Steven J. Hausman

Dr. Hausman graduated with a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967 and received his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1972 in the field of immunogenetics and transplantation biology. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Cancer Research in Philadelphia in 1975, he joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a Staff Fellow in the intramural research program of the National Institute on Aging. In 1977, he became Special Assistant to the Associate Director for Arthritis, Bone and Skin Diseases of the then-named National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive Diseases. In 1978, he became Director of the Arthritis Centers Program in the same Institute, and in 1986, he was appointed Deputy Director of the Division of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. When the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) was established in 1987, Dr. Hausman became Deputy Director of the Extramural Program. In 1990, he was appointed as the first Deputy Director of the NIAMS. He concurrently served as Director of the Extramural Program from 1995 to 2002.

Dr. Hausman has received the NIH Director’s Award (NIH’s highest award), the Public Health Service (PHS) Exceptional Achievement Award, recognizing his activities as Chair of the PHS Advisory Committee for Employment of Persons with Disabilities; the NIH Equal Employment Opportunity Award; an award from the Lupus Foundation of America in recognition of his support for lupus research; and the Outstanding Ethics Program Award from the Office of Government Ethics for the quality of his stewardship of the NIAMS Ethics Program that he led since 1995. He is cited in American Men and Women of Science, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering and Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare.

Dr. Hausman has been active in Ethics for many years, and in 2002, he co-organized and chaired a national NIH conference on Institutional Conflict of Interest. He led the trans-NIH committee to develop an enterprise-wide Ethics data system that will enable all ethics activities to be conducted on-line, and he was the Sponsoring Partner member representative of the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association.

Based on his strong background in information technology, Dr. Hausman was asked in February 2001 to manage the effort to convert all incoming paper applications (currently at a level of approximately 80,000 per year) to electronic format via an enterprise-wide scanning effort. Following the success of this project, he assumed the role of NIH Advocate for Advanced Technologies and became the organizer of the NIH Advanced Technologies Scientific Interest Group which includes nanotechnology, robotics and biomedical applications of new technologies as major emphasis areas.

Because of his interest in advocating for individuals with disabilities, Dr. Hausman was appointed to membership on, and elected Chair of, the NIH Diversity Council. His professional affiliations include the: American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association of Immunologists, American Chemical Society, American Society for Cell Biology, Transplantation Society, National Speakers Association and the Global Speakers Federation. Following his retirement from federal service in January 2007, he founded Hausman Technology Keynotes and Consulting and is currently a professional speaker in the area of emerging technologies that include nanotechnology, robotics, bionics, 3D printing, biometrics and security-related issues. Dr. Hausman is a member of the Expert Panel of TechCast Global, an organization devoted to forecasting technology for strategic planning purposes.

Dr. Hausman resides in Montgomery County and was initially appointed to the Board of Ethics as a regular member in 2007. He served as Chair in 2010 and 2011.