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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee and Speakers
Pages 129-136

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... , where he also serves as chief of the Division of Public Health Sciences in the Department of Surgery and program director of the master of population health sciences degree program. He is the associate director of prevention and control at the Siteman Cancer Center and deputy director of the Institute for Public Health at WUSTL, where he holds leadership roles in education and fostering transdisciplinary research to address local and global public health challenges.
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From page 130...
... She is a widely recognized expert in health services and policy research with particular expertise in alternative payment models, delivery system reforms, and their impacts on access, cost, and quality. She has conducted evaluations of bundled and episode-based payment initiatives and published on topics such as accountable care organizations, patient-centered medical homes, electronic health records (EHRs)
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... SCARLETT LIN GOMEZ is professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and a member of the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Francisco. She is also a research scientist at the Cancer Prevention Institute of California, where she is the director of the Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry, a participant in the NCI SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results)
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From page 132...
... Fineberg professor of the practice of public health leadership at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Harvard Kennedy School. He previously served as the 14th assistant secretary for health in the Department of Health and Human Services (2009-2014)
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... CHRISTINE LU is an associate professor in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, and she co-directs the PRecisiOn Medicine Translational Research (PROMoTeR) Center.
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From page 134...
... His current research focuses on community health, public health organization and delivery, Appalachia health, and democracy in health care decision making. LISA SIGNORELLO is acting director and acting chief of the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program Branch in NCI's Division of Cancer Prevention.
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... is Rollins Professor and chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. His research involves the development and application of statistical methods for spatially referenced data, including applications in environmental justice, neurology, epidemiology, disease surveillance, conservation biology, and disease ecology.
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