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Appendix B Committee and Staff Biographies Dr. Valentín Fuster (Chair) serves The Mount Sinai Medical Center as Direc- tor of Mount Sinai Heart, the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, and the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovas- cular Health. He is the Richard Gorlin, MD/Heart Research Foundation Professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Fuster is the General Director of the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Car- los III in Madrid, Spain. After receiving his medical degree from Barcelona University and completing an internship at Hospital Clinic in Barcelona, Dr. Fuster spent several years at the Mayo Clinic, first as a resident and later as Professor of Medicine and Consultant in Cardiology. In 1981, he joined Mount Sinai School of Medicine as Head of Cardiology. From 1991 to 1994, he was Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He returned to Mount Sinai in 1994 as Director of the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute and, most recently, he has been named the Director of Mount Sinai Heart. Dr. Fuster is a past President of the American Heart Association, immediate past President of the World Heart Federation, a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, a former member of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood In- stitute Advisory Council, and former Chairman of the Fellowship Training Directors Program of the American College of Cardiology. Twenty-seven distinguished universities throughout the world have granted Dr. Fuster Honoris Causa. He has published more than 800 articles on the subjects of coronary artery disease, atherosclerosis, and thrombosis, and he has become the lead editor of two major textbooks on cardiology and of three 

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0 APPENDIX B books related to health for the public in Spain (bestsellers, presently being translated into English). Dr. Fuster has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Nature journal that focuses on cardiovascular medicine. Dr. Fuster is the only cardiologist to receive all four major research awards from the four major cardiovascular organizations: The Distinguished Researcher Award (Interamerican Society of Cardiology, 2005), the Andreas Gruntzig Scien- tific Award (European Society of Cardiology, 1992), Distinguished Scientist (American Heart Association, 2003), and the Distinguished Scientist Award (American College of Cardiology, 1993). In addition, he has received the Principe de Asturias Award of Science and Technology (the highest award given to Spanish-speaking scientists), the Distinguished Service Award from the American College of Cardiology, the Gold Heart Award (American Heart Association’s highest award), and the Gold Medal of the European Society of Cardiology (the highest award, Vienna, September 2007). Dr. Fuster has four ongoing projects as part of the World Heart Federation: “Promoting health as a priority” in children of Bogotá with Sesame Street, “Promoting health as a priority” in adults in The Island of Grenada, polypill developed in Spain for low and middle income countries, and a project with Jeffrey and Sonia Sachs focused on chronic diseases (as an addition to the Millennium project) in the African villages (Rwanda). Dr. Arun Chockalingam is the Director of Global Health and a Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. He recently completed his term as the Associate Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health. Dr. Chockalingam received his Masters in Biomedical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, (Madras) Chennai, India, after which he moved to Canada and continued his studies at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. There he completed his Ph.D. and later joined the Faculty of Medicine. During his career, Dr. Chockalingam has addressed the diag- nosis, epidemiology, and effect of lifestyle on hypertension, both within and outside of Canada. Dr. Chockalingam was the President of the Ca- nadian Coalition for High Blood Pressure Prevention and Control (now Blood Pressure Canada) for 7 years. He has been an active and influential member of the Canadian Hypertension Education Program. He is currently Secretary General of the World Hypertension League and, since 2005, has initiated and organized World Hypertension Day, an annual public aware- ness campaign, both in Canada and worldwide. Dr. Chockalingam’s areas of research are hypertension prevention and control, control of cardiovas- cular risk factors, ethnicity, gender and cardiovascular diseases, patient education, clinical trials research, methodology, and global determinants of health. In regards to heart health, hypertension, and preventive cardiology, he has organized a number of national and international conferences, has

