Johns Hopkins

RISK SCIENCES AND PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE    Located in Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute is "dedicated to the protection of health through education, service and research in risk and policy." (<a target="cspi" href="http://www.jhsph.edu/RiskSciences/About_the_Institute/index.html" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://www.jhsph.edu/RiskSciences/About_the_Institute/index.html</a>; accessed 9/19/02) The institute was established with a $1.85 million grant from CSX Corp., an East Coast rail and freight company. (Baltimore Sun, 10/10/95, p. B2)<p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My jaw continues to drop when I think about the <a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/environment/breathless-and-burdened" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(4, 78, 142); text-decoration-line: none;">scathing reports</a> this month from the Center for Public Integrity about the law firm Jackson Kelly and their scheming with clients to screw coal miners out of black lung benefits. In <a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/10/29/13585/coal-industrys-go-law-firm-withheld-evidence-black-lung-expense-sick-miners" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(4, 78, 142); text-decoration-line: none;">“Coal industry’s go-to law firm withheld evidence of black lung, at expense of sick miners,”</a> Chris Hamby explains the deceitful and devious manner in which Jackson Kelly attorneys intentionally withheld medical reports that validate diagnoses of serious respiratory disease in coal miners.<p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The irony—the disgusting irony—is how coal operators insist that their employees are their most precious resource. Alpha Natural Resources, for example, <a href="http://www.alphanr.com/joinourteam/Pages/default.aspx" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(4, 78, 142); text-decoration-line: none;">says</a>:<blockquote style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Our people are our power…What’s the secret to our success? We put our people first.”</blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Arch Coal <a href="http://www.archcoal.com/careers/default.aspx" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(4, 78, 142); text-decoration-line: none;">proclaims</a><blockquote style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“we recognize our employees as highly valued resources.”</blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most coal operators also claim “integrity” as a key company value.<p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let’s face it.  Coal miners are only valued when they are running coal. They’re on their own—and Jackson Kelly sees to it—-when they develop black lung.  It’s a disease that is 100 percent preventable but only if coal operators invest and maintain appropriate dust controls.<p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hamby’s investigative reporting reveals this about Jackson Kelly:<blockquote style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“For almost two centuries, the firm has served the coal industry. It is the go-to place for many of the industry’s giants when they want to beat back a miner’s claim for benefits.”</blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The law firm’s <a href="http://www.jacksonkelly.com/view.aspx?s=Overview" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(4, 78, 142); text-decoration-line: none;">website notes</a> that it:<blockquote style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“enjoys a national reputation in safety and health, Federal Black Lung…and we try to practice law in ways that honor our founders. Clients should be served effectively [and] our profession honorably. The Firm takes even more pride in the trust of our clients across three centuries.”</blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you can stomach any more, <a href="http://www.jacksonkelly.com/is_view.aspx?is=14&state=industry" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(4, 78, 142); text-decoration-line: none;">they brag</a>:<blockquote style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The Firm continues to provide the highest quality legal resources and representation to coal clients nationwide. The Firm’s unique history and ties to the coal industry enable its lawyers to appreciate the client perspective as the Firm becomes an integrated member of the client’s team.  …Jackson Kelly attorneys understand the coal industry from the inside.”</blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Their website goes on to boast of their attorneys’ appointments to the Boards of the Kentucky Coal Association, West Virginia Coal Association, Colorado Mining Association, among others, as well as legal counsel to some of these groups.<p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While Jackson Kelly’s attorneys and clients sit in well-furnished conference rooms with their spit-shined shoes, their “most precious resource” cuts the coal and breathes its deadly dust. The coal miners create the wealth for their employers and their lungs suffer the consequences. When they retire—sometimes during their prime—and make a claim for black lung benefits they are foiled at every turn.<p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hamby shares the story of West Virginia coal miner Gary Fox and his wife.