Appendix E
Committee Biographical Sketches
ROBERT WALLACE, M.D., M.Sc. (Chair), is a professor of epidemiology at the University of Iowa College of Public Health, a professor of internal medicine at the university’s Carver College of Medicine, and the director of the university’s center on aging. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), where he has previously chaired two boards and participated in many consensus committees. He has been a member of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and the National Advisory Council on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is a former chair of the epidemiology section of the American Public Health Association. He is the author or co-author of more than 400 peer-reviewed publications and 25 book chapters, and he has edited or co-edited 4 books, including the current edition of Maxcy–Rosenau–Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Dr. Wallace’s research interests concern the causes and prevention of disabling conditions of older persons. He is a co–principal investigator of the Health and Retirement Study, a long-term prospective sample of older Americans exploring health, social, family, and economic policy issues, and a co-investigator of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), a national study exploring the prevention of important chronic diseases in older women. He has been a collaborator on several international studies regarding the prevention of chronic illness in older persons. Dr. Wallace is currently a member of the advisory board for the National Research Council’s (NRC’s) Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.
ELIZABETH BRUCH, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in sociology and complex systems and an affiliate of the Population Studies Center at the
Institute for Social Research. Her expertise includes decision making, choice modeling, and population dynamics. Much of her work blends statistical and agent-based methods to examine the relationship between individuals’ decisions about where to live and patterns of residential segregation. She is also working on a project exploring the implications of mate search strategies and mate choice behavior for dating markets, using data from online dating sites. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2006, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar from 2006 to 2008. Her article on racial tolerance and race–ethnic segregation, “Neighborhood Choice and Neighborhood Change,” won the 2005–2006 Gould Prize; the James S. Coleman Best Article award from the mathematical sociology section of the American Sociology Association (ASA); and the Robert Park Best Article award from the community and urban sociology section of the ASA.
KAREN GLANZ, Ph.D., M.P.H., is the George A. Weiss University Professor in the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Nursing and the director of the University of Pennsylvania Prevention Research Center and the Center for Health Behavior Research at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on cancer prevention and control, theories of health behavior, obesity and the built environment, social and health policy, and new health communication technologies. She is currently conducting research on skin cancer prevention, nutrition and chronic disease prevention, compliance with glaucoma medications, and colorectal cancer screening. Her research and community programs in tobacco use prevention have included monitoring and reducing youth access to tobacco, developing a youth advocacy anti-tobacco program, and leading a cluster-randomized trial of a school-based youth activation program for preventing tobacco use. Dr. Glanz and her team are committed to conducting scientific research with promising short- and long-term applications to improved community health, health care, and public health services. She was formerly at Emory University (2004–2009), the University of Hawaii (1993–2004), and Temple University in Philadelphia (1979–1993). Dr. Glanz received her M.P.H. (1977) and Ph.D. (1979) degrees in health behavior and health education from the University of Michigan. She has been recognized with several national awards, and she was the 2007 recipient of the Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award from the James and Sarah Fries Foundation. She is a member of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services, a federally appointed task force that oversees the Community Guide evidence reviews. Her scholarly contributions consist of more than 400 journal articles and book chapters. Dr. Glanz is senior editor of Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research, and Practice (Jossey-Bass Inc., 1990, 1996, 2002, 2008), a widely used text recently published in its fourth edition. She
was recognized in 2006 as a highly cited author by ISIHighlyCited.com, in the top 0.5 percent of authors in her field over a 20-year period. She was elected to the IOM in 2013.
CARLOS ROBERTO JAÉN, M.D., Ph.D., is the Dr. and Mrs. James L. Holly Distinguished Professor and chairman in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio. Dr. Jaén’s research interests focus on improving preventive care for individuals of all ages and preventing complications from chronic diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease. He is passionate about building and studying high-performance primary care offices. He served on the panels that published smoking cessation guidelines in 1996 and 2000 and was a co-chair of the panel that published an update in May 2008. In 2005 he was appointed to the National Advisory Council to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He was a co-director of the Center for Research in Family Medicine and Primary Care. The center studied more than 500 mostly independent primary care practices over the past 20 years. Dr. Jaén has his Ph.D. in epidemiology and community health from the State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo, and his M.D. from the same university. He also has an M.S. in oncology. He received a Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and a Cancer Control Career Development Award for Primary Care Physicians from the American Cancer Society. He is a practicing family physician and has been selected to the Best Doctors in America yearly since 2002. His interests include building a healthier San Antonio through efforts in community wellness. He was elected to the IOM in 2013 and served on the IOM/NRC Committee on Geographic Adjustment Factors in Medicare Payment.
