Stanford University
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Matthew Berman
Intellectual Property Manager, Life Sciences, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioMat is a patent attorney and also has many years of experience working as a university technology licensing professional. Mat advises his OTL colleagues on patent law, IP strategy, and agreement drafting.
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Russell Berman
Walter A. Haas Professor of the Humanities, Professor of Comparative Literature and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
BioProfessor Berman joined the Stanford faculty in 1979. He was awarded a Mellon Faculty Fellow in the Humanities at Harvard, an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in Berlin, and in 1997 the Bundesverdienstkreuz of the Federal Republic of Germany. He has directed several National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars for College Teachers, and he is now a member of the National Humanities Council. At Stanford, he has served in several administrative offices, including Chair of German Studies, Director of the Overseas Studies Program, and Director of Stanford Introductory Studies. In 2011 he served as President of the Modern Language Association. Professor Berman is the editor emeritus of the quarterly journal Telos. He previously served as Senior Advisor on the Policy Planning Staff of the U.S. State Department. He is currently the Faculty Director of Comparative Literature at Stanford and Director of the Working Group on the Middle East and the Islamic World at the Hoover Institution.
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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.
