Leaders of The Milbank Memorial Fund (1905 to 2022)

The Milbank Memorial Fund acknowledges with respect and gratitude the service of its leaders since 1905: the founder of the Fund, the presiding officers and members of the Board of Directors, chief executives, and the members of its Technical and Editorial Boards. We list these persons in the role (or roles) they served and under subheads that divide the history of the Fund into periods defined by significant events. These historical periods are:

1905–1920
Founding the Fund and Articulating Its Mission

1921–1935
The Fund’s Innovative Program and Publications and Growing Reputation

1936–1960
The Fund Is Stable and Respected and Maintains Its Founding Mission

1961–1989
The Fund Retreats from Informing Policy but Has Influential Fellowship Programs and the Repute of The Milbank Quarterly Increases

1990–2022
Return to the Mission of Informing Health Policy While Maintaining Excellence in Publications

Note that (1) leaders whose service spanned more than one historical period are listed in the period of their appointment but with their complete years of service; and (2) because the titles of presiding officers of the Board and of chief executives have evolved, each of them is listed with his or her title at the time of appointment.

 

Founder of the Fund—1905

Elizabeth Milbank Anderson
Philanthropist

Presiding Officers of the Board of Directors

1905–1920
Edward W. Sheldon, 1905–1929
President

1921–1935
Albert G. Milbank, 1929–1949
President

1936–1960
Morris Hadley, 1949–1952
President

Samuel R. Milbank, 1952–1984
President, 1952–1955
Chairman, 1956–1984

1961–1989
Francis H. Musselman, 1985–1989
Chairman

1990–2022
Samuel L. Milbank, 1990–2022
Chairman

2022–

John M. Colmers, 2022–
Chair

 

Chief Executive Officers

1921–1935
John A. Kingsbury, 1922–1935
Secretary

Edgar Sydenstricker, 1935–1936
Scientific Director

1936–1960
Frank G. Boudreau, MD, 1937–1962
Executive Director, 1937–1955
President, 1956–1962

1961–1989
Alexander Robertson, 1962–1969
Executive Director

Leroy E. Burney, MD, 1970–1977
Executive Director, 1970–1971
President, 1971–1977

Robert H. Ebert, MD, 1978–1984; 1988–1989
President

Sidney S. Lee, MD, 1985–1988
President

1990–2022
Daniel M. Fox, PhD, 1990–2007
President

Carmen Hooker Odom, 2007–2013
President

John R. Ball, MD, JD, 2013
Interim President

Christopher F. Koller, 2013–
President

 

Members of the Board of Directors

Members of the Board of Directors are listed alphabetically within each time period. Their titles and affiliations at the time of their appointment and later in their service to the Fund are also listed if they are available in the records of the Fund or by searching the Internet.

1905–1920
Charles M. Cauldwell, MD, 1914–1928

Francis B. Kinnicut, MD, 1905–1913
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Columbia University

Albert G. Milbank, 1905–1949
Partner, Masten & Nichols; Senior Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Webb; Chairman of the Board, Borden Condensed Milk Company

Albert J. Milbank, 1907–1912
Treasurer, Borden Condensed Milk Company

John G. Milburn, 1920–1930
Lawyer, Carter, Ledyard & Milburn

George L. Nichols, 1905–1930
Lawyer, Masten & Nichols

Edward W. Sheldon, 1905–1934
President, U.S. Trust Company

Howard Townsend, 1905–1920
President, New York State Hospital for Consumptives

1921–1935
James G. Affleck, Jr., 1935–1937; 1947–1966
Lawyer, Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Webb

Chellis A. Austin, 1928–1929
President, Seaboard National Bank

Cornelius N. Bliss, 1930–1949
Director, Bliss, Fabyan & Co.; President, Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor

Thomas Cochran, 1921–1936
Partner, J.P. Morgan Co.

