Ezekiel J. Emanuel

 

Dear Honorable Senators Schumer, McConnell, Leahy, Shelby, Burr and Murray, and Honorable Representatives Pelosi, Hoyer, McCarthy, DeLauro, and Granger,

 

Now is not the time to waver in our response to COVID. As much as we wish for it, the United States is not out of the danger zone of COVID yet. If the United States has learned one lesson from the last two years, it is of vital importance to be ahead of the next variant and next surge.

 

While COVID cases and deaths are declining in the United States, the country has been here before. In Spring 2020 and May 2021 cases were also declining, only to be followed by surges.  Today, COVID cases are rising in more than half of European countries. It remains unclear why the increase of cases is occurring, but may be because of the increasing spread of the more infectious Omicron BA.2 variant, the loosening of public health restrictions, or waning human immunity. These factors could also lead to increased transmission of the virus here fairly soon.   This portends another surge in the United States, the magnitude and impact of which cannot presently be determined.

 

Now is not the time to stall additional funding for COVID relief. There is a legitimate need to account for the resources appropriated and spent on COVID to date. We understand that a reasonable accounting has been provided, and a “full accounting” for every program is likely to take months. The country does not have months. 

 

Today, the federal government is rationing monoclonal antibody treatments, reducing state allocations by 30% to stretch supplies as long as possible. By early April there will be no funds to reimburse physicians and others who provide COVID tests and treatments for uninsured patients. By May there will be no funds to purchase Evusheld to prevent or treat COVID in the immunocompromised. By June, funding for the purchase of COVID tests will run out, reducing availability of tests for the fall. If the FDA authorizes a fourth dose of the COVID vaccine for Americans over 65, there will be no money to purchase those vaccines for Americans. Without funding, USAID will have to stop efforts to distribute and administer vaccines in under vaccinated countries, the very countries that are most likely to spawn a new variant. And maybe most importantly, without funds surveillance for new variants, research and purchase of new oral antiviral drugs, and research into next generation COVID vaccines will be halted or dramatically slowed.

 

We—non-governmental, non-partisan health professionals and researchers—urge you to quickly appropriate the billions necessary for a robust COVID response in 2022, and just as importantly, the development of an infrastructure to more effectively confront future biosecurity and pandemic threats. Fatigue and frustration cannot lead to forgetting what is needed today and to prevent challenges in the future. The United States’ security is at stake. This money should not be subjected to partisanship or legislative maneuvering. 

 

Now, with all that is going on in the world, is the time to invest in the nation’s health, economic well-being, and biosecurity so the country can be better prepared and truly move beyond the COVID emergency.  

 

 

SIGNATORIES

 

Pamela M. Aaltonen, PhD, RN 

APHA Past President 

Professor Emerita, Purdue University

 

George M. Abraham, MD, MPH, MACP, FIDSA

President

American College of Physicians

 

Peter Abt, MD

Professor of Surgery, Division of Transplantation

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

 

Ronald T. Ackermann, MD, MPH

Senior Associate Dean for Public Health

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

 

Sunil Ahuja, MD

President's Council/Dielmann Chair for Excellence in Medical Research

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA)

 

Dolores Albarracín, PhD

Director, Science of Science Communication Division, Annenberg Public Policy Center and Annenberg School for Communication

University of Pennsylvania

 

American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology

 

American Association of Clinical Endocrinology 

 

American Society for Clinical Pathology

 

Deverick J. Anderson, MD, MPH

Director, Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention

Duke University

 

Judith Anesi, MD MSCE

Assistant Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology

University of Pennsylvania

 

Michael Aptman MD

Professor-voluntary faculty

University of Miami Medical School

 

Vineet Arora MD MAPP

Herbert T Abelson Professor of Medicine | Dean for Medical Education

University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine 

 

Association for Clinical Oncology (ASCO)

 

Association of Rehabilitation Nurses (ARN)

 

Paul G. Auwaerter, MD

Sherrilyn and Ken Fisher Professor of Medicine

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

 

Angie Bakke, MBA

Executive Director

Doctors for America

 

Katharine J. Bar, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

 

Ruanne V. Barnabas, MBChB, MSc, DPhil, FIDSA 

Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases 

Massachusetts General Hospital 

 

Eileen Barrett, MD, MPH

Chair, Advocacy Committee 

American Medical Women’s Association 

 

Ingrid V. Bassett, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School 

 

