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William Ralph Brody is an American radiologist and academic administrator. He is the President of the Salk Institute and former President of The... Johns Hopkins University, a position which he had held from 1996 to 2009. Brody received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees, the latter also in electrical engineering, from Stanford University. He continued his post-graduate training at the University of California, San Francisco where he completed a residency in diagnostic radiology in 1977. Brody was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003. He was the highest-paid university president in the United States, receiving $897,786 in 2004, and regained the title in 2007. On March 10, 2008, he announced his intent to step down as president effective December 31, 2008. This was postponed to March 3, 2009 upon Hopkins naming Ronald Daniels, the provost of the University of Pennsylvania its next President. On October 13, 2008, the Salk Institute announced that Brody would join their staff as president as of March 2009.
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Shirley Ann Jackson, 61, is president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a member of IBM’s Directors and Corporate Governance... Committee. Dr. Jackson was a theoretical physicist at the former AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1976 to 1991, professor of theoretical physics at Rutgers University from 1991 to 1995 and chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 1995 until she assumed her current position in 1999. Dr. Jackson is a director of FedEx Corporation, Marathon Oil Corp., Medtronic, Inc., Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated and NYSE Euronext. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Jackson is past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Philosophical Society. Dr. Jackson became an IBM director in 2005.
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Mr. Collins has been CEO of Medtronic since April 2001 and chairman since April 2002. He joined the company in 1992 as president, Medtronic... International with responsibility for all Medtronic operations outside the United States. Mr. Collins came to Medtronic after 14 years with Abbott Laboratories where he was corporate vice president with responsibility for Abbott's worldwide diagnostic business units, and held a number of management positions in the United States and Europe. He is a member of the Audit Committee and the Finance Committee.
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