Livingston Farrand, MD, 1934–1939
President, Cornell University

Barklie M. Henry, 1934–1963
Director (retired), Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor

John A. Kingsbury, 1934–1935
Secretary, Milbank Memorial Fund

Franklin B. Kirkbride, 1934–1955
Investment Counsel

Samuel R. Milbank, 1934–1985
Partner, Wood, Struthers & Winthrop; President, Pine Street Fund

Roland S. Morris, 1930–1945
Lawyer, Duane, Morris & Heckscher

Frank L. Polk, 1930–1943
Lawyer, Davis Polk & Wardwell

Elihu Root, 1921–1930
Secretary of War (under William McKinley); Secretary of State (under Theodore Roosevelt)

Linsly R. Williams, MD, 1930–1934
Managing Director, New York Academy of Medicine

1936–1960
George Baehr, MD, 1946–1978
Chief of First Medical Service, Mount Sinai Hospital; Founder then President and Medical Director, Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York

Cornelius N. Bliss, Jr., 1949–1974
Wood, Struthers & Winthrop

Frank G. Boudreau, MD, 1956–1962
Executive Director then President, Milbank Memorial Fund

Dean A. Clark, MD, 1956–1962
Director, Massachusetts General Hospital

Morris Hadley, 1937–1965
Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy

Frederick H. Osborn, 1946–1963
Treasurer, American Eugenics Society

Beekman Hoppin Pool, 1937–1942
New York State Charities Aid Association

Charles E. Saltzman, 1950–1979
Partner, Goldman, Sachs & Co.

George A. Sloan, 1943–1955
President, The Nutrition Foundation

1961–1989
Leroy E. Burney, MD, 1966–1991
Vice President for Health Sciences at Temple University; Executive Director then President, Milbank Memorial Fund

John T. Dunlop, PhD, 1979–1983
Lamont University Professor, Harvard University

Robert H. Ebert, MD, 1972–1985; 1988–1996
Dean, Harvard Medical School; President, Milbank Memorial Fund

Rashi Fein, PhD, 1987–1990
Professor of the Economics of Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Alexander D. Forger, 1965–1987
Lawyer, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy

Ellen V. Futter, 1982–1989
President, Barnard College

Peter M. Gottsegen, 1987–2022
Partner, Salomon Brothers; Founding Partner, CAI Managers & Co., LP

Thomas Harvey, 1989–2017
Deputy Administrator, Veterans Administration; General Counsel, Corporation for Public Broadcasting; Staff Director, U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs; Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Legislative Affairs, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

John W. Hennessy, Jr., PhD, 1983–1988
Charles Henry Jones Professor of Management and Dartmouth Third Century Chair, Dartmouth University

C. Glen King, PhD, 1963–1972
President, The Nutrition Foundation

Sidney S. Lee, MD, 1985–1988
President, Milbank Memorial Fund

R. Bruce McBratney, 1964–1983
Wood, Struthers & Winthrop

Jeremiah Milbank, Jr., 1989–1994
President, The J.M. Foundation

Samuel L. Milbank, 1974–2022
Director, Salomon Brothers; Partner, Milbank Capital Management, LLC

Francis H. Musselman, 1962–1994
Lawyer, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy

Thomas I. Parkinson, Jr., 1962–1985
Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy

Rosemary A. Stevens, PhD, 1987–2017
Professor and Chair, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania; Dean, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania; DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar, Weill Cornell Medical College

Alan T. Wenzell, 1987–2001
Executive Vice President (retired), Paine Webber

1990–2022
John R. Ball, MD, JD, 1992–2017
Executive Vice President, American College of Physicians; President, Pennsylvania Hospital; Executive Vice President, American Society for Clinical Pathology; Executive Vice President Emeritus, American College of Physicians; Interim President, Milbank Memorial Fund

Carolyn C. Clark, 1996–2021
Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy

Ronald J. Clark, PhD, 2016–2022
Deputy Under Secretary, National Protection and Programs Directorate, Department of Homeland Security

Paul D. Cleary, PhD, 2013–
Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health and Dean, Yale School of Public Health

John M. Colmers, 2013–
Vice President, Health Care Transformation and Strategic Planning, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Linda V. DeCherrie, MD, 2017–
Associate Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Mount Sinai

Peter Donnelly, MD, 2015–
President and Chief Executive Officer, Public Health Ontario

Danielle G. Dooley, MD, 2010–
Pediatrician, Unity Health Care, Inc.

