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Board of Directors Christopher Nowinski (bio)
President, Sports Legacy Institute Chris Nowinski is a former professional wrestler with World Wrestling Entertainment. He debuted on WWE's flagship program Monday Night RAW in 2002, when he was named "Newcomer of the Year" by RAW Magazine, and was the youngest male Hardcore Champion in WWE history before his career was ended in 2003 by a concussion. A former All-Ivy League defensive tackle, he wrote Head Games: Football’s Concussion Crisis, published in 2006 to educate parents, coaches, and children about this serious public health issue and later founded the Sports Legacy Institute to continue this work. He also served as the political correspondent for the WWE's award-winning get out the vote campaign Smackdown Your Vote! until the SLI announced the findings from their analysis of Nowinski’s former colleague Chris Benoit’s post-mortem brain examination. All records of his work were quickly removed from WWE’s websites and he was no longer asked to participate. He is a consultant with Trinity Partners in Waltham, MA, specializing in commercial strategy and licensing and acquisitions in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. John E. Corcoran (bio)
Founder, Managing Partner, Trinity Partners, LLC John Corcoran is the founder and Managing Partner of Trinity Partners, LLC, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based consulting firm providing strategic consulting services to the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. John holds a BA from Harvard College, as well as a Master of Arts from Northeastern University and a master’s degree in planning and policy analysis from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. John is a co-founder, major investor and currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Soteira, Inc., a Natick, Massachusetts-based medical device company that is pioneering new approaches to spinal surgery. He is also founder and chairman of Akuta Labs, a New York-based entity that markets software for medical science liaisons (“MSL”) and clinical affairs specialists within the pharmaceutical and biotech sector. Eleanor Perfetto, PhD (bio)
Senior Director, Pfizer Inc As Senior Director in Pfizer’s Evidence Based Strategies group, Dr. Eleanor Perfetto monitors and analyzes prescription drug and healthcare coverage and payment reimbursement issues to develop company strategy with regard to research as related to policy. With over twenty years of experience in health services and pharmaceutical research and practice, her background includes executive positions in business and product development, health outcomes and epidemiologic research, and health outcomes technologies, including senior positions at the Weinberg Group Inc., Wyeth-Ayerst, and the U.S. Public Health Service’s Agency for Health Care Research and Quality. Dr. Perfetto holds BS and MS degrees in pharmacy from the University of Rhode Island and a Ph.D. in Public Health from the University of North Carolina. She served for six years on the Board of Directors for the Drug Information Association (DIA) and is also a past President (2003-2004). She is the caregiver for her husband, former NFL player Ralph Wenzel, who has early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, and is active on behalf of patients with head-trauma-related dementias and their care. In May of 2007, she was awarded the Advocacy Leadership Award by the New York City Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. |
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