<blockquote style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Fox was used to the dusty caverns of the mines in the southern part of the state, where he’d spent more than 25 years working underground in the heart of Appalachian coal country. They had never been in a courtroom before.  …By 1999, his symptoms convinced him to apply for federal benefits. A doctor certified by the U.S. Department of Labor examined him and diagnosed the most severe form of the disease, known as complicated coal workers’ pneumoconiosis. The government ordered his employer, a subsidiary of behemoth Massey Energy Co., to begin paying him monthly benefits, but, as is almost always the case, the company appealed.”</blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prior to filing his claim for black lung benefits, Fox had undergone surgery to remove a mass from his lung. The pathologists ruled out cancer, and didn’t have any reason to look for the black lung disease. As Hamby explains:<blockquote style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Unknown to Fox, however, Jackson Kelly had obtained the slides of his lung tissue and sent them to two pathologists in its usual stable — doctors whose opinions typically supported the firm’s case. This time Jackson Kelly didn’t get the answer it wanted. Both pathologists wrote reports indicating the mass likely was complicated black lung.”</blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jackson Kelly kept those results to themselves.<blockquote style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Fox, the judge and the firm’s own consulting doctors had no idea they [the original pathology reports] existed. In the months that followed, a team of Jackson Kelly lawyers built a case around the hospital pathologist’s report and its vague diagnosis of “inflammatory pseudotumor.” They encouraged the court and their own consulting doctors to view the report as the sole, definitive account of what Fox’s lung tissue revealed.”</blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The judge ruled in favor of the coal company. Fox had few options, Hamby notes:<blockquote style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“He had a family to support, and he needed health insurance because Mary had a chronic illness. He went back to the mine, his health deteriorating. For years, no one but the firm knew of the powerful evidence that he had the severe disease and should get out of the mine’s dusty atmosphere immediately.”“What happened to Gary Fox was not the result of a rogue attorney or singular circumstances. It was part of a cutthroat approach to fighting miners’ claims that Jackson Kelly has employed to great effect for decades. Some of the firm’s tactics go beyond aggressive advocacy, crossing into unethical behavior, according to current and former judges, lawyers and state disciplinary officials. As a result, sick and dying miners have been denied the modest benefits and affordable medical care that would allow them to survive and support their families.”</blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What I learned from Chris Hamby’s reporting about Jackson Kelly’s and the coal industry’s behavior disgusts me. It also disgust all of my family and colleagues who’ve read Hamby’s enlightening piece. Phil Smith, spokesman for the United Mine Workers put it this way:<blockquote style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The lawyers at Jackson Kelly who hid clear evidence that miners had black lung, and the doctors at Johns Hopkins who denied the evidence of black lung on thousands of x-rays, deserve to have the harshest penalties that are possible in their professions levied against them.  But whatever those penalties are, they cannot come close to making up for the terrible pain and suffering they have caused for thousands of victims of this insidious disease who met their end choking on their last breath.”</blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My colleague, and miners’ advocate Tony Oppegard adds this:<blockquote style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“It’s long been true that coal companies use miners and then discard them when their bodies break down and they’re no longer useful in the money-making business. Coal company executives don’t see human beings with complex human emotions; they see people as machines with expiration dates. When they outlive their usefulness, they are discarded like garbage. And treated like garbage.”“The actions of the lawyers at Jackson Kelly are shameful and dishonor all of us in the legal profession. I’ve long thought that most coal company lawyers are a dime a dozen, but the ethically-challenged attorneys profiled by the Center for Public Integrity don’t even deserve that small token of respect.”“As for Dr. Wheeler and Johns Hopkins University, they literally make me sick. Any corrupt doctor who lives a lavish lifestyle at the expense of miners suffering from black lung isn’t worthy of compassion. The entire black lung compensation program is rife with deceit and fraud. It’s a national disgrace.”</blockquote><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The coal companies in this country who currently retain Jackson Kelly for legal and lobbying services should ditch them. They should break all ties, acknowledge the scheming, and make amends to the nation’s coal miners. That’s the least they can do to demonstrate some truth to their assertions that miners are their greatest asset.</div>==

