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Appendix D: Committee and Staff Biographies
Appendix D: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 243-254
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Azarnoff served as president of research and development for the Searle Pharmaceutical Company, and for the past 14 years he has served as a consultant in drug develop243
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Berkley, Ph.D., is McKenzie Professor in the Program of Neuroscience at Florida State University. She also holds appointments as visiting professor and senior clinical fellow at University College, London, and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, respectively.
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He has served as a physician, as chief of the Endocrine Unit, and as associate chief of medical services at the Massachusetts General Hospital and was later Arthur F Bloomfield Professor of Medicine and chairman of the Department of Medicine at Stanford University Medical School.
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As an endocrinologist and pediatrician, he has studied the development and function of the human endocrine and neuroendocrine systems from fetal life through puberty, including studies of the endocrinology of growth, puberty, sex differentiation, and disease-causing pathology. He is a past president of the Endocrine Society, the American Pediatric Society, and the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society and was recently elected honorary president of the International Endocrine Society.
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Before arriving at SUNY Downstate Medical Center at Brooklyn, Dr. LaRosa was a professor in and chair of the Department of Community Health Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, director of the Tulane Xavier National Center of Excellence in Women's Health, and associate director of the National Science Foundation's Louisiana Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research.
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from Harvard Medical School and did his clinical training at Bellevue Hospital and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital, followed by a fellowship at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. As an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer for the Public Health Service Communicable Disease Center, he was assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, working on health problems of coal miners.
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Dr. Sapienza serves on the editorial boards of the European Journal of Human Genetics and Mammalian Genome and has been a guest editor for Developmental Genetics.
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Her and her husband's work has demonstrated sex differences in brain organization for language; a functional disruption in brain organization for adults and, more recently, for children with dyslexia; the influence of sex hormones (estrogen) on brain organization and reading and language in postmenopausal women; and the functional neural architecture of components of attention in language processing.
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and in the past has served as chairman of the Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Committee of NIH. He has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals and is currently coeditor of Human Molecular Genetics.
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For her work on behalf of medical research, she has been awarded the Distinguished Contribution to Research Administration Award from the Society for Research Administrators, the American Hospital Association Silver Touchstone Award for Public Affairs Programming, the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Dean's Award for Distinguished Service, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Special Award for Science Advocacy, and the Friends of the National Institute for Nursing Research's Health Advocacy Award. IOM STAFF Theresa M
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Additional IOM studies with which she assisted were Fluid Resuscitation: State of the Science for Treating Combat Casualties and Civilian Injuries; Organ Procurement and Transplantation Policy: Assessing Current Policies and the Potential Impact of the DHHS Final Rule; Managed Care Systems and Emerging Infections: Challenges and Opportunities for Strengthening Surveillance, Research, and Prevention; and Rational Therapeutics for Infants and Children. She resigned from the IOM staff on tune 5, 2000.
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