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J. Michael McGinnis
Senior Vice President and Director of the Health Group
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
 Dr.
McGinnis came to this post in 1999 from a four-year appointment
as Scholar-in-Residence at the National Academy of Sciences.
Previously, he was Assistant Surgeon General and Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Health in the United State Department of Health
and Human Services. Dr. McGinnis initiated, the HHS/USDA Dietary
Guidelines for Americans, the first Surgeon General's Report
on Nutrition and Health, and the US Preventative Services
Task Force which produced the Guide to Clinical Preventive
Services.
Service as Chair
of National Boards and Committees:
Nutrition Policy Board
National Coordinating Committee on Clinical Preventative Services
Executive Committee of the Environmental Health Policy Committee
Secretary's Task Force on Smoking and Health
Involvement in
International Health:
Chair of the Task Force for reform and Reconstruction of the
Health Sector in Bosnia-World Health Organization in Sarajevo
US Delegation to the World Health Assembly in Geneva
Higher Education
Affiliations:
Visiting Health Professor of Public Policy at Duke University
Visiting Lecturer in Public and International Affairs, Princeton
University
Senior Scholar, Association of Academic Health Centers
Fellow at the Center for Community Health and Medical Care,
Harvard University
Instructor of Medicine, George Washington University
Education:
BA, Political Science and Public Policy - Berkeley
MD, MA - UCLA
MPP - Harvard
Robert L Johnson,
M.D., F.A.A.P.
Vice Chair and Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Psychiatry,
and Director of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at the
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey
Medical School
 Dr.
Johnson has become a well recognized spokesperson for the
adolescent and adolescent issues. He yearly addresses many
local, state and national and international audiences and
frequently appears on television and radio.
Dr. Johnson has
published widely, and conducts an active schedule of teaching,
research and clinical practice at the New Jersey Medical School.
He founded the Division of Adolescent Medicine at the New
Jersey Medical School.
Involvement in
Local/State/National Organizations:
Diplomat, American Board of Pediatrics
Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics
Chairman, American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Pediatric
Workforce
Member, American Academy of Pediatrics, Task Force on the
Future of Pediatric Medicine
Chairman, American Academy of Pediatrics, Task Force on the
Access of Minority Children to Health
Member, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Member, Society for Adolescent Medicine
President, New Jersey Institute of Mental Health's AIDS research
Review Committee
Member, National Institutes of Mental Health, National Advisory
Mental Health Council
Activities directed
to the adolescent:
Chairman, Medical Board of the Adolescent Health Center of
the Door, a youth center in New York
Chairman, board of Trustees of the Center for Population Options
Member, Board of Trustees of the Boys and Girls Club of Newark
Member, Board of SEICUS
Chairman, Board of Deacons of Union Baptist Church
Education:
BA - Alfred University
MD - College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Christine Grant
Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services
 Health
and Senior Services Commissioner Christine Grant heads a $2.3
billion state agency whose responsibilities span Addiction
Services to Zoonotic epidemics.
She has an extensive
background in health policy, having run businesses at two
of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies, and serving
as an advisor in the 1992 national health reform effort.
During the 1980's
and early 1990's she served as Deputy Commissioner of the
former New Jersey Department of Health, where she directed
the state's first Uncompensated Care Trust Fund and New Jersey's
Hospital Rate Setting System.
She holds a law
degree and a Master's in Business Administration
Sara
Lee Kessler, Host
Health & Medical Correspondent, NJN News
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