NIH Associate Directors

Current NIH Associate Directors

Marie Bernard,ÌýChief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity
Janine Clayton, Associate Director for Research on Women's Health
Susan Gregurick, Associate Director for Data Science
Lyric Jorgenson, Associate Director for Science Policy
Diana Finzi, Acting Associate Director for AIDS Research
Katherine Klimczak, Associate Director for Legislative Policy and Analysis
Colleen McGowan, Associate Director for Research Services
Sean Mooney, Associate Director for Information Technology, Cyberinfrastructure and Cybersecurity
David Murray, Associate Director for Disease Prevention
Renate Myles,ÌýActing Associate Director for Communications and Public Liaison
Kathleen Neuzil​, Associate Director for International Research
Phillip D. Osborne, Acting Associate Director for Administration
Neil Shapiro, Associate Director for Budget
Jane Simoni, Associate Director for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
Daniel Wheeland,ÌýAssociate Director for Research Facilities

Chronology of NIH Associate Directors

Name In Office from To
Sean Mooney March 2024 Present
Kathleen M. Neuzil May 5, 2024 Present
Katherine Klimczak October 22, 2023 Present
Jane Simoni July 30, 2023 Present
Wendy Smith (Acting) June 1, 2023 July 29, 2023
Bill Kapogiannis (Acting) March 26, 2023 Present
Lauren Higgins (Acting) February 26, 2023 October 21, 2023
Peter Kilmarx (Acting) January 15, 2023 May 5, 2024
Christine Hunter (Acting) January 1, 2022 May 31, 2023
Marie Bernard May 26, 2021 Present
Lyric Jorgenson April 26, 2021 Present
Renate Myles (Acting) April 26, 2021 Present
Colleen McGowan  September 15, 2019 Present
Susan Gregurick September 15, 2019 Present
Lawrence Tabak (Interim) December 2017 September 15, 2019
Patricia Flatley Brennan (Interim) January 9, 2017 December 2017

John Gallin

January 8, 2017 Present
Maureen M. Goodenow July 10, 2016 Present
Robert Eisinger (Acting) July 1, 2015 July 10, 2016
Timothy Tosten (Acting) May 29, 2016 September 15, 2019
Adrienne Hallett May 4, 2015 February 25, 2023
William (Bill) Riley July 30, 2015 December 31, 2021
William (Bill) Riley (Acting) May 5, 2014 July 30, 2015
Carrie Wolinetz February 23, 2015 April 25, 2021
Amy Patterson July 17, 2014 February 20, 2015
David Shurtleff (Acting) July 17, 2014 February 23, 2015
Lauren Higgins (Acting) July 14, 2014 May 3, 2015
Philip Bourne March 10, 2014 January 7, 2017
David Murray September 23, 2012 Present
Robert Kaplan February 1, 2012 May 2, 2014
Janine Clayton September 2011 Present
Amy Patterson January 16, 2011 July 17, 2014
Neil Shapiro September 2010 Present
Mark Rotariu (Acting) April 3, 2010 September 2010
Deborah Olster (Acting) March 2010 February 1, 2012
Francis Patrick White March 1, 2010 July 11, 2014
Louise Myers (Acting) December 2009 April 2, 2010
Roz Gray (Acting) May 2009 February 28, 2010
Christine Bachrach (Acting) April 7, 2008 March 2010
Alfred Johnson October 29, 2006 May 29, 2016
John Bartrum October 15, 2006 December 2009
Roger Glass May 2006 January 14, 2023
Diane Frasier January 23, 2006 Present
Andy Baldus (Acting) July 23, 2005 October 2006
David Abrams 2005 2008
Richard Turman October 9, 2003 July 22, 2005
John Burklow April 22, 2002 April 25, 2021
Donald Poppke April 17, 2002 September 26, 2003
Barnett Kramer May 6, 2001 September 2012
Jack Whitescarver October 20, 2000 July 1, 2015
Raynard Kington October 2000 February 2003
Marc Smolonsky July 1999 May 2009
Sue Quantius September 1999 April 2002
Lana Skirboll August 1995 April 30, 2010
Norman Anderson July 1995 March 2000
Diane Wax May 1995 October 1998
John Ruffin August 26, 1990 January 9, 2001
Leamon Lee July 10, 1994 January 2004
William Paul March 1994 November 21, 1997
R. Anne Thomas April 14, 1996 April 21, 2002
Stephen Ficca February 1992 March 2004
Vivian Pinn September 1991 August 31, 2011
William Harlan June 30, 1991 April 30, 2001
Ruth Kirschstein September 1990 September 1991
Peter Kaufman (Acting) March 2000 October 2000
Saul Rosen (Acting) June 1990 June 1994
James Watson October 1, 1989 April 10, 1992
John Ferguson (Acting) September 1989 June 19, 1991
Norman Mansfield October 10, 1988 February 1992
Anthony Fauci April 5, 1988 1994
Itzhak Jacoby (Acting) July 10, 1987 December 1999
William Friedewald November 1986 August 31, 1991
John Mahoney June 1986 April 1993
Jay Moskowitz January 1986 April 1993
George Galasso February 5, 1984 January 2, 1996
Craig Wallace January 19, 1984 February 8, 1991
John Decker August 1, 1983 June 1, 1990
Philip Chen, Jr. July 3, 1982 July 29, 1983
Michael Goldberg November 28, 1982 September 17, 1984
J. Richard Crout July 12, 1982 April 16, 1984
Jay Shapiro (Acting) July 1, 1982 July 1983
Mark Beaubien (Acting) July 1, 1982 January 18, 1984
Calvin Baldwin August 1, 1980 January 31, 1986
Edwin Becker March 1980 April 1988
Charles Lowe (Acting) January 3, 1980 July 9, 1982
William Raub April 4, 1978 April 2, 1983
Seymour Perry January 3, 1978 March 1980
Mortimer Lipsett August 29, 1976 June 30, 1982
Joseph Perpich February 15, 1976 December 12, 1981
Robert Gordon, Jr. November 7, 1974 September 1, 1975
Leon Jacobs July 30, 1972 July 3, 1978
Thomas Malone November 26, 1972 March 24, 1977
Leon Schwartz February 6, 1972 June 30, 1979
Storm Whaley July 1, 1970 February 3, 1992
Thomas Chalmers February 9, 1970 October 20, 1973
Leonard Fenninger November 10, 1969 May 4, 1973
Richard Seggel January 4, 1969 November 28, 1971
R.W. Lamont-Havers November 3, 1968 October 1, 1972
Thomas Kennedy, Jr. August 8, 1968 August 31, 1974
Robert Marston February 1, 1966 March 31, 1968
John Sherman January 1, 1964 October 31, 1968
Martin Cummings July 11, 1963 January 1, 1964
Ernest Allen August 10, 1960 January 8, 1963
Charles Kidd September 13, 1960 December 9, 1964
Jack Masur July 1, 1960 March 8, 1969
Kenneth Endicott January 6, 1958 June 30, 1960
Joseph Smadel May 1, 1956 June 30, 1960
C.J. Van Slyke December 1, 1952 December 2, 1958
James Shannon December 1, 1952 July 31, 1955
David Price December 1, 1950 January 30, 1952
Norman Topping 1948 1952

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