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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Planning Committee Members
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Planning Committee Members
Pages 59-72
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She previously served as a standing member of both the NIH Arthritis, Connective Tissue, and Skin and the NIH-NIAMS Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Clinical Trials study sections. She is the past editor-in-chief of Arthritis & Rheumatology, a past member of the Food and Drug Administration Arthritis Advisory Com 59
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His research is in disability studies, using qualitative and quantitative research techniques within the paradigm of participatory action research. Most recently, his research includes disability quality of life and the disability critique, disability epidemiology, universal design and inclusion, modeling disability statistics for population health surveys, the relationship between disability and health, and the ethics and the application of ICF to monitoring the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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of the University of Michigan Clinical and Translational Sciences Award and the founding director of the unit at Michigan that supports translational research -- the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research. He currently is co-PI of three National Institutes of Health center grants studying the mechanisms underlying chronic pain in urological and musculoskeletal disorders and is an active mentor of clinical and pain researchers.
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He has been designated annually by Thompson-Reuters since 2010 as being in the top 1 percent of all mental health researchers in citations. He has received a number of awards, including the first systemic inflammatory response syndrome Clinical Scientist Distinguished Contributions award in 2012, the 2014 Alexander Gralnick Schizophrenia Research award from the American Psychiatric Foundation, the 2014 VA John Blair Barnwell award, and he will receive the Stanley Dean Award from the American College of Psychiatrists in 2021.
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She is the co-principal investigator of the OARSI/Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Osteoarthritis Biomarkers Consortium Project, which advances the validation and qualification of biomarkers for OA diagnosis, prognosis, and clinical trials. She also directs the Duke Biomarkers Shared Resource under the management of Janet Huebner.
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In this context, Dr. Lieberman has actively contributed to government policy and federal legislation, including the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, and he is a visible spokesperson to the media on mental illness and psychiatry.
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This work has been funded by the National Institute on Aging, the Vanier CGS program, the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, and The Greenwall Foundation. Gwendolyn Sowa, M.D., Ph.D., is the Endowed Professor and the chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)
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Dr. Wagner's research focus includes the TBI Rehabilomics Research Model, identifying biomarkers relevant for assessing pathology and prognosis as well as for assessing clinical risk and use in clinical decision making.
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His interests include social security, employer-sponsored pension and retirement programs, financial planning, health and long-term care financing, public finance, and macroeconomics. He has testified before Congress and administrative agencies many times, and was recently a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center of George Mason University, as well as a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Golub Center for Finance and Policy.
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She has provided leadership for many programs, including Development and Application of Positron Emission Tomography and Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography Imaging Ligands as Biomarkers for Drug Discovery and for Pathophysiological Studies of Central Nervous System Disorders, the National Cooperative Drug/Device Discovery/Development Groups for the Treatment of Mental Disorders, and First in Human and Early Stage Clinical Trials of Novel Investigational Drugs or Devices for Psychiatric Disorders.
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Her research has focused on learning, reward processing, and self-monitoring in schizophrenia using event-related brain potentials and on remediation of cognitive deficits in schizophrenia. She joined NIMH in 2010 as a program officer for the schizophrenia-spectrum disorders program and now leads a branch that manages inquiries, grant applications, and funded grants focused on translational research in adult psychopathology and co-leads the RDoC effort to explore novel methods to classify mental disorders.
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In addition to his NCMRR work, Dr. Nitkin has helped promote National Institutes of Health research initiatives in diverse areas such as genomic factors that affect rehabilitation outcomes, promotion of exercise and diet in children with disabilities, clinical trial design in rehabilitation, technologies for healthy independent living, and research workforce diversity.
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In her past role at NORC at the University of Chicago, she led large-scale program evaluation efforts to understand health care innovation for older adults and people with disabilities under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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He has been an investigator or consultant for other cohort studies of older persons, including the National Health and Aging Trends Study; the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing; the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project; the Mexican Health and Aging Study; and the Hispanic Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly.
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