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Volume 11, No. 1, Spring/Winter 01 | Return to Table of Contents
MBL Trustees Elect New Members
The Trustees of the Marine Biological Laboratory elected four new Board members and re-appointed one Trustee to the Class of 2005 at their November 4th meeting. Dr. Porter W. Anderson, who completed his first term on the Board this year, was appointed to a second term. He will be joined by Claire M. Fraser, President and Director of The Institute for Genomic Research in Maryland; George W. Logan, Founder and Board Chairman of Valley Financial Corporation, a bank holding company in Roanoke, VA, and Chairman of the Management Board of Alliance Logistics Center, Warsaw, Poland; Robert A. Prendergast, Professor of Ophthalmology and Professor of Pathology at The Wilmer Institute at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; and John W. Rowe, M.D., President and CEO of Aetna Inc. Thomas S. Crane, Co-ordinator of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo’s Health Care Fraud and Abuse and Corporate Compliance practice group serving the firm’s Boston and Washington, DC, offices, was elected Clerk of the Corporation.
Sheldon Segal, John Dowling, and Mary B. Conrad were re-elected to serve as Chairman of the Board, President of the Corporation, and Treasurer, respectively. Trustee Al Zeien was elected Vice Chair of the Board.
 Claire M. Fraser received a B.S. in Biology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1977 and Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1981. Dr. Fraser is currently the President and Director of The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and former Director of the Department of Microbial Genomics and Vice-President for Research. Prior to this she spent eight years at the National Institutes of Health and was appointed Chief of the Section of Molecular Neurobiology at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Dr. Fraser serves on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Biological Chemistry and Comparative and Microbial Genomes, is member of six professional societies and was selected as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women in 1997 and 2000. She has been a faculty member of the Molecular Evolution Workshop (1999 and 2000).
 George W. Logan received a B.A. in History from the University of Virginia in 1967 and an M.B.A. from the Darden School of the University of Virginia in 1971. He is Chairman of Valley Financial Corporation, parent of Valley Bank, and managing director of Pine Street Partners, LLC, a closely held investment partnership. Mr. Logan is also Chairman of the Management Board of Alliance Logistics Center, a commercial real estate development firm in Warsaw, Poland. He is a visiting lecturer at the Darden School in Charlottesville, VA, and an occasional lecturer at the Institute Centroamericano de Administracion de Empresas (NCAE) in Alajuela, Costa Rica, and Montefresco, Nicaragua. He serves as Chairman of the Finance Committee of Carilion Medical Center and as Chairman of the Investment Committee of Carilion Health Systems. From 1988 until 1997, Mr. Logan served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Episcopal High School in Alexandria, VA. He also serves as Trustee and Chairman of the Grants Committee of the Foundation for Management Education in Central America, based in Washington, DC. Mr. Logan has been a member of the MBL’s Council of Visitors since 1998. He and his wife, Harmon, live in Salem, VA, and have a son, Willis, who is a senior at Middlebury College. They have a summer home in Woods Hole.
 Robert A. Prendergast is Professor of Ophthalmology and Professor of Pathology at The Wilmer Institute at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. He received his A.B. from Columbia University and M.D. from Boston University. He is a member of the American Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology, American Association of Immunologists, American Society for Experimental Pathology, Transplantation Society, Reticuloendothelial Society, American Society of Zoologists, American Association of University Pathologists, International Society for Developmental and Comparative Immunology and a Founding Member of the Henry G. Kunkel Society at Rockefeller University. Dr. Prendergast has been a member of the MBL Corporation since 1970 and served on the Laboratory’s Marine Resources Committee from 1978 to 1982. He is also a member of the MBL’s Discovery Campaign Steering Committee.
 John W. Rowe, M.D., a graduate of Canisius College (B.S.) and the University of Rochester (M.D.), is President and CEO of Aetna Inc. Prior to joining Aetna, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Mount Sinai NYU Health. Before the Mount Sinai NYU Health merger, Dr. Rowe was President of the Mount Sinai Hospital and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He serves as Professor of Medicine and of Geriatrics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Prior to joining Mount Sinai in 1988, Dr. Rowe was a Professor of Medicine and the founding Director of the Division on Aging at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Gerontology at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital. He has authored more than 200 scientific publications, primarily in physiology of the aging process, and a leading textbook of geriatric medicine. He was director of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Aging and recently co-authored Successful Aging. He served on the Board of Governors of the American Board of Internal Medicine and as President of the Gerontological Society of America, and is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. Dr. Rowe has been a member of the MBL Council of Visitors since 1995 and has a summer home in Falmouth.
 Thomas S. Crane received a B.A. from Harvard, a Masters of Health Services Administration from the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a J.D. from Antioch School of Law. He is Co-ordinator of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo’s Health Care Fraud and Abuse and Corporate Compliance practice group serving the firm’s Boston and Washington, DC, offices and prior to this, Mr. Crane had been a Partner with Hinckley, Allen & Snyder managing the firm’s Massachusetts health care practice. Mr. Crane became nationally known for his work on the anti-kickback statute at the Office of Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC. In particular, Mr. Crane gained recognition as a prosecutor in the Hanlester Network joint venture case and as the principal author of the safe harbor regulations. Mr. Crane served as founding Chairman of the Fraud and Abuse, Self-Referrals and False Claims Committee of the American Health Lawyers Association, the largest organization of health care attorneys in the country, and serves on the Dean’s Advisory Committee of the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He has written articles and delivered numerous lectures critiquing government fraud and abuse enforcement policies. He is a Trustee and Treasurer of the Friendship Fund, Inc. in Woods Hole and has served as a Trustee for the Institute of Current World Affairs, Hanover, NH, and the Institute of World Affairs, Salisbury, CT. Mr. Crane has a home in Weston and Woods Hole and has been a member of the MBL’s Council of Visitors since 1995. |
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