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Board of Advisors
The Board of Advisors possess expertise in fields covering the full range of the foundation's activities and provide guidance on particular projects and larger strategic initiatives.
Robert Martensen North America
Martensen directs the Office of History at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD) and is a lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. A physician and historian by training, his publications range broadly in the history of medicine and science. Recently, he has published and spoken on translational medicine, on caring for patients near the end of life, and on professionalism. In 2008, Farrar, Straus & Giroux published his book, A Life Worth Living: A Doctor’s Reflections on Illness in a High-tech Era.
Martensen directs the Office of History at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD) and is a lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. A physician and historian by training, his publications range broadly in the history of medicine and science. Recently, he has published and spoken on translational medicine, on caring for patients near the end of life, and on professionalism. In 2008, Farrar, Straus & Giroux published his book, A Life Worth Living: A Doctor’s Reflections on Illness in a High-tech Era. Also in 2008, his chapter on American ‘medical professionalism’ appeared in Green, et al (editors) Global Bioethics: Issues of Conscience for the 21st Century (Oxford). In 2009, he co-edited Surgical Palliative Care: A Resident’s Guide, published by the American College of Surgeons. His analysis of early modern European debates over spirituality, rationality, and the proper organization of the human body appeared as a 2004 book, The Brain Takes Shape: An Early History (Oxford). Robert serves on the advisory boards of the journal Science Translational Medicine and the Encyclopedia of Trauma. He holds degrees from Harvard (B.A.), Dartmouth (M.D.), and the University of California, San Francisco (Ph.D.), where he also did clinical training in emergency medicine.
Michael E. McCullough North America
Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami, where he directs the Evolution and Human Behavior Laboratory. McCullough earned his bachelor of science degree from The University of Florida in 1990 and was awarded his Ph.D. in psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1995. His scholarly work focuses on the operation and evolution of human adaptations for social life, and in that vein he has conducted research on religion, forgiveness, gratitude, and self-control.
Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami, where he directs the Evolution and Human Behavior Laboratory. McCullough earned his bachelor of science degree from The University of Florida in 1990 and was awarded his Ph.D. in psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1995. His scholarly work focuses on the operation and evolution of human adaptations for social life, and in that vein he has conducted research on religion, forgiveness, gratitude, and self-control. McCullough is the author of more than 100 scholarly publications and has authored or edited six books, the most recent of which is Beyond Revenge: The Evolution of the Forgiveness Instinct (2008, Jossey-Bass).
Donald Miller North America
Firestone Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California and executive director of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture. He received his Ph.D. degree in religion (social ethics) from USC. The emerging focus of his research is on international faith-based NGOs. Miller has conducted research in Rwanda, Tanzania, and Armenia. His work with the Association of Orphan Heads of Households contributed to the organization's receipt of The World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child given by HRM Queen Silvia of Sweden.
Firestone Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California and executive director of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture. He received his Ph.D. degree in religion (social ethics) from USC. The emerging focus of his research is on international faith-based NGOs. Miller has conducted research in Rwanda, Tanzania, and Armenia. His work with the Association of Orphan Heads of Households contributed to the organization's receipt of The World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child given by HRM Queen Silvia of Sweden. He has received major grants from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Lilly Endowment, Inc., The James Irvine Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, the John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation, the California Endowment, California Council for the Humanities, the Tides Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and Fieldstead & Company. Miller is the author, co-author or editor of nine books, including Finding Faith: The Spiritual Quest of the Post-Boomer Generation, with Richard Flory, Global Pentecostalism: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement, with Ted Yamamori (2007), Armenia: Portraits of Survival and Hope (2003), GenX Religion (2000). He is completing a co-authored book on immigrant religion in Southern California.