Task Force
Dr. Richard V. Clark is the current President of the American Society of Andrology, the Clinical and Medical Supervisor of the division of Metabolic and Urogenital Diseases at Glaxo Wellcome Research and Development, and an Associate Consulting Professor in the Divisions of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition and Reproductive Gynecology at the Duke University Medical Center. He has been on the Executive Council of the American Society of Andrology from 1995 to the present. Among many professional affiliations and responsibilities, Dr. Clark is a Member of the Women in Clinical Trials Advisory Committee at Glaxo Wellcome Research & Development, as well as of the American College of Physicians, the American Federation for Clinical Research, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, and the Endocrine Society. His principal teaching responsibilities have been in the area of endocrinology, and he has authored numerous studies in that field and in andrology, including particularly on the subjects of endogenous hormones in males and females. Dr. Clark also is an Ad Hoc Reviewer for numerous scientific journals, including the American Journal of Medicine, Biology of Reproduction, Endocrinology, Fertility and Sterility, Journal of Andrology, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, and the International Journal of Andrology. Dr. Clark received his B.A. degree from Occidental College in 1967, his M.A. in 1970 from Duke University, and his M.D. and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1977.
Doriane Lambelet Coleman teaches law at the Duke University School of Law in Durham, North Carolina. She competed both domestically and internationally in the sport of track and field throughout college and until 1992. In that period, she earned honors in the 800 meters as a national collegiate indoor champion (1982) and was a two-time Swiss national champion. As a practicing attorney at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, she became legal counsel to the Athletes Advisory Committee of The Athletics Congress (now USA Track & Field). In that capacity, beginning in 1988, and together with Olympians Edwin Moses and Harvey Glance, Ms. Coleman helped to conceive the random, out-of-competition drug testing program for the sport. Together with her husband, Jim Coleman, she also authored the appellate procedures under which drug cases would be adjudicated at USA Track & Field. Following this effort, she became co-counsel in the federation's prosecution of world record holders Butch Reynolds and Randy Barnes, both of whom were accused of violating the drug rules. Ms. Coleman has commented on the international sports organizations' treatment of the drug issue in the New York Times, and has acted as consultant for AMGEN, the United States manufacturer of recombinant erythropoeitin (EPO), on its Athlete Education Advisory Board. Currently she serves as co-counsel to Mary Decker Slaney in her fight against charges by USA Track and Field and the International Amateur Athletic Federation that she used endogenous hormones to enhance her performance in 1996. She graduated with distinction from Cornell University in 1982, and from the Georgetown University School of Law in 1988. At Duke, Ms. Coleman teaches courses in Family and Children's Law, Torts, and International Sports Law. Her writing is principally in the areas of constitutional law and multiculturalism, with a special emphasis on how legal pluralism affects women and children.
Professor James E. Coleman, Jr. teaches law at the Duke University School of Law. He also is Chair-Elect of the American Bar Association's Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities, and a Federal Mediator specializing in employment disputes, including employment discrimination. Prior to entering the academy, Professor Coleman was for many years a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, specializing in commercial litigation. In that capacity and together with his wife, Doriane Lambelet Coleman, he authored the appellate procedures under which drug cases would be adjudicated at USA Track & Field. Following this effort, Professor Coleman became co-counsel in the federation's prosecution of world record holders Butch Reynolds and Randy Barnes, both of whom were accused of violating the drug rules. Together with Doriane Coleman, he also has commented on the international sports organizations' treatment of the drug issue in the New York Times, and has represented athletes accused of violating the drug policies of the National Football League and the International Triathlon Federation. Currently he serves as co-counsel to Mary Decker Slaney in her fight against charges by USA Track and Field and the International Amateur Athletic Federation that she used endogenous hormones to enhance her performance in 1996. Professor Coleman graduated from Harvard College in 1970, where he was a high jumper, and from Columbia University Law School in 1974. At Duke, he teaches courses in Ethics, Criminal Law, Employment Discrimination, and a Seminar on the Death Penalty.
