Speaker Bio Sketches

Keynote Speakers

Amy Balsom

Amy Balsom is Senior Associate Dean for Finance and Administration in Stanford’s School of Earth Sciences. She has held that position since 1998. Immediately prior to that she was Associate Director of Stanford’s Institute for International Studies for seven years. She came to Stanford in 1984 and spent the early part of her Stanford career in central administrative offices; in the facilities project management office, and in the staff office of the Vice President for Business and Finance.

Arthur Bienenstock

Arthur Bienenstock has been at Stanford University since 1967. He is presently Vice Provost and De an of Research and Graduate Policy (9/03-present), as well as Professor of Applied Physics, Materials Science & Engineering and at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL). He served as SSRL director from 1978 to 1997, as director of the Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials ('02-'03) and as Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs ('72-'77). While on leave from Stanford (11/97-1/01), he held the position of Associate Director for Science of the White House Office and Science and Technology Policy. He has published over 100 scientific papers in the areas of solid-st ate physics, amorphous materials and synchrotron radiation. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University (1962) and a Ph.D. (honorary) from Polytechnic University (1998).

Judy David Bloomfield

For the past 18 years, Judy David Bloomfield has served as the director of One Small Step, a United Way-sponsored association of Bay Area employers advancing work/life-related practices such as child and elder care assistance, flexible work arrangements and employee health and wellness initiatives. Under Judy's leadership, One Small Step has built lasting relationships with HR professionals representing prominent employers - such as Autodesk, Chevron, Cisco Systems, Genentech, Kaiser Permanente, Morrison & Foerster, Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley and Wells Fargo - and has served as a model for the development of several other regional work/life groups in the U.S.

Judy has designed numerous conferences for employers on cutting-edge topics such as one held this past spring in San Francisco on “Flexibility: The Law, The Employer, The Individual.” In addition, she has co-authored several publications including "Taking Care: An Employer's Guide to Child Care Options" (2002) and "The New Workplace: Innovative Work/Life Strategies from Small Business" (2000). From 2002-2005, Judy served on the Advisory Board of Work/Life Today, a national industry newsletter. From 1998-1999 she was part of the advisory work group for The Child Care Partnership Project, an initiative of the Child Care Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services designed to promote public-private partnerships for child care. From 1993-1996, Judy served on the board of directors and was the founding president of the National Work/Family Alliance, which evolved into the trade association now known as the Alliance for Work-Life Progress (AWLP) under World at Work.

She received her bachelor's degree in Human Biology from Stanford University, where she focused her studies in organizational behavior and women's studies. Prior to joining One Small Step she was a Fellow in Public Affairs with Coro Northern California.

Christopher Canellos

Christopher Canellos is the Tax Compliance Director for Stanford University. In his 28 th year of service in the Controller’s Office, Chris is responsible for assuring the University’s compliance with a wide array of tax laws, including payroll, sales tax, property and unrelated business income. Chris teaches classes in Nonprofit Financial Compliance for the Graduate School of Business and Financial Planning for the Continuing Studies Program. Chris also serves as Treasurer for the Church of the Holy Cross in Belmont. He enjoys mentoring his six-year-old son Christian, hopefully a member of the Class of 2022!

Chris is a Certified Public Accountant and earned both his BS (Mathematics ’74) and MBA (’76) degrees at Stanford.

David Demarest

David Demarest joined Stanford University in March, 2005 as Vice President of Public Affairs. Reporting to Stanford University President John Hennessy, David oversees the university’s public relations and communications, government relations, and community affairs. In the previous year, he founded AspenLine Reputation Strategies (AspenLine.net), a specialized reputation management and communications consulting firm based in Sausalito, California.

Prior to forming his own company, he was Executive Vice President for Global Corporate Relations, at Visa International. Prior to that, he served as Executive Vice President and Director of Corporate Communications at BankAmerica Corporation. Before joining Bank of America, David had a distinguished career in politics and government. Most notably, he served four years as an assistant to President Bush and member of the White House senior staff. As White House Communications Director, he worked directly with the President, the White House Chief of Staff, and the Cabinet, and in that capacity managed a broad range of White House communications activities. His White House role followed his service as Communications Director for Vice President Bush's successful 1988 presidential campaign.

David’s Washington, D.C. career spanned the late 1970s through the 1980s. He worked with state and local political candidates on behalf of the Republican National Committee, participated in several congressional campaigns in New Jersey and served in senior positions at two Cabinet departments.

Michelle Fortnam

Michelle Fortnam is the Senior Associate Director of Internal Audit at Stanford University with over 20 years experience in research administration. She became the University Compliance Officer in January 2004 and was instrumental in developing Stanford’s institutional compliance program. She is a frequent speaker at NCURA and participated in the NCURA video broadcast on Sponsored Research Financial Management. She is a CPA and is currently the Chair of the Governmental Affairs Committee for the Association of College and University Auditors.

In addition to her responsibilities Michelle Fortnam is an active member of COGR, ACUA and NCURA.

Larry Gibbs

Larry Gibbs is Associate Vice-Provost for Environmental Health and Safety at Stanford University, a position he has held since 1992, where he is responsible for all health, safety, and environmental risk management programs in addition to oversight of institutional emergency planning. He has graduate degrees in chemistry education from Boston University and in industrial hygiene and public health from the University of Michigan.

Mr. Gibbs is a certified industrial hygienist with over 25 years of experience in developing, implementing and managing safety, health and environmental programs for academic, research and clinical institutions. In addition to his work at the universities, he serves as a consultant for industrial, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and government organizations. He has authored over 25 publications and co-authored two books, and is active in a number of professional organizations.

