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Appendix D
Committee and Staff
Biographical Sketches
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
David H. Wegman (Chair) 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 Envi-
ronment 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 continues to serve as adjunct professor
at the Harvard School of Public Health. Previously, he served as director of
the Division 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, musculoskeletal
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 (NRC)-Institute of Medi-
cine (IOM) Committees on Health and Safety Needs of Older Workers and
the Health and Safety Consequences of Child Labor, as well as the Commit-
tee to Review the NIOSH Research Programs. He has also been a member
of the NRC-IOM Panel on Musculoskeletal Disorders and Work and the
IOM Committees to Review the Health Consequences of Service during
the Persian Gulf War and to Review Gender Differences in Susceptibility to
Environmental Factors. He also served as chair of the NRC Committee on
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the Role of Human Factors in Home Health Care. He received his B.A. from
Swarthmore College and his M.D. and M.Sc. from Harvard University, and
is board certified in preventive medicine (occupational medicine).
Thomas J. Armstrong is a professor in the Departments of Industrial and
Operations Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of
Michigan. He is also director of the University of Michigan Center for Ergo-
nomics and was director of the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center
on Ergonomics. His research is concerned with performance and health
issues in manual work and has focused on the development of methods for
analyzing physical work requirements; the development of biomechanical
models of hand function; analysis of the relationship between physical work
requirements and musculoskeletal disorders; the design of workstations,
hand tools, and keyboards; identification of ways of facilitating the return
to work of injured workers; analysis and design of jobs for accommodation
of restricted workers; and the design of ergonomic programs for control
of work-related musculoskeletal disorders. He has conducted research and
training within the automobile, aerospace, electronics, computer, office,
and food processing industries. His research has resulted in numerous
articles, book chapters, and reports on upper-limb biomechanics, carpal
tunnel syndrome, tendinitis, job analysis, vibration, tools, workstations,
and computer-aided design. Dr. Armstrong is on the editorial boards of
Human Factors and Ergonomics, the Journal of Occupational Rehabilita-
tion, and the Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment and Health. He
is a fellow in the American Industrial Hygiene Association, the American
Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the Human Factors and
Ergonomics Society, and the International Ergonomics Association. Dr.
Armstrong served on the National Research Council committee that orga-
nized the Workshop to Evaluate Work-Related Musculoskeletal Injuries:
The Research Base. Dr. Armstrong holds a B.S.E. in aerospace engineering;
an M.P.H. in industrial health; and a Ph.D. in industrial health, physiology,
and engineering, all from the University of Michigan.
Burt S. Barnow is the Amsterdam professor of public service and of econom-
ics at George Washington University. Prior to joining George Washington
University, Dr. Barnow was associate director for research at Johns Hopkins
University’s Institute for Policy Studies, where he worked for 18 years. Prior
to that, he worked for 8 years at the Lewin Group and nearly 9 years at
the U.S. Department of Labor, including 4 years as director of the Office
of Research and Evaluation in the Employment and Training Administra-
tion. As a labor economist, Dr. Barnow focuses much of his work on labor
markets; over the years he has conducted a number of studies looking at
whether particular labor markets have experienced shortages of workers
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and if so, why. He has also conducted many studies of occupational training
programs, including studies of how the programs are being implemented
and how effective they have been. Dr. Barnow teaches the core course on
program evaluation in the public policy and public administration program
at George Washington University, and he has conducted evaluations of a
variety of social programs, including training, welfare, child support, and
fatherhood programs. His current research includes the development and
evaluation of pilot programs to test self-sufficiency strategies for welfare
recipients for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, a study
of the implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for
workforce investment programs for the U.S. Department of Labor, and an
evaluation of a new approach to adult education sponsored by the Gates
Foundation. Dr. Barnow has been a member of eight other National Re-
search Council committees, most recently the Committee to Review NASA’s
Workforce; the Committee to Review EPA’s Title 42 Hiring Authority for
Highly Qualified Scientists and Engineers; the Committee on the Emerging
Workforce Trends in the U.S. Mining and Energy Industries; and the Com-
mittee on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Workforce
Needs for the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Defense Industrial
Base. He also served two terms on the NRC Board on Higher Education and
the Workforce. Dr. Barnow received a B.S. in economics from the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in economics from the University
of Wisconsin–Madison.
