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Appendix K. Biographical Notes on Committee Members
Pages 343-352

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... That same year he was an organizer of the Asilomar Conference in California, which focused attention on the development of genetic engineering, and he was later a member of the National Institutes of Health Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee.
From page 344...
... in hygiene from the Harvard School of Public Health. LEON EISENBERG is Maude and Lillian Presley Professor and chairman of the Department of Social Medicine and Health Policy and professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.
From page 345...
... A graduate of Harvard Medical School and the John F Kennedy School of Government, he was formerly director of the Graduate Program in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health and professor of health policy and management.
From page 346...
... He has written widely on medical economics and public health, including a monograph issued by the National Research Council on the potential risk of lung cancer from diesel engine emissions.
From page 347...
... He is a neurologist at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and holds a joint appointment in the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. His research has been on the pathogenesis of acute and chronic viral infections of the nervous system.
From page 348...
... JUNE E OSBORN is dean of the University of Michigan School of Public Health and professor of epidemiology, pediatrics, and communicable diseases at the University of Michigan Medical School.
From page 349...
... Public Health Service, and the World Health Organization and is a member of the Institute of Medicine. She received her M.D.
From page 350...
... She is past president of the American Society of Human Genetics and the Genetics Society of America, is a fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine, and is on the American Board of Medical Genetics and the board of the American Society of Law and Medicine. She has served on the Director's Advisory Committee of the National Institutes of Health and on several National Research Council committees.
From page 351...
... In 1975 he received the Nobel Prize, along with David Baltimore and Renato Dulbecco, for some of this work. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has served on the National Institutes of Health Virology Study Section and on the editorial boards of several virology journals.
From page 352...
... He has served on several review committees and study sections for the National Institutes of Health, the American Cancer Society, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is on the editorial board of several journals in the fields of immunology, developmental biology, and cellular biology and is currently a member of the directorate of the Stanford Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine.


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