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 APPENDIX B published more than 100 scientific and medical papers, and has received numerous awards to highlight his achievements in these areas. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the World Heart Federation’s “White Book” on Impend- ing Global Pandemic of CVD: Focus on Developing Countries and Econo- mies in Transition (1999). Dr. Ciro A. de Quadros has dedicated his career to freeing the world of infectious diseases, especially those that disproportionately affect the health and social development of the world’s poorer countries. A pioneer in developing effective strategies for surveillance and containment, Dr. de Quadros served as the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) chief epide- miologist for smallpox eradication in Ethiopia in the 1970s. Following the global eradication of smallpox, he became the Director of the Division of Vaccines and Immunization for the Pan American Health Organization, for which he successfully directed efforts to eradicate poliomyelitis and measles from the Western Hemisphere. In 2003, Dr. de Quadros joined the Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute and at present is its Executive Vice-President. He is on faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and the School of Medicine at George Washington University. He publishes and presents at conferences throughout the world and has received several international awards, including the 1993 Prince Mahidol Award of Thai- land, the 2000 Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal, the Order of Rio Branco from his native Brazil, and, most recently, election into the national Institute of Medicine (IOM). Dr. John W. Farquhar is Professor of Medicine and Health Research and Policy at the Stanford School of Medicine. In 1971 he began the Stanford Three Community Study, a controlled, comprehensive, community-based study of chronic disease prevention, followed by the Stanford Five City Project (1978-1995). The results and methods used in these studies have been disseminated worldwide. In 1992 he chaired the Victoria Declaration, which contained 64 policy recommendations for worldwide reduction of cardiovascular disease. He chaired the Advisory Board of the Catalonia Declaration (1997), the Singapore Declaration (2000), the Osaka Decla- ration (2001, member), and the Milan Declaration (2004, member). In 2002, he was a founding member of the International Heart Health Soci- ety, which provides policy guidance on international health. His research interests include disease prevention, epidemiology of cardiovascular dis- eases, community-based education for disease prevention, and international health. He is a member of various distinguished organizations, including the Institute of Medicine, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, and the National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention. Dr. Farquhar has authored more than 225 publications. He has received many honors related to his

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 APPENDIX B medical degree at Tongji Medical College in Wuhan, China, and his M.P.H. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. His research has focused on epidemiology and prevention of diabetes and cardiovascular disease in both developed and developing countries. Dr. Hu is the recipient of the American Heart Association Established Investigator Award. He is also a Yangtze Scholar at Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology. Dr. Hu’s research has focused on diet and lifestyle determinants of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. He is the Principal Investiga- tor of the diabetes component of the Nurses’ Health Study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). His current research has expanded to investigate complex interactions among nutrition, biomarkers, and genetic factors in the development of diabetes and cardiovascular complications. Dr. Hu is also collaborating with researchers from China to study obesity, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular disease in Chinese populations. Dr. Hu lectured on controlling noncommunicable diseases for the 2006 China Senior Health Executive Education Program at Harvard School of Public Health. He has published more than 300 original papers and reviews in peer-reviewed journals and is the principle author of the textbook Obesity Epidemiology (Oxford University Press, 2008). Dr. Peter R. Lamptey is based in Accra, Ghana, and is the President of Public Health Programs at Family Health International (FHI) with head- quarters in North Carolina. Dr. Lamptey is an internationally recognized public health physician and expert in developing countries, with particular emphasis on communicable and noncommunicable diseases. With a career at FHI spanning more than 25 years, Dr. Lamptey has been instrumental in establishing FHI as one of the world’s leading international nongovernmen- tal organizations in implementing HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment, and support programs. His experience in HIV/AIDS efforts internationally includes collaboration with the World Bank to design and monitor the China Health IX HIV/AIDS Project. From 1997 to 2007, Dr. Lamptey directed the 10-year Implementing AIDS Prevention and Care (IMPACT) project. The IMPACT project encompassed HIV/AIDS programs in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. He is the former chair of the Monitoring the AIDS Pandemic (MAP) Net- work, a global network of more than 150 HIV/AIDS experts in 50 coun- tries that was formed in 1996 by the AIDS Control and Prevention project (AIDSCAP), the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights of the Harvard School of Public Health, and the Joint United Na- tions Programme on HIV/AIDS. Dr. Lamptey delivered the HIV prevention plenary speeches at the world AIDS conferences held in Berlin, Germany, in 1993 and in Durban, South Africa, in 2000. From 1991 to 1997, Dr.

