Speaker Biographies
The speakers are listed in alphabetical order:
Elijah Anderson
Elijah Anderson is the Charles and William L. Day Distinguished
Professor of the Social Sciences and professor of sociology at
the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of the classic
work, “A Place on the Corner: A Study of Black Street Corner
Men”; “Streetwise: Race, Class, and
Change in an Urban Community”, for which he was
honored by the American Sociological Association with the Robert
E. Park Award for the best published book in the area of Urban
Sociology; and “Code of the Street: Decency, Violence,
and the Moral Life of the Inner City,” winner of the Komarovsky
Award of the Eastern Sociological Society. He is a winner of
the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching at Penn, and he
has served as visiting professor at Princeton University, Swarthmore
College, and Yale University. He also has made appearances on the "Jim Lehrer Newshour", and has written for the New York Times Book Review and the Atlantic Monthly, among other publications. Professor Anderson is a member of the Board of Directors of
the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and past
vice president of the American Sociological Association. He is
director of the Philadelphia Ethnography Project, and his current
work concerns how Philadelphians live “diversity” in
everyday life.
Learn more about Elijah
Anderson.
K. Anthony Appiah
K. Anthony Appiah was born in London, but moved as an infant to Ghana,
where he grew up. He was educated at Cambridge University in England, where he
earned both B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in philosophy. His current interests range
over African and African-American intellectual history and literary studies,
ethics and philosophy of mind and language. He has also taught regularly on African
traditional religions. His major current work focuses on the philosophical foundations
of liberalism.
Professor Appiah joined the Princeton faculty in 2002 as Laurance
S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center
for Human Values.
His published works include “Color Conscious: The Political Morality of
Race” with Amy Gutmann and the “Dictionary of Global Culture,” co-edited
with Henry Louis Gates Jr. With Professor Gates he also edited the “Encarta
Africana” CD-ROM encyclopedia, which was published in book form as the “Perseus
Africana Encyclopedia.” In 2005, Princeton University Press will publish
his most recent book, “The Ethics of Identity.”
Learn more about K.
Anthony Appiah.
Ralph L.
Brinster
Ralph L. Brinster was raised on a farm in New Jersey and studied
agriculture and animal development while a student at Rutgers
University. Following
military service during the Korean War, he attended the
University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine where
he became interested
in germ cell biology, which influenced the direction of his scientific
career. Since graduation, Dr. Brinster has been a pioneer in
this field and established innovative approaches to understand
the development
and differentiation of germ cells and early embryos. His contributions
include methods to culture and manipulate fertilized eggs and
spermatogonial stem cells, which laid the foundation for such
powerful techniques
as transgenesis, cloning, in vitro fertilization, and stem cell
transplantation. His experiments with transgenic mice dramatically
altered our understanding of gene regulation and function in
animals. Dr. Brinster is a member of the National Academy of
Sciences and
has been recognized by a number of international awards including
the 2003 Wolf Prize in Medicine.
Learn more about Ralph
L. Brinster.
Judith Ann Buchanan
Judith Ann Buchanan received an M.S. and a Ph.D. in biochemistry
from the University of Texas, Graduate School of Biomedical Science.
After completing a two-year postdoctoral fellowship, she entered
dental school and received her D.M.D. degree, graduating first
in her class. Dr. Buchanan began her career in dental education
at the University of Mississippi, later becoming director of research
for the School of Dentistry. She moved to the University of Illinois
at Chicago to take a position as associate dean for academic affairs
and came to the University of Pennsylvania in 1997 as associate
dean for academic affairs, with the rank of associate professor.
Dr. Buchanan’s research began in the area of gene expression,
and more recently her research has focused on topics within education
related to advanced simulation technology, learning styles, and
the impact of computer literacy on learning. She has received funding
from NIH and HRSA. Dr. Buchanan has served
on numerous national committees including NIH study sections, the
ADA Commission on Accreditation, and the ADA Commission on Improving
Access to Oral Health Care for All Americans. She has also served
as a private consultant in the area of accreditation.
Learn more about Judith
Ann Buchanan.
Arthur L. Caplan
Arthur L. Caplan is currently the Emmanuel and Robert Hart Professor
of Bioethics, chair of the Department of Medical Ethics, and
director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.
He is the author or editor of 25 books and more than 525 papers
in refereed journals of medicine, science, philosophy, bioethics,
and health policy. He has served as chair on a number of national
and international committees including the Advisory Committee
to
the United Nations on Human Cloning and the Advisory Committee
to the Department of Health and Human Services on Blood Safety
and Availability. He has also served as a member of numerous
committees, including the Presidential Advisory Committee on
Gulf War Illnesses,
the Special Advisory Committee to the International Olympic Committee
on Genetics and Gene Therapy, the American Chemistry Council
and the Special Advisory Panel to the National Institutes of
Mental
Health on Human Experimentation on Vulnerable Subjects. He is
a member of Dupont's biotechnology advisory panel, is on the
board
of directors of the Keystone Center, and consults with many corporations
and consumer organizations.
Learn more about Arthur
L. Caplan.
Howard F. Chang
Howard F. Chang has been a professor of law at the University
of Pennsylvania Law School since 1999. Before joining the Penn
Law
faculty, he was a professor of law at the University of Southern
California Law School, where he began teaching in 1992. He served
as a law clerk for the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He received his J.D. (magna
cum laude) from Harvard Law School, where he served as supervising
editor of the Harvard Law Review. He received his Ph.D. in economics
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his Master in
Public Affairs from Princeton University, and his A.B. in Government
from
Harvard College. He teaches and writes on a wide variety of subjects,
including immigration law, and served on the Executive Advisory
Board of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center.
Learn more about Howard
F. Chang.
Dennis Culhane
Dennis Culhane is a professor of social welfare policy and psychology.
His current research examines the role of social welfare institutions
in producing homelessness, and the impact of homelessness and various
housing policy interventions on the utilization of those institutions.
His primary methodological interest is in the application of spatial
analysis techniques to administrative records as a means of modeling
the built and social environments in social science research. He
was the recent chair of the University Council’s Committee
on Pluralism and is the current chair of the University’s
Public Safety Advisory Board.
Learn more about Dennis Culhane.
John J. DiIulio, Jr.
John J. DiIulio, Jr. is a Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of
Political Science at Penn, and non-resident senior fellow in governance
studies at the Brookings Institution. At Penn, he directs the Robert
A. Fox Leadership Program and the Program for Research on Religion
and Urban Civil Society. He joined Penn’s faculty in 1999
after 13 years as a professor of politics and public affairs at
Princeton University. In 2001, he served as first director of the
White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Since
1997, he has worked with a diverse array of non-profit organizations
to research, organize, capacity-build, and fund diverse community-serving
programs (mentoring children with incarcerated parents; proliferating
neighborhood after-school and summer education program; reducing
youth violence; obtaining earned-income tax credits; supplying
inner-city schools with up-to-date computer technologies; and others).
He has worked extensively with national and local government agencies,
grant-making foundations, and other organizations to develop, preserve,
or expand such programs via public-private and religious-secular
partnerships.
Learn more about John
J. DiIulio, Jr..
Thomas Donaldson
Thomas Donaldson is the Mark O. Winkelman Professor at the Wharton
School of the University of Pennsylvania, and director of the Wharton
Ph.D. Program in Ethics and Law. He has written broadly in the
area of business ethics, values, and leadership. Books that he
has authored or edited include: The “Ties that Bind: A Social
Contract Approach to Business Ethics ”, co-authored with
Thomas W Dunfee; “Ethical
Issues in Business, 7th Edition”,
co-edited with Patricia Werhane; “Ethics in Business and
Economics-2 Volume Set”, co-edited
with Thomas W. Dunfee; “Ethics in International Business”;
and “Corporations and Morality”. His book “The
Ethics of International Business” was
the winner of the 1998 SIM Academy of Management Best Book Award.
