Honorary Board

The NSLC Honorary Board of Advisers is composed of leading medical professionals, United States Representatives and Senators, and Ambassadors, all with a special interest in education.

Medical Professionals

Thomas Fishbein (Director of Intestinal Transplantation)

Claude Lenfant, M.D. (President, World Hypertension League)

Christina Puchalski (The George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health)

Stephen E. Straus (Director, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NIH)

Marsha J. Evans (President and CEO American Red Cross, Rear Admiral, U.S.N. Retired)

United States Representatives

W. Todd Akin (MO-R)

Rodney Alexander (LA-R)

Joe Baca (CA-D)

Spencer Bachus (AL-R)

Tammy Baldwin (WI-D)

Roscoe G. Bartlett (MD-R)

Xavier Becerra (CA-D)

Shelley Berkley (NV-D)

Howard L. Berman (CA-D)

Judy Biggert (IL-R)

Gus M. Bilirakis (FL-R)

Rob Bishop (UT-R)

Sanford D. Bishop Jr. (GA-D)

Timothy H. Bishop (NY-D)

Marsha Blackburn (TN-R)

John A. Boehner (OH-R)

Jo Bonner (AL-R)

Mary Mack Bono (CA-R)

Madeleine Z. Bordallo (GU-)

Leonard L. Boswell (IA-D)

Kevin Brady (TX-R)

Robert A. Brady (PA-D)

Corrine Brown (FL-D)

Michael C. Burgess (TX-R)

Ken Calvert (CA-R)

Dave Camp (MI-R)

Lois Capps (CA-D)

Dennis A. Cardoza (CA-D)

John R. Carter (IN-R)

Donna M. Christensen (VI-D)

Wm. Lacy Clay (MO-D)

Emanuel Cleaver (MO-D)

Howard Coble (NC-R)

Tom Cole (OK-R)

K. Michael Conaway (TX-R)

John Conyers Jr. (MI-D)

Jim Cooper (TN-D)

Jerry F. Costello (IL-D)

Joe Courtney (CT-D)

Joseph Crowley (NY-D)

Elijah E. Cummings (MD-D)

Danny K. Davis (IL-D)

Susan A. Davis (CA-D)

Diana DeGette (CO-D)

Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-D)

Norman D. Dicks (WI-D)

Michael F. Doyle (PA-D)

Jo Ann Emerson (MO-R)

Eliot L. Engel (NY-D)

Anna G. Eshoo (CA-D)

Eni F. H. Faleomavaega (AS-D)

Sam Farr (CA-D)

J. Randy Forbes (VI-R)

Elton Gallegly (CA-R)

Scott Garrett (NJ-R)

Jim Gerlach (PA-R)

Phil Gingrey (GA-R)

Kay Granger (TX-R)

Raúl M Grijalva (AZ-D)

Luis V. Gutierrez (IL-D)

Ralph M. Hall (TX-R)

Doc Hastings (WI-R)

Rubén Hinojosa (TX-D)

Tim Holden (PA-D)

Rush D. Holt (NJ-D)

Michael M. Honda (CA-D)

Steny H. Hoyer (MD-D)

Steve Israel (NY-D)

Jesse L. Jackson Jr. (IL-D)

Sam Johnson (TX-R)

Timothy V. Johnson (IL-R)

Walter B. Jones (NC-R)

Marcy Kaptur (OH-D)

Dale E. Kildee (MI-D)

Steve King (IA-R)

Jack Kingston (GA-R)

Dennis J. Kucinich (OH-D)

Rick Larsen (WI-D)

John B. Larson (CT-D)

Tom Latham (IA-R)

Steven C. LaTourette (OH-R)

Barbara Lee (CA-D)

Sander M. Levin (MI-D)

John Lewis (GA-D)

Daniel Lipinski (IL-D)

Frank A. LoBiondo (NJ-R)

Zoe Lofgren (CA-D)

Nita M. Lowey (NY-D)

Frank D. Lucas (OK-R)

Stephen F. Lynch (MA-D)

Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-D)

Donald A. Manzullo (IL-R)

Edward J. Markey (MA-D)

Jim Matheson (UT-D)

Betty McCollum (MN-D)

Thaddeus G. McCotter (MI-R)

