Santa J. Ono, Ph.D.
Chairman of Board of Advisors
Santa Jeremy Ono, PhD, Provost of the University of Cincinnati and former Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education & Academic Affairs at Emory University. Ono was educated at the University of Chicago, McGill and Harvard. His training in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Harvard was supported by a Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Fellowship.
Dr. Ono’s first academic appointment was as assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. While at Hopkins, he won the American Diabetes Association Career Development Award and the Investigator Award from the National Arthritis Foundation. In 1996, Dr. Ono was recruited to the Harvard Medical School, where he was an associate professor and on staff at the Schepens Eye Research Institute. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Harvard Program in Immunology, PI of the Harvard Program in Ocular Immunology and on the Executive Committee of the NIH Training Program in Molecular Bases of Eye Diseases.
In 2001 Dr. Ono was appointed Cumberlege Professor and then GlaxoSmithKline Chair of Biomedical Sciences at University College London and Moorfields Eye Hospital. He was head of the Department of Immunology at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and on the executive committee of the UCL Division of Infection & Immunity. At UCL, Dr. Ono also served as Associate Dean of students, a member of the UCL Council (the university’s governing body) of the university Governance Committee and its Finance Committee.
Dr. Ono has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Immunology, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Immunology and the Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology.
He is a recipient of the Roche Award, the Pharmacia International Award in Allergy Research and the Medal in Bronze from Osaka City University. He has delivered keynote, plenary or major lectures at the Kyoto Cornea Conference, the International Congress of Immunology (ICI), the annual meetings of ARVO and AAAAI and at numerous universities.
He has served on the Medical Research Council’s Medical Advisory Board and College of Experts and the IMS and HAI study sections of the NIH. He consults widely for companies such as GSK, Cambridge Antibody Technologies plc (now part of Astra Zeneca), Johnson & Johnson, Santen Inc. and Oxagen plc. He is Chief Scientific Officer of iCo Therapeutics Inc., of Vancouver, Canada. He has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of University College London, the Posse Foundation – Atlanta, The Trent School – Church of England and Global H.E.E.D.
Dr. Ono’s principal research interests focus on transcriptional regulation in the human immune system, mechanisms of mast cell dependent inflammation on the ocular surface and the immune component of age-related macular degeneration.
Neil Shulman, M.D.
Neil Shulman MD is a physician who has focused considerable time on profitable and non-profit start-ups over the course of his career, often mixing these adventures with creative efforts in writing books, making movies, performing comedy with an educational bent, and producing and starring in a series of public television spots for the past two years. (See www.whatsinadoctorsbag.com)
His early career was in medical research at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia where he was one of the principle investigators of a $100 million study on hypertension. He remains as a faculty member at Emory School of Medicine where he teaches and initiates various social programs but only takes a small salary.
He also co-founded the International Society of Hypertension in Blacks and helped launch the journal Ethnicity and Disease and the Heart to Heart Program which brought children from developing nations to the United Sates for life-saving heart surgery. He is currently chairman of the board of Patch Adams’ non-profit Gesundheit! Institute.
As it says on his business card… Author, Doctor, Associate Professor at Emory University School of Medicine, Comedian, Architectural Innovator, Brainstormer, Speaker, Planner of Way Too Many Projects at One Time, Wearer of Bow Ties, and Basically Just a Really Funny Jewish Guy. He intends to pave his way with as many new experiences as he can find. The common purpose of all his choices: joyful laughter. Not bitter sarcasm or trendy cynicism, he creates laughter that fills the heart, laughter that bridges fear, and laughter that mends.
Dr. Shulman also wrote the novel and associate produced the number one hit movie Doc Hollywood starring Michael J. Fox. while he worked for Warner Brothers at the time
Edward L. Queen, J.D., Ph.D.
Edward Queen directs the D. Abbott Turner Program in Ethics and Servant Leadership at Emory University’s Center for Ethics. At Emory he also serves as co-convener of the Initiative in Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding and Director of Research Activities at the Institute of Human Rights. Queen received his B.A. from Birmingham-Southern College, his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, and his J.D. from the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis. Prior to joining the Center for Ethics, Queen served as Faculty and Curriculum Development Advisor to the Faculty of Law of South East European University, Macedonia where he focused on the transition to democracy, religious and ethnic minority rights, and legal education reform. Among the human rights organizations with which he has worked are the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights of the Republic of Macedonia and the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group. Queen also served as administrator of the International Human Rights Internship Program at the I. U. School of Law-Indianapolis. The founding director of both the Religion and Philanthropy Project at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy and of the Islamic Society of North America’s Fellowship Program in Nonprofit Management and Governance and a former program officer at Lilly Endowment, Inc., Queen has consulted with numerous nonprofit, governmental, and educational organizations, including the Pew Charitable Trusts, Independent Sector, USAID, the Center for Torture and Trauma Survivors (Atlanta), and the Corporation for National and Community Service. He has authored and edited numerous books including, Philanthropy in the World’s Traditions and Serving Those in Need.