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 APPENDIX B Lamptey directed the AIDSCAP project, funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by FHI. The largest international HIV/AIDS prevention program undertaken to date, AIDSCAP consisted of more than 800 projects in 50 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Prior to AIDSCAP, he directed AIDSTECH, also funded by USAID as a global HIV/AIDS project and implemented by FHI from 1987 to 1992. Born in Ghana, Dr. Lamptey began his career as a district medical officer there, first in the Salaga district, where he was re- sponsible for preventive and clinical health services for 200,000 individuals, and then for the USAID-funded Danfa Comprehensive Rural Health Fam- ily Planning Project. He received his medical degree from the University of Ghana, a master’s degree in public health from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a doctorate in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Prof. Jean Claude Mbanya is Vice Dean and Professor of Endocrinology and Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine and Specialties, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon; Consultant Physician and Chief of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases Unit, Hôpital Central Yaoundé, Cameroon; and Direc- tor, Health of Population in Transition Research Group, Cameroon. He is a member of the WHO African Advisory Committee on Health Research and Development, the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Chronic Degen- erative Diseases Diabetes, and the WHO Committee on Classification and Diagnosis of Diabetes, and he is President-elect and member of the Board of Management of the International Diabetes Federation. His research interest is in the epidemiology of noncommunicable diseases, especially diabetes and its complications, ethnopharmacology and molecular biology of diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and thyroid diseases and their impact on the health care systems of developing countries. He has a wide span of expertise, but his current focus is on clinical application of basic research and equity of access to care and education and the integration of diabetes and endocrine diseases in the primary health care activities of developing countries. Prof. Mbanya trained in Yaoundé, Cameroon, and Newcastle upon Tyne, England. He is the author of 15 book chapters and more than 75 published papers. Prof. Anne Mills is Professor of Health Economics and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Head of the Department of Public Health and Policy. She has more than 30 years of experience of collaborative research on the health systems of low and middle income countries, and she has researched and published widely in the fields of health economics and health systems. Her most recent research interests

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 APPENDIX B have been in the organization and financing of health systems, including evaluation of contractual relationships between public and private sectors, and in economic analysis of disease control activities and the appropriate roles of public and private sectors, especially for scaling up malaria control efforts. She has had extensive involvement in supporting capacity develop- ment in health economics in low and middle income countries, for example through supporting the health economics research funding activities of the WHO Tropical Disease Research Programme and chairing the Board of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research. She founded, and is Direc- tor of, the Health Economics and Financing Programme, which together with its many research partners has an extensive programme of research focused on increasing knowledge of how best to improve health systems in low and middle income countries. She has advised multilateral, bilateral, and government agencies on numerous occasions; acted as specialist advisor to the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology’s inquiry into the use of science in UK international development policy; was a member of WHO’s Commission on Macro-economics and Health and co- chair of its working group “Improving the Health Outcomes of the Poor”; wrote the communicable disease paper for the first Copenhagen Consensus; and was a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on the Economics of Antimalarial Drugs. In 2006 she was awarded a CBE for services to medicine and elected Foreign Associate of the IOM. Dr. Jagat Narula is the Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Divi- sion of Cardiology at the University of California (UC), Irvine. He has also served as the Associate Dean for Research at UC Irvine. Dr. Narula completed his cardiology training at the All India Institute of Medical Sci- ences, Delhi, India, and relocated to Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in 1989. After completing his cardiology, heart failure transplantation, and nuclear cardiology fellowships, he joined the faculty at Massachusetts General. In 1997, he moved to the Philadelphia Hahnemann University School of Medicine. At Hahnemann, he was the Thomas J. Vischer Professor of Medicine, Chief of Division of Cardiology, Vice-Chairman of Medicine, Director of the Heart Failure and Transplan- tation Center, and Director of the Center for Molecular Cardiology until 2003, when he moved to UC Irvine. Dr. Narula has contributed immensely to cardiovascular imaging from experimental molecular imaging to perfect- ing the techniques for bedside application of various noninvasive imaging modalities and demonstration of their eventual usefulness for prevention of cardiovascular diseases at the population level. He is considered to be an authority in the fields of programmed cell death in heart failure and atherosclerotic plaques that are likely to lead to acute coronary events. He has also contributed substantially to the field of rheumatic fever and rheu-

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 APPENDIX B matic heart diseases. His research is funded, in part, by National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants. Dr. Narula has authored or presented more than 700 research manuscripts and edited 25 books or journal supplements. He has been awarded as “best young investigator” on several occasions. He serves on various committees of the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Narula is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology—Cardiovascular Imaging and an associate editor of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. He was the founding editor of Heart Failure Clinics of North America. Dr. Rachel A. Nugent is the Deputy Director of Global Health for the Center for Global Development (CGD). She is chair of the CGD work- ing group on drug resistance, manages CGD programs on population and economic development, and conducts research on the economics of chronic diseases in developing countries. She also provides economic and policy expertise on a range of other global health topics. She has 25 years of ex- perience as a development economist, managing and carrying out research and policy analysis in the fields of health, agriculture, and the environment. Prior to joining CGD, Dr. Nugent worked at the Population Reference Bu- reau, the Fogarty International Center of the NIH, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. She also served as Associate Professor and Chair of the Economics Department at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. Dr. Nugent’s recent publications address the cost- effectiveness of noncommunicable disease interventions, the economic im- pacts of chronic disease, and the health impacts of fiscal policies. Dr. John W. Peabody is the Deputy Director of Global Health Sciences, where he heads health policy activities. He is also a Senior Vice President and Medical Director at Sg2, a health intelligence company advising hos- pitals and physicians on how to measure and advance health care delivery, finance, and planning. Dr. Peabody is currently a Professor in the Depart- ments of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Medicine and has been a member of the University of California (UC) faculty since 1995. Dr. Peabody holds a joint appointment in the Department of Health Services at UC Los Angeles in the School of Public Health and holds an honorary faculty appointment at Tulane University. He spent 9 years at RAND working as a Senior Scien- tist and Principal Investigator. Before RAND, Dr. Peabody worked for the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva and Manila for 3 years; he also spent 2 years as Director for Project Hope in China. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (1999). Dr. Peabody has presented to a congressional panel on health and the environment and has also served on previous national panels and blue ribbon committees including the IOM

