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Appendix E Biographical Sketches of Committee Members, Consultants, and Staff
Pages 241-250

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From page 241...
... Dr. Andreasen won the President's National Medal of Science for 2000 and has also received many other awards including the Interbrew-Baillet-Latour Prize from the Belgian government, the Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat Prize from the Institute of Medicine, the Lieber Prize for Outstanding Schizophrenia Research, the Sigmund Freud Award from the American College of Psychoanalysis, and both the Kolb Award and Sachar Award from Columbia University.
From page 242...
... Dr. Cook has served as an expert consultant on employment and income supports for the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, and she authored the commission subcommittee's report on "Employment and Income Supports for People with Mental Illness." She contributed a paper on decisional capacity in mental illness and substance-use disorders to the 2006 Institute of Medicine report Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions: Quality Chasm Series.
From page 243...
... His primary research interests include measuring the prevalence of rape, other violent crimes, and other types of potentially traumatic events as well as assessing the mental health impact of such events. He is currently President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
From page 244...
... He served as project leader and co-PI for the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study -- a national survey of the incidence and prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder and Vietnam veterans and their peers. He has served on numerous advisory, review, and oversight groups, including two expert panels for the Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, for which he has also served as report coordinator for several recent reports.
From page 245...
... in economics at Harvard University. His past research includes topics related to health policy including labor market impacts for severe mental disorders, the costs and effectiveness of trauma center services, and determinants and regulation of hospital cost inflation.
From page 246...
... North is also recognized as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and Fellow of the American Psychopathological Association, serves on the board of directors of the American Academy of Clinical Psychiatrists, and is past president of the Eastern Missouri Psychiatric Society.
From page 247...
... Prior to his appointment as Director, Major Rascon had served for five years as Selective Service's Inspector General. His career as a federal employee spans over 40 years, with assignments in the Army and within the Department of Justice, where he served with the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and INTERPOL (International Criminal Police Organization)
From page 248...
... Dr. Erdtmann's assignments with the Army Medical Department included chief of the preventive medicine services at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, at Frankfurt Army Medical Center in Germany, and at Madigan Army Medical Center.
From page 249...
... Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, where she earned the Army's highest civilian award for technical excellence. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a member of the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Neuroscience, and the Gerontological Society of America.


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