Leadership

President and CEO

Dr. John P. Howe, III became President and Chief Executive Officer of Project HOPE on May 1, 2001. He is a board certified physician in both internal medicine and cardiology. Previously, Dr. Howe was the Chief Executive Officer at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio for fifteen years. He provided leadership to the University's Medical School, Dental School, Nursing School, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences and Doctor of Pharmacy programs.

Dr. Howe earned a bachelor’s degree at Amherst College and his medical degree at Boston University School of Medicine. He served two years in the Army Medical Corps and later completed the Health Systems Management Program at Harvard Business School.

He has served recent terms as President of both the Texas Medical Association and the Bexar County Medical Society. He is a board member of the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research and the Southwest Research Institute.

Dr. Howe is Chair of the Harvard College Board of Overseers Committee at the Medical School and School of Dental Medicine and a member of the Board of Visitors at the Boston University School of Public Health. He is also the founding President of the Texas Society for Biomedical Research, a member and past Chair of the American Medical Association’s Council on Scientific Affairs and a past member of the United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.

In 1994, Dr. Howe was appointed by the Governor of Texas to serve as Chairman of the Texas Statewide Health Coordinating Council, a group chartered by the state legislature to develop a health plan for the State of Texas.

Among his numerous honors and awards are the U.S. Army’s Commander’s Award for Public Service, the People of Vision Award from the Texas Society to Prevent Blindness, the Award of Excellence from the International Association of Business Communicators, the National Humanitarian Award from the National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine and the Surgeon General’s Exemplary Service Award.

In 1994, Dr. Howe received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Boston University School of Medicine. In 1998, he was the recipient of the “Mr. South Texas” award, an honor given by South Texans to leaders who have made significant contributions to this rapidly expanding region. In 2006, he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Boston University.

He has been featured on national television and in national journals as a leader in the biosciences. He represented the United States at a Tri-National Conference on Health in Mexico City, a forum designed to develop solutions to multi-national health concerns following the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Dr. Howe has spoken in more than 30 states, has presented testimony to the U.S. Congress and has been a national advocate for the importance of continued medical research.

Board of Directors

Charles A. Sanders, M.D. - Chairman
Retired Chairman & CEO
GlaxoSmithKline

John P. Howe, III, M.D
President & CEO
Project HOPE

George B. Abercrombie
President and CEO
Hoffmann-LaRoche Inc.

Arno Bohn
Bohn Consult GmbH

William F. Brandt, Jr.
Director & Co-Founder
American Woodmark

Mrs. Edward N. Cole
Briar Patch Ranch

Nancy T. Chang , Ph. D.
President
Apex Enterprises

Richard T. Clark
Chairman, President & CEO
Merck & Company, Inc.

Sue Desmond-Hellmann, M.D.
President, Product Development
Genentech, Inc.

Robert A. Ingram
Vice Chairman
GlaxoSmithKline

Joseph M. Mahady
Senior Vice President
Wyeth

Gerhard N. Mayr
Retired Executive Vice President
Pharmaceutical Operations,
Eli Lilly & Company

J. Michael McQuade Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, 
Science and Technology
United Technologies Corporation

Dayton Ogden
Former Chairman
SpencerStuart Worldwide

Steven B. Pfeiffer, Esq.
Chair of the Executive Committee
Fulbright & Jaworski LLP

James E. Preston
Retired Chairman
Avon Products, Inc. 

Stephen H. Rusckowski
Chief Executive Officer
Philips Medical Systems

Curt M. Selquist
Company Group Chairman
Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Systems

Louis W. Sullivan M.D.
President Emeritus
Morehouse School of Medicine

Henri A. Termeer
Chairman, President & CEO
Genzyme Corporation

Karen Welke
Retired Group Vice President
3M Company

Bradley A. J. Wilson
Chief Executive
OnMedica Group Plc