Amy J Behrman, MD, FACP, FACOEM

Professor, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Division Chief, Occupational Medicine

 

Rinad S. Beidas, PhD 

Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Ethics and Health Policy

University of Pennsylvania 

 

Kaye Bender, PhD, RN, FAAN

President, American Public Health Association

 

Georges C. Benjamin, MD, MACP

Executive Director

American Public Health Association

 

Scott Bergman, PharmD, FCCP, FIDSA

President

Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists

 

Meenakshi Bewtra, MD, MPH, PhD

Board Member

Doctors for America

 

Oni Blackstock, MD, MHS

Founder and Executive Director, Health Justice

 

Uché Blackstock, MD

Founder and CEO

Advancing Health Equity

 

Michael S. Blaiss, MD

Clinical Professor of Pediatrics 

Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University 

 

Maria Blasi, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases

Duke University School of Medicine

 

Eve Bloomgarden, MD

Director of Thyroid Care |Director of Endocrine Innovation and Education 

Division of  Endocrinology NorthShore University Health Systems 

 

Thomas Bollyky, JD

Senior Fellow for Global Health, Economics, and Development

Director of the Global Health Program, Council on Foreign Relations

 

Jacob Bor

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Global Health

Boston University School of Public Health

 

Luciana Borio, MD

Venture Partner, Arch Venture Partners

Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations

 

PJ Brennan, MD

Professor of Medicine

Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania

 

Lisa M Brosseau, ScD, CIH

Professor (retired)

Research Consultant, University of Minnesota, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy

 

Joan S. Brugge, PhD

Co-Director Ludwig Center At Harvard

Professor 

Harvard Medical School 

 

Larry W. Buie, PharmD, BCOP, FASHP

President

Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association

 

Dennis R. Burton, PhD 

Chair, Department of Immunology and Microbiology

The Scripps Research Institute

 

Helen Burstin, MD, MPH

Chief Executive Officer

Council of Medical Specialty Societies

 

Frederic D. Bushman

Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

 

Melody Butler, BSN, RN

Founding Executive Director of Nurses Who Vaccinate

 

Stephen M. Carpenter, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor | Department of Medicine

Case Western Reserve University

 

Esther Choo, MD MPH

Professor, Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine

Oregon Health & Science University 

 

Robert A. Clark, MD

Professor of Medicine, Associate VP for Translational Science

University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio

 

Myron S. Cohen, MD 

Yeargan-Bate Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Epidemiology 

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Jennifer Cohn, MD, MPH

Clinical Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania 

 

James W. Curran, MD, MPH               

James W. Curran Dean of Public Health

Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

 

Judith S. Currier, MD, MSc

Professor of Medicine | Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases

David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

 

Natalie Dean, PhD

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

Emory University Rollins School of Public Health

 

Thomas N. Denny, MSc, M.Phil

Professor of Medicine

Chief Operating Officer, Duke Human Vaccine Institute 

 

Sandra Demaria, MD

Professor of Radiation Oncology | Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Weill Cornell Medicine

 

Jason T. Eberl, Ph.D.

Director, Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics

Saint Louis University

 

R.P. Eddy

CEO of Ergo

 

Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD

Vice Provost for Global Initiatives and Levy University Professor

Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

 

Michael Emerman, PhD 

Professor, Division of Human Biology

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

 

Joel D. Ernst, MD

Chief of Experimental Medicine

University of California, San Francisco

 

Amy Lauren Fairchild, PhD, MPH

Dean and Professor

College of Public Health, The Ohio State University

 

Dimitrios Farmakiotis, MD, FACP, FIDSA

Director, Transplant and Oncology Infectious Diseases

Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

 

Ferric C. Fang, MD

Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology

University of Washington School of Medicine

 

Jeremy Samuel Faust, MD, MS

Emergency Medicine Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine/Division of Health Policy and Public Health

Harvard Medical School.

