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Appendix ATask Force Members and Staff BiosketchesNeal F. Lane, Ph.D., ChairMalcolm Gillis University Professor ofDepartment of Physics and AstronomySenior Fellow of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public PolicyRice UniversityNeal Lane is the Malcom Gillis University Professor at Rice University. He also holdsappointments as Senior Fellow of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, where he isengaged in matters of science and technology policy, and in the Department of Physics andAstronomy. Prior to returning to Rice University, Dr. Lane served in the Federal government asAssistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office ofScience and Technology Policy, from August 1998 to January 2001. In addition he was theDirector of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and member (ex officio) of the NationalScience Board, from October 1993 to August 1998. Before becoming the NSF Director, Dr.Lane was Provost and Professor of Physics at Rice University in Houston, Texas, a position hehad held since 1986. He first came to Rice in 1966, when he joined the Department of Physicsas an assistant professor. In 1972, he became Professor of Physics and Space Physics andAstronomy. He left Rice from mid-1984 to 1986 to serve as Chancellor of the University ofColorado at Colorado Springs. From 1979 to 1980, while on leave from Rice, he worked at theNSF as Director of the Division of Physics. Dr. Lane received his Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. inphysics from Oklahoma University.John Stobo, M.D., Vice ChairPresidentThe University of Texas Medical Branch at GalvestonJohn Stobo began his medical career at the University of Vermont School of Medicine. There,he became interested in the science of medicine and spent a year in immunology researchbetween his sophomore and junior year. After graduating from medical school, he completed hisresidency training in internal medicine on the Osler Medical Service at Johns Hopkins Hospitalwhere he was chief medical resident. He continued his research in immunology as a researchassociate at the National Institutes of Health. From 1973 to 1976 he was in the department ofimmunology at the Mayo Clinic and served as head of the section of rheumatology and clinicalimmunology at the University of California, San Francisco from 1976 to 1985. There he was aninvestigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In 1985, he returned to Johns Hopkins asthe William Osler professor of medicine and director of the department of medicine. In 1994, Dr.Stobo became chairman and CEO of Johns Hopkins Health Care, L.L.C., an organizationcreated to address challenges in managed care on behalf of Johns Hopkins Medicine. In 1997,Dr. Stobo became president of The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. As theonly full service, state owned hospitals in Texas, UTMB address the health needs of medicallyunderserved individuals throughout the state of Texas.