nick nichols
Nick Nichols (real name: David Nichols[1] ) co-founded the Nichols-Dezenhall public relations firm (which became Dezenhall Resources after he left in September 2003). He is now chairman of the communications firm CounterPoint Strategies.[1]
Nichols "develops and teaches graduate-level crisis management courses at the Johns Hopkins University...in crisis management and risk communications." [2]

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David Koch on Bd

milloy undergrad and MA biostat University School of Hygiene and Public Health,

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has a shiny new alternative to animal testing

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Johns Hopkins University is located in Baltimore Maryland.

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Johns_Hopkins_University#Animal_testing" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1 Animal testing</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Johns_Hopkins_University#Facility_information.2C_progress_reports_.26_USDA-APHIS_reports" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1.1 Facility information, progress reports & USDA-APHIS reports</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Johns_Hopkins_University#USDA_AWA_reports" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1.2 USDA AWA reports</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Johns_Hopkins_University#Animal_cruelty_.26_welfare_violations" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2 Animal cruelty & welfare violations</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Johns_Hopkins_University#Board" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">3 Board</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Johns_Hopkins_University#Articles_.26_sources" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">4 Articles & sources</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Johns_Hopkins_University#Sourcewatch_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">4.1 Sourcewatch articles</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Johns_Hopkins_University#References" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">4.2 References</a></li>

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Dow does <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Animal_testing" title="Animal testing" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">animal testing</a>.

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This facility performed animal experiments involving pain or distress but no analgesics, anesthetics or pain relievers were administered. For links to copies of this facility's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S._Department_of_Agriculture" title="U.S. Department of Agriculture" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">U.S. Department of Agriculture</a>-Animal Plant Health Inspection (APHIS) reports, other information and links, see also Facility Reports & Information: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Johns_Hopkins_University#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none;">[1]</a>

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As of May 26, 2009, the USDA began posting all inspection reports for animal breeders, dealers, exhibitors, handlers, research facilities and animal carriers by state. See also <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_welfare/inspection_list.shtml" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">USDA Animal Welfare Inspection Reports</a>.

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In February of 2005, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) paid $25,000 in fines to the USDA for repeated AWA violations. Charges were pressed mainly due to Johns Hopkins refusal to correct chronic and repeated violations. According to USDA inspectors, animals were not being given anesthetics or proper veterinary care during painful experiments. At least 37 primates were kept in cages that were either too small or failed to meet basic, humane standards.

Researcher George Ricaurte spends approximately $1 million per year in taxpayer funded "illicit drug studies" on monkeys and baboons. In one "experiment", Ricaurte killed research animals by "accidentally" injecting them with speed (instead of ecstasy). Lloyd Minor studies "vestibular compensation", or how eye movement reacts to sudden high-speed head movements and rotations. He implants metal coils into the eyes of squirrel monkeys and surgically installs steel poles into their skulls; which lock into a special restraint chair. The chair is rapidly spun, exerting tremendous force on the immobilized monkey. In variations, Minor cuts out pieces of their brains to see if "lobotomized" monkeys respond differently to chair spinning. Minor doesn't even bother to pretend that his medieval torture has human applications (which he also conducts on chinchillas), however this project receives almost $500,000 each year from the NI on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Johns_Hopkins_University#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none;">[2]</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Johns_Hopkins_University#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none;">[3]</a>

See also <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ten_worst_laboratories" title="Ten worst laboratories" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">ten worst laboratories</a> & section 1 on facility information & progress reports.

