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Date:10/3/2007

ing in the public and private sectors. She currently serves on boards of several nonprofit organizations, and also chairs a commission for the Federal Depository Insurance Corporation, concentrating on financially underserved communities, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In April 2007, Ms. Taylor joined the investment banking firm, Wolfensohn & Co., as a managing director. Previously, she was superintendent of banks for the State of New York.

Rear Admiral Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.A. (ret.), has been a leading U.S. government health expert and spokesperson for more than 20 years. She served as Assistant Surgeon General of the United States, as the first ever Deputy Assistant Secretary for Women's Health, as Senior Global and E-Health Advisor in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and as Chief of the Behavioral Medicine and Basic Prevention Research Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health, NIH. She also was a White House advisor on health issues. Dr. Blumenthal is currently Distinguished Advisor on Health and Medicine at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and a Clinical Professor at Georgetown and Tufts Schools of Medicine. She is the recipient of numerous awards, medals and honorary doctorates for her landmark contributions to improving health. Her work in the government has included a focus on HIV/AIDS since the beginning of the epidemic in the early 1980's.

About amfAR:

amfAR is one of the world's leading nonprofit organizations dedicated to the support of HIV/AIDS research, HIV prevention, treatment education, and the advocacy of sound AIDS-related public policy. With its freedom and flexibility to respond quickly to emerging opportunities and its determination to invest in cutting-edge science, amfAR plays a unique, catalytic role in accelerating the pace of HIV/AIDS research and achieving real breakthroughs. Funded by voluntary contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporatio
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