speaker biographies
September 28, 2004

President David W. Leebron, formerly Dean and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law at Columbia University, has just begun his first year as President of Rice University. Before Columbia, Leebron was adjunct professor at UCLA School of Law; Professor of Law Director, International Legal Studies Program at New York University School of Law; and Jean Monnet Visiting Professor at Bielefeld University in Germany for the winter of 1992. A member of the American Bar Association Standards Review Committee and the American Law Deans Association Board of Directors, and serving on the Association of American Law School Committee on Nomination, Leebron has taught and published in several areas of law and is the co-author of a textbook on human rights. Leebron earned a BA degree from Harvard College and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review.

 

Ambassador Edward Djerejian, the founding Director of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, is one of the nation's most distinguished diplomats with his career spanning the administrations of eight U.S. presidents. A leading expert on the Middle East, he played key roles in the Arab-Israeli peace process, the U.S.-led coalition against Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, successful effort to end the civil war in Lebanon, and the establishment of collective and bilateral security arrangements in the Persian Gulf. Prior to his nomination by President Clinton as U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Ambassador Djerejian served both President G.H. Bush and President Clinton as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. Ambassador Djerejian received his Bachelor of Science from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

 

Wayne Riley, M.D., MPH, MBA, is Vice President and Vice Dean for Health Affairs and Governmental Relations, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine and Assistant Chief of Medicine, Ben Taub General Hospital. He is a practicing academic general internist and a 1996 Resident Alumnus of Baylor’s highly regarded Internal Medicine residency training program. He received his B.A. degree in Anthropology, concentration in medical anthropology, from Yale University, the M.P.H. degree in Health Systems Management from the Tulane University School of Public Health, and his M.D. degree from the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. In May of 2002, he was awarded the Master of Business Administration degree from Rice University's Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management's MBA for Executives Program. He also is an Adjunct Professor of the Practice of Management and Executive Education at the Jones School and is the Faculty Director of the non degree BCM/JGSM Medical and Healthcare Management Certificate program. As leader of the college's new Office of Health Affairs and Governmental Relations, Riley has been charged with overseeing BCM's multiple hospital, academic, university and community affiliations, coordinating the college's local, state and federal governmental relations and initiatives, assisting in the in the development of BCM’s new ambulatory patient care strategy and establishing a new Office of Diversity.

 

Kenneth I. Shine, M.D., is the Executive Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs at the University of Texas System and is responsible for the six University of Texas System health institutions and their aggregate operating budget. A cardiologist and physiologist, Dr. Shine is the former President of the Institute of Medicine, where he addressed important issues in medicine and healthcare, such as quality of care and patient safety nutrition, food safety, and child development. Dr. Shine is also Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, former Dean and Provost for Medical Sciences at UCLA, and a member of many honorary and academic societies. Dr. Shine received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School.