SCOTT J. LEISCHOW, Ph.D., is a professor of health sciences research at the Mayo Clinic (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research). His expertise and research interests are focused on tobacco treatment and the role of social networks in the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practices. His interests include optimal approaches for training health care providers on treating tobacco dependence and understanding how complex systems can be understood and optimized to foster improvements in health, particularly in underserved populations in the United States and globally. Currently his work is focused on investigating pharmacological and behavioral treatments for tobacco dependence, including the exploration of dosing, adherence, and the interplay of clinical and public health approaches; researching organizational networks to better understand how knowledge is spread; and implementing practices that can lead to improvements in public health. Prior to his role at the Mayo Clinic,
Dr. Leischow was a professor of family and community medicine and the associate director for biobehavioral and social sciences research at the Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona. He also served as the chief of the Tobacco Control Research Branch at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). He was seconded from the NCI to the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and served as a senior advisor for tobacco policy. Dr. Leischow received his M.A. and his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park. His research-related memberships include member and advisory board, Arizona Tobacco Revenue, Use, Spending and Tracking Commission; member, American Association for Cancer Research, Tobacco and Cancer Subcommittee; member and past president, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco; and member, Society for Behavioral Medicine. He is the recipient of multiple awards, including the NIH Director’s Award (2004), an NIH Individual Merit Award (2003), and the NCI Director’s Gold Star Award (2004).
DOUGLAS LUKE, Ph.D., is a professor at Washington University in St. Louis at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work and the director of the Center for Public Health Systems Science. He is a leading researcher in the areas of health behavior, organizational and systems science, public health policy, and tobacco control, and he is also a top biostatistician and social science methodologist who has made significant contributions to the evaluation of public health programs, tobacco control and prevention policy, and the application of new methods to community health interventions. Dr. Luke has expanded the repertoire of statistical methods, such as the use of social network analysis and multilevel models, in the field of public health. He co-directed the doctoral program at the Saint Louis University School of Public Health. He is active in the American Statistical Association, the International Network for Social Network Analysis, and the Society for Community Research and Action. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Illinois. He is a past member of the NIH Center for Scientific Review study section Community Influences on Health Behavior, has published 1 of the 10 most influential methodology articles published in the first 25 years of the American Journal of Community Psychology, “Expanding Behavior Setting Theory: Setting Phenotypes in a Mutual Help Organization,” and is the recipient of the 1989 Ed Scheiderer Memorial Award, Outstanding Research by a Clinical Psychology Graduate Student, University of Illinois.
CHARLES F. MANSKI, Ph.D., is the Board of Trustees Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, where he specializes in econometrics and social policy. Dr. Manski’s research spans econometrics, judgment and decision, and the analysis of social policy. He is the author of Public Policy
in an Uncertain World, Identification for Prediction and Decision, and Identification Problems in the Social Sciences. He has served as the director of the Institute for Research on Poverty and the editor of the Journal of Human Resources. Dr. Manski received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of both the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served on numerous committees for the NRC and the IOM and currently serves on the Report Review Committee, the Committee on Law and Justice, the Committee for the Context of Military Environments: Social and Organizational Factors, and the Committee on Intercity Passenger Travel: Opportunities and Issues in Short-Haul Markets.
DAVID MENDEZ, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy (HMP) at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Dr. Mendez is the director of the HMP executive master’s program. His research focuses in the application of mathematical/ computational models for public health policy, particularly in the field of tobacco control. He has conducted research on the impact of tobacco control policies on smoking prevalence and health outcomes. He has also been involved in research to evaluate policies regarding residential radon. He is currently engaged in a study to evaluate the impact of school mandates on the human papillomavirus vaccine uptake using an agent-based model. His other professional affiliations include the Decision Sciences Institute and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. Dr. Mendez received his M.S. in applied statistics and an M.S. in operations research/systems science from Michigan State University (1990, 1987). He holds a Ph.D. in management science, also from Michigan State University (1995).