He is a founding member and past president of the Society for Business
Ethics. He is currently the associate editor of the Academy of
Management Review, and a member of the editorial boards of a number
of journals, including the Business Ethics Quarterly and Studies
in Economic Ethics and Philosophy. His writings have appeared in
publications such as The Academy of Management Review, Harvard
Business Review, Ethics, and Economics and Philosophy. He
has consulted and lectured at many organizations, including Walt
Disney, Microsoft, AT&T, Johnson & Johnson, Shell
International, IBM, the United Nations, and the World Bank. In
the summer of 2002, he testified in the US Senate regarding the
Sarbanes-Oxley corporate reform legislation.
Learn more about Thomas Donaldson.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities at Harvard
University and chair of Afro-American Studies and director of the W.E.B. Du
Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard. Professor Gates is the
author of several works of literary criticism, including “Figures in
Black: Words, Signs and the ‘Racial’ Self,” “The Signifying
Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism,”, and “Loose
Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars.” He has also authored “Colored
People: A Memoir,” which traces his childhood experiences in a small
West Virginia town, “The Future of the Race,” co-authored with
Cornel West, and “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man.” Professor
Gates has edited several anthologies, including “The Norton Anthology
of African American Literature,” and “The Oxford-Schomburg Library
of Nineteenth Century Black Women Writers.” He is also the author of
“Wonders of the African World ” , the book companion to the
six-hour BBC/PBS television series of the same name. In addition, Professor
Gates co-edits
Transition
magazine and has written for Time magazine and The New Yorker, among other
publications
Professor Gates earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature
from Clare College at the University of Cambridge, and his B.A. (summa cum
laude) from Yale. His
honors and grants include a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant”,
the George Polk Award for Social Commentary, a National Humanities Medal,
and election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Learn more about Henry
Louis Gates, Jr.
Sarah Barringer Gordon
Biography to come.
Learn more about Sarah
Barringer Gordon.
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman (W'59, HON'96) is Chairman of the
Huntsman Corporation, the company he began 30 years ago.
Today, Huntsman
Corporation is the largest privately held petrochemical and
plastics business in the world, with major operations at
121 locations
in 44 countries. In 1994, Mr. Huntsman received the prestigious
Kaveler
Award as the chemical industry’s most outstanding chief
executive officer. Mr. Huntsman is a former US Naval Gunnery
Officer. He
served under President Nixon as both special assistant to the
President and as White House staff secretary and is international
chairman
for the American Red Cross. He has been widely recognized for
his philanthropy and public service. In 2000, he was distinguished
as one of the three most generous Americans and he was selected
as one of the 10 Utahans who most influenced the state during
the
20th century. At Penn, Mr. Huntsman is vice chair of the Board
of Trustees and its Executive Committee and chair of the Board
of Overseers of the Wharton School and was a member of the
Steering Committee of the Wharton Campaign for Sustained Leadership.
He
received the University Alumni Award of Merit in 1999 and was
named Most Outstanding Alumni of the Wharton School. Mr. Huntsman
is
former co-chair of the Campaign for Penn and former chair of
the Advisory Board of the Huntsman Center for Global Competition
and
Leadership.
Learn more about Jon Huntsman.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Kathleen Hall Jamieson is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor
of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and
Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director of the Annenberg Public Policy
Center at the University of Pennsylvania. An expert on political
campaigns, Dr. Jamieson has received numerous teaching and service
awards including the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award. She
is the recipient of many fellowships and grants including support
from The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Ford Foundation, The Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation, The MacArthur Foundation, and The Carnegie
Corporation of New York. Dr. Jamieson is a Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical
Society. She is the author, co-author or editor of 13 books including: “The
2000 Presidential Election and the Foundations of Party Politics”; “The
Press Effect”; “Everything
You Think You Know About Politics...and Why You’re Wrong”; “Dirty
Politics: Deception, Distraction and Democracy”; “Beyond
the Double Bind: Women and Leadership”; and “Spiral
of Cynicism: Press and Public Good”. She received
the Speech Communication Association's Golden Anniversary Book
Award for “Packaging the Presidency” and
the Winans-Wichelns Book Award for “Eloquence in an Electronic
Age”.
Learn more about Kathleen
Hall Jamieson.