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<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Pamela_P._Flaherty" title="Pamela P. Flaherty" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Pamela P. Flaherty</a>, Chair</li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/C._Michael_Armstrong" title="C. Michael Armstrong" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">C. Michael Armstrong</a>, Vice Chair</li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_S._Frary&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Richard S. Frary (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Richard S. Frary</a>, Vice Chair</li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mark_E._Rubenstein&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mark E. Rubenstein (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Mark E. Rubenstein</a>, Vice Chair</li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Christopher_C._Angell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Christopher C. Angell (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Christopher C. Angell</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jeffrey_H._Aronson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jeffrey H. Aronson (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Jeffrey H. Aronson</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Janie_E._Bailey&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Janie E. Bailey (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Janie E. Bailey</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lenox_D.Baker,Jr.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lenox D. Baker, Jr. (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Lenox D. Baker, Jr.</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alfred_R._Berkeley_III&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alfred R. Berkeley III (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Alfred R. Berkeley III</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paula_E._Boggs&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paula E. Boggs (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Paula E. Boggs</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michelle_Ann_Brown&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michelle Ann Brown (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Michelle Ann Brown</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_L.Bunting,Jr.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="George L. Bunting, Jr. (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">George L. Bunting, Jr.</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Francis_B.Burch,Jr.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Francis B. Burch, Jr. (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Francis B. Burch, Jr.</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_I._Clarvit&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles I. Clarvit (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Charles I. Clarvit</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=N._Anthony_Coles&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="N. Anthony Coles (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">N. Anthony Coles</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ronald_J._Daniels&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ronald J. Daniels (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Ronald J. Daniels</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sarah_R._David&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sarah R. David (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Sarah R. David</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Anthony_W._Deering&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anthony W. Deering (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Anthony W. Deering</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Harvey_P._Eisen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Harvey P. Eisen (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Harvey P. Eisen</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Maria_T._Fazio&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Maria T. Fazio (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Maria T. Fazio</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Marjorie_M._Fisher&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marjorie M. Fisher (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Marjorie M. Fisher</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Louis_J._Forster&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Louis J. Forster (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Louis J. Forster</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sanford_D._Greenberg&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sanford D. Greenberg (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Sanford D. Greenberg</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Benjamin_Howell_Griswold_IV&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Benjamin Howell Griswold IV (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Benjamin Howell Griswold IV</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Taylor_Hanex&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Taylor Hanex (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Taylor Hanex</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lee_Meyerhoff_Hendler&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lee Meyerhoff Hendler (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Lee Meyerhoff Hendler</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_C._Hodgson" title="David C. Hodgson" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">David C. Hodgson</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=R._Christopher_Hoehn-Saric&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="R. Christopher Hoehn-Saric (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">R. Christopher Hoehn-Saric</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frank_L._Hurley&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Frank L. Hurley (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Frank L. Hurley</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stuart_S._Janney_III&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stuart S. Janney III (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Stuart S. Janney III</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jeong_H._Kim&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jeong H. Kim (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Jeong H. Kim</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_H._Koch" title="David H. Koch" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">David H. Koch</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Christopher_Kovalchick&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Christopher Kovalchick (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Christopher Kovalchick</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Donald_A._Kurz" title="Donald A. Kurz" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Donald A. Kurz</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Joanne_Leedom-Ackerman" title="Joanne Leedom-Ackerman" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Joanne Leedom-Ackerman</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alexander_H._Levi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alexander H. Levi (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Alexander H. Levi</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kwok-Leung_Li&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kwok-Leung Li (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Kwok-Leung Li</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roger_C._Lipitz&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Roger C. Lipitz (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Roger C. Lipitz</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Diana_C._Liu&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Diana C. Liu (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Diana C. Liu</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Christopher_E_Louie&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Christopher E Louie (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Christopher E Louie</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_C._Mandel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Howard C. Mandel (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Howard C. Mandel</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Christina_L._Mattin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Christina L. Mattin (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Christina L. Mattin</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Gail_J._McGovern" title="Gail J. McGovern" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Gail J. McGovern</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Peter_A._Meyer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peter A. Meyer (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Peter A. Meyer</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kweisi_Mfume" title="Kweisi Mfume" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Kweisi Mfume</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Westley_W.O._Moore&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Westley W.O. Moore (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Westley W.O. Moore</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Naneen_Hunter_Neubohn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Naneen Hunter Neubohn (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Naneen Hunter Neubohn</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_P._Nolan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David P. Nolan (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">David P. Nolan</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ronald_M._Nordmann&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ronald M. Nordmann (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Ronald M. Nordmann</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Geraldine_A._Peterson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Geraldine A. Peterson (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Geraldine A. Peterson</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Walter_D.Pinkard,Jr.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Walter D. Pinkard, Jr. (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Walter D. Pinkard, Jr.</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joseph_R.Reynolds,Jr.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joseph R. Reynolds, Jr. (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Joseph R. Reynolds, Jr.</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Brian_C._Rogers&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brian C. Rogers (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Brian C. Rogers</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_M._Rubenstein" title="David M. Rubenstein" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">David M. Rubenstein</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Marshal_L._Salant&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marshal L. Salant (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Marshal L. Salant</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_A._Seder&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert A. Seder (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Robert A. Seder</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Donald_J._Shepard" title="Donald J. Shepard" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Donald J. Shepard</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rajendra_Singh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rajendra Singh (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Rajendra Singh</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Raymond_W._Snow&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Raymond W. Snow (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Raymond W. Snow</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Adena_W._Testa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Adena W. Testa (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Adena W. Testa</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Selwyn_M_Vickers&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Selwyn M Vickers (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Selwyn M Vickers</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_F.Ward,Jr.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William F. Ward, Jr. (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">William F. Ward, Jr.</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_L._Winter&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James L. Winter (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">James L. Winter</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">[[Shirley S.L. Yang</li>