Dr. Evie G. Dennis, a specialist in childhood asthma and previously the Superintendent of the Denver Public Schools, currently serves on the United States Olympic Committee's Task Force on Doping. Her principal area of concern in this respect is the question of externalization: whether and how best to make independent and thus to lend the necessary integrity to the USOC's drug testing programs. Dr. Dennis also is a Member of the Board of Trustees for the U.S. Sports Academy and of USA Track and Field, Inc., and is a Delegate to the International Amateur Athletic Federation. Throughout Dr. Dennis's illustrious career as an educator, she has volunteered for numerous foundations, committees and associations since 1965, many of which relate to children and sports. She has been recognized and honored by numerous groups for her many contributions in these areas; among those awards were the International Olympic Committee's Olympic Order (1992) and the Congressional Gold Medal with the U.S. Olympic Team (1980). From 1959 until 1966, Dr. Dennis worked on asthma research at the Children's Asthma Research Institute and Hospital, Jewish National Home for Asthmatic Children in Denver. Dr. Dennis is the author of several papers and articles regarding public education and asthma. She received her Ed.D. from Nova University in 1976, her M.A. from University of Colorado in 1971 and her B.S. from St. Louis University in 1953.
Donna de Varona is a two-time Olympic Gold Medalist in swimming (400 meter-freestyle and 400-meter relay) and former multiple world record-holder. Perhaps the most widely-recognized swimmer in the United States, Ms. de Varona has focused her post-Olympic career in the areas of sports broadcasting and women's sport. Specifically with regard to the latter, Ms. de Varona was a Founder and the first President the Women's Sports Foundation, and currently serves as Trustee to that organization. She also currently serves as the Chair of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup Organizing Committee. A vocal and effective advocate for Title IX legislation, Ms. de Varona served on two Presidential Commissions related to women and sport: President Ford's Commission on Olympic Sport that led to the Amateur Sports Act, and President Carter's Women's Advisory Committee. She also has spent five terms on the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. Ms. de Varona's athletic performances and her subsequent work have earned her numerous awards and accolades, including induction into the International Swimming Hall of Fame and the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame; she is also a three-time Sullivan Award nominee. Ms. de Varona's career in broadcasting has been equally illustrious: She began her work in this area in 1965, juggling roles as a studio host, reporter, co-host and analyst during many of ABC Sports' most significant events: In all, she has covered ten Olympic Games and received an Emmy Award for producing and covering the story of a Special Olympian during the 1991 Special Olympic Games. She is a graduate of UCLA with a degree in political science.
Jerry L. Diehl is Assistant Director of the Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) and a Member of the Joint Commission on Sports Medicine and Science. Among his principal responsibilities at the NFHS include overseeing that organization's policies on drug use by athletes. In that capacity, among other things, Mr. Diehl serves as staff liaison to that organization's and the NCAA's rule-making committees for football, basketball and track and field. He is also the staff liaison to the NFHS Sports Medicine Advisory Committee, and serves on the NCAA's Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports. Prior to joining the NFHS, Mr. Diehl was the Associate Executive Director of the Missouri State High School Activities Association, where he worked closely with the NFHS, including on many rules committees including soccer, baseball and wrestling. He also was the Committee Chair for the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association, which is part of the NFHS and the voice of high school athletic directors across the nation. Mr. Diehl's background also includes teaching, coaching and administrating at the high school level, as well as officiating in the sports of softball, baseball, basketball, wrestling and football at the high school and small college level.
Jim Ferstle is a freelance writer and consultant based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Ferstle's specialty areas include Olympic sports, sports medicine, drugs in sport, and education. He has been a freelance writer since 1979, after getting his start in journalism as sports editor for the White Bear Press, a Minnesota weekly newspaper, and as assistant editor for the Physician and Sports Medicine. His work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, including in the London Sunday Times, New York Times, CBS's 60-Minutes, the BBC, and ESPN. He has written books on running; Dave Wottle, the 1972 Olympic 800-meter gold medalist; and a chapter in the text, Anabolic Steroids in Sport and Exercise, published by Human Kinetics. Ferstle is also an on-line journalist, contributing regularly to Runner's World magazine's daily on-line site. Ferstle graduated in 1972 from Bowling Green State University with a BS in journalism. He also has a M.A. in Education from St. Thomas University in St. Paul.
