Silvia Montano de Jiménez is the Program Director for three initiatives at the Pew Charitable Trusts involving biomedical sciences, Latin American fellows, and science and society. She has exceptional administrative and organizational skills as evidenced by successfully managing programs involving hundreds of scholars across multiple universities. She is also described as gracious, approachable, warm-hearted, and steady in her work. As the Pew Trusts is moving administration of the programs back to their headquarters, Silvia will need a new position and is highly recommended for any opportunity.

1. September, 2008
To whom it may concern:
I am writing by way of reference for Silvia Montano de Jiménez. Silvia is
Program Director for three related initiatives of the Pew Charitable Trusts: the
Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences, the Pew Latin American Fellows, and
the Science and Society Institute. These programs are currently administered for
Pew by the Center for the Health Professions at UCSF, where Silvia has been
since 1992. I know Silvia primarily through her management of the Pew Scholars
Program. I am a former Scholar, and currently serve on the National Advisory
Committee for the program.
To cut to the chase, Silvia is superb in all respects. For many of us, she IS
the Pew Scholars Program. She has remarkable administrative and
organizational skills, as evidenced by her ability to run a program distributed over
hundreds of scholars working in multiple universities and research institutes
located throughout the United States and Latin America. She is at the same
unusually gracious, approachable, open, collegial, warm-hearted, and steady-at-
the-helm – a joy to work with.
With their recent conversion to foundation status, the Pew Trusts plan to
move administration of the programs from UCSF back to their headquarters in
Philadelphia, and so Silvia will need to line up a new job. This represents an
unusual, it-doesn’t-come-along-everyday opportunity for the organization that will
be able to attract her. I recommend her to you in the very strongest possible
terms.
Sincerely,
Greg Lemke
The Salk Institute