LSI SciComm Series: Mary Woolley

Mary Woolley is the president and CEO of Research!America, an alliance that advocates for science, discovery and innovation to achieve better health for all. Woolley is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and served two terms on its Governing Council. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has served on the National Academy of Sciences Board on Higher Education and the Workforce and the Board on Life Sciences. She is a Founding Member of the Board of Associates of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and served as a member of the University of Chicago Medical Center’s Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine Council. She is co-chair of the Science and Technology Action Committee. Woolley has also served as president of the Association of Independent Research Institutes, as a reviewer for the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation and as a consultant to several research organizations.

Woolley holds honorary doctoral degrees from Wayne State University and the Northeast Ohio Medical University. She has a 35-year publication history on science advocacy and research related topics and is a sought-after speaker, often interviewed by science, news and policy journalists.