Advisory Council

Distinguished leaders in medicine, law, economics, and business constitute The Hastings Center advisory council.

The advisory council’s purpose is to provide guidance about how best to ensure the impact of our work, particularly our impact in the public square.

Eli Adashi, MD, MS, CPE – Professor of Medical Science, The Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University

Andrew S. Adelson, MBA – Chief Investment Officer of Global Value Equities, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., Inc. (retired)

Anita L. Allen, JD, PhD – University of Pennsylvania

Liza Bailey – Former Hastings Center board member, Garrison, N.Y., resident

Suzanne Baker, JD  – Partner and Head of Appellate Group, Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, LLP (retired)

Richard W. Barker, DPhil, OBE – Visiting Professor, King’s College London, and Founder, Metadvice

Sissela Bok, PhD – Senior Visiting Fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

Rick Burnes – Founder and Partner Emeritus, CRV

Cherie Butts, PhD– Medical Director, Biogen

Nancy Cahners – Ethics Committees of Massachusetts General Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Hebrew Senior Life

Arthur C. Caplan, PhD – Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics, NYU School of Medicine

Wendy Chung, MD, PhD – Chief of the Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital 

Barry S. Coller, MD – The Rockefeller University

James Corbett, M.Div, JD – Principal, Initium Health

Samuel W. Croll III – Chief Executive Officer, CR Ocean Engineering, LLC

Irene W. Crowe, PhD – President, Pettus Crowe Foundation

Marion Danis, MD – National Institutes of Health*

Helen Darling – Strategic Advisor, Former President and CEO, National Business Group on Health

Lee Davies, MBA –  Senior Vice President, Director of Media Strategy, Makovsky

George Davis – Partner, Latham & Watkins

Tegan Donnelley, MD, MPhil – Resident Physician, New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center

Francine Gordon Durrer, Managing Director, Corporate Restructuring Services, KCC

Van C. Durrer II – Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLPs

Harold S. H. Edgar, LLB – Julius Silver Professor in Law, Science, and Technology Columbia Law School

Renee Chenault Fattah, JD – Journalist, Communications Strategist, Public Speaker, and Attorney

Howard Getson, JD, MBA – Founding President and CEO, Capitalogix

Al Glowasky – Consultant (Strategy and Finance) and Board Advisor, Integral Board Group

Mary Gover, MD – Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Peter Hofmann, MD

Lisa Huffines, JD – Retired attorney, Paul Hastings

Lorraine A. LaHuta – Chief Development and Marketing Officer, Ballet Hispanico

Kristina Baldwin Larson, JD, MBE – Faculty Advisor, Capstone Leader, and Course Instructor, Master of Bioethics Degree Program, Harvard Medical School 

Jeffrey Lieberman – Managing Director, Insight Venture Partners

Frank E. Lucente, MD – Retired Chairman of Department of Otolaryngology and Vice Dean, SUNY Downstate Medical Center

Nancy Maruyama – Beth Israel Medical Center

Michele Moody-Adams, PhD – Professor, Columbia University

Timothy P. Morris, PhD – Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, North Central College

Donald Moulds – Former Executive Vice President for Programs, Commonwealth Fund

Marc Nivet, EdD – Chief Diversity Officer, Association of American Medical Colleges

Dede Nickerson – Strategic Advisor/Creative Producer

Stephen A. Oxman, DPhil – Retired Senior Advisor, Morgan Stanley; Former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs

Michele Penzer, JD – Partner, Latham & Watkins

David Pollock – Senior Advisor, Ashoka

Thomas M. Priselac – President/CEO Emeritus Cedars Sinai Health System

Mohini Priya (alt. Mohini P.B. Rarrick), JD, LLM ­­– Former Hastings Center Research Assistant; Associate, Latham & Watkins LLP (they/them, she/her)

Eve Hart Rice, MD – Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Frederic C. Rich, JD – Former Partner and Head of Global Project Development and Finance, Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP (New York)

David L. Roscoe – Former executive, RiskMetrics Group, Former Board Chairman, The Hastings Center

Courtney Sas, MSW, RSW, MBE – Social worker at St. Michael’s Hospital, Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Toronto Faculty of Social Work

Heather Sawitsky, JD, MPH – Project Coordinator, White Oak Cottages, LLC, Westwood, Ma.

Harold T. Shapiro, PhD – President Emeritus and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University

John Shattuck – Senior Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Professor of Practice in Diplomacy, Tufts University

Andrew Solomon, PhD – Author and lecturer on psychology, politics, and the arts

James E. Stahl, MD, CM, MPH – Section Chief, General Internal Medicine Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Associate Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth University

Theodore J. Stahl, MD – Clinical Professor of Radiology and Medicine Former Chief of Nuclear Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital-Rutgers University Medical School (RWJUH) and St. Peter’s University

Barbara J. Stoll, MD – China Medical Board; Emory University Schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing; Former Dean McGovern Medical School, U of Texas

Earl Steinberg, MD, MPP – Independent Health Care Consultant, and Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University

Brian Stolar – President and CEO, The Pinnacle Companies

Kathy Surace-Smith, JD – former Senior Vice President, NanoString Technologies, Seattle, and Trustee, Columbia University and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Francis H. Trainer, Jr., MBA

Tralonda Triplett, PhD, MPH – Director of Operations for the Institute for Successful Leadership

Victor Villagra – Founder and President of Health & Technology Vector, Inc.; Associate Director, UCONN Health Disparities Institute

Quinn Walker – Stanford Law School

David R. Walt, PhD – HHMI Professor, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Former University Professor, Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Genetics, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University

Susan Whitehead, JD – Lifetime Trustee, MIT and the Whitehead Institute

*Dr. Danis is serving in her personal capacity.