RUBY P. HEARN

Ruby Hearn is senior vice president of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the largest health care philanthropy in the United States. The Foundation has awarded over two billion dollars in grant funds since its inception as a national philanthropy in 1972. As a member of the executive management team, Dr. Hearn participates in strategic program planning with the president and executive vice president and serves as a special advisor to the president and as the Foundation's liaison within the non-profit community. Dr. Hearn has had the major responsibility for oversight and program development of initiatives in maternal, infant and child health, AIDS, substance abuse and minority medical education. Dr. Hearn received her MS and PhD degrees in biophysics from Yale University and is a graduate of Skidmore College. She is a Fellow, Yale Corporation. She served on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors for the 1995 Special Olympics World Summer games in Connecticut, among others. Dr. Hearn is a member of the Institute of Medicine and its' governing Council, the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP), the Board of Directors of the Council on Foundations and the Science Board for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and is also serving on the Advisory Committee to the Director, National Institutes of Health.