Members of the newly-formed board include George Anderson, MD, MPH, retired major general of the U.S. Air Force and executive director of The Society of the Federal Health Agencies; Sir Mansel Aylward, CB, chair of Public Health Wales and director of the Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Research; Catherine Baase, MD, global director of health services for The Dow Chemical Company; Wayne N. Burton, MD, adjunct professor, University of Illinois Chicago; Robert N. Butler, MD, president and CEO of the International Longevity Center, USA; Michael Critelli, retired former chairman of Pitney Bowes; Dee W. Edington, PhD, director of the Health Management Research Center, University of Michigan; James F. Fries, MD, professor of medicine, emeritus, Stanford University; Ron Z. Goetzel, PhD, director of the Institute for Health and Productivity Studies, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and vice president of consulting and applied research for Thompson Reuters; Sandra Gibson Hassink, MD, director of the Nemours Pediatric Obesity Initiative, DuPont Hospital; Pamela A. Hymel, MD, MPH, FACOEM, senior director of integrated health and corporate medical director for Cisco Systems; Ronald C. Kessler, PhD, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Jaspal S. Kooner, MBBS, MD, FRCP, head of clinical cardiology and consultant cardiologist, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust; M. Akram Khan, MD, FACC, FSCAI, president of The Center for Preventive Medicine North Texas and the Cardiac Center of Texas; John J. (Jack) Mahoney, MD, MPH chief medical officer, Center for Health Value Innovation;  Chris McSwain, director of global benefits for Whirlpool Corp.; Cyndy Nayer, MA, president and CEO, Center for Health Value Innovation; Sean Nicholson, PhD, associate professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University; S. Jay Olshansky, PhD, professor, School of Public Health, The Population Research Center; Tom Parry, PhD, president of the Integrated Benefits Institute; and Andrew Webber, president and CEO, the National Business Coalition on Health.

SOURCE U.S. Preventive Medicine