Professor Paul H. Haagen teaches law and is the Co-Director of the Center for Sports Law and Policy at the Duke University School of Law. Since 1990, he has chaired the Student Athlete Counseling Committee at Duke; this committee is responsible for advising Duke athletes who are entering careers in professional sports. He has served as a consultant to athletes, athletic organizations and NCAA member institutions. His teaching, writing and research are principally in the areas of contract law, arbitration and legal history. Beginning in the academic year 1999-2000, he will also be teaching sports law. Professor Haagen has taught and lectured at Cambridge University, Escuela Libre de Derecho (Mexico City) and the Institute for Transnational Law (Brussels). He currently is serving as a member of the executive board of the Private Adjudication Center at Duke University. Prior to coming to Duke in 1985, Professor Haagen practiced law at Dechert Price & Rhoads in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Professor Haagen has a B.A. degree from Haverford College, where he played varsity lacrosse. He has B.A and M.A. degrees from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He has a Ph.D. in history from Princeton University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
Professor John M. Hoberman teaches at the University of Texas at Austin. Although he is a specialist in Germanic Languages and teaches in that area, his principal scholarly focus currently lies in the sports area, with a particular emphasis on doping and its sociological ramifications. He has been prolific in this regard, writing nearly one hundred articles and commentaries in these sports-related areas, many of which have been published both n American and foreign newspapers and magazines. Professor Hoberman also has authored several related books which have been translated into several languages, including the critically-acclaimed Darwin's Athletes: How Sport has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race; Sport and Political Ideology; The Olympic Crisis: Sport, Politics, Moral Order; and Mortal Engines: The Science of Performance and the Dehumanization of Sport. And he has contributed numerous related chapters to books published by others including, for example, chapters entitled "Sport and the Technological Image of Man" in Philosophic Inquiry in Sport, and "Drug Abuse, the Student-Athlete, and High-Performance Sport" in The Rules of the Game: Ethics in College Sport. Finally, and in addition to these articles, chapters, and books, Dr. Hoberman also has more than ninety domestic and international conference papers and lectures to his credit including, for example, "The Sport Culture of East Germany", presented to the Department of History, University of Oklahoma, the Department of Government, St. Lawrence University, and at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University; "The Hidden Agenda of Scientific Sport", presented at the United States Olympic Committee's Sports Medicine Conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; "Doping and the Reunification of German Sports Medicine", presented at the University of Houston's conference on "Sport in the Global Village: Comparative Perspectives"; "The Concept of Doping and the Future of the Olympic Games", presented at the Annual Meeting of the Philosophic Society for the Study of Sport, The Free University, Berlin, Germany; and "Drugs in Sport: The Real Issues", presented at the Warwick Centre for the Study of Sport in Society, University of Warwick, Great Britain. Dr. Hoberman received both his M.A. and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.
Craig A. Masback is the chief executive officer of USA Track & Field, the national governing body for track and field, long distance running and race walking. Mr. Masback is responsible for overseeing programs ranging from youth track and field to selecting teams to represent the United States at the Olympic Games and World Championships to administering programs for masters runners. He also is responsible for securing corporate sponsors to underwrite track meets, championships and grass roots programs. Prior to becoming CEO of USA Track & Field, Mr. Masback was an associate at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, where he specialized in communications and sports law. He also became known to millions of Americans in his role as track and field commentator for the Barcelona and Atlanta Olympic Games on NBC. Mr. Masback also provided network television commentary for countless other track and field events, as well as for publications including the New York Times and Runners' World magazine. From 1982 through 1984, Mr. Masback worked for the International Olympic Committee as an assistant to the Director of the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. Mr. Masback is the 1980 U.S. Indoor Mile Champion and former American Record Holder at 2,000 meters. His 1979 clocking of a 3:52.02 mile, one of his 30 sub-four-minute miles, ranked him as history's sixth fastest miler at that time. After an international running career that included a spot on the 1985 U.S. Team that won the World Cup Championship, Masback co-founded Inclyne Sports, a sports marketing company that created a variety of sporting events, sold sponsorships and produced television programs that aired on CBS, NBC, ABC and ESPN. Masback is a graduate of Princeton University and Yale Law School. He also attended Trinity College/Oxford University from 1977-1979 on a Keasby Foundation Fellowship, and was a recipient of an NCAA postgraduate scholarship.
