Tenley E. Albright, MD is Director and founder of Collaborative Initiatives at MIT. Her concentration in medicine and health services stems from her specialty of general surgery over 23 years. She is a faculty member and lecturer at Harvard Medical School and an honorary member of New England Baptist Hospital. Albright is consultant to and formerly Chairman of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health; formerly a Director of West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.; State Street Bank and Trust Company; and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. Albright graduated from Harvard Medical School after attending Radcliffe College and has received eight honorary degrees. She also received the gold medal in figure skating at the 1956 Winter Olympics.