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Appendix E: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members, Consultants, and Staff
Pages 359-370

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From page 359...
... He served on the National Academies' Committee on Ethical and Social Policy Aspects of Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy and is a member of the National Advisory Council for the National Human Genome Research Institute.
From page 360...
... He has received the Isaac Ray Award of the American Psychiatric Association for "outstanding contributions to forensic psychiatry and the psychiatric aspects of jurisprudence," was the Fritz Redlich Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Suzanne Bakken, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN, FACMI, is the Alumni Professor of Nursing and a professor of biomedical informatics at Columbia University, and she is the co-chair of the health analytics center of the Data Science Institute.
From page 361...
... He was recruited to his current position to help develop precision medicine initiatives in Memphis, Tennessee, including the development of DNA and tissue repositories and large-scale omics technologies to aid in populationbased genomic research, considering also the ethical, legal, and social implications of such efforts in underserved communities. His clinical interests include a variety of rare genetic syndromes in children and adults with a research emphasis on rare genetic disorders that have severe, early-onset obesity as a feature.
From page 362...
... She has been appointed to numerous boards and committees including the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the ethics subcommittee of the Advisory Committee to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research, Ibis Reproductive Health, National Caucus and Center on Black Aged, Inc., and Hampshire College.
From page 363...
... from Harvard, completed internal medicine residency training at Yale and an infectious diseases subspecialty training at Case Western Reserve, and served as a medical staff fellow at NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Prior to joining Rockefeller, she designed and conducted clinical trials at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center.
From page 364...
... Dr. Leonard is the editor of two molecular pathology textbooks and has spoken widely on various molecular pathology test services, the future of molecular pathology, the impact of gene patents on molecular pathology practice, and the transition to genomics as a tool for population health management.
From page 365...
... She is member of the American Cancer Society's clinical trials steering committee and has served on the MDEpiNet's National Medical Device Registry Task Force, the Medical Device Innovation Consortium's Patient-Centered Benefit–Risk Steering Committee, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Foundation's patient-centered care shared decision making and patient-generated health data working groups, and the ACC Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry Stakeholder Advisory Committee.
From page 366...
... Louis. She served as the founding director of the Center for Community Health and Partnerships in the Institute for Public Health, the codirector of the Center for Community Engaged Research in the Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, and the director of "Our Community, Our Health," a collaborative program with Saint Louis University to disseminate culturally relevant health information and facilitate community–academic partnerships to address health disparities.
From page 367...
... She is a member of the Committee for Core Rigor and Reproducibility within the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities, and a member of the education and training working group within the Asian and Pacific Rim Research Integrity Network.
From page 368...
... Ms. Mancher joined the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in 2009 and has since worked on many consensus studies and workshops related to health care services delivery, clinical trial data sharing, and medical product research and development, including Initial National Priorities for Comparative Effectiveness Research; Clinical Practice Guidelines We Can Trust; Variation in Health Care Spending: Target Decision Making Not Geography; Sharing Clinical Trial Data: Maximizing Benefits, Minimizing Risk; and Global Health Risk Framework: Research and Development of Medical Products: Workshop Summary.
From page 369...
... She worked on the consensus report Integrating Clinical Research into Epidemic Response: The Ebola Experience.  Prior to joining the National Academies, she held positions as a research assistant in a laboratory studying placentology at the University of Colorado Denver–Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz) and as a toxicology review fellow at the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition of the Food and Drug Administration, where she developed and tested computational toxicology models and performed safety reviews of new food contacts.
From page 370...
... Pope has served as the director of the Board on Health Sciences Policy, which oversees and guides a program of activities that is intended to encourage and sustain the continuous vigor of the basic biomedical and clinical research enterprises needed to ensure and improve the health and resilience of the public. Ongoing activities include forums on neuroscience, genomics, drug discovery and development, and medical and public health preparedness for disasters and emergencies.


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