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Appendix D
Biosketches of Committee
Members and Staff
Ira Shoulson, M.D. (Chair) (IOM), is professor of neurology, pharmacol-
ogy, and human science and director of the Program for Regulatory Sci-
ence and Medicine at Georgetown University—new full-time academic
positions effective January 1, 2011. Previously, Dr. Shoulson was the Louis
C. Lasagna Professor of Experimental Therapeutics and professor of neu-
rology, pharmacology and medicine at the University of Rochester School
of Medicine & Dentistry in Rochester, New York. He received his M.D.
degree (1971) and postdoctoral training in medicine (1971–1973) and
neurology (1975–1977) at the University of Rochester and in experimental
therapeutics at the National Institutes of Health (1973–1975). Dr. Shoulson
founded the Parkinson Study Group (www.parkinson-strudy-group.org)
in 1985 and the Huntington Study Group (www.huntington-study-group.
org) in 1994—international academic consortia devoted to research and
development of treatments for Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease,
and related neurodegenerative and neurogenetic disorders. He has served
as principal investigator of the National Institutes of Health–sponsored
trials “Deprenyl and Tocopherol Antioxidative Therapy of Parkinsonism,”
the “Prospective Huntington At Risk Observational Study,” and more than
25 other controlled multi-center studies. He was formerly a member of
the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Council and
president of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics. He
is currently associate editor of Archives of Neurology and a member of the
Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. He has authored more
than 280 scientific reports.
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Rebecca A. Betensky, Ph.D., is professor of biostatistics at the Harvard
School of Public Health and a biostatistician at Massachusetts General
Hospital (MGH). She directs the statistical core of the Alzheimer’s Disease
Research Center at MGH and she is co-leader of the Biostatistics Program
at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. She graduated from Stanford
University with a Ph.D. in 1992. Her current methodological research
interests are in the areas of latent class modeling for genomic data and sur-
vival analysis under complex sampling and with auxiliary information. Dr.
Betensky’s research involves the use of penalization, either in a frequentist
or Bayesian setting, to enable model fitting with the high dimensional data.
This research is motivated by problems that Dr. Betensky encounters in her
collaborations in neuro-oncology and neurologic diseases.
Peter Como, Ph.D., joined the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
in 2009 as a lead reviewer and neuropsychologist in the Division of Oph-
thalmic, Neurological and Ear, Nose and Throat Devices, Neurodiagnos-
tic and Neurotherapeutic Devices Branch. He obtained his doctorate in
clinical psychology/neuropsychology from the University of Delaware. Prior
to joining the FDA, Dr. Como was an associate professor of neurology,
psychiatry, and brain and cognitive science at the University of Rochester
Medical Center for 25 years. He served in a clinical capacity as a neuro-
psychologist in the Movement and Inherited Neurological Disorders Unit in
the Department of Neurology. Dr. Como was also a principal investigator
in several clinical research studies (observational and clinical drug trials)
in Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and Tourette syndrome. Dr.
Como has been invited to speak at major national and international meet-
ings with respect to his expertise in neuropsychology, clinical trials, and
neurological movement disorders. Dr. Como was part of the clinical inves-
tigative team who presented to an FDA advisory panel, which ultimately
led to the approval of tetrabenazine for the treatment of chorea, associated
with Huntington’s disease, in 2008.
Ray Dorsey, M.D., is an associate professor of neurology at The Johns
Hopkins University where he directs the movement disorders division and
neurology telemedicine. His research focuses on developing new treat-
ments and improving the way health care is delivered, including the use
of telemedicine, for neurological disorders. He previously was an assistant
professor of neurology at the University of Rochester and an associate for
the consulting firm, McKinsey & Company. He attended medical and busi-
ness school at the University of Pennsylvania.
