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RADM Kenneth Bernard
Distinguished Visiting Fellows, HOOVER RESEARCH
BioRear Admiral Kenneth Bernard, USPHS (Ret.), is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and is a member of the Defense Science Board Permanent Subcommittee on Threats and the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity. He served in the George W. Bush White House as Special Assistant to the President for Biodefense and Assistant Surgeon General. After leaving the U.S. Government, he became the Senior Political Adviser to the Director-General of the World Health Organization.
In the George W. Bush White House, RADM Bernard directed policy development to prevent, mitigate and respond to chemical, biological, and radiological attacks by states or terrorist groups. Following the September 11 attacks, he created the position of Special Adviser for National Security, Intelligence and Defense for the Secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, where he coordinated the development of an intelligence infrastructure around WMD threats.
In the Clinton White House, he was Senior Adviser for Security and Health on the National Security Council Staff, dealing with bioterrorism, smallpox, HIV/AIDS, and other threats as they affect national security. RADM Bernard served as the International Health Attaché at the U.S. Mission to the UN in Geneva and was head of the U.S. Delegation negotiating the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. He began his career as a physician and a viral disease epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control.
RADM Bernard was awarded the USPHS Distinguished Service Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Surgeon General’s Exemplary Service Medal, and the USPHS Outstanding Service and Commendation Medals. He also received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service and the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service.
He received his AB degree from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.D. from the University of California, Davis, a DTM&H from the University of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is board certified in internal medicine, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. -
Roberto J. Bernardo MD, MS, ATSF
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsExercise hemodynamics and cardiopulmonary exercise testing
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Shawn Bernardo
Program Manager, Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE)
Current Role at StanfordPACE Program Manager
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B. Bernheim
Edward Ames Edmonds Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
BioB. Douglas Bernheim is the Edward Ames Edmonds Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Stanford University, as well as Department Chair. After completing an A.B. in Economics from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he joined the Stanford faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1982. He moved to Northwestern University’s J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management in 1988, and to Princeton University in 1990, before returning to Stanford in 1994. His awards and honors include election as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, election as a fellow of the Econometric Society, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship.
Professor Bernheim’s work has spanned a variety of fields, including public economics, behavioral economics, game theory, contract theory, industrial organization, political economy, and financial economics. His notable contributions include the following: in the area of game theory, introducing and exploring the concepts of rationalizability (thereby helping to launch the field of epistemic game theory), coalition-proofness, and collective dynamic consistency (also known as renegotiation-proofness); in the area of incentive theory, introducing and exploring the concepts of common agency and menu auctions, and developing a theory of incomplete contracts; in the area of industrial organization, developing theories of multimarket contact and exclusive dealing; concerning social motives in economics, introducing and exploring the concept of strategic bequest motives, and developing theories of conformity, Veblen effects, and the equal division norm; developing and applying a framework for behavioral welfare economics; developing an economic theory of addictive behaviors; conducting the earliest economic analyses of financial education; and analyzing the conceptual foundations for Ricardian equivalence.
Professor Bernheim is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Senior Fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), and Co-Director of SIEPR's Tax and Budget Policy Program. He has also served as the Director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE), and as Co-Editor of the American Economic Review. He is currently serving as Co-Editor of the Handbook of Behavioral Economics.
