Members

Convener & Chair

• Tykocinski, Mark L., MD◇†

  Dean Emeritus, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, · Philadelphia, PA, USA · Past President & Provost, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA · Past Chair, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA · 2026 Gold-Headed Cane Award, American Society for Pathobiology, FASEB · Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2014) · Scientific Founder, KAHR Bio (Cancer Fusion Protein Immunotherapeutics Start-Up)

Administrative Lead

• Markwood, Priscilla

  Executive Director EmeritUS, Association for Academic Pathology · (formerly Association of Pathology Chairs)

Meeting Facilitator

• Song-Ruiter, Angela, PhD

  Founder and Principal, DASR Pro

Working Subgroup A · Evolutionary Stages of Physicianship

Evolutionary Stages of Physicianship

• Ben Yehuda, Dina, MD

  Dean Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel · 2026 Ruth Rappaport Lifetime Achievement Award

• Kataoka, Hitomi, MD, PhD

  Deputy Head, Center for Medical Education & Internationalization, Kyoto University, · Kyoto, Japan

• Kurth, Ann, MSN, MPH, PhD

  President & CEO, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY, USA · Dean Emeritus, Yale School of Nursing, New Haven, CT, USA · U.S. National Academy of Medicine; Fellow, American Academy of Nursing

• Louis, David, MD

  Pathologist-in-Chief & Chief of Enterprise Pathology Massachusetts General Hospital · Executive Sponsor, MGH Center for Innovation in Digital Health · Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Mass General Brigham, Cambridge, MA, USA · 2008 Zülch Prize of the Max Planck Society · Primary Editor, 2007 and 2016, WHO Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System

• Thomas, Reena, MD, PhD

  Senior Associate Dean of Medical Education, Stanford University School of Medicine · Fellow, American Academy of Neurology (2024); Silicon Valley Top 40 Under 40 (2014)

• Ziv, Amitai, MD, MHA

  Founding Director, MSR-Azrieli Medical Simulation Center; Director, Integrated Rehabilitation Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel · 2007 Charles Bronfman Award for Humanitarian Action · 2022 Lennox K. Black Prize for Excellence in Biomedical Research · 2026 Society for Simulation in Healthcare Pioneer Award

Working Subgroup B · AI, Data & Complexity Sciences, Robotics

AI · Data Sciences · Complexity Science · Statistics and Mathematics · Advanced Robotics

• Benjamini, Yoav, PhD

  Professor Emeritus of Applied Statistics, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2024 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics Laureate; U.S. National Academy of Sciences

• Higgins, John, MD

  Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School | Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge, MA · 2012 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

• Klodmann, Julian, PhD

  Head, Surgical Robotics Team, Institute for Robotics & Mechanotronics, · German Aerospace Center DLR, Munich, Germany

• Persidis, Andreas, PhD

  CEO and Co-Founder, Biovista · Best European CEO (2018)

• Rigoutsos, Isidore, PhD

  Founding Director, Computational Medicine Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA · Professor in Computational Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, TJU, Philadelphia, USA · Co-Founder, Computational Biology Center of IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center

• Ueda, Daiju, MD

  Chair, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Osaka Metropolitan University, · Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan · 2023 Medical Imaging Artificial Intelligence Research Award

• Walston, Shannon, PhD

  Research Fellow, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Osaka Metropolitan University, · Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Working Subgroup C · Biomedical Frontiers

Biomedical Frontiers

• Brown, Nancy, MD

  Dean, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA · Chair Emeritus, Department of Medicine & Physician-in-Chief, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA · Harriet Dustan Ward, AHA; 2018 A. Ross McIntyre Award for Achievement in Medical Science; · 2021 August M. Watanabe Prize in Translational Research

• Coller, Barry, MD

  Past Physician-in-Chief, The Rockefeller University Hospital · U.S. National Academy of Sciences (2003); 2001 Warren Alpert Foundation Award

• Persidis, Aris, PhD

  President and Co-Founder, Biovista · 1986 Honeywell European Futurist Award · Author, ‘Industry Trends’ column of Nature Biotechnology (1997-2000)

• Reece, Al, MD

  Dean Emeritus, University of Maryland School of Medicine · Vice Chancellor & Dean Emeritus, University of Arkansas College of Medicine · U.S. National Academy of Medicine; Former Chair, Council of Deans, AAMC

• Wiestler, Otmar, MD

  Director, Champalimaud Science, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal · Past President, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres · Past Chair & Scientific Member of the Management Board, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany · 2004 German Cancer Award; German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2001)

Reviewing Members

Joining at the Draft-Review Stage · In formation | Tentative List

• Albu-Schaeffer, Alin, PhD

  Director, Institute for Robotics & Mechanotronics, German Aerospace Center DLR, Munich, Germany; Professor, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany · Member, German Academy of Science & Engineering (2021)

• Bailey, David, MD

  Dean Emeritus & Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, UC Irvine School of Medicine, · Irvine, CA, USA · Chair Emeritus, Department of Pathology, UC San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA · Past President, Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists · UC Regent Edward Dickson Professorship Award, UC San Diego Emeriti Association

• Gabrielli, Christopher

  Co-Founder & Former CEO, Empower Schools; Co-Founder, Massachusetts 2020 and the National Center on Time and Learning · Chair, Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, MA, USA · Past Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners · Author: Time to Learn

• Honjo, Tasuka, PhD

  Distinguished Professor, Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study; · Executive Member of the Council for Science & Technology Policy, Cabinet Office (2006-12) · 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; 2017 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize; · 1981 Noguchi Hideyo-Memorial Award for Medicine; The Imperial Prize and the Japan Academy Prize (1996), Foreign Associate of U.S. National Academy of Sciences (2001)

