Kate Battuello is a member of the Health Law Program faculty at the University of Washington School of Law and holds an adjunct faculty appointment in the Department of Medical History and Ethics in the UW School of Medicine. She is also part of the core faculty of the Institute for Public Health Genetics. Prior to joining the UW, Kate spent 10 years as a litigation attorney with Karr Tuttle Campbell and 5 years as managing partner of a boutique law practice specializing in health care issues. She has published and presented on topics including genetic discrimination; trends in medical malpractice; and the scientific, clinical, ethical, legal, and social challenges that attend the integration of genetics into public health. She has served as a member of the Cancer Research and Biostatistics Institutional Review Board and the Downtown YMCA of Greater Seattle Board of Managers; as pro bono attorney for the Seattle Emergency Housing Service; and as secretary and member of the Executive Committee of the Puget Sound Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Kate earned her MPH at the University of Washington, her law degree at the Duke University School of Law, and her BA (summa cum laude) from the University of New Mexico.
Sally Bock is a Vice President at Pyramid Communications, a marketing and communications firm serving nonprofit organizations. With more than 10 years' experience in philanthropy, arts, education, and health care, Sally specializes in strategy and brand management. Prior to joining Pyramid, she was director of marketing and development for the 52nd Street Project, senior manager of communications for the Children's Health Fund, and a program officer in education and health at the Sega Foundation. She holds a bachelor's degree in religion and art history from Smith College and a master's degree in religion and literature from Yale University.
Petra Franklin is a cofounder and Managing Director of Vault Capital and a General Partner of Vault Capital II. Prior to launching Vault, Petra worked with start-ups in a management or director capacity and came to that from the data networking and wireless communications field including positions with US West Wireless, AT&T, MFS, UUNET, IBM, WorldCom, and as Associate Producer for CBS in New York City. She is a member of the board of the Science Technology Center for Information Technology of the National Science Foundation and a member of the National Venture Capital Association, the Community Development Roundtable, Seraph Capital Partners, MIT Enterprise Forum, the Alliance of Angels, Washington Software Association, FWE, WWFC, the Hilltop Group, and WIT. She was a founding member of Innovation & Science, Agile, Alpha Arts, and Seniors Making Art. Petra attended Harvard University and Bennington College, where she received her undergraduate degree. She also attended Stanford University and the University of Washington.
Kelly Fryer-Edwards is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical History and Ethics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. With training in medical ethics and philosophy of education, Kelly teaches and develops curriculum in ethics and professionalism for students, residents, and faculty. She is part of the faculty of the Institute for Public Health Genetics and a member of the ELSI Core for the Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health. Kelly has also served as a curriculum advisor and project co-director for two HRSA contracts to develop genetics curriculum for primary care physicians, and she develops cases and teaching materials for the Biomedical Research Integrity series. Kelly's research interests range from clinical decision making to research ethics. She earned her MA in medical ethics and her PhD in philosophy of education at the University of Washington.
Laura Hamill is Vice President, General Manager, Inflammation Business Unit, Amgen, Inc. Laura began her career in the pharmaceutical industry 16 years ago with Hoffman La-Roche after graduating from the University of Arizona with a degree in Business Administration. During her seven-year career at Roche, she held positions in field sales, market research, and product management. After Roche, she spent five years working for Klemtner Advertising, a pharmaceutical division of Saatchi & Saatchi in New York City, where she was Executive Vice President. In 2000, Laura joined Immunex and became Vice President, ENBREL Marketing. She joined Amgen in July 2002 as Senior Director, Inflammation Marketing, following the close of the Immunex acquisition. She assumed the role of Vice President, General Manager, Inflammation in February 2004.
Jan Hendrickson is Vice President of Alexander Hutton, an investment banking and venture capital firm. Prior to joining Alexander Hutton, Jan provided business and financial planning services to companies including The Boeing Company and New Balance Running Shoes. In her most recent operations role, Jan was the chief financial officer of a $5 billion start-up responsible for constructing and operating a regional mass transit system, and finance director for the Port of Seattle. During her career in operations, she led or participated in financings in excess of $500 million. Jan is a graduate of UCLA's John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management Mergers and Acquisitions Program. She is a director of two privately-held companies, and serves on a number of civic boards, including the Woodland Park Zoological Society, the Frye Art Museum, and the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce's Finance and Investment Committee. A fourth-generation Seattlelite, Jan holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Washington.
