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Victor J. Dzau MD 61 was elected a director of PepsiCo in 2005. Dr. Dzau is chancellor for health affairs at Duke University and President and CEO of the Duke University Health System since July 2004. Prior to that he served as Hershey Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston Massachusetts from 1996 to 2004. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the European Academy of Science and Arts. He was the previous Chairman of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Cardiovascular Disease Advisory Committee he served on the Advisory Committee of the Director of NIH. Dr. Dzau has been named 2004 Distinguished Scientist of the American Heart Association and was the recipient of the 2004 Max Delbruck Medal from the Max Delbruck Medical Center for Molecular Medicine Berlin Germany and the 2005 Ellis Island Medal of honor. | 