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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Pages 161-166

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From page 161...
... He was a former principal investigator at one of the Vanguard Study locations of the National Children's Study. His research interests include environmental epidemiology, with, an emphasis on children's environmental health, including developmental toxicity associated with exposures to heavy metals and pesticides, and environmental factors in asthma; and occupational epidemiology with an emphasis on role of work organization and stress in the etiology of cardiovascular disease.
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From page 162...
... Previously, she held several positions at the School of Public Health of the University of Michigan, including professor and chair of epidemiology, director of the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, director of the Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities, research professor in the Survey Research Center of the Institute for Social Research, and director of the Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program. Her research interests include social epidemiology, neighborhood health effects, cardiovascular disease epidemiology, air pollution and cardiovascular risk, multilevel analysis, racial and ethnic disparities, and systems approaches
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From page 163...
... She is also professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, senior associate for academic affairs in the Department of Neonatology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and senior associate director of the Infant Follow-up Program at Children's Hospital. Her research involves epidemiological and health services research investigations in areas related to infant mortality and the outcomes of high-risk neonates.
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From page 164...
... She has a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.   LEONARDO TRASANDE is associate professor in pediatrics and environmental medicine at the School of Medicine and in health policy at the Wagner School of Public Service, both at New York University.
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From page 165...
... He serves on the Environment Programme Steering Committee of the United Nations, which is developing a global outlook on chemicals policy, and on the executive committee of the Council for Environmental Health of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He recently served on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Environmental Health at the U.S.
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