Suzanne Holland is Associate Professor of Religious and Social Ethics and Chair of the Department of Religion at the University of Puget Sound. Prior to entering academia, Suzanne worked as a fund development consultant for 12 years. A well-published expert, she has written and presented on such topics as embryonic stem-cell research; feminist perspectives on bioethics; genetic engineering; gender and health care; and gay/lesbian rights. Suzanne earned her BA in history at Indiana University-Bloomington, her MA in biblical studies at the Louisville Seminary, and her PhD in religion and society at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley.
Patricia Kuszler is the Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development at the University of Washington School of Law, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medical History and Ethics, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Health Services. Prior to joining the UW law faculty in 1994, Patricia practiced health law with Hogan & Hartson in Washington, DC. Before entering her career in the law, she practiced emergency medicine in New York and Connecticut and served as a medical director for Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Connecticut. Biotechnology and the law, health insurance fraud and abuse, health care finance and regulation, and research misconduct are among her teaching and research interests. Patricia earned her BA at Mills College, her MD at Mayo Medical School, and her JD at Yale.
Tom McCormick has been part of the faculty at the University of Washington's School of Medicine for 30 years. He developed the program in biomedical ethics and is responsible for the ethics component of the required curriculum for medical students. In addition to his teaching and curriculum development work, Tom is active in the clinical setting. He provides ethics consultation services to the University Hospital neonatal intensive care unit, the University Hospital Medical Center (UHMC) cardiac transplant program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Hospice of Seattle. He is the ethics consultant for Harborview Medical Center, one of the UW's major teaching hospitals, where he was a founding member of the ethics committee. He was formerly the ethics consultant to the in vitro fertilization program at the UHMC. Tom recently resigned as Director of Counseling for the School of Medicine at the UW, a position he held for nearly 20 years. He has written and presented internationally on bioethics topics. Transcultural aspects in ethical decision making and the improvement of "death and dying" curricula for medical students are among his current research interests. Tom received his Doctor of Ministry degree in ethics from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, and did postdoctoral work at the Texas Medical Center (Houston) and the Tennessee Medical Center (Memphis).
Al Nesbitt is a Financial Advisor with Merrill Lynch. His prior experience in the financial services industry includes work with Morgan Stanley and Quick & Reilly. Before moving to Seattle, Al spent 5 years as a project manager for British Petroleum in Prudhoe Bay. Prior to that, he studied musical performance and was a professional musician for 10 years, playing alongside many well-known musicians. Al holds a project management certificate from UC Berkeley and is currently pursuing his CFP as well as CIMA designations for planning and investment management. He is deeply committed to women's health issues. His mother suffered from heart disease and, as an Alaska resident, experienced first-hand the challenges of access to quality care. The father of two young daughters, Al is also concerned about the impact of biotechnology on women's lives.
Mandy Paulovich is the Director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Early Detection Initiative. With training in both clinical medicine and basic science, she currently manages the efforts of an interdisciplinary team to develop molecular imaging tools, design improved diagnostic tests, and identify risk biomarkers. Mandy earned her BS in biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, her PhD in genetics at the University of Washington, and her MD at the University of Washington. Before joining the Hutch, she completed her internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, her oncology fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and postdoctoral training in computational biology at the Whitehead Institute's Center for Genomics Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Sally Poliak has provided marketing leadership at Microsoft since 1997 and is currently the Global Marketing Lead for Microsoft's US Business Marketing Organization. Prior to that, she spent 14 years working in politics, public relations, and public affairs, including operating her own consulting firm. Sally's campaign experience includes the campaign to Reelect Congressman John Miller, Senator Slade Gorton, Friends for Tim Hill, Citizens for Governor John Spellman, and the Dan Evans Senate Committee. She has also served as a political analyst on Seattle NPR affiliate KUOW; as a King County Redistricting Commissioner; and as a volunteer consultant to the International Republican Institute working in Kiev, Ukraine. A well-known local speaker, Sally has addressed audiences at Seattle University, CityClub, Leadership Tomorrow, and the Alki Foundation, and is a former board member of the Northwest AIDS Foundation. She earned a bachelor's degree in political science at Lewis & Clark College and studied economics at Josef Atilla University in Szeged, Hungary.
