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Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee and Advisory Panel Members
Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee and Advisory Panel Members
Pages 275-284
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Powell has worked with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on many projects and has also worked with the Centers for Disease Control, New York state and city, and professional organizations on issues related to public health ethics and disasters. She is a member of the American Psychiatric Association ethics committee, and a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and the Hastings Center.
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Margarita Alegría is chief of the Disparities Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor in the departments of medicine and psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Her research is focused on the improvement of health care services delivery for diverse racial and ethnic populations, conceptual and methodological issues with multicultural populations, and ways to bring the community's perspective into the design and implementation of health services.
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Another line of her work is focused on strengthening quantitative methods for research on cognitive aging and ADRD. Specific topics have included the geographic patterning of stroke and dementia, the socioeconomic inequalities in healthy aging, the causal effects of education on later-life health, the influence of selection and survival biases in models of cognitive aging, life-course timing of dementia risk factors, and longitudinal modeling of cognitive change and dementia.
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Manson (Pembina Chippewa) is a distinguished professor of public health and psychiatry, occupies the Colorado Trust Chair in American Indian Health, and directs the Centers for American Indian & Alaska Native Health in the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
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Vincent Mor is Florence Price Grant professor of community health in the Brown University School of Public Health and a research health scientist at the Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He was on the faculty of the Department of Community Health in the Brown Medical School from 1981 until it became the Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice in the School of Public Health.
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is an associate professor in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the John Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health; founding director of the Program for Research in Men's Health in the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions (HCHDS) ; deputy director of the HCHDS; and director of the Johns Hopkins Alzheimer's Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging Research.
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Werner's research has been published in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine, and Health Affairs. Beyond publication, she has influenced policy as a member of numerous national committees and as an advisor to the federal government on quality measurement and quality improvement incentives.
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Zissimopoulos currently leads an NIA-funded research project on the use of and response to drug therapies for non-Alzheimer's disease conditions that influence risk of Alzheimer's disease, and racial and ethnic disparities in health care treatment for Alzheimer's disease. Her recently published research appears in numerous publications, including JAMA Neurology, the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Daedalus -- Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Science, and the Journal of Health Economics.
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She previously served as chief of the Victim Assistance Program at Homeland Security Investigations, where she directed policy efforts; program development; and victim services for all federal crime victims, including survivors of human trafficking and child exploitation. Israelite has held several positions within the U.S.
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She provides information, referrals, and presentations for individuals, families, and groups dealing with Alzheimer's disease and she advocates at all levels of government. Woolfolk has lobbied legislators and policy makers for increased funding for ADRD research and caregiver support projects that will enable families to keep their loved ones in the home environment and out of institutional settings for as long as possible.
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