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Since
joining the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1977 as a
neuroscience program officer, Dr. Pitts has developed and
directed numerous neuroscience programs, served as Neuroscience
Section Head, served as Deputy Director of the Behavioral
and Neural Science Division (BNS) and served as Acting Director
of BNS temporarily. He was detailed to the National Institutes
of Health (NIH) as a health science administrator for a year
while overseeing neuroscience programs associated with nervous
system disorders. He has worked for Senator Edward M. Kennedy,
Chair of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee while
preparing science and math education legislation. He has also
served on numerous intra-agency and inter-agency working groups
including the Director's Action Review Board, Inter-agency
Working Group on Spinal Cord and Brain Injury, and the White
House Committee on the Decade of the Brain. He became Director
of the Office of Science and Technology Infrastructure in
1991, an Office of the NSF Director. He chaired the subcommittee
on Academic Research Infrastructure for the White House National
Science and Technology Council (NSTC-1994) and has chaired
a Working Group for the Research Business Models Subcommittee
for the NSTC (2003). He has chaired various intra-agency working
groups such as the Working Group on Cognitive Science and
the new program manager's seminar on cross-directorate activities.
Finally, he served as Special Assistant to the Director of
NSF (1991-1992).
Dr. Pitts
speaks both nationally and internationally on various issues
concerning science and technology policy including: research
infrastructure; human resource development; technology transfer;
the integration of research and education; and the evaluation
of the U.S. basic research enterprise. In this regard, he
has served at a U.S. delegate to APEC (2004) addressing international
science policy issues and has addressed European Union committees
(2001) on related matters.
Dr. Pitts
has won numerous awards while serving as a civil servant,
twice winning the Presidential Rank Award for Senior Executives.
Prior
to joining NSF, Dr. Pitts was on the faculty of the Rockefeller
University where he researched both sensory and motor spinal
pathways of the central nervous system. He received his B.S
Degree in biology/chemistry from Whittier College and his
Ph.D. degree in neurophysiology from the University of California
at Davis.
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