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Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Pages 59-68

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From page 59...
... He was formerly a member of the CDC Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection and Control Advisory Committee. He served as a member of the Food and Drug Administration Oncologic Drug Advisory Committee and chaired the NIH Consensus Panel on the Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease.
From page 60...
... She has served as the principal investigator on an NCI National Community Cancer Centers Program award, and on a Gynecologic Oncology Group Clinical Trial focused on clinical trial enrollment. Barbara Buch, M.D., is a fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon who came to FDA in 2001.
From page 61...
... , Davis, School of Medicine; Associate Director for Cancer Control at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center; and the lead principal investigator of the NCI-funded National Center for Reducing Asian American Cancer Health Disparities, headquartered in Sacramento, California. He previously served on IOM committees that resulted in The Unequal Burden of Cancer: An Assessment of NIH Research and Programs for Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved (1999)
From page 62...
... Preventive Services Task Force, which produces national evidencebased clinical guidelines, as well as the Academies' Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities. Prior to joining Pima County Department of Health, he was a Distinguished Outreach Professor of Public Health and Obstetrics & Gynecology, and served in a variety of roles at the University of Arizona including director of the Center of Excellence in Women's Health, the Arizona Hispanic Center of Excellence, and the Cancer Disparities Institute of the Arizona Cancer Center.
From page 63...
... She has implemented numerous community-based health improvement interventions, and mentors students, residents, and faculty interested in addressing disparities and partnering with communities on research to improve local health and influence policy. She leads the community engagement and diversity activities for the National Human Genome Research Institute-funded U01 grant Biorepositories for Genomic Medicine in Diverse Communities.
From page 64...
... Redes and her other projects have led to unique health communication models and interventions that have contributed to reducing Latino cancer rates and increasing Latino screening, clinical trial participation, and healthy lifestyles. She also has helped pioneer the use of bilingual, bicultural patient navigators and promotoras to erase Latinas' lag times between an abnormal cancer screening and confirmatory diagnosis and treatment initiation, while also increasing Latina survivors' access to support services.
From page 65...
... She serves as coinvestigator and Codirector of the Native American Cancer Program research training initiative and as a co­nvestigator on the community outreach component with the Arizona i ­ Cancer Center. As coinvestigator for the Arizona Study Center of the National Children's Study (HHS Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)
From page 66...
... Her publications in clinical ethics focus on clinician moral distress, ethics education, and patient–provider communication. Her research ethics publications include work on the risks and benefits in cancer clinical trials and how cancer patients view their research participation, respondent burden in research, informed consent, international ethical issues, and scientific integrity.
From page 67...
... She also held a joint faculty appointment in the School of Public Health and was director of the school's World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Research and Clinical Training in Health Promotion Nursing. Her current research projects include sexual risk reduction interventions for Latino and Mexican youth, parent–adolescent communication interventions to prevent teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, the use of virtual environments to train community participants to implement evidence-based interventions, and language learning to promote global health competency in under­ raduate g nurses.


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