The external advisory committee at NYU Langone’s Judith and Stewart Colton Center for Autoimmunity includes world and national leaders in the study of autoimmunity, including researchers, physicians, and industry leaders. Their mission is to provide broad strategic advice for our development and activities.

Committee Members

Paul J. Anderson, MD, PhD
Senior Vice President, Research and Education and Chief Academic Officer, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
The K. Frank Austen Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Franck J. Barrat, PhD
The Michael R. Bloomberg Chair, HSS Research Institute, Hospital for Special Surgery
Professor of Immunology and Microbiology, Weill Cornell Medical College

V. Michael Holers, MD
Professor of Medicine and Immunology
Director of Faculty Ventures, CU Innovations
Smyth Professor of Rheumatology
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Judith A. James, MD, PhD
Vice President of Clinical Affairs
Member and Program Chair, Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation

Marc C. Levesque, MD, PhD
Vice President, Immunology Discovery and Cambridge Exploratory Science Center
Merck Research Laboratories

George Schett, MD
Professor and Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine 3
Vice President of Research
Friedrich-Alexander University

Yehuda Shoenfeld, MD
Head of Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Tel Aviv University

Daniel J. Wallace, MD
Professor of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Clinical Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles