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Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Invited Speakers, Planning Committee Members, Forum Members, and Staff
Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Invited Speakers, Planning Committee Members, Forum Members, and Staff
Pages 45-76
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Leshner had been director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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Bialek and collaborators have shown that aspects of brain function can be described as essentially optimal strategies for adapting to the complex dynamics of the world, making the most of the available signals in the face of fundamental physical constraints and limitations. Colin Blakemore, Ph.D., studied Medical Sciences in Cambridge University from 1962 to 1965 and completed a Ph.D.
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Timothy Coetzee, Ph.D., is the executive director of Fast Forward, LLC, a venture philanthropy of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. He is responsible for the Society's strategic funding of biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies as well as partnerships with the financial and business communities.
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from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1969. Following an internship in Pediatrics, he spent 3 years at NIH as a research fellow in the laboratory of Nobel laureate Julius Axelrod, Ph.D.
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He has received a Teacher Investigator Development Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and the Presidential Award of the American Neurological Association, and is listed in "The Best Doctors in America." He has published more than 200 peerreviewed articles and book chapters.
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He completed the postdoctoral fellowship in biomedical engineering at Harvard University–Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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He is editor-in-chief of the Annual Review of Neuroscience and has won public service awards from the federal government and patient advocacy groups such as the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill and the National Mental Health Association.
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Fischbach, M.D., she led the movement, together with NIMH Scientific Director Robert Desimone, Ph.D., to bring a sense of unity and common purpose to 200 laboratories from 11 NIH Institutes, all of which conduct leading-edge clinical and basic neuroscience research. A native of New England, Dr.
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from Harvard University, and completed his residency training at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, where he was named chief medical resident in 1965. He also conducted research at the Nobel Medical Research and Karolinska Institutes in Stockholm and served as deputy director of the Department of Biochemistry within the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.
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to study the neural representation of word meanings in the human brain. One recent result showed that the neural activity representing meanings of concrete nouns
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He co-chaired the Committee on Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research. He has served as a senior staff member for two Presidential advisory committees and has given invited testimony for both houses of Congress.
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. As NASA chief scientist, she served not only as the NASA Administrator's senior scientific advisor and principal interface with the national and international scientific communities, but was also the principal adviser to the Administrator on budget content of the scientific programs.
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She is a recognized expert on the brain's dopamine system, with her research focusing on the brains of addicted, obese, and aging individuals. Her studies have documented changes in the dopamine system affecting the actions of frontal brain regions involved with motivation, drive, and pleasure and the decline of brain dopamine function with age.
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He was named vice president of medical and chief medical officer for Eli Lilly and Company in August 2003. He is a member of the Lilly Research Laboratories (LRL)
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from Harvard Medical School. He completed a research fellowship at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and clinical training in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
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She also cofounded the Stanford Brain Research Center (now the Neuroscience Institute at Stanford) , and served as its first executive director between 1998 and 2001.
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Potter, M.D., Ph.D., is vice president, Franchise Integrator Neuroscience at Merck Research Laboratories. Prior to joining Merck, he served as the executive director and Lilly Clinical Research Fellow of the Neuroscience Therapeutic Area at Lilly Research Laboratories.
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She has participated extensively in scientific and educational activities, including serving as chair for NASA's Research Maximization and Prioritization Committee reviewing Scientific Priorities for the International Space Station; Society for Neuroscience Program committee (Theme E -- Autonomic and Limbic System) ; chair, External Advisory Committee, NSF Center for the Study of Biological Rhythms at the University of Virginia; search committee member for editors of journals, department chairs, and provost at various institutions; and panel member of a number of committees, including NASA: International Space Station Cost and Management Evaluation Task Force.
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Roy E Twyman, M.D., is vice president, franchise development in the Central Nervous System/Pain Area of Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development.
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from Modern American School, Mexico City, Mexico, her M.D. from the National University of Mexico, Mexico City, and her postdoctoral training in psychiatry at New York University.
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Daniel J Burch, M.D., is executive vice president of R&D and chief medical officer of CeNeRx Biopharma.
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Cohen, Ph.D., see Planning Committee bio. Richard Frank, M.D., Ph.D., is vice president of clinical and medical strategy at GE Healthcare, Princeton, NJ.
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Steven Hyman, M.D., see Speaker bio. Judy Illes, Ph.D., see Planning Committee bio.
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Michael D Oberdorfer, Ph.D., see Planning Committee bio.
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in Neurochemistry from the Institute of Neurology, both at the University of London. Steven Marc Paul, M.D., is executive vice president of science and technology and president of the Lilly Research Laboratories of Eli Lilly and Company.
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Following an internship in neurology at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, he served as a resident in psychiatry and as an instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine. In 1976, he was awarded a research fellowship in the Pharmacology Research Associate Training Program of the National Institute of General Medical Science to work with Nobel Laureate Dr.
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Rae Silver, Ph.D., see Planning Committee bio.
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Roy E Twyman, M.D., see Planning Committee bio.
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He leads its various interdisciplinary research teams and is coprofessor for biology and cognitive neuroscience research students trained at the facility. Research projects include a 20-year longitudinal study of traumatic brain injury, investigations of spinal injury, stroke, aneurysms, arterial thrombolytic therapy intervention, neuropathology, CNS tumors, sleep disorders, deep-brain stimulation, movement disorders, and five TATRC telemedicine grants.
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Since joining the Board on Health Sciences Policy, he has been a program officer on multiple IOM studies, including Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation: An Unmet Public Health Problem, The National Academies' Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: 2007 Amendments, and Research Priorities in Emergency Preparedness and Response for Public Health Systems. He is currently serving as director of the Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events, the Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders Forum, and as a co-study director on the National Academy of Sciences Human Embryonic Stem Cells Research Advisory Committee.
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Lora K Taylor is a senior project assistant for the Board on Health Sciences Policy at the IOM.
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