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Appendix A
Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Floyd E. Bloom (NAS/IOM), Chair, is professor emeritus in the Department of Molecular and Integrative Neuroscience at the Scripps Research Institute. He has served on numerous committees at the National Academies, including the Committee on Publications and the Symposium on Neuroscience and Brain Research. He is former co-chair of the Report Review Committee and is former chair of the selection committee for the Award in the Neurosciences. He received an M.D. from Washington University and a B.A. from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
Richard A. Andersen (NAS/IOM) is professor of neuroscience at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He pioneered the study of brain processes for sight, hearing, balance, and touch; the neural mechanisms of action; and the development of neural prosthetics. Dr. Andersen was awarded the McKnight Technical Innovation in Neuroscience Award in 2000 and the McKnight Neuroscience Brain Disorders Award in 2005. He is an expert in the field of brain–computer interfaces and has many publications on his work. Dr. Andersen earned a Ph.D. at the University of California at San Francisco, and he served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore. He earned a B.S. in biochemistry from the University of California at Davis.
Ronald R. Blanck is vice chairman of Martin, Blanck & Associates, a health-care consulting firm serving the private sector and government. He retired as the U.S. Army surgeon general in 2000 and as the president of the Health Science Center at the University of North Texas in 2007. Lt. Gen. (ret.) Blanck commanded the U.S. Army Medical Command and was a battalion surgeon in the Vietnam War. His military honors include the Distinguished Service Medal, the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, and the Bronze Star Medal. He has consulted for the Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and taught at Georgetown University, George Washington University, Howard University School of Medicine, the Uniformed Services University, the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, and the University of North Texas Science Center. He is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and is board certified in internal medicine.
Emery N. Brown (IOM) is professor of anesthesia in the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is currently also serving as a member of the Committee to Evaluate the National Science Foundation Vertically Integrated Grants for Research and Education Program and recently served on the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics. Dr. Brown’s expertise has earned him many awards and honors, including the Harvard Medical School/Hewlett-Packard Outstanding Medical School Graduate Award and the National Institute of Mental Health Independent Scientist Award. He is an elected fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He earned an M.D. magna cum laude, a Ph.D. in statistics, and an M.A. in statistics from Harvard University. He earned a B.A. in applied mathematics magna cum laude from Harvard College.
Joseph T. Coyle (IOM) is the Eben S. Draper Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Harvard University. He was Distinguished Service Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, chair of the Consolidated Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and president of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and the Society for Neuroscience. Dr. Coyle’s many awards and honors include the Gold Medal Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry and the Pasarow Foundation Award for research in neuropsychiatry. He graduated in cursa honoris cum laude from the College of the Holy Cross and earned an M.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Mary L. (Missy) Cummings is an assistant professor in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department at the Massachu-
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setts Institute of Technology. She performs research in collaborative human–computer decision making for command and control domains and is a recognized expert in the area of human superviory control. Dr. Cummings graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy with a B.S. in mathematics in 1988. She received an M.S. in space systems engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1994 and a Ph.D. in systems engineering from the University of Virginia in 2003. Dr. Cummings served as a naval officer from 1988 to 1999 and was among the first female fighter pilots in the Navy.
J. Mark Davis is professor and director of the Psychoneuroimmunology, Exercise and Nutrition Laboratory in the Division of Applied Physiology within the Department of Exercise Science at the University of South Carolina. He has published over 110 peer-reviewed articles of relevance to soldier nutrition, physical training, and mental/physical performance, including “Possible mechanisms of central nervous system fatigue during exercise” and “Effects of branched-chain amino acids and carbohydrate on fatigue during intermittent, high-intensity running.” He earned a Ph.D. from Purdue University and a B.S. from California Polytech in San Luis Obispo.
Michael S. Gazzaniga (IOM) is the first director of the Sage Center for the Study of Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is past director of the Center for Neuroscience at the University of California, Davis. Through his extensive work with split-brain patients, Dr. Gazzaniga has made important advances in our understanding of functional lateralization in the human brain and of how the cerebral hemispheres communicate with one another. His research is well known in both clinical and basic science circles, and he has written several highly acclaimed books, including the landmark 1995, 2000, and 2004 editions of The Cognitive Neurosciences, which is recognized as the sourcebook in the field. Dr. Gazzaniga is the president of the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute, which he founded, and is the editor in chief emeritus of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Dr. Gazzaniga was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the elected president of the American Psychological Society, and he also serves on the President’s Council on Bioethics. He received a Ph.D. in psychobiology from the California Institute of Technology. He will be delivering the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 2009.
