In 1998, Dr. Dinarello was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences and serves on the editorial board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He has served on the AIDS Program Advisory Council of the NIH, the Scientific Board of Advisors of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Board of Scientific Advisors of the Alliance for Lupus Research. He a member of the Board of Governors of the Weizmann Institute (Israel) and Ben Gurion University (Israel). He is the past-Vice President of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and was President of the International Cytokine Society (1995-1996).