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