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Appendix A: Committee and Staff Biographies
Appendix A: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 369-376
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In the l990s more PhDs were awarded than could be employed in research. During such periods, recruitment efforts by private research foundations might be more productive if they were to shift the balance of their recruitment efforts towards reducing support for training PhD students and increasing their efforts towards recruiting postdoctoral fellows.
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is currently Professor of Pediatrics at National Jewish Medical and Research Center and University of Colorado School of Medicine. Until January 1999, he was Medical Director of the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation and Chief of the Section of Immunology in the Department of Pediatrics at Yale University School of Medicine.
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Prior to joining Regeneron in 1990, Dr. Cedarbaum was Director of the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorder program at New York HospitalCornell Medical Center in New York, and the Burke Rehabilitation Center in White Plains, NY, and Associate Clinical Professor of Neurology at Cornell Medical School from 1983 to 1990.
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She has conducted numerous studies for the Health Care Financing Administration, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, and private foundations on a variety of topics, including the use of clinical data to predict hospitalization costs and patient outcomes, comparing severity of illness across teaching and nonteaching hospitals, evaluating the utility of severity information for quality assessment, and using information from hospital data systems to predict patient clinical and functional outcomes and satisfaction with care. A 1996 recipient of The Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, she is studying disability policy and its implications for patients' lives.
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He is interested in the pathogenesis of unconventional viral infections of the central nervous system, molecular determinants of neurovirulence and persistence of experimental viral infections in animals, and virus vectors in central nervous system gene delivery for use as neurobiological research tools and as a means for gene therapy.
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Dr. Wekerle has served on the advisory boards of research organizations such as the European Committee for Multiple Sclerosis, the European Charcot Foundation for Multiple Sclerosis Research, the International Federation of MS Societies, the German Multiple Sclerosis Society, the Italian Multiple Sclerosis Association, the UK National MS Society, and the Robert Koch Minerva Center for Research in Autoimmune Diseases.
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She has 6 years of experience working at the National Academies and the Institute of Medicine. She has provided support on several Institute of Medicine projects, and her main responsibility is to handle logistical arrangements for meetings and travel for committee members and staff.
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