W. B. Greenough, MD, FAACP Chair
,Scientific Advisory Board, Professor,
Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and School of Medicine
Dr. Greenough was Director of the ICCDDR, where oral electrolyte therapy
(ORT) was discovered; he is responsible for the first studies on this topic,
and is widely published and respected in the field.
Henry Binder, MD, Professor of
Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of
Medicine
Dr. Binder's focus is on the regulation of colonic
ion transport, especially related to diarrheal diseases. One of Dr. Binder's specialties relates to
the use of starch resistant to amylase digestion.
Mark Donowitz, M. D. Johns
Hopkins School of Medicine, Dr. Donowitz is one of the top specialists
in absorption mechanisms, and is the former Chair of the Dept. of
Gastrointestinal Diseases at Johns Hopkins.
Michael Field, M. D., emeritus, Columbia University Hospital of Physicians and Surgeons, Dr.
Field is the former Division Chief of Gastroenterology at
Columbia-Presbyterian, and his research in intestinal ion transport processes
is known and respected internationally.
Zarin G. Jacobson, DVM, Dr. Jacobson is a graduate of Tufts University of Veterinary Medicine,
specializing in small animal medicine, with experience in management of
dehydration. Her research includes work on antibodies against Vibrio cholera in
cattle, published in Proceedings of the Society of Tropical Medicine and
Hygiene, UK, as well as work with fresh water porpoises in Bangladesh.
Darlene Kelly, MD, PhD Gastroenterologist
,Mayo Clinic, Dr. Kelly specializes in Crohn's and short-bowel syndrome;
she holds a doctorate in Nutrition and is a gastroenterologist at the Mayo Clinic.
Majid Molla, MBBS, MD, PhD, Chairman, Pediatrics, University of Kuwait Hospital, Dr. Molla is a pediatrician
and scientist responsible for much of the original study and research on
cereal-based oral electrolytes; he is world-renowned for his scientific
expertise in this field.
David A. Sack, MD Director,
Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh (formerly, ICDDRB),
Professor, Johns Hopkins Schools of
Hygiene and Public Health and School of Medicine, Dr. Sack is the former
Chair of Human Research at Johns Hopkins, and is the head of its Vaccine
Testing Unit; he is a consultant for both the World Health Organization (WHO)
and Pan-American Health Organization, and is widely known for his innovations
in Cholera vaccine research.