Internal Advisory Committee

Garret A. FitzGerald, MD, FRS (Committee Chair)

Director, Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics
Professor of Medicine and Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics
McNeil Professor in Translational Medicine and Therapeutics

Charles S. Abrams, MD

Professor of Medicine, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Director, PENN-CHOP Blood Center for Patient Care & Discovery
Vice Chair for Research and Chief Scientific Officer, Department of Medicine

Lisa Guay-Woodford, MD

Senior Advisor for Clinical and Translational Research Initiatives
Attending physician
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Zoltan Arany, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine and Cell and Development Biology
Director, Cardiovascular Metabolism Program, Cardiovascular Institute and Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism

Ian A. Blair, PhD

A.N. Richards Professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics and Professor of Chemistry
Director, Center for Cancer Pharmacology
Vice Chair, Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics

Lawrence F. Brass, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine and Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics
Associate Dean for the Combined Degree & Physician Scholars Program Hematology/Oncology Division, Department of Medicine

Anne Rentoumis Cappola, MD, ScM

Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Perelman School of Medicine
Director, Clinical Research for the Department of Medicine
Director, Penn Medical Communication Research Institute

Thomas P. Cappola, MD, ScM

Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Herbert C. Rorer Professor in Medical Sciences
Assistant Director, Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics

James Eberwine, PhD

Elmer Holmes Bobst Professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine

Joseph W. St. Geme, MD

Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology
Chair of the Department of Pediatrics, The Perelman School of Medicine
Chair of the Department of Pediatrics and Physician-in-Chief, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Raquel E. Gur, MD, PhD

Karl and Linda Rickels Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Neurology and Radiology, Pereman School of Medicine
Associate Director, Institute for Translational Medicine & Therapeutics
Vice Chair for Research Development & Director of Neuropsychiatry Section, Department of Psychiatry

Kya Hertz, CDP®

Assistant Director, Penn Medicine Office for Inclusion, Diversity and Equity (OIDE)
Certified Diversity Professional

Lorraine E. Levitt Katz, MD

Professor of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine
Attending Physician in the Division of Endocrinology, CHOP
Co-Director, Center for Human Phenomic Science

Emma A. Meagher, MD

Vice Dean for Clinical Research & Chief Clinical Research Officer
Senior Associate Vice Provost for Human Research

Peter A. Merkel, MD, MPH

Chief, Division of Rheumatology
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Nadine Al-Naamani, MD, MS

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Attending physician
Co-Director, Center for Human Phenomic Science

Ellen Puré, PhD

The Grace Lansing Lambert Professor of Biomedical Science
Chair, Department of Biomedical Sciences
University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine

Daniel J. Rader, MD

Seymour Gray Professor of Molecular Medicine
Chair, Department of Genetics
Chief, Division of Translational Medicine and Human Genetics, Department of Medicine
Chief, Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Mitch Schnall, MD, PhD

Chair, Department of Radiology
Matthew J. Wilson Professor of Research Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine

Robert H. Vonderheide, MD, DPhil

Hanna Wise Professor in Cancer Research, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute
Director, Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine

Drew Weissman, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine