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Committee Biographies
Pages 489-493

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From page 489...
... Hortensia Amaro, Ph.D., is Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health and board member of the Boston Public Health Commission. Her research career over the last 20 years has focused on the public health issues of substance abuse, adolescent pregnancy, HIV prevention, and mental health among Hispanic and African American communities.
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From page 490...
... Amaro has served on numerous committees including the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics and the Advisory Board to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. She serves as Associate Editor of the Psychology of Women Quarterly and on the editorial board of the American Journal of Public Health.
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From page 491...
... He has received many awards, including the Health Services Research Prize from the Association of University Programs in Health Administration and the Baxter Allegiance Foundation, the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Association for Health Services Research, the First Carl Taube Award for Distinguished Contributions to Mental Health Services Research from the American Public Health Association, and the Distinguished Medical Sociologist Award and Lifetime Contributions Award in Mental Health from the American Sociological Association.
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From page 492...
... He has been the principal investigator for 10 studies that have examined such questions as the reliability of expert panel processes at setting quality criteria, the effects of differing practice guidelines on the likelihood of physician behavior change, the usefulness of the RAND appropriateness method in the AHCPR clinical practice guideline development process, the current measurement of the quality of back care, diabetes care, and hypertension care, and the effect of practice guidelines on patient outcomes in the emergency department. Since 1997, Dr.
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From page 493...
... He has been a member of several national panels and committees, recently serving as chair of the National Research Council's Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education and as senior consultant to the Federal Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Human Brain Project. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Acoustical Society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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