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Appendix C: Speaker Biosketches
Pages 109-122

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From page 109...
... She has held multiple executive roles at Flatiron Health and was a professor of medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine, where she ran the Center for Learning Health Care and the Duke Cancer Care Research Program.
From page 110...
... Reynolds Department of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine (the third department of geriatrics in the United States) , and the associate chief of staff for geriatrics and extended care at the Oklahoma City Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
From page 111...
... He has led Berry Consultants to be widely regarded as the premier Bayesian consulting company in the world. Since 2000, he has been involved in the design of hundreds of Bayesian adaptive clinical trials of pharmaceuticals and medical devices and has become an opinion leader in the field of Bayesian adaptive clinical trials.
From page 112...
... Upon moving to the west coast, she managed an independent specialty pharmacy in Beverly Hills, California, before joining Cedars-Sinai in 2016. There, she served as one of two fulltime clinical research pharmacists on a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute–funded randomized trial that investigated a novel communitybased approach to treat hypertension in Black male patients.
From page 113...
... Beverly Canin, a breast cancer survivor, is a former member of the board of directors of Breast Cancer Action, a national organization dedicated to inspiring and compelling societal changes necessary to end the breast cancer epidemic; president of Breast Cancer Options, a grassroots support, education, and advocacy organization serving six counties in the Hudson Valley; a patient advocate member of the Cancer and Aging Research Group seeking to improve cancer care for older adults with cancer; and the chair of Stakeholders for Care in Oncology and Research for our Elders, a patient and caregiver advisory group. Steven Chen, Pharm.D., FASHP, FCSHP, FNAP, is an associate professor and the associate dean for clinical affairs at the University of Southern California (USC)
From page 114...
... Specialized Programs of Research Excellence program, and served as the program director for the NCI Patient Advocate Research Team program. She also started patient advocacy in many cooperative groups and cancer centers and has helped plan national and international biobanks.
From page 115...
... For the next 4 years, she worked on the medical affairs leadership team, first as VP, Global Medical Neurology, and then VP, U.S. Medical. In June Dr.
From page 116...
... Leipzig, M.D., Ph.D., is an internationally recognized leader in the field of geriatrics and has received numerous awards for her work, including the American College of Physicians' Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award, as a Joy McCann Scholar, the Dennis W Jahnigen Memorial Award from the American Geriatrics Society (2008)
From page 117...
... . His work also includes being part of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Geriatric Oncology Consortium; the Elderly Taskforce of the Gynecologic Oncology Group; the Cancer and Aging Research Group and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Guidelines Taskforce for treatment; Evaluation of Older Women with Breast Cancer; the editorial board of the Journal of Geriatric Oncology; the External Advisory Board of the University of Iowa Cancer Center; Governing Board Cancer; and the Kidney International Network.
From page 118...
... In addition to a 30-year clinical career focused on providing primary medical care to the medically underserved, he is an established researcher focusing on health services research, chronic illness self-management, and community- and team-based approaches to addressing health disparities. As an expert in community-based participatory research, he has been an invited faculty member for the National Institutes of Health's Summer Institute on Design and Conduct of Randomized Clinical Trials involving behavioral interventions, sponsored by the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research.
From page 119...
... She then went on to NCI for a fellowship in medical oncology. She focused on tumor immunology and biology, including cancer vaccines and immunotherapy clinical trials.
From page 120...
... Tobin leads the audience through the key concepts and importance of translational research, the basic epidemiological skills necessary for the development, understanding, and interpretation of community-based research, and how epidemiological measures relate to clinical research and clinical practice. Topics covered include measures of morbidity and mortality (prevalence and incidence)
From page 121...
... Collaborating with an interdisciplinary care team, Dr. Watanabe initiated longitudinal assessments of outcomes in postacute care settings and characterized those at risk for poor adherence and compromised health outcomes in veterans with chronic diseases.
From page 122...
... 122 DRUG RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR ADULTS group on pain assessment and management standards for long-term care organizations for The Joint Commission. He was a contributing author to the Making Medicines Affordable consensus study report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.


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