NANCY A. RIGOTTI, M.D., is an academic general internist who is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the associate chief of the General Medicine Division at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She is an internationally known expert on tobacco cessation treatment and policy. She has pioneered research on interventions to reduce smoking prevalence and the burden of tobacco-related morbidity and mortality. Her clinical research focuses on developing and disseminating interventions for smoking cessation within primary care practices and inpatient settings. She founded and directs the MGH Tobacco Research and Treatment Center, which combines a clinical service providing smoking cessation treatment with a research group that develops and tests smoking treatment interventions for health care settings. She has received numerous grants to support her work, including funding from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood
Institute; the NCI; the American Cancer Society; and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She has published more than 150 original articles about tobacco issues and has written numerous book chapters, reviews, and editorials on these topics. Dr. Rigotti is a past president of the Society of General Internal Medicine and a past president of the Society for Research in Nicotine and Tobacco. From 1985 to 1990 she served as the associate director of the Institute for the Study of Smoking Behavior and Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Dr. Rigotti was a scientific editor of the 1989 Surgeon General’s Report on Tobacco, a comprehensive review that provided scientific support for policy making, and she was a deputy editor of Nicotine & Tobacco Research, among other editorial responsibilities. Dr. Rigotti has served on numerous national and international committees addressing tobacco issues, and in 2006 she won the James D. Bruce Memorial Award for Distinguished Contributions in Preventive Medicine from the American College of Physicians. Dr. Rigotti received her M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1978 and completed her residency in primary care internal medicine at MGH.
DAVID SHOHAM, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., is an associate professor of public health sciences at Loyola University Chicago. Dr. Shoham’s current research interests focus on social determinants of obesity and kidney disease. He is a co-principal investigator on the Modeling Obesity Through Simulation project, funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. This project focuses on peer, family, neighborhood, and school influences on childhood obesity using social network analysis and agent-based modeling and simulation. Dr. Shoham is also a co-investigator on the Modeling the Epidemiologic Transition project, funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, where he is studying the relationship of occupation and wealth to energy expenditure among African-origin populations in five contexts (Maywood, United States; Ghana; Jamaica; the Seychelles; and South Africa). Dr. Shoham is the admissions director for the M.P.H. program and graduate program director for the epidemiology track, and he is chair of Loyola’s Council of Graduate School Programs. He teaches social epidemiology and an introductory course in epidemiologic methods to M.P.H. students. Dr. Shoham completed his Ph.D. in epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2005, with an emphasis on life-course social epidemiology and kidney disease.
JODY SINDELAR, Ph.D., is a professor of public health and a health economist in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Yale School of Public Health. In addition, Dr. Sindelar is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow at IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor), and associated faculty at the Institution
for Social and Policy Studies at Yale. She was the Bing Visiting Faculty at RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, and Washington, DC, and was a founding member and a previous president of the American Society of Health Economists. Dr. Sindelar is an expert on the economics of obesity and of substance abuse, including alcoholism, the use of illicit drugs, and smoking. Tobacco is her current focus. Her studies examine lost productivity, the cost-effectiveness of treatments, social costs, and policy. She has published more than 100 papers and studies on the impacts of substance abuse on productivity, educational attainment, gender differences, and related policy issues in a variety of economics, policy, addiction, health, and medical journals. She has served on numerous editorial reviews and advisory and other boards and committees, and she has presented her research at seminars and conferences both nationally and internationally. Currently, Dr. Sindelar heads multiyear projects funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services via the Connecticut Department of Social Services, the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and she also collaborates on projects funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the RAND Corporation via the Harvard School of Public Health. She has also been the principal investigator and a collaborator on numerous past research projects funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, AHRQ, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, NIA, NIAAA, and NIDA, among others. Dr. Sindelar received her Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.
MELISSA STIGLER, Ph.D., M.P.H., is an associate professor at the University of Texas Health and Science Center’s School of Public Health. She is with the Austin Regional Campus and the Division of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences. She specializes in the epidemiology of youth tobacco use and in designing interventions for schools and communities to help reduce smoking and other types of tobacco use among young people. She is currently the principal investigator for several studies funded by the National Institutes of Health. These include ¡Actívate Ya!, which is designed to develop, implement, and evaluate a multicomponent tobacco prevention and physical activity promotion intervention among youth in Uruguay. She currently serves as the associate director of the new Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science for Youth and Young Adults in Texas and leads a large surveillance study of tobacco use behaviors and the impact of tobacco marketing on youth with the center. Dr. Stigler served as the associate editor of the 2012 Surgeon General’s report on tobacco use among young people and co-authored the chapter on the epidemiology
of tobacco use among youth and adults in the United States for the 50th Anniversary Report, published in 2014. Dr. Stigler received her M.P.H. from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and her Ph.D. in behavioral epidemiology from the same institution. She is the recipient of more than 15 awards related to her research, including the 2012 Inaugural Grant U.S. Health award from the Dell Center for Health Living and the Young Investigator’s Award for Outstanding Research from the Health Sciences Center at the University of Texas. She was the 2009 co-chair of the Global Youth Meet on Tobacco Control at the 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health.
