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The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) recently elected two new members to its Board of Directors.
Larry K. Pickering, MD, is professor and vice chairman for research in the Department of Pediatrics as well as director of the Center for Pediatric Research at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters and Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, VA. The author of over 330 publications relating primarily to pediatric infectious diseases, Dr. Pickering is currently president of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society of North America. He serves as co-editor of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Red Book and is a member of the AAP's Committee on Infectious Diseases. He is also an editor for NFID's publication, Clinical Updates in Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Dr. Pickering received both his bachelor's and medical degrees from West Virginia University.
Gregory A. Poland, MD, is associate professor of medicine and clinical pharmacology at the Mayo Clinic and Foundation in Rochester, MN, and has been on the faculty of the Mayo Medical School since 1988. He is active in the field of vaccine research, education, and practice, and he speaks nationally and internationally on these topics. He currently chairs the Mayo Vaccine Research Group and the Steering Committee of the National Coalition for Adult Immunization. Dr. Poland also serves on the Food and Drug Administration's Expert Advisory Committee on Vaccines and Related Biologics as well as on the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board and Disease Control Subcommittee. Dr. Poland received his medical degree from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. He trained in internal medicine with advanced training in infectious diseases at the University of Minnesota.
Three outstanding individuals were recently elected to the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) Board of Trustees.
Lenore Cooney is chairman and co-founder of Cooney/Waters Group, Inc., a company providing public relations and public affairs services to health care, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology enterprises. A veteran of more than two decades in public relations practice, Ms. Cooney has directed marketing efforts in the areas of cardiovascular disease, ophthalmology, infectious diseases, depression, respiratory distress syndrome, women's health, and nutritional issues. She has served on the advisory committee to the Women's Research and Education Institute, the research arm of the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues, and was a delegate to the White House Conference on Aging, Task Force on Older Women.
Ronald J. Saldarini, PhD, has been president of Wyeth-Lederle Vaccines and Pediatrics since 1995. He was a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow at UCLA's Brain Research Institute and later was a consultant to the World Health Organization's Task Force on Human Population Control. He also served a three-year membership term on the National Vaccine Advisory Committee. Dr. Saldarini received his bachelor's degree in biochemistry and zoology from Drew University and his doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Kansas.
Guy B. Williams is chairman and CEO of Williams*Labadie LLC, a medical advertising and marketing firm, which he founded in 1990. He has spent approximately 25 years of his career in health care marketing and sales. Prior to founding Williams*Labadie LLC, he worked in the health care advertising division of BBDO/Omnicom in Chicago managing businesses. Mr. Williams has also held positions with the Lifetime Medical Television Network and with Merck & Co., Inc. He received his bachelor's degree in zoology and microbiology from the University of Connecticut with graduate study in animal physiology at the State University of Southern Connecticut.