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RID Committee Members

Betsy McCaughey, Ph.D. - Chairman
Former Lt. Governor of New York State
Hudson Institute

Kenneth S. Abramowitz
Managing General Partner, NGN Capital

Jane H. Barnsteiner RN, PhD, FAAN
Professor of Pediatric Nursing, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Director of Nursing Translational Research, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Jeffrey Borer
Chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Pathophysiology, New York-Presbyterian Hospital

Tina Brown & Sir Harold Evans
Journalists & Publishers

Charles Brunie
Investor

Henry Buhl
Founder and President, Soho and Tribeca Partnerships

John Catsimatidis
Chairman & CEO, Red Apple Group

Ilene Corina
Founder and Co-President, PULSE

Robert Hormats
Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs & Co.

Dr. Allen Hyman
Former Chief of Staff and Medical Director, New York-Presbyterian Hospital

Dr. Alan Jasper
Chairman of the Department of Critical Care Medicine and Former Chief of Staff, St. Vincent's Medical Center in Los Angeles

Erica Jong
Author

Elizabeth R. Kabler
The Rosenstiel Foundation

Dr. Brian Koll
Beth Israel Hospital

Dr. Herbert London
President, Hudson Institute

Consuelo Mack
Television journalist

Richard Meier
Richard Meier & Partners

Dr. Carlene Muto
Director of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Rodney Nichols
Past President, New York Academy of Sciences

Sherwin Nuland, M.D.
Surgeon, Professor at Yale Medical School,
Author of The Doctor’s Plague

Stephen J. O'Brien, MD, MBA
Vice Chairman of the Sports Medicine Department, Hospital for Special Surgery
Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Cornell University Medical Center

Laurel Pickering
Executive Director, New York Business Group on Health

Dr. Richard Shannon
Chairman of the Department of Medicine, Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA

Jeremy Schaap
Journalist
Son of journalist Dick Schaap, who died of a hospital infection

Lynn and Sy Syms

Donald Tober
Chairman & CEO, Sugar Foods Corporation

Barbara Tober
Philanthropist