Institute Trustees

Van Andel Institute, Van Andel Research Institute and Van Andel Education Institute each have a board of trustees chaired by David Van Andel. See each board below. 

 Van Andel Institute Board of Trustees

David Van Andel, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Van Andel Institute

John Kennedy, President and Chief Executive Officer, Autocam Corporation

Mark Meijer, President of Life E.M.S. Ambulance

Van Andel Research Institute Board of Trustees 

David Van Andel, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Van Andel Institute

Tom R. DeMeester, M.D., Professor and Chairman Emeritus, Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California (not pictured)

James B. Fahner, M.D., Chief of Hematology and Oncology, Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital

Michelle Le Beau, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, Section of Hematology/Oncology, Director of the University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center; Director of the Cancer Cytogenetics Laboratory, University of Chicago (not pictured)

George Vande Woude, Ph.D., Distinguished Scientific Fellow, Van Andel Research Institute

Ralph Weichselbaum, M.D., Chairman, Department of Radiation and Head of the Ludwig Center for Metastasis Research, University of Chicago (not pictured)

Max Wicha, M.D., Distinguished Professor of Oncology; Professor, Department of Internal Medicine; Founding Director, University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center (not pictured)

Van Andel Education Institute Board of Trustees

David Van Andel, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Van Andel Institute

James E. Bultman, Ed.D., Former President, Hope College

Donald W. Maine, Former President, Davenport University (not pictured)

Juan R. Olivarez, Ph.D., President, Aquinas College

Gordon L. Van Harn, Ph.D., Emeritus Provost and Professor of Biology, Calvin College