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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers, Moderators, and Reactors
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers, Moderators, and Reactors
Pages 93-104
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The Public Information Office also manages the NIH visitors center and the NIH Nobel Laureate Hall, special events, and grantee public information office relations. Prior to 2004, Dr.
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She co-developed and leads the department's certificate programs in health information technology and health analytics, and she teaches in its master's program in health informatics. She has received awards for teaching excellence from both Weill Cornell Medical College and the American Medical Writers Association.
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She also served as principal investigator of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality–funded Washington Heights Inwood Informatics Infrastructure for Comparative Effectiveness Research (WICER) and its follow-up study, WICER 4 U, which is focused on promoting the use of WICER infrastructure through stakeholder engagement.
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on a National Institutes of Health grant for the Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science Center, an unprecedented collaborative effort among eight academic institutions in Louisiana. She is PI on a 5-year National Cancer Institute health literacy intervention to increase regular breast and colorectal cancer (CRC)
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Jennifer Dillaha, M.D., is the medical advisor for health literacy and communication at the Arkansas Department of Health. Under her leadership low health literacy has been recognized as an important public health problem in Arkansas, and the health department has made improving health literacy a cross-cutting priority in its strategic plan.
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Lori Erby, ScM, Ph.D., CGC, is the associate program director for the Johns Hopkins University/National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Genetic Counseling Training Program and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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in human genetics at Emory University in 1998, studying fragile X syndrome and the mechanisms of dynamic mutation. She then moved to Case Western Reserve University and completed both postdoctoral work on X chromosome inactivation and an editorial fellowship at the journal Human Molecular Genetics.
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Her interdisciplinary research is focused on cardiogenetics, the clinical care and management of those with atrial and ventricular arrhythmia, and the prevention of sudden cardiac death. Her recent grant awards include an R03 from the National Institute of Nursing Research focusing on arrhythmia telehealth monitoring, a Clinical Translational Service Award–funded pilot award focusing on cardiogenetics, and a Columbia University Glenda Garvey Teaching Academy award on remote electronic learning.
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She is passionate about creating health literacy champions outside of the field and hence speaks at conferences focused in other areas, including adherence, patient engagement and advocacy, market research, Drug Information Association, and lay summaries, in both the United States and Europe.
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She has worked tirelessly with professional societies, federal and state agencies, and congressional staff to inform them about health literacy issues and to encourage them to recognize health literacy as a priority issue. Benjamin Solomon, M.D., an accomplished scientist and medical geneticist, is dual board certified in pediatrics and clinical genetics through the National Human Genome Research Institute.
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She is a co-investigator on the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics Network, which aims to bring personalized medicine into broader clinical use. She received her master of science degree in genetic counseling from the University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and is a diplomat of the American Board of Genetic Counseling.
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She served as the founding director of the Center for Community Health and Partnerships in the Institute for Public Health; the co-director of the Center for Community Engaged Research in the Clinical and Translational Science Awards; and the director of Our Community, Our Health, a collaborative program with Saint Louis University to disseminate culturally relevant health information and facilitate community– academic partnerships to address health disparities. Michael Wolf, Ph.D., M.A., M.P.H., is a professor of medicine, an associate division chief (internal medicine and geriatrics)
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