Philip Milburn is the Chief Executive Officer of USA Cycling, the United States national governing body for the sport of cycling. In this capacity, he is responsible for all aspects of the administration and development of the sport in the United States, including the administration of its drug testing programs. As such, and because the problem of doping is at least perceived to be significant in cycling, Mr. Milburn is forced to address the complex issues raised by doping "on a daily basis." In addition to this aspect of his work with USA Cycling, Mr. Milburn is known for his initiative in developing new properties, and in planning and packaging all television programming related to the sport. For example, Mr. Milburn initiated an ESPN mountain bike racing television package and network packages and has been executive producer on more than 80 shows. He is also USA Cycling's chief fund raiser and oversees the communications and membership departments and business operations of the four USA Cycling associations. During his tenure at the federation, Mr. Milburn has engineered the acquisition and inclusion of the National Off-Road Bicycle Association (NORBA) and was instrumental in the organizational and governance restructuring of USA Cycling and unification of different branches of the sport. NORBA grew from 3,000 members in 1989 to more than 32,000 in 1997 under his leadership. In addition, sanctioned events grew to over 1,000 and mountain biking is thriving as one of the fastest growing competitive sports in the country. Mr. Milburn also has developed some of the first major corporate sponsorships for mountain biking, which made its Olympic debut at the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta. He has been associated with competitive cycling since 1982, first as a competitor, and then as a race organizer and club/team leader in Central Ohio. Mr. Milburn earned a B.S. in Business Administration-Finance from Ohio State University.
Edwin Moses is a two-time Olympic Gold Medalist (1976, 1984), two-time World Champion (1983, 1987), and former World Recordholder (47.02) in the 400 meters hurdles. He is currently a Financial Consultant with Solomon Smith Barney, specializing in investment management consulting and managed money. Mr. Moses currently also is the Vice-Chairman of the United States Olympic Foundation; President of the International Amateur Athletic Association; a Member of the Board of Trustees of the United States Olympic Foundation; and Member of the President's Commission on White House Fellowships. Among many other past professional activities and commitments, Mr. Moses has been a Member the U.S. - U.S.S.R. Anti-Doping Commission; the Chairman of USA Track & Field's Out-of-Competition Drug Testing Committee; a Member of the Executive Committee of the USOC, as well as of its Board of Directors, its Athletes Advisory Committee, and the Chairman of its Substance Abuse Committee. Mr. Moses also has been a Member of the International Olympic Committee's Athletes' Committee, its Eligibility Commission, its Medical Commission, and its Commission on Apartheid and Olympism; as well as of various committees of the International Amateur Athletic Federation and USA Track & Field. Mr. Moses has received numerous awards related to his performances on the track, including Sports Illustrated's Athlete of the Year (1984), the James L. Sullivan Award (1981), ABC Sports Athlete of the Year (1984), and the Jesse Owens International Award (1981). His accomplishments also have earned him membership in the prestigious Academie Francaise des Sport, and the honor of being the Speaker of the Athletes' Oath at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad at Los Angeles, California in 1984. Apart from his participation in track and field, Mr. Moses also has competed internationally in the bobsleigh, including as a Member of the United States World Championship Team in the two-man and four-man sleds in 1991; as a Member of the 1991 World Cup Bronze Medalist team in the two-man sled; and as a Member of the winning 1990 United States National Team at the International Push Competition in the two and four-man sleds. Mr. Moses received his bachelors of science degree in physics from Morehouse College in 1978, and his MBA from Pepperdine University in 1994.
