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| • | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | [X] |
| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Atul Gawande | | | Institution: | Harvard University, Brigham and Women's Hospital | | | Year Elected: | 2012 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1965 | | | | | | |
Atul Gawande is currently an Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, an Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at Harvard University School of Public Health and General and Endocrine Surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital. On November 9, 2020 he was named a member of President-elect Joe Biden's COVID-19 Advisory Board. Born in New York, he received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1995. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2006 and has authored Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (2002), Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance (2007), The Checklist Manifesto (2010), and Being Mortal (2014). He is a member of the Institute of Medicine (2011).
Atul Gawande combines the talents of a surgeon and a splendid writer whose mission is to make hospitals in general and surgery in particular safer and more cost effective in the United States and around the globe. His training in medicine and public health and his current work in teaching, research, and the practice of surgery at one of America's most respected hospitals provide him with practically unique qualifications to affect policies and procedures in hospital settings through his writings. As a staff writer for The New Yorker, he contributes essays that garner national attention and his first book has been published in more than a hundred countries. His research, which has resulted in numerous publications in the medical journals, focuses on surgical technique, medical care for combat wounds, and medical errors. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2012. | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. George Rupp | | | Institution: | International Rescue Committee | | | Year Elected: | 2012 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1942 | | | | | | |
George Rupp was president of the International Rescue Committee from 2002 to 2013. As the IRC's chief executive officer, Dr. Rupp oversaw the agency's relief and development operations in over 40 countries and its refugee resettlement and assistance programs throughout the United States. In addition, he led the IRC's advocacy efforts in Washington, Geneva, Brussels and other capitals on behalf of the world's most vulnerable people. He regularly visited IRC program sites worldwide.
Before joining the IRC, Dr. Rupp was president of Columbia University. During his nine-year tenure, he focused on enhancing undergraduate education, on strengthening the relationship of the campus to surrounding communities and New York City as a whole, and on increasing the university's international orientation. At the same time, he completed both a financial restructuring of the university and a $2.84 billion fundraising campaign that achieved eight successive records in dollars raised.
Prior to his time at Columbia, Dr. Rupp served as president of Rice University, where in the course of his eight years applications for admission almost tripled, federal research support more than doubled, and the value of the Rice endowment increased by more than $500 million to $1.25 billion.
Before going to Rice, Dr. Rupp was the John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity and dean of the Harvard Divinity School. Under his leadership, the curriculum of the school was revised to address more directly the pluralistic character of contemporary religious life. Further developments included new programs in women's studies and religion, Jewish-Christian relations, and religion and medicine.
Born in New Jersey of immigrant parents, Dr. Rupp has studied and conducted research for extended periods in both Europe and Asia. He was awarded an A.B. from Princeton University in 1964, a B.D. from Yale Divinity School in 1967, and a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1972. He is the author of numerous articles and five books, including Globalization Challenged: Commitment, Conflict, and Community (2006).
He has served as chair of the Association of American Universities, is currently the co-president of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, and serves on the boards of the Committee for Economic Development, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Henry Luce Foundation, the Institute for International Education, and the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation.
George Rupp and his wife Nancy have two adult daughters, both anthropologists, and six grandchildren. | |
| 3 | Name: | Mr. Robert B. Strassler | | | Institution: | Riverside Capital Management Corporation | | | Year Elected: | 2012 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1937 | | | | | | |
Robert B. Strassler is the Creator and Series Editor of The Landmark Editions and is President of the Riverside Capital Management Corporation. He has his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School (1961). He is the editor of The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War, 1996; The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories, 2007, translated by Andrea L. Purvis; The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika, 2009, translated by John Marincola. He is the series editor of The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander, 2010, edited by James Romm, translated by Pamela Mensch; The Landmark Polybius: The Federation and Conquest of the Greek States, forthcoming 2012.
A highly successful graduate of the Harvard Business School, Robert Strassler is currently President of Riverside Capital Management Corporation. He has long been interested in Greek history and has a knowledge of the field that goes far beyond that of most amateur enthusiasts. More importantly, he has undertaken to create and fund a series of editions of the great Greek historians in English translation with ample notes and supplementary commentary. These so-called "Landmark" volumes are now legendary for providing unparalleled access to Thucydides, Herodotus, Xenophon, Arrian, and soon Polybius in English translations, of which all but the first were new and commissioned by Strassler himself. Leading scholars of classics and ancient history have provided copious annotation, together with detailed maps, illustrations, and special essays. These sumptuously produced books allow Greekless readers to study Greek historical writing much as a professional scholar would do, because the notes and essays are so rich and informative. They have proven equally valuable to scholars because they are exceptionally up-to-date in their discussions of current problems and bibliography. The concept was entirely Strassler’s, and he has played a vigorous role in the preparation of every volume in the series. As a musician and player of the viola da gamba, he has supported the Aston Magna Foundation for Music and the Humanities. He is also the father of a theoretical high energy physicist and has consequently taken a lively interest in science. He has served as a member of the Advisory Council of the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2012. | |
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