Sarah H. Kagan
Sarah H. Kagan, the Doris R. Schwartz Term Associate Professor
in Gerontological Nursing in the School of Nursing, is committed
to clinical excellence and original scholarship, and dedicated
to teaching, particularly at the undergraduate level. Professor
Kagan melds her passion for all three domains of academic life
to improve understanding and care for older, frail, and vulnerable
cancer patients. As a researcher, Professor Kagan gives shape to
and participates in a variety of collaborative research projects
directed at knowing more about older people with cancer and other
chronic illness. As a teacher, she strives to inspire students
to think differently about nurses and patients. Professor Kagan’s
clinical and academic appointments include gerontology clinical
nurse specialist in medical nursing at the Hospital of the University
of Pennsylvania, secondary faculty in Penn’s Department of
Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery, fellow of the Institute
on Aging at the University of Pennsylvania, and member of the Abramson
Family Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Professor
Kagan received an A.B. (1984) from the University of Chicago, a
B.S. (1986) from Rush University, and an M.S. (1989) and a Ph.D
(1994) from the University of California, San Francisco, and joined
Penn’s faculty in 1994.
Learn more about Sarah
H. Kagan.
Michael L. Klein
Michael L. Klein received his formal education in the United Kingdom and after
postdoctoral periods in the United Kingdom, Italy and the United States began
an independent research career at
the National Research Council of Canada. In 1987 he joined the University
of Pennsylvania, where since 1993 he has been Hepburn Professor of Physical
Science and Director of the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter.
In the latter capacity he is responsible for nurturing collaborative interdisciplinary
materials research involving faculty from the Schools of Arts and Sciences,
Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Medicine. His research is focused
on the computer modeling of physical and biological systems from a molecular
perspective. He serves on many academic and government review panels and
advisory boards internationally and is a Fellow of the Royal Society
(London)
and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Learn more about Michael L.
Klein.
Ania Loomba
Ania Loomba is Catherine Bryson Professor of English at the University
of Pennsylvania. She teaches and researches in Early Modern literature
and culture, the history of colonialism and race, and post-colonial
societies and literatures, with a special focus on India. Her publications
include “Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama”, “Colonialism/Postcolonialism”,
and “Shakespeare, Race and Colonialism”, as
well as articles on Renaissance theatre, contemporary India, and
feminist theory. She did her graduate work in India and the United
Kingdom. Loomba taught for many years at the University of Delhi
and Jawaharlal
Nehru University, both in New Delhi, India, where she was also
active in the women's movement in India. She has also taught at
the University of Tulsa and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
and held a visiting appointment at the University of Natal, Durban,
South Africa. She is currently editing (with Jonathan Burton) a
documentary companion to the history of race in early modern England,
and she is also working on a book on contact between England the
East in the early modern period.
Learn more about Ania
Loomba.
Andrea Mitchell
After serving as program director at WXPN while at Penn, Ms. Mitchell
(CW'67) began her career in broadcast journalism by covering Philadelphia's
City Hall for KYW Radio from 1967 to 1976. She moved to Washington,
DC, in 1976 to join WDVM-TV (then WTOP), the local CBS affiliate,
and then in 1978 joined NBC News as a network correspondent. She
covered the White House for NBC from 1981 to 1988, and was appointed
NBC's chief congressional correspondent in December 1988. Ms. Mitchell
was named chief White House correspondent in 1992, and now serves
as chief foreign affairs correspondent. She reports on evolving
political and foreign policy issues in the U.S. and abroad for
all NBC News broadcasts—including "Nightly News with
Tom Brokaw" and "Today"—and for MSNBC. A frequent
speaker at University events for students and alumni, Ms. Mitchell
is a charter trustee of the University and a member of its Executive
Committee. She is also chair of the Annenberg School Alumni Advisory
Committee and a member of the Trustees' Council of Penn Women.
She is a former member of the Board of Overseers of the School
of Arts and Sciences.
Learn more about Andrea
Mitchell.
Mary D. Naylor
Mary D. Naylor, Ph.D., RN, FAAN is the Marian S. Ware Professor
in Gerontology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.