Tom Rainey is Professor Emeritus at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, where he specializes in environmental studies; political economy; Russian, East European, and European studies; and international studies. A published expert in international environmental issues, Tom was formerly a member of the faculty at the University of Arkansas, Duke University, and the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is Contributing Editor, former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, for the international journal Environmental Practice. He has made more than 30 extended research and study trips to the former Soviet Union and Siberia. Tom holds a PhD in Russian history from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
Nancy Roche is Worldwide Clinical Genomics Sales Manager in IBM's Healthcare & Life Sciences Division, where her team sells consulting services and software to academic medical research centers and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Before joining IBM, Nancy worked in the technology group of Andersen Consulting. Her research experience includes work in Thom Kaufman's Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Laboratory, the Molecular Biology Institute at Indiana University, Cornell's Biotechnology Center, the Gluck Equine Center, and Agracetus Incorporated. Nancy earned her bachelor's degree in biotechnology at the University of Kentucky and her PhD in genetics at Indiana University (Bloomington), as well as completing coursework at Cornell University.
Robin Shapiro is President of Health Advocacy Strategies, a consulting and public-relations firm that works with health-related companies and organizations to assist them in recognizing, respecting, and integrating individuals' experiences into the health information cycle. Prior to founding Health Advocacy Strategies, Robin was director of communications at Immunex Corporation, where she managed corporate and product public relations, media relations, issues management, public affairs, advocacy development, and internal communications. She worked at Ogilvy & Mather Public Affairs in Washington, DC, before moving to Seattle. Robin is the current Chair of the Board of the Washington/Alaska chapter of the Arthritis Foundation and has also served on the boards of the Temple Beth Am Religious School Board, the Washington Biotechnology Foundation, and Seniors Making Art. She holds a bachelor of journalism degree and bachelor of arts degree in political science from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
As Sales Director with Mellon Private Wealth Management, Sonya Stoklosa works with individuals, families, and foundations to help them reach their financial goals.Sonya joined Mellon from Madison Capital Management, where she supervised and performed risk-mitigation research for limited partnership asset valuation, bankruptcy case analysis, financial models, market studies, and new business analysis. Sonya is actively involved in Social Venture Partners, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle Symphony and Seraph Capital Forum. Prior to joining Mellon, Sonya was also an elite athlete and competed in the 1998 Olympic Trials in Nordic Skiing. She earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota and her master's degree from Purdue.
Lisa Stone is Executive Director of the Northwest Women's Law Center, a nonprofit advocacy group advancing legal rights for women in Washington, Alaska, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. Core issues include children and youth; civil rights; employment and athletics discrimination; family law; health care; lesbian and gay rights; reproductive freedom; and violence against women. Lisa has worked with the Center since the late 1980s and has been the executive director since 1995. Before that, Lisa was an attorney with Stoel Rives, practicing environmental law and general litigation. She also worked as an environmental planner for a national oil-spill cleanup company. She was graduated from the University of Washington School of Law with honors and is a summa cum laude graduate of California State University, Fresno, with a degree in anthropology.
Moya Vazquez spent 16 years as a biopharmaceutical marketing executive at Immunex Corporation, where she was responsible for the launch of the blockbuster product ENBREL. She is president of the board of the Intiman Theatre and a member of the National Council of Theatre Communications Group. She is also a founding member of the board of the Seattle Biotech Legacy Foundation and a member of the board of trustees of the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute. She holds a BS in nursing from McGill University and an MBA from the University of Washington.
Michael Yesley is an attorney and writes about bioethics, particularly issues in genetics and research with human subjects. He recently retired from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), where he focused on human experimentation, privacy, safety, and contracting. From 1990 to 1995, Michael managed the U.S. Department of Energy's ELSI Program on the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project and organized scholarly meetings on genetic privacy. Prior to joining LANL, he was a partner in a Santa Fe law firm and a senior staff member at the RAND Corporation. In the 70's, Michael was the Staff Director of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, where he helped develop federal policy on human experimentation. He has served on several bioethics and social service boards. Michael received his undergraduate (philosophy) and law degrees from Harvard and has written and spoken widely on genetic privacy and discrimination.