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Appendix E: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Pages 465-470

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From page 465...
... He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and has been involved in many National Academies activities, including his recent membership on the NRC Steering Committee for the Workshop on Work-Related Musculoskeletal Injuries: The Research Base. He served on the Board on Health Sciences Policy and was vice chair of the Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine.
From page 466...
... Currently, he is principal investigator for studies of human reliability in aircraft inspection and maintenance. He is a member of the Committee on Human Factors, and also served as cochair of the NRC Steering Committee for the Workshop on Work-Related Musculoskeletal Injuries: The Research Base.
From page 467...
... Katz is associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a practicing rheumatologist and co-director of the Spine Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He has performed research on clinical, epidemiologic, and health services delivery aspects of carpal tunnel syndrome and other upper extremity disorders, lumbar spinal stenosis and other spinal conditions, and total joint arthroplasty.
From page 468...
... She is also currently the staff director for the Committee on Human Factors and the Committee on the Youth Population and Military Recruitment. Her previous work as an NRC senior staff officer has included studies on occupational analysis and the enhancement of human performance, modeling human behavior and command decision making, human factors in air traffic control automation, human factors considerations in tactical display for soldiers, scientific and technological challenges of virtual reality, emerging needs and opportunities for human factors research, and modeling cost and performance for purposes of military enlistment.
From page 469...
... . ~ · · nterest 1nclucle analytical methods tor measuring and assessing exposure to physical stress in the workplace; ergonomics aspects of manually operated equipment and human-computer input devices; causes and prevention of work-related cumulative trauma disorders and peripheral neuropathies; occupational biomechanics; and rehabilitation engineering and was just appointed a member of the Committee on Human Factors.
From page 470...
... Szabo is chief, Hand and Microvascular Service, Department of Orthopaedics; professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery; and professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, at the University of California at Davis. His current research interests include nerve compression lesions, nerve repair and regeneration biology, tendon healing and adhesion formation, and the epidemiology of repetitive trauma and injury prevention.


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