is codirector of the RAND Research Across Complementary and Integrative Health Institutions (REACH) Center. Maiers is also executive director of research and innovation at Northwestern Health Sciences University (NWHSU) supporting the mission of providing evidence-based solutions to the health care community through its research and policy efforts. In her role as co-director of the REACH Center, Maiers will facilitate research activity both within and across participating institutions and develop strategies for advancing the Center.
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- President and CEO / International Medical Corps
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- Associate Policy Researcher
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- Director of Operations, RAND Education and Labor
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- Director
- Codirector
- Senior Behavioral and Social Scientist
Patricia Herman is a codirector of the RAND Research Across Complementary and Integrative Health Institutions (REACH) Center, a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation, and faculty at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Her research centers on health economics, innovative care models, and overall quality of life. Herman is an NCCIH-supported methodologist, resource economist, and licensed naturopathic doctor.
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- Member of the Board
- Non - Executive Chairman, Value Capture LLC
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- Member of the Board
- Retired General, U.S. Air Force
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- Sonoran University of Health Sciences
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- Member of the Board
- Professor and Founding Dean, Roseman University College of Medicine
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- Senior Partner, Weitz & Luxenberg
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- Member of the Board
- Principal, LFG
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- Member of the Board
- Managing Partner, Table Rock Infrastructure Partners
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- Board Member / Broad Reach Foundation
Senior Economist; Director of the Ph.D. Program and Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
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- Member of the Board
- Senior Advisor, Morgan Stanley Lead Director, AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc
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- Family Veterans Policy Research Institute Advisory Board
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- Member of the Board
- Head of School, Phillips Academy, Andover
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- Senior Fellow, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Former U.S. Secretary of the Navy
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- Health Policy Analyst - Middle East / Middle East Policy Analysis Group
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- Associate Director
- Director
- Associate Director of the RAND Research across Complementary
- Senior Investigator and the Director of Research at the National University of Natural Medicine
Ryan Bradley is associate director of the RAND Research Across Complementary and Integrative Health Institutions (REACH) Center. He is also a senior investigator and the director of research at the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, OR and an Associate Professor in the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health at the University of California, San Diego. He brings over 20 years of complementary and integrative health (CIH) research experience in both mind-body and natural product clinical trials, as well as clinical epidemiology to the REACH Center. As associate director, Bradley contributes to the overall leadership of the Center and facilitates research collaboration and grant development across member institutions.
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- Associate Economist Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
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- Adjunct Technical Analyst and Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
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- Associate Director of RAND Health Care and Senior Policy Researcher
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Chairman of the Board, Elizabeth Dole Foundation
Senator Elizabeth Dole graduated with distinction from Duke University, earned a law degree from Harvard Law School, and a M.A. in teaching from Harvard University. She served as deputy to the special assistant for consumer affairs during the Nixon administration. Her resume includes six years as a member of the Federal Trade Commission and two years as assistant to President Reagan for Public Liaison. In 1983, she became the first woman to be appointed U.S. Secretary of Transportation. She later served as U.S. Secretary of Labor. In 1991, Dole became only the second woman since founder Clara Barton in 1881 to serve as president of the American Red Cross. Following the Red Cross, she sought the Republican nomination in the 2000 United States presidential election. Elected in 2002, Dole became the first woman to represent North Carolina in the United States Senate. In 2012, she founded the Elizabeth Dole Foundation to raise awareness and support for military and veteran caregivers, the spouses, parents, and loved ones caring for America's wounded warriors at home.
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- Senior Policy Researcher Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
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- Columbia Fertility Associate
Soledad O'Brien, Journalist; Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Soledad O'Brien Productions
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- Member of the Board
- Global Chief Executive Officer, Technology, FTI Consulting
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- Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, State Farm Insurance Company ( Retired )
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- Member of the Board
- Managing Partner, BrainFrees
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- Member of the Board
- President and CEO, Cedars - Sinai Health System
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- Member of the Board
- CEO of Acubed and Airbus' Head of Research and Technology North America
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- Director / Benz Foundation
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- Fellow in the Technology Applications and Implications Stream at the RAND School of Public Policy
- Student, RAND School, and Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND