Lawrence G. Smith, M.D. - Chairman of the Board

Dr. Lawrence Smith is currently the Chief Academic Officer and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs for the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System. In this role, he oversees all academic and educational activities across the nation's third-largest not- for-profit healthcare delivery system. This includes large residency programs, medical student rotations from three medical schools, a robust continuing medical education operation, a significant biomedical research enterprise and major responsibilities in quality of care and strategic planning for the health system.

After graduating from Fordham University, Dr. Smith earned his MD from New York University School of Medicine. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York. This was followed by military service as a Captain in the Army Medical Corps, serving at Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center in Denver. Dr. Smith then practiced General Internal Medicine as a voluntary faculty member of SUNY Stony Brook, where he later became a full-time faculty member, Director of Education, and Program Director of the Residency Program in Internal Medicine.

He joined the faculty of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1994 as Vice Chairman of the Department of Medicine and the Residency Program Director. In 2002, he was appointed to the position of Dean for Medical Education with responsibility for oversight of all educational activities, including the medical student curriculum leading to the MD degree, continuing medical education, graduate medical education, and all educational support operations within the medical school. He also founded the Institute for Medical Education at Mount Sinai.

Dr. Smith has held senior leadership positions in national societies for medical education and residency training, authored numerous peer-reviewed publications in the area of medical education, and received awards and honors from national and international organizations.

Dennis S. Charney, M.D. - Vice Chairman

Dennis S. Charney, M.D. is currently the Dean of Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs of The Mount Sinai Medical Center. From 2000-2004 Dr. Charney was the Chief of the Mood and Anxiety Disorder Research Program and the Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health. This program located in the NIMH intramural research division and is the nation's largest research group devoted to identifying the etiology of these disorders and discovering more effective treatment. Prior to coming to NIMH in September, 2000 Dr. Charney was Professor of Psychiatry and Deputy Chair of Academic and Scientific Affairs at the Yale University School of Medicine.

Dr. Charney is one of the nation's foremost investigators in the neurobiology and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders. He has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of neural circuits, neurochemistry and functional neuroanatomy of the regulation of mood and anxiety and the psychobiological mechanisms of human resilience to stress. In addition his research group has focused on the discovery of novel and more effective treatments for mood and anxiety disorders.

Dr. Charney has been a highly successful extramural NIMH and VA grantee and has extensive experience directing large multidisciplinary research teams. He was the Principal Investigator of the VA National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and the NIMH Yale Mental Health Clinical Research Center. Dr. Charney has served on numerous national committees in the service of advancing our understanding of the causes and treatment of psychiatric disorders. He has been a member of the Food and Drug Administration Psychopharmacologic Drug Advisory Committee. Dr. Charney has chaired the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Institute of Mental Health and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA), the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) Scientific Advisory Board, and is past President of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Association for Research in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders (NARSAD) and the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI). He was Scientific Director of the NIMH Strategic Plan for Mood Disorder Research in 2002.

Dr. Charney has published over 500 original papers and chapters. He has edited several major textbooks including Neurobiology of Mental Illness, Principles of Pediatric Psychopharmacology and Neuropsychopharmacology: A Fifth Generation of Progress. Dr. Charney is the editor of the journal Biological Psychiatry. The Institute of Scientific Information listed Dr. Charney among the top 3 most highly cited authors of psychiatric research in the decade 1990-2000. Since 1992, Dr. Charney has been listed in every edition of the "Best Doctors in America". His work has been honored by every major award in his field. including the Efron award from the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, the Anna Monika Foundation Award for Research in Affective Disorders, The Edward J. Sacher Award from Columbia University, the Edward A. Strecker Award from Pennsylvania Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania, the Gerald L. Klerman Lifetime Achievement Award from the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA), the Heinz Lehman Award from the New York State Department of Mental Health, the American Psychiatric Association Award for Research, the American College of Psychiatrists Award for Depression Research, the Gold Medal Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry, Distinguished Alumni Award from the Pennsylvania State University School of Medicine, and the 2004 CINP-Lilly Neuroscience Clinical Research Award. In 2000, Dr. Charney was elected to the Institute of Medicine.

Brian L. Fitzsimmons, Ph.D. - Secretary

Dr. Brian L. Fitzsimmons is the Senior Vice President of Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers (SVCMC) and Executive Director of Behavioral Health Services, New York, NY.

Behavioral Health Services is one of five Patient Care Divisions of Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers of New York. Behavioral Health services are provided in six counties of New York, including the five boroughs of New York City and Westchester County. Comprehensive services are offered in Psychiatry and chemical dependency, including 272 inpatient psychiatric beds, 111 chemical dependency beds, 192 residential beds and an extensive array of ambulatory programs for all ages, with specialized services for persons with psychiatric and chemical dependency diagnoses, mental retardation, and for persons in foster care and the criminal justice system. There are 1,500 direct care staff, 177 attending physicians and 73 residents and fellows. Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers is affiliated with New York Medical College.

Previously, Dr. Fitzsimmons served as Executive Drector at the Center for Behavioral Health in New York, President and CEO of The Harbor Behavioral Health Care Institute, Inc. in New Port Richey, FL (formerly Human Development Center of Pasco, Inc.), and held various positions at Mercy Medical Center (formerly Mercy Hospital) in Rockville Centre, NY.

Dr. Fitzsimmons received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Fordham University. He is a Fellow with the American College of Healthcare Executives, the Academy of Clinical Psychologists, and the Association of Mental Health Administrators. He is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology at the American Board of Professional Psychology and a Diplomate in Administrative Psychology at the American Board of Administrative Psychology.

David N. Deutsch - Treasurer

Mr. Deutsch is the Founder and President of David N. Deutsch & Company LLC. Prior to establishing the firm, Mr. Deutsch was Managing Director, Investment Banking at Congress Financial Corporation, a leading lender specializing in the structuring, financing and refinancing of middle-market leveraged acquisitions and troubled companies. Before joining Congress, he was Vice President of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., where he directed a wide variety of corporate finance and merger & acquisition transactions for leading middle-market companies. Mr. Deutsch was previously a member of the corporate finance and high-yield and convertible bond departments of Drexel Burnham Lambert Incorporated. He began his career, prior to graduate school, at Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb Incorporated. Mr. Deutsch is the author of numerous articles related to, and a frequent speaker on, the subject of mergers, acquisitions and corporate finance. He is a contributing author of The Mergers & Acquisitions Handbook (McGraw-Hill) and has been described as one of the "leading buyout professionals" by Securities Data Publishing. He has been profiled in The Deal, Crain's New York Business, Corporate Financing Week, Mergers and Corporate Policy and Buyouts, and his comments have appeared in numerous national business publications and news services including The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Investor's Business Daily, Corporate Finance, The Secured Lender, The Associated Press and on the Discovery Channel. For six consecutive years, Mr. Deutsch was invited to participate in Mergers & Acquisitions Journal's prestigious middle-market roundtable.

Mr. Deutsch holds a Bachelor of Arts from Middlebury College and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University Graduate School of Business, where he delivered the valedictory address on behalf of his class.

He is a member of the Executive Advisory Board of Columbia University Graduate School of Business' Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing and serves as a Columbia Business School Admissions Ambassador. He is a member of the Family Firm Institute, the Bond Club of New York (one of the oldest and most august associations of Wall Street professionals), and the New York City Investment Fund (organized by Mr. Henry Kravis). Mr. Deutsch is a member of the Board of BRANY (the Biomedical Research Alliance of New York), the New York Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth and former member of the Advisory Board of the New York Capital Roundtable. He is Trustee and Chairman of the Nominating Committee of the Museum of American Finance in association with the Smithsonian Institution, Founder of the Wall Street Council of the Consolidated Corporate Fund of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, member of the Financial Leadership Forum of the Science, Industry and Business Library (New York Public Library), and a former member of the Executive Committee of the Wall Street Division of UJA-Federation. Mr. Deutsch resides with his wife and three children in Chappaqua, NY.

Robert I. Grossman, M.D.

As Dean & CEO of NYU Medical Center, Robert I. Grossman, M.D., leads both its School of Medicine and Hospitals comprising Tisch Hospital, the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, and the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases.

Dr. Grossman joined NYU in 2001 as the Louis Marx Professor of Radiology, Chairman of the Department of Radiology, and Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Physiology and Neuroscience. In his previous position at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania., he had been Professor of Radiology, Neurosurgery, and Neurology; Chief of Neuroradiology; and Associate Chairman of Radiology.

A prolific and highly respected scientist, Dr. Grossman was awarded the Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1999 for his work on multiple sclerosis. He was a member (1995-2000) and Chairman (1997-2000) of the Diagnostic Radiology Study Section at NIH, was appointed to the NIH’s National Advisory Council for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (2003-2007), and, in 2004, became the first recipient of the American Society of Neuroradiology Education and Research Foundation’s annual Outstanding Contributions in Research Award in recognition of lifelong accomplishment and consistent excellence in clinical neuroscience.

Alongside his award-winning research, Dr. Grossman has been a passionate educator and widely published scholar. He has trained over 100 fellows, many of whom occupy prominent positions world-wide, and authored over 300 publications and four books.

Dr. Grossman received his B.S. in biology, Phi Beta Kappa, from Tulane University, and his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973, where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha. He completed his internship at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston in 1973, a residency in neurosurgery from 1974 to 1977 at the University of Pennsylvania, a radiology residency at the University of Pennsylvania in 1979, and a two-year fellowship in neuroradiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is board-certified in radiology and neuroradiology.

Spencer Foreman, M.D.

Spencer Foreman, MD, is president of Montefiore Medical Center, in the Bronx, NY. Montefiore is the University Hospital and Academic Medical Center for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

A regional integrated delivery system, Montefiore operates two hospital divisions with 1,050 beds, ambulatory care centers at fifty locations, a long-term care unit, rehabilitation center and the oldest hospital-based home care program in the country.

With over 12,000 employees, nearly 60,000 inpatient discharges, 400,000 home visits, 1.9 million outpatient visits and an annual budget of $1.5 billion, Montefiore is one of the largest academic medical centers in the country.