 

Guido Ferrari, MD

Professor

Duke University Medical Center

 

Kyle R. Fischer, MD, MPH

Clinical Assistant Professor | Fellowship Director in Health Policy and Leadership

University of Maryland School of Medicine

 

Autumn Fiester, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy

 

Howie Forman, MD, MBA

Professor of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, Economics, & Public Health (Health Policy)

Yale University

 

Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD, MBe 

Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Law

University of Pennsylvania

 

Joshua Fierer, MD

Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Pathology

University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine

 

Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH 

Dean and DeLamar Professor of Public Health 

Columbia Mailman School of Public Health 

 

Harvey Friedman, MD

Professor of Medicine/Infectious Diseases

University of Pennsylvania

 

Rajesh Gandhi, MD

Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

 

Laura A. Gibson, PhD

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy

University of Pennsylvania

 

Robert N. Golden, MD

Dean, School of Medicine and Public Health

University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

Lynn R. Goldman, MD, MPH, MS

Dean, Milken Institute School of Public Health

The George Washington University 

 

Douglas Golenbock, MD

The Neil and Margery Blacklow Chair in Infectious Diseases and Immunology 

UMass Chan Medical School 

 

Jesse L. Goodman, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Georgetown University

Former Chief Scientist, FDA

 

Jacob Gutsche, MD

Associate Professor, Associate Chief Medical Officer, Critical Care, UPHS

University of Pennsylvania

 

Beatrice H. Hahn, MD

Professor, Depts of Medicine and Microbiology

Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

 

John Hamilton, MD

Professor Emeritus of Medicine

Duke University School of Medicine

 

William P Hanage PhD

Associate Professor of Epidemiology | Co-Director Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

 

Barton F. Haynes, MD

Director, Duke Human Vaccine Institute

Duke University School of Medicine

 

Kelly Henry, MD

Community Prevention & Health Vice Chair

Doctors for America

 

Thomas J. Hope, PhD

Professor

Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University 

 

Peter W. Hunt, MD

Professor of Medicine

University of California, San Francisco

 

Eric Hunter, Ph.D.

Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine,

Emory University

 

Emily P. Hyle, MD MSc

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital 

 

Infectious Diseases Society of America

 

Akiko Iwasaki, PhD

Sterling Professor of Immunobiology

Yale School of Medicine

 

Donna M. Jacobsen

Executive Director/President

International Antiviral Society-USA

 

Jeffrey M. Jacobson, MD

Professor of Medicine

Case Western Reserve University

 

Shikha Jain MD, FACP

Assistant Professor of Medicine| Division of Hematology and Oncology 

Director of Communication Strategies in Medicine| University of Illinois Chicago

 

Steven Joffe, MD, MPH

Interim Chair, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy

University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

 

The John A. Hartford Foundation

 

Mallory O. Johnson, PhD

Professor of Medicine

University of California, San Francisco

 

Melissa Johnson PharmD, MHS, AAHIVP

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases

Duke University 

 

Steven L. Kanter, MD

President and CEO

Association of Academic Health Centers

 

Jonathan Karn, PhD

Reinberger Professor and Chair

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

 

Sara Keller, MD MPH MSHP

Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

 

Brendan J. Kelly, MD, MS

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Microbiology 

Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania 

 

P. J. Klasse, MD, PhD 

Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology  

Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University

 

Andrea Kline-Tilford, PhD, CPNP-AC/PC, FCCM, FAAN

President

National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners

 

Bob Kocher, MD

Non-Resident Senior Fellow, USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics

Adjunct Professor, Stanford Medicine

 

Edward Kreider, MD, PhD

Fellow, Division of Infectious Diseases

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

 

Harlan Krumholz, MD, SM

Harold H. Hines, Jr. Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) 

Yale School of Medicine

 

Emily A. Largent, JD, PhD, RN

Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy

University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine

 

Thomas A. LaVeist, PhD 

Dean

Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine 

 

Elena Lister MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry

New York Presbyterian/ Weill Cornell Medical Center

 

LeadingAge

 

Jeffrey Levi, PhD

Professor of Health Policy and Management

Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University

 

Stuart M. Levitz, MD

Professor of Medicine and Microbiology and Physiological Systems

UMass Chan Medical School

 

Andrew W. Lo, A.M., PhD

Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor, MIT

Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering

 

Justin Lowenthal, PhD

Board Member

Doctors for America

 

Michael C Lu, MD, MS, MPH

Dean, School of Public Health

University of California, Berkeley 

 

Nicole Lurie MD MSPH

Senior Lecturer, Harvard Medical School

 

John B. Lynch, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine

University of Washington School of Medicine

 

Ellen J. MacKenzie, PhD

Dean and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor 

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health  

 

Syra Madad, DHSc, MSc, MCP

Infectious Disease Epidemiologist 

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Boston University

 

Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN

President and CEO

National League for Nursing 

 

