Governance
PCRM has a paid staff of 35, with a membership of approximately 9,000 physicians and 120,000 supporting members, including dietitians, psychologists, nurses, other science and health professionals, and laypeople. Its board of directors consists of Neal Barnard, a psychiatrist; Russell Bunai, a pediatrician; Mindy Kursban, its chief legal counsel; Mark Sklar, an endocrinologist; and Barbara Wassermann, an internist. Its director of research is Chad B. Sandusky, formerly with the Environmental Protection Agency. Elizabeth Kucinich is the group's director of public affairs.
As of January 2011, its advisory board consists of:
- T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University
- Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., The Cleveland Clinic
- Suzanne Havala Hobbs, Dr.PH., M.S., R.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Henry J. Heimlich, M.D., Sc.D., The Heimlich Institute
- Lawrence Kushi, Sc.D. Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente
- John A. McDougall, M.D., St Helena Hospital
- Virginia Messina, M.P.H., R.D., Nutrition Matters, Inc.
- Milton Mills, M.D., Gilead Medical Group
- Myriam Parham, R.D., L.D., C.D.E., East Pasco Medical Center
- William Roberts, M.D., Baylor Cardiovascular Institute
- Andrew Weil, M.D., University of Arizona
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