Leighton Chan is chief of the Rehabilitation Medicine Department at
the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health. Subsequently, he
completed a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Fellowship and was a
congressional fellow for the Honorable Jim McDermott (Washington). From
1994 to 2006, Dr. Chan was on the faculty of the University of Washington’s
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. From 2002 to 2006, he was associ-
ate professor. He is board certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation
and in electrodiagnostic medicine. Dr. Chan’s research interests include
health services, quality of care given to Medicare beneficiaries, and Medicare
payment policy issues. He has published more than 65 peer-reviewed articles
and numerous book chapters. His awards include the Young Academician
Award from the Association of Academic Physiatrists, two outstanding
teacher awards from the University of Washington School of Medicine, and
a Presidential Citation Award for excellence in research from the American
Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Dr. Chan is a member
of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and is a current IOM membership sec-
tion leader. He holds an M.P.H. from the University of Washington and an
M.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Chan completed
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postgraduate training in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Univer-
sity of Washington.
Peter C. Esselman is professor and chair of the Department of Rehabilitation
Medicine at the University of Washington, as well as chief of rehabilitation
medicine at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. His clinical interests in-
clude the rehabilitation of individuals after traumatic injuries, with a focus
on traumatic brain injury and burn injuries. He is also interested in quality
improvement. Dr. Esselman was an intern in the Department of Medicine
and a resident as well as chief resident in the Department of Rehabilitation
Medicine at the University of Washington. He has published more than 50
journal articles and five book chapters and is on the editorial board of the
American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. He is a member
of the Health Policy Legislation Committee of the American Academy of
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and was chair of the Association of
Academic Physiatrists Task Force on Chronic Disease and Disability Edu-
cation. He is a member of the American Academy of Physical Medicine
and Rehabilitation, the American Burn Association, and the Association
of Academic Physiatrists. In 2001, he won the Harborview Medical Center
Service Excellence Award. Dr. Esselman was a member of the Institute of
Medicine Committee on Traumatic Brain Injury. He received an M.D. from
the University of Washington School of Medicine.
Walter R. Frontera is a professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation
(PM&R) and physiology and former dean of the Medical School at the Uni-
versity of Puerto Rico. In 1995, he spent a sabbatical year at the Karolinska
Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden, in the Department of Clinical Neurophysi-
ology, studying the effects of aging on the biochemical and contractile prop-
erties of single human muscle fibers. In 1996, he was recruited to Harvard
Medical School to establish the Department of PM&R and was appointed
Earle P. and Ida S. Charlton professor and chairman of the Department of
PM&R at Harvard Medical School and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital.
He was also chief of service at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the
Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Frontera’s main research interest is
study of the mechanisms underlying muscle atrophy and weakness in the
elderly and the development of rehabilitative interventions for sarcopenia.
He has authored more than 200 scientific publications, including more
than 80 peer-reviewed articles and 12 edited books. Currently, Dr. Frontera
serves as editor-in-chief of The American Journal of PM&R and regional
vice president of the International Society of PM&R. He has received several
awards, including Best Scientific Research Paper (three times), presented by
the American Academy of PM&R; the Distinguished Academician (2005)
and Outstanding Service (2010) awards, presented by the Association of
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Academic Physiatrists; the Harvard Foundation Award for his contributions
to the field of PM&R; the Joel DeLisa award (2011), presented by the Kes-
sler Foundation; and the Sidney Licht award, presented by the International
Society of PM&R (2011). In 2008, he was elected member of the Institute
of Medicine (IOM). He currently serves on the IOM Committee of Medical
Experts to Assist Social Security on Disability Issues. Dr. Frontera completed
his M.D. and residency in PM&R in 1983 at the University of Puerto Rico
and his Ph.D. in applied anatomy and physiology at Boston University in
1986.
Glenn T. Fujiura is an associate professor of human development in the De-
partment of Disability and Human Development and associate dean of the
College of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Dr. Fujiura’s research has focused on the fiscal structure and demography
of the disability service system, family policy, evaluation of long-term care
services, poverty and disability, ethnic and racial issues in disability, and
the statistical surveillance of disability. In addition, he has a long-standing
interest in research methodology, statistical analysis, and philosophy of sci-
ence. Dr. Fujiura teaches research methods, advanced research concepts, and
statistics for the graduate program at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Current major projects include analyses of family demographics, evalu-
ation of state disability spending, cognitive testing of health surveys for
persons with intellectual disabilities, evaluation of international disability
statistical surveillance, health statistics and intellectual disability, and the
application of knowledge utilization models in Americans with Disabilities
Act technical assistance. He has worked extensively in both the creation of
large national data sets on intellectual and developmental disabilities and
the secondary analysis of national statistical surveillance systems. He has
served as chair of the U.S. Administration on Developmental Disabilities
Commissioner’s Multicultural Advisory Committee, and as a member of
the President’s Committee on Mental Retardation during the Clinton Ad-
ministration, the Cultural Diversity Advisory Committee for the National
Council on Disability, and NIDRR’s Long-Range Plan Steering Committee.