Michael C Margulies MD, FAAD

 

Ariela Marshall, MD

Director, Women’s Thrombosis and Hemostasis

University of Pennsylvania

 

Matthew McCoy, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy

University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine 

 

Ross McKinney, MD

Chief Scientific Officer 

Association of American Medical Colleges 

 

Daniel P. McQuillen, MD, FIDSA, FACP

President

Infectious Diseases Society of America

 

Maxwell J. Mehlman JD

Distinguished University Professor, Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law

Case Western Reserve University

 

Peter A. Merkel, MD, MPH 

Chief, Division of Rheumatology  | Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology 

University of Pennsylvania 

 

Leonard A. Mermel, DO, ScM, AM (Hon), FSHEA, FIDSA, FACP 

Professor of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University 

Medical Director, Dept. of Epidemiology & Infection Prevention, Lifespan Hospital System

 

Joshua P. Metlay, MD, PhD

Interim Chief of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

Harvard Medical School

 

Donna Meyer MSN RN ANEF FAADN FAAN

Chief Executive Officer

Organization for Associate Degree Nursing

David Michaels, PhD, MPH

Professor, Milken Institute School of Public Health

The George Washington University

 

Michael Mina, MD, PhD

Chief Science Officer

eMed

 

M. Anthony (Tony) Moody, MD FAAP

Director, Duke CIVIC Vaccine Center (DCVC)

Co-Director, Coordinating Center for the Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Disease (CREID) Network

 

John Moore, PhD

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

Weill Cornell Medicine

 

Jonathan D. Moreno, PhD

David and Lyn Silfen University Professor of Ethics 

University of Pennsylvania 

 

Krishnan Narasimhan, MD

Board Chair

Doctors for America

 

National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners

 

National League for Nursing

 

William M. Nauseef, MD

Emeritus Professor

Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa

 

Anne H Norris, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine

Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

 

Nurses Who Vaccinate

 

Michel C Nussenzweig MD PhD

Zanvil A Cohn and Ralph M Steinman Professor, HHMI Investigator

The Rockefeller University

 

Jennifer Nuzzo, ScD

Associate Professor,John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations

 

Judith A. O’Donnell, MD

Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases 

Hospital Epidemiologist and Director, Department Infection Prevention & Control

Penn Presbyterian Medical Center

 

Saad B. Omer, MBBS MPH PhD 

Director, Yale Institute for Global Health

 

Organization for Associate Degree Nursing

 

Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH

Regents Professor  | McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health

Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), University of Minnesota

 

Julie Overbaugh, PhD

Professor of Human Biology

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

 

Julie Parsonnet, MD

Board Member

Doctors for America

 

Stavonnie Patterson, MD

Community Health & Prevention Leader

Doctors for America

 

David A. Pegues, MD

Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

 

Michael G. Perri, PhD

Dean, College of Public Health and Health Professions

University of Florida

 

Maureen Phipps, MD, MPH, FACOG

Chief Executive Officer

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

 

Brad H. Pollock, PhD, MPH

Associate Dean for Public Health Sciences and Distinguished Professor,

University of California Davis School of Medicine

 

Saskia Popescu, PhD, MPH, MA, CIC

Assistant Professor - Biodefense

George Mason University 

 

Paul Pottinger, MD

Director, Infectious Diseases Training Program

University of Washington

 

David Putrino, PhD

Director of Rehabilitation Innovation 

Mt Sinai Health System

 

Farheen Qurashi, MD, FACS

Board Member

Doctors for America

 

Sanjay Ram, MBBS

Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology,

University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

 

Megan L Ranney MD MPH

Professor of Emergency Medicine

Academic Dean, School of Public Health, Brown University

 

Angela L. Rasmussen, PhD

Research Scientist, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization

University of Saskatchewan

 

Irwin Redlener, MD

Senior Research Scholar | Founding Director, National Center for Disaster Preparedness

Columbia University

 

Josiah “Jody” Rich, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology 

Brown University

 

Douglas D. Richman, MD

Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Medicine (Active Emeritus), University of California San Diego

Director, The HIV Institute

 

Vivian Riefberg, MBA

Professor of Practice, Walentas Jefferson Scholars Foundation Professorship Chair

University of Virginia

 

Barbara K. Rimer, DrPH, MPH

Dean and Alumni Distinguished Professor

UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health

 

Elena Rios, MD, MSPH, MACP

President & CEO

National Hispanic Medical Association

 

Christina A. Roberto, PhD 

Mitchell J. Blutt & Margo Krody Blutt 

Presidential Associate Professor of Health Policy

 

Sir Richard J. Roberts PhD F.R.S.

