President's Council

J. Douglas Boles

President, Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Doug Boles is President of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) Corporation where he is responsible for the daily operations of the organization. Boles joined IMS in 2010 as IMS director of public relations after more than 15 years of executive-level motorsports experience in team operations, marketing, sponsorship, and public relations. A graduate of Butler University, Boles earned his law degree at the IU McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis.

Timothy Franson, MD

Principal, Faegre Drinker Consulting

Tim Franson is a principal with Faegre Drinker Consulting where he helps pharmaceutical and health and biosciences companies navigate regulatory interactions, challenges, and developments. Dr. Franson has served as the chief medical officer at YourEncore and was the VP of global regulatory affairs at Lilly. He has authored more than 50 articles in the fields of regulatory affairs, infections disease, epidemiology, pharmacoeconomics and antibiotic utilization.

Jiali Han, Ph.D.

Dr. Han is an internationally renowned epidemiologist focusing on melanoma. He is a professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Indiana University (IU) Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health. He is also the Rachel Cecile Efroymson professor of cancer research at the Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center at IU. Prior to his affiliation with IU, Dr. Han was an associate professor of epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health, and associate professor of medicine and dermatology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He has been the principal investigator on numerous NIH grants and leads genetic and molecular epidemiology studies of cancer etiology, prevention, outcome and global health. He has published more than 250 original research articles in peer-reviewed journals. A series of his seminal research findings has been published in high-profile journals and drew enormous attention not only from the scientific community but also from public media.

Barbara Lewis

Journalist

Barbara Lewis is a recognized broadcast journalist specializing in medicine and the business of healthcare. She served as a television anchor and reporter at the Indianapolis ABC affiliate prior to co-founding the public radio program, ‘Sound Medicine.’ Lewis then joined Inside Indiana Business as the business of health reporter. Before coming to Indiana, she worked in radio and television in Sacramento, San Luis Obispo, and San Diego, California.

Douglas J. Schwartzentruber, MD

Retired physician scientist and cancer services leader

Doug Schwartzentruber is a retired medical director with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry. Skilled in translational research, clinical research, vaccines, oncology, and melanoma, Dr. Schwartzentruber served as a senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute. In 2010, he was named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World for his contributions to the field of cancer vaccine research and work with melanoma patients.

Gene Tempel

Dr. Tempel is Professor and Founding Dean Emeritus of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and President Emeritus of the IU Foundation. An internationally recognized expert on the philanthropic sector, he is a past chair of the National Association of Fundraising Professionals’ Ethics Committee. He was the first elected president of the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council and a member of Independent Sector’s Expert Advisory Panel that helped create national guidelines for nonprofit governance and ethical behavior. Tempel has been named among the 50 most influential nonprofit sector leaders 13 times by The NonProfit Times, which also named him the sector’s first “Influencer of the Year” in 2013.