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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Moderators, Speakers, and Panelists
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Moderators, Speakers, and Panelists
Pages 91-102
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Dr. Andrews joined Pfizer Worldwide Medical and Safety in 1999 and has held different positions with increasing responsibility in operations, research, and strategy, most recently as the regional medical therapeutic area lead of the Diversified Portfolio for Latin America, where she is responsible for developing medical strategies for Latin America and enhancing medical communication between Pfizer and the region's stakeholders.
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Her wide-ranging work focuses on improving cancer screening in rural federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) , selfmanagement of diabetes in safety-net settings, and the use of health coaches to facilitate weight loss for patients using community clinics.
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Bierer is the director of the Regulatory Foundations, Ethics, and the Law program of Harvard Catalyst, the Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Award, working across the academic spectrum to enable clinical trials. She is the director of regulatory policy for SMART IRB (www.SMARTIRB.org)
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Ms. Collyar also founded the Clinical Trial Information Project, which helped cancer patients understand research studies and access open clinical trials, and which prompted the National Cancer Institute (NCI)
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Her wide-ranging work focuses on improving cancer screening in rural, federally qualified health centers; the self-management of diabetes in safety net settings; the use of health coaches to facilitate weight loss in community clinics; and improving prescription medication labeling. Lauren McCormack, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., is the vice president of RTI's Public Health Research Division and an adjunct associate professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC)
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. Accordingly, she oversees HLM's core activities, including the Clearly Communicating Clinical Trials program, and she works to set and maintain the strategic vision for the organization.
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Pettit Nassi, M.S.W., is an Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology patient advocate serving on the Patient Advocate, Health Disparities, and Pharmacogenetics and Population Pharmacology Committees; an Advocate in Science member for Susan G Komen for the Cure; co-chair of the Southwest Region of the Intercultural Cancer Council Network; and a member of the American Association for Cancer Researchers.
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on numerous clinical trials evaluating novel therapeutics in lupus. She is leading national initiatives to develop real-world, practical models to improve the education of patients and to change providers' practices to promote inclusion of minority patients in lupus clinical trials, including working with the American College of Rheumatology, funded by the U.S.
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She is also an associate group chair for advocacy of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology (a National Clinical Trial Network group) and the chair of the Alliance Patient Advocate Committee.
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, she is the lead for the outreach and communications team in the Office of Minority Health, where she oversees the strategic direction of the team, advises senior officials on minority health, and leads the Diversity in Clinical Trials Initiative. Prior to joining FDA, she managed national initiatives, including the Community Health Worker Health Disparities Initiative at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health, which aims to reduce cardiovascular and asthma health disparities through community education and training.
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study to measure the public's preferences for legal communication, and he has recently received a grant from the Legal Writing Institute, the Association of Legal Writing Directors, and Lexis/Nexis to conduct a similar international study. As an associate professor at the UAMS Center for Health Literacy, he conducts empirical research on clear health communication, drafts health care documents, and teaches health law and communication courses to medical students and students in other health professions.
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Dr. Wilkins is a principal investigator of the Vanderbilt-Miami-Meharry Center of Excellence in Precision Medicine and Population Health, which focuses on decreasing disparities among African Americans and Latinos using precision medicine, and at the Vanderbilt Recruitment Innovation Center, a national center dedicated to enhancing recruitment and retention in clinical trials.
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