Daniel M. Fox, PhD, 1990–2007
President, Milbank Memorial Fund

Sherry Glied, PhD, 2015–
Dean, New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

Francisco R.A. Gros, 1995–1998
Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter

Robert E. Harvey, 2010–
Senior Vice President and Director, The Ashforth Company

Robert F. Hoerle, 2003–2022
Consultant, Reich and Tang, Inc.; Managing Partner, Stone Run Capital, LLC

Clarion E. Johnson, MD, 2003–
Global Medical Director, ExxonMobil Corporation

Byron Knief, 1999–2015
President, Citicorp Capital Investors, Ltd; Managing Director, Court Square Advisor, LLC

Christopher F. Koller, 2013–
President, Milbank Memorial Fund

Carolyn Boone Lewis, 1998–2002
Immediate Past Chair and Trustee, Greater Southeast Healthcare System; Assistant Director, Division of Investment Management, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Chair, American Hospital Association

Harry A. Nurkin, 2008–2011
Owner and Senior Consultant, Nurkin Associates, Inc.

Carmen Hooker Odom, 2001–2013
Secretary, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services; President, Milbank Memorial Fund

Margaret E. O’Kane, 2010–
President, National Committee for Quality Assurance

Louisa J. Palmer, 1999–2018
Director, Ernst & Young, LLP

Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, PhD, 2016–
Vice President of Education, Insight Policy Research

William L. Roper, 1995–1998
Senior Vice President, Prudential HealthCare; Dean, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina

Carl J. Schramm, PhD, 1991–2007
President, Health Insurance Association of America; Executive Vice President, Fortis, Inc; Founder and President, Greenspring Advisors, Inc.; Director, ILM II Senior Living, Inc.; President and Chief Executive Officer, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

John D. Stoeckle, 1991–2007
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, Primary Care Program, Massachusetts General Hospital

Joseph M. Sullivan, 1998–2013
Auxiliary Bishop, Diocese of Brooklyn

Carll Tucker, 2001–2019
Founding Chairman, Northern Westchester Hospital Center Foundation; Founder and Chair, Daily Voice

Arthur Y. Webb, 2010–2021
Chief Operating Officer, St. Vincent’s Hospital; Owner and Principal, ArthurWebbGroup, Ltd.

Please see the Board of Directors page for the current list of board members.

Members of the Technical Board

The Technical Board, established in 1922, initially advised the staff and the Board about projects in two cities and a mainly rural county in New York State. These projects demonstrated how recent scientific findings about preventing and treating disease could be applied by public health agencies and their allies in philanthropy. The members of the Technical Board since its inception have been distinguished researchers, clinicians, and policymakers and have guided and advised the President and Board of Directors on issues and trends in health systems and population health. They are listed alphabetically within each time period. Their titles and affiliations at the time of their appointment as well as during their service to the Fund are also listed if they are available in the records of the Fund or by searching the Internet.

1922–1935
Herman H. Biggs, MD, 1922–1923
Commissioner of Health, New York State

Bailey B. Burritt, 1922–1946
General Director, Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor

Livingston Farrand, MD, 1922–1939
President, Cornell University

Homer Folks, 1922–1946
Secretary, New York State Charities Aid Association

James A. Miller, MD, 1922–1947
President, New York Tuberculosis Association

Matthias Nicoll, Jr., MD, 1923–1930
Commissioner of Health, New York State

Thomas Parran, Jr., MD, 1930–1962
Commissioner of Health, New York State; Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service; Dean, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh

William H. Welch, MD, 1922–1934
Dean, School of Medicine; Dean, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

Linsly R. Williams, MD, 1922–1934
Managing Director, National Tuberculosis Association; Managing Director, New York Academy of Medicine

John H. Wyckoff, MD, 1934–1937
Dean, School of Medicine, New York University

Shirley W. Wynne, MD, 1932–1933
Commissioner of Health, New York City

1936–1960
George Baehr, MD, 1937–1978
Chief of First Medical Service, Mount Sinai Hospital; Founder then President and Medical Director, Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York

Leroy E. Burney, MD, 1956–1985
Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service; Executive Director then President, Milbank Memorial Fund

Rowland Burnstan, PhD, 1947–1950
Secretary, New York State Charities Aid Association

Dean A. Clark, MD, 1946–1963
Director, Massachusetts General Hospital

Wade Hampton Frost, MD, 1936–1938
Professor of Epidemiology, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

Edward Godfrey, Jr., MD, 1941–1947
Commissioner of Health, New York State

Herman E. Hilleboe, MD, 1948–1969
Commissioner of Health, New York State

Paul H. Hoch, MD, 1956–1963
Commissioner, New York State Department of Mental Health

