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F
Committee and Staff Biographies
COMMITTEE
HARVEY V. FINEBERG (Chairman), Dean of the Harvard School
of Public Health and Professor of Health Policy and Management, is
a leading figure in the health policy field in the United States.
His research has focused on the process of policy development and
implementation, assessment of medical technology, and dissemination
of medical innovations. He was a founder and past president of the
Society for Medical Decision Making, chairman of the Health Care
Technology Study Section of the National Center for Health Services
Research, and a member of the Public Health Council of
Massachusetts. He is co-author of two books, Clinical Decision
Analysis and The Epidemic That Never Was, a policy
analysis of the national immunization program against swine flu. He
is a member of the Institute of Medicine and a prominent spokesman
in the fight against AIDS.
JOHN C. BAILEY is Director of the Bear River District
Health Department in Logan, Utah. He is Adjunct Professor of Public
Health at Utah State University. He received his M.D. from the
University of Utah School of Medicine. He is board certified in
public health by the American Board of Preventive Medicine and is a
fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine. He currently
serves on the Board of Directors for the National Association of
County Health Officials. He has also been on several
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advisory bodies to the Utah State Health Department, including
one on the development and administration of public immunization
policy.
MARY LUZ COADY is Director of the Department of
Pediatrics at Bryn Mawr Hospital, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; Clinical
Instructor in Pediatrics at the Temple University School of
Medicine, Philadelphia; and a board-certified pediatrician in
private practice in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Dr. Coady received an
M.D. from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania and completed
residencies in pediatrics at Children's Hospital of San Francisco
and St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. She is
a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of the
Pennsylvania Medical Society.
LINDA D. COWAN is Associate Professor in the Department
of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health, at the
University of Oklahoma, where she has been a faculty member since
1983. Dr. Cowan received her Ph.D. degree in epidemiology in 1979
from The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public
Health. After completing her degree, she was a postdoctoral fellow
in neuroepidemiology at Children's Hospital, Boston, and the
Harvard School of Public Health. From 1980 to 1983, Dr. Cowan was
Assistant Member at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation where
she worked on the national, collaborative Lipid Research Clinics
Program. Dr. Cowan's research focuses on cardiovascular disease in
adults, especially studies to elucidate gender differences in risk,
and on the epidemiology of neurological disorders in infants and
children, especially childhood epilepsy. Dr. Cowan has served as a
member of the Epidemiology and Disease Control Study Section for
the National Institutes of Health, is on the Editorial Board of
Brain and Development, and is a member of the American
Epidemiologic Society. She is currently on sabbatical at the
Department of Pediatrics, New York University Medical Center.
MARIE R. GRIFFIN is Associate Professor of Preventive
Medicine and Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
She received her M.D. from Georgetown University School of Medicine
and her M.P.H. from The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene
and Public Health. She served as an Epidemiologic Intelligence
Officer at the Centers for Disease Control. She is a fellow of the
American College of Physicians and a member of the American
Epidemiologic Society. She is currently a
Pharmacoepidemiology Scholar of the not-for-profit Burroughs
Wellcome Fund. Her major area of interest for the past 5 years has
been in the field of pharmacoepidemiology.
RICHARD B. JOHNSTON, JR., is the William H.
Bennett Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School
of Medicine, and Director of Research Education, The Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia. He received
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his undergraduate and medical education at Vanderbilt University
and his postgraduate training at Children's Hospital, Boston, and
Harvard Medical School. He has been chairman of the Department of
Pediatrics at the National Jewish Center for Immunology and
Respiratory Medicine and at the University of Pennsylvania. He is
board certified in pediatrics and serves as a clinical immunologist
for children. His clinical and research interests center about host
defense against infection; his research involves the biochemical
basis for the killing of invading microorganisms by phagocytic
cells. He presently chairs the Advisory Committee for Vaccines and
Related Biological Products for the Food and Drug
Administration.
MICHAEL KATZ is Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics
at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University
and Director of Pediatrics at Babies Hospital, a division of the
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York. He is also the
Reuben S. Carpentier Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of
Public Health (Tropical Medicine). Dr. Katz has a clinical
specialty of infectious diseases and parasitology, and his research
interests have dealt with host defense in malnourished children and
mechanisms of latent virus infections. He is an author and
co-author of original scientific papers dealing with these subjects
and, with two colleagues, an author of a textbook on parasitic
diseases. Dr. Katz is a member of the Institute of Medicine and a
number of professional societies and a recipient of several awards,
among them the Humboldt Award for Senior U.S. Scientists, given by
the German government. He has been a visiting professor in
universities in the United States and abroad. He has been a
consultant to the World Health Organization, United Nations
International Children's Emergency Fund, and various government
organizations.
DARWIN L. LABARTHE is the James W. Rockwell Professor of
Public Health in the School of Public Health at The University of
Texas Houston Health Science Center. He received an M.D. degree
from Columbia University and M.P.H. and Ph.D. degrees in public
health and epidemiology from the University of California,
Berkeley. He is a member or fellow of the American Heart
Association, the Society for Epidemiologic Research, and the
American Public Health Association and a diplomate of the American
Board of Preventive Medicine. Dr. Labarthe's research interests
include epidemiology and prevention, especially of cardiovascular
and other chronic conditions among both children and adults; issues
in the interpretation of epidemiologic evidence, especially
concerning causation; and occupational and other environmental
exposures potentially related to cancer.