</ul>

Emeritus Trustees

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Robert_J._Abernethy" title="Robert J. Abernethy" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Robert J. Abernethy</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Leonard_Abramson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Leonard Abramson (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Leonard Abramson</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Peter_G._Angelos&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peter G. Angelos (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Peter G. Angelos</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norman_R._Augustine" title="Norman R. Augustine" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Norman R. Augustine</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=H._Furlong_Baldwin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="H. Furlong Baldwin (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">H. Furlong Baldwin</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jeremiah_A._Barondess&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jeremiah A. Barondess (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Jeremiah A. Barondess</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ernest_A._Bates&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ernest A. Bates (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Ernest A. Bates</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_H._Bernstein&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David H. Bernstein (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">David H. Bernstein</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Aurelia_Garland_Bolton&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aurelia Garland Bolton (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Aurelia Garland Bolton</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Randolph_W._Bromery&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Randolph W. Bromery (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Randolph W. Bromery</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Constance_Rose_Caplan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Constance Rose Caplan (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Constance Rose Caplan</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_Polk_Carey&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Polk Carey (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">William Polk Carey</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=A._James_Clark&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A. James Clark (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">A. James Clark</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Victor_J._Dankis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Victor J. Dankis (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Victor J. Dankis</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Edward_K.Dunn,Jr.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Edward K. Dunn, Jr. (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Edward K. Dunn, Jr.</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Manuel_Dupkin_II&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Manuel Dupkin II (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Manuel Dupkin II</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_A.Flick,Jr.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James A. Flick, Jr. (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">James A. Flick, Jr.</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gottlieb_C._Friesinger_II&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gottlieb C. Friesinger II (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Gottlieb C. Friesinger II</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_D.H._Harvey&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert D.H. Harvey (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Robert D.H. Harvey</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rafael_Hernandez-Colon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rafael Hernandez-Colon (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Rafael Hernandez-Colon</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=F._Pierce_Linaweaver&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="F. Pierce Linaweaver (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">F. Pierce Linaweaver</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Raymond_A._Mason" title="Raymond A. Mason" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Raymond A. Mason</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harvey_M._Meyerhoff" title="Harvey M. Meyerhoff" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Harvey M. Meyerhoff</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_D._Miller&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles D. Miller (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Charles D. Miller</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Milton_H._Miller&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Milton H. Miller (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Milton H. Miller</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ralph_S._O%27Connor&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ralph S. O'Connor (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Ralph S. O'Connor</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Morris_W._Offit&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Morris W. Offit (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Morris W. Offit</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_G._Radcliffe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="George G. Radcliffe (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">George G. Radcliffe</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_F._Ruffle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John F. Ruffle (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">John F. Ruffle</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arthur_Sarnoff&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arthur Sarnoff (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Arthur Sarnoff</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Frank_Savage" title="Frank Savage" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Frank Savage</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wayne_N._Schelle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wayne N. Schelle (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Wayne N. Schelle</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Herschel_L._Seder&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Herschel L. Seder (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Herschel L. Seder</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Huntington_Sheldon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Huntington Sheldon (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Huntington Sheldon</a></li>

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<li id="cite_note-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Johns_Hopkins_University#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.all-creatures.org/saen/md/res-fr-md-jhu.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Facility Reports and Information: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD</a>, Stop Animal Exploitation NOW!, accessed October 2009</li>

<li id="cite_note-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Johns_Hopkins_University#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stopanimaltests.com/f-worstlabs_07.asp" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Johns Hopkins University</a>, 10 Worst Laboratories, PETA.org, accessed February 2009</li>

<li id="cite_note-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Johns_Hopkins_University#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.all-creatures.org/saen/press-20050809.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Johns Hopkins University labs slapped with hefty $25,000 USDA fine after watchdog group files complaint</a>, SAEN, August 9, 2005</li>

<li id="cite_note-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Johns_Hopkins_University#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://trustees.jhu.edu/members.php" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Trustees</a>, Johns Hopkins University, accessed February 2010</li>

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Chris Hamby pulitzer

<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.4799995422363px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.33em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Breathless and Burdened - the year long investigative journalism series that won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Journalism by the Centre of Public Integrity - Chris Hamby - has features in common with what has been going on at ACC.</div>

<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 20.2159996032715px; margin-bottom: 1.33em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hamby's year long investigation examined how doctors and lawyers, working at the behest of the coal industry, have helped defeat the benefits claims of miners sick and dying of black lung, even as disease rates are on the rise and an increasing number of miners are turning to a system that was supposed to help alleviate their suffering.</div>

