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Brent Jaquet, Term: 2007–2011
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 Mr. Brent Jaquet is a Senior Vice President at Cavarocchi-Ruscio-Dennis (CRD) Associates in Washington, DC, managing programs in government relations, strategic planning, and public policy. Prior to his current position with CRD, he served as senior appropriations aide to Representative C.W. Bill Young of Florida. While working for Representative Young, Mr. Jaquet specialized in health and biomedicine across a wide spectrum of health policy and appropriations issues. His work on behalf of Chairman Young contributed to the enactment of the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005, which reauthorized and expanded the nation’s bone marrow registry program to include umbilical cord blood units.
In previous positions, Mr. Jaquet was a senior management official at NIH, where his experience included managing communications; science transfer; professional health education; planning efforts and information technology programs; and serving as Executive Secretary for the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) Board of Scientific Counselors, which manages the peer review process for the Institute’s Intramural Research Program. He worked at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development from 1981 to 1984 and NIDCR from 1984 until his retirement. Before joining the agency, Mr. Jaquet worked for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services developing communications programs in the areas of health planning, professions, and facilities.
Mr. Jaquet was also a founding board member of the LAM Foundation, serving women with lymphangioleiomyomatosis, a rare lung disease.
Mr. Jaquet attended graduate school in communications at the University of Maryland’s College of Journalism in College Park following service in the Navy as a journalist. He earned a B.A. in political science from Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina. He lives in Edgewater, Maryland, with his wife, who is a scientific program director, and he has three grown children and six grandchildren. He is also an artist whose depictions of the NIH campus have been published in calendars, note cards, and other formats.
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