Robert C. Hunt, MD, 1959–1963
Assistant Commissioner, New York State Community Mental Health Services

Rustin McIntosh, MD, 1956–1976
Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Harry S. Mustard, MD, 1947–1955
Commissioner of Health, New York City

Lowell J. Reed, PhD, 1936–1966
Professor of Biostatistics then President, Johns Hopkins University

Thomas A.C. Rennie, MD, 1955–1956
Director, National Association for Mental Health

Leonard A. Scheele, MD, 1949–1956
Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service

Ernest L. Stebbins, MD, 1945–1946
Commissioner of Health, New York City

C.-E.A. Winslow, DSc, 1944–1947; 1951–1957
Professor of Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine

1961–1989
Lawrence K. Altman, MD, 1981–1985
Staff Medical Correspondent, The New York Times

Charles B. Arnold, MD, 1986–1989
Medical Director, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

Nicholas Ashford, PhD, 1986–1989
Associate Professor of Technology and Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Maurice E. Beckett, MD, 1967–1971
Professor, Department of Community Health, University of Nottingham

Samuel W. Bloom, PhD, 1967–1971
Professor of Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Frank G. Boudreau, MD, 1962–1970
President (retired), Milbank Memorial Fund

Howard J. Brown, MD, 1966–1968
Health Services Administrator, Commissioner of Health, New York City

Eveline M. Burns, MD, 1971–1973
Professor Emeritus, New York School of Social Work, Columbia University

Thomas C. Chalmers, MD, 1982–1985
Dean and President, Mount Sinai Medical Center

Theodore Cooper, MD, 1979–1982
Dean, Provost for Medical Affairs, Cornell University Medical College

Molly Joel Coye, MD, 1986–1989; 1991–1995
Commissioner of Health, New Jersey Department of Health; Senior Vice President for Health Systems Development, Health Dimensions, Inc.

Paul M. Densen, DSc, 1965–1970
Deputy Commissioner of Health, New York City; Director, Center for Community Health and Medical Care, Harvard Medical School

Kurt W. Deuschle, MD, 1969–1974
Professor and Chairman, Department of Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

John T. Dunlop, PhD, 1977–1985
Lamont University Professor, Harvard University

Robert H. Ebert, MD, 1966–1985; 1989–1990
Dean, Harvard Medical School; President, Milbank Memorial Fund

Jack Elinson, PhD, 1966–1970
Professor of Administrative Medicine, Columbia University School of Public Health

Rashi Fein, PhD, 1975–1978; 1986–1990
Professor of the Economics of Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Daniel M. Fox, PhD, 1989–1990
Professor of Social Sciences and Humanities in Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Renee C. Fox, PhD, 1979–1985
Professor of Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania

Eli Ginzberg, PhD, 1989–1990
Professor of Economics, Columbia Business School; Director, Conservation of Human Resources Project, Columbia Business School

Ernest M. Gruenberg, MD, 1963–1968; 1977–1982
Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Professor and Chairman, Department of Mental Hygiene, Johns Hopkins University

James G. Haughton, MD, 1971–1972
Executive Director, Cook County Hospital, Chicago

John Hennessey, Jr., PhD, 1983–1985
Professor, Ethics Institute, Dartmouth College; Chairman, Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital

Abraham Horwitz, MD, 1963–1975
Director, Pan American Health Organization

Avra D. Jackson, 1973–1975
Regional Equal Employment Opportunity Officer, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Philadelphia

Judith Miller Jones, 1982–1985; 1989–1990
Director, National Health Policy Forum

C. Glen King, PhD, 1963–1972
President, The Nutrition Foundation; Associate Director, Institute of Nutrition Sciences, Columbia University Medical Center

Philip J. Landrigan, MD, 1986–1989
Professor and Director, Division of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Joshua Lederberg, PhD, 1979–1985
President, The Rockefeller University

Colin H. MacLeod, MD, 1963–1966
Deputy Director, Office of Science and Technology, Office of the President, U.S.A.