Charles E. Drebing, Ph.D., is the acting mental health service line manager
at the Bedford Veterans Administration (VA) Medical Center, and the as-
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sociate director for the New England Mental Illness Research, Education
& Clinical Center. Since joining the staff of the VA in 1992, he has been
involved with a range of studies examining interventions for psychiatric
rehabilitation settings, as well as studies of health services utilization within
the VA. The majority of his research has been focused on understanding
and enhancing rehabilitation interventions designed to help veterans with
comorbid substance abuse and psychiatric disorders return to full lives in
the community. He has conducted a range of studies examining existing
VA vocational rehabilitation services, how they are used by veterans, what
factors predict their success or failure, and how their outcomes can be en-
hanced. His research includes studies of contingency management interven-
tions designed to enhance vocational rehabilitation and transitional housing
programs, studies of motivational interviewing interventions designed to
enhance vocational rehabilitation, studies of a supported self-employment
treatment model, and studies of a harm reduction intervention for problem
gambling. He has also examined the role of families and social support in
health care utilization, including studies of family supports and problem
recognition, treatment entry, and treatment outcome. He has published over
50 articles, including a book for family members of adults with problem
gambling, and several chapters on psychiatric interventions. His most cur-
rent research work includes studies of supported employment for veterans
with posttraumatic stress disorder, examination of peer support and peer-
provided supported education, new contingency management applications,
and pathways-to-care studies of common VA rehabilitation interventions.
Alan I. Faden, M.D., received his medical degree from the University of
Chicago and neurology training at the University of California at San
Francisco. He is the David S. Brown Professor in Trauma, and professor
of anesthesiology, anatomy and neurobiology, neurosurgery, and neurol-
ogy at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He also serves as
director of the Shock, Trauma and Anesthesiology Research Organized
Research Center and the Charles “McC” Matthias National Study Center
for Trauma and Emergency Medical Systems at the University of Maryland,
Baltimore. In addition to providing oversight for clinical research related
to trauma and critical care, Dr. Faden directs an active preclinical research
program in neurotrauma, supported by multiple grants from the National
Institutes of Health. He has published 325 peer-reviewed papers. Dr. Faden
was previously professor of neuroscience, neurology, and pharmacology at
Georgetown University, where he served as dean for research and scientific
director of the medical center, associate dean for biomedical sciences for the
graduate school, and director of the Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and
Computational Sciences. Prior to Georgetown he was professor and vice
chair of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, where he
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also held positions as chief of neurology at the San Francisco Veterans Ad-
ministration Medical Center and director of the Center for Neural Injury.
Dr. Faden is editor-in-chief of Neurotherapeutics. He served as president
of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, inaugural
president of the National Neurotrauma Society, and as president of the San
Francisco Neurological Society.
Robert T. Fraser, Ph.D., is a professor in the University of Washington’s
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, joint with the Departments of
Neurological Surgery and Neurology and a consultant with Associates
in Rehabilitation and Neuropsychology, Seattle, Washington. He was re-
cently appointed to the U.S. Social Security Administration to advise on
the revision to the disability eligibility process. He is an active counseling
and rehabilitation psychologist, a certified rehabilitation counselor, and
a certified life care planner who directs neurological vocational services
within rehabilitation medicine. Within neurological rehabilitation, he has
specialized in epilepsy, brain injury, and multiple sclerosis. Dr. Fraser has
received master’s degrees in rehabilitation counseling (University of South-
ern California) and public administration (Seattle University). His doctorate
is in rehabilitation psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
with a dissertation focused on the use of task analysis in the national clas-
sification and utilization of state agency vocational rehabilitation personnel.
Tamar Heller, Ph.D., is head of the Department of Disability and Human
Development, University of Illinois at Chicago and director of its University
Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities for the State of Illinois.
She also directs the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Aging
with Developmental Disabilities: Lifespan Health and Function and projects
on family support and health promotion interventions for individuals with
disabilities. One of these projects is the Special Olympics Research Collabo-
rating Center. She is past president of the board of the Association of Uni-
versity Centers on Disabilities. In 2005 she was Senator Obama’s delegate
to the White House Conference on Aging. As a co-founder of the national
Sibling Leadership Network, she is a member of its executive board.