Jill Pilgrim is the General Counsel and Director of Legal and Business Affairs at USA Track & Field. She also is the founder of The Center for the Protection of Athletes' Rights, Inc., a non-profit athlete advocacy organization. In her work for USA Track & Field, among other things, she oversees the federation's eligibility and grievance procedures, and interprets national and international Olympic sports rules and regulations. Prior to this, she was a practicing attorney in New York, where she gained extensive experience working in the areas of entertainment and sports law. Ms. Pilgrim also served as an arbitrator for the National Association of Securities Dealers, USA Track & Field's Doping Hearing Board, Doping Appeals board, and its National Athletics Board of Review. She has represented an athlete in arbitration proceedings before the Court of Arbitration for Sport during the 1996 Atlanta Centennial Olympic Games. Ms. Pilgrim also has authored several published articles, including Who's Protecting Athlete's Rights? The Tonya Harding Story; Attorneys, Athletes & Agents: Who's Responsible?; The Supreme Court's Assault on Athletes' Rights; What is Sports Law; and The Competition Behind the Scenes at the Atlanta Centennial Olympic Games. She has also provided television commentary regarding sports, entertainment and other legal issues on the MacNeil Lehrer News Hour, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, Court TV, CNN, CNBC, BCAT and on Channel 13. Ms. Pilgrim is otherwise an avid sports enthusiast, having participated in field hockey, soccer, badminton, volleyball, basketball and track and field. She was a nationally ranked collegiate sprinter, competing for Princeton University where she received her degree in 1980. She graduated from Columbia University Law School in 1984.
Dr. Andrew Pipe is the current Chair of the Board of the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport, the first Canadian Recipient of the International Olympic Committee's Sport Medicine Award, as well as an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa with appointments in the Department of Family Medicine and the Division of Cardiac Surgery. Dr. Pipe has been extensively involved in sport and sports medicine for many years. He currently is a Senior Associate Editor of the Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine and a Member of the Editorial Board of The Physician and Sportsmedicine. He served as the Chief Medical Officer to Canada's 1992 Summer Olympic Team in Barcelona and has been the Team Physician for Canada's National Men's Basketball Team for many years. A former President of the Canadian Academy of Sports Medicine, Dr. Pipe also is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. Following the Ben Johnson scandal in 1988 and the consequent report of the Dubin Commission, Dr. Pipe was asked to lead in the development of the Canadian Centre for Drug-free Sport and served as its first Chair; he continues to serve as the Chair of the Board of the newly expanded organization now known as the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport. Dr. Pipe is frequently quoted in the international press on the subject of drugs in sport, and is considered by his international audience to be a preeminent expert on the subject. As a member of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Dr. Pipe serves as Director of the Smoking Cessation Clinic and the Cardiac Surgery Artificial Valve Clinic. His research activity currently focuses on the factors involved in smoking session, the clinical performance of artificial heart valves, cardiovascular adaptations to exercise, and drug use in sport. Dr. Pipe has had extensive experience dealing with issues related to the prevention of cardiovascular disease and has a particular interest in both physical activity and tobacco addiction. He currently serves as Honourary Chairman of the Quality Daily Physical Education Committee of the Ontario Physical Health Association.
Steven M. Roush is the Assistant Executive Director for Sports Development at USA Swimming, the United States National Governing Body for the sport of swimming. He has served in this present position since 1994, and in this period he has directed the sports drug testing program, served as the staff liaison for all doping hearings and appeals, was the staff member directing the Jessica Foschi drug test case in 1995-96 and worked with FINA (the international federation for swimming) in developing its current "out-of-competition" drug testing program. Mr. Roush supervises the activities of the International Center of Aquatic Research, the sport science division of USA Swimming in Colorado Springs. Prior to his work for USA Swimming, Mr. Roush served as the men's and women's swim coach at the University of Wisconsin (from 1983 until 1987) and at Northwestern University (from 1987 until 1988). Mr. Roush earned a B.S. Degree in Education and an MBA in Finance, Investment and Banking from The University of Wisconsin.