• Howell, Lydia, MD

  Chair Emeritus, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UC Davis Health · Former President, Association of Pathology Chairs · Former President, American Society of Cytopathology (ASC) · 2017 Papanicolaou Award (highest honor of the ASC)

• Golden, Jeffrey MD

  Executive Vice Dean for Research & Education, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, · Los Angeles, CA, USA; Director, Burns and Allen Research Institute, CSMC · Chair Emeritus, Department of Pathology, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, · Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA · Past Pathologist-in-Chief, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

• Kitano, Hiroaki, PhD

  President, The Systems Biology Institute, Tokyo, Japan · Group Director, Laboratory for Desease Systems Modeling, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences · Past President & CEO, Sony Computer Science Laboratories · 1993 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award (one of the highest early-career honors in AI) · Past President, IJCAI · ISSB (International Society for Systems Biology) Fellow (2014) · 2021 AAAI Fellow, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

• Krakauer, John, MD

  Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA · Director, Center for the Study of Motor Learning, Animation, and Movement Lab, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA · Director, Centre for Restorative Neurotechnology, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

• Ku, Bon, MD, MPP

  Program Manager, ARPA-H (Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health) · Past Founding Director, Health Design Lab, and Former Associate Dean for Health and Design, · Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

• Mallat, Stéphane, PhD

  Data Science Chair, Collège de France, École Normal Supérieure, Paris, France · Co-founder & CEO, Let it Wave · French Academy of Technologies; U.S. National Academy of Engineering · CNRS Gold Medal (2025); Officer of the Legion of Honor (2024); · CNRS Innovation Medal (2013); Prix Blaise Pascal (1997); IEEE Sustained Impact Award; · 2023 Milner Award, Royal Society

• Mangione, Salvatore, MD

  Associate Professor of Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, TJU, Philadelphia, PA, USA · Author: Secrets in Physical Diagnosis

• Melmed, Shlomo, MD

  Executive Vice President of Medicine & Health Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA · Co-Director, Cedars-Sinai Pituitary Center · Master, American College of Physicians; Pituitary Society Lifetime Achievement Award; · Clinical Endocrinology Trust Medal (Royal Society of Medicine)

• Minato, Nagahira, PhD

  Past President, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan · Member, Central Council for Education, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology (MEXT), Tokyo, Japan

• Minor, Lloyd, MD

  Dean, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, USA · Past Provost & SVP for Academic Affairs, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA · National Academy of Medicine (2012

• Saini, Vikas, MD

  President, Lown Institute, Boston, MA

• Sato, Takami, MD

  Professor in Medical Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, TJU, USA · Director, Metastatic Uveal Melanoma Program, SKMC, TJU, USA · Executive Director, Jefferson Japan Center

• Sgambato, Alessandro, MD, PhD

  Dean, Faculty of Medicine & Surgery, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy · Former Scientific Director, IRCCS-CROB (Centro di Riferimento Oncologico della Basilicata)

• Shilo, Noya, MD

  Founding Director, Back to Life Center, Ramat Gan, Israel · Deputy Head, Internal Medicine, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel · Member, Sheba Beyond (virtual hospital-of-the-future initiative)

• Snyder, Greg, MD, MBA

  Attending Physician, Mass General Brigham · Entrepreneur in Residence, Mass General Healthcare Transformation Lab · Associate Faculty, Ariadne Labs

• Tschop, Matthias, MD

  President, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany · Former CEO and Scientific Director, Helmhotz Zentrum München · 2023 Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement, ADA; 2023 Ernst Schering Prize; · 2021 Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine; 2017 Carus Medal, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina; 2014 Erwin Schrödinger Prize · Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (one of Germany’s most prestigious research awards) · Elected Member of the Leopoldina (German National Academy of Sciences), Bavarian Academy of Sciences, EMBO, ASCI, AAP

• Vadigepalli, Raj, PhD

  Senior Associate Dean of Research & Research Education, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albequerque, NM, USA · Director, Medical AI Education · Member, FDA Panel on In Silico Technologies · Former Co-Director, Scholarly Inquiry in Digital Health, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Other Workshop Participants

Not Otherwise Members of the Initiative · Tentative List

• Krakauer, David, PhD

  President, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA · Professor of Complex Systems, Santa Fe Institute · Past Founding Director, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery; Co-Director of the Center for Complexity and Collective Computation; and Professor of Mathematical Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA · Wellcome Research Fellow in Mathematical Biology and Lecturer at Pembroke College, Oxford

• Fontana, Walter, PhD

  Professor, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA · Research Professor and External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute · Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Center for Nonlinear Studies) and · Santa Fe Institute · Member, Program in Theoretical Biology, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) · External Faculty, Konrad Lorenz Institute

• Ogbunu, C. Brandon, PhD

  Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University · Professor, Santa Fe Institute

• Savage, Vance, PhD

  Professor, Departments of Computational Medicine, and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA · External Professor, Santa Fe Institute · James S. McDonnell Foundation Scholar Award in Complex Systems (2016-2021)

• Wallach, David-Andrew

  Co-Founder, Time BioVentures · Board of Trustees, Santa Fe Institute; Advisory Board, No Patient Left Behind; Co-Founder, Franca Fund (preventive genomics nonprofit) · The Future Physician Initiative convened in preliminary sessions, organized itself into three working subgroups, expanded its membership at the draft-review stage, and met in workshop at the Santa Fe Institute 3-5 November 2026. A full account of that process appears in the ‘About this Report’ section; the allocation of specific contributions appears in the Contributions Statement in that section.