Attachment B
Committee Membership and Biographies
Members
DAVID B. ALLISON, Chair, Indiana University, Bloomington
MARY BURCH, American Kennel Club, New York, NY
JALPA DOSHI, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
CHERYL GISCOMBE, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
ERINN HADE, The Ohio State University, Columbus
STEWART HILLIARD, U.S. Air Force, Lackland Air Force Base, TX
EVAN MAYO-WILSON, Indiana University, Bloomington
LORI ZOELLNER, University of Washington, Seattle
Staff
ANDREA HODGSON, Study Director, Board on Life Sciences
ROBIN SCHOEN, Board Director, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources
TERESA SYLVINA, Board Director, Institute for Laboratory Animal Research
KOSSANA YOUNG, Senior Program Assistant, Board on Life Sciences
BIOGRAPHIES
David B. Allison, Chair, is the Dean and a Distinguished Professor in the School of Public Health at Indiana University Bloomington. He received his Ph.D. from Hofstra University in 1990. He then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a second post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded New York Obesity Research Center at St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Hospital Center. He was a research scientist at the New York Obesity Research Center and an Associate Professor of medical psychology at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons until 2001. He became the Dean and a Provost Professor at the Indiana University Bloomington School of Public Health in 2017. Prior he was a Distinguished Professor, a Quetelet Endowed Professor, and the Director of the NIH-funded Nutrition Obesity Research Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Allison is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Mary Burch is one of less than 100 Certified Applied Animal Behaviorists in the United States who routinely answers questions about problems related to a dog’s behavior. Dr. Burch is the Director of the American Kennel Club (AKC) Family Dog program and in this capacity she designs and oversees programs that are implemented on a national scale for pet dog owners and dog trainers. Examples of these programs are the AKC Community Canine and Urban Canine Good Citizen programs that were designed and implemented by Dr. Burch, and the AKC S.T.A.R. Puppy program (a widely utilized puppy training program). The development of each of these programs has required knowledge and expertise in animal behavior, training, and canine development. Other programs developed and implemented nationwide by Dr. Burch include the AKC Trick Dog, AKC Therapy Dog, AKC FIT DOG, and AKC Temperament Test. She also participates in interviews about training and behavior. Dr. Burch is a member of the American Service Dog Access Coalition (ASDAC) committee that is working with airlines to decrease fraud with regard to self-trained service dogs. As a part of an ASDAC project, she reviewed the tests for 24 service dog organizations and developed a test that could be used for testing self-trained dogs (whose owners will take them to an evaluator for testing).
Jalpa Doshi is a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. She is also the Director of the Economic Evaluations Unit of the Center for Evidence-based Practice and the Director of Value Based Insurance Design Initiatives at the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics. Dr. Doshi received her Ph.D. in pharmaceutical health services research from the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Her work applies health economics, outcomes research, and policy methods to address issues related to pharmaceutical access, costs, outcomes, and value. She has extensive experience working with data from administrative claims, electronic medical records, surveys, registries, and clinical trials. She co-authored Economic Evaluation in Clinical Trials (Oxford University Press), the first book dedicated entirely to this topic. Her research has received widespread attention from the media including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and has informed policies of private insurers and government programs. Her work has been recognized by numerous prestigious awards from multiple national and international organizations. She currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Health Economics journal. Dr. Doshi serves on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research.
Cheryl Giscombe is currently the Levine Family Associate Professor of Quality of Life, Health Promotion and Wellness, at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill School of Nursing. Dr. Giscombe is an expert in psychiatry and clinical psychology, specifically relevant to the diagnosis and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder and mental, social, and psychosocial functions and health. She has extensive experience working with Veterans with mental health disorders and offers a unique and necessary nursing prospective. For the past 15 years, her research has received consistent federal and foundation funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. Dr. Giscombe’s research incorporates sociohistorical and biopsychosocial perspectives to investigate how stress and coping strategies contribute to stress-related psychological and physical health outcomes. Dr. Giscombe is dually trained in nursing and psychology. She completed a B.A. in psychology from North Carolina Central University and a B.S.N. from Stony Brook University in New York. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in social and health psychology from Stony Brook University and an M.S.N. from the psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner/clinical nurse specialist program at UNC at Chapel Hill. Dr. Giscombe was selected as a “Leader in the Field” by the American Psychological Association when she was awarded the Carolyn Payton Early Career Award. Dr. Giscombe is also a Harvard Macy Institute Art Museum-Based Health Professions Education Fellow, and she is currently the lead Principal Investigator on an NIH R01 grant to implement a mindfulness-based stress management intervention to reduce chronic illness risk.
Erinn Hade is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Informatics and Obstetrics and Gynecology and a Program Leader for Population Studies in the Center for Biostatistics at The Ohio State University. Dr. Hade is a biostatistician expert with experience in population studies and multi-center trials. Dr. Hade received her Ph.D. in public health and biostatistics from The Ohio State University and her M.S. from the University of Washington. During her academic career, she has developed a strong collaborative record as a biostatistician and maintained a line of primary research that complements the methodologic challenges in these collaborations. Dr. Hade’s methodologic interests include work in the design and inference from randomized and non-randomized population-based trials, the design of pragmatic trials, and in statistical methods for adaptive trial designs.
Stewart Hilliard is an expert on breeding, psychometric testing, and the training and development of working dogs, especially military working dogs. Dr. Hilliard is the author of a number of scientific papers in reputable psychological journals. In 1983, Dr. Hilliard received his B.A. in psychology and in 1997 he received his Ph.D. in behavioral neuroscience. Dr. Hilliard has worked in various research and development and operational capacities for the Department of Defense Military Working Dog program since 1997, including as the Chief of the Military Working Dog Course at the 341st Training Squadron,
Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. In this role, he managed the basic training of most of the patrol and substance detector dogs supplied to all branches of the U.S. armed forces. Dr. Hilliard also served as the Chief of Military Working Dog Logistics and Procurement at the 341st. He directed the testing and procurement of all of the dogs purchased for the Military Working Dog Course and the Specialized Search Dog Course. Dr. Hilliard is currently the Chief of the Military Working Dog Breeding Program at the 341st Training Squadron.
Evan Mayo-Wilson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Indiana University Bloomington School of Public Health. Dr. Mayo-Wilson’s research focuses on methods for conducting, reporting, and synthesizing health and social intervention research. His primary area of interest is in ways to increase transparency and reproducibility in clinical trials and systematic reviews, such as trial registration and data sharing. Dr. Mayo-Wilson received his B.A. from Columbia University in psychology; his M.P.A. from the University of Pennsylvania; and his M.S. and D.Phil. (Ph.D.) from the University of Oxford’s Department of Social Policy and Intervention. Prior to his current appointment, Dr. Mayo-Wilson worked as a Departmental Lecturer at the University of Oxford, a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology at the University College London, and an Associate Scientist in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Lori Zoellner is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington. Dr. Zoellner has a long track record in psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy clinical trials and considerable experience in treating posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and training others in its treatment. An important part of these clinical trials is the understanding of underlying therapeutic process mechanisms and the examination of biopsychosocial factors, phenotypic markers of PTSD, and treatment response. Dr. Zoellner’s work throughout her career has included the integration across animal to human models of understanding stress, anxiety, and fear. Her current work is characterized by examining memory processing, fear conditioning, fear generalization, avoidance, reward learning, and extinction learning and how these processes map onto prevention and treatment, especially using cognitive behavioral therapy for PTSD. Prior to her clinical research, Dr. Zoellner received her B.A. in psychology and sociology from Rice University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles.
