Omnimedix Institute Board of Directors
Peter Frishauf
Peter Frishauf is best known as the founder of Medscape and SCP Communications, Inc.
Frishauf started his career as a medical writer in 1972 after graduating from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He was the Nate Haseltine fellow in science writing. He founded three New York City-based medical information companies: F&F Publications in 1975, SCP Communications in 1982, and Medscape in 1995. He served as Medscape's CEO until February, 1998 when he became Chairman of its Executive Committee. He was a member of its Board of Directors through its IPO and until its merger with MedicaLogic/Medscape, Inc in May, 2000. MedicaLogic sold Medscape to WebMD in the final days of December, 2001, and Peter left the enterprise in 2002. SCP was acquired by CMP Healthcare Media in 2004. Frishauf is now an independent consultant.
Frishauf is a director and past president of the Healthcare Marketing & Communications Council, Inc. a nonprofit organization whose members from the pharmaceutical, publishing, medical education and advertising industries work to improve educational and promotional programs. Frishauf holds an MS in Journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (1972) and a BA from New York University's Washington Square College (1970). Peter is the non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Crossix Solutions, Inc., and an advisor to Markle Foundation's Connecting for Health initiative. He is president of the Alumni and Friends of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts and is a member of the medical journalism advisory board for the medical journalism masters program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Peter is listed in Richard Saul Wurman's March, 2002 book, Who's Really Who as one of the 1,000 most creative people in the U.S.
Linda Golodner
President, National Consumers League
Linda Golodner is President and CEO of the National Consumers League; she has been with the League for 23 years. NCL is the nation's oldest consumer organization, founded in 1899, to bring consumer power to bear on marketplace and workplace issues. Priority programs for NCL are food and drug safety, health care, fair labor standards, telecommunications and technology, financial services, environmental issues, and consumer fraud.
In addition to serving as president of NCL, Golodner chairs the Alliance Against Fraud in Telemarketing and Electronic Commerce, a coalition of more than 90 groups organized to combat fraud through public education. Golodner serves on the Board of Directors of the Patient Safety Institute and the American National Standards Institute, where she has represented ANSI on the US delegation to ISO-COPOLCO for seven years. She is a member of the Water Quality Health Council, the Underwriters Laboratories Consumer Advisory Council, the Public Interest Council of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists, and co-chairs the Verizon Consumer Advisory Board. Golodner is a founding member of, and co-chairs, the Child Labor Coalition and serves on the Board of Directors of the International Cocoa Initiative. President Clinton appointed her to the White House Apparel Industry Partnership, which she co-chaired; she serves on the Board of Directors of its successor organization, the Fair Labor Association.
Golodner has also served on the steering committee of the Centers for Education and Research in Therapeutics; the HHS steering committee for the collaborative development of a long-range action plan for the provision of useful prescription drug information; the National Research Council Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources; and the Institute of Medicine Committee on Post-market Surveillance of Pediatric Medical Devices.
Golodner received the Food and Drug Administration's highest public honor, the FDA Commissioner's Special Citation and the American Pharmacists Association's Hugo H. Schaefer Award. The United Nations Association (NCA) also honored her for her work in human rights. The American Council on Consumer Interests presented her with the "Friend of Consumers Award," in recognition of her outstanding contributions to policies that promote consumers interests nationally and internationally, and the Direct Selling Education Foundation gave her their Circle of Honor award.
Representing consumers, Golodner has provided testimony and comments before the United States Congress, regulatory agencies, and state legislatures. Frequently a public speaker, she has appeared on a number of television and radio shows, has written several articles and is often quoted by the media.
Before coming to NCL in 1983, Golodner was president of her own public affairs firm. She also worked for the U.S. House of Representatives on the staff of former Congressman James G. O'Hara of Michigan. Golodner is a former commissioner and chair of the Fairfax County Commission for Women. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Maryland in 1975.
John Iglehart
Founding Editor, Health Affairs
John K. Iglehart is founding editor of Health Affairs, a bimonthly policy journal that he started in 1981 under the aegis of Project HOPE, a not-for-profit international health education organization. Over this same period, Iglehart also has served as a national correspondent of The New England Journal of Medicine, for which he has written more than 100 essays called Health Policy Reports.
Iglehart was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences in 1977 and served on its Governing Council for six years (1985-1991). He also is an elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and serves on the Advisory Board of the National Institute For Health Care Management. Previously, Iglehart served on the boards of the American Board of Medical Specialties, the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates and AcademyHealth.
Before 1981, Iglehart served for two years as a vice president of the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and director of its Washington, D.C. office. During the decade 1969 to 1979, Iglehart held a variety of editorial positions, including the editorship of National Journal, a privately published weekly on federal policymaking. He holds a degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and has been a journalist-in-residence at Harvard University.