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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 97-106
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After completing her residency, she worked with the IHS for more than 5 years in Gallup and Santa Fe, in both inpatient and outpatient pharmacy settings. During her time with IHS, her responsibilities included chairing a multidisciplinary medication safety task force, serving as supervisor of inpatient pharmacy services, and serving as the pharmacy residency program director.
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Her work has focused on continuous quality improvement, policies on promoting ease of access to appropriate reference materials, monitoring prescription usage in chronic disease state patients, drug recall procedures, proper staffing guidelines, and incorporating strategies to optimize therapeutic outcomes. Most recently Dr.
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He received the 2013 Peter F Drucker Award for Non-Profit Innovation, the Patient Care Award for Excellence in Patent Education Innovation award, the AHRQ Patient Safety Investigator award, and the Best Research Paper of the Year award of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.
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, built with a mission to develop practical, affordable multilanguage technology solutions to improve health care access and reduce disparities for underserved and limited English-proficient patient populations. He is an internal medicine physician and past National Library of Medicine fellow in medical informatics at the University of North Carolina (UNC)
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She has also solidified partnerships with American Funds, and participated in community health promotion, screening, and education efforts as a Certified Kidney Educator through the American Kidney Fund. Her most recent endeavors include being appointed as a member and patient liaison of the National Kidney Foundation Kidney Advocacy Committee, as well as the National Kidney Foundation Associate Board.
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She is principal and founder of Health Literacy Partners, a corporation that specializes in providing a tapestry of solutions to promote health equity by enhancing person-centered care, effective communication, and the patient experience. Her recent experience includes providing health literacy education and consultation to several New York State Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Program Performing Provider Systems.
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She has also traveled with the National Kidney Foundation as its Pennsylvania Kidney Advocacy Committee Liaison and called on her legislators to lobby for better laws for the protection and improvement of care of transplant patients and donors. She attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania and obtained a B.S.
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Among the many achievement awards Dr. Shrank received is the 2015 Healthcare Executive Transformation Award from the Los Angeles County Medical Association. He also was the recipient of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Pioneer Award to evaluate the effect of innovative prescription label design on adherence to chronic medication and health outcomes. Dr.
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Elisabeth Walther, Pharm.D., J.D., is a health scientist policy analyst at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, where she currently leads regulatory policy development related to patient prescription drug product information.
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Risk Communication Advisory Committee. Other areas of research focus include examining low-literacy strategies to address obesity prevention as well as chronic disease management (e.g., asthma)
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