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Appendix J: Committee and Staff Biographies
Appendix J: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 210-219
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During 1991-1992, she spent 6 months on sabbatical leave assisting the Vaccine Development Unit of WHO's Global Program on AIDS, helping to establish AIDS vaccine evaluation units in Uganda, Brazil, and Thailand.
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His current practice involves both litigation and transactional work, including structuring and negotiating technology and intellectual property acquisitions, technology transfer and licensing arrangements, and joint ventures and other targeted alliances. He is the author of several books on intellectual property, including Modern Intellectual Property, Drafting License Agreements, and International Intellectual Property, as well as numerous articles on intellectual property law.
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He provided guidance to industry on facility requirements, licensing standards, joint manufacturing arrangements, and product promotion and advertisement.
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Public Health Service, the Lowell M Palmer Senior Fellowship, the Markle Scholar in Medical Science, and the Research Career Awards, U.S.
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The research grants that she has received include Legal and Ethical Issues in AIDS Vaccine Development, Comparison of Compensation Programs for Vaccine Injury, and Informed Consent in Childhood Immunization. She is contributing editor to Health Law and Ethics for the American Journal of Public Health, and serves as a member of the AIDS Policy Advisory Committee at the National Institutes of Health.
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In this position, he guided the initiation of a number of programs in modern biology and biotechnology. He is a member of the Biotechnology Advisory Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization; chair, Management Advisory Committee, Children's Vaccine Initiative; and a member of the Working Party of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.
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and M.D. from the University of Minnesota and completed internal medicine and infectious diseases graduate training at the Minneapolis Veterans Hospital.
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He has been an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School since 1986 and has served as Attending Physician for Infectious Diseases Services at Beth Israel Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, The Children's Hospital, and Brigham and Women's Hospital. His primary research interests have been in the development of vaccines and immune globulins directed against specific infections and in the assessment of the human immune response to vaccines.
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From 1981 to 1992 she directed health policy projects at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, where she was a Senior Associate and Project Director in the Health Program. Her reports addressed such topics as information for consumers on the quality of medical care, Medicare payment for physician services, Medicare payment for recombinant erythropoietin, federal policies toward the medical devices industry, and the costeffectiveness of influenza and pneumococcal vaccines.
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She joined the Institute of Medicine in 1987 and served as Assistant to the Director, Division of Health Care Services, until September 1992. She provides support for the Children's Vaccine Initiative Study, the Study on Female Morbidity and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Board on International Health.
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