J. Wendell MacLeod, MD, 1963–1971
Executive Director, The Association of Canadian Medical Colleges

Paul A. Marks, MD, 1978–1985
Vice President for Health Sciences, Columbia University; President and Chief Executive Officer, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Jeffrey C. Merrill, PhD, 1989–1990
Vice President, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Frederick Mosteller, PhD, 1978–1985
Professor and Chairman, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health

Howard Newman, JD, 1974–1977
President, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Anthony M.-M. Payne, MD, 1965–1970
Chairman, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University

Edward B. Perrin, PhD, 1974–1976
Director, National Center for Health Statistics, Department of Health, Education and Welfare

Nora K. Piore, 1977–1978
Professor of Public Health Economics, Columbia University; Associate Director, Center for Community Health Systems, Columbia University

Dorothy P. Rice, DSc, 1975–1982
Director, National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. Public Health Service

Ray C. Rist, PhD, 1989–1992
Director of Operations, General Government Division, U.S. General Accounting Office

Anthony Robins, MD, 1986–1989
Professor of Public Health, Boston University School of Medicine

Geoffrey Rose, DM, 1978–1985
Professor of Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London

Gerald Rosenthal, PhD, 1986–1989
Professor of Health Policy and Economics, Hahnemann University

Paul J. Sanazaro, MD, 1971–1972
Director, National Center for Health Services Research Development, Health Services & Mental Health Administration

Ernest W. Saward, MD, 1971–1978
Professor of Social Medicine, Associate Dean of Extramural Affairs, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester

Alvin L. Schorr, 1971–1977
General Director, Community Service Society, New York

Mack I. Shanholtz, MD, 1973–1975
Commissioner of Health, Commonwealth of Virginia

Robert M. Sigmond, 1973–1976
Executive Vice President, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia

George A. Silver, MD, 1963–1975
Professor of Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine

Herman M. Somers, PhD, 1971–1978
Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University

Nathan J. Stark, JD, 1975–1978
Vice Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh

Rosemary A. Stevens, PhD, 1975–1976; 1986–1990
Professor of Public Health, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University; Professor and Chair, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

William H. Stewart, MD, 1965–1969
Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service

Laurence Tancredi, MD, 1981–1984; 1989–1990
Professor of Psychiatry, University of Texas Medical School

Henry van Zile Hyde, MD, 1963–1966
Director, Division of International Medical Education, Association of American Medical Colleges

Herman B. Wells, LLD, 1973–1978
Chancellor, Indiana University

Kerr L. White, MD, 1977–1985
Director, Institute for Health Care Studies of the United Hospital Fund of New York; Deputy Director for Health Sciences, The Rockefeller Foundation

David P. Willis, 1989–1990
Vice President, Milbank Memorial Fund; Editor, The Milbank Quarterly

1990–
Linda H. Aiken, PhD, 1991–1995
Professor, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania

Brian Atchinson, JD, 1999–2001
Second Vice President, External Affairs, UNUM

John R. Ball, MD, JD, 1991–1993
Executive Vice President, American College of Physicians

Raymond J. Baxter, PhD, 2009–2011
Senior Vice President, Community Benefit, Research and Health Policy, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.

Clyde J. Behney, 1998–2000
Deputy Executive Officer, National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine

Jo Ivey Boufford, MD, 2000–2002
Dean, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University

Carmen Hooker Buell, 1997–1999
Group Vice President for Government Relations, Carolinas HealthCare Systems

Christine K. Cassel, MD, 1995–1997
George M. Isenberg Professor in Geriatrics, and Chief, Section of General Internal Medicine, University of Chicago Medical Center; Chair, Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Helen Darling, 2002–2004
President, Washington Business Group on Health

Patricia Day, 1996–1999
Senior Research Officer, School of Social Sciences, University of Bath

Leah Devlin, DDS, 2011–2013
Visiting Professor, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health

L. Allen Dobson, Jr., MD, 2008–2010
President and Chief Executive Officer, Cabarrus Family Medicine; President and Chief Executive Officer, Community Care of North Carolina

Peter Donnelly, MD, 2009–2014
Professor of Public Health Medicine, University of St. Andrews

Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD, 1998–2000
President, Jewish Healthcare Foundation

Kathleen M. Foley, MD, 2006–2008
Attending Neurologist, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Director, Project on Death in America, Open Society Institute

Mark Gibson, 2003
Policy Advisor for Health Care, Human Services and Labor, Office of the Governor of Oregon; Deputy Director, Center for Evidence-based Policy, Oregon Health and Science University

Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, LLD, 2001–2003
Professor of Law and Director, Center for Law and the Public’s Health, Georgetown University Law Center

Jessie C. Gruman, PhD, 2007–2009
President, Center for the Advancement of Health

Paul Harrington, 2000–2002
Health Policy Director, Majority Staff, U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee

Roger Herdman, MD, 1992–1996
Director, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress

Lisa I. Iezzoni, MD, 2004–2006
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

John Iglehart, 1993–1995
Editor, Health Affairs

Clarion E. Johnson, MD, 2002–2003
Director, Medicine and Occupational Health, ExxonMobil Corporation

Craig Jones, MD, 2011–2013
Director, Vermont Blueprint for Health

James R. Knickman, PhD, 2007–2009
President and Chief Executive Officer, The New York State Health Foundation

Mary Grace Kovar, DrPH, 1996–1998
Senior Health Scientist, National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago

Jeffrey C. Lerner, PhD, 2004–2006
President and Chief Executive Officer, ECRI

John M. Ludden, MD, 1995–1997
Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs, Harvard Community Health Plan

Joanne Lynn, MD, 2001–2003
Director, Center to Improve Care for the Dying, RAND

John E. McDonough, DrPH, 2003–2005
Executive Director, Health Care for All

Velvet G. Miller, PhD, 1999–2001
Executive Director, Children’s Futures

Dolores L. Mitchell, 2010–2012
Executive Director, Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission

James M. Perrin, MD, 1991–1992
Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Director, Ambulatory Care Programs and General Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital

Denis Prager, PhD, 1992–1994
Director, Health Program, MacArthur Foundation

James C. Robinson, PhD, 1991–1993
Assistant Professor of Health Economics, University of California

William L. Roper, MD, 1994–1995
President, Prudential Center for Health Care Research

Mark L. Rosenberg, MD, 2010–2012
President and Chief Executive Officer, The Task Force for Global Health

Louise Russell, PhD, 1993–1995
Research Professor, Institute of Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers University

Nelson J. Sabatini, 2006–2008
Secretary (retired), Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

John M. Selig, 2012–2014
Director, Arkansas Department of Human Services

Robyn I. Stone, DrPH, 2003–2005
Executive Director, Institute for the Future of Aging Services, American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging

Peter Tugwell, MD, 2005–2007
Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa; Director, Centre for Global Health, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa

Sean Tunis, MD, 2004–2007
Senior Fellow, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Martin Wasserman, MD, 1996–1998
Secretary, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Maxine Aldridge White, JD, 2008–2010
Presiding Judge, Family Division, Milwaukee County Circuit Court

 

Members of the Editorial Board

The Fund established an Editorial Board for The Milbank Quarterly in 1973. Prior to that staff and members of the Technical Board had served as advisors to the journal that evolved into the Quarterly since its inception in 1923. Members of the formal Editorial Board are listed alphabetically; their titles and affiliations at the time of their appointment as well as during their service to the Fund are also listed if they are identified in the records of the Fund or by Internet search. See our current list of Editorial Advisory Board Members.

1973–1989
E. Maurice Backett, 1975–1976
Professor, Department of Community Health, Medical School, University of Nottingham

Ronald Bayer, PhD, 1989–
Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Robert J. Blendon, ScD, 1977–1986
Vice President, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Lawrence D. Brown, PhD, 1982–1984
The Brookings Institution

Rashi Fein, PhD, 1977–1988
Professor of the Economics of Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Daniel M. Fox, PhD, 1987–2000
Professor of Social Sciences and Humanities in Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Mary E.W. Goss, PhD, 1973–1976
Associate Professor of Sociology in Medicine, Department of Public Health, Cornell University Medical College

Ernest M. Gruenberg, MD, 1977–1984
Professor and Chairman, Department of Mental Hygiene, Johns Hopkins University

John K. Iglehart, 1977–1984
Health Policy Journalist

Judith Miller Jones, 1977–2015
Director, National Health Policy Forum

Richard V. Kasius, 1977–1984
Secretary of the Technical Board, Milbank Memorial Fund

Herbert E. Klarman, PhD, 1973–1976
Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Public Administration, New York University

Rudolf Klein, 1985–2013
Professor and Head, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bath

Philip R. Lee, MD, 1979–1993
Professor of Social Medicine and Director, Institute for Health Policy Studies, University Of California

Samuel L. Milbank, 1977–1984
Director, Salomon Brothers

Jeremy Morris, MD, 1973–1974
Professor of Social Medicine, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London

