Urologic Diseases Research Updates
Spring/Summer 2007

NIDDK Welcomes Seven New Members to Advisory Council

NIDDK Director Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D. (standing front row second from left), meets with new council members (front row from left) Lisa H. Richardson; William E. Mitch, M.D.; and (back row from left) Anthony J. Schaeffer, M.D.; Mark A. Magnuson, M.D.; James W. Freston, M.D., Ph.D.; Charles O. Elson, III, M.D.; and Patrick Tso, Ph.D.

Seven new members have joined the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Advisory Council, which met in Bethesda, MD, on February 21. The Council meets three times a year to advise the NIDDK about its research portfolio.

Advisory Council members, who come from the scientific and lay communities, serve 4-year terms and provide second-level peer review of grant applications scored by scientific review groups. Council members are an important liaison between the research communities they represent and the NIDDK, which supports each community’s research efforts. The new members are

Charles O. Elson, III, M.D., vice chair for research in the department of medicine and the Basil I. Hirschowitz chair in gastroenterology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Elson joins the Digestive Diseases and Nutrition (DDN) Subcommittee.

James W. Freston, M.D., Ph.D., the Boehringer Ingelheim chair of clinical pharmacology and professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington. Freston, a member of the NIDDK-funded National Drug-Induced Liver Injury Network, joins the DDN Subcommittee.

Mark A. Magnuson, M.D., the Earl W. Sutherland Jr. professor of molecular physiology and biophysics and director of the center for stem cell biology at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, TN. Magnuson joins the Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases Subcommittee.

William E. Mitch, M.D., the Gordon A. Cain professor of medicine and director of the division of nephrology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Mitch joins the Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases (KUH) Subcommittee.

Lisa H. Richardson, national emeritus chairperson of the board and volunteer for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America. Richardson joins the DDN Subcommittee.

Anthony J. Schaeffer, M.D., the Herman L. Kretschmer professor and chairman of the department of urology at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago. Schaeffer joins the KUH Subcommittee.

Patrick Tso, Ph.D., professor of pathology, associate director of the Cincinnati Obesity Research Center, director of the Cincinnati Mouse Diabetes Phenotyping Center, and director of the Center for Lipid and Atherosclerosis Research at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Tso joins the DDN Subcommittee.

NIH Publication No. 07–5743
June 2007

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