Richard J. Genik, II, is director of the Emergent Technology Research Division and research assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Wayne State University. Among his many areas of expertise are the use of magnetic resonance imaging and the use of fMRI to measure cognitive workload in naturalistic, multitasking environments. Dr. Genik has 131 peer-reviewed publications, including “Watching people think” and “Scientific methods that may predict behaviors,” which appeared in Biotechnology Trends Relevant to Warfare Initiatives in 2005. He has a Ph.D. in physics from Michigan State University and a B.S. in applied physics from Wayne State University.
Paul W. Glimcher is professor of neural sciences, economics, and psychology at New York University’s Center for Neural Science and is the director of the Center for Neuroeconomics at New York University. He has achieved the following: A.B., Princeton University, magna cum laude; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, neuroscience; fellow of the McKnight, Whitehall, Klingenstein, and McDonnell foundations. Dr. Glimcher is an investigator for the National Eye Institute, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. He was the founding president of the Society for Neuroeconomics; winner of the Margaret and Herman Sokol Faculty Award in the Sciences, 2003; and winner of NYU’s Distinguished (Lifetime Accomplishment) Teaching Award, 2006. He has had articles published in Nature, Science, Neuron Journal of Neurophysiology, American Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, Vision Research, Experimental Brain Research, and the MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science and was international author of Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain: The Science of Neuroeconomics from MIT Press and winner of the American Association of Publishers Medical Sciences Book of the Year, 2003. Professor Glimcher’s work has been covered by The Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, Money Magazine, and The New Scientist and featured on National Public Radio, the BBC, and Fox News, among others.
Peter A. Hancock is provost distinguished research professor for the Department of Psychology, the Institute for Simulation and Training, and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. He is an expert in human factors and ergonomics and serves on the National Research Council’s Committee on Human Factors. Among his many awards, he received the John C. Flanagan Award from the Society of Military Psychologists of the American Psychological Association in 2007. Dr. Hancock has authored over 500 refereed scientific articles and publications, including the handbook on perception and cognition Human Performance and Ergonomics. He earned a D.Sci. as well as a E.Ed. in anatomy and physiology at Loughborough University in Loughborough, England. He also earned a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Champaign.
Steven Kornguth is director of the Center for Strategic and Innovative Technologies and a professor of pharmacy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of the American Society of Neurochemistry, the Neuroscience Society, and the Army Science Board. Dr. Kornguth is professor emeritus, neurology and biomolecular chemistry, at the Uni-
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versity of Wisconsin, Madison. He served on the U.S. Army Research Laboratory Biotechnology Assessment Committee. He co-organized a joint U.S. Army–Israeli Ministry of Defense conference on bioremediation and has published on many neuroscience topics, including the structure of human synaptic complexes. He earned a B.A. from Columbia University in New York City and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Martin P. Paulus is professor in residence for the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California at San Diego. Dr. Paulus has a number of publications, including “A temporal and spatial scaling hypothesis for the behavioral effects of psychostimulants,” published in 1991, and “A realistic, minimal ‘middle layer’ for neural networks,” published in 1989. He received the Society for Biological Psychiatry Outstanding Resident Award in 1997 and the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Young Investigator Award in 2000. He earned his doctorate in medicine at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. He is a member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and a member of the Society for Neuroscience.
Judith L. Swain (IOM) is executive director of the Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, Lien Ying Chow Professor of Medicine at the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and adjunct professor at the University of California at San Diego. A proven leader, Dr. Swain served as chair of the Department of Medicine at Stanford University, President of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and is currently president of the American Association of Physicians. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and currently serves on the IOM Council and the National Research Council’s Board on Army Science and Technology. She earned an M.D. from the University of California at San Diego and a B.S. in chemistry from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Paul J. Zak is professor of economics and founding director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies at Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Zak also serves as professor of neurology at Loma Linda University Medical Center and is a senior researcher at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is credited with the first published use of the term “neuroeconomics” and has been at the vanguard of this new discipline, which integrates neuroscience and economics. He organized the world’s first doctoral program in neuroeconomics at Claremont Graduate University and now administers it. Dr. Zak’s lab discovered in 2004 that a chemical in our brains, oxytocin, allows us to determine whom to trust. This knowledge is being used to understand the basis for modern civilizations and economies, for negotiating, and for treating patients with neurological and psychiatric disorders. He has degrees in mathematics and economics from San Diego State University, a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and postdoctoral training in neuroimaging from Harvard.
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