The New Profile of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Russia A Global and Local Perspective: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Institute of Medicine and the Russian Academy of Medical Science (2011) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix C: Participant Biographies
Appendix C: Participant Biographies
Pages 123-140
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She was named to the original Board of Scientific Counselors of the Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) , and served as chair of the board.
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, the accrediting body for U.S. medical schools, as well as other national committees involved in establishing policies on training in the biomedical sciences.
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He is head of the National Tuberculosis Laboratory at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a division within the National Health Laboratory Service of South Africa. His main interests include anti-TB resistance within national program settings -- particularly MDR and XDR TB, the epidemiology of TB in high-burden settings, molecular epidemiology and outbreak investigations, and surveillance of TB (especially MDR/ XDR TB)
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Dr. Farmer is Presley Professor of Social Medicine and chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School; chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital; and United Nations deputy special envoy for Haiti, under special envoy Bill Clinton.
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Nico C Gey van Pittius, Ph.D., is an associate professor in biomedical sciences and a core member of the Department of Science and Technology/ National Research Foundation, Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, based in the South African Medical Research Council's (MRC's)
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Dr. Gey van Pittius strives to promote the establishment of a vibrant scientific community encompassing both academia and industry, working together to ensure that South Africa becomes a leader in science and technology on the continent and globally.
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Dr. Golubkov holds a medical degree from the Novosibirsk Medical School and a master of public health degree from the Boston University School of Public Health.
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Dr. Hamburg's accomplishments as New York's top public health official included improved services for women and children, needle-exchange programs to reduce the spread of HIV, and initiation of the first public health bioterrorism defense program in the nation.
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In this role, she promotes research on TB drugs through collaborations among public, private, and multilateral organizations by interfacing with NIAID research grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts focused on preclinical and clinical antiinfective drug development for emerging infectious diseases and biodefense. She is active in the STOP-TB Partnership serving in working groups on New Drugs and HIV/TB, and is an executive member of the not-for-profit Lilly TB Drug Discovery Initiative (www.tbdrugdiscovery.org/)
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His principal academic appointment is as associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, with secondary parallel appointments in the Department of Social Medicine and Harvard School of Public Health. In the early 1980s, Dr.
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Perelman, M.D., is chief of phthisiopulmonology and thoracic surgery at I.M. Sechenov's Moscow Medical Academy.
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After completing fellowships in adult and pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Colorado and the Children's Hospital, he joined the faculty of National Jewish Health and of the University of Colorado School of Medicine. In 2006, he established a TB clinical research field site in the city of Buenaventura in Southwestern Colombia, which he currently maintains with his research team, the Grupo Tuberculosis Valle Colorado.
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Dr. Sevastyanova's main research interests include mycobacteriology, smear microscopy, culture examination, drug susceptibility testing, organization of TB microbiological diagnosis and TB laboratory service, biosafety in TB laboratories, elaboration of methods for improving microbiological diagnosis of TB in the Russian Federation, and preparation of normative documents concerning microbiological diagnosis of TB.
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Sawyer to ABC News to launch Prime Time Live. At ABC she produced/directed both domestic and international stories ranging from a case study of organ donation to a portrait of the Kuwaiti royal family after the first Gulf War.
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The subjects of two recent films for MSNBC were innovation in neurosurgery and the need for physical and psychological support for soldiers returning from Iraq. In addition to her National Emmy and Bar Association awards, other awards include two Cine Golden Eagles, two Casey medals for meritorious journalism, a National Headliner Award, a Sigma Delta Chi Award, and honorable mention Robert F
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Dr. Yakimova's main research interests include early diagnosis of TB at general health care institutions, TB epidemiology in the regions of Russian Federation, differential diagnostics of TB and other lung diseases, preparation of normative documents on medical aid to TB patients.
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at Harvard Medical School. He joined PIH and Harvard Medical School in January 2002.
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