A hospital and health systems chief executive for more than thirty years, Dr. Foreman was president of Sinai Hospital of Baltimore (Maryland) and director of the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in Baltimore before coming to Montefiore in 1986.

Dr. Foreman graduated from Ursinus College in Collegeville, PA and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and is certified in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Disease. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine. He is professor of medicine and professor of epidemiology and social medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

A past chairman of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), Dr. Foreman has served as a member of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education and the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education. He is a member and past chairman of the Board of Governors of the Greater New York Hospital Association and the Board of Directors of the League of Voluntary Hospitals, and a past member of the boards of trustees of the American Hospital Association and the Hospital Association of New York State. He is chairman of the board of the Biomedical Research Alliance of New York. He served as a member of the U.S. Prospective Payment Assessment Commission.

Dr. Foreman is a member of the boards of directors of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, an international relief agency; the Brookdale Institute, a health and social services body that advises the government of Israel; and Ursinus College.

Kathryn S. Wylde

Kathryn S. Wylde is President & CEO of the Partnership for New York City, the city’s premiere business leadership organization. Founded by David Rockefeller in 1979, the Partnership has been responsible for significant programs in housing and economic development, education, public safety and employment.

Wylde is also founding President & CEO of the New York City Investment Fund, a $100 million subsidiary of the Partnership, which provides financial support and business expertise to projects that stimulate job creation and economic growth in the city and its neighborhoods. The Fund was created by Henry R. Kravis, who serves as its co-chairman with Russell Carson.

Previously, Wylde served as founding President & CEO of the nonprofit Housing Partnership Development Corporation, building it into one of the nation’s largest producers of affordable housing. The Housing Partnership has sponsored development of more than 20,000 owner-occupied homes and rental apartments, valued in excess of $2.5 billion, and spurred revitalization of the city’s economically distressed communities.

An internationally known expert in housing and economic development, she has advised or consulted with foundations, cities and nonprofit organizations and authored a number of articles and policy papers. She currently serves on the boards of the NYC Economic Development Corporation, the NYC Leadership Academy, the Manhattan Institute, the Biomedical Research Alliance of New York and the Economic Development Corporation of the City University of New York. She chairs the board of Lutheran Medical Center, a community hospital in Brooklyn.

Wylde has been recognized for leadership and service to New York City by a number of organizations, including the Financial Women’s Association, Harvard Business School Alumni, St. Francis College, Women’s City Club, the YWCA, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, Citizens Housing & Planning Council, American Planning Association Metropolitan Chapter, Borough of Manhattan Community College, United Neighborhood Houses, African American Real Estate Professionals, The Doe Fund, Phipps Houses and a variety of neighborhood-based organizations.

Wylde resides in Brooklyn and has a second home in Puerto Rico. She is a native of Madison Wisconsin and a graduate of St. Olaf College, ’68.

Perry Golkin

Mr. Golkin has been with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. for 18 years and a Member of the firm since 1995. He is a lawyer, certified public accountant and taught accounting for three years at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Mr. Golkin currently serves on numerous boards of directors including Willis Group Holdings Ltd., Bristol West Insurance Group, PRIMEDIA, Inc., Alea Group Holdings and Walter Industries. Mr. Golkin received a B.S. and M.S. from the University of Pennsylvania, a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and currently serves as a member of the University of Pennsylvania Law School Board of Overseers.

Eileen Hilton, M.D. - Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Hilton is the President and Chief Executive Officer of BRANY. Prior to joining the Alliance, Dr. Hilton conceived and developed the Clinical Research Program at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System.

Dr. Hilton has served as the Director of the Office of Grants and Contracts and Director of the Institutional Review Board at Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center. Clinical positions include Directorships of the Lyme Disease and the Travel and Immunization Centers at LIJ.

Dr. Hilton is a Professor of Medicine at the Albert Einstein School of
Medicine. She is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and books. She graduated from Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons and holds board certifications in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.

Bernard Rosof, M.D., MACP - BRANY IRB Institutional Official

Dr. Rosof is Senior Vice President for Corporate Relations and Health Affairs at the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System. Prior to assuming a full time Hospital position, Dr. Rosof was in the private practice of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. He is currently a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at The School of Medicine of the State University of New York at Stony Brook and an Attending Physician at Huntington Hospital, Huntington New York, where he is also a Vice Chair of the Board of Directors. Dr. Rosof is the Institutional Official for BRANY (Biomedical Research Alliance of New York), overseeing BRANY’s Institutional Review Boards.

Dr. Rosof has been a driving force in American Medicine. He has chaired Committees and Task Forces for the State of New York, The Institute of Medicine, The American Medical Association, and various Specialty Societies. He has achieved national recognition in the areas of health quality and clinical practice guidelines and is the current Chair of the Physician Consortium for Performance Measures convened by the AMA. Dr. Rosof has spoken nationally and internationally on issues of Quality and Patient Safety.

Dr. Rosof is Past President of the American Society of Internal Medicine and The Internal Medicine Center to Advance Research and Education. He is Chair Emeritus of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians, and current Chair of the Foundation of the American College of Physicians.