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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 195-206
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He served as the medical director of the UW Medical Center and the associate dean for clinical affairs from 1989 to 2002 and remains a clinical professor of medicine and health services at UW. His research spans a range of general medicine topics and has focused on aging and dementia, including a long-running study of aging and cognitive change set in Kaiser Permanente Washington, formerly Group Health Cooperative -- The UW/Group Health Alzheimer's Disease Patient Registry/ Adult Changes in Thought Study.
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Dr. Aranda has served on several consensus study committees of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, including on the geriatric workforce in mental health and substance use service sectors, family caregiving to older adults with functional limitations, and financial capacity determination among Social Security beneficiaries.
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She served as the co-chair of a committee for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to address why life expectancy in the United States is falling so far behind that of other countries. She has also co-edited several books with a focus on international aging, mortality, and health expectancy: Determining Health Expectan cies; Longer Life and Healthy Aging; Human Longevity, Individual Life Duration, and the Growth of the Oldest-Old Population; International Handbook of Adult Mortality; Explaining Diverging Levels of Longevity in High-Income Countries; and International Differences in Mortality at Older Ages: Dimensions and Sources.
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Dr. Dong was the recipient of the Paul Beeson Award by NIA, the National Physician Advocacy Merit Award by the Institute for Medicine as a Profession, the Nobuo Maeda International Aging and Public Health Research Award by the American Public Health Association (APHA)
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Dr. Hernán teaches clinical data science at the Harvard Medical School; clinical epidemiology at the Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology; and causal inference methodology at the Harvard T.H.
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Dr. Hubbard's research focuses on the development and application of statistical methodology for observational studies using real-world data, including electronic health records and administrative claims.
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Department of Health and Human Services Subcommittee on the Inclusion of Individuals with Impaired Decision-making in Research, and collaborations with the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study, the Alzheimer's Association, the American Bar Association's Commission on Law and Aging, AARP's Global Council on Brain Health, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the National Academy of Medicine (he served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's committee to address the public health challenges of cognitive aging)
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Dr. Stone is a distinguished speaker and has been published widely in the areas of long-term care policy and quality, chronic care for older adults and people with disabilities, aging services workforce development, the link between low-income senior housing and health, and family caregiving.
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She also serves as the director of the Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders, which brings together leaders from government, academia, industry, and nonprofit organizations to discuss key challenges and emerging issues in neuroscience research, development of therapies for nervous system disorders, and related ethical and societal issues. She recently served as the director of the consensus study report Preventing Cognitive Decline and Dementia: A Way Forward and as the senior program officer for the consensus study report Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Save Lives.
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Ms. Posey Norris has led and assisted in the planning of activities for the Neuroscience Forum, Preventing Dementia and Cognitive Impairment study, Ethical Review and Oversight Issues in Research Involving Standard of Care Interventions workshop, Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Disasters and Emergencies, Guidance for Standards of Care During Disaster Situations study, and Strategies for Cost-Effective and Flexible Biodetection Systems That Ensure Timely and Accurate Information for Public Health Officials workshop.
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She has been the recipient of the Cecil Medal for Excellence in Health Policy Research, a Distinguished Service Award from the National Academies, the Mentor Award from the Health and Medicine Division, and the Institute of Medicine Staff Team Achievement Award (as team leader)
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