Dr. Gary I. Wadler is a Vice President and Trustee and a President's Prize winner of the Women's Sports Foundation and is a former Trustee of the American College of Sports Medicine, where he currently serves as Chairman of its Health and Science Committee and as a member of its Public Information Committee. He currently is Chairman and President of the Nassau County Sports Commission (New York). In 1993, he was the recipient of the International Olympic Committee's President's Prize (the Samaranch Award) for his work in the field of drugs and sports. Dr. Wadler is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at NYU School of Medicine and a Senior Attending Physician at North Shore University in Manhasset, New York. Apart from his interest in the field of drugs and sports, Dr. Wadler has focused much of his attention on the sport of tennis, where, amongst other things, he was the Official Tournament Physician for the United States Open Tennis Championships for eleven years, and was a member of the U.S. Open Championships Tournament Committee. Aside from being a founding member of the USTA's Sports Sciences Committee, Dr. Wadler was also the founding Chairperson of the Health and Medical Committee of the Women's Tennis Association. Dr. Wadler's interest in the field of drugs dates back to 1970, when he led efforts to address the issue of drug abuse utilizing the medical model, publishing such articles as Drug Abuse and Addiction and the Health Care System, and A Health-Hospital Approach to Drug Abuse Education and Prevention. In the 1980s, Dr. Wadler's interest in the field of drug abuse shifted to the field of sports, and since that time he has lectured and published widely about the subject. In 1989, he was the lead author of the definitive and internationally acclaimed text in the field, Drugs and the Athlete. The topics of his lectures and articles have included, Safe and Fair Play in Elite Sport; Drugs, Gender and Sport; Illegal Substances and Drug Testing; Scope of Doping Substances in Athletics - Risk and Consequences; Drug Testing in Women's Sports; "Sports Organizations" in The Handbook on Drug Abuse Prevention; The Coach and Athlete Drug Abuse; Scope of Doping Substances in Athletics - Risk and Consequences; Recreational Drugs. He has written chapters about the subject in The Medical Clinics of North America, the ACSM Handbook for the Team Physician, the Manual of Sports Medicine. He has served in various editorial capacities including for the Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, theJournal of Strength and Conditioning Research, and Your Patient and Fitness. Dr. Wadler was a member of AMGEN's Athlete Education Advisory Board, is a member of the Performance Enhancing Substance Abuse Committee for the National Strength and Conditioning Association, was a participant in NIDA Technical Review Panel on Anabolic Steroids, in the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General's Report on Adolescent Steroid Abuse, and in the Department of Justice's Conference on the Impact of National Steroid Control Legislation in the United States. Dr. Wadler represented the United States in two WHO international meetings addressing the subjects of research initiatives and education and prevention strategies in drugs and sports. Dr. Wadler has served as an expert on anabolic steroids for the Department of Justice in various successful federal steroid prosecutions. His opinions about the subject of drugs and sports, and more recently about nutritional supplements, are widely sought out by the media. Dr. Wadler, a graduate of Brooklyn College in 1960, and Cornell University Medical College in 1964, is in the private practice of sports medicine and internal medicine in Manhasset, New York.
Berhard Welten is a lawyer in the Swiss firm of Hodler & Emmenegger and a 1999 LL.M. Candidate at the Duke University School of Law. A former Member of the Swiss University Ski Team, Mr. Welten is both an avid sports enthusiast and a practicing attorney with special expertise in the areas of sports business and law. This work has, of late, focused on the issue of doping, and it is in this among other respects that he works closely with Mr. Marc Hodler, a named partner in his law firm, and Vice President of the International Olympic Committee. Most recently, Mr. Welten accompanied Mr. Hodler to meetings with the Council of the European Union, which meetings culminated in the formal position of the EU Council's President with respect to doping. Mr. Welten also is a Member of the Managing Committee of the Swiss Sports Law Federation, and in this capacity has organized different conferences with international and Swiss experts in Sports Law. He is an honors graduate of the University of Bern School of Law.