Richard Keefe, Ph.D., is professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at
Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. He received
his B.A. from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from
New York University. His research is primarily devoted to understanding
cognitive dysfunction and its treatment in patients with schizophrenia and
related disorders, including those at high risk for schizophrenia. Dr. Keefe
has had a leadership role for cognitive methods in several large National
Institute of Mental Health studies including the Clinical Antipsychotic Tri-
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als in Intervention Effectiveness, Measurement and Treatment Research
to Improve Cognition in Schizophrenia, Treatment Units for Research on
Neurocognition and Schizophrenia, and Treatment and Evaluation Net-
work for Trials in Schizophrenia projects. He has published more than 150
scientific papers, and has authored two books. He serves on the editorial
boards of several journals, including Schizophrenia Research, Schizophre-
nia Bulletin, and Clinical Innovations in Neuroscience, and is an associate
editor of Psychological Medicine. He is president-elect of the International
Society for Central Nervous System Clinical Trials and Methodology, and
on the scientific board of National Alliance on Mental Illness and the Brain
and Behavior Research Foundation. He is the founder and chief executive
officer of NeuroCog Trials, Inc. He is also a co-principal investigator and
director of the Neurocognitive Core for the Translational and Clinical Re-
search Schizophrenia project at the Institute of Mental Health in Singapore.
Mary R. T. Kennedy, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Speech-Language-
Hearing Science Department at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She
has over 30 years of clinical and research experience working with individuals
with cognitive and communication disorders as a result of traumatic brain
injury (TBI). Dr. Kennedy has published and presented widely on these topics
in both peer-reviewed scientific journals and publications aimed at translat-
ing evidence into practice. Her research has been funded by grants on the
executive functions, language, and metacognition of survivors of TBI and the
academic impact of these impairments. Her current projects involve translat-
ing research evidence into practical assessment and instruction techniques that
support individuals with TBI they transition back to college. Dr. Kennedy
chairs the Academy of Neurological Communication Disorders & Sciences
committee that systematically reviews research evidence and develops practice
guidelines on managing cognitive and communication disorders after TBI.
Harvey Levin, Ph.D., is professor at the Baylor College of Medicine, in the
Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Pediatrics, Neurosur-
gery, and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Levin is also director of the
Center of Excellence for Traumatic Brain Injury at the Michael E. De Bakey
Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Houston, Texas. He obtained his M.A.
in clinical psychology and Ph.D. in clinical psychology/neuropsychology at
the University of Iowa in 1972. Following his graduate work, he interned at
the Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, as well as the University of
Iowa Hospital in Iowa City where he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in
clinical neuropsychology. He is board certified in clinical neuropsychology,
and is a Texas licensed psychologist. His subspecialty is neuropsychology,
and his clinical interests are in brain injury, epilepsy, and stroke. He conducts
research at Baylor College in cognitive neuropsychology.
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Cynthia D. Mulrow, M.D. (IOM), is clinical professor of medicine at
the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and senior
deputy editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine. Dr. Mulrow’s expertise
is in clinical methodology, information synthesis, and clinical guidelines.
She is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and
the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and currently serves on the IOM Board
on Health Care Services. She was previously director of the San Antonio
Veterans Administration Cochrane Center, program director of the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation’s Generalists Physician Scholars Program, and
director of the San Antonio Evidence-based Practice Center. Dr. Mulrow
has served on several editorial boards, including the British Medical Journal
and the American Journal of Medicine. She was a member of the U.S. Pre-
ventive Services Task Force and has served on guideline development panels
for the RAND Corporation and U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality. She currently participates in multiple groups that develop report-
ing standards for medical research including the Consolidated Standards
of Reporting Trials Group (reporting standards for trials), the Preferred
Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Group (report-
ing standards for systematic reviews), and the Strengthening the Reporting
of Observational Studies in Epidemiology Group (reporting standards for
observational studies).