Since the late 1980s, Dr. Naylor has led an interdisciplinary
team of scholars in a program of research designed to enhance
the quality of life of vulnerable older adults and their caregivers.
Findings from NIH-funded randomized clinical trials testing a
model of discharge planning and home follow-up by advanced practice
nurses have consistently demonstrated improved health outcomes
and decreased costs for high risk cognitively intact elders compared
to standard care. Supported by the Commonwealth Fund and the
Langeloth Foundation and in partnership with a major insurer,
efforts are underway to promote widespread adoption of this evidence-based
model of care coordination. As part of Penn’s Marian S.
Ware Alzheimer Program, Dr. Naylor is leading a team of clinical
scholars in the implementation and evaluation of a similar care
model aimed at enhancing the quality of care of cognitively impaired
elders and their caregivers.
Learn more about Mary
D. Naylor.
Laurie
D. Olin
Laurie D. Olin is a distinguished teacher, author, and one of the
most renowned landscape architects practicing today. He is currently
practice professor of landscape architecture in the School of Design
at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Olin’s numerous award
winning design projects include campuses, urban design, and parks.
His work extends to Bryant Park and Battery Park City in New York,
the Getty Center in Los Angeles, and social housing in Frankfurt,
Germany. Mr. Olin’s major planning and design projects at
academic institutions include the University of Pennsylvania, Yale
University, Stanford University, MIT, and most recently a new campus
for Harvard University in Allston, MA. Mr. Olin is a John Simon
Guggenheim Fellow, an American Academy of Rome Fellow, an honorary
member
of the American Institute of Architects, a Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, the 1999 Wyck-Strickland Award recipient,
and a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Learn more about Laurie
D. Olin.
Fernando
Pereira
Fernando Pereira is the Andrew and Debra Rachleff Professor and
chair of the department of Computer and Information Science,
University of Pennsylvania. He received a Ph.D. in artificial
intelligence
from the University of Edinburgh in 1982. Before joining Penn,
he held a variety of industrial research positions in text and
speech processing, machine learning, and information retrieval.
His main research interests are in machine-learnable models of
language and other natural sequential data such as biological
sequences, and their use in information access, integration,
and mining. He
has 78 research publications on computational linguistics, speech
recognition, machine learning, bioinformatics, and logic programming,
and several issued and pending patents on speech recognition,
language processing, and human-computer interfaces. He was elected
Fellow
of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence in 1991
for his contributions to computational linguistics and logic
programming, and he is a past president of the Association for
Computational
Linguistics.
Learn more about Fernando
Pereira.
David S. Roos
David S. Roos is the Merriam Professor of Biology at the University of Pennsylvania,
and Director of the Penn Genomics Institute. He earned his undergraduate degree
at Harvard College, a Ph.D. at The Rockefeller University, and joined the University
of Pennsylvania in 1989 after a post-doctoral position at Stanford University.
Dr. Roos' research integrates diverse disciplines, from molecular cell biology
and pharmacology, to computer science, to international public health. Current
interests focus on protozoan parasites, including Toxoplasma (a prominent congenital
pathogen and opportunistic infection associated with AIDS), and Plasmodium
(the causative agent of malaria). Work in Dr. Roos laboratory has yielded genetic
tools for the dissection of parasite pathogenesis and drug resistance mechanisms,
new insights into the evolution of subcellular organelles, and computational
databases that make genomics-scale datasets available to researchers worldwide.
Dr. Roos has received numerous awards, including the Presidential Young
Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, the Burroughs Wellcome
Scholar Award, and the Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar Award in Global
Infectious Diseases. He has published over 100 research reports in leading
scientific journals, and travels widely as a lecturer and consultant for the
WHO and other organizations.
Learn more about David
S. Roos.
Barbara D. Savage
Barbara D. Savage is a professor of history and the Geraldine R.
Segal Professor of American Social Thought at the University of
Pennsylvania where she has been a member of the faculty since 1995.
Her research and her teaching center on African-American history,
the historical relationship between media and politics, and African-American
religious history. She has a Ph. D. in history from Yale, as well
as a J. D. from Georgetown and a B. A. from the University of Virginia.
