The Leadership Alliance

	Joel Oppenheim New York University School of Medicine

	Joel Oppenheim received his B.S. in Zoology and Genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.S. and Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology from Loyola University Medical School, and was an N.I.H. Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University School of Medicine in the Department of Microbiology. He has been the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies since 1994. Dr. Oppenheim is also Director of NYU's Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at the School of Medicine and an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology. He serves as a member of the M.D. and M.D./Ph.D. Admissions Committees and chairs the Ph.D. Admissions Committee. He is also the founder and director of NYU's Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP). His major research interests include mechanism of bacterial pathogenicity and the development of unique protein purifications. Dr. Oppenheim has authored over sixty publications and book chapters. Dr. Oppenheim is very active in the American Society for Microbiology and served as a member of the Society's National Minority Education Committee for the past eight years and is the acting chairperson of its Robert D. Watkins Minority Graduate Research Fellowship and Minority Undergraduate Research Programs. He also serves on the Steering Committee of the Group of Graduate Research, Education and Training of the Association of American Medical Colleges.



	David N. Redman Princeton University

	David Redman earned a B.A. in English from Williams College and a B.A. with honors in English from Worcester College at Oxford. He received his Ph.D. in English Literature from Yale University. Currently, he is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Princeton University, a position he has held since 1987. Prior to 1987, Dr. Redman was the Assistant Dean of the Graduate School (Budget and Financial Planning, Student Affairs and Housing, and Foreign Students) and Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs (Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) at Princeton University.



	Jocelyn Spragg Harvard University

	Jocelyn Spragg is the Faculty Director of Minority Programs and Special Academic Resources in the Ph.D. programs office at Harvard Medical School. She received a B.A. from Smith College, Ph.D. from Harvard University in Bacteriology and Immunology, and Ed.M. in Counseling Psychology from Boston University. Prior to 1990, her research interests included mediators of inflammatory reactions, biochemistry of the kallikrein systems, clotting mechanisms and related areas. Dr. Spragg has authored more than fifty research publications. Since 1990, her career interests have focussed on career and academic counseling and the development and administration of programs and curricula to encourage women and members of under-represented minorities to consider careers in sciences. Dr. Spragg was the course developer and principal lecturer for the Radcliffe Summer Program in Science (1988-94). She is the developer and director of the Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program (1991-present) and the faculty administrative advisor to the Four Direction Summer Research Program (1994-present).