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Committee Biographies
DAVID H. WEGMAN, M.D., M.Sc., is professor emeritus in the
School of Health and Environment at the University of Massachusetts,
Lowell. Dr. Wegman was appointed professor and founding chair of the
Department of Work Environment in 1987. He served a 5-year term as
dean of the School of Health and Environment (2003-2008), after which
he returned to the faculty until his retirement at the end of 2009. He con-
tinues to serve as adjunct professor at the Harvard School of Public
Health. He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College and his M.D. and
M.Sc. from Harvard University; he is board-certified in preventive medi-
cine (occupational medicine). Previously he served as director of the Di-
vision of Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of
California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health and on the faculty at
Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Wegman has focused his research
on epidemiologic studies of occupational respiratory disease, muscu-
loskeletal disorders, and cancer and has published more than 200 articles
in the scientific literature. He has also written on public health and policy
issues concerning hazard and health surveillance, methods of exposure
assessment for epidemiologic studies, the development of alternatives to
regulation, and the use of participatory methods to study occupational
health risks. He has served as chair of the National Research Council-
Institute of Medicine (NRC-IOM) Committees on Health and Safety
Needs of Older Workers and the Health and Safety Consequences of
Child Labor, as well as the Committee to Review the NIOSH (National
Institute of Occupational Safety and Health) Research Programs. He has
also been a member of the NRC-IOM Panel on Musculoskeletal Disord-
ers and Work, the IOM Committees to Review the Health Consequences
of Service During the Persian Gulf War and to Review Gender Differ-
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ences in Susceptibility to Environmental Factors. He is currently chair of
the NRC Committee on External Evaluation of NIDRR (National Insti-
tute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research) and Its Grantees.
LAURA O. BRIGHTMAN, M.D., is an internist at Cambridge Health
Alliance and clinical instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Brightman works at the Broadway Community Health Center and has
been involved in a study to collect and record information about occupation
and work-relatedness in its electronic health record system. Dr. Brightman
received her M.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
CURTIS L. COLE, M.D., is the chief information officer at Weill Cor-
nell Medical College, where he is responsible for the core information
services that support the research, clinical, education, and administrative
functions of the college. Previously, as chief medical information officer
he led the implementation of a new electronic medical record system. He
is also actively involved in the development of computer systems that
support Clinical Research and Terminology Services. Dr. Cole is a grad-
uate of Bowdoin College and received his medical degree from Cornell
University Medical College in 1994. He completed his internal medicine
residency program at the New York Hospital in 1997. After residency
Dr. Cole continued at New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell as
a clinical investigator in medical informatics. He also completed a course
in leadership development of physicians in academic health centers in
1999 at Harvard University. In 2002, Dr. Cole participated in the Kellogg
School of Business, Northwestern University, Executive Development
Program. Dr. Cole has several active research projects including partici-
pation in the national VIVO consortium. VIVO is a semantic web-based
system to help researchers find one another though a national network.
LETITIA K. DAVIS, Sc.D., EdM., is Director of the Occupational
Health Surveillance Program in the Massachusetts Department of Public
Health where she has worked for over 25 years to develop state-based
surveillance systems for work-related illnesses and injuries. She has
overseen the formation of a physician reporting system for occupational
disease, the Massachusetts Occupational Lead Registry, a comprehensive
surveillance system for fatal occupational injuries, the Massachusetts
Sharps Injury Surveillance System, and a model surveillance system for
work-related injuries to children and adolescents less than 18 years of
age. She has conducted numerous surveillance research studies exploring
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use of existing public health data sources to document work-related inju-
ries and illnesses and is currently engaged in a project incorporating oc-
cupational information in the electronic records systems of community
health centers to improve documentation occupational health needs of
underserved worker populations. She is also responsible for the devel-
opment of prevention programs to address identified occupational health
problems and advises the Department leadership on matters of occupa-
tional health policy. Dr. Davis serves as adjunct faculty of the Depart-
ment of Work Environment at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell
and as an instructor at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is also a
lead consultant in occupational health to the Council of State and Terri-
torial Epidemiologists and has played a leadership role nationally in the
effort integrate occupational health into public health practice at the state
level. She is a past member of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and of the National
Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health and currently
serves on the national Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and
Health. Dr. Davis received her doctorate in Occupational Health from the
Harvard School of Public Health in 1983.
ROBERT A. GREENES, M.D., is chair of the Department of Biomedi-
cal Informatics at Arizona State University (ASU). Before coming
to ASU, Dr. Greenes spent many years at Harvard, in the field of bio-
medical informatics, first at Massachusetts General Hospital, then at
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he established the Decision Sys-
tems Group in 1980 and developed it into a leading biomedical informat-
ics research and development program. Dr. Greenes was professor
of radiology and of health sciences and technology at Harvard Medical
School and professor of health policy and management at Harvard
School of Public Health. For more than 20 years, he has directed the
Biomedical Informatics Research Training Program, with support from
the National Library of Medicine and other sources, with co-directors
now representing 10 hospital and university-based informatics groups
throughout the Boston area. Dr. Greenes is a practicing radiologist. His
research has been in the areas of clinical decision support, in terms of
models and approaches to decision making, the knowledge representa-
tion to support it, and its clinical application and validation. He has also
been active in the promulgation of standards and fostering of group col-
laborative work, particularly in knowledge management. A related re-
search interest is human-computer interaction, particularly with respect
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to the use of clinical information systems by providers and patients, the
improved capture of clinical data, and the incorporation of individua-
lized, context-specific decision support. Dr. Greenes is a member of the
IOM and served on the IOM Committee on New Approaches to Early
Detection of Breast Cancer.