<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 20.2159996032715px; margin-bottom: 1.33em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">hospital: What has remained in the shadows is the work of a small unit of radiologists who are professors at the medical school and physicians at the hospital. For 40 years, these doctors have been perhaps the most sought-after and prolific readers of chest films on behalf of coal companies seeking to defeat miners’ claims. Their fees flow directly to the university, which supports their work, an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity and ABC News has found. According to the university, none of the money goes directly to the doctors</div>

Jackson Kelly PLLC, long the go-to law firm for coal companies seeking to beat back miners’ claims for federal black lung benefits, has a decades-long record of:

<li style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Withholding key evidence. The firm has shielded reports generated by doctors of its choosing when even they found the miner had black lung. Of 15 cases reviewed in detail by the Center — dating from the 1980s to the present — the firm withheld reports in at least 11. Jackson Kelly has argued, sometimes successfully, that there is nothing improper about its approach, saying it submits evidence that support its case.</li>

<li style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Presenting incomplete or potentially misleading evidence. The firm has allowed judges and consulting doctors to form opinions based on only the reports it chose to provide, even as it withheld other documents that cast doubt on what was in the record.</li>

<li style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Conceding the case and avoiding disclosure. In the rare instances when a miner’s lawyer pushed for documents to be turned over and a judge commanded the firm to do so, Jackson Kelly, on behalf of its client, sometimes conceded the case, in theory rendering disclosure moot. This happened in six of the cases reviewed by the Center.</li>

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<div style=" orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.33em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/04/17/joe_manchin_backs_law_firm_accused_of_concealing_black_lung_medical_evidence_partner/">http://www.salon.com/2014/04/17/joe_manchin_backs_law_firm_accused_of_concealing_black_lung_medical_evidence_partner/</a></div>

<p style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; line-height: 20px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">A Jackson Kelly attorney named Douglas Smoot had his law license <a href="http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201011171085" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">suspended</a> in 2011 for one year after being accused of hiding evidence in a black lung case. Other Jackson Kelly attorneys have <a href="http://www.charlestondailymail.com/News/201310300149?page=1&build=cache#sthash.qKeHbxcN.dpuf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">faced</a> investigations over their conduct in regards to black lung cases. One retired judge who handled black lung cases reviewed documents obtained by the Center for Public Integrity investigation and <a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/10/29/13585/coal-industrys-go-law-firm-withheld-evidence-black-lung-expense-sick-miners" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">said</a> the firm had been “really misleading the court.”

Manchin is a close ally to the coal industry. At the conference, he touted his <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/28/coal-epa-emissions_n_4171465.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">new legislation</a> that would block the EPA from implementing new regulations on coal power plants. Jackson Kelly, according to its website, has represented the coal industry<a href="http://www.charlestondailymail.com/News/statenews/201311070133" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">since</a> the mid-19th century.

As Public Campaign <a href="http://www.publicampaign.org/blog/2013/10/30/west-virginia-members-go-quiet-allegations-against-donor-law-firm" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">noted</a>, Manchin has “received $50,825 from Jackson Kelly employees during his time in Congress, his seventh-largest donor.”

Manchin did not sign on to the letter from other congressional Democrats asking the Labor Department to investigate claims that Jackson Kelly improperly concealed medical evidence of black lung claims.

Yet, Manchin told us that he is confident that any potential wrongdoing will be worked out.

“You can’t find people guilty before they go through the process. Are you accusing them of being guilty?” said Manchin. Asked again about the Center for Public Integrity report, Manchin replied, “I’m just saying, let’s see where it unfolds.”...

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...To highlight its charges, the Center tells the stories of several miners in their struggles for black lung benefits against Jackson Kelly. One of those is West Virginia coal miner Gary Fox, who worked underground in the mines for more than 30 years. Fox first applied for black lung benefits in 1999 after he began experiencing shortness of breath and coughing up black mucus. A U.S. Labor Department doctor diagnosed Fox with the most severe form of black lung. However, Fox’s employer, a subsidiary of Massey Energy, appealed the government’s order to begin paying him $704.30 in monthly benefits.

Unable to find a lawyer to take on his case, Fox entered the courts in 2000 without legal representation, armed only with his testimony and the opinion of the Labor Department doctor. Jackson Kelly, representing the coal company, on the other hand, produced “medical reports, depositions, and resumes of eminent doctors who’d reviewed the evidence.” What the law firm did not submit were the reports of two coal company pathologists who had concluded that a suspicious mass removed from Fox’s lung two years prior was likely complicated by black lung.