Her publications include “Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War
and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948” which
won the Hoover Book Award for the best book in American history
in the period 1916-1966. She is currently completing a book on
religion and African-American political culture in the 20th century.
She has held fellowships at the Schomburg Center for the Study
of Black Culture at the New York Public Library; at the Center
for the Study of Religion at Princeton; and the Smithsonian Institution.
In 2004-2005, she will be a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for
Advanced Studies at Harvard University.
Learn more about Barbara
D. Savage.
Margaret Beale Spencer
Margaret Beale Spencer holds the Board of Overseers Professorship
of Human Development and Education in the Graduate School of Education
and a secondary appointment in psychology
at the University of Pennsylvania. She directs the Interdisciplinary
Studies in Human Development specialization in GSE as well
as the programming and research of the W. E. B. Du Bois Collective
Research Institute. Additionally, she is responsible for the direction
and research efforts of the Center for Health Achievement Neighborhoods
Growth and Ethnic Studies (CHANGES). Spencer earned her Ph.D. from
the University of Chicago, Committee on Human Development. Her
basic developmental research and its application with diverse youth
focus on resiliency. She has designed, implemented, and evaluated
numerous community-based programming efforts. Spencer’s scholarship
includes more than 90 published articles and chapters, four co-authored
volumes, 40 grants from federal agencies and foundations, and numerous
awards in recognition of her research and its application.
Learn more about Margaret
Beale Spencer.
Dennis
F. Thompson
Dennis F. Thompson, the Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political
Philosophy at Harvard University, is the founding director of the
University Center for Ethics and the Professions. He served as
the associate provost from 1996-2001, and as the senior adviser
to the president of the University from 2001-2004. His books include: “Restoring
Responsibility: Ethics in Government, Business and Health Care,
Just Elections: Creating a Fair Electoral Process in the United
States, Why Deliberative Democracy?” (co authored with Amy
Gutmann) and “Democracy and Disagreement” (also with
Amy Gutmann), “Political Ethics and Public Office, and Ethics
in Congress: From Individual to Institutional Corruption.” He
has served as a consultant to the Joint Ethics Committee of the
South African Parliament, the American Medical Association, the
U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics, the U. S. Office of Personnel
Management, and the Department of Health and Human Services.
Learn more about Dennis
F. Thompson.
Michael
Useem
Michael Useem is William and Jacalyn Egan Professor of Management
and director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management
at the Wharton School. He teaches management and leadership, offers
programs on leadership and change for managers in the U.S. and
abroad, and works on leadership and governance with many organizations
in the private, public, and non-profit sectors. He is the author
of “The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and
Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All,” and, to experience
such moments, he organizes treks up the slopes of Mount Everest,
trips to Civil War battlefields, and other learning events for
leadership development. He is the author of “Leading Up:
How to Lead Your Boss So You Both Win,” and “Investor
Capitalism: How Money Managers Are Changing the Face of Corporate
America.” And most recently, he is co-author and co-editor
of “Upward Bound: Nine Original Accounts of How Business
Leaders Reached Their Summits.”
Learn more about Michael
Useem.
Barbara L. Weber
Barbara L. Weber is an international leader in the field of breast cancer
genetics. She is a professor of medicine and genetics at the
University of Pennsylvania. She developed the Breast Cancer
Program at the
University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center in 1995 and has served
as the director since that time. In this capacity, she implemented
and directs the Breast Cancer Risk Evaluation Program, a clinical
service designed to provide comprehensive risk assessment and
counseling services to women with a strong family history of
breast cancer.
This program was among the first of its kind in the world and
has served as a model for developing programs throughout the
US. Dr.
Weber also is the director of cancer genomics at the University
of Pennsylvania and has developed a program to fully utilize
the newly released human genome sequence for breast cancer
research.
This includes enhanced microarray capabilities, with the addition
of genomic clones for deletion mapping of tumors and premalignant
tissue as well as enhanced sequencing and genotyping capabilities.
Her ongoing research is focused on identifying genetic abnormalities
that play a critical role in the initiation and progression of
human cancer and that may serve as novel therapeutic targets.
Learn more about Barbara
L. Weber.
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