Judith A. Salerno

Who is Judith A. Salerno?

Judith A. Salerno, M.D., M.S., is the President and CEO of Susan G. Komen. Until September, 2013, she was the Leonard D. Schaeffer Executive Officer of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. In this role, Dr. Salerno was the executive director and chief operating officer of the Institute. She was responsible for managing the IOM’s research and policy programs and guiding the Institute’s operations on a daily basis.

Prior to the IOM, Salerno was Deputy Director of the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She oversaw over $1 billion in aging research conducted and supported annually by the Institute, including research on Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases, frailty, and function in late life, and the social, behavioral, and demographic aspects of aging. As the NIA’s senior geriatrician, Dr. Salerno was vitally interested in improving the health and well-being of older persons, and designed public-private initiatives to address aging stereotypes, novel approaches to support training of new investigators in aging, and award-winning programs to communicate health and research advances to the public.