Relying only on the evidence presented in Fox’s case, presiding judge Edward Terhune Miller denied his claim in 2001, forcing Fox to return to the mines to support his family. Fox, when he retired in 2007, enlisted the help of attorney John Cline. By that time, Fox was physically unable to continue working even in a capacity above ground.

Through his involvement with other black lung cases involving Jackson Kelly, Cline was aware of their tactics and found it suspicious that the law firm hadn’t presented any pathology evidence from their own doctors. In handling Fox’s second claim for benefits, Cline requested Jackson Kelly turn over any evidence not previously presented.

When the law firm refused, Cline filed a discovery motion with presiding judge Thomas Burke, who sided with Cline. After repeated stalling, Jackson Kelly eventually conceded the case.

Judge Burke found in Fox’s favor in February 2009, awarding him benefits dating back to 1997. Burke also ruled that Jackson Kelly’s actions had in fact raised to the level of “fraud on the court,” writing that the “Employer’s ‘zealous’ representation strategy instills uncertainty and cynicism into a program intended to compensate miners disabled from black lung.”

Judge Burke’s ruling was eventually overturned by the review board, which was recently upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Gary Fox passed away on April 14, 2009, at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center after breathing problems caused his heart to fail. An autopsy conducted ruled that Fox had complicated black lung.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/02/20/blck-f20.html

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The coal industry has a decades-old friendship with Johns Hopkins University, but now that cozy relationship is being torn apart by the scrutiny of investigative journalists.

When employees filed for black-lung-related benefits, coal companies paid the Baltimore-based university handsome sums to screen the claimants for the disease. After reviewing chest X-rays, the university’s scientists almost always concluded that the scans did not show black lung — a conclusion which often overwhelmed any other medical opinion in the case.

(<a href="http://www.umwa.org/?q=content/black-lung" target="_blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">Black lung disease</a>, or coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, kills an estimated 1,500 former coal miners every year. It is a painful and preventable ailment contracted by inhaling coal dust.)

The racket was exposed by the ABC, <a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/10/30/13637/johns-hopkins-medical-unit-rarely-finds-black-lung-helping-coal-industry-defeat" target="_blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">working in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity</a>:

For 40 years, these doctors have been perhaps the most sought-after and prolific readers of chest films on behalf of coal companies seeking to defeat miners’ claims. Their fees flow directly to the university, which supports their work, an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity and ABC News has found. According to the university, none of the money goes directly to the doctors.

Their reports — seemingly ubiquitous and almost unwaveringly negative for black lung — have appeared in the cases of thousands of miners, and the doctors’ credentials, combined with the prestigious Johns Hopkins imprimatur, carry great weight. Their opinions often negate or outweigh whatever positive interpretations a miner can produce.

For the credibility that comes with these readings, which the doctors perform as part of their official duties at Johns Hopkins, coal companies are willing to pay a premium. For an X-ray reading, the university charges up to 10 times the rate miners typically pay their physicians. …

In the more than 1,500 cases decided since 2000 in which [senior university scientist Paul] Wheeler read at least one X-ray, he never once found the severe form of the disease, complicated coal workers’ pneumoconiosis. Other doctors looking at the same X-rays found this advanced stage of the disease in 390 of these cases.

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After the results of the investigation were broadcast late last week, <a href="http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/abc_news_report_b-reads_pneumoconiosis_statement.html" target="_blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">the university announced on its website</a> that it was suspending the screening program:

Following the news report we are initiating a review of the pneumoconiosis B-reader service. Until the review is completed, we are suspending the program.

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United Mine Workers called on the federal government to take action following the revelations.

“Whatever penalties or punitive actions that can be taken with respect to Dr. Wheeler should be,” <a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/11/01/13675/johns-hopkins-suspends-black-lung-program-after-center-abc-investigation" target="_blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">union spokesman Phil Smith said</a>. “But whatever they are, they will pale in comparison to the pain and suffering he has caused thousands of afflicted miners. There is no penalty which will make up for that.”

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<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><a id="grist-end-of-article" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;"> </a><a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/10/30/13637/johns-hopkins-medical-unit-rarely-finds-black-lung-helping-coal-industry-defeat" target="_blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">Johns Hopkins medical unit rarely finds black lung, helping coal industry defeat miners' claims</a>, Center for Public Integrity</li>

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