He was 1999 recipient of the National Rehabilitation Association’s Switzer
Scholar award. Dr. Fujiura is the editor-in-chief of the journal Intellectual
and Developmental Disabilities. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Bruce M. Gans is executive vice president and chief medical officer for the
Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, based in West Orange, New Jersey. He
is also national medical director for rehabilitation for Select Medical Cor-
poration, the parent company for Kessler. In addition, Dr. Gans holds an
appointment as professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R)
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at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey–New Jersey
Medical School and serves on the board of directors of the Allied Health
Research Institute, a nonprofit organization focused on improving access
to rehabilitation therapy. Dr. Gans has published extensively, and has held
more than $10 million in research and educational grants from the public
and private sectors. He is an editor of the major textbook DeLisa’s Physi-
cal Medicine and Rehabilitation: Principles and Practice (5th ed., 2010).
He also serves as an associate editor of the American Journal of Physical
Medicine & Rehabilitation. His research has focused on pediatric trauma
rehabilitation, quantitative assessment of motor performance, rehabilitation
engineering, rehabilitation health services delivery, and primary care for the
disabled. Dr. Gans has been honored with recognition as one of “The Best
Doctors in America.” He has received the American Hospital Association’s
prestigious Brent England Award for Excellence in Rehabilitation Manage-
ment (1995) and the American Medical Rehabilitation Providers Associa-
tion’s INDE Service Award (2005). The Association of Academic Physiatrists
awarded him its Outstanding Service Award in 2000. In 2001, he was se-
lected to deliver the 34th Annual Walter J. Zeiter Lecture to the American
Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. In 2008, he was the
recipient of that organization’s Distinguished Member Award. Dr. Gans
received his M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine in Philadelphia and an M.S. in biomedical electronic engineering
from the Moore School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He
also holds an M.S. degree from the University of Washington. He served his
medical internship at the Philadelphia General Hospital and his residency in
PM&R at the University of Washington, Seattle. He received his B.S. degree
in electrical engineering from Union College, Schenectady, New York.
Ian D. Graham is vice president of the Knowledge Translation Portfolio
at Canadian Institutes of Health Research, where he is responsible for
knowledge translation, partnerships and citizen engagement, commu -
nication and public outreach, and pan institute affairs and initiatives.
Dr. Graham is on leave from his positions as associate professor in the
School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, and senior social scientist in
the Clinical Epidemiology Program of the Ottawa Hospital Research
Institute. He holds cross-appointments in the Departments of Medicine
and Epidemiology and Community Medicine and is an adjunct associ-
ate professor in the School of Nursing at Queen’s University, Kingston,
Ontario. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academies of Health Sciences.
His research has focused largely on knowledge translation (the process of
research use) and applied research on strategies to increase implementation
of research findings and evidence-based practice. He has also advanced
knowledge translation science through the development of two planned
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action models, the Ottawa Model of Research Use and, more recently, the
Knowledge to Action Model. His specific research projects have related to
the adaptation, implementation, and quality appraisal of clinical practice
guidelines, as well as the uptake of guidelines and decision support tools
by practitioners. He is co-editor of Knowledge Translation in Health
Care, published by Wiley-Blackwell (2009) and Evaluating the Impact
of Implementing Evidence-Based Practice, published by Wiley-Blackwell
(2010). Dr. Graham obtained a B.A. in sociology from McGill University,
an M.A. in sociology from the University of Victoria, and a Ph.D. in medi-
cal sociology from McGill University.