Hilaire Thompson, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN, is an assistant professor in the
School of Nursing at the University of Washington and a core faculty of
the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center. Dr. Thompson’s
research has focused on improving outcomes from traumatic brain injury
(TBI). In particular, her efforts have focused on understanding and improv-
ing the delivery of health care services to persons with TBI and the use of
translational approaches to manage and reduce symptoms following injury.
She currently serves as the Clinical Practice Guideline Series editor for the
American Association of Neuroscience Nurses. Dr. Thompson earned her
Ph.D. in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania in 2003, after com-
pleting her M.S. and post-M.S. Certificate in adult medical-surgical nursing
and as an adult acute care nurse practitioner, respectively, from Virginia
Commonwealth University. She also received her B.S.N. from Catholic
University of America in 1992 and an M.S. in clinical epidemiology from
the University of Washington in 2008.
John Whyte, M.D., Ph.D., is a physiatrist and experimental psychologist
specializing in traumatic brain injury rehabilitation. He was the founding
director of the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, begun in 1992, and
continues in this position. His research focuses on cognitive impairment and
cognitive rehabilitation after brain injury as well as the special methodo-
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logic challenges posed by rehabilitation research. Dr. Whyte has received
research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National
Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, the Department of the
Army, and a number of private foundations. He is the past president of the
Association of Academic Physiatrists, former chair of the National Center
for Medical Rehabilitation Research’s Advisory Board, and past principal
investigator and program director (now associate program director) of the
Rehabilitation Medicine Scientist Training Program, a NIH-funded pro-
gram to train physiatric researchers.
CONSULTANTS
Jennifer J. Vasterling, Ph.D., obtained her doctorate in psychology from
Vanderbilt University in 1988, subsequently completing pre- and post-
doctoral training in clinical neuropsychology at the Boston Veterans Af-
fairs Medical Center. She currently serves as the chief of psychology at the
Veterans Administration (VA) Boston Healthcare System and as a clinical
investigator within the Behavioral Sciences Division of the VA National
Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Dr. Vasterling is a professor
of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and a lecturer in
psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Prior to her current positions, Dr.
Vasterling served as the associate director for research for the VA South
Central (VISN 16) Mental, Illness, Research, Education, and Clinical Cen-
ter, staff psychologist at the New Orleans Veterans Affairs Medical Center,
and as a clinical professor of psychiatry and neurology at Tulane University
School of Medicine. Dr. Vasterling’s research has centered on furthering un-
derstanding of the neurocognitive and emotional changes that accompany
war-zone deployment and posttraumatic stress responses. Her recent work
includes leadership of the Neurocognition Deployment Health Study, a
prospective study examining short- and long-term neuropsychological and
emotional outcomes of military deployment to Iraq.
Barbara G. Vickrey, M.D., M.P.H., is professor and vice chair of the
Department of Neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles
(UCLA), where she directs the Health Services Research Program in Neu-
rology. She is also associate director for research at the Greater Los An-
geles Veterans Administration Parkinson Disease Center and an affiliated
investigator at the RAND Corporation. Dr. Vickrey’s research focuses on
translating evidence from clinical trials into routine medical practice and
improved patient health outcomes. She led a multisite randomized trial that
demonstrated substantially improved quality and better patient and care-
giver outcomes from a coordinated care approach to dementia care delivery.
Her research has led to enhanced clinical trials for epilepsy and multiple
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sclerosis by developing widely used instruments to quantify how these pa-
tients view their health-related quality of life. Currently, Dr. Vickrey leads
an American Heart Association Outcomes Research Center investigating
methods to address racial and ethnic disparities in stroke and training post-
doctoral fellows in this field of investigation. She received her M.D. from
Duke University School of Medicine and her M.P.H. from UCLA School of
Public Health. In 1998, she received the Alice S. Hersh Young Investigator
Award from AcademyHealth.
INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE STAFF
Rebecca N. Koehler, Ph.D., is a program officer and study director at the
Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. She most recently worked
as a postdoctoral fellow from 2007 to 2010 at the U.S. Military Human
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Research Program, where she initiated and
carried out research projects exploring human genetic factors influencing
HIV infection and clinical disease course. These studies were influential
in uncovering specific alleles contributing to protection from HIV in East
African populations. Dr. Koehler earned her Ph.D. at Georgetown Univer-
sity in biology, with a concentration in molecular and cellular biology. Her
doctoral work focused on the transcriptional regulation of the ADE genes
in the genetic model system yeast. Prior to graduate school Dr. Koehler
participated in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps for one year in Los Angeles, serv-
ing as a case manager at the Saint Joseph Homeless Service Center. She is
a graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a bachelor of science in
biology and a minor in art history.
Erin E. Wilhelm, M.P.H., was an associate program officer at the Institute of
Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies, with the Board on the Health
of Select Populations. Previously, Ms. Wilhelm served as the research asso-
ciate on two studies evaluating disability criteria, related to cardiovascular
diseases and HIV/AIDS. In October 2010, she coordinated a three-day
workshop for TRICARE at the IOM, bringing together experts on quality
management systems and scopes of practice for behavioral health profes-
sionals in the Military Health System. Prior to joining the IOM in 2009, Ms.
Wilhelm served as a guest researcher at Fogarty International Center of the
National Institutes of Health (NIH), where she contributed to a literature
review and portfolio analysis for the Trans-NIH Working Group on Climate
Change and Health. Among other roles, she has also served as a publications
editor for the Corporate Executive Board, a best practice research firm in
Washington, DC, and a staff writer for the St. Petersburg Times in Tampa,
Florida. Ms. Wilhelm holds a Master of Public Health in global health from
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The George Washington University and a dual Bachelor of Arts in broadcast
journalism and political science from the University of South Florida.
Alicia Jaramillo-Underwood was a program assistant at the Institute of
Medicine (IOM) until August 2011 when she joined the National Acad-
emies’ Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Prior to
joining the IOM, she graduated from Georgetown University in May 2010
with a B.A. degree in psychology. In the interim from graduation and join-
ing the staff, Alicia spent 6 months in Heidelberg, Germany, as a volunteer
with the American Red Cross. From 2009 to 2010 Alicia was a research
assistant at Georgetown University’s Department of Psychology, conducting
interviews for a cross-cultural study on emotions. In the summers of 2007
and 2008, she volunteered at the American Red Cross as an instructor, as
well as in the pharmacy at Prince William County Hospital, in Manassas,
Virginia. Alicia has taught English, traveled to Tamaulipas, Mexico, on a
medical mission, and has volunteered in other capacities as well, including
briefly for the neurosurgery department at Georgetown University Hospital.
Jon Q. Sanders is a veteran program associate with the Board on the Health
of Select Populations at the Institute of Medicine (IOM). He received his
B.A. degree in anthropology with a minor in geosciences from Trinity
University and recently completed the program management certification
at George Mason University. In his 10 years with the National Academies
Mr. Sanders has worked on a variety of projects on topics ranging from
childhood obesity to national security, and most recently on a multiple
award-winning project on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender health.
He is coauthor of Sitting Down at the Table: Mediation and Resolution of
Water Conflicts (2001). His research interests include public health, emer-
gency management, and environmental decision making.
Frederick (Rick) Erdtmann, M.D., M.P.H., is currently director of the
Board on the Health of Select Populations and the Medical Follow-Up
Agency at the Institute of Medicine (IOM). Prior to joining the IOM he
was a career military physician in the U.S. Army. While in the military, he
served as chief of several large departments of preventive medicine at U.S.
installations at home and overseas. He also was commander of the military
community hospital at Ft. Carson, Colorado, and later served as hospital
commander for the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He had several
assignments at the Army Surgeon General’s Office, working on military
health care policies. He received his undergraduate degree from Bucknell
University and an M.P.H. from the University of California, Berkeley. He
is a graduate of Temple University Medical School and is board certified in
the specialty of preventive medicine.
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