Jim McDermott (WI-D)

Mike McIntyre (NC-D)

Howard’ P. McKeon (CA-R)

Gregory W. Meeks (NY-D)

Michael H. Michaud (ME-D)

Brad Miller (NC-D)

Candice S. Miller (MI-R)

Gary G. Miller (CA-R)

Jeff Miller (FL-R)

James P. Moran (VI-D)

Jerrold Nadler (NY-D)

Grace F. Napolitano (CA-D)

Richard E. Neal (MA-D)

Randy Neugebauer (TX-R)

Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC-D)

John W. Olver (MA-D)

Frank Pallone Jr. (NJ-D)

Bill Pascrell Jr. (NJ-D)

Ed Pastor (AZ-D)

Donald M. Payne (NJ-D)

Nancy Pelosi (CA-D)

Thomas E. Petri (WI-R)

Joseph R. Pitts (PA-R)

Todd Russell Platts (PA-R)

Ted Poe (TX-R)

Tom Price (GA-R)

Nick J. Rahall II (WV-D)

Charles B. Rangel (NY-D)

Silvestre Reyes (TX-D)

Harold Rogers (KY-R)

Dana Rohrabacher (CA-R)

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL-R)

Mike Ross (AR-D)

Steven R. Rothman (NJ-D)

Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-D)

Edward R. Royce (CA-R)

C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger (MD-D)

Bobby L. Rush (IL-D)

Tim Ryan (OH-D)

Loretta Sanchez (CA-D)

Janice D. Schakowsky (IL-D)

Adam B. Schiff (CA-D)

Allyson Y. Schwartz (PA-D)

Pete Sessions (TX-R)

John Shimkus (IL-R)

Bill Shuster (PA-R)

Michael K. Simpson (ID-R)

Albio Sires (NJ-D)

Louise McIntosh Slaughter (NY-D)

Cliff Stearns (FL-R)

John Sullivan (OK-R)

Betty Sutton (OH-D)

Lee Terry (NE-R)

Bennie G. Thompson (MS-D)

Mike Thompson (CA-D)

Patrick J. Tiberi (OH-R)

John F. Tierney (MA-D)

Niki Tsongas (MA-D)

Michael R. Turner (OH-R)

Fred Upton (MI-R)

Nydia M. Velázquez (NY-D)

Greg Walden (OR-R)

Henry A. Waxman (CA-D)

Lynn A. Westmoreland (GA-R)

Ed Whitfield (KY-R)

Joe Wilson (SC-R)

Frank R. Wolf (VI-R)

Lynn C. Woolsey (CA-D)

David Wu (OR-D)

Don Young (AK-R)

United States Senators

Daniel Akaka (D-HI)

Wayne Allard (R-CO)

Max Baucus (D-MT)

Evan Bayh (D-IN)

Robert Bennett (R-UT)

Joseph Biden (D-DE)

Christopher Bond (R-MO)

Sherrod Brown (D-OH)

Jim Bunning (R-KY)

Maria Cantwell (D-WA)

Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)

Thad Cochran (R-MS)

Norm Coleman (R-MN)

Susan Collins (R-ME)

Kent Conrad (D-ND)

Pete Domenici (R-NM)

Byron Dorgan (D-ND)

John Ensign (R-NV)

Michael Enzi (R-WY)

Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)

Lindsey Graham (R-SC)

Charles Grassley (R-IA)

Chuck Hagel (R-NE)

James Inhofe (R-OK)

Daniel Inouye (D-HI)

Johnny Isakson (R-GA)

Tim Johnson (D-SD)

John Kerry (D-MA)

Mary Landrieu (D-LA)

Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)

Joseph Lieberman (I-CT)

Blanche Lincoln (D-AR)

John McCain (R-AZ)

Robert Menendez (D-NJ)

Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)

Patty Murray (D-WA)

E. Nelson (D-NE)

Mark Pryor (D-AR)

Ken Salazar (D-CO)

Richard Shelby (R-AL)

Gordon Smith (R-OR)

Olympia Snowe (R-ME)

Arlen Specter (R-PA)

Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)

Jon Tester (D-MT)

John Thune (R-SD)

Ron Wyden (D-OR)

