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The Greenwall Foundation Names Bernard Lo, MD, Sixth President
October 2011
New York, October 26, 2011 -- Earlier today, Bernard Lo, MD, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Program in Medical Ethics at the University of California, San Francisco, was named the sixth president of The Greenwall Foundation.
Dr. Lo, who will also be a member of The FoundationÕs Board of Directors, will succeed William C. Stubing, who will retire December 31st after a 46-year career in education and philanthropy, 21 of those years at The Greenwall Foundation. Next year, Mr. Stubing will continue as a special consultant to the Board and to the new President.
Dr. Lo is a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), served on the IOM Council, and chaired a recent IOM committee on conflicts of interest in medicine. He is co-Chair of the Standards Working Group of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, which recommends regulations for stem cell research funded by the state of California, and he is a member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Ethics Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee to the Director.
At UCSF, Dr. Lo leads the Regulatory Knowledge Support and Research Ethics Consultation Service of the NIH-funded Clinical and Translational Science Institute and is co-Director of the Policy and Ethics Core of the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies.
A widely published physician-ethicist, Dr. Lo is author of Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: A Guide for Clinicians (4th edition 2010) and of Ethical Issues in Clinical Research (2010). He has written numerous scientific articles on biomedical research ethics and policy issues and is also author of The Research Ethics Blog, featured on the Virtual Home Website for Clinical & Translational Science.
Long a grantee of The Foundation, Dr. Lo has been Director of the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program since 2001, and in 1999 he received a grant to support his research on caring for the spiritual and religious aspects of serious illness.
Dr. Lo is a graduate of Stanford University Medical School, did his residency at both UCLA and Stanford, and completed a fellowship at Stanford as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar.
Dr. Christine K. Cassel, President of the American Board of Internal Medicine, who chaired The FoundationÕs Search Committee, said, ÒBernie Lo is internally recognized for his leadership in bioethics scholarship, and at the same time highly respected as a mentor and teacher par excellence. I cannot imagine a better person to build on the uniquely generative work of Bill Stubing and the powerful leadership record of The Greenwall Foundation Bill made possible. Dr. LoÕs vision of advancing a cadre of emerging leaders in bioethics is vitally important in the world of growing scientific potential and complexity.Ó
The Chair of The FoundationÕs Board of Directors, Harvey J. Goldschmid, Dwight Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, added, ÒChris Cassel and the Search Committee have brought to The Greenwall Foundation a superb successor to Bill Stubing, our superb President. The Foundation has been twice blessed. Bernie Lo, whom we know well, is a world-class scholar and an academic leader and mentor with extraordinary skills. We are delighted that Bernie has agreed to be our new President.Ó
The Greenwall Foundation is an independent foundation created sixty years ago by Anna and Frank Greenwall. As an evolving philanthropy, the Foundation for the last two decades concentrated its resources on a national program in bioethics and a New York City program in the arts and humanities. Going forward, efforts and resources will be concentrated on enriching and expanding the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program.
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