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Appendix B: Committee Member Biosketches
Pages 112-115

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... Deike Chair in Mining Engineering and Professor of Energy & Mineral Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University from July 2007 through June 2013. At Penn State, he oversaw the Mining Engineering program and the graduate program.
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... He had spent more than 27 years as a Public Health Service Officer with the CDC at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, studying miners' health, occupational respiratory disease, aerosol measurement, and ultrafine particles. There he worked on projects concerning exposure to wood dust, volcanic ash, diesel exhaust, coal mine dust, silica, and beryllium.
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From page 114...
... In addition, he has served as a member of the Panel on Technologies for the Mining Industry, Committee on the Study on Preventing Coal Waste Impoundment Failures and Breakthroughs, Committee on the Review of NIOSH Research Programs, and the Committee on Coal Research, Technology, and Resource Assessments to Inform Energy Policy. He is also a member of the Health Research Panel of the National Academies Committee on the Research Programs of the U.S.
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... He served on NIOSH's Mine Safety and Health Research Advisory Committee from 2004 to 2012. He holds an associate degree in mining technology from Pennsylvania State University and was recognized as a Centennial Fellow in 1996, received a Special Recognition for Sciences and Engineering in Service to Society award in 2002 and the Robert Stefanko Distinguished Achievement Award in Mineral Engineering in 2010.
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