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Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Pages 71-80
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Ned Calonge, M.D., M.P.H., is the president and chief executive officer of the Colorado Trust, a philanthropic foundation dedicated to advancing the health and well-being of the people of Colorado. He is an associate professor of family medicine at the Colorado School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, and an associate professor of epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health.
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Calonge was the chief medical officer of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Aled Edwards, Ph.D., is Banbury Professor of Medical Research at the University of Toronto, visiting professor of chemical biology at the University of Oxford, and chief executive of the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC)
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Germino, M.D., is the deputy director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, a senior investigator in its intramural program, and an adjunct professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago in 1983 and pursued clinical training in internal medicine and nephrology at Yale–New Haven Hospital.
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He is chair of the Breast Cancer Translational Medicine Committee of the Southwest Oncology Group and chair of the Correlative Sciences Committee of the U.S. Breast Cancer Intergroup, and he co-chairs the Expert Panel for Tumor Marker Practice Guidelines for the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
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Dr. Leonard is editor of two molecular pathology textbooks and has spoken widely on various molecular pathology test services, the future of molecular pathology, and the impact of gene patents on molecular pathology practice.
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Additional honors include the American Psychological Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Health Psychology, the American Society of Preventive Oncology Cullen Award for Tobacco Research, and the Alton Ochsner Award for Research Relating Tobacco and Health. She is currently the president of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco.
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from Johns Hopkins University and completed further postdoctoral training at the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute for Arthritis, Musculoskeletal, and Skin Diseases. Margaret Piper, Ph.D., M.P.H., is the director of genomics resources at the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association Technology Evaluation Center (TEC, www.bcbs.com/tec)
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with long-standing interest in improving the methods used to evaluate diagnostic tests, particularly for screening. He and clinical epidemiology mentor Alvan Feinstein wrote one of the first papers about methodologic challenges in evaluating diagnostic tests.
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Food and Drug Administration and the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children. She is a member of the board of directors of the Biotechnology Institute and is on the advisory board of the Johns Hopkins Genetics and Public Policy Center funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
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Dr. Tunis supervised the development of national coverage policies, quality standards for Medicare and Medicaid providers, quality measurement and public reporting initiatives, and the Quality Improvement Organization program.
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