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 APPENDIX B Dr. Yach established the Centre for Epidemiological Research at the South African Medical Research Council, which focused on quantifying inequali- ties and the impact of urbanization on health. He has authored or coau- thored more than 200 articles covering the breadth of global health issues. Dr. Yach serves on several advisory boards, including those of the Clinton Global Initiative, the World Economic Forum, the Pan American Health and Education Foundation, the Oxford Health Alliance, and Vitality USA. Dr. Yach received his M.B.Ch.B. from the University of Cape Town Medi- cal School in 1979 and completed his clinical internship in medicine and surgery at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town in 1980. Dr. Yach also received an M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene in 1985. In 2007 Georgetown University presented Dr. Yach with Honoris Causa (D.Sc.). Dr. Yach is a South African national. IOM STAFF Dr. Bridget B. Kelly is a Program Officer with the Board on Global Health. She first joined the National Academies as a Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellow. Prior to joining the Board on Global Health, she worked in the Board on Children, Youth, and Families as staff for the Committee on the Prevention of Mental Disorders and Substance Abuse Among Children, Youth, and Young Adults, the Committee on De- pression, Parenting Practices, and the Healthy Development of Children, and the Committee on Strengthening Benefit-Cost Methodology for the Evaluation of Early Childhood Interventions. She received her B.A. from Williams College and completed an M.D. and a Ph.D. in neurobiology as part of the Medical Scientist Training Program at Duke University. In ad- dition to her work in science and health, she has more than 10 years of experience in grassroots nonprofit arts administration. Collin Weinberger is a research associate at the Board on Global Health. Prior to joining the IOM, he was a Communications Associate at Global Health Strategies, a communications and advocacy consultancy specializing in diseases of the developing world. He also spent a year as a volunteer with Partners in Health/Socios en Salud in Lima, Peru, where he worked with the organization’s children’s health, multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS programs. He received his bachelors degree in health and societies from the University of Pennsylvania. Louise Jordan is a research assistant for the Board on Global Health. She received a B.S. degree from the University of Utah. Prior to joining the Board on Global Health, she worked for the Board on Population Health as staff for the Committee on Review of Priorities in the National Vaccine

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0 APPENDIX B Plan and the Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine. Kristen Danforth is a Senior Program Assistant with the Board on Global Health. She received her bachelor’s degree in international health from Georgetown University in 2008. Dr. Patrick Kelley joined the IOM in July 2003 as the Director of the Board on Global Health. He has subsequently also been appointed the Director of the Board on African Science Academy Development. Dr. Kelley has over- seen a portfolio of IOM expert consensus studies and convening activities on subjects as wideranging as the evaluation of the U.S. emergency plan for international AIDS relief, the role of border quarantine programs for migrants in the 21st century, sustainable surveillance for zoonotic infec- tions, and the programmatic approach to cancer in low and middle income countries. He also directs a unique capacity building effort, the African Science Academy Development Initiative, which over 10 years aims to strengthen the capacity of African academies to advise their governments on scientific matters. Prior to joining the National Academies, Dr. Kelley served in the U.S. Army for more than 23 years as a physician, residency director, epidemiologist, and program manager. In his last Department of Defense (DoD) position, Dr. Kelley founded and directed the DoD Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (DoD-GEIS). This responsibil- ity entailed managing surveillance and capacity building partnerships with numerous elements of the federal government and with health ministries in more than 45 developing countries. Dr. Kelley is an experienced com- municator, having lectured in English or Spanish in more than 20 countries and having published more than 64 scholarly papers, book chapters, and monographs. Dr. Kelley obtained his M.D. from the University of Virginia and his Dr.P.H. in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.