Lisa I. Iezzoni is professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and di-
rector of the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General
Hospital. Dr. Iezzoni has spent more than two decades conducting health
services research focused in three primary areas: risk adjustment methods
for predicting cost and clinical outcomes of care, use of administrative data
for assessing health care quality, and health care experiences and outcomes
of persons with disabilities. She has personal experience in the latter area
(having had multiple sclerosis since age 22). After spending 16 years as co-
director of research in the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care
at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Dr. Iezzoni joined the
Institute for Health Policy as associate director in 2006. She has led numer-
ous research grants with funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, the National Institutes of Health, the Health Care Financing
Administration, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), and other
private foundations. An internationally recognized expert in risk adjust-
ment, she edited Risk Adjustment for Measuring Health Care Outcomes,
with its fourth edition in press. Dr. Iezzoni began her disability research with
a 1996 Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from RWJF, and the
book summarizing this work, When Walking Fails: Mobility Impairments
of Adults with Chronic Conditions, appeared in 2003. A book considering
disability experiences more broadly, More Than Ramps: A Guide to Im-
proving Health Care Quality and Access for People with Disabilities, was
published in 2006. Another book, Multiple Sclerosis, which was published
in 2010, explores the epidemiology of multiple sclerosis, describes its symp-
toms, reviews today’s treatments and research directions, and presents the
experiences of persons living with multiple sclerosis. Dr. Iezzoni has also
published numerous original articles, editorials, and commentaries in major
medical and health services research journals. She has been a member of
many Institute of Medicine (IOM) committees, including the Committee
on Identifying Priority Areas for Quality Improvement; the Committee to
Evaluate Measures of Health Benefits for Environmental, Health, and Safety
Regulation; and the Committee on Disability in America: A New Look. Dr.
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Iezzoni is a member of the IOM. She holds an M.D. from Harvard Medical
School and an MSc in health policy and management from Harvard School
of Public Health.
Alan M. Jette currently directs the Health & Disability Research Institute at
the Boston University School of Public Health, where he also serves as pro-
fessor of health policy and management. Dr. Jette’s research interests include
late-life exercise; evaluation of treatment outcomes; and the measurement,
epidemiology, and prevention of disability. He has published more than 180
articles on these topics in the rehabilitation, geriatrics, and public health
literature. Dr. Jette is research director for the New England Regional Spinal
Cord Injury Center based at Boston University Medical Center, serves on the
Executive Committee of the Boston Claude Pepper Older Americans Inde-
pendence Center, and directs the Boston Rehabilitation Outcome Measures
Center. His current work focuses on the development and dissemination of
contemporary outcome measurement instruments for evaluating the quality
of health care. Dr. Jette was a member of the National Research Council
(NRC)-Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee to Review the Social Secu-
rity Administration’s Disability Decision Process Research, was chair of the
IOM Committee on the Future of Disability in America, and was chair of
the NRC Steering Committee to Design and Conduct a Public Workshop
on New Survey Measures of Cognitive and Functional Disability: Going
Beyond ADLs and IADLs. He received his M.P.H. and Ph.D. in public health
from the University of Michigan.
Thubi H.A. Kolobe is the Jill Pitman Jones professor of physical therapy
in the Department of Rehabilitation Science at the University of Oklahoma
Health Sciences Center. Her research in early identification of children
with or at risk for disabilities, efficacy of robotics in the early mobility of
young infants, cultural and environmental influences on development, and
measurement has been funded by foundations and federal agencies such as
the National Institutes of Health. She is a co-developer of the Test of Infant
Motor Performance for preterm infants, a norm-referenced test that is used
worldwide and has been translated into several languages. Dr. Kolobe has
served as chair of the Research Committee of the Section on Pediatrics,
chaired a task force to develop a research agenda for the American Physical
Therapy Association’s Section on Pediatrics, served on a recent task force to
revise the research agenda for the American Physical Therapy Association,
and has been appointed to serve on the Scientific Review Committee for
the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National
Institutes of Health. Dr. Kolobe has extensive clinical experience in pediat-
rics and community-based interventions. Over the past 30 years, her roles
in this area have ranged from direct patient care in various settings, clinical
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education, and staff development, to program consultation. Her consulta-
tion roles have focused largely on program evaluation and development for
community-based programs that serve children and families with disabilities
and on funded undergraduate and graduate training programs. She serves
on the Evaluation Committee for the Oklahoma SoonerStart program, a
statewide early intervention program funded through the Part C program
of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Amendment Act of 2004. She
holds a Ph.D. in pediatric physical therapy (with a minor in family therapy)
from Hahnemann University.
