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Date:  September 6, 1995
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: NIAID (301) 402-1663

The council is composed of physicians, scientists and representatives of the public who contribute their time and expertise for a four-year term.

The new members are Laurie H. Glimcher, M.D., professor of immunology in the department of cancer biology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass.; Philip Christy Hopewell, M.D., professor of medicine and chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine, department of medicine, University of California, San Francisco; Samuel C. Silverstein, M.D., professor and chairman of the department of physiology and cellular biophysics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, N.Y.; Louise M. Jacobbi, executive director of the Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency in Metairie, La.; Mildred Williamson, program administrator of the women and children's HIV program, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Ill.; Martin Delaney, founding director of Project Inform, San Francisco, Calif.; and Gary B. Carpenter, M.D., an ex-officio member representing the Department of Defense in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Glimcher received her M.D. degree in 1976 from Harvard Medical School. She has served as professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School since 1990 and as associate rheumatologist and immunologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital since 1986. She participated as a member of the NIH Allergy and Immunology Study Section from 1988 to 1992 and served on the Federal Task Force on Women's Health in 1991.

Dr. Hopewell earned his M.D. degree at West Virginia University in 1965 and, in 1973, completed a fellowship in pulmonary disease at the University of California at San Francisco. In 1994, he was a member of NIAID's panel on Experimental Approaches to Developing and Testing of Antituberculosis Drugs. He currently is director of the Robert Wood Johnson National Tuberculosis Program, director of the UCSF Model Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Program and president-elect of the American Thoracic Society.

Dr. Silverstein's career combines his research interests, the structure and function of immune cells, with his strong public policy concerns as an advocate of basic biomedical research. He received his M.D. degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1963. Dr. Silverstein is past president of the Federation of the American Societies for Experimental Biology. He also founded and now directs Columbia University's Secondary Science Program, a summer educational opportunity for New York City science teachers.

Ms. Jacobbi has been very active in educating the public about organ transplant policy and procedures. She heads an NIAID- funded project to enhance organ recovery through the development of a donor registry. Ms. Jacobbi is certified as both a clinical and a procurement transplant coordinator by the American Board of Transplant Coordinators, an organization in which she also served as chairman. She earned her Associate in Applied Sciences degree from the Erie County Technical Institute at the State University of New York in 1962. She has managed a histocompatibility immunodiagnostic testing laboratory, taught at the Louisiana State University Medical Center, and is on the board of directors for the American Liver Foundation.

Ms. Williamson's professional activities have focused on promoting health and social programs that affect underserved populations. As a part of her position at Cook County Hospital, she heads an AIDS prevention training program for health educators, a project funded by the Chicago Department of Health. Building on her earlier social work background, Ms. Williamson continued her education at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, where she received her M.A. degree in 1989. She has just completed a book chapter titled "Women and Children and AIDS."

Mr. Delaney, who established Project Inform, an organization that provides information about AIDS treatment, is a nationally known advocate for people with HIV. He served on the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine Roundtable on the Development of Drugs and Vaccines for AIDS and has written articles published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases and the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Dr. Carpenter is the allergy and immunology consultant to the Surgeon General of the Army and is the chief of allergy and immunology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. He received his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School in 1973 and is certified by both the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Allergy and Immunology. Dr. Carpenter is also assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md.