Dorothy Nelkin, 1985–2000
Professor of Sociology, Cornell University

Max Pepper, MD, 1973–1976
Professor and Chairman, Department of Community Medicine, St. Louis University School of Medicine

Uwe E. Reinhardt, PhD, 1977–2017
James Madison Professor of Political Economy, and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Ernest W. Saward, MD, 1973–1976
Professor of Social Medicine, Associate Dean of Extramural Affairs, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester

Thomas C. Schelling, PhD, 1985–1989
Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Department of Economics and the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Alvin L. Schorr, 1973–1976
Executive Director, Community Service Society of New York

Carl J. Schramm, PhD, 1985–2013
Professor of Public Health and Director, Center for Hospital Finance and Management, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institution; President, Health Insurance Association of America; Executive Vice President, Fortis, Inc; Founder and President, Greenspring Advisors, Inc.; Director, ILM II Senior Living, Inc.; President and Chief Executive Officer, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation; University Professor, Syracuse University

Herman M. Somers, PhD, 1973–1976
Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Selvin Sonken, DDS, 1973–1976
Director, Division of Dental Health, Bureau of Health Manpower Education, National Institutes of Health

Paul E. Starr, PhD, 1985–1989
Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University; Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University

Paul D. Stolley, MD, 1973–1976; 1985–2000
Professor, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

Harry Woolf, PhD, 1977–1986
Director, Institute for Advanced Study

Charles R. Wright, PhD, 1973–1976
Professor of Communications and Sociology, The Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania

1990–
Brian Abel-Smith, PhD, 1990–1996
Professor of Social Administration, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London

Mark R. Chassin, MD, 2001–2013
Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy, Mount Sinai Medical Center; President, The Joint Commission

Susan Dentzer, 2016–
President and CEO, The Network For Excellence In Health Innovation

Mary Dixon-Woods, PhD, 2015–
RAND Professor of Health Services Research, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine

Ruth R. Faden, PhD, 2001–2013
Professor, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University; Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director, Berman Bioethics Institute, Johns Hopkins University

Judith Feder, PhD, 2001–2015
Professor of Public Policy and Director, Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University

Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, 2013–
Professor and Vice Chair of Pediatrics and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, Chief of Pediatrics, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine

Vanessa Northington Gamble, MD, PhD, 2001–2015
Vice President, Association of American Medical Colleges; University Professor of Medical Humanities and Professor of History, George Washington University

Sherry A. Glied, PhD, 2001–
Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University; Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Dean, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University

Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, 2001–
Professor of Law and Director, Center for Law and the Public’s Health, Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities; Linda D. and Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law and Faculty Director, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University

Mark A. Hall, JD, 2001–
Fred D. and Elizabeth L. Turnage Professor of Law, School of Law, Wake Forest University

Robert E. Hurley, PhD, 2001–2007
Professor, Department of Health Administration, Virginia Commonwealth University

John H. James, 2001–2012
Director, Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster Health Authority

Arthur Kleinman, MD, 1990–1999
Professor, Departments of Anthropology and of Social Medicine, Harvard University

James R. Knickman, PhD, 2001–
Vice President, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; President and Chief Executive Officer, The New York State Health Foundation; Derzon Clinical Professor, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University

Elizabeth A. McGlynn, PhD, 2001–
Director, Center for Research on Quality in Health Care, RAND; Executive Director, Center for Effectiveness and Safety Research, Kaiser Permanente

David Mechanic, PhD, 1993–
René Dubos University Professor and Director, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University

Michelle Mello, JD, PhD, 2015–
Professor of Law and Professor of Health Research and Policy, Stanford Law School and Stanford University School of Medicine

Thomas Rice, PhD, 2001–
Distinguished Professor, Department of Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health

Stephen C. Schoenbaum, MD, 2001–2015
Executive Vice President for Programs and Executive Director of the Commission on a High Performance Health System, The Commonwealth Fund; Special Advisor to the President, The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

Earl Steinberg, MD, 2001–2013
President and Chief Executive Officer, Resolution Health, Inc.; Executive Vice President for Innovation and Dissemination, Geisinger Health System

Rosemary A. Stevens, PhD, 2001–
Emeritus Professor of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania; DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar, Weill Cornell Medical College

David R. Williams, PhD, 2001–2013
Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan; Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University

David Wilsford, PhD, 2001–2015
President, Institute for American Universities; Professor, Department of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University