Pamela Loprest is a labor economist and director of the Center on Income
and Benefits at the Urban Institute. Her research focuses on low-wage labor
markets and barriers to work among disadvantaged populations and on
policies to address these issues. Dr. Loprest is a nationally known expert in
welfare policy and research. Her recent work examines how to structure
programs and policies to better support work among persons with dis-
abilities and former welfare recipients with work-related challenges. Past
studies include examination of the Family and Medical Leave Act, the role
of employer accommodations, public policies to support job search and
training for persons with disabilities, and the impact of the Supplemental
Security Income program on young adult recipients transitioning to work.
Dr. Loprest is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters,
as well as three books. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the Mas-
sachusetts Institute of Technology.
Kathryn E. Newcomer is the director of the Trachtenberg School of Public
Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University. She
teaches public and nonprofit program evaluation, research design, and
applied statistics. She routinely conducts research and training for federal
and local government agencies and nonprofit organizations on performance
measurement and program evaluation, and has designed and conducted
evaluations for several U.S. federal agencies and dozens of nonprofit orga-
nizations. Dr. Newcomer has published five books, including The Hand-
book of Practical Program Evaluation, and numerous articles in journals,
including the Public Administration Review. She is a fellow of the National
Academy of Public Administration and currently serves on the Comptroller
General’s Educators’ Advisory Panel. She served as president of the National
Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, 2006-2007,
and currently serves on the board of the American Evaluation Association.
Dr. Newcomer received the Elmer Staats Award for Achievements in Gov-
ernment Accountability, awarded by the National Capital Area Chapter
of the American Society for Public Administration, May 8, 2008. She has
been a member of the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on
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Approaches for an Evaluation of the NIST/NRC Postdoctoral Research As-
sociateships Program, the NRC Review of United States Institute of Peace
Senior Fellows Program, and the NRC Committee on Laboratory Security
and Personnel Assurance Systems for Laboratories Conducting Research on
Biological Select Agents and Toxins. She received her Ph.D. in economics
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Patricia M. Owens is a senior disability expert for the U.S. Government
Accountability Office. Ms. Owens has more than 30 years of experience
in health- and disability-related programs and policy. She has an unusual
set of qualifications, having held executive, policy development, and ad-
ministrative positions in both the public and private disability sectors. Her
experience serves as the basis for in-depth understanding of the multidi-
mensional and interactive nature of health and disability in terms of social
policy and risk management. She has consulted with both private- and
public-sector organizations on health and disability issues, programs, and
products. Organizations for which she has consulted include the Social Se-
curity Administration, the Veterans Administration, the Urban Institute, the
National Academy of Social Insurance (board member), Rutgers Disability
Income Studies, and the Government Accountability Office. She helped
UNUM, UK (an insurance company in Great Britain) launch a study of the
cost of disability in 2000-2001. Ms. Owens is a member of the board of
directors of Village Care of New York, a multimillion dollar AIDS treat-
ment network and community nursing and rehabilitation services provider
for persons with impairment. She was a member of the National Research
Council-Institute of Medicine Committee on Veterans’ Compensation for
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. She earned an M.P.A. degree from the Uni-
versity of Missouri.
Robert G. Radwin is a professor and founding chair of Biomedical Engineer-
ing, and a professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and Orthopedics
and Rehabilitation at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Dr. Radwin has
received numerous grants from government agencies, private foundations,
and industry and he is a regular consultant on human factors engineering.
His research is concerned with ergonomics aspects of the design, selec-
tion, installation and use of manually operated equipment and products;
investigating the causes and prevention of work-related musculoskeletal
disorders; developing novel measurements and methods for assessing expo-
sure to physical stress in the workplace; and quantifying functional deficits
associated with musculoskeletal and neuromuscular disorders for medical
surveillance, rehabilitation, and prevention. Dr. Radwin is a Fellow of the
American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers, the American In-
dustrial Hygiene Association, the Biomedical Engineering Society, the Hu-
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man Factors and Ergonomics Society (U.S.), and the Institute of Ergonomics
(U.K.). He was a member of the National Research Council (NRC)-Institute
of Medicine Panel on Musculoskeletal Disorders and the Workplace and
the NRC Committee on Human-Systems Integration. He earned a Ph.D.
in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan.
