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Appendix G: Committee Biosketches
Appendix G: Committee Biosketches
Pages 345-356
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Barry Levy of one of the standard textbooks in the field of occupational health, Occupational Health: Recognition and Prevention of Work-Related Disease. His recent work focused on health and safety risks among construction workers involved in the building of the Third Harbor Tunnel and the underground Central Artery in Boston, and on the relationship between work risks and age among both child laborers and older adults.
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He has been a member of the NRC Committee on Occupational Health on Worker Health and Safety on Offshore Wind Farms, NRC Committee on Mine Safety: Essential Components of Self-Escape, NRC-IOM Committee to Review the NIOSH Respiratory Disease Program, the Committee on Musculoskeletal Disorders and Work, 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.
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Boden has developed new estimates of underreporting of workplace injuries. He has also written on occupational safety and health regulation, medical screening, gender inequality, and the legal and public health use of scientific information.
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His expertise includes talent management, career coaching, executive development, organization design and staffing, employee and labor relations, and mergers and acquisitions. He is currently a member of the President's Advisory Council at Nova Southeastern University, and previously served on the Board of Trustees for The Kings University, as accreditation commissioner for the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools, on the Board of Directors for Workplace Hollywood and Teen Challenge, and as a local and national member of the Society for Human Resource Management and the American Society for Training and Development.
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Dr. Carmona is a nationally recognized SWAT expert and has published extensively on SWAT training and tactics, forensics, and tactical emergency medical support.
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Previously, she worked at the U.S. Navy Environmental Health Center, Occupational Medicine Division, in Norfolk, Virginia, where she developed worldwide occupational health standards, reviewed complex disability claims, inspected occupational medicine clinics, lectured extensively on professional topics, performed health hazard evaluations, and represented Navy occupational medicine on selected issues to outside organizations.
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policies and programs during 2002-2009, affecting deployment and combat casualty medicine, health promotion and preventive medicine, medical readiness, and public health emergency preparedness and response. As DoD's "line of action" lead for addressing traumatic brain injury (TBI)
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The Emergency Medical Support Program provides emergency, primary care, and preventive medicine services during complex or prolonged investigative and crisis response missions of the FBI, both domestically and overseas. The program employs FBI special agents cross-trained as flight and critical care registered nurses, physician assistants, and advanced capability paramedics, supervised by federal physicians.
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Lang joined the faculty of the military's largest family practice training program at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, receiving academic appointments at both the University of North Carolina and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He also had collateral assignments supporting the Army's 82nd Airborne Division and the Joint Special Operations Command.
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Additionally, he was responsible for departmental-level support of the medical aspects of occupational safety and health programs, force health protection (including chemical/biological/radiological preparedness) , and operational medical support.
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He has served on several IOM committees, including the Committee on Aerospace Medicine and Medicine of Extreme Environments, the Committee on NASA's Research on Human Health Risks, the Committee to Review NASA's Space Flight Standards, the Committee to Review the NIOSH Hearing Loss Research program, the Committee on the Health and Safety Needs of Older Workers, and the Committee on Health and Safety Implications of Child Labor, as well as the Transportation Research Board's Committee on Offshore Windfarm Worker Safety. David N
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He also served as lead public health official and senior officer aboard the USNS Mercy in Indonesia after the tsunami of 2005, director of primary care and public health for the Ministry of Health in Iraq in 2004, consultant to the Pan American Health Organization in Honduras after Hurricane Mitch in 1999, and medical director for Project Provide Refuge (joint Department of Defense-HHS Kosovar refugee assistance)
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