Committee on Public Affairs

Committee Role

Nine members of the Committee on Public Affairs shall be appointed by Council on staggered three-year terms. The Executive Director serves as a non-voting, ex officio member. Representatives from other groups with which the corporation may establish public affairs liaison may be appointed as non-voting members of the committee as needed. The committee shall:

• Develop a consistent position on policy issues that are relevant to the field of immunology and that impact AAI;
• Monitor existing and pending legislation, the implementation of public laws and actions by federal executive departments as reflected in proposed and existing regulations and their implementation;
• Coordinate membership participation in this effort by organizing their responses and activities;
• Devise ways to educate those in government and the lay-public about the field of immunology; 
• Maintain liaison with the FASEB Public Affairs office and with other organizations whose public affairs goals are consistent with those of AAI.

2007-2008 Committee Members

(For complete, up-to-date contact information on committee members, visit the online FASEB Directory.)

Blomberg, Bonnie, Ph.D. (08)

Professor

University of Miami School of Medicine

RMSB 3146A

Department of Microbiology & Immunology (R-138)

P.O. Box 016960, 1600 NW 10th Avenue

Miami, FL 33101

Tel: (305) 243-6040

Fax: (305) 243-4623

bblomber@med.miami.edu

Roopenian, Derry C., Ph.D. (08)

Staff Scientist

Jackson Lab

600 Main Street

Bar Harbor, ME 04609-1500

Tel: (207) 288-6396

Fax: (207) 288-6079

dcr@jax.org   

Justement, Louis b., ph.D. (09)
Associate Director, Medical Scientist Training Program
Professor, Department of Microbiology
Division of Developmental and Clinical Immunology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
502 Shelby Biomedical Research Building
1825 University Boulevard
Birmingham, AL 35294-2182
Tel: (205) 934-1429
Fax: (205) 934-1875
lbjust@uab.edu 

LUTZ, PAULA M., Ph.D. (09)

Dean, College of Letters and Science

Montana State University

2-205 Wilson Hall

P.O. Box 172360

Bozeman, MT  59717-2360

Tel: (406) 994-4288

Fax: (406) 994-6879

plutz@montana.edu

SCHREIBER, JOHN R., M.D., M.P.H. (09)

Pediatrician-in-Chief & Chief Administrative Officer

Chairman, Department of Pediatrics

Floating Hospital for Children

Tufts New England Medical Center

#286, 750 Washington St.

Boston MA 02111

Tel: (617) 636-6278

Fax: (617) 636-8391
schreiber@tufts-nemc.org

KOVACS, ELIZABETH J., Ph.D. (10)

Associate Director, Burn & Shock Trauma Institute

Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Department of Surgery

Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy

Member, Immunology & Aging

Program Director, Alcohol Research Program

Loyola University Medical Center

Stritch School of Medicine

Building 110, Room 4232

2160 South First Avenue Maywood, IL 60153

Tel: (708) 327-2477

Fax: (708) 327-2813

Lab: (708) 327-2438

ekovacs@lumc.edu

MARTINEZ, OLIVIA M., Ph.D. (10)

Professor

Department of Surgery/Division of Transplantation and

Program in Immunology

Stanford University School of Medicine

1201 Welch Road, MSLS P312

Stanford, CA  94305-5492

Tel: (650) 498-6247

Fax:  (650) 498-6250

omm@stanford.edu        

PRINCIOTTA, MICHAEL F., Ph.D. (10)

Assistant Professor

SUNY Upstate Medical University

Department of Microbiology and Immunology

750 E. Adams

2237A Weiskotten Hall

Syracuse, NY  13210

Tel: (315) 464-7683

Fax: (315) 464-4417

princiom@upstate.edu

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