Board of Trustees
JOHN PARASCANDOLA, President
Dr. Parascandola has held the positions of Professor of History of Pharmacy and History of Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chief of the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine, and Public Health Service Historian. He currently teaches courses in the history of modern biology and the history of public health at the University of Maryland, College Park and has recently published an award-winning book on Sex, Sin, and Science: A History of Syphilis in America (Praeger, 2008).
ANDREW OLIVER, Vice-President
He is an art historian specializing in classical antiquity, and an arts administrator. From 1982 to 1996 he was director of the museum program at the National Endowment for the Arts.
JADA D. THORNTON, Treasurer
Thornton has been employed in the banking industry for 7 years, and is currently a senior bank officer. She received her MBA (2010) in Organizational Development from Trinity University, in Washington, D.C.
JOHN SWANN, Secretary
A historian at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration since 1989, John Swann specializes in the history of drugs, biologics, and their regulation. The mission of the FDA History Office is to increase knowledge of the history, mission, and activities of the FDA and its predecessor, the Bureau of Chemistry of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The office provides perspective on current policy objectives and increases public understanding of FDA's purpose and function.
PHILIP DOVER, Member at Large
An associate professor at Babson College, MA, where he teaches on marketing and strategy topics in Babson’s Fast Track MBA program, Philip Dover is also a faculty director at Babson Executive Education (BEE). He has taught in a number of open enrollment seminars, including Forging and Managing Strategic Alliances, Attaining Service Excellence, and Client-Centric Service Marketing. His work in executive education includes applied research aimed at providing thought leadership in areas of current management concern.
Josiah Stevenson IV, Member at large
With careers in both the profit-sector and the not-for-profit sector, Josiah Stevenson has special experience and skills in finance, fundraising and general management. As a product manager, group manager and general manager at Chesebrough-Pond’s, now Unilever, he directed the marketing of consumer packaged goods products (e.g. Vaseline and Q-Tips) in the U.S. and Asia. Subsequently, he managed fundraising programs as Director of Development at Dartmouth, Director of Development at the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Vice President of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Currently living in Pinehurst, North Carolina, he is on the Board of the North Carolina Symphony Foundation, has been engaged in alumni organizational governance at Dartmouth, and does part-time consulting work.
ROBERT D. SULLIVAN, Member at Large
He is currently a partner of the consulting firm Chora. He has over 35 years of museum management, education, and fundraising experience. For the past 16 years, he served as the Associate Director for Public Programs at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, managing all aspects of exhibition, education, and public program development. Working with the American Management Association, Sullivan designed and implemented strategic planning and management courseware delivering his purpose and results-centered management philosophy to over 1,000 public sector managers.
EMANUELA APPETITI, Ex-officio Member
Co-founder of the Institute with Alain Touwaide. The Chief Executive Officer, she is an Ex-Officio Trustee. Also a Research Scientist of the Institute, she explores the medicine of Aboriginal populations in Australia.
ALAIN TOUWAIDE, Ex-officio Member
Co-founder of the Institute with Emanuela Appetiti. He is an Ex-Officio Trustee of the Institute and the Scientific Director. A Senior Research Scientist of the Institute, he specialized on the Mediterranean medical tradition.