Steve Jung

Steve Jung is the Director of Internal Audit and Institutional Compliance for Stanford University and Stanford University Medical Center. He has 18 years of service with the Stanford University Internal Audit Department, and has been the Director of Internal Audit since 1995, Director of Internal Audit and Institutional Compliance since 2001. Previously, Steve was a Principal Research Scientist and Group and Institute Director with American Institutes for Research (AIR), Palo Alto, California, and Bangkok, Thailand (1969-1986).

University of New Mexico- B.S. 1965, Psychology
University of New Mexico- M.A. 1967, Guidance and Counseling
Arizona State University -Ph.D. 1969, Educational Psychology (Research and Assessment Methods)

Kathy Ku

Katharine Ku is Director of the Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) at Stanford University. OTL is responsible for the licensing of various state-of-the-art university technologies and industry sponsored research agreements and collaborations. In FY2005, Stanford received $48.0M in gross royalty revenue from 428 technologies, with royalties ranging from $7.44 to $25.0M.  In addition to the gross royalty revenue, Stanford received $336M in equity from its license agreement with Google. From 1994-98, in addition to her OTL responsibilities, Ku was responsible for Stanford’s Sponsored Projects Office, which handled $500M in research contracts and grants. Ku was Vice President, Business Development at Protein Design Labs, Inc. in Mountain View, California from 1990-1991. Prior to PDL, Ku spent 12 years at Stanford in various positions, was a researcher at Monsanto and Sigma Chemical, administered a dialysis clinical trial at University of California, and taught chemistry and basic engineering courses.

Ku has been active in the Licensing Executive Society (LES), serving as Vice President, Western Region and Trustee of LES and various committee chairs. She also has served as President of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) from 1988-90. She received the AUTM 2001 Bayh-Dole Award for her efforts in university licensing. She has a B.S. Chemical Engineering ( Cornell University), an M.S. in Chem. Eng. ( Washington University) and is a registered patent agent.

Sally O'Neil

Sally O’Neil is Manager of Industrial Contracts (ICO) at Stanford University. ICO negotiates a variety of industry-sponsored research contracts, collaborations, material transfer agreements and related research agreements. In FY2005, ICO negotiated approximately 600 research agreements, including amendments to existing agreements.

A member of the California Bar Association, Sally is a frequent speaker at the National Council of University Research Administrators and participates in state stem cell and university/industry intellectual property and research groups

Sally formerly was a litigation associate with Russo & Hale LLP, an intellectual property law firm in Palo Alto. Earlier, she was a high technology newspaper reporter and editor for newspapers in San Francisco and Palo Alto. Sally has a J.D. from Santa Clara University, an M.J. in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, and M.A.T. in English from the University of Chicago. Sally also has a B.A. in English from Oberlin College.

Philip A. Pizzo, MD

Philip A. Pizzo, MD, became dean of the Stanford School of Medicine in April 2001. Before joining Stanford, he was the physician-in-chief of Children’s Hospital in Boston and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Pizzo is recognized for his contributions as a clinical investigator, especially in the treatment of children with cancer and HIV. Pizzo received his undergraduate degree from Fordham University and an MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine. He completed an internship and residency at Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Boston, a teaching fellowship at Harvard Medical School, and a clinical and research fellowship in pediatric oncology at the National Cancer Institute. Pizzo served as head of the institute’s infectious disease section, chief of the NCI’s pediatric department, and acting scientific director for NCI’s Division of Clinical Sciences.

Pizzo devoted much of his distinguished medical career to the diagnosis, management, prevention and treatment of childhood cancers and the infectious complications that occur in children whose immune systems are compromised by cancer and AIDS. Pizzo and his research team pioneered the development of new treatments for children with HIV infection, lengthening and improving the quality of life for children with this disease. His research soon led to important clues about how to treat HIV-positive children and adults, and how to manage life-threatening infections. He is the author of more than 500 scientific articles and 14 books. Pizzo has received several awards from the U.S. Public Health Service, including the Outstanding Service Medal in 1995. He has been cited in Best Doctors of America since 1995, and in 1990 was declared “Washingtonian of the Year” by Washingtonian Magazine for helping to found the Children’s Inn, a temporary home for children undergoing treatment at the National Institutes of Health and their families. In 2004 he was the first person named to the Independent Citizens’ Oversight Committee which oversees the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. He is a member of a number of prestigious organizations and in 1997 was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Martin Shell

Martin Shell became Vice President for Development at Stanford University in April 2005. As vice president, he oversees the entire development enterprise, working very closely with John Ford, Senior Vice President for University Resources. He has also served as Associate Vice President and Senior Associate Dean for External Relations and COO at the Stanford Law School. He had joined Stanford in 1998 as Associate Dean for External Relations for the Law School as it entered the final phase of its capital campaign. That campaign ended in December 1999, raising $115 million against an original goal of $50 million.

Martin has been a development officer for more than 20 years serving institutions of higher education in Arkansas, Pennsylvania and California. In addition to development work, Martin also has served as an executive with a public utility company, as press secretary to a U.S. representative, and as a newspaper reporter.

Debra Zumwalt

Ms. Zumwalt is the Vice President and General Counsel for Stanford University and responsible for the legal work for Stanford University, Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.

Debra Zumwalt was a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop LLP from 1993-2001. She specialized in complex civil litigation and higher education law. She was the managing partner of the Silicon Valley office and a member of the firm's governing board.

Between 1987 and 1993, Ms. Zumwalt was a Senior University Counsel at Stanford. In this role, she was responsible for advising and representing the University in connection with congressional hearings, criminal and civil investigations, negotiations and litigation with the government concerning federal payments for research. She also represented the University in other litigation such as a challenge to the NCAA drug testing program, employee whistleblower litigation and toxic tort cases.

Ms. Zumwalt received her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1979.