Congratulations and Welcome to Our New Trustees

Dodge O. Dorland, CMT, is Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Landor & Fuest Capital Managers, LLC. His career started with Manufacturers Hanover Trust where he was in commercial lending and Trust and Wealth Management. Following Manufacturers Hanover, he was a merchant banker at Bank of Montreal and an investment banker for Lehman Brothers. He has covered world markets and provided market commentary for the U.S. (CNBC, Fox Broadcasting, Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg), Europe (CNBC), Asia (BFM Business Station, CNBC Singapore and Australia) and India (New Delhi Television and The Economic Times). He served on the Board of The New York Society of Security Analysts (including President for 2002–2006), The Market Technicians Association (including President for 1999–2000), and the Fordham School of Business Administration Finance Advisory Board (2007–2009). He holds a BA in Political Science from Colgate University and an MBA in Corporate Finance from New York University Graduate School of Business.

Steven M. Safyer, MD, is President and CEO of Montefiore Medical Center, the University Hospital and Academic Medical Center for Albert Einstein College of Medicine. During his 30-year tenure at Montefiore, he also served as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University, his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and completed his internship and residency in Social Medicine at Montefiore. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and a Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at Einstein. A Fellow of The New York Academy of Medicine, he is also a founding member of The Health Management Academy and a member of the Healthcare Institute. He has served as Secretary of the Executive Committee and Board of Governors for the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA), Chair of the League of Voluntary Hospitals and Homes, and as a board member of the Hospital Association of New York State (HANYS). He has also been active on committees of the Association of American Medical Colleges and the New York State Council on Graduate Medical Education.

Jack Watters, MD, is Pfizer’s Vice President for External Medical Affairs, responsible for relations with medical societies, academic institutions, and government health bodies around the globe. Dr. Watters has also represented Pfizer on matters of corporate responsibility and human rights, especially relating to raising political will for the plight of people with HIV/AIDS and the older citizen. He is frequently invited to speak on the issues of health disparities, capacity building, science education and public-private partnership. In a pharmaceutical career spanning over 30 years Dr. Watters has gained experience across all phases of research from the laboratory to the clinic. In recent years he has been active in raising the medical voice of the pharmaceutical industry in civil society. He was one of the architects of the landmark Diflucan Partnership Program with the government of South Africa. The program is now active in 60 of the world’s least developed countries. He serves on the boards of the American Federation for Aging Research and Research!America. He was recently appointed to the Board of Regents of the University of Edinburgh where he graduated in medicine in 1977.

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Posted on January 16, 2013

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