Biography - Joel M. Schindler

 

Dr. Joel M. Schindler, President of NCSJ from 2002-2006, and formerly NCSJ Vice President, has a broad record of communal and professional achievements. He served for five years on the Executive Committee of the United Jewish Appeal National Men's Young Leadership Cabinet, co-chairing the 1992 National Young Leadership Conference and chairing the Cabinet Summer Retreat. He has also served on the Boards of the Jewish Federations of Cincinnati and Milwaukee, and currently serves on the National Board of Trustees of PANIM: The Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values.

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Joel's other communal activities include solicitor-training for Super Sunday in Milwaukee, Cincinnati and Washington, DC, participation in the Wexner Heritage Foundation, and writing the Guide to Lobbying for 2800 attendees of the 1990 National Young Leadership Conference. In 1986 he received the Kate S. Mack Community Leadership Development Award and the Allan A. Cowett Leadership Development Award, both from the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati.  In 1986, he traveled to Moscow and Leningrad to meet with refuseniks, and he was recently in Ukraine, where he and other NCSJ leadership met with government and community leaders in Kyiv and Dnepropetrovsk.  His latest NCSJ mission, in June 2003, brought him to Moscow, Russia, and Minsk, Belarus, for governmental and community consultations.

Joel has earned an international reputation as a marketing executive and biomedical scientist. He currently serves as Team Executive and Chief Operating Officer of BioVid, a full-service pharmaceutical marketing research firm based in Princeton, New Jersey.  Among his previous positions were Executive Vice President of Israel Experience, Inc., a national organization marketing educational youth travel to Israel, and Vice President of AB Data, the national marketing and direct mail firm.  He also served as President of Zink the Zebra Foundation, Inc., promoting education, research and advocacy for childhood cancer. A graduate of the Hebrew University, with a Bachelor of Science in biology and a Master of Science in biochemistry, Joel received his Ph.D. in biology from the University of Pittsburgh and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology. He has served as a full-time faculty member at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, as a Program Director at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and as an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University School of Medicine and the Medical College of Wisconsin. He was elected to the New York Academy of Science, and his other professional memberships include the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Marketing Association, and scientific advisory committee of Transgenic Technology in Medicine and Agriculture. Dr. Joel Schindler has published 34 articles and 19 abstracts, made over 100 presentations at various national and international meetings, and served as editorial reviewer for numerous journals. Read U. of Pittsburgh Magazine profile Read L.A. Jewish Journal article, with NCSJ Chairman Robert Meth Read NY Jewish Week article with NCSJ Chairman Robert Meth Contact Joel M. Schindler

Dr. Joel M. Schindler, with Pittsburgh Jewish community leader Henry Posner III (back) and U.S. Ambassador to Russia Alexander Vershbow Arnie Sachs/CNP ...(center), with (l.-r.) senior Russian diplomat and Ambassadors of the Kyrgyz Republic, Armenia, and Georgia ... in Moscow with Dr. Yevgeny Satanovsky, President of the Russian Jewish Congress ... in Moscow with (l.-r.) NCSJ Chairman Robert J. Meth; Viktor Zorkaltsev, Chairman of the Committee of Public Unions and Religious Organizations, Russian Duma; and NCSJ Executive Director Mark B. Levin Ron Sachs/CNP  ... and Robert Meth in Washington with Ambassadors of Kyrgyz Republic and Uzbekistan ... (at far right) meeting in Kyiv with Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma

Jewish Community of Dnepropetrovsk ... with NCSJ Chairman Robert Meth (center), meeting in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, with Chief Rabbi Shmuel Kaminezki (at right) Jewish Community of Dnepropetrovsk ...with other NCSJ leaders at Shabbat program for children with special needs in Dneprotpetrovsk

Jewish Community of Dnepropetrovsk ...with NCSJ Vice President Lesley Israel, visiting joint Boston-Dnepropetrovsk clinic ... with NCSJ Vice President Rabbi David Hill and NCSJ Executive Director Mark Levin, at New York City meeting with Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations