APPI Announces Board of Trustees Election Results
The Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians and Investigators (APPI) is pleased to announce that Charles M. Alexander, MD, FACP, FACE, has been elected president-elect and Peter Rheinstein, MD, JD, MS, FAAFP, FCLM, has been elected secretary-treasurer of the APPI Board of Trustees for 2008. Also elected to the board for second terms were Nadina C. Jose, MD, CPI, Michael A. Markowitz, MD, MBA, MSPH, and Jonathan Seltzer, MD, MBA, MA, FACC.
Charles M. Alexander, MD, FACP, FACE, a board member since 2001, is focused on outcomes research related to diabetes at Merck. He served as secretary-treasurer for APPI in 2007 and also has been on the APPI Executive Committee. He furthermore worked with the Joint Task Force for the Affiliation Agreement and the APPI Negotiating Committee, which dealt with the affiliation agreement between APPI and ACRP that was signed in 2005. As president-elect, he will ascend to the presidency of APPI in 2009.
Before joining Merck, Alexander practiced diabetes, endocrinology, and internal medicine in Los Angeles for 10 years and was also a clinical professor of medicine with the University of Southern California School of Medicine. A Fellow of both the American College of Physicians and the American College of Endocrinology, he is the author of numerous scientific articles and presentations.
Peter Rheinstein, MD, JD, MS, FAAFP, FCLM, consults and speaks on drug issues. Previously, he was senior vice president for medical and clinical matters at a Johns Hopkins spinoff firm developing cancer diagnostics and therapeutics, publisher of the journal Discovery Medicine, and director of several offices for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Rheinstein also has been a practicing physician, medical school faculty member, medical director for a national chain of extended care facilities, and president of the Drug Information Association (DIA). He has served APPI as its vice president for American Medical Association (AMA) Relations and delegate to the AMA House of Delegates, vice chair of the Policy Committee (and of ACRP’s Government Affairs Committee), and president of the Baltimore-Washington Chapter. He received the APPI President’s Outstanding Service Award in 2003.
Nadina C. Jose, MD, CPI, is president and CEO of Research Strategies Inc. in Arcadia, Calif. She has participated in more than 200 clinical trials in various therapeutic areas over the past 20 years. She also has worked with Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles, the Doctors Urology Group Research Foundation, and Western Clinical Research Inc. A frequent speaker for DIA, CRO-Partnerships, ACRP, and Pharmaceutical Education and Research Institute courses, she is a member of the faculty at the American University for Health Sciences in Long Beach, Calif., and chaired the Education Committee for ACRP for the past two years.
The pharmaceutical career of Michael A. Markowitz, MD, MBA, MSPH, spans a variety of past duties at GlaxoSmithKline, including outcomes research, medical affairs, and being associate director for gastrointestinal and metabolic studies, and his current work with Johnson and Johnson (Ortho-McNeil Janssen Scientific Affairs) as regional director for the Internal Medicine Scientific Affairs Liaisons. He also writes about outcomes research, has been active on the APPI Education Committee, and holds an adjunct associate professor appointment at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health.
Jonathan Seltzer, MD, MBA, MA, FACC, is president of Applied Clinical Intelligence LLC in Bala Cynwyd, Pa., and director of clinical research at Main Line Health Heart Center in suburban Philadelphia. He has worked on numerous data monitoring committees in multiple therapeutic areas, served as an institutional review board member, and cochaired federally-sponsored meetings focused on human subject protection. For APPI, he has served on the Executive Committee and as treasurer and chair of the academy’s annual meeting. A Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, he also holds an appointment as a clinical assistant professor at Jefferson Medical College.