Craig Brater, M.D., Chair
Dean
Indiana University School of Medicine

Leonard J. Betley
Chairman
Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation

Virginia Caine, M.D.
Director
Marion County Health Department

David Johnson
President and Chief Executive Officer
BioCrossroads

John Lechleiter, Ph.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Eli Lilly and Company

Anne Murphy
Secretary
Indiana Family and Social Services Administration

Nick Weber
Deputy Mayor
City of Indianapolis

Cynthia Helphingstine, Ph.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Cynthia Helphingstine is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Fairbanks Institute for Healthy Communities. She is an entrepreneurial executive, specializing in bringing together diverse stakeholders to create companies and launch initiatives that impact healthcare research. Her experience ranges from product development and clinical research positions at Baxter Healthcare to Chief Executive Officer of Tienta Sciences, a start-up commercializing technology for detection and quantitation of very low levels of biomolecules. Most recently, she served as Translational Scientific Officer at BioCrossroads, where she worked to accelerate the advancement of research discoveries at Indiana University from the laboratory to the marketplace. Dr. Helphingstine has a Ph.D. in Immunology and a B.A. in Microbiology from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and an M.B.A. from the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management in Lake Forest, Illinois. She is on the Board of Aspire Indiana Behavior Health System.

Brooke McMillen, MA
Program Director

Brooke McMillen is the Program Director of the Fairbanks Institute for Healthy Communities. She is responsible for coordinating regulatory reporting requirements and facilitating activities associated with the day-to-day operation of the Indiana Health Study. She joined the Fairbanks Institute in 2007 after working as the Communication and Programs Coordinator for the National Panhellenic Conference. While doing her coursework at Indiana University-Purdue University, where she earned an M.A. of Philosophy in Bioethics, she participated in clinical studies, clinical research and ethics-related activities at the IU Center for Bioethics. A member of the Healthcare Businesswoman’s Association, McMillen has a B.S. in Biology from Butler University.

Crystal Dotson-Roberts
Director of Community Outreach and Engagement

Crystal Dotson-Roberts is the Director of Community Outreach and Engagement of the Fairbanks Institute for Healthy Communities. She is responsible for developing and implementing the community outreach and engagement strategy to increase awareness for the Indiana Health Study and engage the Central Indiana community in the Study. She came to the Fairbanks Institute from Eli Lilly and Company where she was responsible for the education and sample management of Lilly’s biobanking program for the past four years. During her career in the pharmaceutical industry, she gained an extensive knowledge of biomarker assay development and validation within the area of Pharmacogenomics and Translational Medicine. She is on the Biobanking Advisory Committee of the Institute for International Research USA. A Dow AgroSciences-Purdue Scholar, she received her B.S. in Biochemistry at Purdue University.