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Class of 2008 Craig T. Beam
Term: 2004–2008
Mr. Craig T. Beam, a partner with the health care development firm Hammes Company, oversees the development and management of real estate, especially health care and institutional projects. He is a member and former chairman of the American Heart Association (2002–2003) and serves on the boards of Riverside Community Hospital in California and AllHealth, a company sponsored by the Hospital Council of Southern California.
Mr. Beam’s interest in the American Heart Association stems from his family’s health history, and he strongly supports national efforts on behalf of health care research in general. His active participation in health care issues and his professional experience have given him insight into the dynamic changes occurring in the industry. He has been a board member for several health care firms and chairman of Martin Luther Hospital in Anaheim, California. He has also served in governance capacities at hospitals in New Jersey and California.
Mr. Beam’s understanding of health care trends has brought him major clients, including several health care systems. He has worked with several hospitals and major medical groups such as Harriman Jones, San Jose Medical Group, St. Joseph Medical Foundation, and Buenaventura Medical Group.
Mr. Beam graduated from California State University, Fullerton, with a degree in business administration and started his real estate career in 1977 as chief financial officer of Concordia Development. In 1983 he became president of Beam & Associates, with responsibility for the firm’s consulting, development, leasing, and brokerage divisions. The firm merged with Hammes Company in 1999 to form the largest U.S. health care development firm. Mr. Beam has received numerous professional and volunteer awards, including the 2003 American Heart Association Distinguished Leadership Award, and was appointed an Endowed Fellow by the National Health Foundation in 1998. He resides with his family in Orange County, California, where his ancestors settled in the late 1800s.
Wendy Chaite
Term: 2004–2008
Ms. Wendy Chaite serves as the COPR Liaison to the NIH Advisory Committee to the Director. Ms. Chaite, whose daughter was born with systemic visceral and peripheral lymphatic disease and lymphedema, left her professional career in July 1998 to found the Lymphatic Research Foundation (LRF). LRF is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting and supporting lymphatic research and to fostering an interdisciplinary field of research. Ms. Chaite played a central role in establishing a trans-NIH Coordinating Committee for lymphatic research and disease, an international peer-reviewed scientific journal, a prestigious Gordon Research Conference series devoted to lymphatic research and biology, and the creation of the first ever Endowed Chair in Lymphatic Research and Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, among other achievements. She is a Board Member Emeritus of Research!America, the nation’s leading research advocacy organization and was appointed to a four-year term on the National Advisory Research Resources Council.
After graduating from law school in 1988, Ms. Chaite served as a federal judicial law clerk in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. From 1990 to 1995, she worked as a corporate litigator with Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon, a major Wall Street law firm. From 1995 to 1998, Ms. Chaite taught courses as an adjunct professor at Pace University School of Law. Prior to her legal career, Ms. Chaite was a corporate fundraiser for the United Way of Tri-State and spent years working with special needs populations, including the disabled, blind, deaf, and geriatric populations.
Ms. Chaite has received numerous awards for her efforts in promoting lymphatic research, including “Exceptional Contributions as a Volunteer Advocate” from Research!America, “Humanitarian of the Year” from the University of Maryland, and “Love of a Lifetime” from Achot Hadassah of the Nassau Region. She has been named an “Everyday Hero” by Newsday and included in the lists “Women of Achievement” by the Junior League of Long Island, “Women of Distinction” by Newsday’s Distinction magazine, “Long Island’s Top 50 Women” and “Healthcare Heroes” by Long Island Business News, and “Fortune 52 Women of Achievement” by Long Island Press.
Ms. Chaite resides in Roslyn, New York, with her husband, Bennett, and their two young children.
Nicolas Linares-Orama
Term: 2005–2008
Dr. Nicolas Linares-Orama is Director of the FILIUS Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research at the University of Puerto Rico. FILIUS is a research center that conducts outreach to Latino/Latina audiences and organizations. Dr. Linares-Orama is a Professor of Language Pathology at the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico and has developed many research and training projects, including the Assistive Technology Project, the Center for Interdisciplinary Intervention, the Infantile Autism Project, and the Initiative for Correctional Interdisciplinary Services. He served as Director of the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Puerto Rico for 12 years.
He served on the Advisory Council of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) and was a founding member and liaison for the NIDCD Partnership Program with the University of Puerto Rico. Dr. Linares-Orama volunteers his time to a variety of NIH initiatives to improve communications with the Hispanic community.
Dr. Linares-Orama is a leader in Puerto Rico health care circles. As a speech-language pathologist, he is concerned about the development of Latino children who have language disorders, as well as those who are born deaf or with hearing loss, and with the prevention of noise-induced hearing loss in families and workers. He leads research and training projects on childhood autism, incarcerated youth and adults, emotional assessment, and gifted children. Dr. Linares-Orama is a special consultant to the Puerto Rico Secretary of Education on related services for students with disabilities and University Coordination Official for local Special Education Law 51. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the National Center on Education, Disability and Juvenile Justice. He is a member of the Executive Committee of AARP-Puerto Rico.
Dr. Linares-Orama obtained a Ph.D. in speech and hearing science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds a master’s degree in language pathology from the University of Puerto Rico. His wife, Marta, and their three children have provided Dr. Linares-Orama with support in pursuing his academic and professional goals. He enjoys Spanish “baladas” and classical and Broadway music and recently began writing poetry.
Michael Manganiello
Term: 2005–2008
Mr. Michael Manganiello is a principal in the health policy practice of Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek Government Affairs (WHDGA). Before joining WHDGA, he was Senior Vice President of Government Affairs at the Christopher Reeve Foundation (CRF), which he co-founded. Mr. Manganiello authored and introduced to Congress the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Act and played an integral role in passage of the Research Review Act of 2004, the first piece of legislation to specifically address the needs of Americans suffering from spinal cord injuries. At CRF, he served as director of the Hope Network and chaired the Paralysis Task Force, a joint program with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He has a close working relationship with the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke and acted as an advisor to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson on HIV and HIV prevention.
Mr. Manganiello is a past president, co-founder, and current board member of the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research, which comprises nearly 100 patient organizations, research universities, scientific societies, and advocates for breakthrough research and technologies in regenerative medicine, including stem cell research and somatic cell nuclear transfer. He is on the board of the National Association for Biomedical Research, the advisory panel of the Mayo Clinic National Symposium on Health Care Reform, and a member of the Advisory Council to Proposition 71, the California bond initiative to fund stem cell research.
Mr. Manganiello graduated from Villanova University with a bachelor’s degree in political science and received his M.P.A. from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs in 2001, where he was the recipient of the Harvey Picker Public Service Award. He is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Executive Master of Public Affairs Forum for Columbia University and of the Federal Club of the Human Rights Campaign, America’s largest gay and lesbian organization.
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