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Appendix A: Biosketches of Committee and Staff
Pages 57-64

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From page 57...
... Special Research Fellowship in Physiology, he continued clinical and laboratory research at the NIH Clinical Center, where he served as a clinical associate from 1968 to 1970. He has received numerous NIH research grants and a Research Career Development Award for research involving the effects of anesthetics on microcirculation, oxygen delivery to tissue, oxygen therapeutics, endothelium-dependent circulatory control, and health services research.
From page 58...
... He served as a medical monitor of manned space flights as well as on a number of research panels addressing future manned space operations. As a senior aerospace medical officer he commanded the Air Force's Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio; his final assignment was as commander of the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine.
From page 59...
... DANIEL MASYS, M.D., is director of biomedical informatics and professor of medicine at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. An honors graduate of Princeton University and the Ohio State University College of Medicine, he completed postgraduate training in internal medicine, hematology, and medical oncology at the University of California, San Diego, and the Naval Regional Medical Center, San Diego.
From page 60...
... . He completed the National Aeronautics and Space Agency flight surgeon certification course in 1989 and serves on the agency's aerospace medicine and occupational health advisory committee.
From page 61...
... He previously served as a member of the IOM Committee on Space Medicine. ELAINE RON, Ph.D., is a senior scientist and former chief of the Radiation Epidemiology Branch in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the National Cancer Institute.
From page 62...
... MANNING, Ph.D., is a senior program officer in the IOM's Board on Health Sciences Policy and study director. In nine years at IOM he has served as study director for projects addressing a variety of topics, including medical isotopes, potential hepatitis drugs, blood safety and availability, rheumatic disease, resource sharing in biomedical research, occupational safety and health, and chemical and biological terrorism.
From page 63...
... During his tenure at the National Academy of Sciences and since 1989 at the Institute of Medicine, Dr. Pope has directed numerous studies on topics that include injury control, disability prevention, biologic markers, neurotoxicology, indoor allergens, and the enhancement of environmental and occupational health content in medical and nursing school curricula.
From page 64...
... He has worked on a number of Institute of Medicine studies, including Testosterone and Aging: Clinical Research Directions; Review of NASA's Longitudinal Study of Astronaut Health; Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion; Improving Medical Education: Enhancing the Behavioral and Social Science Content in Medical School Curricula, and NIH Extramural Center Programs: Criteria for Initiation and Evaluation. Ben is currently pursuing graduate work in the sociomedical sciences.


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