DAVID A. LANE is a Professor in the Department of
Theoretical Statistics at the University of Minnesota. He received
an M.S. in mathematics from the University of North Carolina and a
Ph.D. in statistics from the
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University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Lane joined the faculty
of the University of Minnesota in 1976. He has been a visiting
professor at Duke University, McGill University, and Bocconi
University in Milan, Italy, and he recently completed a sabbatical
year as Director of the Economics Research Program with the Santa
Fe Institute in New Mexico. Dr. Lane was a Guggenheim Fellow in
1986-1987. He is a member or fellow of the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics, the American Statistical Association, and
the International Statistical Institute. Dr. Lane's research
interests include the assessment of causality of adverse drug
reactions.
FREDERICK MOSTELLER is the Roger I. Lee Professor of
Mathematical Statistics, Emeritus, and Director of the Technology
Assessment Group at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr.
Mosteller received Sc.B. and M.Sc. degrees from the Carnegie
Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University) and A.M.
and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University. He is also the
recipient of honorary doctorates from the University of Chicago,
Carnegie-Mellon University, Wesleyan University, Yale University,
and Harvard University. He is the author or co-author of numerous
articles and books on biostatistics and mathematical statistics.
Dr. Mosteller is a member of the Institute of Medicine, the
National Academy of Sciences, and the International Statistical
Institute and is past president of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the American Statistical Association, and
the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
BENNETT A. SHAYWITZ is Professor of Pediatrics,
Neurology and Child Study Center, and Chief of Pediatric Neurology
at the Yale University School of Medicine. Most recently, Dr.
Shaywitz has been named Co-Director of the first federally funded
Center for the Study of Learning and Attention Disorders. A
graduate of Washington University (A.B., 1960; M.D., 1963), Dr.
Shaywitz trained first in pediatrics and then child neurology at
the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and served as Lieutenant
Colonel in the Air Force before joining the Yale University faculty
in 1972. Dr. Shaywitz's primary and long-standing research has
focused on the neurobiological influences in learning and attention
disorders, and the great majority of his over 200 articles and
chapters emphasize the relationships between brain
neurotransmitters and disorders of learning and attention. His most
recent area of investigation involves the nosology and
classification of learning and attention disorders. In addition to
service on advisory boards of the Institute of Medicine, Dr.
Shaywitz has served on advisory boards and committees at the
National Institutes of Health, the Professional Advisory Board of
the National Center for Children with Learning Disabilities, the
Professional Advisory Board of the Reye Syndrome Foundation, and
the Editorial Board of Pediatric Neurology.
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STAFF
CHRISTOPHER P. HOWSON is Deputy Director of the Division
of International Health and Senior Program Officer in the Institute
of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He received an
A.B. in sociology and anthropology from Swarthmore College and a
Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of California, Los
Angeles. He has directed two other studies for the National Academy
of Sciences assessing the role of diet in chronic disease risk and
planning for an evaluation of the Artificial Heart Program of the
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. His research interests
include epidemiology in public health policy, environment and
population health, program evaluation, and health services
research.
CYNTHIA J. HOWE is a Program Officer in the Division of
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention of the Institute of
Medicine, National Academy of Sciences. She received a B.A. degree
in psychology from Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, and
has done graduate work in experimental psychology at the University
of Maryland, College Park. Other projects during 10 years on the
Institute of Medicine staff have included an evaluation of
poliomyelitis vaccine policy options; a study of pain, disability,
and chronic illness behavior; the setting of health objectives for
the year 2000; and a review of the organizational structure of the
National Institutes of Health.
DOROTHY R. MAJEWSKI is a Senior Secretary in the
Institute of Medicine and has been with the National Academy of
Sciences for three years. She served as project assistant on
this study and previously was project assistant for studies on
nuclear energy engineering for the Energy Engineering Board and on
diet and health for the Food and Nutrition Board.
MICHAEL A. STOTO is a Senior Staff Officer with the
Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He
received an A.B. in statistics from Princeton University and a
Ph.D. in statistics and demography from Harvard University. He was
formerly an associate professor of public policy at Harvard's John
F. Kennedy School of Government. He recently directed the Institute
of Medicine's effort in support of the Public Health Service's
Healthy People 2000 project. His current projects address a number
of issues in public health, health statistics, health promotion and
disease prevention, and AIDS.
CYNTHIA H. ABEL is the Administrative/Financial Associate
in the Office of Administration and Finance at the Institute of
Medicine. She received a B.A. degree in government and policy from
the University of Maryland, College Park, and has done graduate
work in technology man-
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agement. Prior to her current position, she was the research
assistant with the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on the
Safety of DOE Nuclear Reactors and the staff assistant with the
National Research Council's Governing Board.
MICHAEL K. HAYES has been an editorial consultant with
the National Academy Press since 1985. He has edited numerous
publications for the Institute of Medicine, including Assessing
Medical Technologies, Confronting AIDS, The Medical Implications of
Nuclear War, and Nutrition Labeling. Mr. Hayes also
edits research articles published in Antimicrobial Agents and
Chemotherapy and the Journal of Clinical Microbiology,
both of which are publications of the American Society for
Microbiology, and reports of the American College of Obstetricians
and Gynecologists.
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