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ACTS Leadership

The business and affairs of the Association, including but not limited to approval of Association Policies and creation of committee charges, are managed by or under the direction of the Board of Directors.

ACTS is a not-for-profit corporation incorporated in the District of Columbia. The Association is governed by its bylaws, which are reviewed by the Board of Directors on a regular basis. Please click here to view our current bylaws approved July 2018.

Board of Directors
	President Robert P. Kimberly, MD Howard L. Holley Professor of Medicine University of Alabama at Birmingham Director, UAB Center for Clinical and Translational Science 1825 University Boulevard, SHEL 172D Birmingham, AL 35294-2182
	Past-President Emma A. Meagher, MD Director, Translational Research Education, Institute of Translational Medicine and Therapeutics Vice Dean and Chief Clinical Research Officer Senior Associate Vice Provost, Human Research Associate Professor, Medicine and Pharmacology University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine 8032 Maloney Building Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania 3400 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283
	President-Elect Fred Meyers, MD, MACP Vice Dean, UC Davis School of Medicine Professor of Medicine University of California, Davis 2315 Stockton Blvd Sacramento, CA 95817
	Secretary Gary Rosenthal, MD Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center 1 Medical Center Blvd Winston-Salem, NC 27157
	Treasurer David Center, MD Associate Provost, Translation Research Director, Boston University Translational Science Institute Gordon and Ruth Snider Professor of Pulmonary Medicine Chief, Section of Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep and Critical Care Medicine Boston University School of Medicine Boston Medical Center 72 East Concord Street, R-3 Boston, MA 02118
Directors-at-Large
	Ebony Boulware, MD MPH Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Vice Dean for Translational Science Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine Professor of Medicine Duke University School of Medicine 411 W. Chapel Hill St. Suite 500 Durham 27701 United States
	Mark Robert Burge, MD Deputy Director, Clinical and Translational Science Center Regents’ and Distinguished Professor of Medicine Department of Medicine, Endocrinology & Metabolism University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center Internal Medicine/Endocrinology MSC10 5550 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-0001
	Linda B. Cottler, PhD MPH FACE Associate Dean for Research College of Public Health and Health Professions Dean's Professor and Chair-Department of Epidemiology College of Public Health and Health Professions and College of Medicine 2004 Mowry Road, Room 4240 PO Box 100231 Gainesville, FL 32610 352-273-5468
	Gayathri Devi, MS, PhD Associate Professor, Departments of Surgery and Pathology Associate Director, Research Education, Surgery Program Director, Duke Multidisciplinary Research and Education in Translational Sciences (MERITS) Program Leader, Duke Consortium for Inflammatory Breast Cancer, Duke Cancer Institute Duke University School of Medicine 2606 DUMC, MSRB1, Research Drive Durham, NC 27710
	Vicki Ellingrod, Pharm.D.FCCP John Gideon Searle Professor of Clinical and Translational Pharmacy, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine Director, Education and Mentoring Group, MICHR University of Michigan 428 Church Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109
	Christopher John Lindsell, PhD Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Methods Program Associate Director, Center for Clinical Quality and Improvement Research Professor, Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University Medical Center 2525 West End Avenue Suite 1100 Nashville, TN 37203
	George A. Mashour, MD, PhD Associate Dean, Clinical & Translational Research, Medical School Executive Director, Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research Executive Director, Translational Research, Office of Research University of Michigan 1600 Huron Parkway Building 400 Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2800 Office: 734-998-7474
	Donald Allen McClain, MD PhD Senior Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research Director, Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute Director, Center on Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Director, Center on Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Johnston Professor of Diabetes Research Wake Forest University School of Medicine Department of Medicine Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism 1 Medical Center Blvd, NRC
	Kathleen R. Stevens, RN, MS, EdD, ANEF, FAAN University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio Professor, PI of the Improvement Science Research Network 7703 Floyd Curl Drive Mail Code 7949 San Antonio, TX 78229-39
Early Career Director
	Karen Martinez-Gonzalez, MD MSc Director, UPR Center for the Study and Treatment of Fear and Anxiety Principal Investigator/Director Hispanic Clinical and Translational Research Education and Career Development Program University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus PO Box 365067 San Juan, PR 00936
Ex-Officio Member
	Barry Coller, MD David Rockefeller Professor Physician in Chief Vice President for Medical Affairs Rockefeller University 1230 York Ave New York, NY 10065

ACTS Leadership

Board of Directors

Directors-at-Large

Early Career Director

Ex-Officio Member