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Appendix D: Biosketches
Pages 253-262

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From page 253...
... Dr. Mattison also serves as Associate Director of the McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment at the University of Ottawa, Research Fellow of the International Prevention Research Institute, and member of the QuarterWatch Team, Institute for Safe Medication Practice.
From page 254...
... Parker has focused extensively on health care issues of underserved populations, particularly health literacy. She was a principal investigator in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Literacy in Health Study and helped create a widely used measurement tool to quantify p ­ atients' ability to read and understand health information (TOFHLA, the Test Of Functional Health Literacy in Adults)
From page 255...
... Particular areas of interest include efficient trial designs, interim monitoring, and the operation of data monitoring committees, evaluation of surrogate endpoints, ethical issues in clinical research, and special issues in trials of cancer and AIDS therapies, and of vaccines. In her work, Dr.
From page 256...
... His research had been primarily in the female health care area working on the p ­ harmacokinetics/dynamics of combination hormone treatments. As Senior Clinical Pharmacologist at Roche, he had the responsibility for guiding the selection of early drug discovery compounds, due diligence projects, and d ­ esign of clinical pharmacology development programs for several metabolic drug candidates.
From page 257...
... MacArthur has been continuously engaged in the fields of commercial drug development, clinical research, and research/hospital pharmacy practice. His work experience includes large pharma (Sandoz, Novartis)
From page 258...
... He was named a tenure track Assistant Professor in Toxicology in 1995, and received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in 2001. Nancy King Reame, Ph.D., M.S.N., is the Mary Lindsay Professor Emerita of Health Promotion and Risk Reduction in the School of Nursing at ­ olumbia University in New York City.
From page 259...
... -funded studies include investigations of continuous oral contraceptive administration in menstrual cycle-related mood dis­ rders, estradiol effects on cardiovascular risk and mood dysregulation o ­ during perimenopause, and biomarkers of postpartum depression. Addi­ tionally, the UNC Women's Mood Disorders Program, which he ­ irects, d has the first and only NIH training fellowship in Women's Mood Disorders.
From page 260...
... She and her team have led research on breast cancer, including work on lifestyle risk factors, biomarkers, genetics, and gene expression. She studies intermediate markers of breast cancer risk including benign breast disease and mammographic density as an approach to better understand early-life influences on breast cancer risk.
From page 261...
... His previous research experience includes sick ­ ness absence trends in working women and health care access in migrant populations. Justin Jones, M.A., is a Senior Program Assistant for the Board on Health Sciences Policy.
From page 262...
... Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer and Physical Sciences-Oncology Centers programs, as well as the National Institute of Mental Health's Decade of the Brain initiative, and has written numerous policy documents for the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; NCI; and the National Institutes of Health, as well as many other foundations, including the National Black Deaf Associates, and federal agencies. He has also served as a contributing correspondent for Science, ­ ature Biotechnology, and Self magazines, and has written for a variety N of publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and National Geographic, work for which he received numerous national writing awards.


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