FasterCures Team
Greg Simon
Greg Simon is President of FasterCures, a center of the Milken Institute formed in 2003. Mr. Simon has built FasterCures into an organization recognized and valued for its innovative approach to analysis and problem solving, supported by significant foundation and private grants. Greg is a member of the National Health Council's Board of Directors, the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute's Board of Trustees, and the Google Health Advisory Council. He serves on the Leadership Council of the Life Sciences Institute at the University of Michigan, and PricewaterhouseCoopers' Montage Group, which advises its Health Industries practice. Prior to his current position, Mr. Simon was the Chief Domestic Policy Advisor to Vice President Al Gore where he oversaw initiatives including the programs of the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Human Genome Project, and the development of the regulatory framework for biotechnology products. Mr. Simon also held positions as Staff Director of the Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee of the House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology, and was CEO of the consulting firm Simon Strategies/Mindbeam. Mr. Simon received his law degree from the University of Washington in 1983.
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Margaret Anderson
Margaret comes to FasterCures from the Academy for Educational Development (AED) in Washington, DC, where most recently she was the deputy director and a team leader for the Center on AIDS & Community Health. She assisted a senior vice president in managing a 70-person domestic and international staff and her responsibilities included financial and budget oversight, management of teams, projects and staff and strategic planning. Prior to joining AED, Margaret was program director for the Society for Women's Health Research. Earlier, she was a health science analyst at the American Public Health Association working on public health issues and served as an analyst and project director at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. Margaret holds a master's degree in science, technology, and public policy from George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs.
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Cecilia O. Arradaza
Communications Director
Kate Blenner
Program Analyst
Angelo Bouselli
Communications Manager
Joseph Ortega
Executive Assistant
Kristin Schneeman
Program Director
Jeongyeon Shim
Domestic Program Analyst
Lisa Simms
External Affairs and Operations Director
Melissa Stevens
Director of Special Projects
Patricia Wakely Wolf
Executive and Meetings Administrator
