Judith L. Swain M.D has been a director since September 2007. Dr. Swain is the executive director of the Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences within A*STAR and the Lien Chow Professor of Medicine at the National University of Singapore. Before going to Singapore she was the dean for translational medicine at the University of California San Diego where she continues to maintain an appointment as an adjunct professor of medicine. Dr. Swain previously served as chair of the Department of Medicine at Stanford University and on the medical faculties of the University of Pennsylvania and Duke University. Dr. Swain is currently a director of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund a member of the Academic Research Council in Singapore and on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. She has served in a number of national and international leadership roles and as a director or member of the scientific advisory boards for a number of biomedical technology companies and is co-founder of Synecor LLC. Dr. Swain received her B.S. at the University of California Los Angeles and her M.D. at the University of California San Diego. |