Dr. Legato led the effort to establish sex and gender as important variables in the way we think not just about the experience and treatment of disease, but also health and lifestyle. Her research was supported by a research career development award from the NIH and grants from the New York Heart Association, the American Heart Association, and the National Institutes of Health. She served as scientific advisor to the Office of Research on Women’s Health at the National Institutes of Health from 1995 to 1998 for which she won a service award in 2000. She became Professor Emerita of Clinical Medicine at Columbia in 1998 and is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. In 1993, Dr. Legato founded the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University, which went on to become the non-profit Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine in 2006. The Foundation promotes public awareness and scientific research by young investigators in the groundbreaking new field. In 2015, Dr. Legato received an honorary doctorate from the University of Panama for her work in Gender-Specific Medicine.

Mr. Yuzek is a partner in Tartar, Krinsky and Drogin’s Litigation Practice. With over 30 years of experience, he is a highly regarded litigator throughout the industry. Some of the high-profile matters he has handled have set precedent for case law. A seasoned litigator with a breadth of experience in all types of civil disputes, he represents owners and developers of commercial and residential properties, lending institutions, named executive officers and managing members of corporations and companies, high-net-worth individuals and their business interests, and partnerships across the professional industry.

Dr. Healy is an attending cardiologist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center. She received her undergraduate degree at Brown University where she graduated with honors and earned her MD from SUNY Upstate Medical University where she graduated magna cum laude and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. She was awarded the Janet M. Glasgow Memorial Achievement Award from the American Medical Women’s Association and did her postgraduate training in the Department of Medicine at the New York Presbyterian Hospital, ultimately serving as the chief resident. During that time, she was elected Medicine Consult of the Year and won the Columbia University Gold Foundation Teaching Award. Most recently she received the American Heart Association Women in Cardiology Trainee Award for Excellence as well as the American Heart Association Laennec Young Clinician Award.

Currently the Development Director of Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Dr. Killian has helped build support for prestigious foundations both in Europe and the US. She has held senior roles at the American Academy in Rome, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Byrn Hoffman Watermill Foundation, the American Visionary Art Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, and Intelligence Squared US. Thus, she is familiar with the challenges of fundraising for institutions based in Europe as well as in the United States. She has worked on important international fundraising events, institutional giving, and major capital campaigns. Dr. Killian holds a PhD from Union Theological Seminary, a Masters of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and an M. Phil from Cambridge University. She also has BA from Barnard College (Columbia University)—a trajectory of education that speaks for her deep insight into various academic constituencies.

Mr Nole provides counsel, comprehensive audits, and tax services for the Foundation. He represents and fosters sophisticated financial institutions, privately owned companies and high net worth individuals who face near- and far-term accounting issues. His clients include family offices, not-for-profit organizations, and entrepreneurial ventures across a variety of industries.

Ms. Scott, who has a BA in Business Administration from Strayer University, has extensive experience in brokerage firm administration, included training and supervising junior personnel.. She supervises all the operations of the Foundation. These include the day-to-day communication with our colleagues and the public, coordinating scholarly meetings and seminars in the United States and Europe, help in processing the manuscripts of our publications and together with our chairwomen, organizing and supervising our annual gala.

Mr. Cader supports all of the administrative functions of the Foundation, helping to maintain all our contacts with our colleagues, collaborators and the public interested in our activities.