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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 November 2014.

Board of Directors
	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
	Past-President Harry P. Selker, MD, MSPH Dean, Tufts University Clinical and Translational Science Institute Executive Director, Tufts Medical Center Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies Tufts Medical Center 800 Washington Street, # 63 Boston, MA 02111
	President-Elect 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
	Secretary Fred Meyers, MD, MACP Vice Dean, UC Davis School of Medicine Professor of Medicine University of California, Davis 2315 Stockton Blvd Sacramento, CA 95817
	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
	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
	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
	Estela Estape, PhD University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus PI and Director, Post-Doctoral Master of Science in Clinical and Translational Research and Hispanics in Research Capability (HiREC) Endowment Program School of Health Professions, Graduate Department 1st Floor University Hospital Medical Sciences Campus PO Box 365067 San Juan, PR 00936-5067
	Katherine E. Hartmann, MD, PhD Associate Dean, Clinical and Translational Scientist Development Deputy Director, Institute of Medicine and Public Health Director, Graduate Studies in Epidemiology Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology and Medicine Vanderbilt University Medical Center 2525 West End Avenue Suite 600 Nashville, TN 37203
	Christopher John Lindsell, PhD Professor of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
	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
	Gary Rosenthal, MD Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center 1 Medical Center Blvd Winston-Salem, NC 27157
	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
	Robert Toto, MD Professor of Medicine Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research Distinguished Teaching Professor University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 5323 Harry Hines Blvd Dallas, Texas 75390-8548
Liaisons to the Board of Directors* *Non-voting Board Member
	JCTS Editor: Liason to the Board of Directors Arthur M. Feldman, MD, PhD Laura H. Carnell Professor of Medicine Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University Editor, Journal of Clinical and Translational Science Suite 942 Parkinson Pavilion 3401 N Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19140

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.

Board of Directors

Directors-at-Large

Liaisons to the Board of Directors*