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Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Pages 97-106
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Recent work includes a book entitled Managed Care in the Inner City: The Uncertain Promise for Providers, Plans and Communities, creation of a cultural competence self-assessment tool for health care organizations, and a national conference series called "Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations." He has also developed a compendium and analysis of national data sources on the nation's 100 largest cities and their surrounding areas entitled Social and Health Landscape of Urban and Suburban America. His most recent projects include creation of a national consensus panel and the National Resource Center on Diversity and Preparedness and tracking of health care reform legislation and its implications for racially/ethnically diverse patients and populations.
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As a physician who specializes in pediatric care and public health, Beal brings to the foundation a unique combination of clinical and policy experience. Beal joined the foundation in July 2009 from The Commonwealth Fund, where she directed the fund's program to improve health care quality for low-income and minority patient populations.
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Graham Prize for Health Services Research. Her major research interests include improving health care quality and patient safety and reducing disparities in care associated with patients' race, ethnicity, gender, income, and education.
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He was also director of the Harvard School of Public Health Center for Public Health Preparedness. He has published more than 200 articles in the medical and public health literature.
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His legislative portfolio on the HELP Committee includes issues relating to public health, prevention, health disparities, and public health preparedness. Martinez is a candidate for a doctorate in public health degree in child and adolescent health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he examines the effects of acculturation on Mexican American youth.
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He has received an honorary doctor of science degree from Spelman College, Tuskegee University, the University of Massachusetts in Boston, North Carolina State University, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Meharry Medical College. He has been recognized by the National Medical Association, the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science, the Association of American Indian Physicians, the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, the Society of Black Academic Surgeons, and the National Science Foundation.
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, where he served as study director for studies culminating in the IOM reports In the Nation's Compelling Interest: Ensuring Diversity in the Health Care Workforce and Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, among other reports on diversity in the health professions and minority health research policy. Smedley came to the IOM from the American Psychological Association (APA)
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She has authored several reports and journal articles focused on reducing health disparities, increasing awareness about social determinants of health, and effective ways to bring about policy change. Prior to joining PolicyLink, she was director of community health services for the Alameda County Public Health Department; director for Healthy Start, a federal infant mortality reduction program; and director of San Antonio Neighborhood Health Center.
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Department of Health and Human Services National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics and on six panels for the Institute of Medicine. He has held elected and appointed positions in professional organizations such as the American Sociological Association, Academy Health, and the American Public Health Association.
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He has published more than 100 articles in a career that has focused on evidencebased medicine and the development of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, with a special focus on preventive medicine, cancer screening, quality improvement, and social justice. From 1987 to 2002, he served as science adviser to, and then member of, the U.S.
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