Board of Directors
W. Pearl Maxwell, Ph.D.
Dr. Maxwell is an accomplished practitioner of organizational development strategies specializing in capitalizing on diverse workforces, project management, and customer focused quality. She has presented numerous workshops, seminars, and training sessions for both large international companies and local nonprofit organizations. She is the owner and Chief Learning Officer of Maxwell & Associates, a full service-consulting agency with a national customer base in multiple industries.
Dr. Maxwell has extensive experience in both line and staff management. She spent many years in the telecommunications industry, most recently as a Global Project Manager for AT&T Corporation. She has facilitated open enrollment and on-site programs in Project Management for Boston University's Corporate Education Center. Dr. Maxwell is a facilitator at Boston University Metropolitan College Online, and The University of Phoenix. She has published papers on Andragogical Approaches to Training. Dr. Maxwell is a Certified Advanced Facilitator at the University of Phoenix.
Ph.D., Organizational Development, The Union Institute & University, Cincinnati, OH
M. Ed., Adult Learning, Cambridge College, Cambridge, MA
Master’s Certificate- Project Management, Boston University, Boston, MA
Professional Associations:
American Society for Training and Development-ASTD
Project Management Institute-PMI
National Association for Female Executives-NAFE
Bariatu Smith
Bariatu Smith is Branch Chief at National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH). She provides scientific and operational support towards development and implementation of the national research agenda to address the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency (AIDS) epidemic. She has contrubuted towards development of therapies and vaccines for HIV infection and vaccines for COVID-19.
She has travelled to many poor resource limited countries plagued with the AIDS epidemic, with a focus to teach and educate the locals on HIV/AIDS prevention measures and to assess compliance to U.S federal regulations and policies in clinical trial implementation
Public health has been her passion which pushed her towards a career in the health care sector. She is a trained Critical Care Nurse with a Bachelors of Science degree in Nursing and a Masters degree from Georgetown University. She is very interested in global health and has coordinated numerous pharmaceutical and investigator initiated clinical trials leading to publications, drug development and licensure.
Paul Brinkman
Paul Brinkman is a partner in Washington office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, a national law firm, where he leads the firm’s practice before the U.S. International Trade Commission. Paul serves on the board of directors of the Innovation Network, and formerly served on the steering committee of the D.C. Bar’s International Section. He is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and has been co-chair of the American Bar Association’s Customs Law Committee. He received his J.D. degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, his B.A. from Yale and an M. Phil. from Cambridge. Paul formerly served as a law clerk to Chief Judge James Turk of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia and on the staff of U.S. Senator John Glenn.
Dr. Hans Spiegel
Dr. Hans ML Spiegel is a Germany and US trained MD, PhD physician-scientist, who has worked for more than 30 years in the patient care, clinical and basic research of pediatric infectious diseases, as well as prevention of HIV infection in adults and maternal immunization and treatment. In the past he has worked at the German Federal Institutes of Health/Robert Koch Institute and the Free University of Berlin/Campus Benjamin Franklin, completed Pediatric and Pediatric Infectious Diseases/Tropical Medicine training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Bronx/NY, and New York University/NYC respectively and post-doctoral training at the Rockefeller University/NYC.
He has served as Director for the Special Immunology Service at Children's National Medical Center (CNMC) in Washington, DC and as Principal Investigator for the Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trial Group CNMC, Washington Hospital Center and Norfolk/VA study sites, Medical Director for the Adolescent AIDS Program Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore and has been lecturer for Infectious Diseases and Immunology.
Dr. Spiegel has worked as Investigator and subsequently as NIH/NIAID Division of AIDS Sr. Medical Officer on multiple domestic and international NIH supported clinical trials. Dr. Spiegel has more than 70 peer reviewed publications and numerous abstracts and book chapters, mainly on pediatric infectious diseases, including HIV infection, immunopathogenesis, infectious complications, including TB, all areas of HIV prevention as well as maternal and infant immunization safety. Internationally he has been a trainer of physicians from several African countries, has worked domestically and internationally as advocate for HIV orphans, education support, violence prevention, support for the homeless and for decades as supporter and advocate for refugees.