Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong is the Executive Director of the UCLA Wireless Health Institute, and Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, Molecular Genetics and Bioengineering at UCLA. He is a fellow of both the American College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He serves on the Board of Directors for the National Institute of Transplantation, the Technology Council for the Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence at Northwestern University, which is part of the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) five-year initiative for nanotechnology in cancer research. He serves on the RAND Health Board of Advisors and the President's Council at RAND, the Board of Trustees for the Saint John's Health Center, the Advisory Board of the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, the Advisory Board for the Institute for Technology Advancement (ITA) at UCLA School of Engineering, the Board of Councillors of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, and the Arizona Commerce Authority Board. He is a founding board member of the Dossia Foundation, a non-profit consortium of large employers (Wal-Mart, AT&T, BP America, Intel, Pitney Bowes, Cardinal Health, Sanofi-Aventis, Applied Materials, and Vanguard) that seek to enhance consumer engagement in their own healthcare through use of personal health records. In 2009, he was appointed by Attorney General Cuomo to the board of FAIR Health, a new not-for-profit entity to facilitate nationwide reform of consumer reimbursement for out of network healthcare charges.