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Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 235-246
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One of her major clinical and research interests is coronary heart disease in women, and she is an expert on heart disease in the elderly and in cardiac rehabilitation. She has served as vice president of the American Heart Association (AHA)
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Dr. Boden has been involved in clinical research investigator activities as the project director, study chair, and cochair for multicenter clinical trials, and served as a principal investigator, steering committee member, and consultant for numerous clinical research grant activities funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
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He has served as chair of the AHA physiology study section and has more than 200 publications exploring the physiology and cell biology of valvular heart disease and its role in causing congestive heart failure.
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He is an active investigator in cardiovascular epidemiology and preventive cardiology, and he has made substantial contributions in the fields of peripheral artery disease, subclinical atherosclerosis, peripheral venous disease, and ethnic differences in CVD. He currently chairs the International Peripheral Arterial Disease and Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Working Group for the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study, sponsored by the World Health Organization.
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He has been involved in numerous clinical trials, and he chaired the recruitment committees for the NIH/NHLBI-sponsored Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial (CAST) , the Antiarrhythmics versus Implantable Defibrillators (AVID)
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He directs research in the fields of vascular biology, hypertension, atherosclerosis, and cardiovascular medicine. His program has made important contributions to the understanding of how humoral factors that regulate blood pressure activate molecular pathways that predispose to vascular complications, such as stroke and heart attacks.
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She was recently elected vice president of the Association of University Cardiologists, and she is a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine Interventional Cardiology Self-Assessment Test Committee and the New York State Cardiac Advisory Committee.
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Stevenson, M.D., is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the codirector of the Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Her major commitments are to ensure that multiple options are developed and offered in parallel to patients with advanced heart disease, and that there will be continuing entry of new cardiologists dedicated to refining the physiologic basis and art of caring for patients with heart failure.
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Mental Health Treatment Study, a trial of supported employment and enhanced treatment for 2,000 Social Security Disability Insurance beneficiaries with schizophrenia or a mood disorder who are interested in working. He also served as principal investigator of the study team conducting the Evaluation of the Implementation and Impact of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Parity in the Federal Employees Health Benefits program, sponsored by the federal government.
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space program, natural disaster mitigation, U.S. education policy and science curricula, needle exchange for the prevention of HIV transmission, the scientific merit of the polygraph, human factors and engineering, research ethics, health hazard evaluation, medical and public health preparedness for catastrophic events, including terrorist nuclear detonations, and disability compensation programs.
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Lavita D Coates-Fogle is a senior program assistant with the Board on the Health of Select Populations and serves the Committee of Medical Experts to Assist Social Security on Disability Issues and the Committee on Social Security Cardiovascular Disability Criteria.
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