Claire Pomeroy

Claire Pomeroy is the president and chief executive officer of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. She is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Davis. During her academic career, her research focused on HIV/AIDS.

Education Pomeroy received her B.S. and M.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. She then did a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of Minnesota. She earned an MBA from the University of Kentucky.

Pomeroy joined the faculty at UC Davis in 2003 as executive associate dean. She then served as vice chancellor and dean of the UC Davis School of Medicine from 2005 to her retirement in 2013. In June 2013, she became president of the Lasker Foundation.

Pomeroy has published more than 100 articles and book chapters.