Prof. Peter J. Snyder has served as the Scientific Integrity Officer, as well as the Institutional Official, for the Lifespan Hospital System (Providence, RI) since 2008. He oversees the ethical conduct of research for approximately 350 investigators across a system of five hospitals that form the core teaching campuses for the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Dr. Snyder is the Chief Research Officer for this academic health system, and he also actively serves as a Professor of Neurology within the medical school. Dr. Snyder has maintained an active research program for more than 20 years, and he has published widely in the fields of clinical neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, neuropharmacology and the history of the neurosciences. Dr. Snyder is the Senior Associate Editor for Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association (published by Elsevier). Prof. Linda C. Mayes has served as the Special Assistant to the Dean, Yale School of Medicine (New Haven, CT) since 2008. In this role, she is also responsible for management of scientific integrity for the medical school and its faculty who are spread across affiliated hospitals. Dr. Mayes is the Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Psychology, and Epidemiology and Public Health in the Yale Child Study Center, and her research integrates perspectives from child development, behavioral neuroscience, psychophysiology and neurobiology, developmental psychopathology, and neurobehavioral teratology. She has published widely in the developmental psychology, pediatrics, and child psychiatry literature. Dr. Mayes is also trained as an adult and child psychoanalyst and is the chairman of the directorial team of the Anna Freud Centre in London as well as the coordinator of the Anna Freud Centre program at the Yale Child Study Center. The Hon. William E. Smith is a United States District Court Judge (1st Circuit) for the District of Rhode Island. He has served on that court for over 10 years. Judge Smith has developed an expertise and interest in the intersection between rapid advances in science and the work of the courts, in both the civil and criminal law. He has presided over numerous cases involving highly complex fields of scientific evidence. In addition, Judge Smith teaches various courses at the Roger Williams School of Law (Bristol, RI), including the law of scientific and expert evidence; and he serves on the board of the Advanced Science and Technology Adjudication Resource Council (ASTAR), a federally funded organization devoted to increase the level of scientific knowledge of the judiciary.