1993 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 

Chief Scientific Officer, New England Biolabs 

 

Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber, MD, FACP, FAMWA

Professor of Medicine

Athens, GA

 

Paul Root Wolpe, PhD

Raymond F. Schinazi Distinguished Research Chair in Jewish Bioethics

Director, Center for Ethics | Emory University

 

Lanny J. Rosenwasser, MD

Past President, WAO, AAAAI

Adjoint Professor of Medicine, A/I, University of Colorado School of Medicine

 

Jonathan M. Samet, MD, MS

Dean and Professor

Colorado School of Public Health 

 

Pamela Sankar, PhD

Dept of Medical Ethics and Health Policy

University of Pennsylvania

 

Joshua T. Schiffer, MD, MSc

Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle

 

Harald Schmidt, PhD

Assistant Professor, Perelman School of Medicine, 

University of Pennsylvania

 

Heather Schofield, PhD 

Assistant Professor, Division of Health Policy 

University of Pennsylvania 

 

Robert T. Schooley, MD                                                    

Distinguished Professor of Medicine

University of California, San Diego

 

Aaron L. Schwartz, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Health Policy

Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania 

 

David. R. Sherman, PhD

Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology

University of Washington

 

Gary L. Simon, MD, PhD, MACP

Walter G. Ross Professor of Clinical Science

George Washington University School of Medicine

 

Dominic A. Sisti, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy

University of Pennsylvania

 

David J. Skorton, M.D.

President and CEO

Association of American Medical Colleges

 

Andy Slavitt

Former White House Senior Advisor COVID Response

Former Acting CMS Administrator 

 

Katrinka Smith Sloan, MA

President and CEO

LeadingAge 

 

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 

 

Craig Spencer, MD, MPH 

Director of Global Health in Emergency Medicine

Columbia University Medical Center

 

Stanley M. Spinola, MD

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Medicine (Infectious Diseases), and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Indiana University School of Medicine

 

Jason Stout, MD, MHS

Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases

Duke University

 

David Thomas, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology

Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins Medicine

 

Shirley Tilghman, PhD

President and Professor Emerita

Princeton University

 

Sarah Tishkoff, PhD

David and Lyn Silfen University Professor

Departments of Genetics and Biology, University of Pennsylvania

 

Eric Topol, MD

Professor and Executive Vice-President, Scripps Research

Founder and Director, Scripps Research Translational Institute 

 

Seth Trueger, MD, MPH, FACEP

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine 

Northwestern University

 

Judy Tung, MD

Associate Dean, Faculty Development

Weill Cornell Medicine

 

Allan R. Tunkel, MD, PhD, MACP, FIDSA

Professor of Medicine and Medical Science

The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

 

Elizabeth Turk-Karan, PhD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry 

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

 

Harold Varmus, MD

University Professor

Weill Cornell Medicine

 

Atheendar Venkataramani MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

 

Rachel Villanueva MD FACOG

President, National Medical Association

 

Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD

Mark V Pauly Presidential Distinguished Professor 

University of Pennsylvania

 

Robert M. Wachter, MD

Professor and Chair, Dept. Of Medicine 

University of California, San Francisco

 

Grace Walter, MD

Community Prevention & Health Chair

Doctors for America

 

Andrew Ward, PhD

Professor, Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology

Scripps Research

 

David B. Weiner, PhD

Executive Vice President, The Wistar Institute

Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania - SOM

 

Drew Weissman, MD, PhD

Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research

Director Penn Institute for RNA Innovation

 

Anna Wexler, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy

University of Pennsylvania 

 

John Wherry, PhD

Chair, Department of Systems Pharmacology & Translational Therapeutics

University of Pennsylvania 

 

Ian A. Wilson, D.Phil., D.Sc., FRS, FSRE

Hansen Professor of Structural Biology 

The Scripps Research Institute

 

Steven M. Wolinsky, MD 

Samuel J. Sackett Professor of Infectious Diseases

Northwestern University 

 

Charles I. Wohl, MD, FACP

Former Medical Director, Neighborhood Health Center, Pittsfield, MA,  former Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, retired.