STAFF
Jeanne C. Rivard is a senior program officer with the National Academies’
Division on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE) and
was co-study director of the project. She earned a Ph.D. in social work
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she received a
National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Mental
Health to conduct her dissertation study investigating factors promoting
change in interagency collaboration. While she was serving on the faculty
of the Columbia University School of Social Work, her research included a
developmental study examining the implementation and intermediate out-
comes of a trauma-focused intervention for youth and an evaluation of the
implementation and outcomes of an interagency initiative designed to inte-
grate vocational and supportive housing services for homeless persons with
mental illness, substance abuse, HIV, and other disabilities. Before coming
to DBASSE, she worked at the National Association of State Mental Health
Program Directors Research Institute, where she led initiatives to promote
the dissemination of evidence-based practices, was a team leader for the
national impact component of the cross-site evaluation of the National
Child Traumatic Stress Initiative, and coordinated pilot studies to increase
the utilization of multistate administrative data sets to address mental health
policy questions. She has also holds an M.S.W. degree (University of South
Carolina) and an M.S.Ed. (Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles).
Mary Ellen O’Connell is deputy director of the Board on Behavioral, Cogni-
tive and Sensory Sciences and the Board on Human-Systems Integration, and
was co-study director of the project. She has served as study director for five
consensus studies at the National Research Council: on prevention of men-
tal disorders and substance abuse, on international education and foreign
languages, on ethical considerations for research on housing-related health
hazards involving children, on reducing underage drinking, and on assess-
ing and improving children’s health. She also served as study director for
the Committee on Standards of Evidence and the Quality of Behavioral and
Social Science Research, a Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and
Education-wide strategic planning effort; developed stand-alone workshops
on welfare reform and children and gun violence; and facilitated meetings of
the national coordinating committee of the Key National Indicators Initia-
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tive. She came to DBASSE from the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, where she spent 8 years in the Office of the Assistant Secretary
for Planning and Evaluation, most recently as director of state and local
initiatives. Previously, she worked at the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development on homeless policy and program design issues and for
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as director of field services. She holds
a B.A. (with distinction) from Cornell University and a master’s degree in
the management of human services from the Heller School for Social Policy
and Management at Brandeis University.
Tina Winters is an associate program officer with the Division of Behavioral
and Social Sciences and Education. She returned to the National Academies
to work with the Committee on the External Evaluation of NIDRR and Its
Grantees. Prior to rejoining the National Academies, she worked on an ini-
tiative to spread innovative health care practices and with the coordinating
center for a medical registry on islet cell transplantation. In her previous
tenure at the National Academies, she worked with the Committee on Social
Science Evidence for Use and supported numerous studies that produced
reports, including Scientific Research in Education, Knowing What Students
Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment, and the National
Science Education Standards.
Matthew D. McDonough is a research associate with the Division of Be-
havioral and Social Sciences and Education. In 7 years of working at the
National Research Council, he has staffed the Board on Life Sciences; the
Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences; the Board on Hu-
man-Systems Integration; and the Board on Children, Youth, and Families.
He has supported studies that have produced such reports as Guidelines
for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research; Human-Systems Integration in
the Design Process: A New Look; Human Behavior in Military Contexts;
Early Childhood Assessment: Why, What, and How; Intelligence Analysis
for Tomorrow: Advances from the Behavioral and Social Sciences; and
Intelligence Analysis: Behavioral and Social Scientific Foundations. He is a
graduate of George Washington University, with an M.A. in anthropology
and a concentration in international development.
Barbara Wanchisen is director of the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive and
Sensory Sciences and the Board on Human-Systems Integration. She is a
long-standing member of the Psychonomic Society, the Association for Be-
havior Analysis, and the American Psychological Association. In January
2004, she became a fellow of Division 25 (Behavior Analysis) of the Ameri-
can Psychological Association. She has served on the editorial boards of the
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and The Behavior Analyst
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while also serving as a guest reviewer for a number of other journals. From
November 2001 through April 2008, Dr. Wanchisen was executive direc-
tor of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, & Cognitive Sciences
in Washington, DC. In 2004, she was instrumental in the founding of the
Federation’s Foundation for the Advancement of Behavioral and Brain Sci-
ences, a nonprofit organization that assumed the educational mission of the
Federation. Previously, Dr. Wanchisen was professor in the Department of
Psychology and director of the college-wide Honors Program at Baldwin-
Wallace College, near Cleveland, Ohio. She received a B.A. in English and
philosophy from Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania, an M.A. in English
from Villanova University, and her Ph.D. in experimental psychology from
Temple University.
