Board of Trustees

Edward Blair, Chairman

Mr. Edward M. Blair, Jr. is a Partner of William Blair & Company LLC, an Investment Banking firm where his focus is on financial transactions for public and private companies. In addition to serving on several corporate boards, he is on the Board of the University of the Brookfield Zoo (Past Chairman) and the Pullman Foundation. Mr. Blair is a graduate of Stanford and the Harvard Business School.

Mary Berglund,PhD, Treasurer

Mary Berglund is the Executive Vice President of the J. Berglund Company, Inc., a private asset and portfolio management company located in La Jolla since 1984. She is a former academic economist who has specialized in the economic impacts of government regulation, particularly in transportation economics. She has B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in Economics. She has held various academic positions at the University of Nebraska, University of San Diego and University of California San Diego. She spent a decade as a Research Associate at the University of California Irvine, Institute of Transportation Studies. Recently, she was a Commissioner and past Chairman of the California Transportation Commission (CTC) that allocates funds for California's transportation infrastructure.

Peter C. Farrell, PhD, DSc, Secretary

Dr. Peter Farrell is Founder , CEO and Executive Chairman of ResMed, Inc. (NYSE;RMD). He was formerly an academic at the University of Washington, Seattle and the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He was named San Diego Entrepreneur of the Year for Health Sciences in 1998 and the Australian Entrepreneur of the Year for 2001. He was admitted as a Member of the Order of Australia in 2004. In 2005 Dr. Farrell was named the United States Entrepreneur of the Year for Health Sciences. Dr. Farrell is also the Chair, Executive Council, Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Member, Visiting Committee, Whitaker College of Life Sciences, MIT. He holds degrees in chemical engineering and/or biomedical engineering from the University of Sydney and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Washington (Seattle) and the University of New South Wales.

Peter Cistulli, MD, PhD, MBA

Peter Cistulli is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Sydney and Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Australia. He is qualified as a Respiratory and Sleep physician, and combines clinical practice with an active research program on novel methods for diagnosis and treatment of sleep-disordered breathing, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. His research program has attracted substantial competitive funding and he has published widely in the sleep field. He received the Pierre Robin Award from the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine in 2006 for academic contributions to the field. He sits on numerous professional committees, and has served as President of the Australasian Sleep Association (2003-2005).

Charles G. Cochrane, MD

Dr. Cochrane is Professor Emeritus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), was one of the 5 Founders of TSRI in 1961, and Adjunct Professor of Pathology at the University of California, San Diego. He is author of over 320 peer-reviewed scientific articles dealing with the molecular and cellular mechanisms of immunologic and inflammatory states, and received 40 national and international awards together with lectureships such as the Klemperer Award of the NY Academy of Medicine (1995), the "Frontiers of Medicine" lectureship of the Nobel Symposium in Stockholm, Sweden (1999), the American Lung Association "Live and Breathe Award (2004), the Ravdin Lecture of the American College of Surgeons (1983), the Centennial Speaker of the National Institutes of Health (1986) and at the "Molecular Basis of Inflammation" in Heidelberg, Germany (1993). He has served on 11 Editorial Boards of international scientific journals and consultantships for 10 organizations or companies including the Arthritis Foundation, the American Heart Association, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the American Cancer Society and as a member of the Board of Scientific Advisors for Merck Sharp and Dohme. Dr. Cochrane is also a member and past-President of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

Terence M. Davidson, MD

Dr. Terence Davidson is a Professor of Surgery in the Division of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.

Dr. Davidson is Director of Clinical Operations at the UCSD Sleep Medicine Center. Dr. Davidson's primary research interest is the anatomy of the upper respiratory tract as it pertains to sleep apnea. His paper, The Great Leap Forward: the anatomic basis for the acquisition of speech and obstructive sleep apnea, was published in Sleep Medicine in 2003 (Vol 4). He is widely published and has spoken extensively on these topics. Dr. Davidson is a graduate of UCLA Medical School.

Hugh M. Davies, PhD

Hugh Davies has served since 1983 as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, a museum with dual facilities in La Jolla and downtown San Diego, and an international reputation for its exhibitions, programs, and permanent collection. In 1998, his directorship was endowed by David C. Copley. In addition to his leadership of the administrative and artistic activities of MCASD, Davies has served as curator or co-curator for numerous exhibitions including Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface (2011-2012), Robert Irwin (2007) Francis Bacon (1999), William Kentridge (1998), Blurring the Boundaries: 25 Years of Installation Art (1996-97), and John Baldessari (1996). In 2004, he received the California Arts Council Director's Award, recognizing his more than twenty years of service to the arts in California. He was one of six co-curators who organized the Biennial 2000 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Dr. Davies received his AB (summa), MFA and PhD degrees from the Department of Art and Archeology at Princeton University. He is a member and past President of the Association of Art Museum Directors.

Anthony N. DeMaria, MD

Anthony N. DeMaria, M.D. is Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology at the University of California, San Diego. His field of specialization is cardiac imaging techniques, particularly echocardiography (ultrasound of the heart). In 2004 he founded the UCSD Sulpizio Family Cardiovascular Center. He is Past President of the American College of Cardiology and Past President of the American Society of Echocardiography. He has served as a member of the Subspecialty Board on Cardiovascular Disease of the American Board of Internal Medicine and Chair of the Diagnostic Radiology Study Section of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. DeMaria is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. He has authored or co-authored over 530 articles for medical journals.

Klaus Schindhelm, BE, PhD

Dr Schindhelm is Senior Vice President, Global Applied Research, ResMed Ltd, having joined ResMed in 1998. From January 1995 to June 1998 Dr Schindhelm was Professor and Head, Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, the University of New South Wales. He continues to hold a Chair in Biomedical Engineering at the University of New South Wales. He has broad experience in medical device technologies in general and in respiratory and sleep technologies in particular.

Jonathan R. L. Schwartz, MD

Dr. Jonathan Schwartz is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. He also is the medical director of the Integris Sleep Disorders Center of Oklahoma. Dr. Schwartz earned his degree in medicine from Oklahoma University Medical School and Health Sciences Center, where he also completed an internship and residency in internal medicine, as well as a fellowship in pulmonary disease and critical care medicine. He is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary disease, critical care medicine, and sleep disorders medicine. Dr. Schwartz has served as principal investigator in numerous research projects involving obstructive sleep apnea, narcolepsy, shift work sleep disorder, insomnia, and restless leg syndrome. Dr. Schwartz is an active member of several professional organizations concerned with respiratory medicine and sleep disorders medicine. He has served on the board of directors of the American Lung Association. Dr. Schwartz also serves as the medical director of the Baptist Community Care Inner City Clinic for indigent care. He is the recipient of a number of awards and citations, and has been named to Best Doctors in America since 2001.