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Appendix E: Committee Biographies
Appendix E: Committee Biographies
Pages 529-538
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As an authority on employer and employee benefits, she has brought multiple informed perspectives to bear on health care reform. She was the first commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Social Services (1979-1983)
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Dr. Austin is the recipient of many awards for her research, including the Distinguished Contribution to Nursing Science Award from the American Nurses Foundation, the AES-Milken Family Medical Foundation International Research Award for contributions to clinical research, the International Bureau for Epilepsy-International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE)
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Bishop, Ph.D., CRC, is professor of rehabilitation counseling with the Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. He serves on the Epilepsy Foundation's Professional Advisory Board, the International Bureau for Epilepsy's Research Task Force, and the clinical advisory committee of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society Kentucky-Southeast Indiana Chapter.
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Cocotas was director of Community Health Innovation at Affinity Health Plan, where she directed innovation work in care delivery to the Medicaid population in New York City. Over the span of her career, Ms.
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He has also served on several national committees related to traumatic brain injury research and practice. He has served on expert panels convened by the IOM, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and the National Institute of Aging.
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She volunteers regularly for Hollywood, Health and Society of the USC Annenberg School of Communications Norman Lear Center, whose goals are the promotion and evaluation of public health topics in film and television. Her research focuses on innovative approaches to treating epilepsy, including vagus nerve stimulation, responsive neurostimulation, and gamma knife radiosurgery; her expertise also includes services to minority populations as well as furthering understanding of status epilepticus, neuronal injury, memory dysfunction, and the psychosocial impact of epilepsy.
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Dr. Holmes has been the recipient of many awards, including the United Cerebral Palsy Association Sidney Farber Research Award, the AES Research Award, the ILAE Ambassador for Epilepsy Award, the Child Neurology Society Bernard Sachs Award, and the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society Pierre Gloor Research Award.
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Patricia Osborne Shafer, R.N., M.N., is an epilepsy clinical nurse specialist at the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, and a resource specialist with the Epilepsy Therapy Project. She is a past member and chair of the Epilepsy Foundation's Professional Advisory Board, a past member of the board of directors of the Epilepsy Foundation, and a current member of the Epilepsy Foundation's Professional Advisory Board of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Maine.
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His interests in epilepsy include status epilepticus, surgical therapy, epilepsy in older adults, and psychosocial issues, particularly those involving Hispanic populations and transportation. His articles have appeared in Neurology, Epilepsia, Lancet, Archives of Neurology, Annals of Neurology, Epilepsy and Behavior, and Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
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