The Unequal Burden of Cancer An Assessment of NIH Research and Programs for Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved (1999) / Chapter Skim
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Committee and Staff Biographies
Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 315-322
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Public Health Service on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservations. He has served on a number of national governmental committees for various agencies, including the National Center for Health Statistics; the Agency for International Development; the President's Committee on Health Education; the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioengineering Cluster of the President's Panel of Biomedical Research; and others.
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Bennett, M.D., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Lakeside Veterans Administration Hospital, Senior Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Health Science Research and Policy Studies, and Chairman of the Health Policy Program for the Robert H Lurie Cancer Center of Northwestern University (one of the 31 NCI designated comprehensive cancer centers in the United States)
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In his present position, he conveys breast cancer information to the public and to health professionals through the Kentucky Cancer Program Outreach Division, the nationally praised Kentucky Cancer Registry, and the Region 9 Cancer Information Service for Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arkansas all organizations he helped to create. Throughout his career, Dr.
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He serves on the AMA Consortium on Minority Affairs Governing Committee, the American Cancer Society Task Force for Cancer in the Socioeconomic Disadvantaged, the Steering Committee of the Intercultural Cancer Council, and the Advisory Committee for the Armed Forces control of prostate cancer.
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He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, Association of American Physicians (Kober medal, 1990) , American Genetic Association (Honorary Life Member)
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Dr. Scrimshaw's research interests are crosscultural work on health access; health behavior; improving pregnancy outcomes; rapid anthropological assessment; combining qualitative and quantitative methods; Latino culture in the U.S.
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Prior to working at the APA, Dr. Smedley served as a Congressional Science Fellow, sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Education Policy Division of the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, NJ.
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Ms. Cox has worked on several IOM projects, including: Designing a Strategy for Quality Review and Assurance in Medicare; Evaluating the Artificial Heart Program of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Advising the National Library of Medicine on Information Center Services in Technology Assessment and Health Services Research; Study of FDA Advisory Committees, Federal Regulation of Methadone Treatment; Legal and Ethical Issues Relating to the Inclusion of Women in Clinical Studies; Depressive Symptoms in Primary Care Patients: Implications for Prevention; Social and Behavioral Science Base for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Intervention; and Review of the Fialuridine (FIAU/FIAC)
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