LAWRENCE HANRAHAN, Ph.D., M.S., is chief epidemiologist and
director of Public Health Informatics at the Wisconsin Division of Public
Health. In this role, he oversees the development of epidemiologic in-
formation systems by providing scientific leadership to integrate—on a
secure web platform—statewide public health informatics, epidemiology,
and surveillance programs. He has more than 31 years’ experience in
directing and developing statewide electronic public health surveillance
systems and epidemiologic investigations. His research interests include
occupational and environmental health surveillance, epidemiologic in-
vestigation, multivariate analysis, data mining, and public health infor-
matics. He recently led a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded
project to determine the information systems requirements for chronic
disease surveillance, including the use of clinical electronic medical
record data. He participates in several public health informatics forums,
including the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials Public
Health Informatics Policy Committee, the Public Health Data Standards
Consortium, and the CSTE Informatics Team; he served on the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Informatics Board of
Scientific Counselors. He is an adjunct professor in the Department of
Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
and Public Health. He has been with the Division of Public Health since
1979 and holds both a master of science and a doctorate degree in epi-
demiology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
ROBERT HARRISON, M.D., M.P.H., is chief of the Occupational
Health Surveillance Program of the California Department of Public
Health and clinical professor of medicine at the University of California,
San Francisco (UCSF). He lectures at the University of California,
Berkeley, School of Public Health on environmental diseases and teaches
nursing and occupational medicine residents at UCSF. He founded the
UCSF Occupational Health Services and was the medical director of the
employee health services for many years. Dr. Harrison is the principal
investigator of the NIOSH-CDC cooperative agreement for state-based
occupational safety and health surveillance in California. He has con-
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ducted numerous workplace investigations of work-related asthma, tu-
berculosis, pesticide illness, carpal tunnel syndrome, workplace fatalities,
and blood-borne pathogen exposures. Dr. Harrison received his M.D.
degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and his M.P.H. de-
gree from the University of California, Berkeley. He is board-certified in
both internal medicine and occupational medicine.
SUNDARESAN JAYARAMAN, Ph.D., is the Kolon Professor in the
School of Materials Science and Engineering and in the College of Man-
agement at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. He and his
research students have made significant contributions in enterprise archi-
tecture and modeling methodologies for information systems; engineer-
ing design of intelligent textile structures and processes; and design and
development of knowledge-based systems for textiles and apparel. His
group’s research has resulted in the realization of the world’s first Wear-
able Motherboard or Smart Shirt. He is currently engaged in studying the
role of management and technology innovation in health care. He was
involved in the design and development of TK!Solver, the first equation-
solving program from Software Arts, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Dr. Jayaraman worked as a product manager at Software Arts, Inc., and
at Lotus Development Corporation in Cambridge before joining Georgia
Tech. Professor Jayaraman is a recipient of the 1989 Presidential Young
Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation for his re-
search in the area of computer-aided manufacturing and enterprise archi-
tecture. He has served on several IOM and NRC committees, including
the Committee on Personal Protective Equipment for Healthcare Work-
ers During an Influenza Pandemic, the Standing Committee on Personal
Protective Equipment for Workplace Safety and Health, and the Board
on Manufacturing and Engineering Design. He received his B.Tech. and
M.Tech. degrees from the University of Madras, India, and his Ph.D.
from North Carolina State University.
MATTHEW KEIFER, M.D., M.P.H., is senior research scientist and
the Dean Emanuel Endowed Chair in Agricultural Medicine at the
Marshfield Research Foundation in Wisconsin. He is a senior scientist
with the National Farm Medicine Center and remains an affiliate profes-
sor of environmental and occupational health sciences at the University
of Washington. Dr. Keifer was formerly co-director of the Pacific
Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center, where he directed nu-
merous community-based research projects that largely focused on
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farmworker health and pesticides. Dr. Keifer is board-certified in internal
medicine and occupational and environmental medicine. His clinical
practice is conducted at the Occupational Medicine Clinic at the Marsh-
field Clinic. Prior to joining the faculty at Washington, he was the re-
gional pesticide epidemiologist in Leon, Nicaragua, from 1989 to 1991,
supported by CARE International. Dr. Keifer received his medical train-
ing at the University of Illinois and his M.P.H. from the University of
Washington.
CATHERINE STAES, B.S.N., M.P.H., Ph.D., is assistant professor of
biomedical informatics in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at
the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr. Staes received her Ph.D.
in medical informatics from the University of Utah in 2006, a master’s in
public health from Johns Hopkins University in 1987, and a bachelor of
science in nursing from Georgetown University in 1981. Dr. Staes was
an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer with the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (1990-1992), worked as a public health epidemi-
ologist for 15 years, and has numerous publications concerning epidemi-
ology and biomedical informatics. Currently, Dr. Staes’ research and
teaching focus on the domain of public health informatics and the devel-
opment of decision-support tools and applications to support surveillance
and public health goals. Dr. Staes has broad experience as a public health
epidemiologist and has performed research in environmental health (par-
ticularly prevention of lead poisoning), communicable disease control,
and injury control
GEORGE STAMAS, M.Sc., is chief of the Division of Occupational
Employment Statistics at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in the
U.S. Department of Labor. Mr. Stamas is responsible for the BLS Occu-
pational Employment Statistics (OES) program, a large employer survey
collecting data on employment and wages by occupation. He also serves
on the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) Policy Committee.