Ambassadors

Said Tayeb Jawad (Afghanistan)

Josefina Perpétua Pitra Diakite (Angola)

José Octavio Bordón (Argentina)

Eva Nowotny (Austria)

Dr. Naser Mohamed Albalooshi (Bahrain)

Shamsher M. Chowdhury (Bangladesh)

Michael Ian King (Barbados)

Mikhail Khvostov (Belarus)

Dominicus Struye de Swielande (Belgium)

Lisa M. Shoman (Belize)

Cyrille Alexandre Oguin (Benin)

Bisera Turkovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Pengiran Anak Dato Puteh (Brunei)

Elena Borislavova Poptodorova (Bulgaria)

Tertius Zongo (Burkina Faso)

Mahamoud Adam Bechir (Chad)

Mariano Fernadez (Chile)

Zhou Wenzhoung (China)

F. Tomás Dueñas (Costa Rica)

Faida Mitifu (Demoratic Republic of Congo)

Friis Arne Peterson (Denmark)

Luis Benigno Gallegos Chiriboga (Ecuador)

Nabil Fahmy (Egypt)

Rene A. León (El Salvador)

Dr. Samuel Assefa Lemma (Ethiopia)

Jesoni Vitusagavulu (Fiji)

Jean-David Levitte (France)

Dodou Bammy Jagne (Gambia)

Dr. Klaus Scharioth (Germany)

Alexandros P. Mallias (Greece)

Denis Antoine (Grenada)

Jose Guillermo Castillo (Guatemala)

Bayney Ram Karran (Guyana)

Andras Simonyi (Hungary)

Ranendra Sen (India)

Peter N. R. O. Ogego (Kenya)

Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (Kuwait)

Zamira Beksultanovna Sydykova (Kyrgyzstan)

Antoine Shedid (Lebanon)

Molelekeng E. Rapolaki (Lesotho)

Claudia Fritsche (Liechtenstein)

Joseph Weyland (Luxenbourg)

Zoran Jolevski (Macedonia)

Rajaonarivony Narisoa (Madagascar)

Hawa Olga Ndilowe (Malawi)

Rajmah Hussain (Malaysia)

Banny De Brum (Marshall Islands)

Nicolae Chirtoaca (Moldova)

Ravdan Bold (Mongolia)

Miodrag Vlahovic (Montenegro)

Armando Panguene (Mozambique)

George A. Obiozor (Nigeria)

Knut Vollebaek (Norway)

Hunaina Sultan Ahmed Al Mughairy (Oman)

Federico A. Humbert Arias (Panama)

Evan Jeremy Paki (Papua New Guinea)

James Spalding Hellmers (Paraguay)

Willy Calaud Gaa (Philipines)

Daniela Anda Grigore Gitman (Romania)

Yury V. Ushakov (Russia)

Izben Cordinal Williams (Saint Kitts and Nevis)

Ellsworth A John (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)

Ali’Ioaiga Feturi Elisaia (Samoa)

Ovidio Pequeno (Sao Tome & Principe)

Dr. Amadou Lamine Ba (Senegal)

Ivan Vujacic (Serbia)

Chan Heng Chee (Singapore)

Rastislav Kacer (Slovak Republic)

Samuel Zbogar (Slovenia)

Barbara Joyce Mosima Masekela (South Africa)

Carlos Westendorp (Spain)

Ephraim Mandlenkosi M. Hlophe (Swaziland)

Gunnar Wiggo Lund (Sweden)

Imad Moustapha (Syria)

Abdujabbor Shirinov (Tajikistan)

Ombeni Sefue (Tanzania)

Marina Annette Valere (Trinidad and Tobago)

Perezi Karukubiro Kamunanwire (Uganda)

Oleh Shamshur (Ukraine)

David G. Manning (United Kingdom )

Carlos Alberto Gianelli (Uruguay)

Abdulaziz Khafizovich Kamilov (Uzbekistan)

Nguyen Tam Chien (Vietnam)

Abdulwahab A. Al-Hajjri (Yemen)

Machivenyika Mapuranga (Zimbabwe)

Jacques Ruben Constantijn Kross (Suriname)

Fekitamoeloa Tupoupia Utoikamanu (Tonga)

Michael H. Wilson (Canada)