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Appendix B: Committee Biographies
Pages 45-56

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... Dr. Lo serves on the board of directors of the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs and on the Medical Advisory Panel of Blue Cross Blue Shield.
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... Most recently, he served as president of Fast Forward, a venture philanthropy project of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, where he was responsible for the society's strategic funding of biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, as well as partnerships with the financial and business communities. Prior to Fast Forward, Dr.
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... He has collaborated in the development of statistical methods for the sequential analysis of outcome data and the design of clinical trials. He has extensive national and international clinical trial experience and has served on and chaired numerous NIH and industry-sponsored Data Safety and Monitoring Committees for clinical trials in diverse disciplines.
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... He was also on the core faculties of the Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Trials, Berman Bioethics Institute, Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation, and co-directed the epidemiology doctoral program. He is the editor of Clinical Trials: Journal of the Society for Clinical Trials and has been the statistical and associate editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine since 1987.
From page 49...
... He is a scientific advisor to the Medical Advisory Panel of the National Blue Cross Blue Shield Technology Evaluation Center and was appointed to the Methodology Committee of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
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... Dr. Lang set up a clinical trial facility in Kenya with a strong focus on developing local research skills and engagement.
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... She earned her J.D., magna cum laude, and her L.L.M. from Georgetown University Law Center and was executive editor of the Georgetown Law Journal.
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... She is the editor of Intellectual Property Law and Biotechnology: Critical Concepts (Edward Elgar, 2011) , the co-author of a 2012 Kauffman Foundation monograph on cost-effective health care innovation, and the co-author of a casebook on law and the mental health system.
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... Ida Sim, Ph.D., is professor of medicine and Co-Director of Biomedical Informatics of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of California at San Francisco, and co-founder of Open mHealth, a nonprofit organization that is breaking down barriers to mobile health app and data integration through an open software architecture. Her primary research work is on knowledge-based technologies for evidencebased practice, especially in the ontological representation of clinical trials for data sharing and scientific computation.
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... In 2005, she received an honorary doctorate from Iona College for her work in community engagement; the first Patient Service Award from the University of North Carolina Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy in 2007; the Research! America Distinguished Organization Advocacy Award in 2009; and the Clinical Research Forum and Foundation's Annual Award for Leadership in Public Advocacy in 2011.
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... Dr. Waldstreicher's prior role was as chief medical officer of the pharmaceutical sector and head of Asia Pacific Medical Sciences, responsible for medical safety, Asia research and development, epidemiology, adaptive design strategy, pediatrics, established products, and small molecule clinical pharmacology.


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